Last Friday I travelled to Chennai to escape from Bangalore for few days..When I reached chennai it was raining heavily,.Luckily I carried a umbrella so I could able to move around.But even then I reached my sister's house I was almost "soaked" .Later on the evening I managed to see some "lost relatives" .The next day at chennai was warm and very humid as usual.I went along to see my sister's new flat ,it was really good.
But finally I hate chennai ,worst climate and unfriendly people.In south india ,it is one of places where people can be easily cheated for anything.From Autorickshas to taxis ,you can find lot of crooks who are determined to cheat others.
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Monday, October 11, 2004
Encounter with the third kind!
On 10-08-2004 friday night, my friend and I left Bangalore for a place called Hornad which is around 300 Kms west towards a place called Hassan. On early hours of next morning, I was greeted with natural greenery of uninhabited land with a small lane of curly dark roads. I reached there at around 7 o clock, and took a small temporary shelter. After that we went to the temple, which is dedicated to Goddess “Annapurneshwari” or Goddess of food. The temple had a unique radiance which attracted me a lot. Somebody meantime advised me to visit the Ganesha temple on the top of a hill. We walked through an uninhabited place and finally lost the way. But the nature was beautiful enough to give us energy to walk and finally we visited the beautiful temple.After a wonderful lunch at the temple we left for Sringeri.
Sringeri is one of four centers of learning established by Adi Shankara.I was surprised by the amount of cleanliness there, even though it is visited by thousands of people daily. We got a room provided by the “mutt” for a negligible rent and decided to rest there. I spent a lot of time walking inside the well –laid pavement trying to assimilate the peace and tranquility, which existed there.
On next afternoon, something tragic happened for me. I went to the river “Tunga” for taking bath. My friend was an amateur swimmer and he was trying his skills. After sometime I found his troubled face while he was desperately trying himself from taken away by the current of water. Seeing this I rushed in, I never knew that after few steps I am going to a deep zone .I was thrown into the current, I was grappling my hands to save myself from drowning. For the first time in my life I was completely surrounded and I thought that I am going to die very soon. I could see my friend shouting and I saw couple of people running towards the bank. And finally I could rest one of my legs on a rock, then I tried to place my other leg over a rock, I could do that. I was saved. Then I was helped by a person there to reach the bank. I sat there for few minutes and I vomited .I think I drank a lot of water. Finally God saved me ! I know some lucky persons like me who escaped this .I know it all happened because of friend’s adventure to swim there rather than taking bath in shallow waters. I told him it is really good to be adventurous for a necessity, but not for fun. You can be very close with death.
Sringeri is one of four centers of learning established by Adi Shankara.I was surprised by the amount of cleanliness there, even though it is visited by thousands of people daily. We got a room provided by the “mutt” for a negligible rent and decided to rest there. I spent a lot of time walking inside the well –laid pavement trying to assimilate the peace and tranquility, which existed there.
On next afternoon, something tragic happened for me. I went to the river “Tunga” for taking bath. My friend was an amateur swimmer and he was trying his skills. After sometime I found his troubled face while he was desperately trying himself from taken away by the current of water. Seeing this I rushed in, I never knew that after few steps I am going to a deep zone .I was thrown into the current, I was grappling my hands to save myself from drowning. For the first time in my life I was completely surrounded and I thought that I am going to die very soon. I could see my friend shouting and I saw couple of people running towards the bank. And finally I could rest one of my legs on a rock, then I tried to place my other leg over a rock, I could do that. I was saved. Then I was helped by a person there to reach the bank. I sat there for few minutes and I vomited .I think I drank a lot of water. Finally God saved me ! I know some lucky persons like me who escaped this .I know it all happened because of friend’s adventure to swim there rather than taking bath in shallow waters. I told him it is really good to be adventurous for a necessity, but not for fun. You can be very close with death.
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Travelling
I have been travelling these days.Last weekend I was in NIT(REC) Trichy for campus recruitment. NIT campus is quite big ,nicely laid convering vast areas of land and trees.We reached there on Saturday early morning and we were picked up from the station to thier guest house.I took a early morning walk in the campus to "interact" with nature .I went to temple inside the campus and had a good time there.It is really nice to be away from a bustling and polluted city like Bangalore.
We conducted a aptitude test for 64 people and only 17 people cleared it.It seems we have a probelm wih our question paper ,very tough it seems.After that we conducted group discussions and interview to select 4 people.And finally we reached bangalore on Sunday early morning.
We conducted a aptitude test for 64 people and only 17 people cleared it.It seems we have a probelm wih our question paper ,very tough it seems.After that we conducted group discussions and interview to select 4 people.And finally we reached bangalore on Sunday early morning.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Grandpa expired
On Wednesday evening at around 9.05 pm ,I got a call from my brother saying "grandpa is no more".I was cooking and didnt feel anything at that point since I couldnt believe it. Then I immediately called my travel agent and he luckily arranged a ticket .My grandpa expressed his wish several times that I must do the "funeral rites". I kept that fact in my head and I told my dad ,they should "wait" for me for the funeral.While traveling I was imagining the fact that grandpa is no more and my house will be crowded with visitors .
I reached home at around 12 -15 pm. I prostrated before the red cloth wrapped dead body of my grandpa. I immediately changed the dress and went along with my family members to crematorium for the funeral. Just before the funeral somebody removed the cloth that covered the face of grandpa and I saw a glimpse of frail old man, which hardly resembled my grandfather. I dont know what I felt at that moment. I was standing like an emotionless creature and was doing things like a robot .I didn’t have time to understand the fact that my grandpa is no longer with me.
Lot of people relatives and friends turned up at my home to mourn his death. On Sunday I went to crematorium to collect the “ash” of my grandpa. At crematorium, a person opened a mud pot and put the “ash” to a white cloth. I couldn’t control my emotions when I saw the “remains” of my grandfather .It was really painful. I know lot of people would have felt the same. I realized that “those grey colored matter “ which exists as remains of bone is something which is more than a "matter" for me.
I know death is something, which is very close to human beings. It can happen anytime for anyone. When it happens to our closed ones, we feel that reality is haunting us like never before. Once during a chat grandpa told me “What will happen after one dies”. Most people think that they will go somewhere or it is a complete black box. Like someone said,”Death is one of the biggest puzzle which mankind never solved”
I reached home at around 12 -15 pm. I prostrated before the red cloth wrapped dead body of my grandpa. I immediately changed the dress and went along with my family members to crematorium for the funeral. Just before the funeral somebody removed the cloth that covered the face of grandpa and I saw a glimpse of frail old man, which hardly resembled my grandfather. I dont know what I felt at that moment. I was standing like an emotionless creature and was doing things like a robot .I didn’t have time to understand the fact that my grandpa is no longer with me.
Lot of people relatives and friends turned up at my home to mourn his death. On Sunday I went to crematorium to collect the “ash” of my grandpa. At crematorium, a person opened a mud pot and put the “ash” to a white cloth. I couldn’t control my emotions when I saw the “remains” of my grandfather .It was really painful. I know lot of people would have felt the same. I realized that “those grey colored matter “ which exists as remains of bone is something which is more than a "matter" for me.
I know death is something, which is very close to human beings. It can happen anytime for anyone. When it happens to our closed ones, we feel that reality is haunting us like never before. Once during a chat grandpa told me “What will happen after one dies”. Most people think that they will go somewhere or it is a complete black box. Like someone said,”Death is one of the biggest puzzle which mankind never solved”
Thursday, March 18, 2004
George Michael's Patience
Yesterday I bought George Michael's latest album called Patience.I came to know this is his last commercial album.I still remember the days when his first solo album was released, almost 16 years ago and it was called Faith.I liked few tracks from his new album and one track is intellectually stimulating.
At around 10:30 pm I returned to office to upload our latest release to the ftp server.
At around 10:30 pm I returned to office to upload our latest release to the ftp server.
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