From the Desk of your PCA Team ....Welcome back from the Easter/Spring Break Holiday's! Hope everyone had some rest and are back in full swing to finish the last two months of the school year! Yes, can you believe it, we have only two months left. This brings us to a sad fact of our community, many of you will be beginning your new adventures by the next calendar year. If you are going, please do email us at pca@aisch.org.
Q: "What is the difference between idli and pongal?" (See at the bottom for answer)
From Reader's Digest Online
“Does It Only Come In Black?”
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Q: What does Charles Dickens keep in his spice rack?
A: The best of thymes, the worst of thymes.
----------------Sign of the Times
At a baby shower, everyone was asked to complete nursery rhymes. My 11-year-old daughter Taylor contributed this: "Jack Sprat could eat no fat. His wife could eat no carbs."
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What's My Name?
My five-year-old nephew has always happily answered to BJ. That ended when he came home from his first day of school in a foul mood. It seems his teacher took roll, and he never heard his name. "Why didn’t anyone tell me my name was William!?" he complained. -------------------
Good Genes?
The topic for my third-grade class was genetics. Smiling broadly, I pointed to my dimples and asked, “What trait do you think I passed on to my children?”
One student called out, “Wrinkles!”
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Mature Fun
As I was treating my daughter and her family to the buffet at a casino, all the bells and whistles for a winning slot machine began to go off. My seven-year-old grandson was awed.
“Wow!” yelled Casey. “This is like Chuck E. Cheese for old people.”
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Reader's Digest is excellent at giving situational real jokes; But some of the best April Fool's joke is usually what our kids play on us. Shel Silverstein, the poet, had captured in his poems about kids.
Sick by
Shel Silverstein, 1930 - 1999
“I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
“I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I’m going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox
And there’s one more--that’s seventeen,
And don’t you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I’m sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,My belly button’s caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle’s sprained,
My ‘pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow’s bent, my spine ain’t straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What’s that? What’s that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!
But on a serious note, did you wonder where did April Fool's Day come from? We did some reasearch and wanted to share the origins with you.
April Fool's Day Origins
We felt it would be good to understand how different parts of the world look at April Fool's Day. We pulled some information out for your reading and learning pleasure.
April Fools' Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is celebrated every year on 1 April by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. The jokes and their victims are called April fools. People playing April Fool jokes expose their prank by shouting April Fool
The custom of setting aside a day for the playing of harmless pranks upon one's neighbor is recognized everywhere. Some precursors of April Fools' Day include the Roman festival of Hilaria, the Holi festival of India, and the Medieval Feast of Fools.
In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392), the "Nun's Priest's Tale" is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two. Modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the extant manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote, Syn March was gon. Thus the passage originally meant 32 days after March, i.e. 2 May, the anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia, which took place in 1381. Readers apparently misunderstood this line to mean "32 March", i.e. 1 April. In Chaucer's tale, the vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox.
In 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval referred to a poisson d’avril (April fool, literally "April fish"), a possible reference to the holiday. In 1539, Flemish poet Eduard de Dene wrote of a nobleman who sent his servants on foolish errands on 1 April. In 1686, John Aubrey referred to the holiday as "Fooles holy day", the first British reference. On 1 April 1698, several people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to "see the Lions washed".
In the Middle Ages, New Year's Day was celebrated on 25 March in most European towns. In some areas of France, New Year's was a week-long holiday ending on 1 April. Some writers suggest that April Fools' originated because those who celebrated on 1 January made fun of those who celebrated on other dates. The use of 1 January as New Year's Day was common in France by the mid-16th century, and this date was adopted officially in 1564 by the Edict of Roussillon.
In the Netherlands, the origin of April Fools' Day is often attributed to the Dutch victory at Brielle in 1572, where the Spanish Duke Álvarez de Toledo was defeated. "Op 1 april verloor Alva zijn bril." is a Dutch proverb, which can be translated to: "On the first of April, Alva lost his glasses." In this case, the glasses ("bril" in Dutch) serve as a metaphor for Brielle. This theory, however, provides no explanation for the international celebration of April Fools' Day.
Long standing customs
United Kingdom
In the UK, an April Fool joke is revealed by shouting "April fool!" at the recipient, who becomes the "April fool". A study in the 1950s, by folklorists Iona and Peter Opie, found that in the UK, and in countries whose traditions derived from the UK, the joking ceased at midday. A person playing a joke after midday is the "April fool" themselves.
Scotland
In Scotland, April Fools' Day was traditionally called 'Huntigowk Day', although this name has fallen into disuse.[citation needed] The name is a corruption of 'Hunt the Gowk', "gowk" being Scots for a cuckoo or a foolish person; alternative terms in Gaelic would be Là na Gocaireachd 'gowking day' or Là Ruith na Cuthaige 'the day of running the cuckoo'. The traditional prank is to ask someone to deliver a sealed message that supposedly requests help of some sort. In fact, the message reads "Dinna laugh, dinna smile. Hunt the gowk another mile." The recipient, upon reading it, will explain he can only help if he first contacts another person, and sends the victim to this next person with an identical message, with the same result.
In England ‘fool’ is known by different names according to the part where it is celebrated. If you are fooled on this day you may be known as ‘noodle’, ‘gob’, ‘gobby’ or ‘noddy’
Ireland
In Ireland it was traditional to entrust the victim with an "important letter" to be given to a named person. That person would then ask the victim to take it to someone else, and so on. The letter when finally opened contained the words "send the fool further".
Poland
In Poland, prima aprilis ("1 April" in Latin) is a day in which many jokes are told; various hoaxes are prepared by people, media (which sometimes cooperate to make the "information" more credible) and even public institutions. Serious activities are usually avoided. This conviction is so strong that the anti-Turkish alliance with Leopold I signed on 1 April 1683, was backdated to 31 March.
Nordic countries
Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians and Swedes celebrate April Fools' Day (aprilsnar in Danish; aprillipäivä in Finnish). Most news media outlets will publish exactly one false story on 1 April; for newspapers this will typically be a first-page article but not the top headline.
April fish
In Italy, France, Belgium, and French-speaking areas of Switzerland and Canada, 1 April tradition is often known as "April fish" (poissons d'avril in French or pesce d'aprile in Italian). This includes attempting to attach a paper fish to the victim's back without being noticed. Such fish feature prominently on many late 19th- to early 20th-century French April Fools' Day postcards.
India
In India, there have been numerous references to April Fools' Day in both cinema and popular literature and people are jovially associated with the date. In Indian cinema, Bollywood's movie April Fool (1964 film) along with its title song[18] is also evergreen. Similar examples may be looked for in other art & craft related fields.
Romania
In Romania, an April Fool joke is revealed by shouting "Pacaleala de 1 Aprilie!" at the recipient, who becomes the "April fool", which means "April 1 hoax!"
Hope you have gotten a bit more information about this tradition that all over the world we celebrate. "Have a wonderful weekend and keep a smile on your face and a joke in your heart." - Anonymous
Signing off for this week.......
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April 4, 2016 - "Meet the Candidates" Session: - BBT - 8:45 to 9:45 a.m.
April 4, 2016 - Begin Board of Directors' Election Week
April 5, 2015 - PCA Meeting in BBT - 8:45-9:45
April 5, 2015 - KPA Meeting in BBT - 2:30- 3:30
April 7, 2016 - Japanese Cooking Demo - The Westin Velachery
April 9, 2016 - Design Saturday at ES Discovery Studio - 10:00 - 1:00
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References
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
Answer: One is a holiday and the other is not.
April 5, 2015 - PCA Meeting in BBT - 8:45-9:45
April 5, 2015 - KPA Meeting in BBT - 2:30- 3:30
April 7, 2016 - Japanese Cooking Demo - The Westin Velachery
April 9, 2016 - Design Saturday at ES Discovery Studio - 10:00 - 1:00
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Connect Magazine
AISConnect magazine comes out in the month of April this year. It is a magazine created by the parent community for the parent community. If you have an interest in writing, editing, creating layouts for this magazine, please email us at pca@aisch.org.
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PCA Ball Update
Last week we completed the survey for the price of the PCA Ball. This time, we had over 200 responses. Thank you all for voting for the Ball Ticket pricing. The Ticket pricing results are below. The A-La-Carte option, this time around has won hands down. Thus, the ticket price will be Rs.3800/person for the ball.
Last week we completed the survey for the price of the PCA Ball. This time, we had over 200 responses. Thank you all for voting for the Ball Ticket pricing. The Ticket pricing results are below. The A-La-Carte option, this time around has won hands down. Thus, the ticket price will be Rs.3800/person for the ball.
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References
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
2) http://www.rd.com/jokes/kids/
3) https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/sick
4) https://www.google.co.in
Answer: One is a holiday and the other is not.
