Take Sunday for instance- we made a visit to the Tample in Malibu and it was a beautiful place... It may not have had that sense of gretness... of history that pervades the temples in India- but it is a wonderfully calm and peaceful place. Perfect to sit and meditate without bein jostled around by a dozen other bodies.
Then we made a trip to the beach... not the famous Malibu beach itself , but a rather quieter place that was nearby. It was a nice sandy beach but with little rocky regions where the waves made swirling lagoons, and in shallow ponds grew brightly coloured seaweed. The weed I could not take home, but the many coloured pebbles I did. They were in green and blue and pink and red and sunny yellow, and they had been worn down and looked like the koozhankallu that you find on the river banks; and as there were no shells here, as there are in India, I collected these. And undoubtedly, just as my shells lost their beauty after months of languishing in cupboards, these stones will also crumble to dust, while I forget about them.
Monday was the beginning of my new job... as a peer advisor... It is to basically help Undergrads out in choosing their subjects... Not a lot of hard work and the pay is decent and the other people in the office are nice... So I'm looking forward to it!
But the most exciting event of the week... at least as far as I a concerned ... was on Wednesday... no its not that I have no more assignments due for another week... although there's that too...)... It was the free astronomy lecture... a sort of planetarium thing... followed by a Slide Show presentation... followed by .... viewing the sky through a real... honest to goodness telescope... and it was great. We found Vega,the Ring Nebula(a little hazy.... but adjust karle) and Mars and viewed them through the telescope.... and yes it was great!
The Ring Nebula
The Red Planet
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Damn I looooove those last coupla pix...yearn to get my eye into the skies...
If there was one black beauty, the night sky is it !!!
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@priya... thanks... yeah I know... Its hard to associate a Malibu with a temple isn't it?
@RA... It was simply awesome... and they have it every Wed Night ... and its free!
ah! beautiful wednesdays eh? thats nice. but,*sob sob*... wednesdays suck over here. miserable mess food... wednesday food is ""vegetable "fried" rice""
heyjunj!!!!:)
hmm, I will make sure if at all I come to malibu, it wud be on a wed ;)
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whoa. that nebula pic looks cool.amazingly beautiful.
the temple too.
and yeah i too had my share of carefully collected shells,pebbles and what not.
Nice pictures!
Hey I thot u said weekly updates! :P
Wish u a very happy diwali !!! May god bless u with all tht u ask for n more in this festive season :)
PS: Does that mean u will pray for the national library? ;)
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u too fond of astronomy?
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