Diwali celebration

I was looking this time around searching for a topic to blog on and I stumbled on a couple of topics which I could rant endlessly but decided it would be better to keep my second blog a bit on the +ive side rather than on the rant side. You may excuse me if  my blogs seem uninteresting or boring as the part of the human brain taking care of blogging has not been fully utilized so far. So its still calibrating itself. 

So coming back to the main content of this blog, I wanted to share the pleasant experiences I had this time being home for Diwali. Though the trip was cut short by 4 days due to some events at workplace (here goes the ranter again SSSSSSSssssh) it was a very pleasant trip.  Going back to your home town (Ok I know vizag is a city) is always exciting, I don't' know about people but every time I plan a travel back home, I get restless from weeks ahead of the departure. Its a kind of restlessness that cannot be explained. So this time once I reached home, things started out visiting temples,  meeting people(mostly family friends, friends parents, friends) , looking around finding out the differentials / deviations from previous visits. 

On this trip there were two things I did which I always wanted to 

1. Visit prema samajam and find out the activities and programs they undertake
2. Visit kailasa giri hill park  :-0 (sorry to surprise you)

I visited prema samajam on the day before diwali to find out their activities and programs they run. I was simply surprised to learn the sections of the society they serve to. Right from kids to old people to cows (which are central in Hindu worship) they run programs for each of them. I was later taken around to see  their premises by a girl by name "Asha". True to her name which translates to "wish", "endeavour" ,"hope"(depending on the context) she enthusiastically took me around and explained their schedule, how they stay, what they do and many more that I could just not have imagined. She is in her higher schooling and her brother goes to college and she wishes to be an engineer in life. I wished her the best and made a nominal donation out of my fortune. It then struck me that I could indeed share some sweets with them for diwali. I pledged to the volunteer there (named Ms.Gowri) that I will be back the next day with sweets. While I was returning home I was contemplating how fate / fortune decides who you are and what you get. 

The next day I visited my close friend's family and we set off to prema samajam again with 4 KGs of sweets. It was a wonderful experience sharing sweets with people who come there for their free mid-day meal. 

The day before diwali was also the day me and my parents visited the hill top park called Kailasa giri. It may surprise or even baffle people to know that I did not visit it till date. Well technically speaking I did a few hill climbs to it before it became a park but after it was declared a park I never went there. So finally the wish of visiting it was fulfilled. 

I will be uploading the photos of kailasagiri onto my picasa account shortly. 

Well I feel some how that this blog resembles to the essay "how did I spend my summer vacations" that most of us would have written at somepoint or the other in our school days. Even then I still think its a good second blog :)

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Ekam

Finally an attempt to blog after so many years of wandering in the web. Well this is my first blog post and I hope I will get into the habit of blogging, sharing my thoughts, feelings & ideas. If you are wondering what brought me into blogging? there is not particular reason so am not sure how successful or entertaining my blogs will be. This is of course a sincere attempt to start off a new habit and let us see when I will do the next post. 

If you wondering about the title "Ekam" it is a Sanskrit word which means quite a few things depending on where you use it and how you use it. Like every other blogger I was wondering what my first post should be titled after and I decided that I should label it after "One", "The One", "Unification", and something that signifies the start of a count too. I initially wanted to name it número uno but there are plentiful of restaurants, businesses running after the name. Hence I looked for something @ home and found the title. It also reminds me of my Sanskrit teacher doing the roll call. :-) 

What ever I write in this or the subsequent blogs are just musings of my mind and I hope people will  take them as they are. 

So wish me good luck! blogging!

Ekam Sat, Vipram Bahudha Vadanti