For the love of song !

Just love this movie and song , I never knew it's meaning since it is in Tamil/Sanskrit.Today , while watching this video in youtube found it's meaning too . Sharing it with you all :)

mangalyam tantunanena mama jIvana hethuna
kanthe badhnami subhage! sanjIva Sarada Satam

meaning …

This is a sacred thread. This is essential for my long life.

I tie this around your neck, O maiden having many auspicious attributes!

May you live happily for a hundred years

Ohhh Humdum sunio re..........

Yercaud Trip

Yercaud is a hill station near Salem, Tamil Nadu. It is at an altitude of 1,500 meters from mean sea level. Yercaud has lot of silver oak trees and is famous for it’s coffee plantations and orange groves. It’s around 180 kms from Bangalore and 30 kms from Salem.

Yercaud is also known as “poor man’s Ooty” and you can easily make this out when you reach there. The temperature difference from very hot Salem and a lake just at the center of the city instantly reminds you of Ooty . After that try not find any other comparisons, you will be disheartened for sure. You won’t find as good hotels, eatery and places to visit as you find in Ooty. Infact, you can cover the entire Yercaud in just few hours if you want to visit just “must see” places. There is a lake similar to our sankey tank. A garden and a horticulture which nowhere can be compared to Lal bagh, few viewpoints which are poorly maintained and a fall which has very less water. So then you will think that what exactly you should do there? Yes, there is nothing to do there and that is the charm of the place. The place has nothing similar to the commercial Ooty , neither do it boast of many “ must see” places. It’s just the place to run off and spend some time in the lap of nature. You can trek and cover the entire place on foot among the groves of white silver oak trees and with the feel of fresh air. Putting some pics from the trip:

Aerial view of Salem from Yercaud ( remind me of Dehradun from Mussorrie)

The route from Salem to Yercaud boasts of 20 hairpin bends:

Shevaroy temple:

Kiliyur waterfall:

Nature trails:

Seen coffee plant for the first time :)

On the way to Montfort school:

The only good cafe in Yercaud !Bang opposite to Montfort gate :

The must visit place of Yercaud , mainly for the architecture:

Emos:

The lucky lone peacock and peahen ;)

You scared me :-x :

Te laziest fella :)

I love Myself......

While writing this post i have just bunked my Sunday class for a certification i have applied for. i got up on time and then suddenly decided to drop off. That's what is happening with the office too. I was never like this . Yes, i have bunked college but always for fun with friends . Here i am bunking just for solitude. A time just for myself , whereby i would do what ever i love. i want to sleep, read , blog , watch my favorite movies , shop , paint , cook and exercise all by myself . Enjoying company of my other self which has been lost somewhere while i was trying to meet deadlines and making others merry. The only left weekends too have gone for my 5 hrs long classes and i am back again to office on Mondays with the list of things i still have to do. A friend suggested to just take some time off and relax at home. i can but for some time i just want to go into oblivion . I don't want anyone around except for me and myself. Yes, i am talking like a selfish person but this selfishness have come out of selflessness. There is a canvas lying in my room since ages to be painted , so many books on my shelf to be read , a lot of movies to be watched , a lot of dishes to be learnt , a lot of items to be bought and a lot of items to be searched. The worst is losing my credit card which i haven't even opened from the envelope it came in and now when i want to cancel it , i don't know the details. I have to pay my water bills which i haven't paid from last two months and i have an outstanding credit card payments for the first time . I was planning to join some weight loss program since the start of the year and the timeline was till my birthday and here i am with my birthday just approaching and not losing a single ounce. It's not me .I am not even able to study what i am learning at my weekend classes! I always used to wonder about people wanting some "me" time and now i am realizing what it mean. I want to do things which like , which i want without paying the hid to what other's say. My current project would be off by this month end and i am surly taking few days off , all for myself . I pledge.