Edible Art 2

Whatever Annikki says or does it has a touch of art.

Pencil sketch (Annikki 1964)

Crayon still life (Annikki 1987)

Annikki did  pencil sketches, crayon and chalk paintings, 

Annikki designed house interiors,

 Annikki designed gardens, 

Annikki  designed cakes, 

Annikki designed children's education courses.

One friend once said that coming to our house was like coming to a personal museum! Not mine, but Annikki’s!

Another facet of Annikki which I highlight today is how she designed the way she served  food to me with a great touch of artistic humour.

She had an eye for art. For instance, when she saw this piece of ginger, she came running to show it to me!

When she was preparing salted salmon, our very traditional daily breakfast, she made these types of creations showing her amazing artistic touch.

Salted  salmon as a "butterfly".

Salted salmon as a Christmas tree,

 

Salted salmon as a bush!

Breakfast was always fun as Annikki would create a fun shape breakfast plate of healthy tasty stuff.

Fried egg and bread as a butterfly.

 with a sausage body

Omlette and sliced turkey as a butterfly.

Eggs, tomatoes, toast, sausages as an art creation.

Paprika, eggs, toast as an art creation.

A white mouse for breakfast?

Fried eggs and toast wing their way to  the breakfast table.

A ladybird for breakfast?

Butterfly of sausage and omlette for breakfast?

Toast, turkey slices, sausages, scrambled eggs, tomatoes keeps us interested!

Fried egg buffalo?

Fried egg on toast tastes delicious when served like this!

And she mixed her art as with the crochet work she created.

Sweets are sweeter from a crocheted basket

Eggs arrive in a crocheted basket

Sharon fruit are tasty from a crocheted basket and it comes along with the turtle!

Tomatoes are stored in a crocheted basket!

Crocheted duck carries the eggs

This was delicious! Anyone guess what it was?

Annikki was always surprising the family with the art she turned up with literally everywhere. 

I have shown just a few examples, but she always had something interesting and new for the children and me, even if it was just a cup of tea!

Life with Annikki for 56 years has been one roller coaster of fun! Amazing personality.

We beat our 2005 Blogging Record

 We have done it. 

unmasked!

Our most popular blog entry was about my childhood hero, world champion wrestler Dara Singh, which I posted on 15th November  2005. 

As a 9 year old I had sat next to him in Sampige Stadium in Bangalore and watched him crush King Kong and Flash Gordon and see the Madked Angel refuse to fight him, as he would have been

The blog had innumerable comments from “their” family members, wrestling enthusiasts, biographers, of the “two” Dara Singh’s. YES, there were of them!

This entry of 18 years ago, with its comments, is considered as one of the authoritative active sources about our Indian world champion wrestler.

In this era, where the Champion Indian women wrestlers, who have brought great laurels for our country, are fighting for their honour, and Annikki and I stand with them, we use this our blog to highlight how it is important to stand by our 10 Guiding Principles.

The hits for the Dara Singh blog crossed 19400.

Today we crossed 20000 hits in the month of September alone.

Thank you to the rogues who made Annikki snd me to terminate our membership to O-India Ry for generating such a great interest in our blog. 

It is their criminal behaviour that we exposed in our blog that has driven this interest worldwide. 

Many are shocked to see how some Indians in Finland can behave in this manner, shaming the name of our great country, INDIA.

(I am doing research into the great controversy about the name of our country, whether  it should be India and/or Bharat. As it is a factual historical, financial, political check, it is taking time to prepare this blog - do stay tuned. 

In the meantime I continue to say that I am pround to be sn INDIAN, so beautifully sing by the Shillong Chamber Choir.

We restarted our blogging on 3rd of August this year. We made four blog entries in August snd we had just 287 visitors.

We started regular blogging about every two days in September and the  visitors to our blog have gone through the roof. 

The visitors peak in September has exceeded the visitors we had in the period 2009-2010.

And it is ripping the universe now.

Today 23rd September!!!

The visitors from around the world are coming at over 2 per minute. This sortof result for the blog is truly amazing. 

This statistic was seen at 2:58 am on the 23nd September morning. The bulk of them were from Android app users. They came from all corners of the globe. The search engines were directing the traffic to our blog which meant the keyword we have been using are to the readers interest. Also most readers were coming directly to our blog and not being directed by social media. 

I checked with AI for possible reasons. The answer was clear. People are interested in what we are blogging, so they are coming.

The most popular blog entry was the one we explained why we terminated our membership the the O-India Ry, a Finnish association claiming to cater to people interested in India in the Oilu region.

It appears that the bulk of the visitors came because of the 10 Guiding Principles we applied before quitting this association.

Truth and the Sacrd Trust we abide by, seem to have hit a chord with those who visit the site. We promise that we will continue with this philosophy 

Recently, we were invited to take part in an event to be organised by a member of this association. Although the person is a friend, we declined as we thought it inappropriate to share our time and space with people who behave in a manner opposed to our principles. 

We wish to keep our integrity.

We thank each visitor to our blog for making our blog so popular that it has given us the incentive to blog  in a manner that keeps your interests at heart while abiding by our 20 Guiding Principles.

And if you have been through the comments section on our Dara Singh blog entry and would like to add some information we have missed, please do write to me about it.

It is almost the time we may have to think like this!

Thank you a million times.

Cathedralites - Say “Goodbye Bill”

I have posted details of the funeral on our Seventh Heaven Blog

Annikki and I would like to say our fond farewell to our dear friend, my physics teacher from my days in Cathedral and John Connon School, Bombay (Mumbai).

Bill passed away yesterday at the age of 98. His wife, Pushpa was with him.

Bill introduced me to physics and the basics he taught me, starting with the first experiment on measuring specific gravity, stood me in good stead especially when I had to master the subject of Polymer Physics.

Bill was on the staff of the school and introduced us to Physics.

Boys' School Staff 1958

Bill was the Assistant House Master of Wilson House which was Cock House in 1956

Bill was a powerful singer and sang as tenor in the St. Thomas Cathedral Choir where I was also privileged to sing under late Charles Velu.

The portal of the St. Thomas Cathedral church.

Bill also sang the lead in the school annual musical operas.

He and his wife, Pushpa, took part in our 2009 Golden Jubilee Reunion of the Class of 59 in Bombay. He also visited the reunion of the 1964ers Reunion, with me and 59er class teacher John Billington, held the same year.

Bill in the group photo of the 59ers after the Founders Day Service

Our contact with Bill and Pushpa was kept alive by the late Hasnain Chinwala (Chinnie), our dear classmate, who also lived in Toronto, Canada, and visited Bill and Pushpa as often as they would have him.

This photo album below with inputs from late Chinnie, compiled by me, shows how dear Bill and Pushpa were to us 59ers. 

Family photo of Bill and Pushpa

We celebrated Bill's 85th birthday via late Chinnie.

We were also there, in spirit, for Bill's 90th birthday, thanks to late Chinnie.

Bill, Pushpa and late Chinnie with Viney

Bill, Viney and late Chinnie

Pushpa lays out the dinner table for Viney

Bill, Viney and Pushpa

Their doors were always open for us 59ers. 59er Viney Sethi from California and late Chinnie visited him in Toronto and they called me on the phone from there.

59er Dr. Narsys Irani, who was also his student, living in Toronto also visited Bill.

We will miss our dear Bill. 

I am greatly indebted to 54er Gracie Hayeem for updating me of this news. Pushpa had informed me of the situation, after 64er Basil Colaco had informed me that Bill was slowly fading.

I attended the Annual General Meeting of our school alumni today and informed the participants of the passing of Bill. Shyla Boga Patel said she would carry this news on our Cathedral School website.

May Bill rest in peace. 

May our Lord bring peace to Pushpa and their family at this time, knowing he was greatly loved by all of us. 

Condolences from every single 59er who have loved Bill from our first interaction in 1954 (70 years ago).