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August 30, 2008 at 3:40 am · Filed under musings, travel
trains remind me to blog. dont know why. maybe because i like to travel so much. i’ve not blogged for more than a week and here i am. i set foot into a train and the next thing i think of is to blog 
previous weeks have been hectic, at work and off it. life goes on as usual entertained by small drives on weekends and pulling legs of people at the office. in this time i’ve started to love mangalore. i love this place now. i gotta start exploring more. places like jog falls, sita camp and others. wanna go trekking. everything!
my dream of getting a bullet will come true soon. i’ve been bullet hunting for more than a month now, hopefully i’ll own one in december 
then a DSLR camera, and off i go. thats about everything i want from life now. get all that and take off. nice to hear and tough to do i know but i will, some day.
my current project is almost over and i’m gonna be in support and testing for the next 3 months. only thing that i hope is not to have a lot of work to find time for all the crazy things my crazy head is planning. i might leave mangalore soon, but before that i want to do crazy things. make new friends. talking about that, i’ve started doing crazy things already!! i sang in the group song for independence week in office. eat that – world!! ‘desh mere, desh mere, meri jaan hai tuuu’…. i went on stage to sing for the first time and by god, what a song it was!! we got second prize thanks to a nightingale whose voice was soooo sweet. so much so, that our voices were not noticed by the judges and we got second prize
i am on my way to dileep’s brother’s marriage reception in trichur. hope to see everyone there. but i gotta come back to mangalore on sunday too. will post photos of the reception till then, leaving u with snaps of the scenic beauty of mangalore, uriyadi held on sri krishna jayanthi and a cultural fest at our office
August 11, 2008 at 6:07 pm · Filed under musings, specials
at times i wonder, is this blog dead.. is my life not moving on.. it is moving on, but with little or nothing to jot down.. life has come to a standstill, at a place where all i can do is think about what lies ahead..
someone told me few days back, that the anticipation of what is to come is the thing that keeps you going.. the anticipation of something better, something surprising.. i’ve been thinking of doing a lot of things lately, but in the end nothing happens.. i’m returning to mangalore from home, in a train now..
the only thing i wanna say now is that this blog is not dead.. there will be lots more travels, portraits and ramblings here.. keep all the comments coming till the next post, i’ll continue to be a being stranded, there on the cosmic panorama in the pic is shanthakumar – one of my new friends in mangalore..
April 6, 2008 at 4:37 pm · Filed under corporate, musings
23rd November 2007.. 18:08hrs..
Calicut Beach… walking in the breeze feels really good.. with deepak n ameeth.. we are almost all of the people who were left in calicut waiting for our joining dates.. life was boring, but it was good… it was fun at times like this.. went on to get a kite to fly… i’d flew one many times before, but somehow this felt like the first time.. it took some time to hold flight, but once it got off, there was no stopping it.. soon, the kite went so high that it was the size of a pupil.. we didnt want to let it loose, so we tied it to a stone near the beach bridge and walked away.. i kept looking back at it all the way and something struck me.. will i do this any time again.. a thousand times over.. hmm..
17th January 2008.. 00:44hrs..
sukhwinder singh screaming ‘bas bas bada bole, ab kuch kariye…’ in my ears.. i’ve entered corporate life.. i wake up at 8 and brush my teeth n then bathe.. get into my armour which includes a tie on mondays n tuesdays.. smelly shoes.. n ‘walk’ to the big colloseum for what everyone calls training.. the walk to the place is just around 400 metres, but it sends some kind of sweet pain from the toes up till the knees.. the pain i call sweet as its the fatigue caused by that which helps in idling thru the session till noon.. after december 18th, each working day of my life was the same.. i never reached the colloseum earlier, but left the place later than 6pm a number of times.. complains mostly stay confined to my head, but for some very close people.. but i gotta live this life anyways..
16th March 2008.. 11:52hrs..
slept long yesterday.. its raining heavily in mysore these days… training has reached its ending stage.. things have eased up a little lately.. we dont sit at office for long hours nowadays, unless we have a training project.. n the fact of the matter is we have one of those, every other weekend but i’ve started to like the work here.. mostly because i’ve tried hard to do that we get net in the evening from 5 to 9.. we cant access any public mails, so who needs net anyways.. walking to the foodcourt to have some food.. the umbrellas were kept to dry near my hostel.. it was refreshing to see the colours amongst the artificial lawns n gardens.. life goes on naturally..
6th April 2008.. 21:48hrs..
i’m home after more than 3 months.. lot has happened in these days… i couldnt blog much, even after the many times aana tried to make me… wanted to write about the first marriage in our batch.. our own amar govindan aKa Comedy 
cant digest the fact that he has done it.. wanted to write a lot.. but nothing surfaced.. everything just lost somewhere.. so i’ll be silent till the next time.. silence is countless sounds combining to play in a rhythm… silence is a symphony…..
October 28, 2007 at 5:38 pm · Filed under memories, musings, travel
Strange situation i’m writing this in.. Will come to that later on.. I had planned on writing the part two of my singapore trip a lot earlier.. But as usual, i dint sit down to write..
Anyone who cares enough to read this boring blog might know that i was planning to go to Malaysia.. To get my Visa extension and to see the new country.. But guess what, only the former happened.. We went to the nearest Malaysian city of Johor Bahru.. Its like, we cross a bridge n we’re in another country.. As simple as that.. But, believe me, there’s nothing to see there.. At Johor Bahru..
We went to a Beach Resort called the Danga Bay.. Even the people working in the nearby shops didnt know english.. (njan vann Malay aayathondu rakshappettu).. The only things that place is good for is shopping and eating out.. Food is so cheap that people from Singapore near the border go there to eat.. We absolutely owned the Pizza Hut at the Kotaraya Plaza that night..
After that long eating session, we walked toward the malaysian immigrations and checked out of the country.. At that moment, i was wondering which country i was in!! Cos i had checked out of Malaysia and didnt get into Singapore..
With that thought, i boarded a bus to the Singapore Check Point n from there, they refused to let me in.. N i was like Wat the?! The little girl sittin at the counter gave me ghastly glance and asked me why i wanted to stay thirty more days in Singapore.. I was supposed to leave singapore before oct 10th at that time, but i said i wanted to spend Hari Raya (Eid) with my brother n family in Singapore.. Then this cute lookin girl asked me to sit in the seat next to her n wait.. Obviously, I didnt mind.. 
I was sittin there like a VVIP when suddenly a heavy built officer in uniform came near me n said ‘this way!’.. I did not have any idea wat was happening, but soon i was in a room filled with lots of seemingly grumpy old officers.. But in that same room, my bro, sis n ehan were sitting.. N then one of those officers went thru my passport and called me to ask the same thing that silly girl had asked me few minutes before.. I told him the exact answer i had told the girl, only this time, i pointed at my bro n family while saying it.. Must’ve been the smile on Ehan’s face, he gave me an extension straight away.. That too for a month.. Hihi..
After reaching back to Singapore that night, i could hardly feel my hands n feet.. Hihi.. (Over aakkaling ~ Exaggeration).. Slept long that night n the most part of the next day.. On monday i went to the Indian Airlines office to change my return ticket date to the 17th..
Deepak Benny has been in Singapore for quite some days now.. I’ve not been able to meet him cos of all these n nombu.. He joined the Worley Parsons office in Somerset.. Decided to meet him after Eid.. Eid was pretty ordinary.. With no usual friends n things like that.. But the Foodings were extra ordinary.. Spent the evening at the east coast park with lots of malayali families.. I was watchin people skating there, most of the time.. Met a small girl who had sung with ‘kavi’ at singapore.. For those who doesnt know, The last years Idea Star Singer Kavi was my classmate!!
Toward the end of the trip, i had ran out of things to do!! So it was either shopping at mustafa or sitting online.. Bought a lot of stuff.. Including an ipod classic.. But in between all this, i’d not yet seen the famous Singapore Zoo and the Jurong Bird Park.. So the day i finally met Benny.. We decided to go to the zoo..
But i forgot to take the cam that day.. So had to take snaps using my good old mobile.. The zoo at Singapore is the best i’ve seen.. So far that is.. Because in all the zoo’s that i’ve visited till now, the animals never looked happy.. But this place is different.. Most of the animals r not caged.. N those that are, dont seem to mind.. Hehe..
The white tiger was the best thing we saw in there.. A big chunk of muscle and sheer power.. The best way to explore the zoo is to get the free zoo map which has all the details n the feeding times of different animals.. N go to those animals when they are being fed.. Only then do you get to see the animals doing wat they do best..
The whole day in the zoo was very tiring n after that, benny went to his hotel at Clarke Quay.. N i went to mustafa for a final shopping session.. We got back that day n i planned to go to the Bird Park the next day morning..
I’ve seen only very few mornings in Singapore.. Most of my days there started just before noon.. So it was after noon by the time me n bro got to the Jurong Bird Park.. N i loved it from my very first sight.. So many colorful n rare birds moving freely in there..
But my joy was short lived as it began raining heavily.. N we sat there in the balcony of a closed restaurant watchin a group of Flamingos below us.. We lost about 2hrs due to that bloody rain.. So we had to rush through the park to finish seeing every section..
There was a show in the Pools Amphitheatre with two parrots showing off their talking and singing talents.. One of the birds even sang songs in the 4 national laguages of Singapore.. But they had to cut short the show because of the heavy rains..
Then we walked into an Australian Coffee Shop without knowing the great surprise that was in store inside.. A big enclosed area filled with hundreds of extremely colorful birds called the Loris.. They were flying around coming near the visitors and making hell of a lot of noise.. N boy did i love feeding them?!! One of them even jumped onto my shoulder.. I fell in love with the park.. Hihi..
I’ve been spending loads of time finding music n other stuff on the net.. Most of the days at home i’d sit hours on end on Youtube searchin and listening to random songs.. Found a great malayalam ghazal ‘Neeyum Nilavum’ by Shahabaas and fell in love with the song.. Its a great song to check out for hindustani lovers..
N finally the next day, the 16th of october was to be the last day of my Singapore trip.. Was just sittin at home n packing all the stuff most of the time.. Its been more than 45 days here.. N i’ve experienced almost all feelings during this trip.. There have been times i’ve felt ecstatic, desperate, content, numb and also very lonely.. But when it comes down to it, i loved the whole trip.. As the sun sets now, on yet another journey, all i can think of, is my home, n the feeling of home..
July 8, 2007 at 1:56 pm · Filed under musings, philosophy
Its all over.. I’ve become an engineer.. A computer engineer.. not a complete one at the moment, but i’m out of college, out of hostel N out of that way of life … Things have started to change in more ways than one.. Its can be seen in different ways.. Sometimes like embracing somethin different.. Sometimes like coming into terms with the situation.. Or sometimes like nothing other than just being numb.. 4 yrs have taught me stuff.. About my life n countless other things.. It has Given me friends.. Given me moments of magic.. Given me loneliness.. Given me noise.. It was a life with everythin.. N now, somethin tells me i’m going to have to learn to live life again.. A different life..
June 10, 2007 at 3:08 pm · Filed under musings, photography
The btech course is about to be over.. My theory exams of s8 are over.. Just the lab left.. And it’ll be over.. Thought i’d write a long post.. But leaving just the photo.. Will there be light ahead.. We’ll see..
May 30, 2007 at 6:53 pm · Filed under musings, philosophy
Just another nyt at the hostel.. Only few more nights like this left here.. Its raining outside.. Nice breeze.. N the music echoing around..
May 22, 2007 at 4:25 pm · Filed under home, musings, philosophy
I’ve been away from blogging for quite a long time now.. Times i had a gprs connection, i dint feel like blogging.. Times i felt like it, i dint have a gprs con nection.. So i’m back with both in tact.. I’ll be posting often from now.. Loadsa reasons i was kept away from here.. Loadsa things happened during these days.. But right now, i’m sitting in a bus.. Waiting to go from calicut to trivandrum.. Back to the college.. Back to the hostel.. Back to the last and final regular exams of my btech course.. Back to the noise.. Its been a while since i’ve been brought down to earth by life’s happenings.. The sense of the word noise has changed tragically for me in the past few years.. It has nothin to do with sound.. It has got everythin to do with way of life.. N ryt now, i am going back to that way of life..
P.S: Anyone who reads, please excuse the irrelevent n non related sentences (bandhamillaima) in the post.. It was not intentional.. Its Just that my head is jammed..
March 23, 2007 at 10:23 pm · Filed under funny, musings, specials
Its been really long since i wrote somethin here.. Many reasons to do so.. Lots happened these days.. I became an uncle again.. My second brothers son Ehan Muhammad was born on feb 14th!! N right after that he fell ill.. So i Went home loads of times.. Spend time there.. Dint feel like blogging anythin then.. Now he’s all right n at my home.. We had our hostel batch tour to kodaikanal n ooty.. It was great fun.. N finally, Yesterday was my birthday.. It was a great day.. Went to the terrace of my college n took this snap.. As i said, loads happened these days.. Wil post more stuff soon.. No current in hostel.. So thought of posting this.. Ciao..
February 4, 2007 at 3:06 pm · Filed under musings, philosophy
Sittin in town near museum.. Thought of going to some travels to check for our class tour.. But its sunday, so nothin is open.. Teams inside theatre for kayyopp … I’m just spending time.. Came across this bunch of lovely old ladies n a budha who are having some kind of a reunion.. I assume they were old classmates in s ome college.. Nice to see their faces light up.. Their laughter filling the air.. I’m just a spectator..
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My name is Abdul Hameed. I'm 23 and I live in Calicut, Kerala and finished my education in Trivandrum, i am now working in a Software Firm at Mangalore.
