Road to Tungareshwar

quasibaba : I hope whoever clicked this feels pretty damn ashamed for subjecting the camera with the insult of having to capture this.


Tungareshwar. The bike. The road. The clouds. The rain. The forest. The temple. The faith. The prayer. The yearning.
Ask with your heart and you shall find, the wise say. You do. I got peace. Transient, but yes...


Of late the journey has taken into unknown territory. Visibility almost zero. But I at least know where I have to go. Dont really know how. I guess one has to keep walking (ya, rite, there is no Jhony Walker around) but ... I have come to believe it this : ask with your heart and you shall find. Every time I have asked Him (ok, allrite, I demand), he has given me some (answers). But I guess, the key is to work for them. Anything we get very easily or without the effort has less value, because we cannot really relate to it. There are reasons and excuses we can always come up with to shrug it away. But to work for something one has to first believe in it. And everytime you run into an obstacle, one has to renew one's faith and blah blah to go on. So soon one really does not need or have any excuses left. Acceptance comes. Acceptance for whatever.
























note : all photos with the SE w800i

The Train

Here are some photos I had clicked last year. The Mumbai Local Train.

munnar

view from a room

Malabar - Day 1

We started off from Mumbai with a (mis)adventure. We missed the train at Kurla Terminus. But managed to catch it at Panvel. :) The journey was wonderful. I was travelling in the train after a long while. The monsoon had been in for some time. All was green and lush and clean and ... heavenly. With the thought of her on my mind and the wondrous passing landscape, I just looked and looked - trying to capture as much of the bounty of nature as I could. I love the low dark clouds. I love the half light. I love the rain. I love the hills in their full monsoon glory. In short I was happy.




















note : all photos with the W800i phone camera

lyrics - Silk Route - Lullaby

I love this song though it is not too popular ...

Silk Route - Lullaby

I know you do know how to say good bye
holding back your tears
but you cry


  And the moonlight is feeling numb floating on the water
  someone's darling, someone's little daughter
  fireflies in the night
  flying patterns in the sky
  and the murmur of the streets
  is my only 
  lullaby

Momma momma
momma why am I lonely inside
and the dog I am walking
to your songs I'ave been rocking myslef
to sleep

Momma momma
Momma momma please let me know
tell me where I belong
I couldn't stay for too long
who knows what went wrong
but
why me?


  I know it's not easy but if you try
  we can be together forever
  in the sky
  drifting in the oceans
  waves are on the rising
  tired and lonely see the sliver lining
  bye bye for the wind
  bye bye blue skies
  and your world is my dream
  my only
  lullaby

I'am like the footsteps in the sand but you dont realise
I'am like a flower that blooms in your garden overnight
I'am like a bird that flies home every night all alone
ooooh
I don't know
why
Everybody knows
why I cry
Everybody knows
why I cry
Everybody knows ...

Rajamali

Situated at about 6500ft height, at the base of Anamudi, the highest peak in South India, is one of the most enchanting places I have visited. It is the home of the Nilgiri Thar and wondrous nature.

Dukku' Marriage

Dukku' Marriage, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Dukku' Marriage

rainy day

flooding near our building


Today I could not go to office due to flooding on the highway. How things have changed. There was a time I used to use the slightest excuse to bunk college. Now in flood conditions, I wanted to go to office. There was stuff to complete. I think I have become old. :) hehe. I suppose it's all right - happens to everyone.

These days of uncertainty. These days of wait. I wonder. They have lost the sharp edge now. It does not pain badly any more. Just a dull throbbing ache. Soon what one wait's for merges and becomes indistinct and inseparable with all the other things uncertain. It looses its definition and meaning. I suppose that's the time one has some peace. When all uncertainty can be viewed as one.


it has rained all day ... I am supposed to be loving it.

ummm...

the Achrekar brothers.


Hemant had come down to bandra on the 14th night to jam with Razoo. I suppose they had good fun jamming. Next morning busty helped make some good chineese fried rice.




Hemant


Percy (Him this is especially for you. hehe)

ummm...

I saw this cart with the bull and the old man with the white beard. He looked so tired. And so did the bull. This in the middle of the hustle bustle of Dadar. How we all have our private spaces which sometimes seems to disconnected from what's going on around.




Shack, Hrush's friend. At the Ghetto.

rainy

Today I got stuck in Dharavi when it rained really heavy. Very rainy days, these. Good ones. I love it when it rains heavy. Mumbai monsoons ...

The other day I took a walk on the Worli seaface. One of the best I have walked ...




I purchased this (blue-black coloured) bag today. Good bag.


Main features

• α-AFBT suspension system
• 6 internal and external pockets
• balanční popruhy EN
• safety reflective points for increased safety
• internal elastic loops for holding avalanche pole
• ergonomic bi-laminated shoulder straps with collar cut
• ergonomic hip belt
• main compartment provided with 2 flat pockets
• snow shovel pocket
• hydration system compatible
• removable sternum strap
• gear loops on the hip belt
• bottom compression straps
• ski attachment system
• internal bottle holder
• back panel reinforced with HDPE
• reinforced double bottom

percykious

of a different planet.

:)

happenings ...

the old men of Mojo's

I had recently been to bangalore for a day. To attend a informal get together of Lisper's in Bangalore/India. Hrush was kind 'nuff to send me. It was a good day. Close interaction with one of the well known lisper - Rainer Joswig. I learned a lot.

In the evening i met Aditya, whoz down there in Bangalore on a job. It feels so nice to meet someone you know in a strange place. We spent some excellent time in the evening at Mojo's. They played several door's number on our request. He came to drop me off at the airport too ...


Beer at Mojo's




Dukku

I went to meet Ranjit Puthur aka Dukkar, the onarable mallu, in his place the other day. We met after some time. Hez one of my oldest friends. Hez getting married. May he get all the happiness there is, for he sure deserves it. I have never met a more humble, helpfull and selfless feller ...




Vasu

Vasu. Hez growing his beard.



Veenu

Yesterday I forgot to order till it was very late. I asked Veenu if there was some food ... he gave me a sundry collection. He is one of the best. Thanks dude. You fed a hungry man. There have been several occasions when hez fed us at odd hours.

Captain Hrush of Cleartrip

Captain Hrush of Cleartrip, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Seriously at work

at the naka...

at the naka..., originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

at the naka...