Aparna’s Blog

Rainbow captured on my mobile at OMR today morning:

tumne dekhi hai dhanak to, bolo rang kitne hain
saat rang kehne ko, phir bhi sang kitne hain
samjho sabse pehle to, rang hote akele to
indradhanush banta hi nahin
(Lines from the song yeh tara woh tara)

Voiceless version of Worldspace theme is playing. As I look out of the window of the bus, I see a group of about 20-30 birds flying over some backwaters (or is it not backwater?). The scene somehow looks beautiful. Within a few seconds, I see another group of birds flying, those together forming a V-shape. Voiceless version of worldspace theme has already ended and even as I am enjoying the sights of nature lost in Rahman’s music, the same theme with voice plays and I hear Rahman say, ‘It’s the sound of nature. If you listen carefully, there’s music in everything.’ Moments like these are what make life beautiful, even if only for a few fleeting seconds, even when nothing else is going great in life. Thank you yet again, Rahman!

The weekend just got over, but with just a few hours of work in between, a two-day mini-vacation of sorts has already started for me. Am right now on the way to Tirupati for a relative’s wedding and, of course, a visit to Tirumala and a few more temples.

I love these long-distance car journeys on highways. Let me now not start the complaint about parts of this NH205 not having great road. The sun, though shining bright, is slowly getting ready for setting and am eagerly awaiting the visual treat that I am going to be presented with. Rahman’s music is already providing me an aural treat.

From dawn to dusk, from dusk to dawn, the nature in all its glory and splendour is a delight to admire.

Bidding adieu to the stars, sun wakes up and along with it, the sky full of clouds or a clear sky starts trying out multitude shades of blue, golden yellow, pink, red and even light hues of purple. With chirping of birds and dewdrops on leaves and grass being the other accompaniments, can there be anything more serene and beautiful than this? A whole new day begins. And the sun then starts shining brightly.
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Humming this song from the movie Khamoshi is how I began the day today and a major part of the day itself had me feeling happy and in a cheerful mood that even as I am typing this post, I am singing the same song.

A pleasant weather in the wee hours of morning, the sky with some beautiful golden hues looking very gorgeous during sunrise, solving today’s kakuro in bus sooner than usual, solving a sudoku with maximum difficulty level again in about 15 min, a nice, long break with a friend, listening to my current favourites Paarthaale Paravasame and If You Wanna (from New) on repeat mode, sky with pinkish hues when the sun was setting, dinner at Eden with friends, the yummylicious Chocolate Fetish Sundae at Eden (I decided not to have ‘The Last Time Ever I Saw My Waist’ That’s an ice cream’s name there). What a good day it has been!

By the way, today is Madhavan’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Madhavan! May he get to act in more good movies like Anbe Sivam, Evano Oruvan and Yavarum Nalam!

It’s raining here! Yay! Thunder, lightning, cool breeze, maN vaasanai, semma mazhai! Listening to the thunder and rain pouring, I am now happily singing

thandhaane thandhaane maega kooTTam thandhaane
iDiyellaam taaLam dhaane
mazhai thuLi maNNil vandhu sindha chindha ezhugiradhe oru vaasam
adhu ennai vaanavillil koNDu saertthu viDugiradhe sila naeram

Veyil had been unbearable for the past 2 days with the temperature crossing 42 degree celsius. And now what a super weather!

4 days. 10 temples with no two temples being close to each other.1600+ km travel by car - Exhausting, tiring yet a very memorable trip!

Apart from a few temples that we had on our must-visit list, visit as many temples as possible without rushing even in a single place was the only plan that we had for this trip. And we did succeed in doing that. We left the entire trip planning to the driver since he knew all the routes.
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