It's above 12 pm now. I am still awake doing nothing, but simply enjoying my free time. The weekend went very well and i enjoyed well. This is what i did the last two days :
Saturday (12th Dec 2009) :
I woke up by 11 am. Toasted 4 bread with butter and had it to kill hunger. Room-mate made panner gravy. I had to just prepare rotti. I prepared 5 and had. I filled a bucket with water and put immersion water heater in it. Sun TV was screening Friends, a movie starring Surya and Vijay. I like that movie. So i simply passed time watching the movie. After the movie took bath and planned to go to Hyderabad SKY(Simplified Kundalini Yoga) Trust. All I know is the address. The number i had was no more working. I took my scooter and started riding towards Sri Nagar Colony. With the help of Google maps i reached Sri Nagar Colony. I wandered for half an hour here and there searching for the address. Since i dont know both Telugu and Hindi which are the most spoken languages here in Hyderabad, i had a good experience in finding out the address. Finally i reached the place when a gentleman guided me rightly. There were only 3 in the home. An old man, his wife and his son(seemingly). The old man and his better half were in meditation. Since I am going to their home for the first time, i didn't want to frighten them by joining in meditation. After the meditation, i met him and we had a chat. I promised him that i will help him in all ways with regard to vedathiri maharishi's yoga proceedings. I always wanted to help people. I need to stress here that it is because of vedathiri maharishi's vedathiriyam I am here alive and happy after worst possible aches in my life. I hope i will take this as an opportunity to engage myself more actively in some useful things. I left the trust and i headed towards Birla Mandir. This temple attracted me a lot when i came here during the Hyderabad IV. So i simply went there even though i was alone. I returned home by ten pm and prepared tomatu chuttney(I am an expert in preparing this :-) ), made rotti and ate happily. Then i watched movie till 2 30 in TV. Switched off TV and took the book i bought in Birla Mandir "Swami and Friends" by R.K.Narayanan. Soon i felt sleepy and went to bed. Saturday went happily like this.
Woke up by 2 pm on Sunday :) Prepared 6 butter toasted bread and had it as i was hungry. I felt like i should invite Santhosh, my school day friend, for dinner. I called him and he accepted to come home :) Watched a part of a tamil movie and started to wash clothes. My goodness, washing clothes is so painful :) Meanwhile Santhosh arrived Miyapur. Went to the junction to pick him up. Came back home and showed all rooms to him. I went to take bath leaving him in the hall to watch TV. I planned to go to the nearby Saibaba temple. We both went there and had a good time. It was really great there. From there we went to Vijetha, a super market in Chanda nagar. Came home and started preparing dinner. Planned to prepare tomato chuttney and rotti as this could be prepared soon. Santhosh gave a good response to the food i prepared. Felt happy and satisfied. Thought of giving the food to Shyamala to check taste. On the way to Santhosh's home we went to Shyamala's home and had a small chat. Dropped Santhosh in his home in Madhapur and came back home, and started writing this blog. This is how this weekend passed happily.
Let me give a glimpse of what happened last weekend :)
Last week myself, sriram, raghuram and sundara raman went to bangalore to meet our friends there. We were 12 in number there. Karthick Ramanathan, Vineeth, Vinod, Venkatesh, Srini, Sabari, T.M.Vinodh, Sethu, Sriram, Sundar, Raghu, myself. We four from hyderabad reached there on 5th Dec, a saturday. Got down from the bus in Iqbal(not sure of the name) and took an auto to reach Indira Nagar. Karthick ramanathan came to take us to home. It was 8 am. Almost everyone was sleeping at home. When everyone woke up, we prepared some bread and had. It became noon when everyone finished taking bath. It was time for lunch. We all agreed to go to Barbeque Nation for lunch. The lunch was 350 per head. My goodness. I remembered those days where i had lunch for 35 rupees. Now it is 1000% more. Hmmm. Post lunch there was a dilemma about where to go next. There were two options. Snow bowling or Go Karting. I voted for Go Karting as i always wanted to. I snow bowled once during Mysore IV in Infosys. So i wanted to experience Go Karting. Only very few were for Go Karting. In the end, everyone was ok with Go Karting. Went to some unknown place whose name i forgot. There were only few as it was just started. It was good with Go Karting. Then we went to Garuda mall, one of the famous malls in bangalore. I felt like Garuda mall is not better than Forum. Btw, I went to Forum once during bangalore IV. In Garuda mall, it was fun again. Had dinner there itself and returned home. It was planned to go to Wonder La, a water theme park, the next day. Wonder La was awesome. In my opinion it is not that good compared to Veega Land. Anyhow it was a good time pass. Btw, this is where i caught cold :) This is how i passed last weekend happily.
Nowadays i started using the term happy as often as possible :) Why ??? The answer is so simple !!! Life is to be happy. You need not win always if you know how to stay happy when you lose. It is all your mindset. I remember this technique from the book The monk who sold his Ferrari. Whenever you feel like you are sad, you must first feel that you are unhappy. The moment you sense that you need to think that why you should be sad. Being sad you cannot achieve anything. So you need to think that you are happy. Make some movements which you will do when you are happy. Staying happy always is the key thing in life and of course it is the purpose of life. Enough philosophy for this blog.
I think it is time for me to go to bed now as it is 2 am already :) So signing off here with this blog. Wishing a great week ahead to all.
Friend forever,
Baskar.
