Somnathpur-2

Few more pics taken at the same place :)

Again, best viewed in full resolution.

Somnathpur

This weekend visited a place called as Somnathpura near Mysore. The place is famous for its Keshawa temple built during the time of Hoysala dynasty. To be precise in 1268AD. Its around 40 kms from Mysore. Few pics taken during the trip :)

Note: The intricate designs and carvings would be best viewed in full resolution.

JiGsAw PiEcEs

Man is a social animal they say. In essence what it means is, we need to be with other individuals. Now lets try putting that in a different perspective. How about if we think of ourselves as a piece of jigsaw/Lego piece?

Think of it . As with every Jigsaw puzzle or Lego pieces, we are incomplete by ourselves. We need other pieces to come together to define a bigger picture, that's what, relationships are. Families, Friends. Each one of us have a very unique identity shapes, curves, slots (No pun intended :P)

When we enter this world, we don't really have an identity, or a shape. Its the people around us, our family that starts defining our shapes. Our parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, who, all have already a shape defined for themselves determine our shapes too. As we grow, we evolve our shape to fit in with these pieces. We start taking shape and and just like that we have an identity for ourselves. Now, there are jigsaw puzzles strewn all across, and as we grow we start coming across other pieces, other individuals. Some of these pieces seem to fit in just right, others don't. The ones that fit in, are the ones that we call friends. All during this time, our shapes keep evolving, influenced by the shapes that we interact with. Guess the need to hold on to a piece influences the changes in our shape. We either fit in more strongly with few pieces or in few other cases over a period of time the shape evolves to let the pieces drift apart. The interaction of the pieces influences changes on all involved. Small, big, minor, major changes. There are pieces fitting together, there are pieces drifting apart. We constantly keep evolving.

Now have you heard of the phrase "You complete me"? If you think in terms of a jigsaw puzzle, doesn't it make perfect sense? :)
After all, we are all thoroughly incomplete beings, incomplete pieces, meaningless by ourselves if left alone. Its the need to complete ourselves that drives us to find each other. Its the Family and Friends that complete us. Of course, the degree of completeness varies with each relationship. You maybe "more complete" with certain pieces than other. But each of the pieces definitely brings in that little something that was missing in us and thus help us reach a step closer to completeness. A piece that fits in just right and takes us a leap rather than step closer to completeness is probably that special person whom we wait for all our lives. A step, A leap or A hop whatever it may be, we still need all those pieces to come together in order to get closer to being complete.


So, here i am just a small Lego piece, a jigsaw puzzle totally irrelevant by myself, if left alone. Thankful to all the other jigsaw pieces that have come together to help me get closer to completeness. Of course we are still a very very long long way from getting there. But with pieces like you, we are that much closer :).

Wishing you all a very happy Sankranti :)

A step, a leap and a hop will get us all there :D


P.S: Whats love at first sight? its falling for all the wrong curves :P
P.P.S: I had been trying to complete this post for very long time now, today being occasion of Sankranti, thought what better time to complete something :).

UnCeRtAiNtY

Driving down the wrong road and knowing it,
The fork years behind, how many have thought
To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car
Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many
Are still mazed among dock and thistle,
Seeking the road they should have taken?

~Damon Knight, The Man in the Tree

All Izz well

Aaal izzzzzzzzzzzz wellllllllll :)

InSaNiTy

This post has been cooked in a moment of complete insanity, with a feeling of extreme guilt, stirred with an overdose of highly concentrated amount of stupidity.

Its subject to deletion as per my whim.

The content of the post may or may not represent the extent of the insanity currently being felt by the writer.

So here goes.

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free" says Nikos Kazantzakis.

Havent heard of him? Dont worry, Nor have i...But somehow in this moment of insanity, it truly sounds apt.

Have i cut the rope yet? Not yet, what Mr. Nikos Kazantzakis, forgot to conviniently mention, was about the part involving the free fall and the "THUD" (Which probably the person invovled in the fall may or may not hear depending on the distance invovled from the point of origin to the point of "Final" if not "Fatal" rest):P

"Because thats what people do... they leap and hope to God they can fly! Because otherwise, we just drop like a rock... wondering the whole way down...why in the hell did I jump?"

Woooow...Now isnt that deep...A Moment of Clarity from Moment of Insanity?

No..i didnt write that either, i conviniently hitched that part from Mr. Hitch from the movie Hitch :P

Can i Fly then? the Answer is ofcourse NOT, i am not part of the feathery Avian family nor am i from the planet Krypton. That part i guess has been verified unequivocally during my childhood days by several failed attempts of jumping down from top of the bed while trying to flap as hard and fast as possible :P

Although several friends of mine would at this momment call me chicken, let me point out to them that "Chicken", my dear friends, do not fly either and hence QED:P

So, Now that we have verified without any doubts about my ability to fly (or rather the lack of it :P) one will assume that anyone in their "right" mind or whatevers "left" of it(wow...thats a brilliant PJ, Come on guys that was extremly funny :P)would not cut the rope.

So heres my plea, to the lord above and below

Bless me with a moment of insanity,
Long enough to cut the rope,
Crazy enough to flap harder :P
And to boldly go where no crazy person has gone before... :P


This is Chicken Adi flapping out :P


P.S: Readers, consider yourself warned! If you see something in the sky, don't stand there asking "Is it a bird? Is it a plane?"
You better run for cover, coz it might just be me flying or rather flapping fervently,failing and finally falling :P

"Thud"


EDIT
Was blessed with sanity instead :|
Due to rough weather and unfavourable flying conditions all Chicken Adi flights have been put on hold until further notice. This is your captain Adi chickening out :P

Goa Trip -4

Few more pics from the trip, one each from all the locations i had been to :)

Agoda fort


Statue of Jesus at Old Goa Church


Ore carrying Barge at Miramar beach.


From Anjuna beach


Sailing peacfully in Arabian sea :), nearby Agoda fort



and finally an abstract pic from Dona Paula Beach :P