The Great Wall of Darmapuri

So we went on this super rushed trip to kerala..specifically to go to our family temple and seekthe blessings of the family diety of my moms side...a tiny little village called nemmarra which is about an hours drive from pallacaud (this is how i like to spell it:D)....it was fun to take a nine hr trip to kerala , although the same cannot be said of the return journey (too tiring and our entie compartment had kids of all age groups ..which was alright cause i do love babies n cute one yr olds..but seriously..9 hrs was all i could take of their cuteness..hail all mothers because i cant imagine how it must be to have them around 24/7 on a constant cycle of crying, laughing, eating,peeing/pooping, crying, laughing and more eating ...man..im seriously saturated....dnt wanna see another little rascal for a while thank you..so rest assured i aint having a baby in a very looonngggggggggggg time...)

the train journey actually reminded me of the good old days when , as kids, we went to trivandrum during the summers..the paddy fields, anorexic cows (are these the same cows that give us our daily milk..man they must milk a 100 of them to get one packet of milk...), chadiless kiddos waving at the passing train, coconut trees, monkeys, dams and small lakes...loved it..this trip for some reason i was acting like some NRI returning home after a very long time to her motherstate kerala ..i got very excited when i could see the train turning from my window seat..eating bajjis and cutlets that were deep fried in recycled oil , eating biriyani that tasted like pulao and watching a bunch of monkeys lined near the tracks standing on their hind legs and ofcourse the great wall of darmapuri ( it seemed to start from darmapuri and extended till another tiny village that you wont find in any map called i think ..umm i dnt rememeber:((..damn it)

so ya driving from pallacaud to nemmara was fun..man the air is so crisp and pure n clean...the whole place is clean ..i mean it is a true fact that kerala is a very hygenic state...your skin just glowsssss and you never get burnt in the sun....it was exhilirating to know your driving to a little town that was only a few kilometers long , which was where my mothers family lived generations ago...and at one point my great great great grandmom decided to move to trivandrum from where the family never went back to nemmara...and that must have been an amazing trip..dad was talking about how in those days obviously there were no trians n buses..just bulluck carts..so people walked or got on these carts and travelled..it would have taken atleast 9 months to a year for them to have tralvelled from the village to trivandrum..through forests n wht not..pretty cool and way bold..my dads ancestors also did the sam thng..cause his family comes from calicut and moved totrivandrum ions ago....we have a family temple there as well so yup going to calicut is for sure..but probably another day...im nt very religious but theres somethng peaceful abotu temples in kerala...awesome architecture..even the smallest of temples..and somehow the ambience is just great...and i noticed that most of the idols are abstract forms....not the anthropormophic figures we see in the city...interesting...well to me atleast..but kerala has always been more inclined towards tantric rituals and abstract forms are considered more powerful in hindu philosophy and religious iconography...(umm ok i shall stop art history 101 for now..hehe)

of course i can never live in kerala because everyone goes to slepp at 6..seriously theres noother state ive come across thats in a time warp!!!time stands still!!it cant get more conservative and gossipy than kerala..thts wht i hate most..evryone knows every one elses businesss and has an opinion about it..which is mostly negative...yikeess!!!but the place is just breathtakingly beautiful..so i love visiting it!!and the banana chips are to die for......man i ate1/2 kg of it in two days:((((...there goes my diet..but i did hit the gym..sigh..anyways ive lost weight unlike the ball of a man im going to marry in two weeks time!!hehe..aww so cute!!

but thts it..one more week before i head to chennai so am gonna relax..chill out..but ya these days im getting to be more n more nervous about the wedding...its a weird feeling..i think im going to be totally weirded out when i wear all tht jewelery and saree ..:S...i mean its all pretty n nice but i dnt dress up like tht usually..thank god!..theres way to much gold for my liking..i hate gold..really do..and mallus generally are crazy about gold and my moms worried im not wearing enough (i dnt think she'll be happy even if i was dipped in the metal)..im hoping to god i dont look like the ambassador for dubai's gold zouk..yikeesss:S...anyways..the only time ill feel like myself is the cocktail party..cause i'll be dressed simple..hmm

anyways im starting to get nervous..arghhh..