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this weekend, the one that just went by! what can i say about it xcept that it was probably the best that i've had so far.
I was finally able to drag my frnd from office to go out for a weekend of nothing but pleasure and now he wants to stay, work, eat, sleep and dream in coorg. Oh! that's the name of the place that we went to, Madikeri in coorg.
Dashera is a hugly celebrated event here in India, its the christmas for Hindus and it's believed that on this day Lord Rama killed the evil Rawana and everyone here in India celebrated the festival by making huge statues of Rawan and burning him. We heard that there was no other place to see the festival but at coorg so we packed our bags and left.
Once there, we did went to the starting of a holy river and jumped into its freezing water with the priest throwing water over us. its believed that by doing that you wash away all your sins. since i'm not much of a believer I did it cause of the experience and i have to admit, it does feel good. also i hadn't had a bath all morning ;-)
after coming back and having lunch we went for a 20 km trek to a waterfall. the trek was amazing but the waterfall a bit of a disappointment cause of the number of people there. anyway when we reached back the celebrations had started and went all night finally getting over at 6am sunday morning. people were everywhere, everyone from the town and the villages nearby were there celebrating, dancing and having fun...
on our way back we went to a buddhist monastry andi just loved it and want to study buddhism a little more.
Oh! also coorgian girls are amazing. amazing being an understatement. I saw a ball fall down and ran and picked it up looking for who it belonged to. i was about to throw the ball in the direction from which it came when i noticed a very very pretty girl with her hands in the air ask'g for the ball. everything, the whole world just came to a stand still for a few seconds and i forgot to breathe... a few seconds later a little embarrassed i threw her the ball to her. later in the night we bumped into each other and she said "hi" and asked how i was...
"aaaaaa....." was all that came out of my mouth... she just laughed and went away.
there was another girl who was on a bike & was look'g back at me on our trek and all i could think of was smil'g and i did that, and in return i got a sweet sweet smile back. bear! it made me feel great just know'g that people are indeed good...
The coorgian philo. as with the Irish! there's no beer in heaven so we drink here on earth...
Smile and Be Happy.
ps: don't forget to check out the pictures on the side...
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