All that I know

Love, to me is a word that cannot be defined. It is something which every living thing can feel but unfortunately cannot see it. Love can exist between a man and a woman, a guy and a girl; child and its parents, between pets, animals etc., and some people say love means showing care and affection on others.

Some say love is to help the poor. But in most cases love is applied in interpersonal relation as in friends or within families. You may wonder as to why am saying all these things.

It is just because am in love with a girl who looks the same way that I had fancied in my childhood days. I have always felt that the basic purpose of me entering this world is her. I personally feel that nothing in this world can be compared with her. She is the angel of the angels. I am into this amazing relation for more than 3 years now. Love is the only thing in this planet that can be felt but cannot be bought. You can understand the real meaning of your life only if you are in love…

Some of you might have found the answer to my previous post and for the others here it is. The person I am talking about is none other than ‘Padma Shri’ Dr.Kamal Haasan.

I feel that he is the one who has taken the Tamil cinema to a greater height. He was married to actor Sarika and they gave birth to Akshara Haasan and Shruthi Haasan. He divorced Sarika and now he lives with Gouthami, one of the leading actors of yester years. His teacher in the cine field is K Balachander. They both have done many projects together and each one was a stepping stone in the actor’s career.

He owns a production company named ‘RaajKamal Films International” which has produced many of his films. His upcoming projects are ‘Thaalaivan irukkiran’ and ‘Marmayogi’ which is likely to be shot in three of the Indian languages Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. His movie titled ‘Nayagan’ was selected by Time magazine and it is listed in one of the ‘All time 100 movies’.

In this post, I would like to share how I got addicted to cigarettes and how I regret for the same. When I was in my junior college I started to roam around the city with my mates. At that time we used to go to restaurants, beach, park, theaters etc. We came across different kinds of people from the young, to the old the oldest. We sort of inculcated some of the best things from them, which in turn lead to a happy and a peaceful life. But we also tasted things, which we had never dreamt of in the earlier part of our life. The end of our junior college was nearing. I, with my gang of friends went to attend a birthday party of our dearest pal. There, seven of them including me just shared a single cigarette. From that day onwards we chose a place that was deserted. We bought one cigarette for one person and the highlight here is that we spent nearly triple the amount for mouth refreshers. We all started this as an enjoyment and we used to do it to pass time but this has become a habit and we all got addicted to it. We are trying to come out of it because we have had enough of it and we also know the serious consequences that we had to face in our later stage. My kind request to all of you is that, never even think of opting to smoke or if you have tasted it already try to eradicate that habit so that you can live in this wonderful world for a longer period of time.

Then we went to the Mysore maharaja palace. The palace was built in the year 1803. It is a three storied building fully built of granites. In 1897, there was a fire accident in the palace and it took nearly 15 years to repair it. This place is one of tourists’ attractions in Mysore. People from all over the world come here to have a look at the architectural style. It took nearly 3 hours for us to visit the entire palace. It was time for lunch and so we entered into a restaurant. At 4′O clock we went to a church which is 200 years old. From there we went to our hotel. At 6.30 PM we vacated our rooms and left for Mysore railway station to board our train for Chennai. We bid adieu to our driver who took us to all the important places. The train for Chennai left Mysore at 8.15 PM. We bought some snacks and we had those as our dinner and we slept. Next day morning train reached Central at 7.50 sharp. We all took our baggage and reached home at around 9′O clock. This happened to be one of the most memorable tours for me. Also, this may well be the last time that I could go on a tour with this set of friends. It was hence memorable in ways more than one.

The grand Mysore Palace

There was a small pond like area in the temple from which the river originates. After having seeing that place we came to the hotel where we stayed in order to check out as it was getting late to depart for Mysore. We vacated our rooms and started to Mysore at 3′O clock in the afternoon. On our way we visited Harangi dam, the reservoir for the river Cauvery. Due to some security reasons visitors were not allowed inside. From there we went to Dubare Forest, where we went for river rafting and we also enjoyed elephant safari. We started from that place at around 5 PM. The next place for us to visit was Brindavan garden in Mysore. We reached the garden exactly at 7PM. The layout for this garden was started in the year 1927 and it attracts around 2 million visitors per year. We enjoyed the musical show for which the garden is well known. Then, we had our dinner and went to the hotel to sleep.

The next day we all got up at around 7.30 AM and refreshed ourselves for the local sight seeing. First we went to Chamundi hills about 15 kilometers from the city.

Brindavan Gardens

It started raining heavily and so we had to depart from that place. From Abbey falls we traveled to Raja’s Seat.The specialty of this place is that you can see the whole of Coorg. We all took photographs of the city and also of ourselves as a token of remembrance. It was around 3 in the evening and so we went to restaurant to have our lunch. The city was darkened even before 4 ‘O clock and so we went to the hotel where we stayed. Later in the evening we came out for shopping and we bought coffee powder, cardamom, and pepper etc., we had our dinner in the nearby hotel and went to bed at 10′O clock as we were so tired of the journey that we had the previous day.

The next day, the 12th of August, we all woke up at 7 AM and after having our bath we started to Talacauvery, the birthplace of the river Cauvery. On our way we had our breakfast and coffee. The place was about 40 kilometers from the hotel were we stayed. We reached that spot at 11.30 and we prayed to Lord Shiva who is considered to be god of destruction according to the Hindu mythology.

The next train for us was about to leave from platform number 6 at 11.55 PM. Since there were some technical problems the train towards Mysore departed at 12.20 AM. All of us were allotted separate berths to sleep. We had a nap, as it was a short journey. We arrived at Mysore Junction 4′O clock early in the morning.

The driver was waiting for us. We had booked the car for sight seeing and the rooms for the stay from Chennai itself. Coorg was about 125 kilometers from Mysore. We started from Mysore at 5 AM. After a few hours of journey we felt so tired and so we planned to have a cup of coffee. On our way we enjoyed the scenic beauty on both the sides of the road. The first place we visited was a Buddhist temple. The temple was nearly 200 years old. From there we went straight away to Coorg.

The whole journey from Mysore to reach Coorg took nearly 3 hours and we reached Hotel Coorg International at 8.45 AM. We took bath and had our breakfast and left for Abbey falls which was 10 kilometers from Coorg. We reached that spot at 11.45 AM. We all were stunned seeing at the beauty of the falls. It looked as good as Niagara!!! Can you imagine its beauty?

Abbey falls

On 10th August, seven of our guys gathered in the Chennai Central railway station at around 3 in the evening. We reserved the traveling tickets online a week before the day of travel. The train was about to depart at 3.30 PM. The driver blew the whistle and the train departed sharply as per the scheduled time. We were allotted seats in two consecutive rows in the same compartment. Two rows from our seat, there was a gang of 30 children who were on their way back to the hometown. The train, after a few minutes, gained momentum and started to run faster. It was absolutely a total thrill as the weather outside was so cold. Then after a few hours of journey the train came to halt in a junction where we had our dinner and took some nice snaps. Later at around 9 PM the train entered into the city of Bangalore. The city was fully lit up with huge lamps. The buildings were so tall and it appeared to us as if they were touching the skies!!! At 10.10 PM we arrived at Bangalore City Junction. We had coffee in the near coffee bar and we were back in the station at 11 PM.

I am the eldest son to my parents and I have a brother who is about to finish his schooling. I am done with my Bachelor’s degree and I completed it a year ago. As a Software engineer, I am well versed in some of the programming languages such as C, C++, .Net and Java. My father always encourages me to take part in extra curricular activities and so I have learnt singing and I have given more than 200 stage shows. In my college, I was a member of the NCC wing.

I am interested in sports and I have won many prizes in athletics. I am a regular blood donor. I am very good at studies too and I am really proud of it because I stood first in my school in the Higher Secondary exams in the year 2004. My hobbies are playing Cricket, Football and watching Movies. My favorite players are Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Christiano Ronaldo. My passion is driving. My favorite past-time is listening to some good romantic music and I also roam around the city with my friends.