Happy New Year folks,....

Putting the hot and sweet memories of 2008 by a side,. here we step into 2009,. and yes,. like always with great hopes and expectation. Well my new year's eve was a kick in the head - a wonderful start, well i'l tell about it later. But as far as now, i wish all my blog buddies a very very happy new year. 

A Journey to Tiruvannamalai the photocollection

Thiruvannamalai is a spiritual heaven in south India which attracts everyone who seeks to be self realization. The place is so divine and lot of people even from other countries visits Thiruvannamali. Thiruvannamalai aka Tiruvannamalai aka Arunachala Hill has several ashrams located around the hill. Arunachala temple (temple of lord shiva) is located near the hill, and Ramana Ashram of Ramana Maharishi, Yogi Ramsurat Kumar Ashram, Sheshadri Swami Ashram are the other famous places located around the Arunachala hill. A road around the
Tiruvannamalai hill covering 16 Km distance is also famous for a sacred practice called “Girivalam”. It is believed that people who circulate around the hill on full moon day through this road will get their needs satisfied. And once in a year at December full moon day is celebrated as “Karthigai Deepam”. At that day many people gather in Tiruvannamalai and they light a huge Ghee lamp in top of the hill. I have the habit of going to this place regularly not only because I am spiritual but also there is for sure some force that exists in this place that makes the mind peaceful and calm. The below is a video that I have created with all the photographs I took in the hill and in the places around the hill. I have tried a little narration in the video. The 1st video is the recent video that had been covered in the trip on Dec 6, 7th of 2008 and the second video is the photo collection before 5 years. 

This is the recent video:

Video before 5years

Words said by Kumar, unexpected from him

Kumar is my friend and my class mate, from the day i joined college i know him only as fun lover and sarcastic person, but this was not the same image after i read couple of his posts in his blog. He always used to talk about movies, make fun of friends, and some boys talks, but the below conversation is what made me write this post about him,

(This is our conversation in Gtalk)

me: hows the holidays,.

kumar: f*cking bad da

me: what you doing mostly ??

kumar: since my granny died i am not doing any thing

me: Macha why back to sad memories at the time like this da

       Cheer up man

kumar: what to cheer up

me: why still thinking about your granny and doing nothing ?

kumar: she passed away day b4 yesterday what should I think about then

me: ohh no,... that granny u mentioned in your blog ??

kumar: yes da

me: man tats really terrible da

        i thought u were speaking about long back stories da

kumar: no

me: sorry to hear da

kumar: ok

me: how did it happen da ??

kumar: heart attack

me: she was admitted in hospital na ??

       ohh kk

kumar: yes da

me: seriously sorry for speaking about silly things at this time da

kumar: ok da

 

(After some 5seconds)

 

kumar: http://i37.tinypic.com/29o3hx5.png

             see this still this is a still of shreya on Shivaji

             this is blue ray screenshot

me: wow,.. semma da,....

       but dai is it necessary at this time

kumar: why

me: you crazy bugger

kumar: you only told to cheer up na ?

me: dai athukunnu ithu too much da

       i thought u were sending your granny's pic

kumar: lol

             i don't have one

me: thuu

kumar: now see my status message da, u will think that will be apt for the moment

me: hmm

(The status message of him was “At toughest part of Life”)

me: yup,.

       kk,. dai neee sogamaana orey adiyaa sogama irukkey

       but cheer up nu sonna orey adiya cheer up ayidrey

kumar: i normally don't share my sorrows with anybody da even my parents

             that's the problem with me.,

me: that’s really a great practice man

Kumar: i share only happiness with anybody da

me: that's what makes u a better person than others, and that’s why people love to stay and hang     

       around with you

kumar: kalaikiriya

me: chee no da

       serious da,. like Charlie Chaplin said "i walk in rain to hide my sorrow”

kumar: only face will tell the truth at these times

kumar: ha ha i sleep alone in the bed with bed sheet on to hide my sorrows 

me: no macha ,. how can i kalaichify u at time like this

       Gethu machaa,. you can put this quote in your blog as words said by Kumar

        im gonna do that in my blog,. as words spoken by Kumar

kumar: lol

kumar: enna vachi comedy ethum pannaliye

me: cha illa acha,. really i became a fan of yours from the quote u said da

(End of Conversation)

So as i told him,. here is the words of Kumar,. 

" I sleep alone in the bed with bed sheet on to hide my sorrows "

It was heavy rain outside and Madipakkam totally drowned in flood

It was on 26th Nov there was a slight drizzling and cold, and many were happy about the climate because it had been very long time people here in Chennai (Tamilnadu - India) had seen a good rain. At the beginning the rain was a really life saver, saving all the people from the hot climate, but then it continued to pour for 3 days, non-stop blessing from the heaven really ruined the liking towards the rain. My place in Velachery - Madipakkam is a low lying area and so there was water stagnation all over,. The local bodies here arranged for boats to move people to safer places because the water level in streets was like 4feet and even more in some places. Water came into many houses even in mine. But my dad is so sentimental, so he didn't want to leave the home alone and also we have 2 dogs in our home, so we cant leave things just like that. We shifted all the valuable things like TV, sofa, and electronics stuffs to the shelves and we were spending time on bed. It was fun watching all the snakes moving here and there in the water, we got used to it, and there is so many snakes (little venomous) in our area, there was even birds from different country chilling out in my place. The most hectic thing was that they didn't provide electricity stating that any electrical accident could happen at this condition. The rain water stayed in my home for a day, and it stays for more than 6 days in streets. Some how after speaking to AE in EB we managed to get power supply after 5 days. Think of it, 5 days without lights, fan, AC, computer, internet, even landlines are dead, you cant charge your mobile phone,... Oh my God. Usually the rainy season makes water to stagnate in my place especially in Madipakkam - Ram nagar, Srinivasa nagar, Velachery - Vijayanagar, but this time it was heavy rain and people were very much upset about all the damage that the rain had caused. I even didn't have batteries for my Digi to take photos, but after two days the water level decreased and then went to shop to buy batteries. The below are the shots that i took which covers the water stagnation area in Madipakkam and in Velachery.

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