A treat with out a meat is never a treat ....

Its so nice to have refreshing weekend after a hectic week. Yes, this weekend was so much relaxing with couple of entertaining movies and meeting up with old friends after a long time.

You always feel nice to talk about things we have done in past with your friends. Its such a pride to recall those moments. Thats why we should make the best out of now so that we can make our memories more memorable.

When I was still fighting & pulling my sister's neatly platted hair, and all of a sudden my phone started ringing & vibrating pulling me out of my dreams. It was my friend checking out my day's schedule, I was thinking that I am yet to get out of bed but people have already started planning for the day. He invited me for a birthday treat at Begul Rock Kamath and I generally never say "NO" for parties.

In less than an hour I ended up with few other friends for lunch at Begul Rock. This place is very well known for its maize roti and special vegetarian food. Every one except me were full of praise for the food, some how all veggy food taste the same for me. I personally feel a treat without a meat is never a treat :)

After that we found ourselves in the very first row ( Gandhi class) in Urvasi theater for "Ajab prem ki ghazab Kahani". I nodded for this movie for two reasons, one was because of Katrina :) and the other reason was that my friends did not give me any option other than to accompany them.

But somehow its a great comedy movie to watch if you leave behind your logic & reasoning in the car at the parking lot. The role of Ranbir kapoor impressed most of the people out there, his role is kind of similar to that of "Wake up Sid", I some how liked him even in that movie may be because its so close to my character. But the interesting fact is, people like those characters only when they are on reel not in real :)

Looking forward for a great week ahead.

what i shall write....

Yes, I am back. There is nothing new in me being in and out of blogging world. But this time its almost more than a month and a half since i have scribbled something. I can give lot of reasons like me being occupied with so many things, busy with up coming projects or few more fancy reasons but the fact was I was lazy enough to write down.

Once rusted its very difficult to get it back to its natural state, this is how my condition is as of now. I wanted to write down so many stuffs but i dont know where and what to start with.

There were so many things running down my mind on what to write. Shall I write on why I did not write or shall I write on what made me write after such a long time of not writing or shall I write on what I've been thinking of writing , and so on.

Finally i started writing about all the good and bad times i had during this break but later reasoned out to myself why the hell others will be interested to know what the fuck i was doing all these days. So all that i scribbled were pushed down the bin.

Even though i have so many things to write I hardly could get it on blog. I guess this is a very polite way of stating i am unable to write on anything :).

Anish wedding @ Gods Own Country

After lot of hiccups we finally made it for Anish's wedding right on time for the lunch , thus missing the moments of actual ceremony and the glamour :) .

I always wondered why is that many term Kerala alone as "GODS OWN COUNTRY" , as if other places are created by some devils :). But was kind of satisfied with their claims after this tour.

Every one desires to have a final boarding pass to Heaven, which is said to be place only for the blessed ones where the greenery exists as far you eye, where the rivers are flooded with wine , fed with delectable food served by beautiful women.

There ends the similarities of Kerala with heaven :).

Once again wishing Anish a happy & prosperous married life. And a special thanks to Ajish & Ashish for such a lovely hospitality.

The other side of the coin ....

We are so much occupied in our material world that we hardly notice and enjoy the things happening around us. Its more of a mechanical life from the time we wake up and return between the sheets.

Yesterday i was late and hurriedly getting ready then i noticed someone staring at me. Then i found him to be my house maid's son. He was in his own world playing with a coin and smiling at me. His smile was more of a teaser, his eyes sparkling with the innocence. It made me think for while and made me to capture those moments for ever.

Check out his innocence .....

Return of Maveli

"Happy Onam for all my friends "

I recently read about the story behind the celebration of Onam. It was indeed a very creative and beautiful fable.

The story goes like this, Maveli or Bali was born of Devamba to Veerochana, the son of Prahlada. He grew up under the tutelage of his grandfather who instilled in him a sense of righteousness and Bhakti. Bali succeeded his grandfather to become king of the Asuras. There was peace and prosperity everywhere during his reign.

He expanded his kingdom and usurped the heaven. The vanquished Devas then complained to their protector Vishnu, who assured them that he himself would restore the authority of Devas. Bali, at the behest of his Guru Sukracharya decided to conduct the Ashwamedha Yagam.

During the Yagam, Vishnu, in the guise of a small Brahmin boy (Vamana), appeared before Bali and asked for three paces of land. Bali, who had vowed not to refuse anyone, promptly granted the wish, even ignoring the warnings of his guru. Vamana measured all the worlds and the sky with two paces. Then, Bali offered himself for the third pace and was thus banished to the Patala.

However, impressed by Bali's unselfish devotion and unwavering "dharma", Vishnu granted him the permission to visit his subjects once every year. This day is celebrated throught kerala as Onam and they believe that their king will visit their home and along with him bring wealth and happiness.

This onam song still remains so fresh in my memories. It was beautifully composed by Vijay Krishna and equally rendered by Koshy.

Boss on leave

This picture was at my brother office.

Title

Some how you tend to follow some pattern in your daily routine and you feel incomplete if you miss it for some reason. Yes i got used to meeting my friend Sunil for a morning walk. The motive behind is to drop few pounds but we end up discussing on some baseless talks like most old timers do.

The pattern is very much fixed, starting with a peaceful stroll along the lake to a nearby bakery and sip hot ginger tea. The reason for tea is to initiate our discussion which covers varying subjects which if anyone overhear will dump them into useless category.

We very rarely run out of subjects for discussion because we can literally talk of everything that exists on this world. Once we got into the blogging world we tend to share views on the recently read articles in the blogs. During our talks he mentioned about a well written article but felt that the title of the post to be totally irrelevant with the content of it. I was thinking of the same as i finished my morning rituals and the outcome of it is the birth of this post.

Naming an article is more like naming a new born baby. Finding a name is an arduous task, there are so many parameters to be considered before you zero in. Generally it should not be common, as well as duplicated and also to be different. Your life turns out to be a hell when the religious and superstitious beliefs also finds a place in the act.

In case of naming an article, it works either ways i,e you either have a title in mind and then start scribbling around that it or else you write some crap and find a suitable title for it.

But few times it so happens that you find an interesting movie named "Dracula" and you expect to watch an horror drama but it turns out to be a soulful love story with just one song starting with "Dracula" :) in it. May be the producer liked the word so much that the director did not have much say. Even it happens few times during blogging that we tend to have a title in mind and would retain the same even if the content is totally something else.

And most of the time the name is unparalleled with the nature or appearance of a person. Its like the person's name is "Shakthi" (meaning healthy/powerful) and you find the actual person to be so weak he can't even spell his own name properly with out gulping glucose. These kinds of things also happen in the writers world too where in some one has titled his blog's post as "Anaconda" and the its about a recipe for Christmas dish.

Most of the times it happens that finish writing your article in 30 min and it take half a day in finding out the right title for it.

Anyways even we tend to get attracted to people by their name but later realize them to be totally different. Same with blog titles too, it makes it path into others hearts only when its essence means something to the reader.