Monday, May 25, 2020

Arjun Ninnu karaoke - Memorial day weekend 2020

At your own risk!

Very bad lyrics and not to say about Vocals..   :-)

Karaoke - Arjun Ninnu - Sydney Nagaram lo - Orange movie

Sunday, July 31, 2016

20160730 Preparations for Housewarming

7/30

On 7/27 I had emissions done for camry solara convertible.
On 7/28 had the Title renewed for Solara at Forsyth county.
Had some fun time chatting/finding a cookware set by desi/telugu lady alone, move out sale, faked rakesh that
i went and saw her and paid $100 ;) , I actually found that she is beautiful telugu girl, alone, But had to bargain and
take small snack table and Cookware set for $110. She helped me getting that table stuff to car.
On 7/29 friday evening Previous owners vacated the property and we have complete posession, but due to the fact
that we dint worked with electricity/water connections power is down and we couldn't do much, we both went in the evening
and couldn't enter as we forgot to take keys with us, In the same community we saw a garage sale board and saw that at 8.40pm
kind of looking at almira/mirror set a huge one but thought to come back next day.

7/30, Chasity and us went to house at 11.30am went over for final walk through, find everything perfect! Old people maintained
home perfect. ice cubes part of fridge melted and water leaked, So chasity quickly rushed to her car and used a beach tower
to remove the water/moisture.  Hugs and bye to Chasity.
Went to garage sale guys 5785, almira thing looked old and many scuffs/scratches, So just took crib for ninnu $10.
arranged it in car and took that to house, I was in little rush and had one of the crib stand part touched hard wood and had a
mark, We both felt very bad for the mark/scratch, and that crib screw part broke as well. We peaked at house to see decoration plan.
Lucky said "No NO" to the crib, So i had to bring it back into the car and went to Garagesale guys and gave it back, $10 back.

In the afternoon, we all went to Sears, mom, ninnu and both of us, Got Kenmore Vacuum cleaner worth $199, used $170 worth of
Sears points that came with Washer&Dryer purchase. Gave Ross4less return of the bowl, Went to costco and got stuff required
for the party plates/tissues/ziplocks etc. and then had Gas filled in our new RDX. Got Dominoz pizza on our way back home.

Today, Naresh Soumya had their Function(Uyyala function), on their baby boy sumedh's 1 month.
in a big way, we missed that :(

7/31, Me and Lucky superbusy, picked Rakesh and went to Vivek flowers ordered flowers and stuff for 6th function, went to temple
to see ayyagaru, then went to wallmart, publix, dollar tree. and got back to hotel to hav quick lunch.
Then me and Rakesh went to Navrang, now digimax, Spoke to Sanjay mama, told about function, new car, new house
and house.  and discussed the plan for lunch items to be prepared by Peppers, Sanjay assured he will prepare the stuff eventhough
the cook and staff gets busy that day due to Freedom mela thing the same afternoon.
After long time/months, me rakesh and sanjay spoke and felt the memories of navrang bachelor fun and typical indian/telugu
associations lots tama/ata/nata/gats thing and wasting lots of money on fame and functions in US instead of any donations
charity in india. Then me and rakesh went to Public storage and got our stuff into the car, I dropped Rakesh at his place.
Met sarath, showed him the new car, and then we spoke about his busy schedule of preparing for Indian trip in 2 weeks and
getting the formal documentation ready for his stamping in india, and onward and return transportation till airport.

And this weekend Ninnu started talking more, this sunday he repeated our words almost the same way, for a amma, aa aavu, i illu
ee eega :) Incredible Vivaan, we felt a great joy listening to him :)

20160723 Epilupu for Housewarming

7/23..

Ninnu started talking to us, we felt like he is almost answering us in some way for what ever we are asking him.
He is trying his best to convey in different voice, stressing pausing at different ways.
Felt really great he is doing it in such a quick time giving us extra energy :)

We went to Rose4less and got a rice cooker dish, and a big flower art frame(someone trying to grab it and lucky found it really
good based on her artist instinct), lucky to grab it.
Went to Home Depot and made our first home related purchase which was 5 bricks.

I have prepared our own Epilupu for the House Warming event on 6th August, as soon as I got confirmation from Sriman ayyagaru.

Took half a day collecting contacting emails and sending evite to them.

20170717 Our first drive in SUV to northpoint mall

07/18...  DCU loan is approved, simple like a song... It required checking account opening and needs address proof,
But due to the fact we just bought new home and no address change done yet on bank account statement, or DL or utility bill,
they made an exception and accepted Home closing document.

And you know what, the best interest rate was offered to me @1.74%(If I have direct deposit from employer for monthly
loan payment).

07/17... Sashi came in the morning, as we both wanted to go to AcuraCarland at duluth to pick my camry solara convertible.
He wanted to go in my new car, But I said insurance formalities not ready yet for new car, said just becoz i dint wanted him
to drive my car, But he is typical man still wanted a test drive around our hotel so he did and liked it very much!

Then we went to AcuraCarland and he spoke about his and preeti's continuing issues and things to handle going forward.
Later On my return, I stopped at duluths carwash+emissions+vacuum center, Had spent 30 minutes in vacuming and got the glass
pieces out of the car and then tried to have emissions but it was closed.

In the afternoon, we along with ninnulu and mom went to Sears at 3pm, met Abid, took an hour to figure out and change delivery
date and process discounts, sears credit points, 10% discount and 15% friends and family event , which we thought could be done in
5 minutes. finally he gave us a great deal though. a huge discount over our washer and dryer.

20160716 Our First SUV 2015 Acura RDX for $32k

Special day...

Day started off with a quick breakfast milk with honeybunches, Then tried to find the Coin laundry for the 3rd time.
Got to know that the Gulf laundry actually is a laundry machinery shop, So fed up and texted Katie to know the exact address.
Got no response So started calling Rakesh, Sashi to find out and discuss the car options today, as I saw email from LouSobh guys
confirming the deal for $28000 OTD that is for 2016 new Honda CRV EXL with navigation that has $890 accessories.
The second option is that, I got call from other dealer for confirming the lowest deal for 2015 Honda Accord Sport for $19000 OTD.
Rakesh said better to prefer CRV 2016,against Accord sport 2015 as we get new and Leather & Navigation.

Then I spoke to Sashi, who discussed other options when I said I would like some luxury option, Then he spoke about OffLeaseonly.com
options where we saw 2012 mdx for $22k and 2015 RDX tech for $27k, I felt 2015 RDX tech for $27k is great deal so wanted
to check in local dealer inventory, So first thing came to my mind was AcuraCarland and Griselda.
So checked Inventory and found one 2015 RDX with Tech package listed for $29850 which has 29.5k miles on it. Then we thought
if we can negotiate that for $29k(we were anyway about to pay $28k for 2016 CRV not a luxury one).
Thats how I made a call to Griselda while I am putting laundry in hotel common place.
Griselda called me back once she checked the inventory for the car I liked and told me to come and test drive soon as they have floods
of appointments, that was at 11.45am.  Then I rushed and got ready quickly and got the laundry out to room. No lunch and started to
AccuraCarland alone, and reached there by 1pm.

Met Griselda and soon got to Test drive the car, I offered $29k and quickly upped my offer to 30k for which she said there is
new management and they dont accept the offer and she can't present that offer, Later her two different manager spoke to me
and tried to convince me for $33k, for which I finally put an offer for $31.5 without a confirm/confidence as I couldn't discuss
the complete situation with Sashi/rakesh. They hooked me for $300 extra for nothing but just extra fee Oil change coupon.
So finally I okayed for $31800 OTD. Then it took more than couple of hours to check credit, lots of documents signing
and manager Ricks discussion about Dealer products/services of Complete coverage, Gap insurance, parts/labour warranty sergice etc, for
total of rougly $3000. I was completely not sure and overwhelming with handling all this alone and so wanted to wait on this part.
Even after signed half of the documents when he said any small issue today on the drive back home I need to pay all gap insurance etc.
Still.... I stood on the same word, dint subscriber to any dealer  service/products, I even had to speak to Nationwide
Insurance guys on getting the quote and adding it to the current policy for $78 monthly. Finally I left Dealer at 7.30pm
Those guys had to stay late, a hug and thank you to Griselda, I even had to ask very basic things to her, about controls for
vipers etc, as I was exhausted, alone and have to drive the new car back.

First drive should be special, But not that great as I am alone handling a huge thing, But I remember this drive home.
Picked up lucky at hotel went to Hanuman mandir(walmart to get coconut), and had Vahanapooja by Sriman, Felt good as he himself
did the pooja instead of other junior, Remember their funny conversation that ferrari pooja was done by junior and Sriman
couldn't see the car.
Me lucky felt good with pooja and when we tried to have picture taken our batter is just below %5, So no pic! :)
But lucky covered some pics of the car by then already :)

Went into temple, had darshan, lucky came to temple after 6 months. Spoke to sashi there, Met Mr.&mrs. sandhyarani(office mate)
Sashi and other temple friend was looking at the car and felt really great for its mint condition and great color luxury car,
King koduru's bro,wife and kid passing by and saw the new car and said it was great luxury car and his wife(the Basics grocery fame)
funny talk that she couldn't identify Acura the brand, kid was overwhelmed and thinking this to 7 seater MDX. Felt great
when people praising the looks and the luxury brand car.

Headed back to hotel, Got ninnu and mom downstairs to parking and saw the car, dark already 9pm, couple pics, and parked at backside.
Then sent the pic in whatsapp groups.... Fully tired, couldn't believe that did the one important thing of recent times.
I have also texted the fellow who wanted to have my convertible solara for $1500 cash, and also checked kbb market price
for detailed condition of my solara after dinner. Kind of convinced that I can sell the car for $1500 to that fellow.

20160704 Ninnus first month... Car remedies

Today, I was trying to check how to fix the Car rear glass as well as Go and check for New Car deals 2016 CR V EX L.
Till yesterday I was checking for 2015+ Honda Accord and Toyota Camry deals online, But after Sasi and Nagaraju said better
go for CRV instead of Sedan's I also felt "yeah, why not CRV", But me n lucky were thinking that if we get Sedan now, we
can get big SUV like MDX later, it will be a good mix/combination.
Morning me and Mom went to Macfarland Laundry but its closed, So we went to gas station next to our hotel as I wanted quarters for
having washing machine and dryer at hotel. I just bought gloves for sake of asking more quarters, the old man gave change but
gave me $1 less when I gave him $20 bill. I realized and thought lets leave it, for the sake of old man and independence day :)... funny huh!

Later had Wash and dry clean for $2 each, and Lucky prepared Chicken curry with (wings we generally grill), As mom was not interested in
biryani we just had it as soupy non-oily curry :)
Later Katie came and stayed long, and this time she behaved, I mean washed her hands and told us she just had bath and clean legs too.
She took ninnu, sang songs, walked around with him, danced with him So I shooted video and took pics. She spend much time
to help lucky, another lactation consultation session, But it worked, a very good improvement.

I left at 5pm to LouSobh Honda, after checked the best deal available with Honda mall of georgia, But LouSobh guys closed for the day.
So took Duct tape at HomeDepot, 30 gallon trash bags at wallmart and Went to Hot breads to meet Sashi, Madhu.
Met Venkat there who came just in today to Atl from Chicago by drive as he relocated here. Me and Venkat went to Dollar Tree, got
party table sheet and scissors and started fixing the rear glass covering, Sashi Madhu joined and we are done fixing it,
like a 60%-80% better solution. Later I went to HHGreg to see the deals about Washing machine and Dryer.
Came home, Katie was there(her 2nd visit after I left) and happily telling me that there was great progess in latching.
Saw firewords from window of far places, and saw NY fireworks in TV, great!
and ha last couple days we have seen many bull ride competitions in TV and ladies bowling games as well. :)


As today, is Ninnu's 1st month - day, I took many pics and videos, But we(lucky told me as well) felt we do some Photo session in next
couple of days.

20160703 Moms first US fireworks show

Nothing much for the day, Just relaxed at hotel. By now, the 2nd day we are used to ValuePlace hotel.
Katie came again and spoke more and tried her hand on Ninnu as well to hold him, and also she helped and guided
lucky to help ninnu latching on(as if she is lactation consultant). As she hold him today, without cleaning her hands we felt
Katie is not good and wanted to avoid her next time.
Tried to contact Sashi's friend Ricky, the car mechanic to find out options for Car rear window fixing. Sent him text message and
multi media photo text. He couldn't get Pics due to high MB. But he tentatively said $250 to fix front & rear brakes n rotors,
and $500 for fixing Rear glass.  And when I asked if I get the parts, he can fix brakes $100 labor and $100 labor for rear glass.

When asked Katie casually, what are the plans for evening. and we are thinking to go to Cumming FairGrounds, she said its a youth place,
all college kids come smoke and drink and suggested to go to Wills park. Later found out that Wills event next day, and so She said
she will join us for today's Fireworks at Fairgrounds, when we said after 30 mins, she came and we said not now and lets go after 1.30 hr,
She came again at 7.20pm and we are set to go at 7.45pm, confused, we are checking for her but she already left, Met her at Fairgrounds.
She walked us through the park and to the other end where only 15% people sat waiting in a different direction for firewords,
Actually that was the correct location for this year , per Katie.

Mom had first Fireworks show in US, she enjoyed it, Felt we might get wet in rain but only drizzled and so we are good :)
We walke back to parking and reached home by 10.20pm, fireworks started at 9.30 for 20 minutes only.
By the time we are home, Katie already in our room.