Hyperion blogs moved.....

I'm planning to move all the Hyperion related topics to a different blog site.....

http://ckattookaran-hyperion.blogspot.com/

So all those who wish to check Hyperion related post please use that one.....

Work life balance :)

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Save our Tigers

Sundays are a time when you relax a lot....and I was in bed....and suddenly I was thinking about writing this down.....

I was thinking a lot about this..... Save Our Tigers I kept on telling myself...sleep now we can do it later.....but you know....and here I'm writing something on Our Indian Tigers......

The first time when I saw the initiative ad by Aircel, I was riding and thought is it true?.....then I forgot about it.....but I don't know how....because I was not doing much that time.....So one day.....I think weeks later I opened up the site http://saveourtigers.com/ and then came to know that what I saw was true....

And the Truth is there are just 1411 tigers left.....!!!!!!!

shot from South Africa, near Harbeesport Dam

Fossil evidence indicates that modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago, so a picture from the same continent can do some justice......

Our greed....yes I should say that......We in the race of conquering heights...exploring, discovering.....things....just forgot or trying to ignore the fact of co-existence.....

Yes "We" the most complex, advanced, evolved and brainy things in the evolution cycle....(who knows whether we are still evolving and will turn up as something else in the years to go).....the all knowing man.....killed, for his pleasure....for god know for what all.....and now.....

Yet another animal under the verge of extinction.

I clicked on whatever link that was available on the site and joined many groups....but not knowing whether that will make any difference.....but hats off for such an initiative.....I came back home and was still thinking on the same lines.....and we(my mom, wife and me) as usual in our dinner discussions arrived on something similar.....

We were discussing about the plants, fruits, that were there when we were kids....and then many of my mom's childhood buddies were there in my wife's and mine also. As a kid I used to explore....roam around.....with a stick and beat all the bushes.....and almost eat anything that my hands could reach.....I still remember eating a wild berry and puking for a ling time ;) coming back to the topic......

But the strange fact is I cannot find any of those plants any more.....those berries and.....lot more...gone....just vanished....I searched so that I can take some pictures.....but......couldn't.....

Something like a plant disappears....some people notices....
Something even bigger, more people notices....
What will happen if we disappear!!!!!!!! will there be someone to notice!!!!!!!!!!!

Save things that we can save so that we'll be saved......!!!!!!!!!

Coexistence is more than a struggle!!!!!! it is a learning tooo....

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Celvin Istanbul'da

After a long time.....I thought of penning my stay in Istanbul.....

Disclaimer:- All the characters in this are real. :)

Okay......Celvin in Istanbul

I was tensed, and when I look back,(Raina - my wife, my girlfriend, my friend....... also told me that it was worth looking at your tensed, rather very tensed face) yeah my first trip outside the country...and my first project in my new company.....so there were many reasons ;)

When in landed on Ataturk Hava Limani....I never thought that was the beginning of a life long....memorable time...I had a company there in the form of Kannan, my colleague and we enjoyed going out...my first day near Bosphorus.....we enjoyed the other side....Asian side and we were on European side..... isn't it wonderful.

Then came the first day in office......and I met my second Turkish teacher....(first teacher is yet to come and with a bang ;)) and my Project Manager....Gorkem Sevik, then Tim Goodall our architect....and Ashwin....and Hasan.....

from left Celvin, Tim, Gorkem, Aswin - taken by Hasan

Then I met two characters....Mihirban Kahveci, my first Turkish teacher.....(its Kahveji.....by the way c in Turkish is pronounced as "j") and Ilhan Siviri....I love you both.....two admirable, notable characters.....I can talk a lot about them now.....for hours.....but our first meeting was not a noticeable one....I thought they are some people who are working here....but we didn't interact much.....and since they were fasting.....we missed them from our lunch sessions...and our little gossips.......All together it was a better start.....I still remember those discussions we had in our old project room....and we used to take pics of our very good white-board, so that all the ideas that flew in were captured and kept.....Oh those wonderful days.....

Weekend!!!!!! My first encounter with Bosphorus

We...Kannan, Aswin and me....thought of going for the very famous Bhosphorus trip.....I was a fool....yeah some may say that I'm still one....I thought first it was a lake, then we had a discussion "What is Bosphorus?" and then i was lucky that I read Wiki....and was able to give a correct description that it is a strait :)

So the boat trip starts from Ortakoy....and goes till Fatih Bridge (or called as second bridge)....

You can find these boats anytime....lying there in Oratkoy Iskelesi

                    
Aswin and Kannan enjoying the trip......

More pics

So.....this was the journey I started some time back.....and will continue.....more to come.....in My Istanbul Diaries

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Some of my clicks

This was my first encounter with camera and moon. Seen from 1st floor of our beautiful Anand Nagar, Colony, Kharitabad. We - Rakesh, Nitin used to stay there.

I dont know what this is called in English. Pakshe Malayalathil ethine "Nellika Puli" ennu vilikkum. Shot from Bangalore, when i was going to see my friend, well wisher, and beautiful "Lachu" and her chweeeet daughter "Sweta".

Ethu vanthu "Hitech City Railway Station, Hyderabad". Miles to go before i sleep!!!!

Shot from "my own Trichur" it was raining and red is my favorite color.

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Angel

My first blog.....so i just thought i'll start with a Story of mine.....which was written to impress somebody.....and that somebody is now my wife......

So here we go.....

An Angel

I was there, standing.............I know there can be questions where, who which.....but all those questions seem to be irrelevant considering all those incidents happened.....and like you reader, I'm also unaware.

Its the sacred month of Easter......though not religious I was standing and not hearing what was going around at The Church. Its the holy week and the all the Christians and I mean all, who are so pious and who are for the namesake......were there listening to the speech.....and some to their own thoughts......

I was going on weaving my own web, thoughts about my love, job.....about.....some I don't even remember......After the speech Priest asked all the people to carry The Holy Water, because that can purify all the houses......I don't know how effective is that if the main one, your mind is not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No one was supposed to drink that and clergy were checking on that as it was a very sunny day.......

I was least bothered about these, but I was looking at a cripple. He was young, but I don't know what was his punishment...because he was born as a cripple. Maybe it was his original sin....He was moving towards the barrel holding Holy Water and he drank a bit....There came my good old clergy shouting at the boy......

I heard the Father raising Christ's Holy Body and his Holy Blood.....and also I saw the boy crawling back.......

I saw the little one sitting beside me smiling.....as if he saw the white little feathers that started growing.....at the back of the cripple....and he also saw him flying away......but I couldn't......I couldn't......I couldn't.....

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