W.E.E.K.E.N.D

Weekends have truly become a luxury and having time for ones own self is becoming a lot more precious .. Looking back couple of years ago, when I was still in college everyday seemed like a weekend if not a celebration ...

The weather in Chennai this weekend has been really very pleasant, making me feel like wanting to go to the beach or long drive ..

Gladly will be going on a long drive to OMR to meet up with relatives for lunch at "The Farm" .. Lots of chatting, fun , good food and good times :) :)

A Morning in the Marina

Today amma, appa and I went to the Marina beach at around 7 in the morning. We have always wanted to visit the beach early in the morning to get a glimpse of the sunrise along the sea .. But, being the lazy bum that I am this has never happened until now.


During our today's visit to the beach we had carried with us our frisbee to spend some time getting fit the fun way.. I have always found Marina / Bessy beaches to be my favourite place to people watch and today morning happened to be one such occassion, it is one of a kind place where in the same place people are doing different things at the same time.

It is a common site to see a bunch of kids practicing karate, morning walkers taking a brisk walk along the stretch, youngsters playing volley ball, groups of people practicing yoga, fishermen jus' coming out from the sea with their day's catch, couples taking a stroll along the shores, kids collecting shells, building castles and lots more ... ( This is jus' what happens in the earlier part of the day and the place looks entirely different in the evenings with bajji stalls and shops selling different curios, more like a flea market).



It was a refreshing start to the weekend ahead ! :)

Weekend gala !

The last two weekends have been busy with most shops in the Chennai city having a discounted sale, especially the ones selling clothes and accessories.. Now, what could stop a bunch of newly started earning youngster from visiting the malls and enjoying the sale ..

It was also my friend's cousin's wedding on the weekend before last, our shopping started right for that occasion and continued from there on .. the wedding weekend was a lot of fun.. meeting and greeting people had an entire bunch of friends from college, had a good time!!!

Sweets, crackers fun and more ...

Diwali mood set in almost a week before the actual Deepavali day, when we had a pre diwali celebration in my flats with all of them getting together with lots of food, music, dance, fireworks and more ... This was the time I actually got to see many of my neighbours whom I haven't seen for months together ..

The Diwali celebration was later followed by distributions of sweets to family and friends - meaning we had to go sweet shopping a day or two and this had to happen a few days well before Diwali else you don't get anything except may be some mysore pak and laddu such was the demand for it in Chennai..

I along with mom and dad went sweet shopping at 11 pm around three to four days before Diwali to find sweet shops buzzling with activity and thankfully we also purchased crackers a few days in advance to avoid disappointment. The last year we went cracker shopping the day before Diwali to sadly find anything at all in racks.

The day before Diwali also happened to be my mom's bday and I gifted her a watch of her choice.. and my parents gave me a new Nokia E5 and I am in total love with it(review about it on a later post).

My Diwali day started on a slow pace.. After getting ready for the day had some delicious breakfast of melusu Dosai with onion and ginger chutney along with coconut chutney . This happens to be a Diwlai special item and I love it :) followed by lighting of some crackers and then off to distribute sweets to my friends and also had friends and relatives visiting home..

Evening couple of my friends came home and we bursted crackers for a while, just when we finished bursting our load of crackers I felt slight drizzles, which within few minutes turned to be a heavy down pour..

My weekend turned out to be fun as well..On Saturday evening, I had a lovely long walk around Anna nagar with friends and discovered a new place called The Soup and Salad Cafe which I am toally in love with. Great place and good food :). During this lovely long walk I actually came across a whole lot of new places in Anna nagar that I've never come across in my so many years of stay in the very place.

Sunday was lazy and the very thought of the long weekend coming to an end, made me do some useful work to avoid such thoughts hitting my head and evening had a fun time shopping in Express Avenue with parents ..

This long weekend also saw a couple of interesting activities happening in Chennai, one was the Beatles show and the other was the Extra Terrestrial show which more looked to be like a gymnastics/circus type of show I believe which I wanted to go to, but my weekend was already over packed.

Talking about the Beatles show, I remember my colleague at work Shyam who happens to be a die hard fan of the Beatlemania who was in total awe of the show. So, Shyam Adithya you've been mentioned in my blog :)

Two days into the week I am already looking forward to my weekend or rather Friday evening .. Have a happy week and a merrier weekend :)

My TEDxChennai weekend ..

My weekend that went by was so different from my usual ones. My friday started with the excitement of me happening to be one of the official bloggers for TEDxChennai. After getting up earlier than usual on a Saturday, made a visit to the new Lakme salon has been started a couple of blocks away from my home.

And at around 11am it was time for me to start to IIT Madras. Once I reached the place, I got so reminded of the beautiful memories I hold of that place.. Shaastra, Saarang,the CCD at IIT - got me reminded of the fun filled times I spent with my friends and family at this place and this time again it turned out to be yet another memory that I would always cherish ..

On reaching the IC&SR auditorium, I went ahead to meet Sandeep who was heading the social media team and in the process got to meet Vignesh, Aarthi, Vivek, Amar, Aska, Vasanth, Sylvian, Grace, Karthik kannan, Varun and so many many more people.. It was close to a three hour workshop starting from 2pm. So, until then it was time for me to get to know the people and it was after a very long time that I was coming across such a diverse group of people, be it the speakers, attendees or the organisers.

I also got to interact with a couple of speakers(more on the speakers front in my later posts), Sunday was at the TEDxChennai event at 8 in the morning and it was right to business from the time I reached there until the event drew to a close.. Was so much fun, loved every bit of what I was doing.. met some amazing people and I am gladly connected to most of them through Facebook as well :)

To add to it was a fun filled dinner with my friend on Saturday. Loved it on the whole :)

A day all by myself ..

My day started with me getting up at around 10:30 or so after close to an almost 10 hrs of sleep .. Had a late breakfast at around 11 am, went through the news paper (a rare deed which I usually end up doing late into the night) .. post which followed twitter, face book and reading Enthiran reviews ... was fun reading the Enthiran wave which had views from my uncles (most of whom were die hard enthiran fans) and aunts .. Enjoyed reading it :)

After a heavy healthy lunch which consisted of keerai rice (rice with greens) and broccoli and some curd rice to end the meal, I decided on stepping out of home as I was getting restless just being online and doing nothing .. for a long time now I've been wanting to buy a good hand bag but nothing that I came across appealed much to me .. Hence decided to visit a new store in Nungambakam.

Once into the car, I suddenly had an urge to visit the landmark store near Gemini flyover and to my surprise the store had a sale going on .. Loads of books that had more than 50% off and the sale is until tomorrow .. I picked up the month's copy of Lonely planet and Entrepreneur after doing a bit of walking around in the shop .. After which headed to the new bag store in Nungambakam, they had a good collection but nothing that instantly appealed to my liking and need, so thanked the shop keeper and made way to the car.

Just, as I was to enter the car the store keeper came running to let me know there was a pit which was just infront of my car which I otherwise would have happily never noticed .. It was such a thoughtful act from him .. it made me smile :) . Now, I probably think I would go back to the shop to get a bag sometime soon :)

On my way back home I headed to a chaat shop in Anna nagar and relished on Pani Puri and Sev Puri with my friend ... Went for my evening walk after getting back home ... It was a day all by myself , was a much needed break :)

W-E-E-K-E-N-D !

I would say tomorrow and the day after would me one of my most sought after weekend. A weekend that I get to do something that I want to or like doing after almost a month .. the last few weeks .. be it weekdays or weekends .. it was full time work. It hardly even mattered what day of the week it was.

But for the next two days I am really looking forward to doing I don know what .. but I'm goona have a lot and lot of time for myself, do things that I ve been wanting to do..

I have a DJ spinning songs in my mind .. A mini party is going on in my head thinking about the few good times I had during my Goa induction programme and the loads of good times waiting in the future :)

Wishing you all a great weekend too :) :)

My weekend

After an exhausting 3 hrs in the examination hall, I was finally out and pretty much excited about the rest of my day . I had plans to go to bessy beach (Its one of the beaches in Chennai, where most Chennaites chill out during weekends..). On reaching there, I headed straight to the cafe coffee day in Planet Yumm. Now most of you must be thinking its the usual fun.. Yup, it was fun but with a difference.

I was actually there to meet Mr.Debashish Ghosh (author, Voyage to Exceellence). It was a business meet (now do I sound like a grown up...) well.. wel.. I was a school kid when I first saw him during the book launch in Landmark. And now I feel really fortunate to work with him in a project. About the project, i will blog about it once its up. We had some serious talks and he was an interesting person indeed.

Got back home and crashed ..Today was awesome fun as well, went for a lunch out with family and it was my treat (from the money I made outta blogging ads :) )

Now I got to get back to studying.I'm half way through my exams and have 4 more papers *sigh*

Hope you all had a fun weekend too !!

A Day of festivals

March 21 will be of great significance this year, with 5 festivals from different religions coinciding on the same day. What other reason would we need to have fun?? And above it all , this day is also called equinox as the sun is in line with the equator and all parts of the world will have equal amount of daylight and night time.

It is a day of Milad-un-nabhi for muslims, the birthday of prophet Muhammed. Christians mark the day as good friday with the crucification of Jesus Christ. Sikhs and Hindus come together to celebrate the fetsival of colors Holi , the zoroastrians and persian speakers celebrate their New year on this festive day as well. What a festive weekend it has all turned out to be :)

Wish you all a HAPPY holi, good friday, Milad-un-nabhi, New year. Enjoy your festival and let me know how you guys celebrated it..

Have a fun weekend!

Its holiday time again ...

Holiday time is back , Christmas season, New year celebrations, lot of relaxing ,partying, shopping and so much to fit into in the remaining 20 odd days before my college starts .. I know most of you would have already known that im on holiday but its today that im becoming full time jobless as I don have any commitments like i did until few days back for the conference and so on.. So, don' think I would be boring any of you readers with my conferences and presentation may be jus' one more post for me in that topic .. I'm sure most of you would be having a wonderful time already over the weekend .. Wish you all loads of fun and celebration and lets welcome 2008 in a fun way :)

Happy weekend !

My weekend

I know this post comes a little late here. Sorry, was a bit held up with my paper presentation which I got to do next week.


My last weekend was quite packed and fun filled . I was always excited about the Jodi.no1 show aired in Vijay TV (For the uninitiated - its a dance competition for real and reel life couple(television artists) .Its one of the most popular shows here . And during this weekend the participants of the Jodi.no1 show of both season 1(2006) and season2(2007) , Airtel supersinger (junior and senior) , Kalaka povathu yaaru( a stand up comdey show) all came together for one mega event which was held at Nehru indoor stadium on sunday (9th dec) . So was busy getting tickets for the show and also went to Landmark( a book store) to get a few books and more importantly a book on Singapore .. I am usually crazy about travel books, so this was one reason for me to add one more to my collection. Reached home really tired and hit the bed to get up soon the next day.

Now that i have got my license for driving and still havent drove my car I had a very guilty feeling for quite sometime . So asked if my instructor could help me out as I got trained in the driving institute car and was real scared to drive my car all by myself . The lady was really willing to help me out and we hit the road by 7 in the morning and my dad accompanied us.. Jus in case I got into any troucle :p .. After 2 hours of driving we reached home around 10 .

By now I was really excited about the show in the evening. We reached the stadium by 6 and the show started by 7 .. Thou' it started late it was a big time hit with everone of us.. It was much better than I expected and the overall presentation was amazing.. Was unable to stay till the end as the programme started an hour late . I was really upset when we had to leave but 15 mins down the line I didn't regret it as I felt damn hungry .. Later we had good food and went home to sleep.. That's about my weekend.. How did your weekend go?? Anything intresting to share??

P.S: I'm sorry that I was unable to put any pic of the show - We were asked not to take photos or video :(

Birthday time !!

Today is my dad's and my maternal grand dad's birthday... Yipee..This weekend is gonna be so much fun!! Wish you all a great weekend too !