Me and my mind in conversation...

Picked this up from another site... amazing.. "When watching Slumdog Millionaire, there was one thing a lot of people did not understand. In the movie the kids who were from the slums became tour guides and took white people around on tours. Everyone had the same question, how did these kids know English. If they are from the slums how can they pick up one of the most difficult languages in the world? Well here is a video of a kid from the slums who also happens to be selling peacock feathers and check out how many languages he knows. This video was a big hit a few years ago and they just found this kid again in his teenage year and he is still doing the same thing. Check out these clips."

On the way to Tirumala from Tirupati, we saw idols of various incarnations of Lord Vishnu. W were able to recognise a few, the rest we could not. so i called up my Dad to find out the names of all of Vishnu's incarnations in the right sequence. My dad told me not just the names but also the logic behind the sequence in which all these incarnations occured. 1. A fish, Matsya , a creature that lived in water. 2. A tortoise, Kashyap, a creature that lived both in water and on land. 3. A Pig, varaha, a creature living only on land. 4. Narasimha, a creature that was half animal, half human. 5. Vamana, the first completely human avatar. So the evolution happened from a creature living in water to a human. after this there were 4 incarnations, all humans 6. Parasu Rama 7 . Rama 8 . Krishna 9. Buddha The last one which is yet to come is Kalki.

It was lunch as usual when I overheard a conversation between Polo and Upasana about a possible trip to Tirupati. The idea of a trip itself was exciting, irrespective of the destination. I was pretty jobless with no classes at all for a few days. So I interfered in the conversation and passed the message to our broadcasting channel, namely, Miss Shikha Jain. Soon i get a list of interested people, and in a couple of days I booked the railway tickets. "But!" said Naveen, "Takloo (dats my nickname for my last hair style), where are the Darshan Tickets???" I didnt even know we got those tickets from Chennai, and that it was tough to get them. Just a day before we were supposed to leave, we went to the TTD (Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam ) centre only to find that no tickets were available for 7th Feb, the day we had planned to reach the temple. Disappointed, we came back home, and thought about re planning the trip, but Mr. Aanand and Naveen suddenly find out from s