Thursday, December 08, 2005
So...most likely am going to go back to India! Brings a whale of memories. Yup i can find myself being transported back to the times I spent in a beautiful state in India: Rajasthan. I ain't a bit embarrassed to confess that I was a super ignorant person then. I led a simple life.I had no idea where Singapore was. Had not listened to any English songs. Used to play with Barbie dolls for an unusually long period of time. No video games( anyway they never appealed to me). Wore spectacles with really BIG frames(i mean it when i say big). And my spectacles even had these strings dangling from them to make sure they didn't fall off easily(just imagine Mr Peacock's specs :) ). All I did,or atleast remember doing, was to play. Everything in my life took place in a very systematic order, not the messed up way it is now. I was unofficially known as the 'nerd' in my school i guess. I didn't give a hoot about others' business. I did have really good friends though, maybe cuz i came across as quite a plesant and funny girl then!?
Nonetheless, I consider myself blessed to be gifted with such a wonderful childhood. Everyday we had a supposed 'play time' where me, my sis & the other neighbourhood kids used to gather to play at an aunt's place. Believe it or not, aunty used to play with us too! aaah =) Occasionally I used to go out with my parents to have dinner in Cannaught Place. I still love the mango milkshake we used to have during summertime. There were lots of Birthday parties, which meant lots of gifts too. =D School was really fun. Somehow all my homework used to get done without much difficulty. The meaning of 'stress' was unknown to me. I was healthy, had lots of fun and yet I excelled in my studies.
I lived in a town(or village??) in Rajasthan named Pilani. Almost everyone who's been there is deeply impressed with the place. Weather's one of the only exceptions. It was extreme conditions; terrible cold(near or below 0 deg), awful heaty summer(nearly 50 deg!), little rain. Oh well its near desert U see. I've seen sand dunes. Never exactly admired them, always thought they're just piles of sand, so plain. That was until I came here & realised that we should indeed cherish natural things like that.
Rajasthan has LOTS of tourist attractions. It has palaces, really gorgeous ones. One example of such is the 'Hawa Mahal'. In ajmer, there's this reallllly famous Dargah. Its something like a, umm, like a mosque U could say. I liked it there man! Everything inside was so colourful. Ok maybe it was people wearing colourful clothes perhaps? Umm=D And Mount Abu is a lovel hill station, where tourists flock in to catch the sunset. Looks kinda gooood from there!! And Rani Padmini's tower in Chattisgarh is simply Awesome! The was these towers and palaces are designed, am tellin' ya! People in these days were really smartasses man! They're one helluva architects!! hats off to them
Well to taste the beauty of these wonders, U just gotta visit. And even then if U don't think they're awesome, U've got something big-time wrong with ur brains:)
Ahh but life in Bangalore is going to be very much different i persume. OK lets not count the chickens(or eggs??) before they are hatched =)
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