If it was Monday morning blues with which I started the previous week, it has been a great beginning today. Today being Bhogi, the whole city was engulfed in smoke, though it wasn’t as bad as how it used to be a few years back.
As I stepped out of my house to catch the bus, I saw the sun appearing like a golden-orange ball peeping through the branches of the tall thoongu moonji maram. It made me go wow! 🙂 As I got into the bus, I saw that it wasn’t even half-full. The disadvantage of being a person whose home is at Chennai itself is that when most of them from other places take leave and go home on a long weekend, you end up being one of the few persons working. Anyway no complaints since the advantages outnumber the disadvantage by a very great margin. 😉 Sitting comfortably without having to squeeze in between two persons, the journey had me admiring the beautiful sun throughout. Just as the bus was passing over the flyover in Adyar, I saw the clouds passing over the sun – for a few minutes, the clouds hid the sun and slowly the sun started peeping out from under the clouds till it was fully visible. It presented a beautiful sight. 🙂 Nice weather, beautiful sunrise! How I wish all Mondays had great beginnings like this one!
Sunrise is always a bliss. Hv a gr8 day.
Pongal Nal Vazhthukal 🙂
what’s ‘thoongu munji maram’?
and well, a person from chennai admiring the sun, now that’s a rarety
Aren’t all IT ofcs off for the next 3 days in Chennai ?!! Enna kodumai Aparna ithu.Tamizhnaatle Pongal “naalu” thirunaalukkum leave vidanum illaya !! Anyways Pongal Vaazhthukkal 😀
Early morning on monday – not just the maram but also the weather was ‘thoongu moonji’. 🙂 Pongal Nal Vazhthukal. Hope to hear from u soon abt TMK’s 4hr concert !
Hey
You should have taken a picture! :–)
Happy Pongal!
🙂 chennai is beautiful …
@: puranjoy ‘thoongu moonji maram’ : I guess these are Gulmohar trees
-karthik
@karthik,
thanks.
Balu,
Thanks & belated pongal nalvaazhtthukkaL to you too 🙂
Puranjoy & Karthik,
Thoongu moonji maram is not gulmohar tree. The leaves of thoongu moonji maram get closed in the evening & will get opened again only on the next day. That’s why the name thoongu moonji. The flowers in this tree are pink in colour.
Thanks to you & Google, I got to know it’s English name finally. Seems it’s known as rain tree. More info on the tree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samanea_saman
Puranjoy,
Be it Chennai or elsewhere, irrespective of how hot it gets during the day, sunrise & sunset are always a treat to watch 🙂
Sangs,
kodumaidhaan 🙁 Anyway you enjoy 😉 Thanks & belated pongal nalvaazhtthukkaL to you too!
Sriram,
LOL. I was a thoongu moonji too on Monday morn 😉 Thanks & belated pongal nalvaazhtthukkaL to you too! Btw, did you come for TMK’s concert? How did you find it to be?
SK,
I did take a few pics with my mobile & those have come out very badly!
Thanks & wish you too a very happy pongal 🙂
no yaar.. i could not make it for TMK’s 4+ hr concert on sunday. The only solace was reading ur blog abt the concert 🙂 Thanks for writing.. wats the next concert in line?
🙂 aama illa 😀 I remember the flower now (that link to wiki)
-karthik
Sriram,
Oh 🙂 No idea about what concert next.
Karthik,
🙂