Summer of '09

Well, The summer is over for quite a while. But I felt the title is apt to relate some of the wonderful experiences through this summer up until now.

It started on 1st of May when I had given a talk titled "The Hinduism" to some of my fellow grad-school friends. I really enjoyed preparing for the talk which involved going back in to my past quite a while ago when I had been a pampered kid in the aegis of my parents where I was taught the basic facets of religion. At once, I felt very happy remembering the days when I had the chance to gloss over some of the greatest texts such as Bhagavata purana, Ramayana etc during which I have unknowingly gained a solid background in hinduism. I received some appreciating comments from some of the audience and I am left with good feelings abt it. One notable feature in the presentation was a clip from "Matrix-The revolutions" with a background score of recitation of Shanti Mantra.

And then, the summer went on with lots of activities that I have not done in any summer to this extent as much as I can remember.

I had the opportunity to go for a lot of hikes and hence experience a lot of nature.

In between my friend Gopins made a trip to Canada where I had the opportunity to visit Canada east of Vancouver has got materialized with a wonderful and very memorable road trip, the best I ever had.

It is like I had a fantasy of mine(particularly enhanced by movies such as 'Dil Chata He') got fulfilled.

Finally it all comes to the end in an astounding way.

I would say that I had an amazing night, one to remember with lots of satisfaction and happiness for years to come. I am part of club called "UTSAV" which is the Indian student's association of UBC and we organized a function for the upcoming festival of Deepawali. We call it Deepmala.

It was an amazing experience to really bring it out to the people. It was an attempt by people who have been passionate about achieving the goal of organizing a great Deepmala function.