Kalyan – A small spiritual promise!

Time flowed past me and I onlooked. Life was on collateral as time ironed a few incongruities.

Rewind……

I was then a seven year old, atmost eight. I unveiled the small veil that hid the white letters of ‘Kalyan’, my family’s house at Ernakulam. The house warming back then!

The house was no mere project. It had a lot of earthwork and foundation issues for it was made for full five storeys. It had the blessings of engineers at the Harbour Engineering Dept. Ours would not be a small house.

Kalyan means a drive for spiritual progress and enlightenment, said my father when I once quizzed him non-stop ‘Why kalyan?’. Like how that quest is bedrocked in foundations deep, our humble house too. It is much like the Dana building in the FountainHead, a building that will do its purpose. Speaks a lot about the man behind! As simple, as austere and as ‘spacious’ ! No frills, no sops! And I liked it.

Canfin Homes had a heyday; its manager had a few feasts. A few feasts later the dream was re-born. The first floor! A few years had passed. Time had flowed past me as I onlooked. Life had been on collateral as time was ironing out a few incongruities.

I lost my old man not his dreams.
I lost my father but not his words.
I lost his company in prayer but not his hymns and his prayers.
I lost his ailments but not their scars.
I lost him. I lost him, not. [Don’t mind the touch of Douglas’ Adams in all this]

Tomorrow I pack off to the queen of the Arabian. The house warming, now!!
Between there is still a promise, this time one I will keep.

A small one! A spiritual one!

The one that I would love to as a margi!

Kalyan- the spiritual thrust to merge in Him in man’s last breath.

So be it.

Health- Ahem Excuse me Whatzzat?

In keeping up with the tradition of not going to college on the first day of a new semester -that I have been steadfastedly keeping up for two years now- I did not go to college today.

This time it had more to do with health; rather the lack of it.

I am currently stalled with cold, the common nuisance.

I spent the better part of the day on the bed unmindful of my engineered engineering promises.

Each time consciousness flickers in I would call up someone and by the time the phone is kept I would drift away. A few kerchiefs by my side, steam a constant companion; a weary devitalized day, this one!

By evening I felt a bit fine, unlike the enervated former hours of the day!

Viola you could see me jump onto the Black Pearl – I had a house bill to pay and a pass-book to collect. I felt as though timely rest and inhalation had seen the better of ‘cold’.

Was mistaken! Back home I still feel the same weariness and the water is back in my eyes.

Health? Ahem, I had missed a few lessons in 3^rd A when I broke a bone.
Can you just recap me! Whatzzat?

Metro Plus -Tvm edition.

More than a cup of coffee

Cafe Coffee Day offers a variety of coffee treats and eats

PIPING HOT For a perfect coffee break

From a single outlet in Bangalore to more than 500 outlets in India, Café Coffee Day has grown to become a brand name.

Hot or cold, if you are a coffee aficionado, this is the place to be. For those who like their coffee piping hot, Expresso, Macchiato, Caramello and Irish coffee are some of the varieties that are bound to appeal. Those who like it cold can relish ice-cold coffees such as Eskimo, frappe and caramel with whipped cream as add-on.

Located on the Kowdiar-Vellayambalam Road, the café has a three-tier ambience-with the ground floor divided into outdoors (non-a/c) and indoors (a/c) and a cozy top floor.

Culinary delights

However, it is not just coffees that are being offered. Culinary delights such as paneer and barbeque chicken and sweet treats like Chocolate truffle and cookies are also available.

Those who want a cup of freshly brewed coffee in the comforts of home can pick up a packet of Coffee Day's ground coffee. The joint's freshly baked cookies are also available in various packages. With foot-tapping music and ample space to sit and relax over a cup of coffee and bites, the trademark Coffee Day slogan, "A lot can happen over coffee" seems apt.

According to Sateesh, the café manager, there are five teams designing the cafes. "Though we retain the basic ambience, we offer slight changes in the décor," he says. The place looks best at night with a yellow mood-lighting and splashes of blue, red and fluorescent paint on the wall.

VISHNU MENON M

Varabhaya

There is no faith that is incomplete. No ideal unworthy of dying for. No mistake to be left uncorrected. No vengeance to leave without redemption.

Christ took each blow at heart before deliverance from the pain and he did it for humanity.

Lord Shiva never pauses in his Ananda Tandava because his dance is his creation.

The elephant faced Ganesha is stoically silent, apparently unaffected in his clumsy fat pose. But his ‘varabhaya’ accompanies every breath of the brave.

The Lord God be with you!

Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams

Anything that happens, happens.

Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.

Anything that in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.

It doesn't necessarily do it in the chronological order though.