"A Week Full Of Movies"

Last week , happened to watch some exciting movies in Pix . The channel has some excellent collection of movies that caters to all type of audience. I have listed some of the movies which enthralled me a lot.Each movie differs from another with no resemblance to each other romance,action, comedy,real life story,biography, fiction.

1. Next

2. Hurt locker

3. 21

4. Catch me if you can

5. Aviator

6. 50 first dates

7. Money train

8.Da vinci code

9. Forbidden kingdom

by

KVS

“Enchanting Tirupati”

It was the day that filled my heart and soul with sanctity. Everything fell into place at the right time, to make a perfect visit to Tirupati. We (Me and 2 of my class mates) started our journey to Tirumala at 6.30 AM from Chennai. The four hours of bus journey went on in no time with lots of laughs and gags. In the middle there was pit stop at a motel, where we had our breakfast. The bus reached Tirupati exactly at 11.00 AM. Only two of us decided to ascend the hill by foot, the other friend went to the top by bus.

As we raced through the steps it went on well till 300 nonstop with lot of enthusiasm and pace. We made our first halt at that point, followed by the next halt at 700 th step. This is where we started feeling the pain in our legs and dryness in mouth. We covered 700 in just 30 minutes, by that time we have emptied our first water bottle. Next pit stop at 900, the count on the number of steps reduced owing to the steepness of the hills.

An hour later we covered just 1200 steps, 200 short of the initial start time and we had very long break of 10 min. During our ascend, I happened to notice various kind people each with their own rituals and practice of ascend. Some walking on their knees, some placing camphor on each steps and lighting them and some placing Sandanam and Kum Kum in each step. Walking straight is a humongous thing and bending yourself in each step; I can’t imagine the pain they bear and toughness of their mind.

As a sign of hope , I saw a sign board reading 600 steps more for darshan token but it short lived my friend said “ It’s just the counter and not the top we are just half way through now”. After we received our tokens for the darshan a small halt. From there it was more like a walk which came as survivor to us, with larger steps for another 5 Km. Then came the final 300, where we were almost drained and drenched in sweat .By that time we have emptied 3 water bottles and 2 Sprite bottles. The time was 1.40 PM and it took almost half an hour for us to cover the final league.

The time was 2.15 PM at the top; the devotees were ushered to the q complex especially for the people who came by walk. We made a long halt at the complex for about 90 minutes, when the door was opened there was a huge rush pushing and crushing and shouting and chanting to lead the queue. Finally, to reach the main temple it was 5.30 PM and we had the glimpse of Lord Venkateswara Just for a few seconds .All this ordeal only for this few moments that keeps the hopes of billions to visit again. Such a hardship almost seemed nothing, after the darshan of Lord Venkateswara.

Finally, the next best thing of Tirupati is of course Laddoo’s who can miss this, after receiving it, we reached our room at Ahobila Mutt around 7.30 PM. Two unexpected things happened there , one was our friend who went up directly by bus did not have his darshan and returned home empty handed and other was we could not record any of those moments in cam. Both of these events, made us to plan for another to visit Tirupati asap or atleast before completing our course.

Govinda ! Govinda!

By

KVS