RANDOM THOUGHTS

  WHAT GOES IN MUST                           FIND A WAY OUT  Long duration Flights have very intriguing and interesting experiences associated with them  . This is more so for International Travellers . My last International Travel from Chennai to Regina which is in Canada almost One Year Back  is a case in point . Departing at 4.15 AM on the 20 th of June , I could make it to Regina by 12.15 AM Local Time on the 21 st , this together with the 12 hour time difference with India works out to 32 hours of Travel Time  including the Transit Halts  at Abu Dhabi and Toronto . Add 4 hours to the time  you need to be at the departing  Airport prior to your Departure Time and the total works out to 36 Hours or One and a Half Days . Getting your Boarding Pass and Checking In your Luggage within  the Mandatory 46 Kg per head Limit is always a challenge . This is more so if you have Two of your offsprings residing in Canada and in two different places which are all of 3000 Kms apart.  The next is

 VAIKOM VISIT - IN GODS OWN                     COUNTRY  Kerala has always been my favourite place of visit over the years . Its cleanliness , its greenery,  waterways , not to forget its spirituality and beautiful people in more ways than one  have always held  a special attraction for  me . We , that is me and my Better Half have visited Kerala before  and visited many of  its  Temples and Tourist Attractions.  One place missing in this list has been the Viakom  Sri Mahadeva Temple . We decided to embark  on  a visit to this place and Mami was spot on to point out that there was a direct Train from Ambasamudram to Vaikom Road by the 16792 Palaruvi Express starting from ASD at 11.57 PM and reaching Vaikom Road Station at 7.30 Am the next morning . Nothing could be better ,  We made the Reservations for both the Up  and Down Jorneys on the 11 th and 13 th June with our  return slated from Ernakulam Town as we planned to visit the Chottanikara Bhaghavati Amman Temple on the 13 th mornin

RECALLING ONE MORE MEMORY OF VK PURAM COATS COLONY                                   Anyone associated with the Madura Coats VK Puram colony , I am pretty sure  will agree with me when I say that it was by far one of  the Best Years of their Life spent in this Colony  . One would not be wrong to call it almost a  Heaven on Earth.   I will Leave the Work Related Life which was equally fulfilling for another day and another time . The scenic and picturesque  bounty of the place  apart , what remains finely etched in memory are the many evenings spent celebrating the various Festive Seasons . Be it the  Diwali , Onam , Christmas or New Year Celebrations  . Anytime was a fine time for   all the Residents of the colony to  get  together and  have a jolly good time. Months without  with some Celebrations or Meet for some happy occasion were few and far in between.  The memory and  visit of various Drama Troupes. especially the Crazy Mohan shows will stay on for ever . The TUG OF WAR GAME in