A View from my Flat

I have been wondering where should I post these pictures ever since moving into this flat. Happened to create this blog before I could post these in Orkut or Facebook. And here I publish the pictures clicked from my bedroom.

Hong Kong is known for skyscrapers. Every building competes with another. One such is the ICC, where I work. Its the 4th tallest in the world, as far as I know. Another tallest is the IFC. You can see batman jumping  off the IFC in the movie The Dark Knight.

My flat is also located in a tall residential building and there are 60 floors in it. My flat is on 43rd floor. If you are lucky, you could get a Airport view flat. I wasn't, got a Mountain view flat. 

Here are couple of pics from my flat.

The zoom view

It was a beautiful Saturday morning and there were lot of clouds hovering just above the mountains. It was a good moment to capture clouds brushing the mountains. This view is very typical here. This isn't a great shot but a great view. 

A far view of the mountain

The Airport view could be amazing, I am just imagining now, with planes taking off above the sea and small mountains in the back drop. Spectacular isn't it? Will definitely take a snap and surely post it.

Chopsticks vs Spoon

I never thought I would have to use Chopsticks in my life. It didn't happen in the first couple months of my stay in Hong Kong. Then came the team lunch on a Saturday, when we decided to have at a vegetarian Cantonese restaurant. Ahmad and Simon gave me few tips how to hold and use them. I had to give a try for chopsticks against Turnip cake.

Frankly speaking, I never got a hold of them. I struggled, finally gave up using them and switched to spoons.

Today morning, I was having my breakfast Corn flakes with milk. My daughter insisted on corn flakes and I put a few flakes in a small plastic container and gave it to her. She is fond of spoons, not for eating purpose but to play with them. She saw me using a spoon and grabbed one from the kitchen. Chinni started imitating me and gathered a couple of flakes into the spoon but failed to get the flakes till the mouth. The flakes just dropped on the floor.

She again tried and gather couple more flakes and dropped them on floor. I calmly told her "Chinni you can't do it, eat it with hands". Chinni was least bothered. The spoon went down in the container again, gathered lot more flakes. This time a flake made it to her mouth and she ate it with pride. She looked at me with a smile and I was delighted (with my jaws hanging). Then on there was nothing stopping her. She finished all the remaining flakes using spoon and asked for more flakes. I wondered if she liked flakes or she liked eating them with spoon.

I remembered how I struggled using chopsticks and gave up. The situation was so similar. Chopsticks were new to me and the Spoon was new to Chinni. But she tried and tried and never gave up.

Chinni taught me a lesson today. I knew this lesson and have been reading it since my school days. Alas, I never implemented it. Chinni implemented it without even learning it!!!

Chinni stumbles for the first time

This one is coming so soon, after I started blogging, that I never expected. And its bcoz of an event in itself. Yes, for the first time in my/her life Chinni (that's the sweet nick name of my daughter Iksha) fell while running. I shouldn't even say while running, she has started keeping her steps a little fast than normal ones.

The story builds up like this. We slept a bit early yday, around 10 pm and after much much struggle we made Chinni sleep around 11 pm. This made her wake up so early that it was "early" for "early morning", around 5 am. She asked for duddu (means milk). I warmed a glass of milk and fed her, hoping that she would sleep after gulping it. To my surprise, her slept ran away and she got more energy of milk and started rolling all around the bed and completely disturbing our deep sleep.

I decided to take her for a walk at 6am. Both of us got ready, her yammi (that's how she calls her mummy) is still in deep sleep and might be dreaming of SUDEEP, i thought :P.

We took a walk around the swimming pool and showed her water, trees, birds etc etc. And finally we came near the children's play area. Chinni's eyes are full wide and her desires are to rock and roll all over. She started running and suddenly she stumbles. I was just 2 steps away and could not hold her. I uttered "Oh my god" before she could ground herself and ran towards her. As soon as falls, the word comes from her instantaneously "bittu", which means "fall" in kannada. I was expecting her to cry loud and wake people up on all 60 floors. Fortunately, she didn't!!! And she wasn't hurt, not even a light single scratch on her knee or elbow.

Before I could check her completely she was again ready to run. I said to myself "Grow up Dad!!!"

My first blog

Here is my first blog, after several years of blogging's birth.
What brings me here?
I really don't have a clear picture of what all to blog. But I am sure, i will have lots of thoughts to share. I have been mum since last 30 years, have hardly opened up my mind. This could a platform to open up my thoughts and express my feelings. I wish to continue blogging forever, but who knows my destiny!!! That's the reason I am naming my blogspot as "InSearchDestiny".

I don't know if anybody knows their destiny. I would like to know or the better would be "I would like to create my destiny". Let's see how far can i do it. The success till now is 0% :)
I have just swimmed the downstream, just followed where my fate has taken till now. Have dared to face upstream but have failed miserably. Doesn't matter, I will get more chances in future and I hope I will win some time.

Through this blog I would like to share my experiences in life and my sweet memories with daughter (hoping she will read these one fine day and know what she did in her childhood). Could be there are more to add to the list......better to blog than just list the topic here.

Where am I ?
I am currently in Hong Kong.
With whom am I staying?
My wife, Nanda, and my daughter Iksha. Iksha completed 1 year and 7 months on 23rd.