Europe Very Own Tirupati Temple

For every devoted Hindu, visiting the world famous Venkatachalapathy Temple in Tirupati, India, is a dream come true.

In fact, when I recently when to India for the very first time, I was disappointed for being unable to visit Venki, as Lord Vengatachalapathy is fondly known, because my trip was extremely hectic.

Despite the disappointment however, I have made a personal resolution to at least visit Venki once in my lifetime.

Having this aspiration, it only brought me more joy when I read recently that Europe now has its very own version of the Tirupati Temple, in Birmingham, London.

The newly built Balaji Temple is said to be the largest Hindu temple in Europe and is expected to be well on its way into the record books as the largest 'multi-national' Hindu temple in the world outside India.

More uniquely, say news reports, the Balaji Temple in London may be the Hindu religion's first truly modern 'multi-national' building because it counts Sri Lankan and Indian Hindus among its founders and ostentatiously rejects an India-centric view of Hinduism.

Read more about it here:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1933636.cms

and here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/5290564.stm

Unveiling The Blueberry's Blog

A close friend and a former wacky workmate, who in the infamous bloggers world of today goes by the name 'The Blueberry', has just started her own blog at http://blueberrymusings.blogspot.com/

In her introductory blog, she describes herself as a 'Cheerful person, harassed employee, stubborn daughter, eccentric sister, stingy aunt, devoted wife and broody mother.'

While I may not be able to vouch for certain things she described about herself such as being a broody mother, I'm quite amused with her blog titled Dearest Hubba Bubba which you can read at http://blueberrymusings.blogspot.com/2006/08/dearest-hubba-bubba.html

Here, this cheerful and chirpy friend of mine describes her husband as 'a charming, hardworking man in his early 30s.'

Note that the real point of amusement for me comes in her second line which reads, " Romantic and loving, funny and clumsy, he lights up my world with his constant "Isn't Tiramisu a type of sushi?" type of blunders."

Now, now, in the comfort of knowing that my husband-to-be doesn't even know I have a blog let alone read it, I truly think The Blueberry's husband must be a nice guy for I doubt I will be free to blog again should my husband-to-be find out that I have blogged about him and described his 'How come the wantan mee that I buy always never weighs one tonne?' or 'Bathing is hardwork. You know, you have to stand for at least 15-20 minutes, apply soap and then wash it off.'

It can be pretty tiring for someone who works hard (READ as sitting down in the same spot without moving) all day long like me.' quirks.

Opps...did I just let out too much details about the person who doesn't know I have a blog?!
I shouldn't be talking more, really. Anything is possible in the cyber world and if you don't see me posting more stuff about my husband-to-be in the near future, you know I have silently been given a stern warning not to repeat this ever again ;-)

Read The Blueberry's Musings every now and then as she is a delightful friend and I bet her blog will never lack the same element, too.

Have a good day :-)

A Case of Dumb & Dumber?

I've heard of some really odd things but this test by German scientists probably goes the extra mile in telling us how far modern science has gone.

I mean, granted there are positives and negatives to all R&D activities and findings but what really beats me is how scientist can actually think of 'anti-stupid' pills.

Read it in full here: http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=13102735&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews