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Air Duct Cleaning

Monday, July 15th, 2013

Air Duct Cleaning

Addison Lane Home

Monday, July 15, 2013

Tallahassee, FL

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Today we did a complete air duct cleaning of our home. We used Stanley Steemer’s services.

Two people came in the early morning. They came inside the house and located all the vents and intakes. Then they connected their vacuum system to our air handler and started to evacuate the air duct system. The used their vehicle’s engine power to run the vacuum system. While this evacuation was on going the personnel went around the house removed all vents and used a fan like device start cleaning the interior of the vents. Another person the vent adjusting grills outside the house and cleaned them with special chemicals.

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Following the cleaning which took about 1 1/2 hours they vacuumed the floor and places there were debris. They then billed us and went on their way to another customer’s house.

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Heavy Rain in Tallahassee

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

Heavy Rainfall in Tallahassee

Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Tallahassee, FL 32306

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The whole day it has been raining on and off. There were several heavy rainfall bouts. One around 2 PM and couple of them between 3 and 5 PM. On my way home I found so much water at the intersection of North Duval Street and West Tennessee Street (Mahan Drive; US 90) that the cars had to avoid the right most lane. Here is a photo of the water flow at the intersection of W Tennessee Street and N Duval Street

 

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Ceremonies for Appa and Amma

Sunday, April 28th, 2013

Ceremonies for Appa and Amma

Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and 28 2013

Vedaraniam

Tamil Nadu, India

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Thayumanaswamy Rajalakshmi passed away on Tamil New Year’s day on Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 9:00 AM in Chengal Pattu, Tamil Nadu, India on the lap of her son, Thiyagarajan. The cremation with full Hindu religious rites was held on Monday, April 15, 2013 at 12:00 Noon in Vedaraniam as per her wishes and her ashes were disbursed in Bay of Bengal. The tenth and eleventh day Hindu religious rites were held together with her beloved husband’s on Saturday and Sunday April 27 and 28, 2013 in the ancestral home and at Vedamirtha Lake in Vedaraniam.

Appakutty Somasundaram Thayumanaswamy Pillai passed away on Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 6:00 PM in Chengal Pattu, Tamil Nadu, India surrounded by all his children, just four days after his second wife passed away. The cremation with full Hindu religious rites was held on Friday, April 19, 2013 at 6:00 PM in Vedaraniam, his ancestral town, as per his wishes and his ashes were disbursed in Bay of Bengal. The tenth and eleventh day Hindu religious rites were held together with his beloved wife’s on Saturday and Sunday April 27 and 28, 2013 in the ancestral home and at Vedamirtha Lake in Vedaraniam.

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He is survived by two sons Somasundaram (Gnanabhanu) of Tallahassee, FL, USAand Thiyagarajan (Anita) of Chengal Pattu;three daughters Swarnambal (Rathnakumar) of Tambaram, Thillaikkarasi (Shanmugavelu) of Trichy, and Ambika (Vijaay) of Thanjavur all in Tamil Nadu, India; eight grandchildren Gayathri (Sri Ram) of Tambaram, Niveditha and Muthu Kumaran of Trichy, Vivek Thayumanam of Tallahassee, FL, USA, Vidhushini and Arjun Thaimanam of Chengal Pattu, and Sibi Kiran and RishiHrithik of Thanjavur; and one great grandson Abhay Krishna of Tambaram.

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TKD Regional Tournament

Saturday, March 16th, 2013

TKD Regional Tournament

Tiger-Rock Martial Arts International

Lincoln High School Gymnasium

Tallahassee, FL 32311

Saturday, March 16, 2013, 9-11 AM

VTS took part in the TRMAI Regional Tournament held today at Lincoln High School Gymnasium between 9 and 11 AM as fist degree black belt Level 2. He took part in two events: traditional form and sparring.

He did reasonably well in traditional form and did okay on his sparring. Despite his efforts he didn’t get any medals. Black belts, black belts first degree and second degree were grouped together with five participants in his group.

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Thirtieth Interfaith Thanksgiving Service

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

Thirtieth Interfaith Thanksgiving Service

Trinity United Methodist Church

120 West Park Avenue

Tallahassee, FL 32301

7:00 to 8:30 PM, Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012

 

Today I attended the Thirtieth Interfaith Thanksgiving Service at the Trinity United Methodist Church. During the service people from several faith spoke about today’s theme “Walking in the Light”.

 

I read some verses from Thiru Manthiram that spoke about God (Shiva’s) form as Light. There were speakers from Christian, Islamic, Baha’i, and Judaic faiths in the service.

 

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ACT Thank You Party

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

ACT Thank You Party

Sunday, November 11, 2012

CGE Globe, 3-7 PM

This afternoon we had the “Thank You” party for all ACT volunteers, performers, members, and vendors and all their families. This was one simple way of saying thanks to countless hours all of them have spent in making Experience Asia a success.

We had food from Indian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino restaurants make some food for the guests. Once again volunteers set-up the table for buffett style lunch/dinner. We had probably about 60-70 people at the party. We had anticipated a larger crowd but due to the long three-day weekend the attendance was low. But we were happy many student volunteers, members, and several vendors were present.

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Obama Stickers

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

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Obama Stickers

Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012

Tallahassee, FL 32317

I put the Obama/Biden stickers exactly one year ago on my Toyota Avalon. Then when I got my Toyota Lexus, I added the Obama/2012 stickers. With the 2012 Election over yesterday.  I may consider taking them soon

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Attend Koto Concert

Saturday, November 3rd, 2012

Attend Koto Concert

Saturday, November 03, 2012

Tallahassee, FL 32306

We attended the koto concert today.

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Lincoln Leon Football Game

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Lincoln Leon Football Game

Gene Cox Stadium

441 Paul Russell Road, Tallahassee, FL 32301

In the evening after Bhanu came from work, we all three headed to Gene Cox Stadium at the North Florida Fairgrounds to attend the Lincoln and Leon high schools season football game. Our friends at the Tally TKD had informed us about the football game lastnight after VTS’s black belt award ceremony and we arrived at the stadium little past 7 PM. We paid the ticket amount of $6/person. We met our friends and took our seats on the Lincoln side of the stadium around 35 yard line.

Due to some power problems the stadium lights didn’t come on until around 7:30 PM (after the Lincoln Band started to play) and the game went well. The quarters were 12 minutes long and by the end of the second quarter the Lincoln Trojans had scored impressive five touchdowns and extra points to a score of 35 to the Leon score of 3.

We then watched the Leon high school band play. They have been invited to play in London 2013. With full lights on the Leon band perfromed many nice routines. The Leon football game came from the half and scored a touchdown and made Lincoln fumble the ball once.

Since Bhanu had work early and VTS and I had to attend Saturday morning physics we all left with score of 35-10 in the middle of thrid quarter. In all it was a fun.

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Prepare site for EAF 2012

Friday, October 5th, 2012

Prepare site for EAF 2012

Friday, October 05, 2012

Downtown Tallahassee, FL

A bunch of volunteers took some time off (I took half-day off) and came to Chain of Parks in Downtown Tallahassee. We had reserved Bloxham and Lewis parks for our eighth annual Experience Asia Festival 2012. So we started the site preparation for tomorrow’s event.

The first thing we did was to measure the site and started to mark areas for foods, arts and crafts vendors on the Lewis Park. Then we measured and marked the area for ACT members and information booths on the Bloxham parks. One set of volunteers measured and other set of volunteers tied brightly colored threads to mark the stall and open space between them. Another set of volunteers went around affixing the numbers that corresponded to the vendors and members.

Around 7 PM we were done and we all went home.

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