TEA for the soul

This theme took me days to write. I had no clue on how to go about this theme. The theme was for the Thursday that has already seen its sunset. But here I am scribbling thoughts on it. I believe in the saying 'Better late than never'

Well hailing from God's own country, TEA is very much part and parcel of my life to this day. TEA began its charm in my life somewhere from the age of 14 or 15. The slow transition from milk to tea happens at this age isn't it and then you get hitched for life to this soul awakening drink. 

Oh I am addicted to TEA, I need to have my hot cup of tea first thing in the morning. Damn, I cannot see myself sail through the morning chores without tea. And the same at around 3.30 - 4.00 PM in the evening. My husband on the other hand can survive mornings without tea, well TEA is for people who wake up early at the first place I guess ;)

It would be a shame to reveal that I haven't yet mastered the art of making the perfect tea. The taste varies every other day, I just cant seem to get perfect at this. Thank goodness for the availability of "BrookeBonds Nature Care" for I would have spent all my time desperate not able to crack it up. My most favourite tea would be the tea from the "chayakada's" at Kerala. Then comes the Green Tea bags and Ice Tea in that order.

Sadly, I don't own a tea set yet. Someday I hope to own one , until then sipping away in the multi \-coloured /multi-sized mugs.

This post is in response to the event Feb Challenge : A story for every picture, a picture for every story on the Marathon Bloggers group on FB.

DATE

This time around, there's nothing happy to share. Aug 15 is a day the whole nation celebrates happily. But for me and my sister (I doubt if she would even remember )the date has turned to one that we can never forget.

It was when I was in the V standard, my parents went out to meet a specialist leaving us under the care of a family friend. We hardly knew what was in store for us. My dad came back with ten stitches behind his ear lobes and my mom with a shattered confidence to get on to the Chetak.

On the way back, my parents met with an accident. I would not want to get into details here. Its just by sheer luck I have my parents alive and kicking today is all that I want to let you all know.

But did that make me a doting obedient daughter? No, never until this day. I have been a brat all my life and still am a brat to my husband and daughter.

This post is in response to the event Feb Challenge : A story for every picture, a picture for every story on the Marathon Bloggers group on FB.

RED is to Celebrate

Oh yes, we have seen this everywhere, the colour RED in synonym with celebrations, a movie premiere, a wedding celebrations, an anniversary and likes. Oh did I forget, our own director Karan Johar. His fascination to portray his leading ladies in RED in every possible shot can never be matched.

So why should we miss a chance to paint the city RED. That was our thoughts when we wanted to celebrate our one year completion at Infosys. I am sure everyone's read about how tough it is to stride through the training period. For the record, I had to appear for the final twice too.Sigh!

So here we are posing in front of the pool at Mangalore Infy in RED. We were a batch of 100 posted to Hyderabad in April 2005 for our ES trainings and a mere 20 of us landed in a silent peaceful beautiful city called Mangalore. Oh, that wasn't exactly our first opinions about the place ;)

Please please excuse my obsession with memories from work days. I just feel so happy to share them here on my blog posts. 

This post is in response to the event Feb Challenge : A story for every picture, a picture for every story on the Marathon Bloggers group on FB.

Shadows on the beach

Its the fourth day of the event on theme blogs. Happy that I am sailing safe. The theme Shadows made me look around for snaps from my work day to the post baby days. None of the snaps that came to my mind fit the theme. And alas I found one that was lying on Flickr.

This was taken during the sports events at MInfy (Mangalore Infy). We were Green Team I think and we had the castle making contest and I remember we won this event among the four houses. 

On a dull day, these pictures from my old workplace brings back smiles and I am back on my feet at times or I go into a black hole (ok not in reality).

Shadows keep appearing as a main character in most of our bed time story's. And I am amazed at how kids are never tired of made up story's.

This post is in response to the event Feb Challenge : A story for every picture, a picture for every story on the Marathon Bloggers group on FB.

The Missing Link

Now this was yesterday's theme and I could not write a word on it. Not that I have a clear idea now either but then I shot this picture for the theme. I know what I want to write about but putting it together is a tough job for me I admit.

All that I could think of after I saw the theme was to give it a shady touch. And so I interpret this as 'The Missing Link'.

What is it that is missing? What is it one is linking it to? Ever been in that situation? Oh I am sure, all of us have been there and let our minds wondered on what could be that? Is it Love, space, respect, dignity, what ever it could be, we just hope the link never goes missing for a long time. Don't we.

This post is in response to the event Feb Challenge : A story for every picture, a picture for every story on the Marathon Bloggers group on FB.

A moment on the Streets of China Town

Today's theme - Streets.

Well I initially wanted to post a street photography and revolve a story around it.  ( I am sure you know what I mean, those black and white photos with a cart seller or an old man/woman depicting hardships and poverty ).  Believe it or not I did discuss the theme with A too on how to use his telephoto lens and capture a good moments on the streets. But never got the courage to venture out and click on. One day I hope to break that. :)

The picture below speaks a lot for itself. While we were busy looking for interesting stuff on the streets on China Town, Singapore, madam K happily walked a little away from us and just when I was about to call her out , I noticed what she was up to. I was not surprised at all, since K has no fears or intimidation's when it comes to making friends. And I did not want to miss the moment pass without framing it. Excuse the picture quality though, I am yet to familiarize with night photography on SLR's.

I did share a few words with the mother but sadly don't remember much now.

This post is in response to the event Feb Challenge : A story for every picture, a picture for every story on the Marathon Bloggers group on FB.

Flying in solitude

So we have a week with themes back on Marathon Bloggers and I hope to survive the tide this time around. Interesting part, we need a picture to go along with the theme and post.

It starts off with the theme FLY.

Well the mind was blank on what to write but I knew the picture which I had to tag along.

The picture was captured by my husband, when we were on a tour at Hampi and post processed by yours truly.



It was interesting to see this stork (I think) flying in solitude. Never really noticed these birds flying aloof earlier. And what surprised me was , in a dry place like Hampi one actually finds different species of birds and there was quite a lot a bird photographer can actually do here.

And the search for this picture made me look into all the old photographs stashed away safely in the external hard disks and it was indeed a pleasant experience for me to see my active 4 year old sit through with me without moving an inch and relishing the past through the visuals.

Well just had a look at the next theme and my mind is blank. No surprises there I believe.

This post is in response to the event  Feb Challenge : A story for every picture, a picture for every story on the Marathon Bloggers group on FB.