One Loooong day

The picture is below in case you are wondering :p

I'm seriously up to my neck in packing. I think packing stuff especially sorting the stuff which deserves to be in the luggage bag and stuff which goes into the bin is the uphill task. The moment something lands in the bin, you envision the struggle you had in the fitting room, the tiresome walk you had in the quest of 'finding the one' , the kgs you lost in order to fit into the dress and then there you go, shoving that back into your already-pregnant-and waiting-to-burst bag. My only hope now is that i get my bag in one piece after the shipping.

With the neck deep packing task, i still had time to visit some places. I have been wanting to go to this temple for long but never really got time to do so. So, yesterday when finally the sky cleared and the sun came out shining some (SOME ONLY) light on us, we decided to make use of it and complete our long pending desire. I have never been to a Venkadasalabati (hope it's correct) temple and i have heard a lot about this temple in Helensburgh. So left around 7am and arrived there at 10.30 (it's not 3.5 hrs journey. It's our sense of time and punctuality). The temple was so gorgeous but the only problem was that it was so huge that we were confused where to start. I think we were the only people who stood in front of the temple discussing where to start from. After a long discussion (really it was long..and the pujari was keep on looking at us from far wondering whether we are the latest terrorists to join the temple-bombing bandwagon), we started praying. The only thing in my mind at that point of time was that the pujari. No..not that he was so handsome that i forgot to look at the handsomer Mr.VENKATASALABATHI,it was just that i was so pre-occupied that the pujari would comment on the way i was praying as everything was scattered around and i am so used to praying from one God to another. Once, we were done we had second discussion "Is this the right temple? If it is then where is Mr. Venkatasalabathi? Is it possible not to have a Venkatasalabathi in His temple?". However that thought wasn't as disturbing as the other thought. "Pujari said there is Prasadham. So, where is it?";P. So in the quest of finding the Prasadham we found the 'real' temple. Mr. Venkat was 'residing' in the 'block' behind the main temple (apparently that wasn't the main temple). So, i was so excited of seeing Him and also the prasadham;-). So here are some of the pictures

After the temple, we decided to visit Wollongong, a coastal are somewhere near the temple. That was another long journey and as usual we did a lot walking there and landed in the beach where we had heaps of fun. As all of you know, me being a Kollywood and Bollywood buff managed to perform some Bollywood moments at the beach..without a hero which was the saddest part. And i bet those onlookers would have thought "poor girls, first time discovering sea and sand!". Who cares? It's a beach! Here are some of those moments

P/S-Before i get back to the packing, for those who have a vast knowledge on Tamil situation songs, do you know what's the song people usually sing before they push another person off a hill? According to my friend there is an old song where the hero (she says it's either Sivaji or MGR which i strongly disagree because they don't push/kill people..they are HEROES) pushes someone off from the 'malai' (hill). I said it's Male..male maruthamale song. But she is not agreeing:p