Early morning wakey wakey and a long drive to Madurai with imminent stops at dharmapuri and hogenakkal. We are on the way to the marriage of muktha's niece at palani with a halt at Madurai for a day and enroute see dada anjaneyar at dharmapuri. More to come. Sent from my iPad
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Patta for 1Re on a 99 year lease
This is what has been promised to the slum dwellers in Kolkata as part of the civic body election. So we will have all the illegal immigrants getting a plot of land and settling down. How many people will turn against the own country which gave them land to settle down !!! (via India Today - May 10 2010) -------------------------------------
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The Crying Baby Syndrome.
We are now travelling back. I have totally four kids near my Bay. I am going to love this.
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Goshala - Cow Shed
Govindhapuram 12KM from Kumbakonam is the samathi of one of the Shankaracharya's. This place also hosts a Goshala, Goshala is the place where they keep and maintain cows in better Tamil terms "Mattu Thozhuvam". I have seen many such places but this is one of the best maintained. There are 200 cows here and maybe 50% of them are got from madhura and it is believed that their lineage is of the same cows that Krishna took care of. See their Ears. All the above/below photos were taken inside the Goshala. Will Tag these photos soon. -------------------------------------
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Monday, May 03, 2010
The Crying Baby Syndrome.
DISCLAIMER :: I DON'T HATE KIDS. KIDS r KIDS and I love them. I do have it, I attract all kinds of babies the yelling, whining, yapping all through the night varieties. Travel in a flight and I have a baby sitting near me crying all through the flight, all through the 16 hours of flight and I just love it. Don't forget the five-year olds who walk all around ensuring nobody sleeps and the family double ensuring the same. Now on the train to Kumbakonam I have 3 kids aged between 1 and 5 who are yelling at the top of their lungs. One of the kid is walking around pulling the curtain with him so that he can see what is happening inside. Kids are Kids. :) The Family which is trying to pacify the kids are making More noise now I am not sure if it is the kids or the parents who are more disturbing. BTW upper berth is called Madi :) and the lower berth is called ground floor. So I am now going with a battalion of kids and noisy parents. Hope I get to sleep before 0400.
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On the way to Kumbakonam.
So the next journey starts (OOTY was good) and this is the start of a few important functions at both my side and my wife's. Now we are going to kumbakonam to the Upanayanam of my Nephew. We did not have any inclination to leave the cool BANGALORE and get into the sultry heat of kumbakonam in the start of the Kathiri - May 4th to May 28th. The first week of June is my Wife's niece's marriage in Palani. Incidentally she is getting married to a classmate of my wife who remembers my wife but the other way round is zilch :) Followed by my Nephew's marriage in Chennai on the 5th and a get together of all the cousins in Chennai, the cousins are coming from the US and Èast Asia. Then we have MINORKUNJU's wedding http://www.twitter.com/minorkunju on the 21st of June in chennai. Apart from this we have multitude of visitors coming in all over May to BANGALORE which is going to keep us busy busy. Will keep posting my travelouge for the next two days.
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Self Discipline
This is the reason Indians and India is considered as a dirty country. I should take back Indians here, if an Indian goes out of the country he is more cleanliness conscious than the locals. Maybe it is the fear of the fines or the police but it works. I am also not sure if we can police this and ensure everybody does it. IMHO Cleanliness cannot be enforced but has to be self imposed. One should think the country/state/city/council/street should be their house and keep it clean as they keep their houses clean. The above/below photo is at the cantonment station. -------------------------------------
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Excellence
| A German once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?" "No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage." The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work. "Where are you going to install the idol?" The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. "If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked. The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it." |
The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside. Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency.
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