Hare Krisna Island-Part 2

Hare Krisna Island-Part 1





Lake Erne rippling against Inis Rath Island.



A fluke photo, again by me, on our way to Cavan,the previous dusk.




Vrindavan welcoming spring


Vrindavan welcoming spring and me....


A picture inside the Hare Krishna Ashram, that touched me most....its was breathtakingly beautiful!





Vrindavan in spring, again!




I think humans haven't set foot in this area, at least!



We took this using a timer-set mob cam placed in a tree-branch and I was smiling at it, as though it was the most beautiful thing in this world!

I was even nudging hubby to smile cos he has difficulty in smiling at non-living things!!!!




Camera was in his hand, as you can see... me trying to get my face inside the frame!



When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. (W.Wordsworth)


The one thing (among others) I love Ireland is for tulips and daffodils!!!!


Thats me swinging my a** off..... (LOL)

My niece- date of entry- April4,2007

Shail aunty’s blog on her niece inspired me to write this. Actually I was planning to write this since last month. As I have mentioned earlier, I have a very close cousin, (whom I thought was really my sister, till I was 6 or 7 yrs old).



And now on April 4, 2007, she gave birth to a baby girl. Actually she was way due the proposed delivery date. In fact she was admitted to hospital one week before and was shuttling in and out of labour room, because the baby didn’t want to come outside, even after a number of shots for inducing pain.

I used to call her twice a day, and finally she told me “Chechi, I just want this baby to come out, some how. This child is teasing me even before its birth”.

And you know what happened?

We Hindus have a custom of looking forward to the star(constellations) in which new-borns come into this world. Now my cousin had her first labour inducing shot on Sunday. The star was “atham” (aka Hasta). So, we all thought the baby’s star will be “atham”. But she didn’t deliver.
Another shot on Monday – she didn’t deliver, star on that day was again “atham”.
Another shot on Tuesday – she didn’t deliver, star was “chithra”

On Tuesday evening I told her, “You know, why this baby is not coming. It’s because it is waiting for my star - chothi, which falls on Wednesday. Baby will come tomorrow.”

Next day, “chithra” ended on 11:20 am. She gave birth to a baby girl (contradicting scan results of being a boy!) at 11:30 am, to be born on my star “chothi” aka swati.

Now, my cousin says, she knows why the delivery got delayed by one week. And she very well remembers how I created difficult times to my mom, when I was young (and even now!). She told me innocently “Chechi you are right. I think this daughter of mine will give me tough times, just like you did to Valiamma(my mom)”

He…he…he…. And I laugh my heart out! And who is laughing more - my own mom!!

Rumour is that she told my cousin that she can give her valuable tips on “How to raise a girl born on “chothi” and still be sane!”

This is Divyashree:

DOB: April 4, 2007

Star: swati (chothi)

Job: Making her mom loose her marbles, by refusing to stop crying 24*7.

Results: Our neighbours who even saw us (sis and me) grow up say, that they haven’t seen this kind of cry-baby as long as they could remember.

Inis Rath Island - Part 1

Place: Inis Rath Island, N.Ireland, UK
Date: 20 Apr, 2007
Characters: Nature, me & hubby
Device: my camera




Inis Rath Island, N.Ireland , UK.


Inis Rath Island, N.Ireland , Co Fermanagh, UK.


Lough (Irish for "Lake") Erne , Co Fermanagh


Lake Erne, where Inis Rath Island stands


Lough (pronounced as lo-ck) Erne

Inis Rath Entrance from the Lake Erne.


Thats me...in water..well....almost


Pancha Pandava Trees - as they are called in the island.


Vrindavana- the whole island is called so.


The way towards the building...(or once-up-on-a-time palace).


Another part of Vrindavan..

Wondering how Indian Names came in Ireland?

krishna island


Note: As I am recovering from slipped disc, weight loss, migraine and reactions to all those prescription painkillers that I took for the issues mentioned, in a combined way, I am very much in a non active state. So, pls forgive my absence in your pages...I will be there in a slow but steady manner.

Bouncing back on my "back" , again!

I have lost count of the number of times, I bounced back in life after some accident or injury or trauma(mental,too!). And each time I surprise myself, by being happier than before. I can only thank God, who blessed me with that spirit in me. A lot of people have told me in the past that I am truly a strong survivor, but I didn’t believe it, till this moment – after my latest survival!

It has been one and half months, since I stopped working in office. Tougher times are always at the beginning and end, when at first you do not accept that you CANNOT work and at the end you are SCARED to get back to work. God! How constantly we resist changes in our lives!

There are lots of good things that happened during this ‘break’ I took. First, I started taking a course on creative writing, which makes me so happy and full - from inside my heart. Finally, after 29 years, I am studying something entirely for MYSELF and NOT to meet my parents’ or teachers’ or manager’s expectations or standards on me! WOW! What a wonderful bliss! You know happiness lies in NOT making others happy. It lies in making just yourself happy! A lesson I learnt, now!

So for all my friends who didn’t know what happened to me, I had a slipped disc again for the fourth time in last 4 yrs. Now the disc didn’t just slip and sat there. It started pinching the nerve (Sciatic nerve) that was near it, just like those naughty 4 yr old kindergarten boys. And the nerve got irritated and started annoying my brain. So, my brain just numbed my left side, starting from my left hip till ankle, through the leg. And here I was trying to use my left hip and leg, with no success! It is nothing serious, it always happens to me. So I know, when the pinching starts, and ends with numbness.

Ironically, the main problem I found was I didn’t have broadband at home. Can you imagine? Ireland, one of the richest countries in Europe and still do not have broadband coverage, in some of the exchanges (which included our exchange)? That was what irritated me, and I closed down my blog, because I just couldn’t drive or take the bus to an Internet café, to keep my blog active – at least when my doctor asked me NOT to sit or stand for long period.

Among other nice things that happened were, renewing my library card and reading ‘Memoirs of A Geisha’. I fell in love with that book again and again that I am still renewing it every two weeks, though I have finished reading it twice! My librarian gave me a huge, jute book-bag (with the name of the library printed on it) - when she saw me struggling with the weight of six hard-back books I carried each week. It was kind of funny. She must have thought I was really a bookworm.

When the relationship between my doctor and me reached a personal level, she recommended me this book – You Can Heal Yourself – by Louis L. Hay. (Www.LouiseHay.com). I am usually not into those self-help books, which says “You Can Be A Millionaire Within Two Months” OR “You can lose 30 pounds in two weeks”. I really think, each person is different and the ways that worked for one may not work for another - like prescription drugs!

But I should say that this book was wonderful. Though I reached only till Chapter 7, I must say that Louise knows what she is writing/teaching about. A wonderful book, especially when you are trying to bounce back into life!

So, that’s all what is happening now. I presume that I can start work from 15 May (which also happens to be my first anniversary day in Ericsson). And another ‘good’ thing - I lost 4 kilos, now hitting 48 kg, with bed-rest! And who said that you have to be ‘active’ to lose weight?

note: the pic is actually me swinging my heart out,in a kids' park,of course!

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