11 and 12 november 2004

The two festival days. Not much enjoyment was there as it was in our early childhood. It was all watching aroun today, not much doing it ourselves. As a middle class person, I can control myself from those enjoyments for the moment but surely we can relish them as we grow up and transform into a person who can afford for all these.

It is not worthwhile talking about these things on this festival day. Of course, the festival days are over by yesterday, but this post was published, the next day after the festival. We were passing our time by watching TV mostly.

On 11th particularly, my grandparents and I went to the temple of Sri Lord Venkateswara on the seven hills. It was quite a long time we stood in the queue. Many breaks were there due to the 'Kalyanotsavam'. We had to wait for a long time for our line to get started in the running queue. We were dumped in the Vaikuntam queue complex for almost an hour.

We returned home only at 5:00 P.M. in the evening after leaving the house at 9:00 A.M. in the morning. It was a pleasant day in the hill station - Tirumala. We lit some crackers in the night after my father came in the night.

12th was a festival day, but completely dedicated to the 'Idiot box'. We were watching three films at a time. In the afternoon, we were lucky enough to get the permission from our parents to watch telugu movie. That's it for the day. We just await the match between India and Pakistan tomorrow, in Kolkata tomorrow.