Moments in LIFE ..

Date: 17/4/2010

Time: 7.35 PM

Venue: Prakash café 1^st floor (in fact the stairs)

State of mind: SHOCKED !!!!!!!!!

Reason: Seeing the people I love the most waiting for me to enter into the hall.

You guys must be confused … why should one be shocked to see their family and friends. Well it was my SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY !!!

Now again, why the hell should this girl be shocked when it is actually a SURPRISE party ???

That’s exactly what my friends especially shruthi was thinking or rather yelling ;) when I actually started running away from my own surprise party :P

Well that’s the reaction you will get from me when you throw a BIG surprise like that :D.

According to me these things happen only in serials and movies.. not in real life :)

I never expected in my wildest dreams that my whole loving family, dearest friends and also waiters from prakash café :P would have gathered to yell SURPISEEEEEEEEE ;)

So finally I did enter the party hall still in a shock now mellowing down to surprise :P but fulllll of happiness. It was AMAZINGLY decorated. The best part was a collage of my childhood fotos. It brought back the wonderful memories of pure innocence and joy. Thanks a lottttttttt to my amazing friends who were toiling there from afternoon to set up the stage and deco (even though they were really really hungry :P ). Special mention to my friend archana who was present all through, though she had an accident the previous day and was burning with a fever of 104. Thank u soooo much re...But I still will not stop scolding you for not taking rest :P.

And yes there was a cake cutting ceremony and the cake being my fav, litchie cake … mmmm yummmyyy :) . Half the cake was spent smearing the face and hair .. as usual ;). All of us were made to wear very cute little party hats and everyone looked their best with the hats on :P. Later on I was showered with very thoughtful and beautiful gifts.

Then started our chitter chatter … me scolding everyone for not telling me anything :P.

This was a one whole week operation. The agents involved were extremely intelligent and did not give ONE SINGLE clue to me. They were very well trained in covering their tracks J. I must say my family are born actors especially my aunt who very cleverly handled a situation where in the whole idea would have flopped thanks to my neighbor. Ok Ok now I don’t want to hear anyone saying me that – you were so dumb ki you just did not figure it out .. hellooo that is soooo NOT the case !!!

Back to my rocking party .. My cousin Kiran and my friend Arun provided us with fabulous entertainment by their amazing singing skills. All of us had a blast. But all wonderful things had to come to an end and yeah I made history by giving the most pathetic vote of thanks. I was soooo happy ki I didn’t have words to describe my emotions.

So here I am trying to make an effort to actually convey my HEARTFELT thanks –

Thanks a MILLION guys for making it one of the BEST moments of my life:). I am the luckiest to have such truly amazing friends. It is going to the most unforgettable birthday of my life. Thanks a lotttt to all my uncles, aunts, granny, cousins and chiltu pultus for making it a grand success.

Last but never ever the least, infact they are THE MOST important part of my life, infact more than my life… my amma, babba and my chultu chelli. I am not going to thank you guys because thanks is still not enough for giving me many of my best moments in life.. something which I can think of when I am 70 (hope I actually live till then ;) ) and say wow I had a wonderful life :). I just LOVE YOU guys… more than anything else in this world. Thank you god for giving me such a wonderful family and awesome friends :)). You guys ROCK !!

~ Cheers

shruthi

ps : The surpise party need not be only for major milestones like silver jubilee… it can be done every year too :P

Movies..

Thanks to consecutive long weekends caught with some interesting movies.. Bucket List, Sisterhood of traveling pants and before sunrise.

Sisterhood of traveling pants - This soooo reminded me of my coll days. Friends were the most important things. We used to discuss about everything and anything under the sun, each and every class and after :) . Shared our aspirations, fears, weird ideas, funny goofy and stupid stuff :D . Also reminds me of the endless talks I have with my friends now in CCD ..

I initially thought it would be a movie about these giggling teenage girls and would revolve around their crushes/BFs/makeup/fashion etc etc... But the movie is completely different from what I thought. Talks about family ties, how strangers can affect your life in a way you can't even imagine.But yeah let me warn you, it is a total chick flick :P

Before Sunrise - Ok let me tell you first, the ONLY reason I thought I will watch this movie was because of the hero. He is choooooooo cute !!! First of all this is supposed to be a fultu romantic movie and people who know me do know how much I LOVE these kinda movies :P (for people who don't know, the above sentence is dripping with sarcasm ;) )

Was really surprised when I saw that I really liked the movie. Though the plot is simple the movie is really complex. It just about two strangers meeting in a train and who spend a day together just talking . Well for the most part of the movie :P

This movie shows how important conversation is in a relationship. Especially intelligent, interesting, intriguing conversation . There is a natural flow to the movie and you can connect to it though the situation is extremely rare to happen with you . Come one how many people will get off with some stranger from the train and agree to spend the day with him. But on second thought if I do get such a guy as the hero in the movie I might :P

Bucket List - Was a slap on the face for me ... There is sooooooooooo much to see and do in life and here I am being a boring software engineer :P . Acting by Jack Nicholson and Morgan freeman is AMAZING !! The movie kinda tells to actually LIVE your life . There are soooo many important things in life which we take for granted and forget to even thank god that these things are part of our life and even acknowledge it sometimes, may be.
Ok ok enough of philosophical talk .. Off i go to prepare my own bucket list ;)

Cheers

Someone said .. "Change is the only constant thing in life"

Big picture - yeah things are changing .. some for the good and some not so good.
Cut to my life - I am fed up with routine. Yearning for a change in life. Something exciting .. something new. Many a times when I talk to friends we crib about our boring lives :) .

Everytime I meet different set of friends we make plans but things never materialize. May be someone cursed us .. wonder how the jinx can be broken ;) or is it we have become old and are busy with "important things" in life ..

Someone also said - "Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
I need to find out what change I need to see ...
what can I do to bring about this change ...
Don't stop if one thing doesn't work out go to the next one ..
Most of all stop being lazy :P
So i guess it is finally upon me to go n bring about the change. Lets see how it goes :D

Cheers ..

Friend :)

I thank God
for a friend he sent
Sweet are the memories
of the days we spent

The fun, gyaan, NASA
I will always remember
I will treasure
these moments forever

I wish you all the
glory and fame
With a tiny wish that
our friendship stays the same

Think these words silly
to open my heart fully
Least I could write them in gold
But ink is all my pen could hold ...

Teerthalli - II .. the saga continues .. :)

heloooooooooooo people .. I am backkkk!! Back wid a vengeance uhaaahaaahaa ( ya ya I kno u were sooo wishing that I don’t come back, but uc , u always can’t have good times in life ;) ) So wer were we … ya our nite out was done .. a new morning dawned upon us .. sweet chirping of the cute little birds could be heard .. Delicious aroma of strong filter coffee .. hmmphh I wish it was like this !!! but the way it dawned was by mr.arun yelling (at the taaaaap of his voice) at us to get up so that we don’t get late to goto kundaadri, one of the many beautiful places around thirthalli. So, the whole junta was ready along wid the yummy breakfast and we set out on our journey to kundaadri on a qualis. Here we were listening to an amazing song called tanuvu ninnadu manavu ninnadu and ms.sindhu the hopeless girl cracked a hopeless joke and tadaaaa … she was crowned the most hopeless person of our grp (ppl congratulate her !!)

Mid way we had our breakfast along wid yummy kadubus and raveunde. The moment I stepped on the peak of Kundaadri Mountain I fell in love with the place. The view it was breathtaking … lovely scenery everywhere. Lovely scenery==lots n lots of fotos. Amidst all this clicking mr.arun was trying to commit suicide by running over the steep mountain .. me n shubha were yelling at him like hell.. the yelling helped and he stopped doing his stupid antics. ( Don’t thank god , thank us ;) ). Here I retold many kathaas related rowdies,underworld, police etc to an interested lot. The other uninterested lot was doing some uninteresting things ;)

We then left kundaadri but our hearts wishing that we never leave this place. Now from one beautiful place to another. Yup we were at shreyas’ thaathas place. Typical malnad house.. huge , beautiful, artisitic, homely and amazing architecture. It was here I tasted amruta (seriously the honey tasted heavenly). From here we finally reached a hotel which had neer dose. Shreyas had been telling the whole of tirthalli about neer dose (yen bayake no yeno.. ) Alli dose thinta India hopeless aagi soolodanna noodi agumbe kade payana nadisdvi .

Agumbe, the cheerapunji of south India is one of the most scenic place in India .Added to the lush green view all around, the attractions for the visitors is the spectacular sunset. Ok ok … I ll stop the travel n living channel J . Here we played an amazing game which tested our knowledge of the one of the most beautiful language kannada. We had FUN playing that game. Again the equation comes back here, beautiful sunset=lotsa fotos.

Then the awfully tired lot made their way back to shrey’s place. Back at shrey’s place we had a very very refreshing bath with hot hot water. Then we had dinner and aunty had prepared my favvvvvvvvvvorite sweet, haalbai (mmmmm yummmmmy) because it was uncle’s birthday.

Then was the bilkodoge samarambha where each one of us was given very yummy stuff like baalaka, jam, happala etc etc .. ( the list is loooong man). We then bade our goodbyes to aunty,uncle. (Thanks a looooootttttttttttttttttt aunty and uncle. You made our stay wonderful. We are never going to forget this amazing time we spent with you. Looking forward to many more such occasions.. also so that I can get another helping of haalbai ;) ).

We also bade good bye to kariya and jimmy (Ya ya guys stop barking … I thanked you tooo .. spl thanks to jimmy cos u didn’t eat of my hair ;) ).

We then boarded the bus (going towards blore ofcourse.. wat did u think timbactoo!!! ) with a heavy heart. We really didn’t want to leave this place and go back to blore to our boooooring work, traffic, noise etc etc .. 2 days is a very very short time to see this place .

Inside the bus done with our trip started the plans of our next trip J .. (which is supposed to happen this dec end.. I sincerely pray it happens so that I can write another travelogue and bug u guys ;) ). Then the sleepy god fairy gave us her varas and we all drifted to sleep reminiscing about the WONDERFUL, AMAZING, SUPERB trip we had.
End of story : we all happily lived ever after :P

Now for the vote of thanks …. ;)

mr.shreyas… thanksssssssss a lotttttttttttttt for arranging this trip and inviting to ur beautiful home town ( noodu isth maska hodidheeni … innond sarthi karkond hogu illandre phiiinisssh aste ).Thanks a lottttttttt to all my frns who made this trip memorable :)
Finally thanks a lottt for the all the ppl who took pains to read this … (I kno kno it was painful, don’t yell.. shut up .. I thanked u na be happy!!)

JAI HARATE KATTE !!!

My FIRST writeup !!!

Namskaara namskaara namskaaara,

So finally I got convinced to start my own blog !!!! … thanks to allll my frnds who kept on relentlessly coaxing me to start my own blog… thanks guys I owe u ;)

Looking at my blog’s name u wud expect me to share my experiences in the underworld, their intricacies, the language of looongu machhuuu kuroop supaari etc etc … ya ya guys u ll get alllll of tat gyaan.. but u guys have to wait for that , classes for those will start soon ;)

But my first blog entry is dedicated to the most integral ,lovable, most cherished (che I shud have written gre, I am running outta words :P ) part of my life. In short the best part of my life…. FRIENDS !!!!

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose-- n i luvvv my life :)”

Dunno about the first half but I am blessed abt the second part of the quote ..

So this blog entry is dedicated to my HARATE KATTE gang comprising of the esteemed members :

Arun aka Kor Kor aka my grandpa, master chef santya, kannadada kanmani shilpa, chakli/lays priye sindhu, ever smiling smitha, singer shruthi, kaddi sidda, just-miss shreyas, algo kid shubha, super swaroopa, disciplined srini, gre guru veda and mr.silent aka vivek ..

Hmmm I think enuf of korifying lets get started wid the story …

It all started almost an year back… It was shreyas’ birthday on oct 13 ( n yea we ll regret this day .. :P ) and our junta decided that we ll goto his native place to celebrate his birthday in a hatke isshhtyle … We had even booked tickets for the same. But fate intervened and a dejected lot came and informed us that we won’t be going to thirthalli.

This issue of making a trip to thirthalli was raised again n again but somehow it wasn’t in our naseeb to go there. We waited and waited n waited to go there but it never happened.

Ok k I think u most be bored now listening to this real tragic story of mine. So lets jump into the happy stuff cos I too hate tragedy n senti stuff… there shud always be action, adventure n happiness in life ;)

So to cut the long story short this year ie 2007 (ahh discovery!!! Clap clap :P ), 2 weeks before shrey’s birthday we again booked tickets hoping we don’t cancel it again. We didn’t want history to repeat itself. Shrey was really tensed ( he wasn’t so tensed even wen he was waiting for his engg results I gues ;) ) till the tickets were buked. God showed us mercy we got the tickets buked and 7 ppl were ready to board the mayura bus destined to thirthalli on 12 oct nite 10.45. ( ya ya I kno y only 7 outta 13 … ans : few of my frnds were busy writing gre toefel etc etc … we really missed u guys L I am sure we will have many more trips wid full attendance) Mr. subba was ther to bade us gud bye sincerely wishin n prayin to god that we die on the way itself cos we were leaving him n going. Heheh it didn’t work cos I am safe back here to write this travelogue.

Once inside the bus was the usual non-stop chatting. Kisne kya kiya kisko dekha kiska break up hua blah blah blah … then sharp at 12 they was choclate cutting ceremony (ppl not cake cutting) by the birthday boy who was too busy answering calls instead of cutting the choc (very bad) . N yea spl mention here to smitha who came wid this gr8 idea and to shubha’s mom ( hahah not u shubha) for getting us that really yummy choclate.

Then the ebullient crowd subsided. Sindhu srini n sidda were busy discussing smething ( they looked like they were scheming to kill kumaraswamy n yediyurappa and take the reign themselves ;) ). Me n arun were trying to get sme sleep, but aisi kismat kaha shubha n shrey woke us up to participate in their chattin session. We talked n talked n session turned to luvvv n everyone was made to share their share of sad n happy luv stories ;) .. somehow shrey went off to the listening mode then. Around 3 o clock everyone finally fell asleep.

Next day morn at 7 we reached thirthalli. Waha se we took two autos to reach heggebailu ie shreyas place. One amazing discovery me n sidda did here was one of the autos ther had reverse gear :P . Shreyas then told that we had to walk another 8 kms frm ther to reach his house. Both sin n shu were getting ready to protest and preparing placards n slogans for the same, but lo n behold in 10 mins we were in his place. ( if you are intelligent enuf my frnd u would have guessed shrey was bluffing .. J)

There stood a beauuutifulll home … surrounded by a nice garden and ya ya jimmy n mr.kariya were ther to invite us wid their barking. Uncle and aunty made us feel at home within minutes of talking to them. Immediately all of us settled in jagli sipping first class kaapi. And here mr.parisarapremi was trying to pataisufy ms.jimmy who ignored him completely. But our fellow believes in try n try till u succeed.Arun tried n tried n tried but never succeeded ( che I feel sorry for jimmy for having gone thru such torture ;) ).

We then trotted to the river bank next to shrey’s place n man it was one beautiful picture perfect view over there. From there we had to cross a VERY BIG HURDLE (only acc to my STUPID frnd shreyas) to reach shrey’s thoota. There our guide shrey gave us gyaan about arecanut, cardamom (spl input abt this by arun ;)) spiders, chillies etc .. Then we finished our ablutions ( I owe subba for givin us gyaan abt this word ;) ) . Then we embarked on the very amazing journey of having our very very elaborate n really yummy lunch prepared by aunty. I had the yummiest lunch of my life. Thanks a lottttt aunty. After the heavy lunch we started our journey to kuppali ( raashtrakavi kuvempu’s place) through the lush green fields. We reached Kuvempu’s homestead (my new word for tat day ) around 4 and were really amazed by its location, the architecture of old times . From there we walked a small distance to reach his samaadhi (kavishaila). It was one of those really really peaceful, calm and very inspirational place. Now I know how kuvempu wrote such beautiful poems n prose. It was here where our in house kavi srinivas composed a poem to shrey as his gift. We then left from kavishaila to catch a bus from a bus stop near by. Walking at that time of the evening chatting nonsense with the people you love is the best thing that can happen to u in ur life ( ahhh yes u guessed it rite I did experience that J , man ur intelligent ;) ) .

Then our inhouse heroes (sorry sorry typo ;)) zeroes had a running race in typical RDB style .. and yes one fellow did get cheated and was left behind. We then spent the next half an hour waiting our savior, the BUS to come. Our timepass was guessing the make of the cars that passed by. Here we guys were blessed to witness the sight of the yr. A person driving his motorbike with a handheld torch (ya in one hand holding the torch in another maneuvering his bike) as his bike ka headlite.. man reuse ka zamaana hai …

Back at shrey’s place we again we treated to the elllllabborrratttteeee dinner prepared by aunty ( man she cooks real real fast!! ). Then came the progrrrraaaaammm of the day. None of our trips are complete without that. It is ……. Tan dan dan dan tan dan tadaaadaaa tadaaa(ok k this much of build up is enuf …) NIGHT OUT !!! .. here madam sindhu was asleep before we even got started with the program. Hello that doesn’t mean our nite outs are boring .. it implies number 1 priority to sindhu is sleeping (ask our coll teachers u ll kno ;) ) We then started with kalla police aata (don’t ask what is that… this is not a site to explain the intricacies of games, go google dumbo .. ) . And ms.shubha won (actually we let her win ;) ). We then went on to play an enhanced version(effects of being in IT industry) of this game and I asked the dumbest of the doubts which left everyone laughing like hell for ½ hr (guys I asked tat question just to make u laugh .. I am NOT dumb !!!). Then finally dawned the historic occasion of we giving our gift to the birthday boy Mr. Shreyas V.S. He had already waited for 24 hrs for the gift, when we finally were to give the gift mr.shrey gets irritated and does nakra. (irony man ..) After all drama baazi he finally accepts the gift and THANK GOD he luved it !!! (pat pat). Then we had an ammaaaazing musical concert by mr.srinivas and mr.kor kor. The rendition of the songs by my very talented frnds was just awesome. A superb end to a superb day.

(what are you guys waiting for … done one day ka story khatam !!! next episode next weekend same time same day .. till then adios ppl )