50th post and counting

Its been unbeleivably close to 3 years since I started blogging and I should convey that writing this blog gives me immense pleasure. Not that its a sensational acheivement, but considering the fact that I started with a story, till sharing my experience in Brussels ,my spiritual side and travelogue, its been a thorough self realisation aspect w.r.t my language and mind set.
Blog has been like a diary for me which has helped me to relive all my old memories... thanks to technology we have a permanent storage :-)

Looking ahead to the future!

Happy Pongal And Shankaranthi

Happy Pongal and Shankaranthi to all.. May this year bring more happiness and good health in our lives.

Cheers

New Year Celebrations

Yesterday from around 11 pm, the entire city gathered in a place near Centraal. I was also a part of it along with my friends. It was a plesant sight as almost the entire city was awaiting the countdown to the new year and then exchanged greetings.
The fire works organized there was amazing and it was like seeing 3 diwalis at a time for me.

On the whole, a wonderful experience indeed!!

Happy New year once again :-)

End of an eventful year - One diff pilgrimage for the year 2010 :-)

2010 has been a year of mixed luck for me... The year started very slowly and has now ended in a flourish.. Just couldn't beleive that one year is over.. Sometimes I fear that I am ageing very quickly when I look back at the time... :-)

Now back to the topic... I was long thinking of visiting a temple after I came to Brussels and as I planned I took a day off from work today (dec 31 2010) and started my journey to Iskcon temple (the so called Radhadesh) situated in country side of Belgium.

Last time, I didn't have the guts to go alone ;-).. This time planned everything well in advance with the help of my friend Prasanth...

Dec 30 Night, I came home from badminton at around 9.30..Had my dinner and slept @11.20pm. I made sure that I kept my alarm :-)

Dec 31:

I woke up at around 7.15 am and got ready at around 8.15 am and started towards Brussels Noord. Had some coffee and croissant and boarded the train at 9.05 am.

Reached Liege at around 11 am.. The weather was freezing at -2 celsius.

Took some quick snaps...and boarded the local train @10.22 am. Reached Barvaux station at around 11.12 am. The place was picturesque, it was a fantastic sight to watch even though the weather was freezing... For me it was still good enough to enjoy the beauty of the place...

I entered the temple at around 11.35 am. The atmosphere was perfect for meditating :-)

I was offering my prayers and started at around 12.20 to have my lunch at a restaurant nearby.

In the mean time, I visited the art museum which was next to temple and took some pics.

Then I had my lunch, the lunch was jainish with no garlic or onion :-) Felt very good like eating at home..I started back to Brussels at 1.35 pm and reached home by 4.10 pm.

There is no better way to end the year by surrendering yourselves to GOD..

Hope the dawn of the new year is blessed with good health, prosperity and last but not the least wealth of happiness.

I have shared one of the photo that I managed to click today above.

Wish U all a happy new year!!!

My First watch

Its been more than 5 years since I have been to work and I had never bought a watch for myself. The "Titan Sonata" watch which I used to wear was a gift that I got way back in 1998. Since then, I never had the thought of buying it... when the jinx finally broke on 18-Dec-2010 when I bought my first watch 'Fossil' in Brussels when my Sonata broke down totally;-)
That doesnt necessarily mean I live a simple life or so.. just that I dont want to spend on somethings that I didnt buy it for long time.