A day off… what a relief

The second half of the year accounts for a large number of festive holidays in India… yesterday was one such day… on account of Dassera we had an off… I had planned my day somewhat like this…
Washing my Bike
Finishing the book I’ve started reading a week back
Blogging
Going thru my Induction booklet
Clearing the mess in my shelf
Arranging my bank statements & credit card statements
Meeting friends in the eve


And this is what I actually did…
Washed my bike
Blogged
Blogged
Blogged
Blogged
Blogged
Met my friends in the eve

I tried to catch up with most of my friend’s Blog… and ended up spending the whole day in blogging ;-)… NO REGRETS… it was worth :-)>

In the eve I and my friends went to watch the “Burning of Ravan”…
Dassera (or Vijayadashmi)… is a symbol of victory of good over evil…infact this festival is celebrated in a different way, by a different name in different parts of the country…. A lot of mythological stories are linked to it…

And this is how we celebrate it in our colony…….


The “Ram Rath”…
An artificial chariot which takes a whole round of the colony… some kids are dressed up like Ram, Laxman, Sita, Hanuman….


That’s the effigy of Ravan… which is burnt on Dassera to depict victory of Lord Ram over Ravan…



Those are some fireworks which I tried to capture from my cell camera… it looks awesome in real… just fantastic…


And finally Ravan is burnt… traditionally some Puja is done before the burning of Ravan…

The main attraction is the fireworks which is simply awesome… 30-45 minutes of non-stop fireworks…. I also did some video recording…

Tomorrow is Friday and then the weekend… me having a great time….
Will catch up with you all during the weekend…

Cheers