Malgudi Days.... Ta na na Ta na na na

This one I happen to read out multiple times,
and still enjoy reading each time .

During our childhood one of the most amazing and best story telling was done by RK Narayan... All stories used to emerge from Malgudi....

Doordarshan (The only television channel we cherish during our childhood) used to air Malgudi Days...

Malgudi represented like any small village with house scattered across, one school in the village... fields used to be playground when not plough, sunset meant to be time for dinner and sleep....
On some days grandparents would narrate stories to kids under moon lit night....

A big Banyan tree would be located center of the village where all men would retire and talk politics though out the night (neither the state legislative nor the local panchyat would have any impact due to the discussion) buy that the best past time....

One kid named Swami was also in Malgudi.... His cricket team was named MCC (Malgudi Cricket Club) sound real big... but lost all the matches they ever managed to play.... but were determined that one day they will be champions...

Being inspired we also named our cricket team MCC.... while we were visiting our grandparents in Kerala during summer school vacation...

MCC - Matangi Cricket club, not to lie neither did we clinch nor had a nail biting for each and every match we played... but yes we did win once in a while against guys twice our age…

Only noticeable thing that happen was we all kid were being roasted and baked during the hot and humid Kerala summer… only to be refreshed with fresh coconut water…

All my memories came alive while reading tales from Malgudi....

No I can't

How many times each one of us would have said in past... and would be saying back in future as well?

Why we do say No I cannot, is it really because we are not able to or we do not want to....

Mostly when we are to do any thing we looks forward for its ROI....

Please don’t miss understand me as I am not putting forth any management concept... I guess from our innocence childhood itself we were taught how to evaluate.....

If I am quite and do nit trouble we will get something, it's kind of leverage we each time if we should our best or did the best 'as directed'....

To get better grades, I would have to suppress my though and have to express and frame answers or solution in the best and easiest way my exam moderator would understand and will yield better grades in any of the exams.

Over a period, we learnt when to say No I cannot, each n every time when the ROI was not so rewarding.

I say some are fortunate and courage’s enough to stand by and continue what they started or supported.

Every know and then we come across things that for a moment make tiu realize I wish I could, some take that chance and try fulfill their long pending desire to accomplish it, where as for some the very moment vanishes in thin air waiting to get life once again next time.

Last week while walking across I heard some one playing guitar, he was striking the right code... many people surrounded him. I too thought to spare a glance and see what is so special… that is when I realized how special the person was.... an example of commitment, strong will power and inspiration to fight and survive.

So it's the question for ourselves do we need to know the ROI before we are to do anything or we will be get something done unconditionally

Nature: Fall Foliage and First Snow

Nature, it does fascinate each and every time with its seasonal cycle.

Fall Foliage: some years back fall color all meant was Shakrukh Khan and Kajol made to run around in park and Maple leaves falling (varied color) but since last few years I am able to witness nature most beautiful event ‘Fall Foliage’.

Another fascinating part is snow fall, I always do love snow fall (but pother then couple of occasion I am a bit scared to snow) as earlier this year Jan-Feb we had twice 20+ inches of snowfall over night.

How best if would be if one can see both natures best events in one go, today being one such day, I just feel sitting by the window and track each snow flake falling from above and smoothly landing. Currently after an hour of snowfall the whole area is covered.

Below picture says the story.

Since morning 2 cups of hot tea and not sure how much many more…. I am already in love with the weather…. And the colorful display

Memories: Redwood Trails.

Memories: We should be stories away all the sweet memories that possible, as in this stressful fast passed, as one of my friend quotes… this generation is WTF…. Please don’t guess it other ways as I took it… he simply meant (Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook generation). 

Everything is been digitalized, we are even digitalizing all those childhood pictures that our parents took on one fine Sunday evening, Family trip to the nearest photo store standing in front of placards.

I have couple of them in digital format, I love watching them once in a while.

I f I look back, all my childhood memories are in stator format narrated by my parents and grandma, and its fair to assume that those stories do get coated with a layer each time they do narrate. I still love to listen each one of them with the same interest and eagerness each time.

In today ages, thanks to digitalization of photograph, a parent would have snapped 10 of thousands of images before the kid would have learned to walk, back in my age I might have handful pictures lying on my tummy then I see myself standing and in some a few years older that the chronological order of all the pictures I have.

I never had any interest in capturing moments and storing them in my hard-drives, thanks to my camera I got in to that habit, Camera became like my survival kit on my each and every outing.

Of the most recent trips I had been to Redwoods trails, (I was amazed by this forest when I first saw in movie ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, this place Big Basin is one the biggest covered forest, of which Redwood is famous.

Some of the Redwood trees are older than 2000 years, older than birth of Jesus Christ, if by any ways we are able to communicate to tree, they would become the best historian, and would help us understand many unsolved historical puzzle that have jumbled us.

It is one such place where I would love visit as many times as possible, unfortunately when we visited it was raining still we managed to fight against the rain and took an hr long trail, walking by Redwood trees would make you realize, ‘Statue of Liberty’ stand short in front of some of the tallest trees

Status of liberty stands at 305ft (Ground to Torch), where as ‘Mother of the Forest', stands at an incredible height of 339ft and with an incredible diameter of 15.5 feet.

Some of the images would help you gauge what I am being talking all about.

Mother of the Jungle, aged more then 2000+ years, taller then Statue of Liberty.

This particular Redwood has an amazing story, this tree was on fire and it burnt for 14 long months and still survived , but the fire created a permanent hollow, and the tree looks more like a old burnt out steel factory Chimney from inside. As the tree survived and is still growing.