The Royal Wedding

Since my birth, I have heard about Lady Diana and always admired her beauty and fame. I was always interested in her family picture with her two cute sons Prince William & Prince Harry since my childhood.

Prince William and Kate Middleton were in news for their royal wedding this month. People around the world were interested in what Middleton will wear for her wedding. Same with me, I was curious enough on how grand their wedding would be.

The day before their wedding, I wondered how the couple would feel on their wedding tomorrow. Following Prince William in Twitter gives latest updates on him as he quoted “One wants to live like common people, one wants to do whatever common people do..." The grass is always green on the other side. 
That night I searched Internet for the wedding news, the wedding is everywhere in Internet. This made me watch Lady Diana’s wedding in YouTube at my night.

The next day in my office, I almost forgot about the wedding on my sickness. Returned home early from office due to my sickness and forgot to watch the news about the wedding. Late in the evening, I forced myself from my bed to the internet, to have a glimpse of Middleton’s wedding gown.

On watching the wedding video of the bride’s ride from the hotel to the Westminster Abbey along with her father in a Rolls Royce, with hundreds of crowd is simply royal.

Today, their pictures and news were everywhere. Picked another news from Internet that the couple came out of the Buckingham Palace hours after their wedding in Aston Martin eco-car driven by Prince William. This is unusual to the royals and learnt it is the idea of the Prince and it was very cute. The car is owned by his father and it carried a learner's board in front and a board with JU5TWED.

This wedding is as grand and royal to the wedding of Lady Diana & Prince Charles. Surely, a wedding of the century.

Tourism outside your place

Woke up early and got ready to have the breakfast soon. All these were for just one reason - to enjoy the Allepey backwater ride in the houseboat. Long time dream of taking a cruise in a houseboat and enjoy the scenery along the backwaters. Stayed in a wonderful hotel on the shore of backwaters which forces you to take a motor boat whenever you feel like stepping out of the hotel.

Enjoying the morning scenery of the backwaters with coconut trees on the banks in the motor boat, during when a houseboat came near for us to switch to the houseboat for a wonderful ride. Enjoyed the entry to the houseboat and switched on the camera as the first thing like all tourists.

Banks of the backwater is filled up with nice concrete houses of the localities. It was around 9am in Allepey, also called as Alapuzzha in Kerala, meant for backwater cruises for tourists.

Pleasure to the eyes to watch the different kind of houses neatly painted with bright colours. The boat man took us through the village and pointed us to the small boats which belong to each houses for their daily commutation to the city via backwaters. Hundreds of houseboats thronged the backwaters in Allepey with tourists including Indians & foreigners which left the localities no different from their daily activities.

Could notice people coming out of their houses from their sleep and carry on with their daily activities like brushing the teeth, bathing, catching fishes and washing clothes in the banks of the backwater while the tourist enjoys the houses, activities of these people and numerous coconut trees.

Apparently, people travel across places in India & abroad from their home towns. People who actually go around places in their hometown with their cameras on, are very low. Considering the city I live in, I have not seen most of the tourist places for years and have very little collections of photographs of the city I live in.

Have you seen all the tourist places in the place you live in? How many of us have photographs of our town?

Glorious Win

My eyes were drowsy after a heavy lunch on a weekend, but do not want to close my eyes as my thought was running over to switch on the television at 2:30PM. Never regularly followed the game the country loves after my school, but this particular cricket match is different.

It is the ICC World Cup 2011 finals with India vs Sri Lanka. Whole nation, media, Indian citizens across the world kept their fingers crossed to win the world cup this time.

Opened my eyes with a sudden thought judging it must be time to wake up to switch on the TV. Lazy to get up in a tiring sleep, looked at the watch and rushed towards the TV to know who won the toss. Little pessimistic over the toss with Lanka choosing to bat first.

Always not much interested to watch the other team bat, so opened my laptop and started browsing with a glance to the TV now and then for the score. With the Lankans struggling to get the ball to the boundary, started murmuring to get a wicket for every ball from the Indian bowlers.

My mother came after sometime during the end of the Srilanka batting and started following the score. We both were enjoying the match with the hope that Indian can get the score, that was when the Lankans screwed the hope of entire Indian fans in the last 5 overs with the high score of 275 to win.

All TV channels screwed the Indian captain of his decisions, making everyone worry about the world cup win. This drama glued everyone in front of the TV, giving way to hassle free traffic jams in the road, no crowd in the cinema halls and shopping malls.

Indians started playing with a great hope and power; disappointing the Indian crowd on the second ball to lose an important wicket, which might have made most of them to switch off the TV. :-) Another wicket on the crucial player shattered the hope of world cup at that point of time. I guess most of them would have started doing their own work to be away from following the score. My mother & I moved away from the television to carry on with our work but leaving it on for updates.

Neverthless, the captain sketched the true captaincy in the world cup with the glorious win which cannot be explained by words. It was around 11PM, before the last ball to win the second world cup for the nation, crackers bursted the sky with rocket, colors, noise in the neighbourhood. My mother screamed on the victory with the last sixer which made us run to the verandh to see the colorful sky with beautiful crackers bursting. The match made every individual shout with joy by becoming world champions.

Switched off the television after 9.5 hours and started to continue my sleep with the thought of the glorious win which I have seen after my birth.

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