April 17, 2010 by Soma.

Tamil New Year Celebrations

தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு விழா

சனிக்கிழமை, ஏப்ரல் 17, 2010

அலுமினி வில்லாஜ்

தலகாசி

11 வருட தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு விழா இன்று கொண்டாடினோம்.

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April 14, 2010 by Soma.

இனிய புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள்

விக்ருதி வருடம்

புதன் கிழமை, சித்திரை 1, 2010

தலகாசி, அ.ஐ.நா.

தமிழன்பர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் எங்கள் இனிய புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள். வருகிற சனிக்கிழமை நாங்கள் தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு விழா கொண்டாட இருக்கிறோம். வருக! வருகவே!

-சோமசுந்தரம் குடும்பம்

Happy Tamil New Year

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Tallahassee, FL 32317

We wish all Tamil well-wishers a Happy Tamil New Year. We will be celebrating the New Year this Saturday, April 17, 2010 at Recreation Hall, Alumni Village, Tallahassee, FL 32310. We welcome you to the festivities where we plan to stage children’s Tamil Drama, stand-up Tamil comedy routines, poetry recitation in Tamil and other activities. Please check the following links for more details:

• Tallahassee Tamil Sangam

• Somasundaram’s Tamil Pages

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April 1, 2010 by Soma.

National Census Day 2010

Thursday, April 01, 2010

 Tallahassee, FL 32301

Today is the National Census Day (Thursday, April 01, 2010), the day we all are expected to return the completed Census form. Unfortunately, as of today the return-rate (the percentage people returing their form) remains low, around 42-45% for Tallahassee and Leon County. This rate is lower than the national average and lower than other cities and counties in the State of FL.

 A public service announcement will air sometime starting today to encourage everyone to send in their forms.

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March 27, 2010 by Soma.

42nd Springtime Tallahassee Parade

Saturday, March 27, 2010; 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Today we participated in the 42nd Springtime Tallahassee Parade. Our participationin the Springtime Tallahassee parade for the third year in a row was  as a partner of Asian Coalition of Tallahassee. India Associaiton of Tallahassee members both adults and children, all clad in Indian attire,  and other members of the Indian community enthusiastically joined us as early as 8:00 AM. Then many members of ACT joined the group. In all we had about 70-80 people ready when the parade started at 10:30 AM. We were assigned slot number 103. We followed a local high school band. We walked the parade route for about 1.25 mile from the intersection of Third Avenue and North Monroe Street via Mahan Drive to all the way to Gaines Street and South Monroe Street intersection. By the time the parade ended it was about 12:15 PM.

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March 25, 2010 by Soma.

Record a video PSA

Leon County Sunshine Census 2010

 I was referred to Leon County Sunshine Census 2010 committee by a friend of mine. I then appeared at a local studio to record a video Public Service Announcement to promote the Census 2010. The PSA will run during the month of April encouraging everyone to return the completed Census form.

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March 4, 2010 by Soma.

Judging the Pageant

AASU Pageant

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6-8 PM

I was invited by the AASU at FSU to be one of the judges (out of 3) for the Mister and Miss Asian American Student Union. This was my first experience as a pageant judge and I was nervous as the participants before the event began. We had about dozen participants and this was the preliminary interview. As the event progressed both the participants and I became comfortable and I was happy to be part of the process.

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March 1, 2010 by Soma.

ACT Interview

Monday, March 1, 2010

Tallahassee, FL 32306

A student at School of Library and Information Studies at the FSU College of Communication and Information (www.slis.fsu.edu) interviewed me as part of his course requirement. For his Master’s project he needed to talk to a community leader and find out about the needs of the community. Using the census data he narrowed the selection of the community to Asians. Then using the Internet he found my name and sent an e-mail for the interview. You can see the interviews questions and answers here.

ACT Interview Questions and Answers

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January 23, 2010 by Soma.

Pongal Celebration

Saturday, January 23, 2010

ARH, Tallahassee, FL 32306

We celebrated Pongal Festival this evening.

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January 23, 2010 by Soma.

2010 Annual General Body Meeting

India Association of Tallahassee

Saturday, Jan 23, 2010, 2:00 - 3:30 PM

Leon Co Public Library

Tallahassee, FL 32306

The 2009-10 Annual General Body Meeting of the India Association of Tallahassee (IATLH) was held earlier today along with the Indian Republic Day Celebrations. About two dozen families attended the program.I officially became the President of IATLH for the calendar years 2010 and 2011. My team (four more people in addition to me) took over the official Executive Committee’s responsibility from the previous team. We pledged to work to make the Association more relevant to the members.A lively discussion of Association’s activities and events followed. Many people spoke about how to expand the membership.

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November 27, 2009 by Soma.

Azu Lucy Ho’s Restaurant

3220 Apalachee Parkway

Tallahassee, FL 32311

We all three of us went to Azu (fire in Japanese) Lucy Ho’s Restaurant tonight for dinner. Today was opening night for the new restaurant run by Masa Nagashima. We ordered spring roll and Lo-mein, house salad, and iced-tea and sodas.

The food came quick. Since this was long Thanksgiving holiday time, even on a Friday night (6:30 PM) the place was not very crowded. May be there were about 30 people dining.

The waiter was pleasant and Masa was very gracious. We enjoyed the food and drinks. The price was decent.  Good luck to Masa!

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