THURSDAY TORTURE..

Now concentrate on your breathing till it becomes full and deep, slow and smooth, regular and rhythmic. My friend giggled as i was was mouthing the words silently and perfectly. Confused??!! so was I when i first entered the 'great' Yoga hall 4 years ago...It took a little time for us to find out that there was nothing great about yoga....
           All these years we have heard the same thing through and through 2 days a week.....Although we found it amazing at first....it u\turned into a terrible bore soon.
         Now back to the class....'now everybody' stand up for surya namaskar....we had barely enough time to scramble up he would start reciting
STAGE 1: fold your hands and close your eyes. Inhale deeply and exhale.
STAGE2:keep your right leg forward,inhale deeply..
STAGE3: keep both your legs backwards...let the heels touch the floor (he barked and we all thought bitterly that he would'be done much better as a PT sir)
         But there was no stopping him....we puffed up and exhaled (if we breathed so deeply regularly our lungs would burn)
Then when you start to think 'what could be worse than this' he started pronouncing words, which first seemed to be gibberish, but soon turned out to be names of sun....you would wonder how the 'simple' sun got so many tongue-twisting names and the worse part is that for every name there was an extremely difficult pose....
        Sir even tried to make us learn all the names one time...but he soon realised that we were hopeless cases....
stage 8: makaraasana (oh you would positively hate the poor crocodile for inventing that pose)
Finally came the magic words 'lay down and relax in shavasana. We would let out a collective sigh in relief and lay down on the deri...almost instantly there are coughs and sneezes and everyone crinkled their noses at the stinking emitting from it...
             At last the bell rang! 'Now sit down and wear the socks'....we would run out of the hall as fast as we can...
P.S this ones for medz my soul sis who is obsessed wid YOGA!

IT HURTS FOR THEM TOO.....

I was browsing the net wen i heard a scream frm the kitchen...BLOOD!!!!! i was startled....i jumped up and ran to the kitchen....it was my sister....she was pointing at the bright,red liquid on the white marbled floor.....it was blood.....but the only difference was that it was not human blood.....it was tree blood.....i mean we had attached planks of wood in our kitchen for beauty....and this red liquid was the sap of that tree.....but for me it was nothing lesser than blood frm a wound.....a wound we humans hav created frm time immemorial.....we regard ourselves as nature conserver  and stuff....but in reality we r not even close to a conserver..... i dont know abt u...but it hurts a LOT to see a tree being cut down.....a feeling wich i've experienced twice....one abt wich i hav written earlier...the other was in my school.....b4 explaining this i shud tell u abt my school.....its an ancient building and there r lotz of old, big and wide trees around it.....and i hav a special relation wid each one of them....now bak to the story...i returned to my skul after summer hols....and noticed something was missing.....for a moment my mind went numb wen i saw the empty space in the frnt yard of ma school....wich was occupied by a huge tree.....i just cud'nt take it.....but i was helpless.....i cud'nt do anything....

dear frnds.....frm that day onwards i began thinking more deeply abt our frnds......the trees and nature....and the thought hit me...i need to do something...fast and urgently.....even though i realized that i had to act fast i was'nt getting anywhere wid ideas.....first i thought i shud reduce the wastage of paper....as paper was made frm trees.....but if i reduced using paper i had to increase the usage of plastic wich mean greater danger to the surroundings....i was getting contradictory ideas abt conservation......den it dawned on me that nothing is 100% gud or 100% bad.....and we will never bcom a 100% conserver....but still v hav to do something......so i decided to go thru a path in wich der is minimum hazard and maximum gain....i decided to plant trees....so frnds GO SAVE THE GREEN......

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

It happened when my family and I were travelling on a train. Besides us der were 2 oder families in our cubicle (i dunno wat we call the small part of the compartment...)..One was a family frm kathak in Orissa . They consisted of a young couple and 2 daughters. The elder one of the two was abt my sister's age....The oder family consisted of a couple and a very small girl....i guess dey were tamilians....

           I was amazed to see the diversity of the whole India in a single cubicle of a train. It was a strange mixture as one family talked in tamil, the oder fired away in oriya and we spoke malayalam....

     While i was partly observing this weird scene and partly reading my buk (cos u know its rude to stare...)...my sister and the gal abt whom i mentioned above were starting to play togeda....As ma sis did'nt hav a clue wat to say to her I asked her name for my sis....her name was safiya...before they knew dey were playing and laughing togeda....but i noticed that dey were not uttering a word to each other....thats wen i realised that language differences does not affect friendship...or rather friendship is the universal language.....

INEXPRESSIBLE BEAUTY

I was walking through a cut road humming the tune of 'anything for u'
Suddenly, I looked up and saw them. They were so beautiful,colourful and I felt something, some positive energy was coming frm dem.....as though dey were sent by God to spread happiness....Hey! what do u think i was talking abt?
    I was talkin abt MAYFLOWERS.....The way they stand spreading their foliage and shade, their magnificent shades of deep orange and red...ooh i just luv it....
       The mayflowers are also known as gulmohar in north India...
During mid-april they begin to appear here and there...In may we can see them almost everywhere....mayb thats y dey r called mayflowers....
     As we gaze at its top branches, we see colours red,green and blue merge in a spectacular way....
This array wich is beautifully done by mother nature is amazing to watch...

So enjoy thei inexpressible beauty.....