Memories of Old Golden Days

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How are you doing in this scorching cruel heat of summer?
I am a travel freak for rest of the season but summer kept me grounded at home.Well i have mentioned before i live in outskirt of Hyderabad,a place which resembles more to a village than a metropolitan.I particularly love this place for many reason.I doubt if anybody interested here but i am adamant to write down the reasons.

1.I get generous amount of clean air,water and sunlight free of cost.
2.Minimal noise pollution and small population in the vicinity allows me to live with more open space.
3.No and never a traffic to our workplace.Me and hubby reach our respective office taking outer ring road thus eliminating any intrusion into the city traffic.
4.Beautiful landscape-what i see from my front gallery is open plain which grows rocky after a kilometer.View from by rear gallery is a small plateau which nestles a mosque and a ruined fort like structure.That can make your morning delighted (Alas!recent construction on neighborhood blocked the view to half way) 
5.This place fuels my childhood memories almost everyday-Here i feel like giving explanation is necessary.
    I basically belong to small village of  Chattisgarh. A place which still dwells on cultivation and farming.You can get fresh vegetables at your doorstep even today.You can still run on river bed when river is dry on summer and jump into river for splash whenever you wish.You can still steal mango,pear,Indian plum etc from the farms.this was my early childhood and 2 months of summer for next 7 years of boarding school.I miss that time badly.They still seam most precious and moment when i can say i was 100% alive.I certainly do not complain for life i am living today but i do admit it has changed a lot. Coming back to living at this particular place gives opportunity to see those childhood phenomena still happening around.Yesterday i went to the terrace for doing Yoga and i spotted bunch of kids sleeping on neighboring terrace.I was immediately taken to my childhood days when i used to come for summer vacation from boarding school and sleep on roof with my two sibling,mostly remain awake in nights,sharing stories,watching moon and a lot more.Gone are those summer holidays.Those carefree days of 2 months.

This morning me and hubby going outside in our car when i saw village people dressed in their best attire and make up with their luggage walking for bus.That used to be a scene of everyday in summer holiday.Mom with kids used to go to their Grannie's place.Today working Mom do not have that many leaves in hand so kids spend their holiday in summer camp,swimming,dance and Karate Classes.I do not want to judge about right and wrong for these changes but often give a thought how it's gonna be when i will be a mother.With some questions,still in the thought of those old golden days.

Thinking Summer

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It's been a while since last post.So today is Monday,inertia of week-end is still working on me and if one thing i am feeling right now is fleeing from office(ALAS! i have high tech security system installed here and had pretty rigid policy about time off :() .So i decided ti write this post.Title may appear irrelevant but in this scorching heat here in Hyderabad i am really missing relatively soothing summer end we have spent on God's Own Coutry-Kerala, last year.That was actually beginning of Monsoon and trust me Kerala look heavenly in new green attire ans cascades running down through those green giants.

Life has become slow paced an deadly summer of Hyderabad.Planning to go somewhere out is last thing comes in mind.I am hearing the same story from my native place daily.How is summer at your place?

Here are some pics taken in our trip to Kerala at the end of the summer last year.I still miss the splendid sunset we enjoyed in houseboat sailing on backwaters of Allepy(Kerala).

If still not been to houseboat of Allepy give it a chance this time.Living 24 hours in houseboat sailing here and there on backwaters will be memories for lifetime.

Rediscovering Myself with Meditation and Yoga

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It has been long time to share my random thoughts here.Thoughts are like constant waves of ocean inside mind but i was not getting time off to systematically write them here .

Well just to tell some history behind this post i want to admit i used to be a fitness freak who watches everything she eats or drinks,who never want a day passed without workout.I maintained my this passion from the early days of teenage when i was excelling in team sports,running and Yoga.Well Yoga was never my forte but it was kind of mandatory routine to do Yoga twice a week.I silently followed without asking anything,exploring more or rebelling against.

Time passed,Sports became my constant companion but with removal of that mandatory bar ,Yoga eloped from my routine.I became a gym freak in my mid-20s and half marathoner later on.It's not true that i left Yoga at all,but i preciously killed the essence and started doing my own tailored 10 min Yoga program (which i never enjoyed).I maintained my fitness level pretty well,some time OFF and the ON but things were going well until preciously 11 month back.

June 2012 i got married with my Lifetime Boyfriend.New life started happily.Just to inform even he is a fitness conscious guy.But  with time we grow too busy in novelty,family and travel and thus became sloppy towards our fitness routine.With my dresses getting out of fit and face looking chubby i tried hard to get back into routine.Somehow got back too but irregularity persisted  i.e. doing twice a week,sometimes gym,sometimes running,sometimes cycling.Cut the long story short, nothing helped and we kept loading weight.

Two weeks back we came back from Andaman Trip, rejuvenated,happy and fresh.We made some promises there, swearing on that mighty Indian Ocean that enough slackness has been done now it's time to get back on routine.Coming back to Hyderabad i started with my long lost mandatory companion Yoga(point to note here- i had already tried on Gym for past 2 months and my running routine for 6 months. Alas! nothing could get me regularity and discipline essential for fitness so i thought Yoga also deserves a fair amount to trial).

Well it has been just 2 weeks and i am feeling the magic of Yoga.This time i didn't kill it's soul and not doing my tailored version but following exactly given in Ancient books or what Baba Ramdev teaches :).I am not an expert on this but i am sharing exactly what i am experiencing and which is motivating me daily to get up at 5 Am,cooking healthy food for both of us and do Yoga with rising sun .I am also meditating whenever getting time alone.So here are my experiences:

MEDITATION:
1.Feeling mentally much relaxed.
2.Improving the ability to go to the core of the problem and solve them.
3.Understanding the futility of  problems.
4.Staying happy,young and energetic.
5.All negative feeling like anger,envy,hatred are reducing drastically.
6.Forgiveness increasing
7.Mentally much stable and confident for everything.

YOGA:
1.Feeling much toned and healthy
2.Junk food craving has nullified
3.Living habits stabilized(early to bed-early to rise)
4.Positive mood and feeling lighter

As i have already mentioned i am practicing it for last 2 weeks so it is too early to hype about acceleration of weight loss or body toning and getting Bikini abs etc.But above mentioned things are the very immediate feeling i started experiencing from the day one and actually that was the biggest driving reason every morning and evening to do Yoga.Thankfully i am back to the consistency of  fitness routine.I am not yet back to my best shape but yes moving forward fast.