The 10 Day Post - Day 6

A discontinuation from a tag i started couple of days ago. There's just something about me, that prevents me from doing anything continuously! But im trying to see through that i complete the tag ;-)


The tag for today is six places. Quite difficult considering i would like to go backpacking around the world. I would avoid the extremely cold places like plaque though.


Many a times, ive seen a postcard, poster, or picture of a place and immediately made a mental note, to note down in actual Paper.Those are places i'd want my feet to take me, before i kick the bucket.

And then there are places, which are very close to heart. Places that are cherished in my mind, and places which have made me the person i am.


And there are some places, however much you try and forget them, they stick with you, right till your very last breath, some not so pleasant,some so painful that you rather pop a pill to erase all memories.


1 . Klang, Malaysia
I take pride in telling people i am from Klang. I know they'll scrunch their faces up and ask 'KLANG?' - Yeah Dude, we're like Somalia gone wrong-Not!
I grew up here, and its a place i call home.
Klang may not have beaches, but we have the Klang River ;-)
It may not have Mount Kinabalu, but we have Taman Rakyat -Home to exotic species of early morning joggers ;-)
Neither do we have tax free booze, but we have Kari Bala :-p (if you dont know Kari Bala, you're clearly not from Klang-Google him)




2. Bangalore, India
A place i call my second home. I learnt almost all my survival and entertainment tips there. Many First(s) happened there. All the clubbing and all the midnight ramblings. And I met 2 of my best friends here.
My hostel Room, where most of the brilliant ideas of mine emerged, the famous Sprite Neat by Niki, the 3am politics discussions, poverty and hunger eradication talks, my struggle to study with my bed almost always winning the battle, tears, joy and everything! So close to heart.

Krishna Block #39, Bangalore

3. Krabi, Thailand
I love beaches, no matter how dirty or dangerous they maybe. There's a charm surrounding the vast amounts of water, sand beds till the end of land, the salty rough air, the way the sun sets into the sea and the moon rises into the sky coupled with the sound of waves crashing.
But Krabi was simply like Paradise. The crystal blue water, the rainbow colored fishes and Food Galore!!
Youve to go to Krabi to believe the pictures! Its GORGEOUS!

 Aonang Beach, Krabi

Krabi, Island Hopping

4.  United Kingdom.
Ive heard people raving about the UK after returning from it and always thought to myself, yeah, yuppies :-p
But Uk does captivate you from the very moment you set your eyes on her!
Its beautiful, it has an air or calmness, probably from the chill air or the laid-back attitude, the gorgeous tulips that bloom on the onset of spring, majestic castles and churches, the ruins of forts, the beautiful green gardens or the tea and scones ;-)
Was also thoroughly impressed by the public transportation and i couldn't stop raving about the Uk when i got back home ;-)

Clicked at Scarborough Castle, Scarborough

5. Pani puri stalls :D
 I love pani puri's and i can eat pani puris any time of the day and as im typing this my mouth water. very  very bad, because i dont get Pani Puri's here!

A very standard PaniPuri stall, on the roads of India :-)

6.Sri Lanka,
A country I definitely will visit at the first opportunity. I have charted out places i would go to (Nuwara Eliya , Devon waterfalls, Dambulla Cave temple, Tanggalle and Galle beach, Elephant orphanage are a few of them), food that i MUST try, toddy, Ceylon tea in Ceylon and a huge array of other activities (includes meeting Lasith Malinga and professing my love ;-) )
I havent figured out how to attach video's to my posts, so dont be lazy, go on and click the link below!
Sri Lanka Tourism
Now, only if the war and brutality stops!


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Done! and tomorrow shall be food!!! :D

The 10 Day Post - Day 7

A continuation from the 10 Day Challenge I started a couple of days back.

The challenge for today is to post 7 wants , which is simple and not at the same time. Simply because 7 wants is too small a number for the number of things i want.

I'll try keeping it simple and light and stick to seven.And i'll stick to those that are pretty much  realistic, which means i'll have to omit the Fountain of Youth (damn!) , Mountain of the Moons (double damn!) and Narnia. These are the few places i WANT to go to. Gah!!!!

For those who dont know the above, kindly ask Google Mama. 
Mountain of the Moon's, send me the map to you Please. (Wait a second, Maps confuse me, just send me the spaceship) 


I want to be able to sing like KJ Yesudas. No no, i have no interest of sounding like a man, but i would like to sound as heavenly as he does. Even if he yells his head off like half the black metal guys, he'll sound good!


I want to be able to take 4 holidays in a year. Each holiday in each Season, lasting 7 days each should be good enough :-)


I want to learn Salsa, thus i Need to go to South America ;-) . And Kathak , so i shall go to India. ;-)


I want to rewind time, back to my college days and have just a single night back again, in my Hostel Room K39. A place that wasnt merely a room, it was to quote someone ' an extension of my mind'. It certainly didnt feel like a room, it was, is and will always be a part of me. The noise, the bottle curtain, the posters, the friends, the stove, the desk, the books, the myriad emotions my room has seen. I want my hostel room back, even if its just for a day. ( I will simply sit in it and think of the 3 years and cry and then smile, so no harm is being done ;-) )


I want to practice Yoga, religiously. I know most of the asanas, i'm simply too much of a bum to get moving. My dad does Yoga twice a day and he's much more fit then I am, :-p


I want to be Happy, and i want those around me to be happy. I dont mind being called a Yuppie, as long as i know im Happy (What a yuppie rhyme that was :-p)


I want people to leave comments on my blog Posts ;-) . Simply because it feels very very nice! :-)

There goes my 7 wants :)

All of 'em are achievable, with a little extra effort ;-)
Effort from me and effort from you ;-)

The 10 Day Post - Day 8

This post is a continuation from  10 Day Challenge post which started here. 

Post for the 3rd day is supposed to be on Eight fears. I am apprehensive about a number of things, but fear, i'm not too sure.

I thought and thought, i started on the 2nd of July and its 5th July now , and i'm still thinking ;-)

(TO be honest i was away writing a few Scientific articles and attending slew of Weddings, I Love weddings by the way :-) )

Anyhow, im guessing its never to late to resume with my 8 fears, even if i cant think of anything ;-)

Fear, as per Wikipedia's description (i rely on Wikipedia a lot, sometimes i aimlessly and randomly read articles on Wikipedia till i sleep off ;-) )  

-Fear from the Greek: φόβος,phóbos, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear", is a distressing negative sensation induced by a perceived threat

So, that's what fear means really and yet for the love of me cant think of anything i Fear.

Yes, i Hate the very sight of Rats and i'm Afraid it'll jump on me and bite me and int the process give me Leptospirosis.

Im also afraid of getting too near fishy looking stationary things because, im afraid it'll suddenly come to life and lunge at me thereby murdering me.

I used to be afraid of my dad shutting the sliding door at 8pm, because if he did, somebody was going to get Hurt ;-) And often we didn't know which one of the 3. We were equal devils as kids

Im also afraid that i'd live a Boring life or allow myself to become a creature of habit and accept boring-ness into life :-p

In college i was afraid of a lecturer in 1st year, she hated me (and made me cry..grrrr) ,2nd year on-wards, i couldn't bother greeting her.

I get very very very scared when Rocky gets hurt. I start panicking and i repeat questions about him over and over again. He was recently bitten by a stray (or maybe a Gang of them, evil ones!!) i dont dare dress his wounds or apply medication on his wounds, that task has been skillfully handled by my Dad. On the contrary, if im hurt, i wouldn't even go as far as applying eusol or iodine on em. Tough me :-p

Im afraid of falling sick. Every-time i'm down with illness, i cry and i think i will never recover from this :-p

My stomach does somersaults every-time someone says ' We need to Talk' . Automatically all the danger cue music ever existed in the history of cinema starts playing. 

Im afraid of men on motorbikes coming too close when im carrying my bag. I clutch on it hard,  and start praying for my dear life while have series of probable events going through my mind (always being, robbed- pushed- hit my head on the road- bleed to death)

Well, i scrolled up and i saw so many lines, i'm too lazy to count, so if its lesser than 8, of well and if its more, oh well too.

Now that you see that I Fear anything , you can proudly declare me a Fearless *

(I'm not allowed to swear in Public, for fear of corrupting young minds, so can guess what the * is) 

The next post is about 7 wants, now, that is very easy :)

See ya'll tomorrow !


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Edited after popular request :-p


1. i Fear rejection - i need to be needed
2. i Fear Failure - i dont start anything before being a 100% sure i'll kick-ass at it ;-)

I'm not a Fearless * after-all. Damn!

The 10 Day Post - Day 9

This post is a continuation from Yesterdays 10 Secrets. First off, thanks to those who read ( I know you did! haa! :-p) and thanks to those commented on FB :-)

So, well today's post is about 9 Loves . 9 Only? I'm sure I've got more than 9 , and what kind of loves here? People? Food? Books? Movies? Jobs? Oh well, i could go on categorizing but 9's the number, and here it starts. Ive added a few photos' to aid explanation ;-)


With no Particular order, 

9. I love food. I can eat eat and never get tired of eating. White Rice + Rasam + Anchovies sambal can cheer up the gloomiest of all gloomy days for me

8. My parents, I love my parents and i get very worried when they come home late :-p , i love the way they've brought us siblings up, i love them for all the love i've been showered with and i  love them because they are the coolest in my eyes!

7. Cake's, muffins, cupcakes (with Pretty and Yummy frosting/Icing). I cannot walk past prettily decorated Cupcakes without stopping to buy them!! Bijoux has thus far given me the best cupcake, Ever!

6. You would find me lugging at least one book, everywhere i go. I read quite alot and i cannot sit quietly for more than a few minutes without reading anything. Books are one of the many reasons why i love Bangalore. Ive even resorted to reading menu cards due to extreme boredom.

5. My brothers. Despite our love hate relationship, and all the fights we've had, almost murdering each other, i love them and i know they'd bash up anyone trying to act funny with me :-)

And My younger brother, Rocky :-)

4. I ran away from home once, when i was 8 (or) 9 years old, I got as far as the bus stop some 200 m's from home. As I sat there, planning my life thereafter - I had Rm300 in my piggy bank, so that should cover the rent, I had a few clothing's to last me some days, and I had seen a kid working in a restaurant a couple of days before that, so employment was covered, BUT, i realized i would not have my Appa to make MILO for me in the mornings!!!! I returned home promptly ;-)

3. My Love(s). There are so many people whom i love and absolutely cannot do without. I have an urge to phone them up (i always end up doin that) when something happens, and i know they will be there for me :-)
Ive taken the liberty to name 2. Both whom i met in Ramaiah, the Awesome 3 years!

2. I love photography. I am not so good with clicking but i can admire photo's all day long and half my time spent in Fb is on stalking other's photos. And I LOVE being clicked! Anyone in my near vicinity with a camera will testify to that ;-)
And just to contradict everything, i shall leave this one Picture-less ;-)


1. Arvinswamy. He was my first crush and first love, for a very very very long time. I still love him despite the fact that he doesnt look like arvinswamy these days ;-)

The 10 Day Post - Day 10

I started of trying to write a post for the picture above yesterday, but i got carried away writing about Dr.Sakti's Acoustic Show ( you can read about it Here)
And though i was still in the mood to complete this, i figured 2 post in a day after 15 days of absence i a little too much too handle ;-)
So well, here; it starts, One has to post for ten consecutive days, on the above topics given in the visual.


Here goes my 10 secrets 


1. When i like a song i put it on loop (some have even lasted for a month) till i get sick and tired of it. After that i stay away from the song till i re-loop it again ;-)


2. Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi is one movie i've seen in bits and parts, i've almost seen the whole movie, i've read tens of the reviews, i know most of the dialogues by heart, and im in awe with the lady, Bawara Mann, is one of my favorite songs, and yet, that's a movie i'm yet to watch!


3.  I hate Kiwi fruits. I dont even touch them. I would go as far as saying i detest them and i wouldnt touch a dish with kiwi fruits even with a Yardstick


4. I'm Stubborn, Opinionated and i think i can change the world, IF i want to.


5. I value friendship and i hate those who conveniently pick up and drop them as when they want and not.


6. I hate falling sick because every time I fall sick I think its going to last forever. I used to fall sick every quarterly, touch-wood its reduced to twice a year now. And another reason why i hate falling ill - i start hallucinating about Chicken Varuval + Steaming hot rice + Rasam, I have absolutely no idea why!


7. I dont mind Boozing, but i never drink beyond the level where i start feeling funny. I HATE those who force even another drop onto me and i hate that queasy, spinning feeling that alcohol leaves.
So well, i may not be a perfect boozing partner but i can sit and talk stories for hours while watching YOU booze.


8. I love Mangosteen. My grandfather taught me how to break them open. He also taught me how to count the number of flesh inside without breaking open th fruit ;-)

Upturn the Mangoosteen and count the 'eyes' (kannu as what my grampa told me) and well, i still do that every time I have Mangosteens :-) (Yes yes, i'm such a kid, I know)


9. I like being isolated and quiet. I really do! And I absolutely cherish my quiet moments and would mentally murder anyone who tries to  mess with it ;-)


10.  I cannot sing to save  my life. And so i love those who can sing.


There, you have my 10 secrets ;-)


Post no 2, ( Nine Loves) tomorrow ~


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