Navarathri 2008

This year's Navarathri or Golu (to give a tamizh accent) is a first of its kind, unusual, special and it’s different for me for all reasons (good only). Coz I am celebrating it without my parents & with a new family member S (well…not really new!! it’s actually 6 months old). I am always animated about Navarathri, as it’s a grand event to work hard, to rejoice, to eat good hot sundals, to get-together with friends, relatives’ et al.

Coming away from homeland, I lost hope if I will ever keep Golu here. And I did not bring any dolls. Since S was equally fascinated about Golu, we decided to purchase dolls which we started in Paris. Gare du Nord (Paris) had lotsa Tamil stores where we started our purchase, n then a few bommai sets in zurich; Wherever we went, we made sure to buy something that we can display in our Golu.

Yipppe!!! Finally the day has come, we managed with 3 steps beautifully ornamented with red lights, small cute dolls (courtesy: S). Here goes our Golu pictures...

Full View of Navarathri Golu '08




Saraswati Puja during Navarathri (missed my Veena n Guitar badly)

Happy Navarathri to all of u.....

For a good cause

Help Bihar by visiting the link and give your answers for the short quiz there. For each right answer, you will be donating some petty but important usable things to the Bihar flood victims...

Your Dream Candidate!!!

Read THIS article.
It is impressive and humourous. This old man rocks...

A nano second of fame

There had been ongoing procrastination from my end when it was all concerned about cleaning the "HOUSE" and to create a "HOME"!

It is quintessential for the married people especially girls...sorry...WOMEN...to keep their HOME beautiful. I have also dreamt of having a beautiful home for myself and ornament it as I wanted. I did get one, but I was not able to beautify it. I love doing it, but definitely not alone…

S & I were living our life as archetype backpackers and we never stayed during the weekends at the so-called-HOME since the time I joined him.

It’s a beautiful house and I should definitely appreciate the bachelors (none other but my hubby, and his friends) who were living here; they were able to maintain it amazingly well. Since my entry, there were lotsa hand baggages,covers lying everywhere. And we also started building on the mess when we purchased house needs. Infact, we started calling one of our rooms as “Garbage room"...

The balcony or the sit out is called as Winter Garden here, but it stores unused cartons, covers, bags, cricket bats, balls, et cetera. I was not to be blamed here :)

I managed to clean the kitchen and one of the bedroom for the very reasons of survival; other rooms untouched. One fine day, we got calls from our cousins and friends who were supposed to visit us soon.


"OMG!!! Wat will he/she thinks about me/us if he/she enters the house???”, the first question alarmed me. The weekend came, and I can’t say it was well spent, but it was not wasted, because we were forced to clean up the house :)

With S's enuf motivation and my self-motivation, we pampered ourselves much more than required, and started to clean up the winter garden and the rest of the zimmers. We cleared the cartons, cleaned the house thoroughly, and kept everything in the right place (remembering “a place for everything and everything in its place”).
Finally it's done - "HOME CHWEET HOME"

And the day came when our cousins visited us. After entering our house, one of the cousins commented, “Hey, your house looks like a HOME now!! It's beautiful n much better than how it used to be when u bachelors were living here"
S and I exchanged a smile. The appreciation still loiters in our heart.

A nano second of fame for the 24/7 hard work!
Huh! Got tired.
The result of 7 late dinners’ n sleepless nights!!

The Big Bang

With the Big Bang Experiment, what's more thrilling than the experiment is the hype surrounding it.  It triggered a number of wild controversies that it will create a black hole on earth, and such the entire earth, and the earth would destroy soon - Sounds sci-fi or scarry??

Ofcourse, it did scare many people throughout the world. An uneducated girl from a small unknown village committed suicide after hearing that the world is going to end.  Why do these crazy jobless scientists do silly stupid things, waste their time and make people lead a unsecured life. WTF!! Arr're, life is already a risk in this unpeaceful earth.  Then why carrying out such silly experiments ...afterall why do they need to know how the universe was born.

Interestingly, while talking with one of my friend, I understood that he cancelled his planned trip to Switzerland after hearing this news.  Another cousin came to Zurich on a vacation with his wife and kid.  His kith and kins started questioning as to why this vacation to Swiss when there are such problems.  They feared about losing them.  If only the world has to end, what does it matter if we are in Geneva or India or in any part of the world. I am confused with the logic here!

To contradict my earlier arguements, I also feel that every experiment has its own pros and cons and if we sit back for the fear of "something", then we are not going to venture into new horizons. If only Einstein and other great scientists thought on the same lines of safety, then we would still be living on the stone age :)

Anyways, all I can do now is to pray GOD and hope that something fruitful comes out of this experiment , and that nothing stupid happens to people on earth (and to earth itself!)

 

PS: Watch this video if you are interested in Big Bang.