tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post986986806524516440..comments2023-10-19T15:27:24.113+05:30Comments on My Musings: Our journey northward and back - Part Iparijatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766691048085485541noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-54368920827657402302007-11-15T12:25:00.000+05:302007-11-15T12:25:00.000+05:30""I don't know if I have the energy!"Excerpt of an...""I don't know if I have the energy!"<BR/><BR/>Excerpt of an article in Harvard Business Review (Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time - by Tony Schwartz)<BR/><BR/>can be read here (http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?articleID=R0710B&ml_action=get-article&print=true)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-84487977709220083952007-11-04T09:09:00.000+05:302007-11-04T09:09:00.000+05:30"Yes, we are related." -:)"Yes, we are related." -:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-91025906707696670612007-10-30T11:06:00.000+05:302007-10-30T11:06:00.000+05:30@Aram, Yes, we are related.@Aram, <BR/>Yes, we are related.parijatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766691048085485541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-75386861350660929522007-10-26T15:05:00.000+05:302007-10-26T15:05:00.000+05:30"Funny, eh?"I didn't know Nilagriva and you were r..."Funny, eh?"<BR/><BR/>I didn't know Nilagriva and you were related.<BR/><BR/>If I said this in DS' blog, he would tell me that I am acting quite innocent. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-67578103087989438862007-10-24T17:48:00.000+05:302007-10-24T17:48:00.000+05:30@Aram,I thought that it was you! Thanks for the of...@Aram,<BR/>I thought that it was you! Thanks for the offer. I will ask you for help if I cannot find the book.<BR/><BR/>@Shark,<BR/>Welcome to my blog. <BR/>If you take the KK Express, you will reach Kopargaon by about 2 O clock. Bhakta Nivas is the best place to stay in Shirdi. But they have a queue system, and it will be at least five or six hours before you can get a room. So, it will be easier on you if you can book a room in another hotel for bathing, etc.<BR/><BR/>About the darshan - if you want to attend the aarti, you will have to start in the queue about two hours before the aarti schedule. Visit <A HREF="http://shrisaibabasansthan.org/main_English/shirdi/dailyprograms.asp" REL="nofollow"> the Sai Baba sansthan's website</A> for aarti timings. If you just want to finish the darshan soon, then you can start as soon as the aarti is over; the queue will not be as long at that time. <BR/><BR/>And as with visits to any other place, weekdays and non-holidays are much better. Bhakta Nivas rents rooms for forty-eight hours. So you can roam around in Shirdi for a day, and for the next day, you can visit nearby places - we did Shani Shinganapur, Ghrishneshwar and Ellora. <BR/><BR/>And another thing - to get reservations on KK Express, it is *necessary* that you reserve your tickets as soon as the bookings start (two months before the travel dates). This can be done online too, so it is pretty easy.<BR/><BR/>Toodle-oo for now, then.parijatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766691048085485541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-5717719398787575282007-10-22T16:45:00.000+05:302007-10-22T16:45:00.000+05:30me too planning for a trip to shirdi in the near f...me too planning for a trip to shirdi in the near future.<BR/>Any tips?<BR/>Any particular good darshan timings? Actually any info will be helpful :)<BR/><BR/>I have been there once, but that time we just went at some time and came back.<BR/>Want to do more this time :)Sharkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988390811396242179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-85511999890158918142007-10-18T06:56:00.000+05:302007-10-18T06:56:00.000+05:30have the book here. if you can't find it anywhere...have the book here. if you can't find it anywhere, will be happy to scan and send. will need to get a scanner first, though! <BR/><BR/>Sending for purely selfish reasons - want to read more and more of your creative output and possibly help make an inveterate traveller.<BR/><BR/>-- Anon #2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-39162033094713251882007-10-17T17:23:00.000+05:302007-10-17T17:23:00.000+05:30@Anonymous #1, Thanks for the information.@Anonymo...@Anonymous #1, <BR/>Thanks for the information.<BR/><BR/>@Anonymous #2,<BR/>Come on, it is not a great feat at all.. I am sure there are many women who do all this and more. <BR/><BR/>The book seems very interesting. I will check that out soon.parijatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766691048085485541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-6921055825349846922007-10-16T23:00:00.000+05:302007-10-16T23:00:00.000+05:30"I don't know if I have the energy!"For a long tim..."I don't know if I have the energy!"<BR/><BR/>For a long time I had been meaning to ask you the secret of your seemingly inexhaustible energy!<BR/><BR/>Job, wife, mother, daughter-in-law, music studies and riyaz, reading, blogging, commenting, replying, and now travelling.....<BR/><BR/>You know there are non-working housewives who find it hard to manage just one husband and one child!<BR/><BR/>Suggested Reading:- On Form - Managing Energy, Not Time, Is The Key To High Performance, Health, Happiness, (and Life Balance). Authors: Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz<BR/><BR/>Review at <BR/><BR/>http://www.amazon.co.uk/Form-Achieving-Performance-Sacrificing-Happiness/dp/185788325XAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-73863437858731765812007-10-16T21:21:00.000+05:302007-10-16T21:21:00.000+05:30More information about Chennai Hotels.More information about <A HREF="http://chennaihotel.info" REL="nofollow">Chennai Hotels</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-18358789729922022392007-10-16T10:54:00.000+05:302007-10-16T10:54:00.000+05:30All, Sorry for the delay in replying. @Aram, Funny...All, <BR/>Sorry for the delay in replying. <BR/>@Aram, <BR/>Funny, eh?<BR/>I corrected the dates. Thanks for pointing it out. <BR/>Your Aunt's passion reminded me of Naipaul's 'India: A Million Mutinies Now'. Naipaul travelled for a long time throughout the length and breadth of India, talking to people, and experiencing India in all its flavors. I want to do something like that too, but I don't know if I have the energy! <BR/><BR/>@DS,<BR/>Thanks. Madras and Chennai - well, these things creep in, you know ;)<BR/><BR/>@BPSK,<BR/>Thanks. Speaking of vadas in the railway station, have you tasted the vada at the Dharmavaram railway station? They serve them with unprocessed green chili. It is delicious. <BR/><BR/>@AN,<BR/>Thanks for visiting my blog.parijatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766691048085485541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-28253099516531394042007-10-13T08:53:00.000+05:302007-10-13T08:53:00.000+05:30@anon- food's a love, but not the only one, and de...@anon- food's a love, but not the only one, and definitely not the first. Will do.<BR/><BR/>BPSKBhel Puri & Seekh Kababhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09195277583355260879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-24762910812248744192007-10-13T08:09:00.000+05:302007-10-13T08:09:00.000+05:30@Bhelpuri and Seekh Kabab:Obviously, food is your ...@Bhelpuri and Seekh Kabab:<BR/>Obviously, food is your first love. Why not devote an exclusive post on this so that we too can salivate?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-83847299440773239112007-10-13T05:32:00.000+05:302007-10-13T05:32:00.000+05:30Nice post. Vada pav and batata vada - what a combo...Nice post. Vada pav and batata vada - what a combo. I still remember traveling by train from Bombay to Madras and eagerly looking forward to Karjat station, where the specialty is batata vada. They were the size of small ladoos, deep fried, and absolutely delicious. We would inhale about 10 of them before coming up for air.<BR/><BR/>Look forward to hearing more.<BR/><BR/>BPSKBhel Puri & Seekh Kababhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09195277583355260879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-30853099814247079512007-10-12T00:36:00.000+05:302007-10-12T00:36:00.000+05:30Nice....we will look forward to reading more.Madra...Nice....we will look forward to reading more.<BR/><BR/>Madras andChennai in the same paragraph, huh? ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942563.post-11886877874104034352007-10-11T13:20:00.000+05:302007-10-11T13:20:00.000+05:30Funny, same topic, same destination of travel in N...Funny, same topic, same destination of travel in Nilagriva's blog.<BR/><BR/>The dates of your post, this one and some earlier ones too, appear to be incorrect.<BR/><BR/>I am reminded of my aunt whose passion was travelling. Every 6 months she would go to some place in India, escorted by my elder brother, sram. Twelve jyothirlingas, Kashmir to Kanyakumari, Dwarka to Guwahati. I was lucky to accompany them to Kedarnath and Badri where I saw the Vyasagufa where the Mahabharata was dictated and written, and the road through which Yudhishtira ascended to the Heaven, on the China border. ( China=heaven? Kailasaparbat is indeed in China, though the Valley of Flowers is not).<BR/><BR/>Once she finished Indian places, she started visiting the world.<BR/><BR/>Now both of us awaiting the final journey, destination unknown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com