Last week was full of rain and this week sweating started again.
Interestingly, today morning there was gentle breeze. It felt lovely.
But as the day went, it became sweaty.
In Delhi, one can live all climate.
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Sweating Like Pigs
Delhi weather has gone from hot like hell to sweating like pigs. Unless we stand directly under fan, it's terrible. I am not able to work over the weekends. Over the weekdays, I work only at early mornings & late evenings, so it's bearable.
Rani has to take a shower after every meal-cooking. Oh, did I tell you, there is water scarcity? Don't even get me started on that.
Jerry Starting To Work
It's a pleasure to watch jerry get up on his own on his leg and take one step and then fall down. He is so happy and proud of it, it's so visible in his broad smile.
He is little late in walking. But I am not so worried. Piyo also was late but look at all the naughtiness he is filled with now.
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What A Long Long Marriage
This is the first North Indian wedding we attend. So there was lot of curiosity.
Marriage function was to start at 5.30 pm, but it started only by 7.30 pm. There were drums playing all these times. Piyo was fascinated by these drums so we were there for a while. But even he got bored. So by the time, we were in the car to go to the marriage function, we were all tired.
The function itself was in a resort, which I overheard, is owned by an actor.
As the groom came in procession, there was crowd-dance to the North Indian beat. Hired-boys were carrying decorated lights on both sides of the street. I remembered Ed Thatha in my native town, Udangudi, who used to make such glass decorations.
The resort was huge and the crowd was also large. There might have been easily 2000 people. Obviously, food arrangement wasn’t up to the mark. Even when we managed to get food, we didn’t eat much – either we were tired too much and didn’t have appetite or food itself wasn’t so great or may be both.
We were told that the marriage ceremony itself – the tying of knot and such, will take place around midnight. We were so tired so we decided to leave.
We went up to the couple and noticed how tired they looked too. I wondered how they would have stamina to stay through the whole process.
We reached the room by about 11.30 pm.
By the we stayed in Hotel Tokyo Vihar. Most of the hotels had a Japanese names or there were Japanese photos in the reception.
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Being Forty Shows
Yesterday when we started from Gaya, I had light back pain. We didn’t take pain killers or ointment, so I took a chance and took four hours road trip to Patna.
Ironically, I felt better after the road trip. We took the flight too. When I reached home, I did feel little better.
But today morning I couldn’t move a bit. There was excruciating pain. I took day off.
I took combiflam tablet and applied lots of anti-inflammatory ointment. Right now I feel lot better than in the morning. Hope I am alright by morning.
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Visited Mahabodhi Temple
It took us almost four hours to reach Bodhgaya from Patna, probably due to traffic jams – we were told it takes only around two hours. So we reached here only at 2.30. Himanshu, the groom, was in between his rituals but was gracious enough to come out to receive us and ensured we checked in comfortably.
In the evening we visited, Mahabodhi temple, place where Buddha obtained his nirvana. There is a big tree near the temple, which is supposed to have the lineage of the original tree – a sapling of the original tree was taken to Srilanka & when the original tree fell, a sapling from the tree in Srilanka was brought here.
There are temples built from almost all of the Buddhist nations – Taiwan, Bhutan, Burma and so on.
Though we visited late in the evening – six, it was way too hot. Though we spent only 20 min, we were sweating by then.
As students we have studied about this place so often & the place (‘bodhi marathaddi’) comes up in our talks so often. It’s nice to visit that place.
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Another Trip
A colleague of mine is getting married in Patna. Rarely I go for marriage parties. In fact after my marriage, I have not attended any marriages.
But this time I thought we should go. May be I was too much influenced by our recent Kasauli trip.
So tomorrow, we leave to Patna and coming back on Sunday.
Probably this year will be full of trips.
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Kasauli Trip Was Wonderful
I had my concerns as it was our first trip in North India with kids. But it turned out to be a fantastic trip.
The hotel in which we stayed was in the roadside but our rooms were in 3 floors below the roads and so there was no noise, only serenity. It was weird to go down to the room; Whenever we had to go dinning, Rani kept saying lets go up to eat. She never got around the idea of having rooms below the reception. But in a hilly region, like Kasauli, this seems normal.
We visited some shops, in lower mall road, on the first day to purchase woollen clothing for all of us. This is the first time we bought something for all of us in a single shopping session.
Next day we visited Monkey Point, highest point in Kasauli. It is believed that Hanuman put his left foot here when searching for Sanjeevani herb to help Laxman in Lanka war. We didn’t climb to the top of the hill since I felt we couldn’t have climbed with Jerry in hand.
After lunch we went to Christ church, an ancient church in Kasauli (founded in 1853). It was a quite and a nice place.
Finally, on the way to Kalka station, we visited Pinjore Gardens, which is believed to have been founded by Pandavas. It is a Mughal garden, as like the President’s Garden in Delhi. But I found Pinjore garden much more beautiful than the president’s garden. Kids played and enjoyed.
Piyo enjoyed the train trip both ways. He didn’t sleep on the onward journey, though he slept in the return.
In all I all, it was a fantastic time. Photos will one soon
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Beginning of a beginning
We are going to Kasauli today for a three day trip. Though we’ve been here in Delhi for four years, we have not undertaken any trip in north India so far (we did go to Jaipur & Agra. But they were different because Agra was a day trip & we went to Jaipur before kids changed our lives forever).
We are all excited, but Piyo is more excited than everyone else.
We are now in Kalkha Shatbdi. We’ll be in kalkha by 11.45. From there we’ve to take a cab to go to Kasauli. I have booked a cottage for the stay. Will have to see how it would be.
Train is a chair car and so it is comfortable. Though cleanliness is far better than regular trains, their food serving should improve.