Jumat, 19 Desember 2008
For those who haven't met us yet, Party Sparks Inc. is Miami's fastest growing indoor and outdoor fireworks company today. Owned and operated by Ernie Ruiz, a licensed and insured Pyrotechnician, he is dedicated in providing professional high quality displays customized to your every pyrotechnic need.
For those who haven't met us yet, Party Sparks Inc. is Miami's fastest growing indoor and outdoor fireworks company today. Owned and operated by Ernie Ruiz, a licensed and insured Pyrotechnician, he is dedicated in providing professional high quality displays customized to your every pyrotechnic need.
For those who haven't met us yet, Party Sparks Inc. is Miami's fastest growing indoor and outdoor fireworks company today. Owned and operated by Ernie Ruiz, a licensed and insured Pyrotechnician, he is dedicated in providing professional high quality displays customized to your every pyrotechnic need.
For those who haven't met us yet, Party Sparks Inc. is Miami's fastest growing indoor and outdoor fireworks company today. Owned and operated by Ernie Ruiz, a licensed and insured Pyrotechnician, he is dedicated in providing professional high quality displays customized to your every pyrotechnic need. Webiste published by Hitogram Media
For those who haven't met us yet, Party Sparks Inc. is Miami's fastest growing indoor and outdoor fireworks company today. Owned and operated by Ernie Ruiz, a licensed and insured Pyrotechnician, he is dedicated in providing professional high quality displays customized to your every pyrotechnic need.
For those who haven't met us yet, Party Sparks Inc. is Miami's fastest growing indoor and outdoor fireworks company today. Owned and operated by Ernie Ruiz, a licensed and insured Pyrotechnician, he is dedicated in providing professional high quality displays customized to your every pyrotechnic need.
For those who haven't met us yet, Party Sparks Inc. is Miami's fastest growing indoor and outdoor fireworks company today. Owned and operated by Ernie Ruiz, a licensed and insured Pyrotechnician, he is dedicated in providing professional high quality displays customized to your every pyrotechnic need. Webiste published by Hitogram Media
Hindu Wedding Ceremony
As I said before, my family is wonderfully diverse. This is a photo of my cousin, Michelle, getting married to Enrique during their Hindu wedding ceremony recently. There was a Catholic wedding ceremony the following day as Enrique is of Philipino descent. The rich colour and detail of Indian wedding costumes can be seen here. Please View Large on Black By Clicking on 'Slideshow' in my Photostream
Most of us in my generation did not get married in this way, so it was a real treat for all in attendance. This ceremony is thousands of years old and is conducted in the ancient language of Sanskrit. At its core, a Hindu wedding ceremony is essentially a Vedic ritual, in which the Aryan deities are invoked in the Indo-Aryan style.
The primary ‘witness’ of a Hindu marriage is the eternal fire (agni is Sanskrit for "fire", or in Latin ignis, which is the root of English ignite, Russian ogon, Polish ogień, Lithuanian - ugnis - all with the meaning 'fire'). Seven encirclements are made around the fire by the bride and the groom in which she leads him seven times and then he leads her seven times. With every round they make one promise to their partner. In this way they make seven promises.
In the first round, the couple prays to God for plenty of nourishing and pure food. They pray to God to let them walk together so that they will get food.
In the second round, the couple prays to God for a healthy and prosperous life. They ask for the physical, spiritual and mental health from God.
In the third, the couple prays to God for wealth. They ask God for the strength for both of them so that they can share the happiness and pain together. Also, they pray so that they can walk together to get wealth.
In the fourth round, the couple prays to God for the increase in love and respect for each other and their respective families.
The bride and groom together pray for the beautiful, heroic and noble children from God in the fifth step.
In the sixth holy round around the fire, the couple asks for the peaceful long life with each other.
In the final seventh round, the couple prays to God for companionship, togetherness, loyalty and understanding between themselves. They ask God to make them friends and give them the maturity to carry out their friendship for a lifetime. The husband says to his new wife that now they have become friends after the Seven Vows and they will not break their friendship in life. As representatives of the masculine and feminine aspects of God, nature, and the universe, men and women are regarded as equals. Neither is superior nor inferior to the other.
The history of the Mallu Nairs
To understand the origin of the Mallu Nairs, we first have to understand the history of the Tamilians, the neighbours of the mallus.
Long Long Ago, only Brahmins lived in TamilNadu. They are nowadays popularly known as Tambrahms. When the English first landed on the shores of Tamil Nadu, much before they had explored other continents, they were surprised to see people who spoke a strange language , wore strange clothes , even had strange markings on their forehead and other parts of the body. So, when they enquired around (in English of course), there were few who ran away and there were few who answered "Naan Brahmin" and then ran away fearing that the English would spoil their orthodox holiness. "Naan Brahmin" in Tamil means "I am a brahmin". The English were not expected to understand this and classified this group of people as non-Brahmins. Thus, Non-Brahmins came into being and the English exploited this to create the caste system in India. In fact, all south Indians were only vegetarians at that time. A similar misunderstanding led to few people being understood as non-vegetarians and thus forced to eat meat.
Now, Brahmins consisted only of Iyers in the olden days. But, there were two "different" classes of iyers. One, who worked for daily wages and the other, who had their own businesses. The second category prospered over the years and eventually made enough money to buy and import cars from England. This group wanted to differentiate itself from the daily wage group. So, whenever they had to introduce themselves, they always said "Iyer with car".Over the next 132 years, this phrase "Iyer with car" slowly evolved to "Iyengar". Thus started the quest for dominance between the Iyers and the Iyengars.Since the Iyengars had cars, they slowly moved towards the eastern part of Tamil Nadu near the coast, where they made broad roads like the modern ECR, while the Iyers moved onto the hills close to the borders of Kerala.
Now back to Mallu nairs. When the British reached Kerala and started moving inwards towards the Tamil nadu Border, they were shocked to see two similar group of people at war with each other. Both were dark, spoke unintelligible language (they learnt later that both the languages were different) and yet, were fighting each other for control of the coconuts. So, the British started enquiring. Of course, the locals didn't know English, but were proud of their own culture and identity. Since the British (through Knowledge Transfer) from their counterparts who landed in Tamil nadu, already knew about Iyers, they assumed that all dark people in this people were Iyers. So, they started addressing even the Mallus as Iyers. This enraged the mallus a lot and they started adding "Not an Iyer" at the end of their names like Harish "Not an Iyer", Anil "Not an Iyer". Because of the accent of the Mallus and the evolving of language over time, the surname "Not an Iyer" stuck to the mallus and it eventually transformed to Nair. Thus, we have harish Nair and Anil Nair.
All you Nairs, be proud of your history and be proud of the fact that you are "not an Iyer".
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Long Long Ago, only Brahmins lived in TamilNadu. They are nowadays popularly known as Tambrahms. When the English first landed on the shores of Tamil Nadu, much before they had explored other continents, they were surprised to see people who spoke a strange language , wore strange clothes , even had strange markings on their forehead and other parts of the body. So, when they enquired around (in English of course), there were few who ran away and there were few who answered "Naan Brahmin" and then ran away fearing that the English would spoil their orthodox holiness. "Naan Brahmin" in Tamil means "I am a brahmin". The English were not expected to understand this and classified this group of people as non-Brahmins. Thus, Non-Brahmins came into being and the English exploited this to create the caste system in India. In fact, all south Indians were only vegetarians at that time. A similar misunderstanding led to few people being understood as non-vegetarians and thus forced to eat meat.
Now, Brahmins consisted only of Iyers in the olden days. But, there were two "different" classes of iyers. One, who worked for daily wages and the other, who had their own businesses. The second category prospered over the years and eventually made enough money to buy and import cars from England. This group wanted to differentiate itself from the daily wage group. So, whenever they had to introduce themselves, they always said "Iyer with car".Over the next 132 years, this phrase "Iyer with car" slowly evolved to "Iyengar". Thus started the quest for dominance between the Iyers and the Iyengars.Since the Iyengars had cars, they slowly moved towards the eastern part of Tamil Nadu near the coast, where they made broad roads like the modern ECR, while the Iyers moved onto the hills close to the borders of Kerala.
Now back to Mallu nairs. When the British reached Kerala and started moving inwards towards the Tamil nadu Border, they were shocked to see two similar group of people at war with each other. Both were dark, spoke unintelligible language (they learnt later that both the languages were different) and yet, were fighting each other for control of the coconuts. So, the British started enquiring. Of course, the locals didn't know English, but were proud of their own culture and identity. Since the British (through Knowledge Transfer) from their counterparts who landed in Tamil nadu, already knew about Iyers, they assumed that all dark people in this people were Iyers. So, they started addressing even the Mallus as Iyers. This enraged the mallus a lot and they started adding "Not an Iyer" at the end of their names like Harish "Not an Iyer", Anil "Not an Iyer". Because of the accent of the Mallus and the evolving of language over time, the surname "Not an Iyer" stuck to the mallus and it eventually transformed to Nair. Thus, we have harish Nair and Anil Nair.
All you Nairs, be proud of your history and be proud of the fact that you are "not an Iyer".
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Labels: humour
Kamis, 18 Desember 2008
The Smith-Smith Wedding Party Jump Take
The Smith-Smith Wedding Party Jump Take 2 by capturingreallife.
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Take a minute to view and look closely at each person. lol. What a hilarious group!!
October 13, 2007 Wedding in Jacksonville Beach, Florida
AMAZING couple, FUN wedding party and FABULOUS weather!!
A Wedding Photographer's Dream!
More images from this wedding to come...
Adjusted Curves on this one to make it a little lighter.
{Capturing Real Life Wedding Photography
www.capturingreallife.com
Wedding Photographer in NE Florida
Available for Travel Worldwide}
Take a minute to view and look closely at each person. lol. What a hilarious group!!
October 13, 2007 Wedding in Jacksonville Beach, Florida
AMAZING couple, FUN wedding party and FABULOUS weather!!
A Wedding Photographer's Dream!
More images from this wedding to come...
Adjusted Curves on this one to make it a little lighter.
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