Presenting to you the Common four ring butterfly. I know it has 5 rings on each wing, do not ask me why it is called a four ring butterfly. Sometimes in life, you must just allow some things to be. Here is a more detailed explanation about this butterfly. If you understand the language in which they have described it, you can let me know :D
Some background on this click: Tired, battered and bruised after our trek to the the Valley of flowers and Hemkund Sahib, we made a pit stop in Dehradun on the way back, for undisclosed reasons. After roaming around town (Shastradhaara, Tibetian temple, Sai temple, Tapkeshwar temple - A lot of temples!), sampling street side Chow Mein and gawking at the cantonment area the previous day, the plan was to leave to Delhi early next morning. Early morning became early noon, in search of the elusive Idly Vada Sambar. Before you hurl abuses, please understand that we lived on maggi and alu paratha for the last 7 odd days, scaling treacherous cliffs in search of Nirvana. The craving was justified, and real. The plan was to head to the centre of town and attack the first Udupi restaurant we encountered. While we did find one, we were thwarted on learning that for some strange reason, restaurants in town do not open till 9!! Undeterred by the cruel trick on our stomachs, we headed to a tea stall. The friendly roadside tea stall owner gave me more information than I had ever processed in Engineering, and listed out our options. The most lucrative, even in those testing times was this - Go to Gandhi park (a few steps), click a few photos around. By that time the restaurants would have opened. Eat to your fill! We blessed him and did just that. The next hour was spent in clicking away. Suspicious glances were thrown at us by uncles and aunties, at the aberrations marring their weekend walks. Dazed, hungry and confused, this picture was My best attempt of the experience! Thanks to the head gardener, who pitied us I think, and granted us access to the centre of the garden, usually off limits to the public.
Ladies and Gents!!! :
Also, I have been asked to move to Chennai from Next Monday, 'permanently'. Somehow, and maybe rightly so, I get the feeling that today will be my Last working day in Mysore DC :| My professional life in Mysore seems to have ended. It feels like the cops came from nowhere and pulled the plug in a Maiden concert, when you were head banging away on a perfectly fine day. Truly. All logic seems to have been defied, all reason evaporated, I am not trying to go into the why's now. How does it feel? I have made a conscious effort until now not to 'feel' anything about this and have based my actions over the last few weeks on the same, to go with the flow. It is an overwhelming feeling to leave all of you and go elsewhere. Friends, family, well wishers, loved ones, Mysore, this beautiful work place. My bike, damn it! What will I miss most ? Everything. Times like these drive home the point that you cannot take anything for granted.
All of you will be sorely missed. Some more than the others J J Keep in touch. I plan to be in town at least once in two weeks, so you might miraculously see me on the track on weekends J I'll make an honest effort to keep troubling you folks with my mails and clicks. You can always comment on my clicks/ abuse them, I will not mind. If you do not want to be a part of this list, do let me know.
Keep rocking \m/
(Published as sent out yesterday)
