Last week raced past me and I par­took in so many fes­tiv­i­ties that I felt life was one big party that was refus­ing to end! :)

It started on Sat evening with Vasu’s birth­day party. And then spilled over to Suman and Chi­tra cel­e­brat­ing one year together.

On Thurs­day, I made a one day trip to Madik­eri to attend a wed­ding. In the last year I’ve already attended a Tamil, Konkani, Man­ga­lorean (Shetty) and Telegu wed­ding. This was my first Coorg wed­ding and what fun it turned out to be! I love the way the folks cel­e­brate : eat, drink, dance, be merry and repeat the process is their motto! Exactly what a wed­ding should be, methinks. Took loads of pic­tures (expect Coorg wed­ding photo essay soon).

The weather was beau­ti­ful in this gor­geous hill town and a sheen of mist cov­ered it most of the day. It rained through­out and though this was bad news for wed­ding goers, I was rather thrilled. The air con­di­tioned weather was too good to be true. Every­one had scared us about the drive, but it turned out to be rel­a­tively pleas­ant (there are bad patches, espe­cially some of the vil­lage roads have speed bumpers the height of a moun­tain range). And the Mysore-Bangalore road is still under con­struc­tion, with many more speed break­ers to add to a commuter’s woes. We still man­aged to do the jour­ney in about 5 hours, which was pretty good.

On Sat­ur­day I realised that I hadn’t actu­ally taken a day off to relax in the long, long time. What with a steady diet of exams, out­door trips and other engagements.

Had a long catch-up ses­sion on Sat­ur­day with some of the pho­tog­ra­phy gang — Vasu, Lavan­nya, Shankar, Sabir and Kaushik. The meet­ing started in the morn­ing and went on till after­noon. We had a nice lunch at the RMV Club, thanks to Shankar nego­ti­at­ing with the can­teen peo­ple to feed us hun­gry peo­ple. Sabir played around his lat­est acqui­si­tion, a Canon F1, 1.4 mm lens (what a beauty!) and came up with this really nice cap­ture (loved this one, Sabir!).

After the rather hec­tic week, I decided to take it easy to do absolutely noth­ing on Sun­day. And what a feel­ing :) I realised I had missed doing noth­ing for a long time!

Con­ver­sa­tion with dad on phone:
Dad: What are you doing?
Me: Just came back from Coorg!
Dad: What are you plan­ning to do this week­end?
Me: Umm…
(before I could answer)
Dad: Why don’t you stay at home and clean the house? Take it one room at a time…
Me: Umm… (not very thrilled at the propo­si­tion)
Dad: Don’t do it all together. Just start small. One cup­board at a time.
Me: Okay, Papa. I will cur­tail my active life and clean cup­boards this weekend.

Okay, I didn’t exactly say the last line, but that was the gist of it.

As it so turned out, I didn’t clean any cup­boards (I really need to though, I have a fas­ci­na­tion for col­lect­ing junk and old bills :0).

Instead, I did the smart thing. Ate, drank (juice!), watched a great deal of TV : Live 8, Wim­ble­don, F1, and snip­pets of ran­dom movies. Thor­oughly enjoyed the Live 8 con­cert and won­dered what it would be like to be actu­ally there wit­ness­ing the whole thing. There was any­body and every­body of the music scene out there performing.

Ah, there flies another week­end already, I thought last evening. So many things yet to be done! And 6 months of 2005 gone at the blink of an eye. My, aren’t we mov­ing at break­neck speed this year?