DESERT THOUGHTS

Christmas is the day when Jesus Christ was born. Christians celebrate Christmas by going to churches, putting up Christmas trees and exchanging gifts. It is celebrated on 25 th of December. People sing Christmas carols and enjoy themselves. People decorate their houses on Christmas. Santa clause comes to each and every one’s houses to give gifts to children. Every year people take 25 days lent for Christmas. They also go out and celebrate the festival. On the day of Christmas we wish all our friends, family and relatives. For Christmas we also make cake, vine and turkey. This is how we celebrate the festival of Christmas. We also send greetings to everyone by SMS’s, and e mails and all. But there are people who don’t believe that Christmas is celebrated on 25 th December. They believe it is celebrated on 7 th January. Christmas is celebrated more often in India than gulf countries.

Life is tough Life is beautiful. God is the one who gives us life and takes our life. We can have a lavish life and a poor life. We must also never waste food. because that is also given to us by God. We must always live a good life. We must be disciplined. If we have money in life, we must never waste it. We would have to face many things in life. Even if our loved ones die we must move on with life because we all have to leave this world and we are all temporary. In life we are first sons or daughters then we get married and become a husband or a wife and then we become a parent and then we become grand parents and then we become great grand parents and then some day we die. This is what life is abt. Sometimes for all that we don’t even have to get married or become all these. Because none of us know what is going to happen in life. We should also help the poor and the needy. We should never be greedy or jealous. We should always be good to every one. I am some one who is good to all

Diwali is a grand festival celebrated by hindus and Noth Indians. It is a very colorful festival. It comes every year in different dates.   Diwali is celebrated in India more often than everywhere. People distribute sweets and burst crackers.   So it’s a special season. Every one lights a candle with an object as they call it Dia. Even I also celebrate Diwali every year in Kuwait. I go to Salmiya and burst crackers with all my family and relatives. This is my experience on Diwali.

Today I was reading an article on St Augustine. From that what I have understood is that he wasn’t born a Christian. Actually he got converted into a Christian. They say that he was a Roman African. In his article he has written that Christians should avoid astrologers. What he has said is true. Because God is the one who made us and he decides our future and destination. But there was nothing about his death written.

Recently, I went with my family on a train journey after a long time. We went by the Rajdhani express from Kochi to Udupi in an a/c, three tier 2nd class compartment. We had dinner before we boarded from Cochin. When we got into the train we noticed it was not very clean and we were very surprised. Many times they came and offered us food and drinks which were part of the fare but we rejected it as we were in the compartment near the kitchen and noticed it was not neat at all. We slept the whole night in the train and woke up by 6 am as we were to reach Udipi by 7 am. The train was in Mangalore station and didn’t move for a long time. After half an hour we got to know the reason from our fellow passengers. The tracks ahead were blocked due to a land slide. We waited for over nearly four hours hoping the train would move. After some time a passenger sitting near me asked me where I am going and my father overheard them talking to me. And they encouraged us to go by road since Manipal

Recently, I went with my family on a train journey after a long time. We went by the Rajdhani express from Kochi to Udupi in an a/c, three tier 2nd class compartment. We had dinner before we boarded from Cochin. When we got into the train we noticed it was not very clean and we were very surprised. But we didn’t have the food there coz it wasn’t good and our compartment wasn’t clean. Many times they came and offered us food and drinks which were part of the fare but we rejected it as we were in the compartment near the kitchen and noticed it was not neat at all. We slept the whole night in the train and woke up by 6 am as we were to reach Udipi by 7 am. The train was in Mangalore station and didn’t move for a long time. After half an hour we got to know the reason from our fellow passengers. The tracks ahead were blocked due to a land slide. We waited for over nearly four hours hoping the train would move. After some time a passenger sitting near me asked me where I am going and my f

Onam is the biggest and most important festival of Kerala. It is also a harvest festival and is celebrated with joy and enthusiasm by people of all communities. According to a legendary popularity, the festival is celebrated to welcome King Mahabali whose spirit is said to visit Kerala at the time of Onam. Onam is celebrated in the first month of chingam which is from August to September that is in the gregorian calender. Carnival of the festival is celebrated from 4 to 10 days. The first is Atham and the 10th is Thiruvonam. Elaborate feasts, folk songs, energetic dances, elephants, flowers and boats, all are part of onam. Government has taken due notice of the vibrant and colourful festival. Onam is internationally promoted in a big way and celebrates tourist week. Thousands of domestic tourists and foriegn tourists come to India to take part for onam. There is also a tradition to play games which we call onamkalli. On the ocassion of onam ladies draw a flower shaped design ca

Shashi Tharoor was born in London, He did his schooling in Kerala and Bombay. He did his high school in Calcutta. And also he did his bachelors of arts in Delhi.  He has also worked in countries like Singapore,Geneva and New York. He was actually a theatre buff and an actor in his school days. Tharoor has 2 twin sons. He married a Canadian girl named Christy Gile. Later he got divorced to her and he married Sunanda Pushkar who is actually a Kashmiri. He had been giving her lot of money. They got married in his ancestral home.

Wishing you all a happy and a prosperous onam 2010. God bless every1.

I went to Kenya for a holiday last year. I went to Dubai from Cochin. From there i flew to Nairobi with my family. When we reached Nairobi they had given us a menu in that they had written our schedule. We also stayed in Nairobi for one night. From there we flew to Kenya in a small aircraft and we landed there in an air strip. Actually Kenya is an empty grassland. We stayed in a resort called Mara Simbha. We saw animals like lions,deers,jackals,cheetah,elephants and birds like secretary bird and all. In Africa the meaning of hello is Jambo. There is also a crocodile and hipopotamus living near the resort. In Kenya u also get Indian food. There are many Indians also out there. We wanted to see the lepeord also but we couldnt see. We were asked to get up at 5 30 am in the morning. And again we went for hunting.  We saw parashoots and all. And then we went to the massai mara village. We also saw the massai mara tribes men. All of them were very educated. They did many types of dances also

Yesterday evening i went to Sanichen uncle's place. Sherly aunty served me a cup of coffee. I showed mimicri. They were also very impressed and Sanichen uncle took me to lenotre for a treat. He spoke abt Mammen Mappillai and i told him that my great grand uncle was very close to Mammen Mappillai. Because when Mammen Mappillai went to jail. my great grand uncle went and saw Gandhi ji.

Kerala is a state in South India. It has 14 districts. Each district has got a governor. But the only problem is that the roads are very bad in Kerala. Government should repair it. Kerala is also slowly developing. Kerala was formed in the year 1957. Before Kerala was formed we had only travancore and cochin. At that time we had rulers like Kerala verma, Pazhassi Raja, Marthanda verma. We also had kingdom of Cochin. Still today in Kerala there are old Palaces like Dutch Palace in Fort Cochin. We have the synagogue. St Thomas earlier landed in Kodungalloor and he turned some of the hindus into christians.

My great grand uncle A A Paul was very close to Mammen Mappillai because when Mammen Mappillai went to jail he went to see Gandhiji at that time. A A Paul was my great grand father's younger brother.