Wander Bay

This might be a bit interesting. A close friend of mine who is 25, (same as me; pinky pals), is in deep sh*t. Her family has started to hunt for a 'perfect' groom for her and they're running around the matrimony sites with vengeance and a space to fill. She is sad and almost blackmailed into looking the perfect-matches up herself. She toils every evening on the websites herself and if finds a guy remotely a 'good-match', immediately informs her dad. Her dad re-checks it, and contacts them if he finds it okay. She never enjoyed it in the beginning, until she started to find funny things on the sites. She is a hardcore feminist and an atheist, just that she happens to belong to a very traditional mallu Christian family, who have steadfast rules and have reputations to keep ( don't get me wrong, all others have reputations, but these guys value social status a wee bit more, is what she tells me ). Anyway, I once accidentally barged over her desktops while ...

Usually in the race of life and for it, we step over and keep aside our personal lives for more money and acceptance in society. We overlook and take a few people for granted. Mostly those we take granted for are our immediate family- the ones who don't judge us for what we are, the ones who accept us the way we are, the ones who are never sick and tired of our antics and the ones who cannot stay away from us for a long time! Mom, dear Mom, you have been my best 3 am friend till date and I owe you big for that. I can never thank you enough for the life and confidence you gave me. I wish and pray that I be born around you every birth I take! Your values that taught me to empathetic and sympathize with fellow beings have only done me good. I am sure to be keeping in mind your goodness and prosperity wherever I am! How much I owe you! From here From Here

This time I fell in love with Gokarna even more! A place which has just ONE ATM, cows romping all over the streets chewing flower cud, women walking in traditional attires, pooja goodies and little God's statues, narrow roads that smells of incense sticks and blooming flowers, colorful all seems like from a different time. Time has stopped here and that's why perhaps, everyone gets lazy in Gokarna ! Cows gave us company. Loads of them. One more. Temple remnants- Street, Gokarna The music shop with the coolest of instruments. Mini-Sitar too !! Funky Kitsch T-shirt Colorful house and woman. ------- I wanted to get lazy; doze off listening to the sea and waves, see a million stars above me, tickle my taste buds, walk barefoot on the night sand at Kudle, be there; witness. For some good reason, all happened this time. We strode past the busting streets, music shops, tiny cozy beach shacks, ate well, saw 8 shooting stars over a star studded sky above, the 6 of us lay there lazed...

Time for some Kodagu (Coorg) ya! As any other south Indian town, it has its own little charm. and according to me, Coorg is awesome. Like seriously. Not just because it so cold and all ( that even Bangalore is), but because it's so calm and nice to be there! the spicy food, the beautiful people, the air that smells of brewing coffee, spices (cardamom, to be precise), arecanut, boiling , roasted corn-tops and fir leaves. The roads are clean, saris are very specially clad, food and foodies are appreciated, encouraged. Must visit. The chant session at the Tibetan Monsatery in Kushal anagara is fabulous and a must check! young monks playing football and also playing their trumpet overlooking the cauvery, is spectacular. Priceless, as I call it. Coorgi food. Akki otti (rice roti), Ghee rice, Koli nalamol barthad( chicken pepper fry), Kuru curry (red bean curry in coconut stew) More here ------> http://bit.ly/gsn88-flickr

GOKARNA diaries. Participants: 1) Tim and Ramon (they're thick as thieves they are; two lovely, funny people from Germany) 2) Namrata 3) Sowmya kiddo 4) yours truely..!! (yeay yeay hail thy) the 3 mosquitoes. Namrata, Ramon and Tim. you should know Namrata ...! Evening it was; after dinner at 7:30 and a bit of footballing with the German gems of football, we set out for this. All of us are total sea babies! of which Water babies have special considerations! (me me me!) There are perks of living towards 'almo st the outskirts' of a city; you get all buses to all parts of the state from within there! We move and wait near the Jalahalli cross (awesome jalebis sell there dude....! round gorgeous and yummmmyyy... okok, no deviation from the topic) and stay put for half an hour. The bus scheduled at 9:30 pm arrives at 10:00 pm and I was to explain Tim and Ramon the essence of working on an Indian Stretchable Time. IST in short. amazing innit?! We board the wobbly- sleeper bus and...

FOREST (December, 1999) Gayatri Nair

Why did you leave me just like that? I wanted to meet you, see you and learn your Love. You were just there but now so you are gone; I wished I saw you breathing and alive. Just as my fingers tap my collarbones, And I keep wishing that the moments came back when your love treaded time and tide, seeping into lives and touched ‘em with your warm soul. Your smile and your strength that drove all of us, But just withered like pollens into the air; yet I’m hopeful for the days later where your passion blooms into golden sunflowers. The way you wrote; I was mesmerized Your pains went unnoticed: the world is faulty I feel nice reading through your words, suffused with swollen memories; sure guilty. Bestow on me oh lovable, the air you carried, I’m just a meager awed at your stoic and strength; I feel my heart pounding in your memory, And the pang of loss that brings me to agony.

Happy. Thats what i Feel. For a country with billions of talented souls. One gold is an amusement. For a country that survives on corruption, winning despite it is Herculean task. For all those millions, who eat and worship cricket, Grow Up you fools! Life is not just cricket, or IPL and Shahrukh. Ther's much more of its flavors. learn and let others Learn.