Avani Avittam

It was a ritual spree this weekend I believe... Friday was that varalakshmi pandigai stuff.. Saturday was Onam .. Sunday - Avani Avittam and monday would be Rakshabandhan..

One of the most important ritual for the TamBrams, (Tamil Brahmins) as we are called by other state makkal.. is Avani Avittam..

Quite surprisingly there were more than many who had brought the same kit that Amma had given to me from Giri Trading Agency.. However, thanx to the script being in Tamil I could make no sense from it...

But ofcourse, there seems to be no need of it.. We were totally 8 of us , 3 seniors who had enough experience.. They read from their own english script and gave us enough time to repeat them as we took almost an hour to do the whole of the stuff .. which included the kamo karishya japam, that ellu and arisi stuff.. and the changing of poonal..
We will be again meeting for gayatri japam tommorrow morning at 7 30..

The seniors had also made payasam which we had after changing our poonal...

Ganesh mama had gone to some Temple to change his poonal.. Giri was on voice message.. I'm sure he hadn't even got up.. :P Seenu was in a state of daze and just woke up as I called him.. Ofcourse they are 2 hrs behind.. Babu chithappa had however finished with the poonal change when I called each of them..

Then we had an excellent voice conference.. Me, Anu, Raju Mama (Mami and shyam) and Ganesh Mama. (Jothi mami and akshara). I was the only one without the Mic and had to type as they spoke.. felt quite dumb...

The coming week we would be shifting to a new apartment and would be busy with setting it up.. Shall take snaps of the new house and also give you frequent updates about them..