Happy Deepavali!

Whoopee! Deepavali is here.There are various alleged origins attributed to this festival. Some hold that they celebrate the marriage of Lakshmi with Lord Vishnu. In Bengal the festival is dedicated to the worship of Kali. It also commemorates that blessed day on which the triumphant Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya after defeating Ravana. On this day also Sri Krishna killed the demon Narakasura.

There is an air of freedom, festivity and friendliness everywhere. The elders were up before sunrise while daddy and me decided to sleep in a while longer. We took our shower and put on our new clothes. We had our prayers at home before heading to the temple where the prayers are held in accordance with the ceremonial rites.


We performed our prayers at the Sri Subramaniar Temple at Jalan Ipoh in KL. It's a huge temple where parking is always a challenge; if it's under a tree, we get bird droppings but out on the open field the tyres roll-on cowdung.

After the prayers, we exchanged 'angpows' (money gifts in small coloured packets). Normally the little one in the house gets the whole loot, in our family I'll do the collection.


This year, we decided to share the joy with the rest of the KL folks by joining the celebration at the MIC (The indian political party in Malaysia) Open House held at the PWTC's Merdeka Hall. The Who's Who of Malaysian politics were all there.


I couldn't shake hands with the man himself, Datuk Seri Samy Vellu. He was the longest serving minister in the Cabinet of Malaysia. Pursued by scandals, corruption allegations, and charges of lack of effectiveness, he suffered a shocking defeat in his parliamentary constituency in the 12th Malaysian General Election.


There was not much to choose from but there were enough lines so people need not rush and stand in long que. There's a section at 4th floor where the portrait of Malaysia's former premier's were made available for public viewing. I took the opportunity to pay my respect to a profound leader who took Malaysia to another level. Thank You Sir!


That's me ... camouflage. Since my dress and the PWTC carpet has the same design, it was hard to say if i'm around. Quite a disguise I must say.

When we got home, I got a pleasant surprise. Our family friend who used to live opposite our house paid a visit with his 3 children. I was very busy extertaining them. We spent the whole afternoon playing, visiting my grand uncle and even found time to distribute goodies to our neighbours with them.


After an hour nap in the evening I was up again and back to more fireworks and we went back to Grand uncle's house for dinner. There I was introduced to his pet dachshund. Cute fellow unlike the ferocious Aathi.