Rain Rain come again!

For the last three days it has been drizzling often and one gets into a perfect mood of relaxation. In my childhood whenever climate was like this.. power used to go and no body would ask you to study when there was a power cut.. It was such a blissful time watching rain most of the time and playing around with cousins and friends.. the narrow streets used to get flooded with rain water and the heart too would flood so much love and joy.

On Friday, Sampath came to Jena. He did his masters in Germany and is now doing an internship in a place near to Jena. He was feeling little home sick and I invited him to Jena. He met other Indian students and felt Jena was more homely than the place he was living in(given that there are more young beauties in Jena and more old people in his place this should be a natural feeling..haha!).

The Short- Long Weekend!

This was the longest weekend ..one of total relaxation interospection and deep sleep! Monday was a holiday and I decided not to work on this saturday and sunday. So I had three holidays in a row..I watched CNN extensively at home and also some very good movies: 'Schindler's List','Chicago Blues', .....were two of the best. I recommend both of them to anyone who has not seen them yet.

On saturday morning ..I went for the weekend shopping and brought almost all things that contribute as fuel to the engine of my body! Things I got included vegetables,fruits, some fruit juices, butter, ...... On saturday morning I had food with pickles that my grandmom gave, evening I made egg curry. I spoke to Mom and Dad on Internet and after long time I saw them on the webcam..I felt they were with me and the feeling was so beautiful.. I showed Mom my new bike on the cam and also the GHEE that I made from butter by indigenous methods!(Haha.. it tastes perfectly like the one that Mom makes). She was so glad to hear this..

I thought of studying on sunday when an intense desire to make fried rice overpowered me and I (was on a vacation in my own home) decided to feast myself with fried rice. I experimented.. mixed everything and luckily fried rice came into existence.. I spoke to Mom and Dad this day also and watched CNN extensively.. as it is the only English Channel (rest all Channels are GERMAN and now I am bugged of hearing the same old stories of CNN)

Monday was no different.. lot of time was spent relaxing my nerves that got tired eating and watching CNN. The best part was however watching 'Schindler's List'.. What a movie! My eyes got moist as the movie came to an end.. I loved 'Chicago Blues' and wished for a moment gambling glory was all mine!

I am here back in my office.. having cycled for 20 Mins in a drizzle ..

Mukti and Telugu Movies

I went to Mukti's home yesterday. Some friend sent him 3 DVDs through post. Trust me each DVD has 28 Telugu Movies.. how his friend could write 28 Movies on one DVD is still a mystery to me..3 more DVDs are coming to him next week..This means that Mukti now is a proud owner of a library of around 200 Movies( He already had some before also)! From Gundemma Kadha to Appula Apparao.. every one of them is there with Mukti now...

I think people watch more telugu films here than when there are in India and possibly I know precisely where I should head to have a FILMY weekend!

Old Indian Music!

I was born in a religious hindu family and much of my childhood was spent with my grand parents. I still remember going to watch movies like ramayanam, krishna arjunala yuddham, bhukailasam, maya bazar and many of those black and white movies which instills an impression in your heart that N T Rama Rao is Rama, Krishna and many other Indian gods!

I also used to hear lot of cartanic music at home thanks to my grand mother's interest in sangeetam..Now when I hear music from these films or some of those carnatic tunes of BalaMurali online, I know why she was so very interested in this music!

On Buying a BICYCLE

I am just wonder stuck at the prices of bicycles here. I and Torsten went to buy a bicycle for me. We first went to a second hand shop to see if any cheap bicycles are available.. Yes we found some and they were priced between 3 to 40 thousand Indian Rupees(these are just second hand cycles and not motor cycles).

I felt that we were not needed to go to a first hand shop. First hand ones, according to Torsten, which were cheap(somewhere around 10 thousand Indian Rupees) are not relaible and have bad parts! We did goto the supermarket and we did buy a new one(cheap as defined above) and I returned it in the evening as Torsten's words came true.. two of its nuts broke by the evening.

The German Public Transport!

The first day I was surprised when I saw the train coming exactly on time and the bus coming exactly at 7.11 AM to the local bus stop. It took me quite some time to digest this..Having come from a country where the public transport network knows everything other than punctuality and being hypnotised into thinking that public transport couldnot be any better any where in the world, getting surprised was normal. Even within small towns they have exact time of the bus/tram coming to each of the bus stops! I'm impressed!

Weekend Fun

Friday.. we had a dinner party at my flat. I invited all indians in this town. We had very nice time. The best part was when some ladies entered the kitchen..I could just get out and then the food was all ready!

Today..I JC Mukti Asim n Rajani went up the hill. It was a bright sunny day.. JC's Old German friend came with his Girl Friend. They both came with their respective children..His german friend had a daughter and his German friend's girl friend came with her son and daughter..Hahha! We had nice time up the hill..made some food..and came back by 5 PM..