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Oct 27, 2005
To my solitude 2, originally uploaded by pqrshanth.
Lone tree on top of hillock in Karkala
"How is 'Salaam Namaste'?"
"Salaam Namaste?! The ones of the craps movies. What do you say babes ?"
"Sorry?"
"Egjactly. Except for the melodious tracks and few PJs, its the ones of the worsts movie."
:)
Oct 21, 2005
Manasthamba, originally uploaded by pqrshanth.
The stone pillar found in front of almost all temples, esp. jain temples
Oct 19, 2005
The journey...
This was my first visit to Moodabidri as a 'guest' and all the previous 'n' visits were as a tourist and were of short duration of few hours. The weekend started on Tuesday with a journey from Bangalore. Wednesday 6.45 AM, I was knocking on the door of my sister's home in Moodabidri.
But...
But my enthu died down within 2 hours, due to the rain. During my stay of 3 days there, 60% of the time it was raining and remianing 40% I was sleeping (Courtesy - Cold and Cough). Thankfully 'The Partner' was with me, an enthralling novel by John Grisham. Finally on third day i.e. on friday rain god showed some mercy :)
About Moodabidri
Though I was not able to roam around Moodabidri, I was able to get details about the place. Moodabidri, its called the 'Jainakashi' because of the number of Jain temples over there. There are 18 jain temples a.k.a. 'basadis', Thousand pillar temple being the main temple. As the name says, there are 1000 pillars in the temple. And of 18 temples, 1o are there in the same street and my sister's house is also in the same street. Somehow I got chance to pay a visit to 14 of the temples and not mention without camera :(
Just to name few basadis that I remeber --
- Thousand Pillar basadi
- Kallu basadi (kallu = Stone ) - this one is right next my sis' house
- Guru basadi
- Koti settara basadi (koti = a crore)
- Vikrama settara basadi
- benki basadi (benki = fire)
- kere basadi (kere = pond/waterbody)
And then to Karkala
Friday I got some time to stretch out and visited Karkala. Its another nice place to visit in the coastal Karnataka, which is around 25+ KMs from Moodabidri. Karkala is famous for the 42 ft statue of Lord Gommateshwara.
Karkala, previous name Pandya Nagari, was the political capital city for the Kalasa-Karkala Kingdom during the period 13th to 16th century. The monolith of Bahubali on the peak of the granite hill was erected by the King Veerapandya of Kalasa-Karkala Kingdom, in 1432 AD on the advise of his guru Lalitakirti. This staue is second only to the massive monolith at Shravanabelugola.
I started around 10 in the morning from Moodabidri and the journey was really cheerful. Lots of greenery, pollution free air and peacefull environment. One thing that I noticed was that the bus crew have got a peculiar taste of music. I'm not talking about one bus, but almost all the buses over there. The songs that they play in the music players - all of them are Hindi, neither classic nor new hit ones. I donno which era those songs belong to, but 90% of the songs that I heard were for the first time!!
Coming back to the journey, it was brief and soon I was walking down the cement road taking me to the hillock. The hillock has 217 steps to climb (I didn't count them - one of the unknown visitors counted and I overheard their conversation). After reaching the top, I waitied for other tourists to go. At that point of time, I just wanted to be left alone. Sat their for almost an hour, admiring the nature around and also the great monolith. And then I visited the 'Chaturmukha basadi'.
Like Moodabidri, there are 18 jain temples in Karkala too. But I was not in a position to visit others, because of the cold and was back to my sister's place exactly at lunch time.
Well, it was fun. Three day visit to Moodabidri was fantastic. Akka, I will be back soon. :)
Oct 17, 2005
Just imagine how it would be to have a 2 week days and a 5 day weekend ;-)
Well last week it was a 5 dy weekend for me :)
The weekend started on tuesday evening with a journey to my sister's place Moodabidri near Mangalore. Stayed there for 3 days - more details and photos to follow.
Then back to Kunigal on saturday evening - and enjoyed 2 lovely movies watchin on TV - 'Lagaan' and 'Hum hain rahi pyar ke' - saw both for the 'n'th time .
And then back to Bangalore. Wish the next weekend also starts on tuesday evening!!
*Sigh*
Oct 10, 2005
Me going on a long weekend, yippee...
This is my first long weekend after I joined my second company. I will be away for atleast 5 days - will be back next monday(!!)
So no updates for next one week, but more posts once I'm back. Tht's assured :)
Oct 7, 2005
Some one liners :)
1. Guess got this as a mail forward -
"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."
2. Read somewhere in one of the website -
"In team work, everyone has to be together leaving "I" at home."
3. Agatha Christie in her book 'Mysterious Mr. Quin' -
"A problem is no necessarily unsolvable because it has remained unsolved."
Oct 5, 2005
Dasara/Navarathri - the nine festival has begun. Its the festival where whole state irrespective of religions celebrate. In few homes, people still follow the old rituals of arranging the dolls for nine days (through out the festival) viz King & Queen, the small version of the famous 'ambari', create miniature parks etc. Here is a snap taken last year in our house :)
Dasara festival, originally uploaded by pqrshanth.
Oct 3, 2005
Dinesh, Jr., originally uploaded by pqrshanth.
My cousin Divya nd Dinesh are blessed with boy baby (born on Oct 1st 2005), let me call him 'Dinesh, Jr.' for the time being :)
His first photo and he is just two day old. He was 3.9 Kgs when born. Yes 3.9 Kgs (8.6 lbs)!! :)
Oct 1, 2005
Seven of my friends and s share their birthday today. Here is a small birthday gift to them :)
Happy Birthday Ravindra, Vaish, Sujatha, Lakshmi, Chiranjeevi, Krishna Prasad (a.k.a Tassie Devil) and Suma.
Have a glorious and prosperous life ahead... :)
>> When I posted this message in the morning, it was seven. And now the count has gone up by one - My cousin Divya and Dinesh are blessed with a baby boy (got the news just 10 minutes back).
Congrats Divya and Dinesh... :)
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