Showing posts with label places. Show all posts
Showing posts with label places. Show all posts

Thursday, September 8, 2011

10 days challenge - Day Five


Six Places, what to write about? About some real, amazing, breathtaking, and mesmerizing places that I have been to or been dreaming about all through my life (Nah, I don’t have any such places if I have to be truthful to you. I don't dream about places, instead I only dream about people :-)).

I always admire places, any places for that matter. When I saw the film - Roja, I wanted to travel to Kashmir. When I heard about the Leaning Tower of Pisa for the first time, I wanted to go there (and check if whatever I had heard/read is true or not). Then later, when I heard my friend’s imaginary love story, I wanted to visit Shimla. And so goes the list, on and on. It only gets added up every day as I get to know more about different places.

From doing a quick scan of the places in my mind, I polished up my idea not to give importance to some locality, such as town or city; I would rather indite some placeshere. My conscience asks me to give equal preference to Love and Hate this time. So here are the three places where I would love to spend my time and three more that I hate to be in.

LOVE first, as always:

  1. Beach – A place where I would be serene and chilled out irrespective of the pain or joy that I had before. Almost everyone in this world likes the beach, or in other words, no one hates it. It’s that each one of them likes it for various reasons. I like it for the calmness I feel when I spend my time there.

  2. Park – A place where I always loved to spend my time at. No matter if I’m alone or not. I simply love, love, love, and love being there. An added note, I penned my second story sitting in a park. The ‘joyful’ children, the ‘walking’ old men and women, the ‘jogging’ youths, some ‘nature-loving’ souls, and more importantly, an almost eco-friendly environment are some of the things that make me feel good about the park.

  3. Terrace (with my headphones on) – Different people have different places where they feel their soul, genuinely feel the existence of it. I do have many, but there is only one place where my soul feels me, the real me, and that is the terrace. Whatever it may be – my downtime or my happiest time – if it’s late night when the moon shows up with its cheesy grin (It’s just an added flavor. The Moon not showing up would also do!), I like be at the terrace, and wander around with my favorite tracks playing in my ears. Eventually, whenever that happens, I would walk down to my room completely rejuvenated.

HATE:

  1. Smoking Point – The only place I hate in a theatre (of course, apart from the untidy toilets) simply because I hate SMOKING. Invariably, I hate the concept of having a separate ‘Smoking Point or Smoking Zone or Smoking whatnot in a public place, that too when people have to cross it to go somewhere, say to the toilets! I hate this place not only in a theatre, but also everywhere that has this ‘smoking place’.

  2. Desert – “No water, No life”. I can’t live without water, neither can I in a complete hot weather. And for these reasons, I have hated this place, right from my lower classes. Luckily, I didn’t get a chance to be in a desert yet.

  3. Market – Any market, precisely, a fish market. Noise, quarrel, congested, and that’s enough for anyone to hate it, unless and of course, if you’re a lover of fish. I’m an exemption; I love only to eat them and not buy them [from the market].

A good end to start five foods tomorrow...

Monday, August 22, 2011

Anna Zoological Park, Vandalur.


It wasn't the first time I went a Zoological Park. I had been to quite a few zoological parks in the past years. I always loved to see the zoological-beings whenever I get a chance. I didn't fail to visit Nandankanan Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar, Orissa during my training there in Oct 2008 or Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens during my trip to Mysore last December. But a visit to Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur had only been a dream all these days.

I have been in Chennai for the past 7 years, and had innumerable nothing-to-do days. But a visit to Vandalur Zoo remained a dream to me. No matter, how hard I wanted to visit the place. Not that I was too busy to go. If I say so, that would be a refutable excuse I have to make. In fact, all these years in Chennai, I have planned several times only to end up procrastinating it. Sometimes, when the plan with my friends gets bumbled, I planned alone for the next time. How funny is it? Plan with my friends failed, still I planned to execute it alone. Funny, really, it is.

Whatsoever, today I was determined to go to the Zoo at any cost. Lucky, I got my friend Gowrish to accompany me. So, all in all, my wait all these years ended today on a happy note. Here are the few pics that I clicked....
The king taking rest

The Queen 'sighting' the king
The busy beer, busy digging.
The big Hippo ji

Giraffe

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