KarivalamKulam Nataraja Temple

Karivalamkulam Nataraja temple is situated near Kalakkad in Tamilnadu. The temple is famous for its "Tiruvathira" pooja. People come from far off places to do and even see the pooja. The pooja begins in the morning at around 11 and extends till 3 in the evening. The deeparadhana that is performed here is unique, where the priest moves the "Deepam" with the rythm of the music played.
Route :
Trivandrum --> Nagercoil -->Valliyoor(Nagercoil-Tirunelveli Route) --> Kalakkad --> Karivalamkulam
Trivandrum --> Nagercoil -->Nanguneri(Nagercoil-Tirunelveli Route) -->Kalakkad --> Karivalamkulam

New Year Blooper

Januray 1st 2010 has become a memory now. Started the new year well, went for the morning show of the movie 'Chattambinadu', a comedy movie worth watching. After that had lunch and rested for sometime and went to Kovalam in the evening. We started the foto session first, and after that my friends started playing in the sea, i was watching all these from the shore and taking a few snaps. After couple of shots, the camera showed the indicator battery low and it turned off. Having nothing else to do i just roamed around there to buy batteries. At last got it from one of the shops and it cost Rs 80 for AA batteries :( . Before going back we thought of having some good seafood. The guy in the restaurant explained to us that they have a full fish 'Para' for Rs 400 and they will give it to us in pieces. We ordered "neymeen" and was expecting the same rate with it. He said it will take sometime and so asked us to order something else as starter. We ordered Prawn as a starter. The food was delicious and once we got the bill, we understood that what he said and what we understood was entirely different. The bill was Rs.2440/-. We paid the bill and he happily wished us goodnight and asked us to come back again, and we made our new year resolution - Not to have food from Kovalam again without knowing the exact price list.

A trip to Thenmala

I have been longing for months to visit Thenmala and at last it happened in the form of a team outing. We, the ASG team, went for an one day trip to Thenmala and Palaruvi on 18th December 2009. A day off from the boring work for the whole team, a day to enjoy. We started at 7 AM from Kazhakkoottam, had our breakfast from a small hotel at palode and reached Palaruvi by 10AM.

There were 16 of us. Without wasting any time everyone jumped into the water and started enjoying. We were enjoying out there and i stepped on a stone and it stumbled, luckily i didn't fall over, but there were some sharp stones and when i pulled my leg out it was bleeding. After spending some more time there we started to Thenmala. Had our food from one of the hotels there in Thenmala and went to see the dam. Took the pass and it was a long walk in the scorching heat to get on top of the dam. After that we went to the adventure zone of Thenmala eco tourism, but there was nothing much adventurous there. Just roamed around here and there and then went to see the Aquarium set up by Matsyafed.

After seeing the aquarium we went to see the musical fountain. The show is there only once in a day at 7PM. It was a good one which lasted 30 mins.

Once it finished we started the journey back home. We stopped at a small hotel at pazhakutti to have our dinner. They were pretty happy to see us, there were not many people in that hotel and there was lot of food left. In no time everything was finished and the hotel owner was pretty happy, but then there was a problem for them. Everyone was ordering many dishes and the poor suppliers were not able to recall what all they served. So everyone had to go to the counter and tell what all they had so that they can calculate the amount. After a few minutes everything was done with and we started our journey back home. I reached home by 10:30 and watched the Indians being thrashed by the lankans and went to sleep..

LOVE

Love is the essence of life. When love succeeds, lovers are happy and so are their friends and admirers. But love failures are the most heart breaking incidents......the hardest thing to digest. Some one has said that love is blind and it holds true in most of the relations. True love is unnoticed most of the time. Sometimes when you understand that you are being deeply loved by someone, it will be too late and that person might be beyond your reach.

Enjoying the short vaccation

A few days off from the tiring job.... a few days to enjoy with friends and forget everything else. This is one of the best vaccations i had, once i finished my college life. Couple of days of leaves left and still think thats not enough. Four days passed like four seconds, roaming around with friends. While in the company of friends every place seems to be much more beautiful than it was before...

Now while enjoying the holidays i am thinking why are we working hard day and night for someone else to make money, our golden days wasted inside four walls infront of the computer....when there are lot to enjoy outside............anyways there are two more days of fun left before getting back to my routine works.........so may be i can be sentimental about it later, once i get back to work, not now :)

Onam

Onam celebrations commenced at the state capital......buildings and streets decorated with lights are a treat to watch.

Pace

Striving to achieve greater heights at a rapid pace.