1 day @ de LAND OF ART - Mysore

Date : 20th November 2010.

Morning @ 3 30 were my frenz Karthi and Vinod waiting @ my gate.. I rushed to the car. Then went to pick up my frenz Sugan and Vidhu and headed towards Murugeshpalya where CKB, Raj and Ezhil joined and the gang was complete to start our trip.

We had good songs to hear from Ezhil’s memory card and spent our travel playing cards brought by CKB. 1st I restrained myself from playing bcoz I didn’t know how to play the game ace. But thanks to Ezhil who with his hat trick defeat encouraged me to join the game… Thanks Ezhil.

Slowly daylight started peeping in and the mist covered nature stopped us to snap them. Here is a photo where we also joined nature covered with mist.

It was 6 am when our stomach started grumbling @ us though had some biscuits nothing helped.. We were crazy to look out for some restaurants to be open but it was just madness to expect that so early. It was 6 30 when we reached St Philomena church. Took some snaps there and moved towards Chamundi hills to meet Goddess Mahishasuramardhini…

The temple opened @ 7 30 and we were 10 minutes b4 it opened. Had to wait in a small queue to meet that dazzling goddess… Wow was a divine morning. Had a great feeling when we came out. Unbearable hunger pushed us into a small mess nearby where we had our breakfast.

Then we travelled back to Srirangapatinam. On the way found the place where Tipu Sultan fell dead.

We met Lord Ranganathaswamy there and then started back to Mysore palace. And I found beautiful paintings @ the small shops outside the temple but my frenz pulled me off to start to the next place. But still I managed to buy a Vinayagar statue which the seller promised was Sandal wood and I knew it wasn’t …

@ Palace: OMG I wonder why I was not born during the olden age. What a life the palace people would have lived. Especially when I stood down the big dome where marriage rituals of the kings family were performed I lost myself. The dome was a glass designer imported from UK. And down around the palace were tiny tiles which were about 1 x 1 inch each and I still wonder how they placed it so perfectly and how many days how many people would have worked for it.. It was mind boggling. We also saw kings residential palace where his clothes, the toys with which he played with, few swords and many others were preserved. By the time we came around the palace we were damn hungry and as soon as we reached the exit of the palace we rushed to a hotel for our lunch.

Sorry I forgot the name of the hotel that killed two hours of our trip time by such a slow and very bad service.

And then we reached the zoo where we had to walk about 2.9Kms to come around. Though initially we were hesitating about the distance but when we saw the variety and beauty of different fauna found there we didn’t know how we walked around the distance. Some of them that I remember are zebra, giraffe, a species of kangaroo, lion, white tiger, white peacock, chimpanzee (it was awesome. Jus resembled human beings), squirrel monkey (which looks like a monkey and squirrel), white deer, bear, cheetah, ostrich, many beautiful birds and may others. And my frenz had a great time naming each animal found there with my name.

Yeah we reached finally our last place of visit KRS dam. Though the dam was closed we had a great evening @ Brindavan with the water fountains dazzling in light, musical fountain and boating stole our hearts. We sat there for a small chat and our trip came to an end.

Our journey back home started. And again we enjoyed it playing cards. It was around 12 midnight when I stepped in to my room.

My dreams that night took me back to the palace that I still feel overwhelmed about.

A great trip but my frenz made me miss the joy of shopping. Its ok I would go there again at least for the sake of shopping some good art.

Story time -- Don't use Sorry.

There once was a little girl who had a bad temper.

Her mother gave her a bag of nails and told her that every time she lost her temper, she must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the girl had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as she learned to control her anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.

She discovered it was easier to hold her temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the girl didn't lose her temper at all.

She told her mother about it and the mother suggested that the girl now pull out one nail for each day that she was able to hold her temper. The days passed and the young girl was finally able to tell her mother that all the nails were gone.

The mother took her daughter by the hand and led her to the fence.
She said, "You have done well, my daughter, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one."

You can put a knife in a person and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say "I'm sorry", the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Caution: Just forget the story as soon as u read it after taking into u the essence of the story. Why I am telling this is because tomorrow u should not be in trouble.

Puriyalaya...?? Ok after reading this story u may think of doing it with your child. (Ok if you dont have one now also may be in future...) ... But please don't try that. These days kids are really smart and cunning instead of nailing the wall they may nail you... If anything like that happens then I am in no way responsible... :P

HAPPY DIWALI

My dear friends let this deepavali bring brightness in all your lives.

Celebrate safely.

Try to reduce the amount of crackers u burst so that u do not harm nature.

Also try helping someone to celebrate this diwali with what u can.. :)

This video is a one that I composed with pictures available on the web.

Hope u enjoy.

Warm regards,

Janani R

Grow short to enjoy life.. :-P

Seri seri wait till u complete reading the full post. Apram thitalam. I will give time.

I know your 1^st knock out for me would be... “Hey loose how can someone be short if he/she grows... Yena title adhu ‘GROW SHORT’.. Loose _____________________________..”

Podhum ... But wait.

My post is all about “VERTICALLY CHALLENGED”. Generally it happens that we show sympathy for people who are physically challenged, mentally challenged etc. But that is not the case for vertically challenged. Being vertically challenged is a gift.

“VERTICALLY CHALLENGED” -->

By Karthick and Vinoth. For explanation contact them.

Coming to what I wanted to convey. In this post I would like to make some un“They cannot turn short now... But short people can grow tall anytime in their life...” Yeah (Janani yengayo poyitae po...) see the above sentence itself proves how unlucky tall people are.... Sorry I can’t help it.

Starting from when we were born short people are always admired by others... Neengala solunga a baby that is born if it is tall than other babies will u like it...??? Nope u may not..

Then when u go to school and if u are the shortest person then u can always stand 1^st in the queue say for assembly, then u can enjoy all activities on stage. And in school mostly u will be asked to sit in height order there also short people score their goal bcoz everyone (At least my frenz ) will know the advantage of being a 1^st bencher. Even while playing Hide and Seek u win ya... :0

Ooops... Then coming to college OMG yena jolly.. Hmmm adhu sila pisasugaluku puriyadhu.. Pavam.

Class la looti adikaradhu la irundhu exam la copy adikaradhu varaikum ellathukum not being tall helps.... :) :)

Life is short so why grow tall and worry the person who digs ur home after ur death too..

Apdi Ipdi nu from birth to death being tall doesn’t help much anywhere then why the hell to drink COMPLAN... Grow tall and give neck pain to people... Waste Iodex..????

Be short save ur nation..!!! Namma thala Abdhul Kalam kuda short than.. ;)

Seri above all if u grow tall can u enjoy nicknames kept by frenz like

Kullanjavadi

Kulls

Thakali

Eli

Kosu

Above all

“Vertically handicapped” --> Yeppa enakae mudiyila...

Ok ok thanks for controlling urself till now.. Start commenting. :P