I left home for work right after my degree, there was probably a 2 week time before I joined work. It was the first time I was going to be away from home and all that. The post is not about this anyway. So now that I was just 3 hrs away from home, I used to come home every weekend. Initially it was so exciting, living all by myself, choosing my own things etc etc. We dint have a TV though. Infact we never needed one. There was so much of entertainment in our group that we dint need any gadget to keep us busy. Well those stories will come some time later.
Now every weekend at home, when I would sit in front of the TV, my Bro would be watching some dreaded sports channel. Now I would have to either fight for my channel or watch his boring ones... Obviously I always opted for the first option. If the fighting dint work, I always used the Bhrahmastra (supposed to the mightiest sword in Hindu Mythology). This was the emotional blackmail... The conversation would go like this
ME : Let me watch TV for some time
A : This is an important match
ME: Whats so important about it. They keep playing every other day. Its not like its World Cup you see
A: You always say this and dont allow me to watch TV
ME: Dont you have to go and study. Whenever I come home, you are glued to the TV (though he has always been the studious one)
ME (to Mom) : Ma, you never tell him anything. From the day I have gone, you have lost control over him
ME (back to A): Go and study. I will come and ask you questions
A: I will watch this one and then go
Mom to A: Why dont you allow her to watch TV
Mom to Me: You come once a week, do you have to sit n watch TV, instead you can come and talk to me or help me out
ME (in the mind) : Got the point
ME to A : See I come just once a week. We dont even have TV at Mysore. You keep watching it everyday. Cant I enjoy even for a couple of hours
A (frustrated with drama by now, throws the remote on sofa, stomps his feet and goes to his room) : Fine.. Watch it
Now at home, there are 2 TVs. We dont need to fight... But the conversation is like this.
ME: Its boring to watch TV like this na
A: Yeah.... its not like we are actually enjoying this.
ME: Come lets switch off one, I'll watch ur game.. anyway there is nothing intersting in the other channels
A: Ok
After a while
ME: Why dont you change the channel?
A: You always do this...
The whole scene continues, until one of us remembers, there is another TV at home and goes of to the other room.
Its fun being with bro.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Merry Christmas
From the time we came to Banglaore. Christmas meant, mom would get us a special cake from the bakery in the evening. We had a very small cute little tree like showpiece which looked very similar to the Christmas tree. I used to decorate that the previous day and keep lot of the toffees which we used to get for 50p. And if any kid came home we would give some chocolates. New year meant we would go to MG Road and most of the shops would have Santa Claus dressed people with loads of chocolates in their bags. We used to go there to get those chocolates from Santa. Ofcourse we knew Santa was imaginary, but who cares as long as we were happy with such small illusions. Things have changed, but mom still gets us the cake like every year, and we wish each other on that day, like how we do for deepavali, sankranti, Ugadi etc.
Last Christmas I was in India. I wasn’t at home though, I was at Hyderabad coz of work, and since Christmas was on a weekday just stayed back there.We dint do much that day, than sitting idle at home. But previous 2 years was fun. The actual Christmas Day was a part of the long weekend, so it meant going to one of the beautiful places in US. But other than that, Christmas celebrations used to start off everywhere atleast a month before.
My First Christmas in US (2005)
A few weeks before Christmas, all of us in our office were given chits and asked to write our names and 3 things which we would like as gifts. All of us did with so much excitement. A few days later, we were asked to pick up chits, so we would know whom to get the gifts for. I was so excited. We did shopping and on a particular day, all of us exchanged gifts in front of the Christmas tree.
My Second Christmas in US (2006)
At office, this time it was a little different. We all bought gifts and kept it under the tree. We were given numbered chits. We were to pick in the ascending order. But this had a catch. The person who got chit #1 would pick a gift open it. If person with chit #2 liked this, then he would get it and #1 would get another chance. Now #3 could choose from #1 or #2 or could pick a new one. This passing on too had a catch. A particular gift could be transferred only thrice. Then the third person who got it, would keep the gift. It was fun. I had got a nice Starbucks mug, someone took it away from me :( I finally got some body lotions and stuff.
But it was fun to play around.
On actual Christmas time, we were in Washington DC. This was one of the amazing trips we had. DC happens to be one of my favorites coz its so clean, calm, whitish, creamish. It gives a fresh look. We could even see the famous christmas tree in front of White house.
My third Christmas in US (2008)
Christmas Day I will be G. I surely am waiting for that... All the places have been lit up so well here. Last week we were in San Francisco downtown... The streets are lit up so well. The union square has a huge christmas tree completely lit up. In front of it was Macys. The decoration was mind blowing. First thing that came to our mind was, insite of economy being so bad, everything was so lit up and decorated. Malls everywhere were decorated too. They have these center places in the mall, where they create Santa land, and people can take pics with Santa. There are christmas trees everywhere... Its such a festive moment...Of course how can we miss the song... We wish you a merry christmas,We wish you a merry christmas,We wish you a merry christmas and a Happy New Year
Merry Christmas everybody!!!!
Last Christmas I was in India. I wasn’t at home though, I was at Hyderabad coz of work, and since Christmas was on a weekday just stayed back there.We dint do much that day, than sitting idle at home. But previous 2 years was fun. The actual Christmas Day was a part of the long weekend, so it meant going to one of the beautiful places in US. But other than that, Christmas celebrations used to start off everywhere atleast a month before.
My First Christmas in US (2005)
A few weeks before Christmas, all of us in our office were given chits and asked to write our names and 3 things which we would like as gifts. All of us did with so much excitement. A few days later, we were asked to pick up chits, so we would know whom to get the gifts for. I was so excited. We did shopping and on a particular day, all of us exchanged gifts in front of the Christmas tree.
My Second Christmas in US (2006)
At office, this time it was a little different. We all bought gifts and kept it under the tree. We were given numbered chits. We were to pick in the ascending order. But this had a catch. The person who got chit #1 would pick a gift open it. If person with chit #2 liked this, then he would get it and #1 would get another chance. Now #3 could choose from #1 or #2 or could pick a new one. This passing on too had a catch. A particular gift could be transferred only thrice. Then the third person who got it, would keep the gift. It was fun. I had got a nice Starbucks mug, someone took it away from me :( I finally got some body lotions and stuff.
But it was fun to play around.
On actual Christmas time, we were in Washington DC. This was one of the amazing trips we had. DC happens to be one of my favorites coz its so clean, calm, whitish, creamish. It gives a fresh look. We could even see the famous christmas tree in front of White house.
My third Christmas in US (2008)
Christmas Day I will be G. I surely am waiting for that... All the places have been lit up so well here. Last week we were in San Francisco downtown... The streets are lit up so well. The union square has a huge christmas tree completely lit up. In front of it was Macys. The decoration was mind blowing. First thing that came to our mind was, insite of economy being so bad, everything was so lit up and decorated. Malls everywhere were decorated too. They have these center places in the mall, where they create Santa land, and people can take pics with Santa. There are christmas trees everywhere... Its such a festive moment...Of course how can we miss the song... We wish you a merry christmas,We wish you a merry christmas,We wish you a merry christmas and a Happy New Year
Merry Christmas everybody!!!!
Friday, December 12, 2008
ThanksGiving weekend - SF - LA - SF
Thanksgiving weekend…
The whole of America waits for this. There are several reasons for this wait. It can be having the turkey dinner with large family, waiting for these family get together, wait for the drop down prices, the black Friday when you get stuff for as good as free, and for some it’s the long holiday weekend where they can just roam around this beautiful country.
Since my family is in India, I surely cannot celebrate the get together and am a veggie so no turkey day for me either. Somehow when such huge sale is on, I cannot decide what to buy so that leaves me with bunch who belong to the last group, exploring places in US.
G came on Wed night and we enjoyed the yummy bisi bele bhat and ambode.
Thursday:
started off late, we had a lunch at a Asian restaurant and then decided to start to LA. We reached the interstate and stopped at a rest area. The view from there was beautiful. I wouldn’t say breathtaking, as I have seen better ones earlier.
From here we again started and stopped next near a gas station. We were searching for some place to eat and luckily found a Indian restaurant. We were luckier as the restaurant actually served good Indian food. We took some of the left over biryani for later in the night. LA was another 2 hrs from this place. Since G was driving all this time, I took over from him as he was feeling sleepy. I started driving and suddenly for nearly 10 miles it was completely foggy. Once we came out of that I was relieved and then we reached a mountaineous road. It was zig zag all the way. We dint get lost anywhere inspite of not having GPS. We checked into a 4* hotel. We were on the 11th floor. And the view from the room was gorgeous. It seemed like white lights on the sky and yellow lights on the ground.
Friday:
We wanted to get a GPS so that we could roam around easily without actually worrying about losing our way. So we were off to circuit city and had a new GPS in hand. Next in agenda was to rent a bike. We went to the eagle riders in LA, and I was so thrilled to see so many Harleys in one place… Wow I always wanted to sit on one of them. After a hr long discussion and formalities, we had our Harley(Gold wings). It felt gr8 to sit behind G on Harley. He was equally thrilled; he s always wanted me to come with him on all his bike rides.
In the evening when we were thinking of dinner, we decided on a Moroccan Restaurant. This one had Belle dancing too (that was the main reason of trying out new cusine). As soon as we went near the door… 2 metal doors opened and we could see a mini palace like environment. One person with costume I presume Moroccons wear, came upto us and led us into one of the dining areas. It was a big room with high roofing and nice paintings and lighting. The seating was like a sofa in all corners with comfy cushions with traditional covers and round tables in front of us. We already saw the dancer in front of one of the tables.
Everybody was dressed in traditional robes and costumes. There was no menu card. All you had to tell them was if you are veg or non-veg and it was a 3 course meal. Its strange but I loved most of the food. And finally when the desserts came, loads of fruits, nuts, moroccon tea, cookies. All we wanted after this super heavy meal was to go back to hotel and sleep, and that’s what we did.
Saturday:
The plan was to wake up early and reach to Mallibu temple by 9 on the Harley. And we were pretty good at it. We reached the temple by 8.45. It was such a peaceful place. It was cold, foggy and quite templish (by that I mean calm and peaceful with no hustle). They had 2 temples, one with Venkateshwara (Balaji), Padmavati, Hanuman. Other with Shiva, Parvati, Ganesha, subramanya. That day it was Abhishekam time. Lot of devotees came with milk and curd etc. We were there for quite some time and saw little bit of Abhishekam. 1 guy asked us.. oh u came in harley… I was nodding my head with a great smile. Some time later the pujari also asked
Pujari (P) : Isn’t it cold how come you people came in cold.
G : Oh its pretty ok… Its still a drivable condition
Me (in the mind) : Ofcourse with leather jackets and all the gears
P: You people are still young, once you have a kid na (with actions) then it will all be difficult
Me (in the mind) : Why do all the married people get targeted like this? Ofcourse pujaari tata, that’s why we are doing all this now while we are still young
G (in the mind) : Ya… looking at you we can make out you have a lot of kids
P: Before leaving… eat puliogre in the canteen
Me : Yes sure (yippe yippe… temple food temple food)
Once we came out.. I told G… even if Pujaari tata dint tell we would have gone for the puliogre coz as soon as we entered temple, the aroma just made its way into our nose.
After puliogre(tamrind rice) and tayyir sadam/ mosaranna (curd rice) we took a few pics of the temple and us with bikes. The cold had reduced and it was getting sunny.
Once we came back, we returned the bike, it was my turn to drive the car on the beautiful CA 1 (west coast highway). We started off and I was half driving and half admiring. Also, I was telling G to take pics. After quire some time we took a break. G very nicely told me that he’ll drive so that I could admire the scenary and also take pics… I agreed to it, I knew he was getting bored not driving. We then zoomed off for quite some time, until we were hungry. By this time it was hot n sunny, we both wanted a break. So we entered a beautiful place, ate and left from there. In a few minutes we again took an exit to go to Santa Barbara beach. It took us a while to reach the exact beach. It was so sunny, but water was so cold. We dint spend too much time in water, sat on the beach for a while. I was running behind the birds. G was taking funny videos of the same. We had fun… After this refreshing break we started to drive again.
Multi tire cycles
Then we entered the highway between the mountains. It was such an awesome sight. Mountain ranges on either side and a road in between. I just turn right and I can see Green Mountain, behind that I could see brown ones and after a while those brown ones looked red due to sunlight. By now, I had reduced my wow!!!!! Look at that!!!!!!!! How beautiful!!!!!!!!! Amazing!!!!!! and many more exclaimations. It was getting dark so the view dint matter. We reached a place Morro Bay that night. We searched for an Indian restaurant had food and slept early since we had a long drive the next day.
Sunday:
We got ready by 10 and I got some breakfast to the room and I just looked out and I could see a huge rock in front of me. And after some googling found out that’s the morro rock (once upon a time volcanic).
We had already cancelled going to Hearst castle (supposed to be a cathedral – I so wanted to go to this place, G has promised he will take me there some other time). We reached a point where the elephant sea lions could be seen. It was amazing to see them in their world without human intervention.
The coastline is so beautiful. There are no words to describe the feeling which we had when we drove by the coast.. On the right were the huge mountains and on the left was the gigantic magnificent pacific ocean. We even saw a bunch (must be 15-20) dolphins playing in water from the top... And when we zoomed our camera to check... it was actually true. Its as if sky and the ocean were tocuhing each other... After a few hours we reached back home.
A few pics
The wonderful trip came to an end
The whole of America waits for this. There are several reasons for this wait. It can be having the turkey dinner with large family, waiting for these family get together, wait for the drop down prices, the black Friday when you get stuff for as good as free, and for some it’s the long holiday weekend where they can just roam around this beautiful country.
Since my family is in India, I surely cannot celebrate the get together and am a veggie so no turkey day for me either. Somehow when such huge sale is on, I cannot decide what to buy so that leaves me with bunch who belong to the last group, exploring places in US.
G came on Wed night and we enjoyed the yummy bisi bele bhat and ambode.
Thursday:
started off late, we had a lunch at a Asian restaurant and then decided to start to LA. We reached the interstate and stopped at a rest area. The view from there was beautiful. I wouldn’t say breathtaking, as I have seen better ones earlier.
From here we again started and stopped next near a gas station. We were searching for some place to eat and luckily found a Indian restaurant. We were luckier as the restaurant actually served good Indian food. We took some of the left over biryani for later in the night. LA was another 2 hrs from this place. Since G was driving all this time, I took over from him as he was feeling sleepy. I started driving and suddenly for nearly 10 miles it was completely foggy. Once we came out of that I was relieved and then we reached a mountaineous road. It was zig zag all the way. We dint get lost anywhere inspite of not having GPS. We checked into a 4* hotel. We were on the 11th floor. And the view from the room was gorgeous. It seemed like white lights on the sky and yellow lights on the ground.
Friday:
We wanted to get a GPS so that we could roam around easily without actually worrying about losing our way. So we were off to circuit city and had a new GPS in hand. Next in agenda was to rent a bike. We went to the eagle riders in LA, and I was so thrilled to see so many Harleys in one place… Wow I always wanted to sit on one of them. After a hr long discussion and formalities, we had our Harley(Gold wings). It felt gr8 to sit behind G on Harley. He was equally thrilled; he s always wanted me to come with him on all his bike rides.
In the evening when we were thinking of dinner, we decided on a Moroccan Restaurant. This one had Belle dancing too (that was the main reason of trying out new cusine). As soon as we went near the door… 2 metal doors opened and we could see a mini palace like environment. One person with costume I presume Moroccons wear, came upto us and led us into one of the dining areas. It was a big room with high roofing and nice paintings and lighting. The seating was like a sofa in all corners with comfy cushions with traditional covers and round tables in front of us. We already saw the dancer in front of one of the tables.
Everybody was dressed in traditional robes and costumes. There was no menu card. All you had to tell them was if you are veg or non-veg and it was a 3 course meal. Its strange but I loved most of the food. And finally when the desserts came, loads of fruits, nuts, moroccon tea, cookies. All we wanted after this super heavy meal was to go back to hotel and sleep, and that’s what we did.
Saturday:
The plan was to wake up early and reach to Mallibu temple by 9 on the Harley. And we were pretty good at it. We reached the temple by 8.45. It was such a peaceful place. It was cold, foggy and quite templish (by that I mean calm and peaceful with no hustle). They had 2 temples, one with Venkateshwara (Balaji), Padmavati, Hanuman. Other with Shiva, Parvati, Ganesha, subramanya. That day it was Abhishekam time. Lot of devotees came with milk and curd etc. We were there for quite some time and saw little bit of Abhishekam. 1 guy asked us.. oh u came in harley… I was nodding my head with a great smile. Some time later the pujari also asked
Pujari (P) : Isn’t it cold how come you people came in cold.
G : Oh its pretty ok… Its still a drivable condition
Me (in the mind) : Ofcourse with leather jackets and all the gears
P: You people are still young, once you have a kid na (with actions) then it will all be difficult
Me (in the mind) : Why do all the married people get targeted like this? Ofcourse pujaari tata, that’s why we are doing all this now while we are still young
G (in the mind) : Ya… looking at you we can make out you have a lot of kids
P: Before leaving… eat puliogre in the canteen
Me : Yes sure (yippe yippe… temple food temple food)
Once we came out.. I told G… even if Pujaari tata dint tell we would have gone for the puliogre coz as soon as we entered temple, the aroma just made its way into our nose.
After puliogre(tamrind rice) and tayyir sadam/ mosaranna (curd rice) we took a few pics of the temple and us with bikes. The cold had reduced and it was getting sunny.
Once we came back, we returned the bike, it was my turn to drive the car on the beautiful CA 1 (west coast highway). We started off and I was half driving and half admiring. Also, I was telling G to take pics. After quire some time we took a break. G very nicely told me that he’ll drive so that I could admire the scenary and also take pics… I agreed to it, I knew he was getting bored not driving. We then zoomed off for quite some time, until we were hungry. By this time it was hot n sunny, we both wanted a break. So we entered a beautiful place, ate and left from there. In a few minutes we again took an exit to go to Santa Barbara beach. It took us a while to reach the exact beach. It was so sunny, but water was so cold. We dint spend too much time in water, sat on the beach for a while. I was running behind the birds. G was taking funny videos of the same. We had fun… After this refreshing break we started to drive again.
Multi tire cycles
Then we entered the highway between the mountains. It was such an awesome sight. Mountain ranges on either side and a road in between. I just turn right and I can see Green Mountain, behind that I could see brown ones and after a while those brown ones looked red due to sunlight. By now, I had reduced my wow!!!!! Look at that!!!!!!!! How beautiful!!!!!!!!! Amazing!!!!!! and many more exclaimations. It was getting dark so the view dint matter. We reached a place Morro Bay that night. We searched for an Indian restaurant had food and slept early since we had a long drive the next day.
Sunday:
We got ready by 10 and I got some breakfast to the room and I just looked out and I could see a huge rock in front of me. And after some googling found out that’s the morro rock (once upon a time volcanic).
We had already cancelled going to Hearst castle (supposed to be a cathedral – I so wanted to go to this place, G has promised he will take me there some other time). We reached a point where the elephant sea lions could be seen. It was amazing to see them in their world without human intervention.
The coastline is so beautiful. There are no words to describe the feeling which we had when we drove by the coast.. On the right were the huge mountains and on the left was the gigantic magnificent pacific ocean. We even saw a bunch (must be 15-20) dolphins playing in water from the top... And when we zoomed our camera to check... it was actually true. Its as if sky and the ocean were tocuhing each other... After a few hours we reached back home.
A few pics
The wonderful trip came to an end
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Names
I dont understand why people cannot respect other people names. If you dont know to pronounce it and you are saying it wrong, its a different thing. But atleast after the correction from the person, you ought to pronounce it in the right way.
My name is usually not pronounced right, even after multiple corrections. I just lose and let it be as it is. If somebody asks me what is the right way to pronounce it, I happily proudly tell them what it is. One good habit Americans have is ask the other person how the names are to be pronounced, as they dont want to offend us. I totally appreciate this effort.
My dad's name ends with Murthy.A few days back, one of my collegues came to my desk and this is what happened
Collegue (C): Arathi NarayanMurthy
Me : Its not Narayan Murthy, its ...Murthy
C:How does it matter
Me: It does, this is my dad's name and narayanmurthy is not my dad's name
C:Whatever!!!
I became so furious. How can you not respect some one's name?
My name is usually not pronounced right, even after multiple corrections. I just lose and let it be as it is. If somebody asks me what is the right way to pronounce it, I happily proudly tell them what it is. One good habit Americans have is ask the other person how the names are to be pronounced, as they dont want to offend us. I totally appreciate this effort.
My dad's name ends with Murthy.A few days back, one of my collegues came to my desk and this is what happened
Collegue (C): Arathi NarayanMurthy
Me : Its not Narayan Murthy, its ...Murthy
C:How does it matter
Me: It does, this is my dad's name and narayanmurthy is not my dad's name
C:Whatever!!!
I became so furious. How can you not respect some one's name?
Monday, November 17, 2008
Children's Day - Nov 14
Had this thought for 2 days now, but the pen (ok... lets say keyboard) dint want to work on this front.
It was Children’s Day on November 14. Since I was the youngest among friends, they still consider me a kid. I got a wish from one of my friends. It was good to see that we are still the same, inspite of so many changes in our lives.
There is one Nov 14 which will always remain etched in my memory. This was a few years back. I was in 11th that time. Our school celebrated tiny tots’ day on this day. Since Bro was still in the school and was participating, I had planned to go. Just a few days back Dad had to go to Delhi for Delhi and since mom never used to go anywhere coz she had to take care of us, we forced her to go this time. So I had to help bro for the drama which he was a part of.
Till this date, anything we ever wanted mom or dad got it for us. Be it a small pencil or a big costume for any of the events. All of a sudden I felt the responsibility of getting things done for his event. I had never felt happier before since I was never completely responsible for such a big event in my life. I went and met his teachers, found out what was to be done. Since I was part of the same school earlier, I dint need introduction with the teachers. I then had to get him a fake sadhu kind of look. I rushed to the shop where they gave these stuff for rent. Just the day before his event, I went to the place where I had booked for this fake hair and beard. This was on the way back from my college. The next day I had taken a off, since I had to help bro and I loved to see him perform on stage. And to add to all these was I was the only one present for him to look upto. Our pati (granny – mom’s mom)) was staying with us for those days. She and me went to see the event. It was a huge success, and bro looked so cute in that outfit. We cheered for him. Since the event happens in the morning, by afternoon all this gets over.
Pati, bro and me went back home and in the evening I went with bro and returned the fake hair and beard. Well I was content that I could manage my responsibility well. Of course this wouldn’t have been possible if mom wasn’t virtually with me. She used to call every now and then to find out I am safe and if I have any problems. Well I had to do things right, after all its not so easy to convince parents that you can be responsible, not just you alone, but also your kid brother, living up to the expectation was the priority. I would thank mom for giving me that opportunity to feel confident about my capability.
This was and will truly be the best Children’s day of my life.
It was Children’s Day on November 14. Since I was the youngest among friends, they still consider me a kid. I got a wish from one of my friends. It was good to see that we are still the same, inspite of so many changes in our lives.
There is one Nov 14 which will always remain etched in my memory. This was a few years back. I was in 11th that time. Our school celebrated tiny tots’ day on this day. Since Bro was still in the school and was participating, I had planned to go. Just a few days back Dad had to go to Delhi for Delhi and since mom never used to go anywhere coz she had to take care of us, we forced her to go this time. So I had to help bro for the drama which he was a part of.
Till this date, anything we ever wanted mom or dad got it for us. Be it a small pencil or a big costume for any of the events. All of a sudden I felt the responsibility of getting things done for his event. I had never felt happier before since I was never completely responsible for such a big event in my life. I went and met his teachers, found out what was to be done. Since I was part of the same school earlier, I dint need introduction with the teachers. I then had to get him a fake sadhu kind of look. I rushed to the shop where they gave these stuff for rent. Just the day before his event, I went to the place where I had booked for this fake hair and beard. This was on the way back from my college. The next day I had taken a off, since I had to help bro and I loved to see him perform on stage. And to add to all these was I was the only one present for him to look upto. Our pati (granny – mom’s mom)) was staying with us for those days. She and me went to see the event. It was a huge success, and bro looked so cute in that outfit. We cheered for him. Since the event happens in the morning, by afternoon all this gets over.
Pati, bro and me went back home and in the evening I went with bro and returned the fake hair and beard. Well I was content that I could manage my responsibility well. Of course this wouldn’t have been possible if mom wasn’t virtually with me. She used to call every now and then to find out I am safe and if I have any problems. Well I had to do things right, after all its not so easy to convince parents that you can be responsible, not just you alone, but also your kid brother, living up to the expectation was the priority. I would thank mom for giving me that opportunity to feel confident about my capability.
This was and will truly be the best Children’s day of my life.
Friday, November 07, 2008
USA to ....
Everybody is talking about Obama being the president. This information is being forced into so many, irrespective of interest in politics. This might be as its just not American politics. This affects the whole world. Its presidential elections in US, but the whole world is waiting for this. I am not much into politics, but curiosity made me check the status of elections on D-Day. The whole world rejoiced this incident. History was made. Obama became the first African American to become the President of USA.
I hate to compare USA and India. It’s like comparing apples and oranges (now I can’t say which one is apple or orange). I am proud of both the countries. Both have their good and bad traits. But for now I just think about Indian politics. Do we even know what our President does…? I am sure half the people don’t even know who it is (IT was a different story with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Azad). Does the whole world eagerly wait up on who becomes our President? Well let’s leave the rest of the world, do we Indians have any say on who will be our President. Of course we have the right to choose our government. But do we even exercise that vote? Is it right on our part to just blame the government? I hate such people who don’t do their part and are very prompt when it comes to criticizing.
Some day I would like the whole world to wait to see who our Prime Minister or our President would be. But before that, I would want the Government to work more on the welfare of the country, not take advantage of innocent people. Not to blow small things out of proportion and have control over our evils of society.
Well it seems like mind just flew from USA to my social studies text book in school. But there is no harm in dreaming of a better society, a better tomorrow.
I hate to compare USA and India. It’s like comparing apples and oranges (now I can’t say which one is apple or orange). I am proud of both the countries. Both have their good and bad traits. But for now I just think about Indian politics. Do we even know what our President does…? I am sure half the people don’t even know who it is (IT was a different story with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Azad). Does the whole world eagerly wait up on who becomes our President? Well let’s leave the rest of the world, do we Indians have any say on who will be our President. Of course we have the right to choose our government. But do we even exercise that vote? Is it right on our part to just blame the government? I hate such people who don’t do their part and are very prompt when it comes to criticizing.
Some day I would like the whole world to wait to see who our Prime Minister or our President would be. But before that, I would want the Government to work more on the welfare of the country, not take advantage of innocent people. Not to blow small things out of proportion and have control over our evils of society.
Well it seems like mind just flew from USA to my social studies text book in school. But there is no harm in dreaming of a better society, a better tomorrow.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Bro's first trip to our house
Since I have a brother, it dint come as a surprise for me, when my husband and I argued over petty things. But I always felt, that these 2 guys should gel with each other. I am really thankful to God, hubby (G) and bro (Aj) that both of them have common interests.
When Bro had his semester holidays, he had come over to Mysore. G went to railway station and picked him up. By the time they were home, it seemed like they had made plans to pull my leg. I was busy cooking as my cousin (Ar) and his fiancée were to come for dinner. And as expected, neither Aj nor G offered to help. But yes, they were helpful by not supervising my cooking. They were busy with discussion of games, setting up Dish TV and other stuff, so that I could peacefully do my work. Occasionally I would go to them so that they could taste stuff which was getting ready. Aj has always been my tester. He is honest too, so I could expect correct judgment from him. The dinner went really well and we enjoyed ourselves with poori, chole, gajar halwa, fresh mangoes. Ar was quite surprised, when he came to know I could actually cook. We then went to Chamundi Hills, for the view. It was a spectacular view. We went back home. G, Aj and Ar were then chatting and I was off to bed (extremely tired). Next morning Ar was supposed to go out with his fiancée and her parents. So, I got up to make him breakfast. By afternoon, G was to leave to Chennai, so we were busy packing his papers and others. In the afternoon it was just me and Aj. I asked A if he wanted to go around, and he says I am very busy today – F1, cricket and tennis finals. I watched most of the stuff with him… It felt good like old times, when we used to watch TV together. I slept off watching TV, also had to get up in the morning for office.
Monday morning, I cooked breakfast and lunch for both of us and was off to office. Aj had a gala time at home with gajar halwa, ice cream and PS2. When I came home, he dint seem a bit bored as he was alone. I felt a little relieved. I cooked some nice rice n sambar. G was coming back that night. Me n Aj had fun watching TV that day. The best was “Kahani Humari Mahabharat ki”. We had such a good laugh at this.
Tuesday, I promised Ajay that we would go out somewhere in the evening. So we came back from office and went out for some fun. We went to Planet-X. Aj and G did karting and then 3 of us fun bowling. We had dinner and came back home tired. Inspite of this G and Aj had some energy left in them to play on the PS2. I was watching them for a while and I don’t know how my eyes drifted from Mortal Kombat to my dreamland.
Wednesday, we thought of going to KRS, as they would have lighting and musical fountain. Though we left a little late, we were in time to catch the last musical fountain. It was ages since we saw musical fountains. We had hot Jola (corn). After KRS we then went to restaurant Jungle. After the yummy food, we came back and again Aj and G continued with Mortal Kombat. After I while I got involved in the game and started giving strategies to both of them.
Thursday, we just went to Devraj Urs Rd, had chat and roamed around and back home and again PS2 games. This shows how much of TV I would have seen in the whole week. On Friday, we were supposed to go back to Blore. But this whole week, I got a chance to pamper Aj. I always wanted to take care of Aj, pamper him with my cooking (he does like it). I always wanted G and Aj to bond well. And they did bond at my cost. They had a leg pulling session daily and I would just get tired of it. They both were happy that they had company to tease very well. It was a happy week for me to see my husband and brother just behaving like friends.It was one of the best weeks we had.
When Bro had his semester holidays, he had come over to Mysore. G went to railway station and picked him up. By the time they were home, it seemed like they had made plans to pull my leg. I was busy cooking as my cousin (Ar) and his fiancée were to come for dinner. And as expected, neither Aj nor G offered to help. But yes, they were helpful by not supervising my cooking. They were busy with discussion of games, setting up Dish TV and other stuff, so that I could peacefully do my work. Occasionally I would go to them so that they could taste stuff which was getting ready. Aj has always been my tester. He is honest too, so I could expect correct judgment from him. The dinner went really well and we enjoyed ourselves with poori, chole, gajar halwa, fresh mangoes. Ar was quite surprised, when he came to know I could actually cook. We then went to Chamundi Hills, for the view. It was a spectacular view. We went back home. G, Aj and Ar were then chatting and I was off to bed (extremely tired). Next morning Ar was supposed to go out with his fiancée and her parents. So, I got up to make him breakfast. By afternoon, G was to leave to Chennai, so we were busy packing his papers and others. In the afternoon it was just me and Aj. I asked A if he wanted to go around, and he says I am very busy today – F1, cricket and tennis finals. I watched most of the stuff with him… It felt good like old times, when we used to watch TV together. I slept off watching TV, also had to get up in the morning for office.
Monday morning, I cooked breakfast and lunch for both of us and was off to office. Aj had a gala time at home with gajar halwa, ice cream and PS2. When I came home, he dint seem a bit bored as he was alone. I felt a little relieved. I cooked some nice rice n sambar. G was coming back that night. Me n Aj had fun watching TV that day. The best was “Kahani Humari Mahabharat ki”. We had such a good laugh at this.
Tuesday, I promised Ajay that we would go out somewhere in the evening. So we came back from office and went out for some fun. We went to Planet-X. Aj and G did karting and then 3 of us fun bowling. We had dinner and came back home tired. Inspite of this G and Aj had some energy left in them to play on the PS2. I was watching them for a while and I don’t know how my eyes drifted from Mortal Kombat to my dreamland.
Wednesday, we thought of going to KRS, as they would have lighting and musical fountain. Though we left a little late, we were in time to catch the last musical fountain. It was ages since we saw musical fountains. We had hot Jola (corn). After KRS we then went to restaurant Jungle. After the yummy food, we came back and again Aj and G continued with Mortal Kombat. After I while I got involved in the game and started giving strategies to both of them.
Thursday, we just went to Devraj Urs Rd, had chat and roamed around and back home and again PS2 games. This shows how much of TV I would have seen in the whole week. On Friday, we were supposed to go back to Blore. But this whole week, I got a chance to pamper Aj. I always wanted to take care of Aj, pamper him with my cooking (he does like it). I always wanted G and Aj to bond well. And they did bond at my cost. They had a leg pulling session daily and I would just get tired of it. They both were happy that they had company to tease very well. It was a happy week for me to see my husband and brother just behaving like friends.It was one of the best weeks we had.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Golden gate bridge
We had been to Golden Gate Bridge 2 weeks back. The bridge as such was quite ok, I liked the Bay Bridge better, but the view was totally amazing. I now know why its so famous :)
And yet another to been seen places in US is covered.
And yet another to been seen places in US is covered.
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