An appointment with nature

I had to cancel my 2 days planned leave to Guruvayur(GVR, kerala) to celebrate my wedding anniversary as Richard ( my project Architect) had planned to come over to Bangalore for a short visit. And as I was pretty sure to have some hectic weeks at work, I though of making a short visit to GVR.I started friday evening and reached GVR saturday early morning. As I was to start back to bangalore the next day; I wanted to make the most of my visit. The purpose of my visit was to spend some time with Esha and Divya (as they had gone to GVR for vaccation after our exams).Though saturday went off fine with me spending most of the time with Esha and then calling off the day with Bacardi.

I started my sunday with visiting GVR temple and then spending most of my time with Esha. Around evening, my family along with my brother in-law & family and two of Divya's cousins were scheduled to visit one of Divya's uncle who lived in Manaloor (About 1/2 hr drive from GVR).Divya's uncle had organized us a Vaanchi (small boat) ride for us. This ride lasted for about and hour and half. But, this was one of the best boat rides I ever had after the house board ride in Vaayanaad Kaayal (near Alleppey, kerala).

The weather was nice and it was absolute fun going around the lake with family members. The best of all, none of us knew swimming and we could hardly stand on the boat as it was only couple of feet long and wide. If we stood, the boat would go out of balance. But, I think in about cople of minutes all of us got confortable with the boat and just enjoyed the ride. Looking at the pictures i have posted you can figure out the beauty of nature that we witnessed.

It was a day I wish I could see more often. Though this was a short visit, it was enough for me to feel good. It was a day..........i'll remember as my appointment with nature. As I still belive......nature had shown me what it had to offer.......some momements I would always cherish.

In pursuit of something more

(At a restaurant after last exam)

This pursuit began in the year 2007 when Divya wanted us to take up some higher education. Down under she wanted us to do MBA. She kept forcing me to explore various options and to take this up more seriously. Like always I wasn’t much inclined to this idea and I kept dragging this for a long time. But then Divya was right behind chasing me every moment.


Around July I finally made my decision and I closed down with Bharathiar University. Both of us joined together and we had consecutive enrollment numbers. Our classes started around August. The PCP(Personal Contact Program) center was located at Queens road, which was around 45 minutes drive from home during weekends (weekdays was unthinkable). Around the same time we also got the good news that Divya was pregnant with Esha. We were all excited, and did not realize this would be challenge while pursuing our higher education.

There were times when I even thought about having Divya take a break until Esha was a little older. But then I had the encouragement and support from various family members which kept us moving. During the first two semesters( we had to take them together as our batch started late), we had to go for classes every weekend which was a real pain. We were fortunate enough to have some good batch mates though. Most of them were from Tamil Nadu and were very friendly and supportive. We also created a yahoo group id just to communicate within our group.

Though we used to attend weekend classes during our first and second semester, for the third and fourth semester we hardly attended any classes. Frankly, I still believe both of us were really lucky to have got through in the first attempt for our last three semesters. I am really thankful to many for that miracle. But, one of the most interesting was our Project Viva trip to Coimbatore (University Campus). This was the first time I ever visited the University Campus. To attend Viva, we both along with Esha had traveled down to Coimbatore where my in-laws had come over from Kerala. After Viva we all went to Kerala.

The one things that always surprised me we was, the turn of events around the semester examinations. We both had many challenges to face during our exams. But finally.......Here comes the day when we both wrote our last exam of fourth semester. Another wait.......for results would continue from here. But, it was really fun to have done this with Divya. I still remember the days when she used to try her best to stay awake during late nights when I was all charged up to study. Then were days when I was dead tired and wanted to jump over to bed, when Divya was all charged to study. But, I still believe It was Divya's support and effort that helped me get to this date........And i'm happy to have written this last exam sitting next her her like how it was for all other exams........... I hope we both get good results.