I Met Mrs.LataMurali, a Pragmatist, today in her house!!!

Originally Posted by Honeytha

Thanks Meena that v all had a very gud time with u and latha..............through ur descriptive mail.............

I have to tell u something latha..........i have seen ur sister in law Ramya somewhere, but i don't know exactly. She is very familiar to me after seeing her snap.........let me try to recollect and tell u.

That's great u people had good fun and entertainment. thanks for sharing......

Dear Anitha ma’am

Thank you. To make you come out of your confusion, I have the answer for your question to Lata ma’am. But since you wanted to recollect by yourself, am not putting it here. lets see how powerful your memory is!

Love
Meena

Originally Posted by puni88

HI Meena,
It looks like you just went to Lata's house only for lunch(just kidding).
And I remembered your SIMHA vasam imm.
Very nicely written up!!

Lata: I really miss such a delicious food. (I am bored of eating my own cooked food).

~Punitha

Dear Puni ma’am

Hahaha…sounds nice…Thanks for remembering about my “lion vamsam”.

Thank you..

Love
Meena

Originally Posted by sunkan

wonderful meena,
you have shown me my lata lady after a long time, i used to keep wondering who comments so dearly, how would she look, the house yes is very well decorated, not all can have this commitment to make the place beautiful,fantastic curtains, and wonderful little imp for a son whose eyes are so lively, thank u meena u look the college girl alright, thanku so much for bringing lata's photo here... sunkan

Dear Sundari ma’am

Thank you..yes ma’am not all have got this sense of commitment.. Even before seeing Krishna in person, I found that his eyes are so lively from his photos..

Love
Meena

Dear most Meenakshi,Oops!(I guess the apt usage for the new smiley)

Ah... so this was the surprise which you wrapped up for me when we met today ...!!?? There has never been a time when I regretted for not having planned something the other way that I had not adopted. Here is my very first regret for not having undergone my project work at college. It was really a surprise that you had thrown by your writing dear. I now feel proud for propagating IL to you when we had a small chat at college a couple of months ago (way back LAST YEAR). Such a lovely meet you had relished that too with a great grandpa for whom I long and yearn at my place. Add on my pat on your back da for having shared with us the essentials that made your day a great one!! Lovely "thatha" had posed with divine aura around his face!! And you, as usual, with a young look !! Latha murali ma'am had put up a vibrant face and I assure that all of you are "photogenic" . Cute looking and smart boy krish, am not a lioness so you can play with me as you will with your dear friends .

The constructive comments that "IL" demands is one such gesture that "she" embraces us with. What more can I share with "her" when I owe "her" what I am today. The excitement that IL bundles with joy, the care that is show cased by "her" in every act of life, the immeasurable values that "she" share, the shining star that shines bright when "she" accomplishes the set target, the impressive tag that "she" attaches with all her mission-possible plans, and all the artistic thoughts that flows through "her" will remain to be the artifacts close and dear to heart !! IL has made a life so beautiful and meaningful that it demands nothing less than "respectable words". I present at "her" lotus feet the "Buttercup flower" that follows beneath as a token of friendship; relationship that got perfectly defined by "Indus Ladies" !!

Dear Latha ma'am, hats off to you and your hospitality. Hope to relish the same personally very soon!!

Regards and hearty prayers
RamyaVaradharajan

Originally Posted by Kamla

Dear Meena and Latamurali,

Must say that it was one of the very refreshingly described account of an IL meeting. It simply screamed of good natured warmth of friendship and regard at the same time. Also mildly laced with humor. Enjoyed reading it:)
And even more so, enjoyed seeing the happy pictures.
Lata, must say you are a one lucky girl to be living so close to all your near and dear ones and you look like a very friendly person
Meena, you are so cute, so young and very pretty.
Little Krishna was the cutest, true to his name, a chinni Krishna!
Oh, grandpa seemed happy and so also Ramya.
Nice meeting all of you:)

L, Kamla

Dear Kamla ma’am

Thank you. Yes Lata ma’am is very lucky to have her chithappas, chithi, athai, cousins, grand father n all others very near to her house.

She is very friendly n a very caring person too. She likes to know everything. She was asking many questions about my main stream in engineering. Even that interviewer who interviewed me for campus placement did not ask me such questions

Love
Meena

Originally Posted by Vysan

Dear Meena Mam,

Thats a real great narration and write up.... But it is not fair to have all the yummies alone... Poor me... But you cannot terrorise the ILites with tiger lioness and all... Now I can understand why 'K' didnt play... He was terrified .... My goodness...

Dear LM,

It is a gift to keep laughing and make others laugh... It keeps you to forget all your tension and be Happy... Keep Going... Great.....

Veda

P.S. You people hijacked shanthi with your chatting yesterday. I knew your meet yesterday...was waiting for the post.

Dear Veda sir

Come on.. Now who is rocking IL?? Its you who is chasing all the threads to post your valuable fb..You know..i took many photos with that tiger! How heavy it was! It was not able to lift it. Lata ma’am was carrying that tiger from one room to another for my sake! I tortured her that I need to take photos along with it. Even myself n Krishna together took a couple of photos with that tiger! But thought I should not scare you all n terrorise, n posted jus a few here..

Love
Meena

Originally Posted by Induslady

Mrs. Lata Murali and Meena,

It was good to read about your lively meet-up and I am glad it happened thro' IL. Thank you for also sharing those nice pics. Mrs.Lata, I especially like seeing the one with your GrandFather. Your son looks very cute and he has got very bright eyes.

Meena you look very pretty and smart :). BTW, may I know what made you drop-in at Mrs.Lata Murali's house all of sudden? Because from what you said I wasn't sure if that was a pre-planned meet-up.

So, is the next meeting of both of you going to be during little Krish's B'day?

Keep it up, cheerful ladies


Malathy

Dear Malathy ma’am

Thank you! Even I liked the one with her grandpa very much n so decided I should not miss posting it here.

The initial platform for this meet-up was laid by the thread-“Discuss about the eat outs in and around your area”. Thanks to JananiKrithsan ma’am. Through that thread I came to know that she resides in the same area where my college is. We started sending pm’s n she was asking me to come to her home right from last week. But as I was not able to make it last week, I called her this Monday to check her availability. She had to go to airport on Monday to send off her BIL, so she asked me if I can come late that afternoon, but I told her to carry on with her work, n that I will give a call later some other day this week.


But she would not have expected my call the very next day itself! It was so kind of her to welcome me at once! I thought I should not give her enough time to prepare lunch for me n so rang her up all of a sudden. But she compelled me to come for lunch n I was asking her to come to a fruit shop. At last I had to give up! Had she agreed to come to that fruit shop, I would have missed a "grand lunch".


I told little Krish that I ll come on his birthday only if he is ready to give me one full kg cake. He immediately responded, ‘Enaku cake pidikaadhu, neeyae yellam eduthuko”..was so sweet!!!.

Love
Meena

Originally Posted by soaringspirit

Meena,

I feel like doing exactly what you did. Feel like calling up someone and showing up at their house. But my problem is, who to call up and who will let me come over? And even if I do find someone who’d let me come over to their place, what are the chances of finding such a clean house and being offered such home-made yummies? Nil! L

Lucky you Meena. And nice of you to share your good fortune with us through your lively write-up and great pictures. Although I am sure most of us here would’ve loved to “taste” your good fortune (pun intended!) J

Latamurali, what immaculate housekeeping and mouth-watering food! Kudos to you!

I am finding more and more reasons to add Chennai to my itinerary on my next visit to India!
SS

Dear SS ma’am

You should make it to Chennai when you come to India. Chennai is called as “Singaara Chennai” ( “Beautiful Chennai”) n with all IL meet ups here, it is growing more n more beautiful!!!

To take you to a clear path from all your queries in mind I am suggesting you this.... It’s a pleasure to host somebody instead of being a guest. Well, why don’t you feel that pleasure when I get the chance of visiting Atlanta?? I ll do all that you exactly feel like doing now!!!

Love
Meena

Dear most Latha ma'am,

Thank you very much for having remembered me during the moment which you all had enjoyed very joyously. Once again a hearty thanks for having been concerned with my project work. Yes ma'am, a heavy schedule, yet an amazing research work that am proud to be a part of it !! Will soon share my "research thoughts" in this platform if it will not be a boring topic for my dear ILites here.

I really missed your culinary expertise but am sure we will meet very soon in a rocking, well planned and an organized IL meet where the head count reaches beyond the "set count" !! The well decorated and neatly maintained "home" is drawing my attention to the core. Hats off You may be very calm in your words when you had put forth that "you are a home-maker and that it was not much of a work that you had done to maintain the same"; but believe me ma'am, maintenance or cleanliness is very truly next to Godliness !! My mom (for that matter, all moms are) is a very perfect creation of the Almighty whom I admire the most. Even if a flower vase is off from its normal position, "she goes off" and only after set-righting the same can sleep invade her !! So are you ma'am !! A lot to learn from the experienced so that the "not-so-experienced" can climb the ladder of perfection.

May God bless you with the pinkest of healths and wish you all success in the path that you create to leave your foot-prints for others to follow the suit ma'am. My namaskaarams to "thatha" who had found a tiny little place in my "heart" :) and your lovely mom too!! My hi and caring hugs to Krish (he need not be reserved with his extension of friendship to me as am NOT a LIONESS ha ha ha ha .. Meenakshi will come around with a stick clutched i know he he he). My hearty regards to another "Ramya" - your cousin :)

Regards
RamyaVaradharajan

Originally Posted by Varloo

Dear Meena,
bad bad girl, why did not you call me? I too would have come to Lata's house.
Anyway, it was so nice to see the pictures and read the details adn have the deja vu feeling. It was sweet of Lata to give you lunch at such short notice ( if this happens with me, I may end up giving you just some raw veggies, so inform me properly when you visit me.) But I have a conveneince, my place is far that it would take you at least 1 hour from the city and by the time I can cook feast for you (no way you are going to escape, ha ha ha)
Lata, it was nice to see you and even more to see your grandpa. My grandpa passed away when I was 12 and I am yearning for grandparents. Your son is lucky to have his ggpa, he must be getting good amount of love and affection.So nice!
And it is not easy to keep the house spick and span, ask me.I should take many lessons from you.As you have said, there is no parallel to Chitvish!

Dear Varloo ma’am

Bad bad ma’am, why did not you tell me that you were also ready to come?


Don’t worry..Not before one hour ma’am, I will inform you before one week itself if I am coming to your house! So that you can prepare a “great grand lunch” for me which includes all the items that a five star restaurant’s lunch menu has..

Love
Meena