Relaxed after my holiday

I have returned home after a week long holiday. I am sooo sooo relaxed now and have realized a few things this past week. The biggest realization being, I cant stand the heat. Second, Bangalore is truly a developed place and third, Bangalore is by no means a slow city.
I had been to a few places in Karnataka, also had been to my Bros college. He is in his final year, so had to visit his place once at least while he is studying. Had been to the Jog Falls, Amazing waterfall.
I will have to give you the detailed trip report a bit later, but for now, I want to just say that the heat in some of the North west parts of karnataka and the coastal areas are really unbearable. It is sooo hot and sultry there. I kept sweating and sweating. It was totally unbearable. The heat and also the humidity. I only wonder how my bro is coping for the last 3 years in such environment.
It is crazy. The good news of it all is that I have lost considerable weight during the trip. The bad news is that i have become dark now.
The other very striking thing I noticed is that In Karnataka, after Bangalore, to an extent Mysore, not much of the state is actually close to developed. I have heard Hubli also being a very much developing city, but seeing the condition of roads and the standard of the hotels and shops around some of the places, I was feeling like these places are easily 20 years behind Bangalore in development. At times, there were no roads on the supposed roads. We were driving on stones and dirt which was supposed to be a highway. The hotels and shopping places looked like mere buildings with some old fasioned shops and stores. Not many people go to malls i guess.
Also the pace of life is very slow, man who told that Bangalore life is slow. I was wondering how people in the country side would actually do time pass. People were walking around back from thier fields to thier homes, or were chatting at the village bania shop. They were walking at thier own pace and it all seemed like we were having enough time to do nothing in our lives.
But on the positive side, I am so happy to see so much greenary and Jungle around in Karnataka. Again giving me enough evidence that there is an amazing population of wildlife in this state and is in very good health. People living in harmony with the wildlife.
I came to a realization that me being born and brought up in Bangalore and in city life, it is very difficult for me to have a slow paced life. also that for such a life, I am missing all the beautiful things around in nature around us. So much have I got into this city mode and work and all that taking a week off and in the first couple of days of doing nothing and sitting at home made me get fever and sickness due to change in routine. I had to live on tablets and medicine for a couple of days so that my trip is not affected due to my illness. Well it went on well. Great.
I will be giving a detailed trip report over the weekend...

Sports, pain and thoughts

I do not know why, but I am not able to write quite often nowadays?????
Work is relaxed a bit but I am not able to spend much time on the net...
Well part of the reason being that I am playing Squash nowadays. Wow it has been over 5 years that I played any sport. Since the work is not so hectic in the last couple of weeks I am able to spend some time on court.
I am enjoying playing but It has come at a price.
I have spoilt my body so much that In a couple of days of playing, I twisted my knee and have overstreched over a period of 10 days.
The pain in my body is sooo much that It gets unbearable at times.So much so that I am limping for the last few days. I am hardly able to walk properly and The feeling of mistakes I did to let this happen keeps coming back to mind...
Today I had it and the pain was so bad that I got a good opportunity to bunk office.
Well I had to take it. Other than Squash I am enjoying some Photography as well.
I have taken some pretty decent snaps of some subjects for the first time. As I progress in learning new things in Photography and click more and more, it only amazes me that even a very minnute thing in this world is so beautiful and the variety of the wildlife around us it so huge, that I wonder how it would be in the Jungles... It is just a matter of noticing I guess...
Well I have got another opportunity to take a leave from office in 10 days time... I am going to love it and hopefully my leg will be completely alright and my camera is going to have a good workout...
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I do not know this Lizards name, but if you click for the actual size of the Image, you should surely see the claws that this Lizard has, very scary...

The butterfly was beautifully lit by the sunlight and this is my first shot of Ashy Prinia. It is a very small bird. Probably this small bird will fit in my palm.

This small bud is of a very beautiful flower. This bud might not be even a centimeter in size. and yes the black background is got while clicking the flower from my camera. The dragon fly is a Crimson marsh glider. The colors of this dragon fly amazes me.

Be sure to click on each of the image to get a better view....