Green and getting greener : Magnolia landscape enters its first spring

Dear co Magnolians,

Its been a while since my republic day posting. Thought i would get back to you with something different this time. As I walked around the complex, the sudden urge and inspiration to photograph the landscaping in the complex and share it with you all. All i had was my blackberry ...

I am sure you would pardon me for the bad quality of pictures. I used the blackberry and not the Nikon i usually deploy ..

Be that as it may, the greenery in the complex is really settling down and started looking pretty as we approach our first spring in the complex ( remember that the first occupants moved here last July as monsoon set in). Its great to see the multi hued flowers bloom and smile back at you as you go round the complex. The lawns are getting in place, the plants stabilized and are begining to grow. I am pretty certain this would be some great place on the eye by the time we reach the Christmas of 2010.

As always, i am enclosing the links for the pictures I uploaded to my picasaweb..

http://picasaweb.google.com/achutanrao/GreenMagnoliaPicturesFeb2010#

happy viewing ....

by the way, we are pretty close to clocking a half century in terms of occupants who are already living in Magnolia ...

warmest personal regards and wishes ... an ( A N Rao, A001)

Magnolia celebrates the Republic turning 60

Indian Union has now been a demochratic republic for 60 glorious years. Magnolians met for what happens to be the 13th event here to hoist the flag, meet and great and celebrate the Republic Day on this 26th of January,2010.

Srinivasa Shastry, the president of the Magnolia Condominium Association hoisted the tricolor and kicked off the the tradition of the association President updating the residents on the state of the complex.

All good things must end in what's among God's best creations : food!!!.  It was great to have over 70 residents there joining in munching medu vada - idli -pongal and catching up.

Well, that's what life at Magnolia is about. Bonhomie, friends, happiness and good times.

Wish you all a memorable Republic day .... watch this space for the next event.  ...

your neighbour blogger ... a n rao A001

Aasman Ke Niche : Moonlight Dinners at Magnolia

Well, rubber finally hit the road and we had our first moonlight dinner last night with 56 Magnolians in the 4 month to 79 year age range got together in the amphi-theater for a Beer & Biryani theme. Rain gods were kind and it was a nigth of no rains and it was pleasant. What followed was 4 hours of fun and frolik and games and music. We even had Girish read a poem written specifically for the occassion. We had two Magnolia children perform music. The pictures have been uploaded to the web album at the link below.

There were three families that have not yet moved in. In all, a great evening of getting to know each other and some good time ...

http://picasaweb.google.com/achutanrao/AasmanKeNicheMoonlightDinnersAtMagnoliaEdition13Oct2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCOevotzktpeRLA#

Sunday Brunches : Tasty Munches

23 Sep,2009 : Magnolians seem like a bunch of hapy people, always ready for a byte, a cup of coffee and loads of conversation. So, with some inspiration from Sangeeta (C042) and some instant support from Anuradha (B124)

we decided to have a Sunday brunch on this nice warm morning .

What we had was a hefty Sunday brunch and some hearty cricket ( courtesy Rahul Mittal of the sharp sense of humour fame). There was Ravi Idly, Pongal, Kachori, McAlloo Tikki, Fruit Juice, Gulab Jamoon, Fruit Salad, Malbar Ghee Halwa, Sandwitches, Coffee, Chips ..... and a bunch of chaps really full after 2 hours under a warm Sun.

Its not just the food thing : Magnolia is the place we have all chosen to put our hearts and money in to make it our home. There is a lot of positive energy here and some great company. There is already a sizeable childrens' group emerging. The men have found their comaradarie and the women their likeminded group.

Lets make this a happy, throbbing with energy, great living place.

Magnolia distribution lists ... for your info

Hi folks
There are two forums we are using for information sharing at magnolia ....
1) the Yahoo groups. http://groups.yahoo.com/sobha-magnilia
the mail id for this group is sobha-magnolia@yahoogroups.com
you would be receiving a lot of mail on this and a lot of interaction on this as well. I took the mail list from Sobha and have been adding you all to the group. I should be done with the addition of all by tonight

2) Commonfloor
go to www.commonfloor.com and look for Sobha Magnolia
This is an amazing site that caters to the information, interaction needs of apartment owners. Vignesh discovered this and we are a user here.
All the mail ids of Magnolians, that i got from Sobha CRM have already been added here. We will use this for posting information.

3) my blog : there is nothing official about this. This is the blog i will keep writing in completely in my personal capacity. I started this very early and i am hoping this would be a chronicle for those who move in late or join the groups late.

with these three mechansims, we are hoping we will have enough information dissimination mechanisms at Manolia

Frantically catching up. ....

I have been off my blog page for a while .... been a pretty hectic time. But here i am catching up and with posts that cover all that got missed out in the month.

welcome back folks .... happy magnoliblogging... an

Oath of the Tennis Court : the adhoc association meets in the amphi theatre

The avid followers of history would remember the story of the "Oatch of the Tennis Court"

where the delegates of the National Council chose to meet in a tennis court in 1789 when their council building was locked up by King Louis XVI.

Well, it wasnt so bad here. The newly forming adhoc committee tried meeting in the newly forming club house, but found the one usable room was rendered unusable overnight by some fresh construction work. So, we decided to meet in the Amphitheatre on the 13th of September,2009. The key decision was to write a very formal escalation mail to the Vice Chairman , Mr Ravi Menon on various delays and open isues that are frustrating the Magnolia apartment owners.

We may not create something as significant as the French Revolution, but we sure stimulated some action with the escalation. I am sure some of us, the early movers, will remember this picture for a long time.

the faces in thepicture are : A N Rao, Srinivas Shastry, Rahul Mittal, Jerald, Anuradha Shastry