My fellow Indians are excused from thinking that I am going to talk about Katrina Kaif but this really is much more serious than even her acting. Hurricane Katrina hit the US landfall today morning (IST) and was headed towards the city of New Orleans. I experienced the fury first-hand on CNN and they did a fantastic job of sending reporters right in the path of the storm. The eye of the storm is said to be 50 kms and it was rated to be category 5. This evening though it was downgraded to Category 3 but still devastating enough. All this information was thanks to Randhir who got me into thinking mode and I searched the web franctically for more information. As I mentioned somewhere on this blog that he has this passion for following hurricanes.
As the storm narrowly misses New Orleans, it is now heading towards Mississippi. Meanwhile read more about Hurricanes/Typhoons/Cyclones here.
And I finally got my sisters to tie rakhis on saturday..Yippeee! I remember back in the school days, I was the proudest boy with a total of 6 rakhis! And the big show-off that I was, I used to wear them to school the other day ;-) and everyone used to gaze at my small, thin wrist laden with rakhis of all colours and shiny laces. Rakhi used to be a good day when all my sisters would come home and have lunch and of course tie the rakhi. Now things are totally different. While our equation with one of my cousion has gone sour, 2 of my sisters have got married and settled abroad and I have now 3 of them who visited me every year on this auspicious day. The most part of the day was that my most favourite cousin and my friend from Canada called me to wish me on Rakhi day :-)
I would not have written this piece but for this cute little bushy tailed sweetie who comes everyday to visit us. Mom has been feeding her for sometime and I have got used to her presence now. I am talking about a squirrel who has become like a family member now. Her favourite area is the pot where we have a flowering plant standing tall amongst the other lot.