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Candy cane lane

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Christmas in western countries are not just a day of celebration, it is a season of joy. I was blessed to see their enjoyments in the form of decorations. Most of the people not just decorated inside the house, many has decorated at the front of the house, mainly with lights, Christmas trees and Santa Claus. There are many other houses with themes, cartoon characters and unique decorative items. I found everything attractive. The surprising and different thing, I found among certain group of people is their unity. Yes, people in same street/ area together made their independent decorations into an event by unity. I happened to see such street decorations in  Lubao Avenue and Oxnard Street of Woodlandhills, California. The home owners in this street collectively decided to decorate their houses for visitors and turns their street into a candy cane lane. This has been followed as a tradition by these street people since 1952. People of Woodland Hills are excited to drive through ...

Introduced to Skype

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As I said in my previous post  Bye Bye Fiance , Vetri left to US soon after engagement and thus our betrothal life had no hang outs . Communication between betrothal and wedding is far-reaching. So it is our technology that helped for it. Phone call: Vetri called me from his new number and asked me to call back, to confirm that everything is fine, in voice call communication. I too called him back but got a response to check the number. It is 1732....... uh! I understood + in front of the number was missing. It is a general thing, when you receive a call, either this + sign or country code+1 may get missed. I corrected and called him back. He picked up the call and questioned, how could you get the line, when my parents couldn't? I explained him what happened. Got the very first appreciation from him. From that I understood, how that techy guy has undervalued my basic knowledge.  Call to US cost Rs.6/minute. Then my sister in law suggested a rate ...