Life is to Enjoy

Its always exciting to go around places you have never visited before. But the excitement doubles when you meet your best friend. In the name of meeting my friend Sundar, I got an opportunity to explore some major places in Hyd. Rock city, as it is being named, Hyd is surrounded by plenty of rock, which is really evident only when you look for it. I could cover only 4 places, out of which this photo pasted here would identify to all of you as Charminar. Although it looks really beautiful in the picture, the area around it and this structure as such is really really dirty. I never expected this place to be so very badly maintained. When I enquired, the blame is made on population and pollution. I am not a polititian or a person with power to change this locality. Second place which was absolutely mind blowing was a museum. Its named as Salarjung. Some of the items maintained in this museum has great historical importance. It takes 8 full hours to completely go around this. So those who...

As an ordinary middle class Tambram (I hate to identify myself using caste, but this blog needs this identity) family member, you would easily expect a planned devotional tour across the temples closer by you once every year. But this time since I am back to India for a vacation and since my parents are excited and eager to see me, they planned for an additional trip. Apart from the first week of devotional journey comprising of Trichy (Vekkaliamman, Anjaneyar, Nachiyar and Akilandeswary) and Palani (of course, my Tamil God Muruga), another two day trip to Kalahasthi is being planned. Its really tough to say "NO" when you are the only child to your parents, with the fact which I always believed that if the above mentioned Gods didnt bless me, why another God? Oh my God... are you listening?

Knowing that nothing is going to be happening if I write in my blog, I still want to warn my friends (and unknowns, who accidentally read thru my blog) not to choose air-india flights, especially if they come via Bombay (Mumbai, for hardcode Mumbai friends). My main problem started way back in Newark, NJ, USA when the air-india flight got delayed by 4 hours. Its not unusual and I was OK with that. What was unusual is what happened to me in Mumbai airport. I had to catch my connecting flight to Chennai @ 9 AM from domestic airport in Mumbai. I had arrived Mumbai international airport @ 4:30 AM. After luggage and customs clearance, I was ready @ about 6:00 AM to hear the shocking news that I will have to carry my luggage all the way to the domestic airport and then do the check-in. The worst part was the problem due to change in airlines. They transferred me to JET AIRWAYS from Air India and It seems that the JET AIRWAYS counter would close by 6:15 AM. They will be back only by 10:30 AM....