Time flies...

Its being months away from family. Wondering how six months went by! Now that I'm comfortably settled here, kind of mixed feeling to return back.

Some of the things I will miss are...
* Starbucks cofe, Dopio Expresso with an inch of steamed milk to be precise :)
* Exchange the car every month
* Freeways, long drives, hikes on weekends (except for the speed limit)
* Hone my cooking skills (with the new Aloo-paratha expert crown)
* Work from home
* Walk to office (though it was only a few times)
* Los Gatos downtown
* Who will ever buy this? look at Santana Row
* Improving US Economy by doing actual shopping at Great Mall, Gilroy and of course amazon.com
* Making my roommates mad with looping Rabba or woh lamhe song
* Meeting/Talking to long-lost friends
* Krispy Kreme doughnuts
* Netflix

Things I wont regret missing ...
* arguing on who should: clean the dirty vessels, get the groceries etc..
* Coin laundry, broken dryer, wet clothes all over my room
* Cornflakes / banana for breakfast
* Waiting for Decocshan to get done early in the morning
* Thinking what to cook on the way to home every evening
* And finally automatic / cruise control cars, felt so cool in the beginning, but its so boring for anyone who is used to manual geared cars :)

and finally things I'm longing for...
* Sunday mornings Benne Dose breakfast at CTR
* Coffee Day Kenyan Safari and hangout with friends
* Raagi Rotti at Nisarga, churi-Muri at first block, Masala puri at footpath gaadi on cunningham road
* Maneuvering Namma Bengaloru traffic with my vrrrrroooming black beauty and dont have to bother about speed limit as you cant go above 40/50 kmph even if you want to...
* Babbar Sher on Radio City FM 91
* Bowling at Amoeba

Beautiful weekend

Started off with a lazy morning on saturday, somehow wanted to eat akki rotti.. So, made hurgadle chutney and akki rotti for the first time :D .. Believe me it was yummy and my roommates are still alive :) Watched T N Seetharam's "Matadhana", quite old movie, but really well directed and good story. In the night again, felt like eating poori-sagu, did a google and found out how to make sagu, but it turned out to be "some" veggie dish as i forgot to add green chillies in the mixie and tried to supplement with red chilli powder, however it was nice and we "did" have poori-sabji (not sagu :))

Sunday, Pavan dragged me to golf practice where he goes regularly. He taught me how to hold the golf club and the swing etc. Again this is the first time :D.. I tried hard and hard, all I could manage was square drive, off dirve, on drive, instead of straight drive. I could get few straight drives, but the ball was not going further.. it was just going higher and higher... at the end of the pratice, pavan told me "you are doing good", it seems the club I used is supposedly used to hit the ball high and short distance and I was tring to hit it as far as possible :D After the practice, we grabbed something and started off to the most heard of "17 mile drive" to pebble beach. There are two routes for the pebble beach, one is the Hwy 1 and the other is Hwy 1 + the 17-mile drive. It is really the most amazing drive, sea on one side, resorts, golf clubs on the other side. The villas or Mansions or whatever it is called.. wow.. no words to describe them.. I think those are some "summer vacation houses" of some hollywood stars and billionaries. As usual it was a treat for me to click snaps.. So did I, and here is one of them... this is called the ghost tree!! Only sad part is we missed the sunset as we were at the end of the drive and both of us were too tired to turn around...

Rabba...

Zindagi mein koyi kabhi aaye na rabba
Aaye jo koyi toh phir jaaye na rabba
Dene ho gar mujhe baad mein aansoo…
Toh pehele koyi hasaaye na rabba

This song from Musafir has caught me...
everytime I hear this, eyes are clouded with tears...

why do we meet people?
why do we become friends?
why do we have such wonderful time?
why do we get attached?
and why do we have to say goodbye?

all these make me feel life is predestined!!

Take off...

Would love to take off and live life the way we want, Dont we?.......

Sunrise

SUNRISE at Yellowstone National Park!!!

Heaven for Nature lovers and photographers. Sunrise, Sunset, Lake, river, grand canyon, forest, wild-life, geysers, you ask it and its there. Amazing place I have ever visited in my life till now.

I'm inclined towards photography and love nature photography. Even though I'm an amatuer photgrapher, thought this photo (one of my best snaps) was very much appropriate for my blog title :)

Inspiration...

I got the inspiration to blog from Anu's anu-bhavas. Through her posts I really could imagine all that she wrote. From songs to wandering minds to office life to knowing people and places... basically life itself.

So, I decided to share my life too... after all it's anu-bhavas like these help us become a better person, understand ourselves and also makes life richer.