My 1st time ..

Life has been giving me a lot of twists and turns plus the last sem of MBA has been more of tiring and exhausting. Daily lectures plus other things to do has been keeping me a lot on my toes and making me run around a lot. This has left me with hardly much time for anything else leave alone blog.

Finally got some reason to be happy for myself, something i am proud of.. My 5th sem results happened to come and that brought along with one of the biggest shocks of my life something which i am slowly coming to terms with but which i know many would find a tough time coming to terms with .. How the BLOODY F******* Hell did he manage .. that too in the last sem .. call it luck, hardwork .. anything that u may want to .. in the hand very happy on my efforts and especially at this age :) ... atleast i am not that old for studies.

I managed to top my MBA class Sem V securing 381 marks out of 500 giving me an aggregate of 76.2%. I am very happy more for the fact that the studies this year were just a day prior to the exam like i have been doing every time just that i havent done anything major for me .. This was just the Semi-Final and the Final awaits me in May for which i will now prepare very well ..

Happy at the end result and there i was for the 1st time in all my student life feeling elated for having been the class topper.. There have been too many shocks and surprises due to this to many especially the fact what i mentioned above .. an underdog like me coming out of the blue and topping the class.

Overall thankful to all .. esp ma friends and family .. for their blessings and care n concern ..

hopefully will be back to blog soon .. till then adios amigos .. thanks once again ..

New Year Special - Jungle Safari @ Kanha

Hello Amigos .. been a long time since i have been away .. Quite a few things in life keeping me away from my love .. but then had other priorities as well to attend to and then in the melee lost track of things.

Life was good .. New Year was spent @ home, warding off the evils of the Lunar Eclipse which had set sight on the world that day.

With a view to making this trip memorable, was out to Kanha National Park, around 150 kms from Jabalpur where i had planned to visit to catch a sight of the Tiger which was protected in this Jungle. The trip was a gr8 one for me .. being so close to wildlife is an altogether different experience and though we could not manage to lay our sights on the King of the Jungle, we sure did get to c quite a lot of wildlife..

Kanha 2009

it sure was a wonderful experience both the enroute travel with friends and also the stay in the Jungle. The climate in the winters that we went was too chilly and something we Mumbaikar's were not used to ..Overall it was a welcome break both from the hectic life of Mumbai and also a very good time to spend some in the lap of nature

That was all i am blogging now on .. Quite a few serious things i need to write on but then not in the right frame of mind as well .. Plan to do that in the next 1-2 days .. Till then Njoy the snaps

Divine Experiences

Life was for a major point of time going the routine mundane normal way with nothing new happening and that was one reason i was away from this place and was busy putting things in place @ work and getting to finish all pending stuff. Did not get much time for myself and hence could not spend time here writing things i generally love doing.

Last week happened to one such break that i got wherein i could spend time for myself and with family something which i off late dont get too often. Dads currently in Udupi busy attending the weddings of my relatives whose list seems to be increasing as the days goes and which end up delaying his return to mumbai. Finally this week had been to udupi and it was then that we realised that somethings in life are not controlled by us and its just that we play the roles for the act which is not scripted by us.

Landed in Mangalore on 2nd and that happened to be Margishish Purnima which is also the pratista divas of Mulky Shri Venkatramana temple. It is on this day that the idol of Lord Ugra Narasimha is removed from the well where it is otherwise kept and abhishek of coconuts (tender coconut) is done the whole day. A few lakh coconuts are offered as abhishek to lord to cool off the agni that flows from his idol.

Legend has it that a few centuries ago, a swamiji of our kashi muth was on his way to mulky and then asked the madhava brahmins staying in the way to light the way so that he could complete the journey at night. They refused and he said that "Lord Narasimha " will show the way. it seems that there appeared a idol of Lord Ugra Narasimha and the heat of the idol burnt the houses of all the madhava brahmins who had refused to ligh a lamp and the light of the burning houses showed guruji the way to the temple. The fire continued for some time and it was finally extinguished on the request of guruji. To avoid any such instances it was decided that the idol will be kept in the well which is in the temple premises and the idol will be removed only during the particular purnima.

Its an experience which i had never experienced and believe its gods grace that i was a part of the divine experience and was able to watch the abhisheka of lord narasimha at the hands of kaivalaya math swamiji. It was all a sudden plan and that made me more confirm the belief that not all is in our hands.

In the evening paid a visit to the lord Krishna temple, and sought blessings from lord for all at home and family in general. The wedding i had been to was a good occasion for me to meet all long lost relatives and also get to spend time with my close relatives many of whom i was meeting after a long time.

The only thing about this trip was the fact that i was blasted by my relatives for my stance on certain things and i finally consented to what they had in store for me. Looking forward now to some things eagerly, things which will shape my future and life ahead.

Finally getting ready for another semester in college the 6th and the last of my 3 year studies, the completion of which will give me some time for myself .. much needed ..

Five Down One to GO

hi

finally its been the end of 2.5 years of hectic studies and have now 3 more months to go.

The sem was a pretty ok one . too too hectic but ya quite a lot of things happening at work and at home which made me too tight and life past paced. Finally have been done with the exams and now waiting for the next sem 2 wrap up so that i can get on to work ina fast paced way and get to do things i may not have been doing over the past few years.

over the weekend managed to catch Kurbaan and it was a good experience. The sensual scenes between the lovey dovery very much in love couple " Saif & Kareena" were a damp squib except a few passionate kisses which were for too short a period to make an effect on anyone other than the actors themselves. The Terrorist angle is an old one and Amrika seems to the favourite bashing ground for all.

Do catch a view of the movie for some pretty good acting by Viveik Oberoi and kareena for a change did try her hand at acting.

Saif as the cold blooded villain also plays a good role though Viveik rules the movie especially the 2nd half when the action starts to hot up

Overall a good movie though a lot left for the making. A tighter editing and faster paced movie would have helped.

Songs are good and are soothing to the ears not to the eyes.

Do watch .. is what i can advise .. Either u will fall asleep or Be out sympathetic

Njoy ... :)

Jail - The movie

Finally got to watch the movie JAIL, the one starring Neil Nitin Mukesh n Mugdha Godse. A very true said account of how things happen when the times wrong for you .. Just shows how gruesome life can be at ties for no failt of yours .. in the end what pays is the perseverance and faith in GOD

Kudos Madhur for showing a very good story line of how things can at times go wrong and what a person experiences. Hope no one ever goes through such an experience in life. Manoj Bajpai as the silent support for Neil does an extremely wunderful supporting role. Many a times in life we go through many tough times and thats when people like these our friends matter, especially those whom we can rely on for support and they are the ones who grant us the inner support and strength to deal with those tough times in life ..

Hope you do get to catch the movie .. Happy Viewing .. :)

Exam Time

Its exams again .. finally getting to the end of Sem V and another 6 months to go before i wrap up my three year MBA course .. Works getting hotter and so is the last few months of college.

Will not be active online more as i got to also pay attention to studies and get to score decent marks

happy reading friends ..

Gods Own Country

Its been a long time since i have sat down 2 pen thoughts and things that have been happening with me of late. Life's been going good and things have been going a tad too hectic .. its been quite some time since i got to late some time for myself, to give my stressed out body some much needed rest and comfort .. The stress was taking its toll and hence i felt i needed 2 take a break to get away from the hustle n bustle of the city. A welcome break happened last week on the occasion of my friends marriage which took me down south to Gods Own Kerala - Kerala.

The flight was with my college buddy n his wife which made sure that i had some company on the flight of 2 hours which otherwise would have been spent more in admiring people around and the pretty gujju air hostesses who were giving us company on the aircraft during our trip of S2 423 to Kozhikode. The trip to gods own country was a pleasant one and in between i happened to land myself to an issue of the airlines in-house magazine which had many articles on nature and wildlife an area i am slowly gaining interest in and planning to use my qualities and abilities to the maximum.

Of the many articles it had there was one i glanced on in detail on Kanha, a tiger reserve in MP which is renowned world over for its tigers. The reason i caught fancy to the article and read in detail was due to the fact that i am travelling to the jungle in Christmas this year with friends planning to catch a sneak peek of the tiger which is said to roam freely in the habitat.

Now coming back to the trip that i had .. This was my 1st trip in the heart of gods country and all my trips earlier were just to out temple town of Manjeshwar where we do go every year whenever we visit udupi to pay our regards and obeisance @ the temple of Lord Anantheshwara which is the pride of the town.

More than being friends wedding it was also a part of the destiny that had laid in store for me .. plans for showering blessings in Gods Own Country a land known all the world over for its beautiful landscapes as also for its renowned temples. The trip home from the airport to the sleepy town of Edappal which in the words of my friend is both a Town as well as a village .. mixing the best of both .. A town with a population of not more than 30k in all and all that we could find most common were the GOLD shops which littered the town like they were normal provision stores. Gold seems to be a BIG fascination for every keralite and the testimony of that is during weddings like it was during my friends.
It was GOLD free flowing and it seems to be more a norm created by society than a ritual that anyone who comes 2 meet the bride or the groom comes with a small gold rink or chain and in the end once the visitors are done with the groom is left with so many gold rings on his fingers that he could give Don Murugan a run for his money.. That in a way explains why GOLD still remains expensive even in recession times like .. Beg Borrow do whatever u want but adorn the groom with GOLD .. a Safe n Stable investment .. Dowry is not demanded by the grooms side but more spelt out by the demands from society which applauds and cheers those who dole out more gold than at times even the weight of people ( a too big exaggeration) but then things down south especially in matters like this are too touchy and senti ..

Having landed on a friday evening left us with ample time to rest before landing at our friends place for dinner which was one of the best authentic mallu meals i had .. Nothing great in the food its as simple as any south Indian dinner would be, what was special was the love and care which went into making it .. something which was done by my friends mom whom i have been in touch with regularly since college that's 7 years ago .. and who has always been there eager to cook for me in the same way that my mom would have done for me and others.

Saturday morning was time to pay regards to the lord and we landed up at the feet of Lord Krishna the presiding deity of Guruvayoor temple. We were blessed to be witness to the lord being taken on elephant back all around the temple and believe that in a way was an experience for me worth cherishing. It also happened to be a time for me to sit back and pray to god asking for forgiveness for all the wrong things that i may have done in my life. Like they always say, never be ashamed to confess in front of god since thats the only time in life u get a chance to own up to ur mistakes and seek forgiveness for all that we may have done in life.

The wedding next day was an even more memorable affair all thanks to some accidents and other events happening which led to delay in we leaving for the wedding a tad too late and landed just in time for us to witness the tying of the Thali (mangalsutra). This was one trip we sure will remember all our ages. Nariyal Paani Treat by our friend which came after lot of hearing that he had to from my buddys wife and not to mention the taunts that we had to shower on him to have the treat done.

No doubts on the hospitality that was showered on us .. It was the best that we could have ever had .. Thanks buddy for the wunderful experience ... It was a pleasure visiting Gods Country and seeking blessings at all the temples that you made us visit ..

That was in short .. my visit to the heart of Gods Own Country.. Happy Reading amigos .. Ciao ...