Happy Onam

Today is Onam. And as a shame to the Malayali community all
over the world, I am not at all enthu about this festival. I guess the hype and
the glam even in God’s own country has ebbed off, with people buying instant
lunches etc. But with the newly acquired neighborhood friends here at Madras,we have decided to have a combined Onam celebration at their place. Pot luck style. Anyway, they
have a television at their place and I will get to watch nice old Mal movie and
the husband will get to eat enjoy the spread. Don’t get me wrong. I am not
planning to skip dinner or anything. Just mentioned how the situation is
win-win for both of us.

Talking about husband, yesterday evening he was nostalgically
mentioning about how his Onam of yester years were.. He was describing about the
puli-inji curry and the payasam his mom used to make and how he is
craving for the same. To my MIL’s defense, she makes such yum puli-inji
curry. It was at this precise moment I handed him a cheese sandwich; on the day of Onnaam Onam. God bless Gin, he devoured the cheese sandwich with the same gusto that he would have emptied a bowl of paalada paayasam … ;-)Sigh, thank God for small mercies in
life.

The son did celebrate the Onam in style though. Like father,
like son. He was hooked onto the payasam that was made at home in Kottayam yesterday.
He wanted more and more and finally my Amma had to hide it from the little one.
Also he wore his Onam outfit and went for an Onam celebration… For good measure
my Amma did tie a naada around his mundu so that it wont slip off
and show the diaper beneath it and humiliate the boy :P.. They have taken
photographs and I am waiting for them to arrive.. So as an answer to people who
ask me what I am craving for, it is for that snap of our little bubblegum in his Onam
mundu :) :)

So Happy Onam Folks. Have a great one