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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March 7, 2010 by Soma.

Manickkam Drama PracticeSunday, March 07, 2010; 5:00 to 6:00 PMTallahassee, FL 32317We began practicing for Manickkam Mattinaan (மாணிக்கம் மாட்டினான் )  comedy Tamil drama at home. We had about six kids.

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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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October 24, 2009 by Soma.

Aadhavan Movie | ஆதவன் தமிழ் படம்

Movies 8 Sharer Road

Saturday, October 24, 2009 8 PM

Cast:  Surya, Nayanthara, Vadivelu, and Sarojadevi 
Direction : K.S. Ravikumar | Music : Harish Jeyaraj

Due to concerted efforts of good folks in Tallahassee, we were able to go Aadhavan Tamil movie at Movies 8 on a Saturday night. It was a okay movie, long, melodramatic, and with expected ending. But, remember, we are talking about a vanilla Tamil movie. Cost of the tickets for adult was $10 and children $5.

Anyway, we enjoyed it thanks to some entrepreneurial folks in Tallahassee. Keep up the good work.

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September 6, 2009 by Soma.

Tallahassee Tamil Sangam Picnic

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park

Wakulla Springs, FL 32327

 With Manoharan family, Vasudevan family and our family organizing a Tamil Sangam Picnic at Wakulla Springs State Park, the turn-out was okay. Since we thought about it only a week ago,  it was the long Labor Day week-end, and a Sunday afternoon many people couldn’t make it.But those assembled set-up the picnic table in one of the covered canopy around Noon. The young ones immediately headed to the water at the Wakulla Springs itself. After swimming for about hour and half most of the people became hungry. We had our lunch.Then we started to play touch-football, volleyball, and finally the quint essential Indian sport, Cricket. Most of the kids participated in the games. Then it was to the waters again. The weather was in lower ninties and there were scatttered clouds but no rain. Finally around  5 PM we started to drive back home. It was a successful picnic.Photos from the picnic can be seen here:http://picasaweb.google.com/somabhanu/TTSPicnic2009#

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June 10, 2009 by Soma.

GIS and Present

VTS and I looked at GIS software as part of his environmental science summer camp. We also ate yellow layered cake in the evening.

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February 21, 2009 by Soma.

International Mother Language Day

(உலகத் தாய் மொழி நாள்)

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Tallahassee, FL, USA

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1999 declared February 21 as the International Mother Language Day. So today Saturday, February 21, 2009 on the eleventh anniversary I learned about this day and want to celebrate my mother language Tamil. Let the ancient dravidian language of Tamil prosper for ever!

1999 ல் ஐக்கிய நாடுகளின் கல்வி, அறிவியல், பண்பாட்டு நிறுவனம் பிப்ரவரி, 21-ம் தேதியை உலகத் தாய் மொழி நாள் என்று அறிவித்தார்கள். இன்று 11-வது வருட நினைவு நாளில் இந்த விஷயத்தை அறிந்தேன். எனவே இன்று என் தாய் மொழியான தமிழ் வளரவும், பரவவும் ஆசைப்படுகிறேன்.

வாழ்க தமிழ்! வளர்க தமிழ்! பெருகுக தமிழ்! தமிழ் மணம் எங்கும் வீசட்டும்!

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January 17, 2009 by Soma.

2009 பொங்கல் விழா

சனிக்கிழமை, சனவரி 17, 2009

தலகாசி, அமெரிக்கா

Dr Mano and Mrs Priya arranged for a Pongal vizha for Tamil loving people of Tallahassee, Florida, USA. The celebration began with about 50 people gathering together for an evening of drawing of kolam, prayer, play for kids, preparation of sweet pongal, and eating of a communal dinner.

First nine separate teams of ladies and children participated in kolam drawing competition using colored kolam powder on black plastic sheets. The friendly event kept the whole crowd interested in the activity. The teams worked on their kolam for about an hour. Three non-partisan judges evaluated the team’s work and prizes were given to first (1 team) and second place (3 teams).

பொங்கல் விழா ஒளவையாரின் “பாலும் தெளி தேனும்” கடவுள் வாழ்த்துடன் துவங்கியது (விவேக் மற்றும் சோமு). பின்னர் குழங்தைகள் விளையாட்டுப் போட்டி நடந்தது.  இனிப்பு பொங்கல்  தயாரான உடன் அனைவரும் உண்டு களித்தோம்.

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January 14, 2009 by Soma.

2009 பொங்கலோ பொங்கல்!

புதன்கிழமை, சனவரி 14, 2009

தலகாசி, புலாரிடா, அமெரிக்கா

அனைவருக்கும் 2009 பொங்கல் நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்! வாழ்க வளமுடன்!

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