Is it Diwali??

Really?!Well, its not so obvious here..
No markets overflowing with people, no jostling for a parking
spot, no new clothes, no decorations, no diyas, no ear-shattering
fire-crackers.

For the first time in so many years (refraining from mentioning
my age, I guess you figured ;) ) I am not home for Diwali.
For the first time in so many years - none of us siblings are at
home for Diwali. Its a first for my parents too and they are not liking it.
Anyhow.

So its a boring time in Munich currently. Weather is dull and bad with
chances of snow soon, gets dark at 5 in the evening likes it 8.. So not a
good time to be here... and the best part is - the worst is yet to come ! :-)

Colleagues are going to the ISKCON temple in town to offer their prayers
on this day - but I am sure their hidden agenda is to hog the free food :-P
Anyhow.

Have a happy and safe Diwali and a prosperous and healthy year ahead!

London..

Had been to London over the weekend. Was a long
planned vacation which due to the usual chaos in the
software industry was almost canceled. But thanks to
a simple soul who prayed harder every passing day,
I finally made it :)

London is like Mumbai.. at first sight you would not like
it too much... but it grows on you. London is similar to
Mumbai in more ways than one. Since Mumbai was also
colonised by the British you will find a lot of resemblance
between the two cities - almost similar buildings, same red
buses, same crowd (yea almost every 3rd or 4th person you
see will be from the sub-continent), same traffic.. well the list
goes on.

What I liked most about London is that it being a cosmo city
you have amazing range of finding anything and everything.
From food to clothes to accomodation - you will find all sorts.
Yea a non-foodie mentioning food first is surprising but anybody
living in Germany will understand what the variety in food means!!
:) But yea like I mentioned I did not like London because
of the crowd and traffic .. and I like Munich for the exact opposite
reason - its so quiet, calm, sparsely populated and peaceful!
Its gonna be tough moving out of Munich to any other place -
but that we shall see.

Sight-seeing in London was the usual touristy thing I did. I enjoyed
my trip to Greenwich. Going through the history of why we needed
the concept of longitude and how it actually evolved was fascinating.
The other outing I enjoyed (more cos I went around on my own) was
to the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge. Luckily I could catch a
glimpse of the tower bridge making way for a medium sized ship. Wish
I could catch this from the river bank, would have had some lovely pics.
Anyway, next time.

So overall was a short and sweet trip. Will upload some pics later.
Ciao till then..

I hope you feel the song..

But I hope that you feel the song. So now, sometimes, I pray.
I love you more than I can say. Love you more than yesterday.
But I wanna tell you baby. This time I am gonna be sure.
I am coming back for more. I think I love you anyway.

Status message on my friend's chat client. Lovely lines aren't they?