I am a new member

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

I was told that I should briefly introduce myself to you

all ... so I thought I should start right from the beginning.

My name is Vangipuram Venkata Manjula in short MVV( my colleagues

at work call me either MVV or Manju)

 

I was born in India in Sept 1973, yeah I am getting old and will

be 22 in about a month.(birthdate Sept 5,1973). My family moved

to Utah (where my dad did his Phd in Civil Engg before I was born)

 

I come from a very orthodox SriVaishnava-Iyengar family. We are all

pure vegetarians though we have lived here for a long time. None

of us believe in smoking, or drinking.

 

I am a very religious person, my major interests though very

wide are : I love hiking, bike riding, water skiing, snow skiing (

come from Utah one of the best places to ski.)I love reading

philosophy, literature(favorite shakesphere's: King Lear and

taming of the shrew), i love science fiction( favorite show

STNG, and now slowly adapting to the vaoyager). These are my interests

what I like to do .. My love of the life is just sitting down, and

read bhagwad gita(i love to discuss it too), ramayana(in sanskrit)

and every morning suprabhatam yeah yeah I am very old fashioned but

thats me. "sometimes known as : paata chintakai pacchadi" if you know

telugu.

 

I am a Student in Computer Science my main interest is graphics

and multimedia.. my favorite tool is to try and do some ray

tracing code. Member of the Siggraph in ACM. That is about my

education.

 

Other than that. I joined your group to find out as much as I can

about being a Vaishnava, have heated arguments about what an

Iyengar girl should and should not do.

 

You must want to know about my family background

Well I am augirpalli I think thats how it is typed(never been there)

but grandpa(my dad's dad) settled in Madras and lived there.

 

We speak nothing but Telugu, though I want to learn my original

mother tongue tamil. My mom is from one of the famous Iyengar families

the Kidambi's.

 

I don't know what else to say here .. also I am the youngest

of three. I have an older sister, and an older brother.

Sister is married and brother had is upanayanam done very recently

therefore in the learning phase of sandhya vandanam.

 

Well thats about me .. Any questions? please ask

 

 

Manjula. V. Vangipuram

 

 

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Nannu palimpa nadachi vacchitiva

na prana natha .. nannu paalimpa ...

Hey lord rama.. have come walking to

protect me?

-Tyagaraja wrote this when he

finds Lord Rama's idol in the sea.

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