Away I Go

“Detailed, Over-Told: Sorry, I am Helpless; Irresistible” 

As an egg in my head, the idea of pursuing Masters in the USA took birth; like a caterpillar, it took shape embracing metamorphous people & surroundings; the urge for moving away grew stronger & stronger crossing many hurdles that life has put on my way, reached the Pupa stage and now it`s high time I fly away like a Butterfly (which I call it ‘The Butterfly effect’) into the sky away from home, away from motherland, crossing oceans & into entirely a new place, new people, new colors, new customs; Nothing known, everything unknown, here I am in the United States of America. Ever, since I had this brainchild of doing my Masters, things really changed a lot or maybe I was overthinking anonymously. Any which ways it is, let me tell you what passed my way and show you how it was. Take my view;

After considerable struggle and surpassing many twists, everything was set & I scheduled my flight on to August 12^th 2010. I was the first one from my family to be going abroad for studies, this distinct thing made my parents proud & happy, which in-turn made me feel better. Following the Indian customs that my father asked me to do, I have learned a lot many new things when I went to take customary blessings of all the family members of my huge family tree. I went to meet many and a few really dearest ones of my Father came to me to bless me & wish me wholeheartedly. I was very much delighted by the former ones who came to me rather than I go for them. I found a huge difference between the both and at the same time was very much happy, on seeing the respect & valuable relations my father truly earned in his Journey. Love you Dad.

Above all, coming to what I earned was very less yet considerable to my level. My loving friends presented me many gifts (unexpected). It is a worthy thing to take their names here which include Mammu, manu, goutham , umi, swetha, gouthami, vinay, rohith, appu, sindhu, sowmya, ramya, arun & lot others with their hearty wishes and rakhis from my loving sisters for Rakshabandhan in Advance made me very happy . As my blog status say, I re-iterate, though little sounds huge to me. It is the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary :). I do value them a lot. 


It is the possibility of a dream come true,makes life interesting :). Some how,i have started my expedition on August 12th to find this possibility. Many turned up at the airport to bid me a good farewell. Bidding farewell to family & friends is like,leaving ourselves with them & puzzling what have we lost now & what are we left with? :( Oh my goddess!! Give us the best :)  My life has never been a cake walk, how ever small a thing is, i must struggle hard to fetch it, never an easy deal. Now, coming a larger scale thing, not a small one, pursuing Masters would definitely subject me to much tough struggle i thought and as expected, twists/punches or what ever people call them are already posted enroute by God, just that I am yet to near them he he.

Kisi maha purush ne kaha-"Shreyaamshi bahu vignathaam!!" The first twist smiled at me immediately before the start of journey, taking the shape of Delay. Yeah, the first flight i ought to take was delayed by 45 minutes. Tension started. This delay i couldn`t categorize to boon/bane. Any how, for that i moment, it fetched me some more time to be with my family, final precious moments. Every thing in life has a price,as such delay showed its price later. Where ever we go friends are always there to help us,make things easier for us, Goutham Reddy and his uncle Bhaskar Reddy (Some top sos official at the airport) was there to help me. Bhaskar uncle, was phenomenal in getting me catch up the delayed flight, he took care of all the formalities ( I was then no wonder oozing tension) and again I was allowed to go out after check in to meet my family. This gave my family and i, a lot more relief. Wow, Thank You Uncle. Priorly, I expected a lot of emotional out bursts from my side, but i should thank that Delay, i was thinking all the time about, will i catch the second flight or not, giving no thought to the emotional outburst. Funny the way people`s minds work, isn`t it? By all means,delay helped me here, hardly I cried.


As the flight was a little fuller than anytime, i was asked to check in my cabin baggage* too, keeping credentials on me.Believed it or not, as I told, delay has its price, emirates people gave me a Business class seat as a remedy for the delay. Wow. I waited & waited , emirates flight showed up. As i boarded into it, I was unable to believe what  my senses showed me.. Wow, literally what a way to begin, I have no words to delineate my experience. My first flight, that too in a Business class, wow thank God. The flight took off and on the top of it, as i understand it, I am no more on my mother land.


A few minutes from then; Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks & Limits appear to seize. Even this time, i was not able to give any thought to the outburst, i was enjoying the luxuries of Business class. Chose my dinner from the menu they gave, watched Veer movie a little, I used all the time in gazing at its richness and other passengers. 3 and half hours passed away as easy as winking. I was then in Dubai airport.


Knowingly or unknowingly,I always keep rotten luck in my back pocket. I struggled a lot to catch my second flight Lufthansa to Frankfurt, ran all through like a little rabbit in  Dubai airport to gate 116 and there i was just in time. Huff. relieved by then. Boarded into that flight a few minutes later. In the back ground what happened was, some how i boarded into my next flight,but my poor cabin baggage couldn`t make its way to the Lufthansa flight and was put to hold in Dubai Airport only. Unaware of this fact, I took my seat, business class to economy class was a bit tough to adjust. It was late midnight then, had a sandwich and slept a tired rakhi :).
Got up with the sun rise, following hours i was in Frankfurt(Germany).


Hoooo!! Frankfurt airport was so huge & large, i thought  it would fit in 10 Hyderabad airports comfortably. There was a 4 hours gap for next Lufthansa flight to Houston. Luckily, until this moment i was alone & met an Indian Telugu guy, krishnakanth who was heading to university of houston, main campus.

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." This was our situation he he.We both took turns to talk and discuss things covering the massive airport. Later then, we boarded into the flight to Houston!!

Everything was cool, I took my novel "motor cycle diaries" & started reading it. Finding no more interest, I quit reading and was served lunch. Oh my god! that lunch reminded me , my days in kerala. I couldnt take in its smell, yukk, gave it a damn & adjusted myself with a soft drink.Hope fully my head was little fuller than it was.Understandably it created quite a stir in me. Nothing appeared serious or nothing could register at an emotional level until that moment, then i started sensing weird thoughts,every thought of mine was evoking nostalgia, ounces of tension started gripping hold of my nerves. It sounded like, Oh my god! what am i doing, what the hell had brought me into this flight. Felt a pang in my heart! Curse the moment that started this thing, curse the idea of pursuing Masters. Literally i cried this time,Couldnt hold on things. Felt like, i would go back, catch the next flight to India, immediately as i get down or on the second thought, i thought of bringing in a fake health constraint  n go back or stay till one semester & jump back for christmas..Hu Hu. Like Santiago in the Alchemist says-"Men dream more about coming home than leaving". I was doing the same.
Nothing was appealing to me,I tried to welcome every silly thought that gave me strength & feel me better, was trying to reassure myself a million times, everything is ok,Be Brave, Be Brave ( pranav told me only one thing, earlier before my departure, rey konda, what ever happens, be brave.!!) As simple as it appears, as strong it was, be brave gave power of tons for moments.Some times it is better to leave things as they are & go on. Followed it & started watching Alice in wonder land followed by shrek tales & then some stupid film one after the other. Great deeds come at great cost.


Huff, those 10 hours moved at snails pace and gave  me the best of  tortures possible. It ended at Houston airport. Done with the customs checking, moved to the Luggage claim. Ha ha, the background punch or the price of delay showed another shade now, my cabin baggage was missing. Ori dhevudo, ye nakshathram lo puttanu ra. Ran to the Lufthansa counter & fought with the rep for missing baggage claim. Taking the receipt i moved to domestic terminal in a train (yeah in the airport itself) There were trains connecting terminals.


 A few hours later, took my final flight. This was yet another different ball game.The first flight was a business class,followed by Economy & now purely a domestic flight with just 3 rows & 15 columns as little a flight can be it was. wow, tasting all different blends of air journey, i put my foot in the city Lubbock. Hey hey before that, do you think, it would end with out any further twist or with out even bringing in some thing to pull out my tension. Yeah, there was something  again here, the person who has to come for my  pick up, didn`t show up. Huff, waited for sometime & tried to call through Coin box, but as expected my fate worked & coin box dint work. Some how i managed to borrow a passerby`s mobile & called the responsible.That dint work & again i repeated the same, tried to call my friend harish, he responded but by that time, the actual person came    .Huff relieved I was, left to college pointe, my new residence :)

P.S:  As I told, my life is never a cake walk, i do agree, but after much struggle i do succeed. Struggle/hardwork & success go hand in hand :)

Raam Ya Raavan

Well, of the obvious, you all know, I always wish to write something for my rabid readers; but, a lazy-bone like me hardly comes up with something interesting. However, I have got something to share with you from long time. I make it now. Here it goes.

10 months before:

Whilst I was running my eye through a local news paper, my eyes were struck to a report that unfolded the launch of a tri-lingual movie casting so & so by the Stalwart Maniratnam. No wonder, A.R Rahman`s music a must norm to maniratnam`s movie. There could be nothing much bigger than this to a fan like me that day J ; This was touted to be the most anticipated bollywood flick.

The name Maniratnam itself was enough for people to throng before theatres, adding decorum to this was the big names Abhishek Bachan,Aishwary Rai Bachan & Vikram. What else do people want more than this to go Gung-Ho.

3 Months before from now:   

The sizzling music launch of Raavan. As expected, extra ordinary music it was, I felt or may be my predilection to Rahman`s previous tracks, made me  like Raavan`s music too; any which ways you take it, I don`t mind. There were many expected stories for the movie that media took wind off. Ha Ha. Dunno, which speculation went right in the end.

A month before from now:

I exactly remember how much struggle it took us (Goutham Reddy & I) to reach the theatre, a few miles from our stay, as it was raining cats & dogs that evening. Heavy rain, wet & soggy evening dint stop us from the screening, we are such freaky friends you see he he.

We were very much anxious to watch the screening, our wet clothes dint bother us to the least, even if something was really grief giving, we just gave a damn to that.

Story line borrowed from the myth Raamayan was very well conceived, many would disagree with this statement, I know; anyway I take the liberty of saying.    


      I say, had sita succumb to the goodness in Raavan despite of her emotional bonding with raam, what would happen or on the second thoughtt would that happen at all, was the under lying thought that gave rise to this plot “Raavan” . Such a typical thought was neatly woven into the fabric of daily life movie story & screenplay where character Ram is portrayed as Dev(vikram), a dedicatedly sincere police officer, Raavan as Beera(Abhishek) (a local robinhood or to be more closer, veerappan). Sita as raagini(Aish).

Beera  abducts Ragini  to dense forest, and her husband who is a cop Dev Pratap Sharma is determined to catch Beera anyhow and rescue his wife. Beera had abducted cop’s wife Ragini just to revenge on his personal grudge. 

The opening scene of Mr. Bachann junior jumping from a top cliff (shot in karnataka, I suppose) into the low lying river was one of the finely carved introductions, I fancy. Following were the scenes that reminded me of the beginning shots of the movie “Roja”. The similarity is both were shot in dense forest with police chases but with a little difference, the police were chased to death in the later (Raavan) he he. It is hard to leave our basic instincts aside, right. Top notch back ground music made it more appealing. There was a scene, where Aish tries to take her own life by jumping down a huge waterfall, there could be a complete jump shot, but she gets struck to tree midway & the stem of tree breaks meanwhile & then she falls into the river. This end part was ultimately picturized.  Spell bound I was, What a spectacular sight it was to witness, splendiferous cinematography.

 The most interesting part of the story, which is also the part of climax is, when Ragini seems to have sensitive and silent build up bond with Beera, where she found her self in dilemma whether she should be a loyal dogmatic Indian wife or if she should pursue her suppressed fantasy? Whereas Beera is amused by Ragini beauty and find himself in love with her, beera spells “Dhikaavo chidiyaa ko, kaun hai raam aur kaun hai raavan” & Dev kills Beera, we feel like, aahhh, dev shouldn`t have shot him, he is good. But it is a justified act, our ram/dev here is a police officer performing his duty, killing here is not a sinful act.

We just leave the theatre carrying forward a thought that says, who is ram & who is raavan in the play, though it is so crystal clear, climax I suppose gives us this feeling. He he

In words from Maniratnam:

Sinister, the way people’s minds work, isn`t it? When the mere thought of Ram in Raavan & sita liking the ram in raavan, itself is very hard to digest, no wonder manifestation of such thought would lead to a complete devastation. The same is the end result with Raavan.

Omnifarious behaviors’ we see in our regular day to day life. Impeccable back ground score, entrancing cinematography by santhosh shivan & manikandhan, Appealing Aish, Veracious Vikram,  superlatively good acting from Bachann Jr, on a whole unparalleled achievement by Maniratnam couldn`t stop “Raavan/Villain” from being a box-office debacle.

  P.S- I myself, loved the movie for its logical congruousness with the epic, outstanding background score & magnum-opus cinematography. Here I must mention, though we hardly find good progress in the story side of our Indian movies, there is a huge progress in the technical aspects like cinematography. Raavan is one solid proof.

Rewind 22 yrs-part2

Hello Friends, today I `ve lined up my troops to resume where I have paused @ Rewind 22Years post. I will breathe a sigh of relief once I complete this pending work he he.

Well, where do I begin, better to start at the beginning! I still remember the first day of my college with a pack of shocks & surprises started at the Administrative block of my college. Fashionably!  my goodness, what a pleasure it was, meeting all fresh faces at one hall made for the students of Information Technology in the First years special Block. That day, I did not expect I would make these many friends from the same classroom. Wow.

I was Outsmarted many a times in the same room. Everyday, I used to sense a fragility that worries me, yes a fragility to face ragging. Hence forth, I used to dwell in many tricks to escape from this evil, though caught a few times. Run little rabbit, run!! Now & then I made a proper idiot out of me. Silly & funny days those were.

Many bunks made us have fun at snow world, Treasure Island, ocean park, cave carting, dhabas at medchal, movies often on Fridays & Tuesdays to escape from the mechanical drawing classes he he. Birthday parties  that covered the most beautiful places of Hyderabad. I have a huge collection of snapshots of our odysseys. Most engaging n very clever we were. J

Fun in the class, fun at the mechanical workshop & c programming lab. Freshers party at 10D! Silver Jubilee celebrations of our MVSR College.

Wow fun masti everywhere in the first year. Blimey, amidst the joy, exams used to hit us like an untold storm. Keeping aside fun, one day batting before exams with short-listed important questions told by vamshi, my friend, we used to easily manage & get through the exams with very decent score often J!! All our happiest hours fly the fastest, as is the case with our first year, passed away as easy as winking.

Sooner, I was into the second year that showed different new shades of people as we turned to seniors now. That was our turn as the seniors to bang the freshers paying them the due amount of ragging he he. The following months it was our turn to throw them a freshers party. It was this moment that brought in entire new shades of people into lime light.

Mysterious things Time & Money. Both these things change people a lot, Money is the best catalyst that stimulate the bad corners in ones personality. Dunoo, why people have so stinky affliction to money.Huff. We've all got both light n dark inside of us, what matters is the part we choose to act on.

What so ever may be the reason, people around me really changed a lot after this party. So to say, our class was almost divided into 3 to 4 groups. Loads of cold wars ran between us & then nothing was the same again, not even traces. I pity the wrong side. Things we loose have a  way of coming back to us in the end, but  not always in the way we expect.

Every semester, we had one not the other thing to celebrate like the National Level Technical Fest, Cultural fest, Desi Day, Annual Day, huff it was the most happening time. We were not just confined to these things, we attended fests at various prestigious institutes of India. We were always forefront in different walks of life subjected to good global exposure. Here, I must not forget to mention, Remarkable day, that was when our team won the third prize in the event Panorama at Transition 2009 held by Cognizant Technologies, most enlightened & happiest souls we were then J.

In the following semester, Industrial tour gave us one more stake to have a deal more of cold wars. The willing went & the unwilling left behind, people had their own justified reasons though. I was amongst the Unwilling, Anyhow we have fulfilled that tour with the Kerala tour in the final semester. I believe fun & peace co-exists where good friends assemble, we had much more adventurous enjoyment than we actually dreamt off in Kerala. For more details regarding our tour, best browse the following pages-

Part1-“http://rakeshkonda.blogspot.com/2010/04/youngunz-kerala1.html”

&

Part2-“http://rakeshkonda.blogspot.com/2010/05/kerala-tour-part2.html”

The best & the most useful episode of my engineering was the on-campus placements. Regarding this episode, you may better click the following link.

“http://rakeshkonda.blogspot.com/2010/05/mvsr-campus-placements.html”

On a whole, I am done with my B.E (I.T), 2006-2010, from M.V.S.R Engineering college, Hyderabad successfully. When I look back, I find equal amounts of good & evil which were momentous in making a better-me, a more efficiently stronger person than yesterday. I have learned to cook , live alone & learned a lot more about life. Every bad period taught me a good lesson & the more mature one I am todayJ. Life is a climb, but the view is great J.

Finally, now, I have two doors almost open for my future.

1)Job @ Cognizant Technologies

Or

2)M.S(c.s) at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. I am waiting for my U.S visa, which has been put under hold for Administrative Processing of Section 221(g) since 3 weeks L. Once this visa is issued, I will fly to the USA, early August 2010 to begin a new Chapter in my Life.

I hope, fate favors me this time at least & dwell in the best things possible

And above all I wish to change a lot, wanna seriously become emotionally extinct.Wish me goodluck

Stop Complaining-Start Thinking!!

This was one of the best mails i have got.. I thought of promoting this!! & is here for the purpose:)

"I COMPLAINED THAT I HAD NO SHOES UNTIL I MET A MAN WHO HAD NO FEET"L!!

This world is one FAMILY……. We are all BROTHERS & SISTERS!!!

If you think you are unhappy, look at them????

 If you think your salary is low, how about her?

If you think you don't have many friends...

When you feel like giving up, think of
this man????

If you think you suffer in life, do you suffer as much as he does?

If you complain about your transport system, how about them?

If your society is unfair to you,

how about her?

En joy life how it is and as it comes !!! Things are worse for others and is a lot better for us J!!!

Thank GOD for what you got & what you have!!!
There are many things in your life that will catch

your eye……………..but only a few will catch your heart....pursue those..

This email that i got today needs to circulate forever...: Thanq Adithya Vishnu:)

MVSR Campus Placements

When myriad heinous things barged into my life, i was trying every which ways to bring in some exhortion into my whacked life & in many such attempts i was relentlessly a failure :( but  one attempt which made little difference was an oppurtunity that MVSR gifted me.!!I was placed to Cognizant Technlogies(CTS)wow!! but how??Yes!!Yesss!! MVSR campus placements.Thank God!!

These oncampus palcements were momentous in every student life who fetched a job & ofcourse to others also; as it atleast gave them an oppurtunity though they couldnt make it a success.I was waiting from the day i got Job( 17th january 2010) to canvas my experience here, i had duirng the placements & finally the time has come as the placements have come to an end @ MVSR.

There is a lot of difference between On & off campus places.To say in humorous way,off campus palcements are like swimming in a huge river & when it comes to On campus ,it is much simple like swimming in a small lake.There are difficulties in both the streams; one must know swimming ha ha i mean to say one must be talented enough to succeed.

Anywayz coming to my experience;After many reschedules due to TG agitations, the two I.T wizards CTS & infosys visited our campus for recruitment. My mind was pre-occupied for doing m.s in u.s. So i along with my other friends were not much interested in them,but a chance at our door step must atleast be attempted right.so we made an attempt.For the first time in our B.E life, we were apparalled in formals.No wonder, we were goodlooking as software koolies :).Like every other college hour we moved into the examination hall(they call it,Written test). Ha ha..Enno exams raasam idho lekka annatluga.we were made to sit in hall for the results of written test to be anounced. Amidst tensions of job aspirers ( we were bindhaas anyhow) we all cleared the exam with the least of difficulties.


After 3 long hours of waiting, i was called for attending the inter-view.As i entered the cabin, having seen my photo in the resume & myself live, the H.R was shocked.There were less features coinciding ha ha,short hairs to long hairs, achha bacha to awara..No wonder, he has his own suspicion regarding my identity.Any how, i have cleared all the confusions.


1Q: tell me about yourself?
I told about myself as it is from the first paras of  the post i have written in blog refer-http://rakeshkonda.blogspot.com/2010/01/rewind-22-years.html

He was just listening to my speech.I couldnt make out what was going in his mind,he was typical negro like person with hardly any expression on his face..OMG.

2Q: what made your percentage go down from 90`s to 75% in B.E
ans: i told, during years till inter the criteria was to score more & get placed to good/top collge.I fullfilled that requirement then & now coming to engineering, i put myself a criteria i.e., application of what is learned( application of programming languages i mean).& i have succeeded in that task also.

3Q: where have u applied?
Ans: i have told him about the projects i developed clearly & regarding the seminars & symposiums i have attended like sun tech days. he was much impressed finally found an expression on his face.

4Q:what was told in suntech days?
ans:It was a conference held by sun microsystems which aimed at introducing new technologies developed by sun & some demonstrations & some practice labs etc,.I told him clearly about javfx which amused me there.


5Q: any question to me?
ans: nothing much sir,i dont expect anything in return my duty here is to answer what i feel.
(konchem over aindhi annatlu expression ichadu) thappaka,when are the results scheduled sir annanu,tomorrow . u may go now annadu,.

6Q: hey wats ur specialization( he screemed befre i leave the cabin);
ans: I.T ( i reckoned)


huff finished.came out happily as i was satisfied.happy that he has not ragged me inside with stupid questions:P

Later after 3 more hours we were made to assemble in the same hall,now for the final results .
Oh my goddess, i could see people holding their nerves tightly to find their name amidst huge noise.
Some mr.x was announcing names.he was harldy audible.everyone was gathering all their strengths to concentrate & listen properly( i couldnt find such attention atleast a day in engineering life)
Lots & lots of cheers,applauzes spread out as the names were announced.
Amongst our group, sharath was the first name told out,yoyo our joy knew no bounds.atleast one succeeded.
Within no time,bharath`s name was announced..wow much more amazement. I was very happy,so happy that i forgot about my result.But immediately after his name,my name RAKESH KONDA was announced.Chills & thrill run down my spine.huff..In what must be the strangest of luck & coincidences Sharath,Bharath & I have made it for CTS.Wow.It was like a romping victory in the end.We are software coolies now
But if u trust me, i was not much happy ( had my own stupid reasons for that though) coming to genuine reason why i was not much happy, few of my friends couldnt make it CTS. 

Stats: Around 280+ students(in total) were taken in by cts,infosys,csc,uosd,prithvi solutions, apps associates,dark horse i.t ltd,bel,hyundai & many core companies)


The best part of this was, i was so shocked to see people so much serious of placements. I never took it serious.You know they really were serious, they put their life at stake to make it for placements.Many succeeded,..At the same time, i saw people dethroned due to failure.What an experience Trumpets & Triumphs a package in life.


We feel good when succeed,gloomy when we fail.But what is success without people worth sharing & loved ones :(.Believe it or not,they say bitter pills give good result,but tasting those bitter pills is the tough criteria.
Finally;It is not life that matters but the Journey.
I am getting emotional & going to shut my crap now. C u

Kerala Tour-part2

Oh my godess!! I guess i have taken too much time to make a come back..I am helpless, was busy with the final days of my B.E.Any ways let's continue from where we have stopped @. I presume you  remember.. Esh Esh MUNNAR. But to reach munnar,we must first go to Kochi(cochin/ernakulam) what so ever through a train for 2 hrs.

Kochi is the next capital of kerala after Trivandrum. We were in thrissur, we could harldy see any huge bulildings,but here this place is a huge city with all resources almost like hyderabad.As i told in my earlier version we met our next helper,Mrs rajani madam, a co passenger in the train,who came to our rescue. She was almost an eye-opener to us, told many facts about true kerala especially about the fake literacy rates that emboss on the papers.Any how, she loves people of andhra pradesh &  has canvased a tourist plan for us boletho she told us worth watch places in kochi & we followed her plan:). We were to Dutch palce, a museum that still treasures the belongings of the rulers of kerala.To say every ruler in the pictures reminded me of many mad thuglaqs who ruled the India.Followed by fishing nets,fort kochi, &&&& the most thrilling Cruise journey in the Columbus ship to the Andaman & nicobar islands ( i should thank mr.joseph uncle,one more rescuer, whose influence fetched us tickets in the Huge ship).Unbelievable we were in a huge ship,travelled all along for 18 long hours in it,i could see crystal clear waters running beneath it. The water was so clear, it acted as mirror, i could see my face in it :)

After that awesome journey,we were to munnar from Kochi.Believe it or not this was my first visit to a Hill station, travelled all along the steepy,topsy-turvy roads for 5 long hours we were at MINDBLOWING Munnar!!

I was shocked to see rooms with no fans installed; later my senses prompted that there isn`t any need of it when the climate is so cool all the day.Next day morning, we started our oddysey in a hired cab,i was taken in by the beauty & serenity of Munnar.Our 1st vist was to a flower garden, where the flamming reds merged with the greens making it a sight to behold, was a splendid beginning.Followed by echo point,boat ride,Honey bee trees,some dam,shooting spot,etcetra etcetra..I cant describe these much better than our photos at these places do (so i dont wish to give a try at all)- You may have a look at 

"http://picasaweb.google.com/106276625069899258769/YounGUnzMunnar?authkey=Gv1sRgCISUk82p48X_Mg&feat=directlink". 

Surely you will be amazed by its beauty; There was one place that takes a lot of attention by many tourists; RAJAMALAI-highest peak in south India.There are things that money can`t buy,we have many such moments here;The view from here awesome & was a spectacular sight to witness.Kerala at its best.The night stay @ a luxury hotel in Munnar had many twists involved(cant share anyhow-censor cut :P).Believe it or not,i felt the hotel to be absolutely the last word in luxury::::

The other day, we moved to Kottayam town, where in we stayed around 4 days.We almost put our life at stake to reach Kottayam from "munnar".Such grief giving journey it was. I dunno if anyone still remember us in kerala, but the AARIYAS surely does.This hotel fed us for 4 days, almost 10 visits.we found one more rescuer Mr.Swamy who arranged a cab to Sabari mala for usKottayam was our central place, we made all our rest visits to Allepey, trivandrum,Kovalam beach,Veli tourist village,Sabari mala,kumaragaon from here.

Allepey, i hope many people from A.P are familar with this place due to the movie Ye maya chesave.Yes we were to allepey/allapuzza.The house boat jorney & the journey in the shikaari boat was asesome. It was almost like witnessing the movie live again.Loads & loads of snaps were taken here.We were no less than any model ha ha.

The most exciting & spiritual part of our tour was a holy visit to  sabari mala.I think i cannot forget this anytime in life.We started climbing the hill @ almost 3.30 am.Gathered all our strengths to climb it.It was a hill mounted @ almost 65-70 degrees with rough hill flooring,surrounded by huge forest, amidst different sounds made by forest birds,of courses huge street lamps were installed.Really tough to climb.This was really spiritual, we found little children,age old people,obbesssed people,literally handicapped people & people of all ages climbing the hill chanting swamiye saranam ayyapa all along,which with no doubt was more than boost(the mantra):). There were food stalls all along the up-hill which really were phenomenal in quenching our thirsts.with in an hour& 15 mins we reached the temple.We never thought we could make it so early.Thank god( swamiye saranam ayyappa).Amidst huge devotees we made our glances at the Idol..wowwwwwwww..The idol really took us into a Trance;A return journey down the hill was much harder even.

Out of Trance now & we were back to kottayam..The following day, Trivandrum served us a grand welcome :P.we rushed eagerly to One of the top 10 beaches "Kovalam Beach".The wild animals in us sprung up,no wave was left untouched,Our joy knew no bounds.Enjoyed a lot.This beach was very similar to calangutte beach in Goa.Followed by a visit to Veli Tourist village, an amalgum of garden,boat ride, floating restaurant & beach. The speciality of this place is it is the end point of back waters in kerala that end at the sea.Spectacular sight to witness.

The last day of tour, before we took our train to warangal, we`ve put a good climax by visiting AnanthaPadhbanabha swamy temple hosted Lord vishnu, a huge idol that resemble the idol in srirangapatnam.This temple was spread in area more than an acre, was almost like a puzzzle garden with many entries & exits.Huff our 9 days long journey lasted like this poof!!!!!

P.S:---I couldnt restrict myself to less-details as my heart was so excited during the tour &

when writing thoughts were flowing like anything.Believe it or not,i made it lot precise anyhow.There was lot more to say. You are safe,as Iam not a great writer or poet.

Oh My Goddess-Women

A woman parked her brand-new Lexus in front of her office ready 
to show it off to her colleagues. As she got out, a truck passed too close and completely tore off the door on the driver's side.
The woman immediately grabbed her cell phone, dialled 911,and within minutes a policeman pulled up. Before the officer had a chance to ask any questions, the woman started screaming hysterically. Her Lexus, which she had just picked up the day before, was now completely ruined and would never be the same, 
no matter what the body shop did to it.
When the woman finally wound down from her ranting and 
raving, the officer shook his head in disgust and disbelief.

"I can't believe how materialistic you women are," he said. "You 
are so focused on your possessions that you don't notice any-
-thing else."
"How can you say such a thing?" asked the woman.

The cop replied, "Don't you know that your left arm is missing from the elbow down? It must have been torn off when the truck hit you."
"OH MY GOD!" screamed the woman. "Where's my new bracelet?