Ye Ye Yercaud

Yes, Of course it is Ye! Ye! trip for my family. This time to yercaud in-laws accompanied us. We are 3 member little cute family (Myself , My wife Sowmiya and My daughter Manasa).

Our journey started from Velachery Metro Railway station to catch Yercaud express which  headed towards Salem. The train journey was horrible, because there was continuous movement of people from unreserved category. Even when TT and Railway Patrol police insisted them to get down in next station they some how managed themselves to stay comfortably in reserved compartments.We reached Salem at 5.00 Am, A chauffeur (Mahendran) picked us to Yercaud by his car. We reached the town within an hour.

We checked in to the resort named MM resorts which is 3 Km far from town. The way the owner dealt with me over the phone made me to frame him as Grossy guy in my mind. But after talking to him in person i felt it was a wrong perception. He is very straight forward guy named Meyappan. The accommodation was very neat and worth of money. The climate was awesome. I have never been to any place with that much dense fog till that moment. It ventured me for a walk with my family and  with my Canon 1200 DSLR camera. 

 

We had a very good breakfast in resort, The food was really tasty. The cook is from Karaikudi. We then hired an auto to explore our misty world. We went to Rose garden which has three other tourist spots (Gents spot , Ladies point and children point) inside the premise. We had to walk around 2Km to reach the other end of the garden. The mist continued all along the way. Our eyes was brimmed with pleasantness in Guava farm. My daughter overwhelmed with joy, she started climbing the tree and also started swinging in the branch . We felt hungry once we reached the exit. We called up the same auto driver and had good lunch in Saravana Bhavan hotel. The food was too good and less spicy too.

 



We went back to our resort and took small nap. All of us decided to go for a walk till Pakoda point which is just 1.5Km from our resort and started. It was a 40 minutes walk to the view point. The whole area started getting darker once we reached there. There were no street lights on the way. The village was too calm since it was a Christmas eve every one went to town for prayer. We walked back faster to resort and managed to reach there with in 20 minutes safely. We had dinner in the resort and had good sleep.

 

 

Next fine morning started with warm sunlight, We hired a taxi to Shevaroyan temple , Maha mehru temple , Raja rajeshwari temple. After lunch we spend evening in various parks in the town and went for boating in lake. Flower pots were arranged in Anna Park for the Flower show that is getting started next day.

We had dinner in the resort and had a good sleep. The third day of our trip was warm. We packed all our bags ready since we need to check out the hotel at 12:00 Noon. We asked the manager to have our bags in some other room because  our plan is to leave Yercaud at 4:00 PM. He also agreed upon our request, so we arranged an auto and went for shoppimg. We bought lemon grass oil, Balck panthor oil, Herbal shampoos and spices from various shops. We went to Botanical   garden, it was nice but not maintained properly.  Then we went to deer park and spent some time over there. Aquarium is horrible. 

LINQ

LINQ - LANGUAGE INTEGRATED QUERY

ENVIRONMENT:

1. Create DataClasses1.dbml.


2. Create a database Test with table test which has Id (integer, PK) and Name (varchar(10)).


3. Create a stored procedure GetDatas


4. Using server explorer connect to database Test and add the table "test" and Stored proceure "getDatas" in the DataClasses1.dbml

* Once the dbml file is created system automatically creates a class "DataClasses1DataContext"

EXAMPLES

1. Retrieve data from Table test
   

   using (DataClasses1DataContext dc = new DataClasses1DataContext())
   IEnumerable t = from b in dc.tests select b; //where b.name.StartsWith("Ra")
   foreach (test t1 in t)
   {
   Console.WriteLine(t1.name);
   }
   }
   
   

2. retrieve data from Stored Procedure
   using (DataClasses1DataContext dc = new
   {
   var t = from b in dc.getDatas() select b;
   foreach (var t1 in t)
   {
   Console.WriteLine(t1.name);
   }
   }
   
   
3. Insert in to Table test
   
   using (DataClasses1DataContext dc = new DataClasses1DataContext())
   {
   test d = new test();
   d.name = 'n';
   dc.duplicates.InsertOnSubmit(d);
   dc.SubmitChanges();
   }
   
   
4. Updation
   using (DataClasses1DataContext dc = new DataClasses1DataContext())
   {
   IEnumerable t = from b in dc.tests select b; //where b.name.StartsWith("Ra")
   //Update Table
   test t2 = t.Single((a) => a.ID == 1);
   t2.name = "updated";
   dc.SubmitChanges();
   }
   
   

* If the datable doesn't contain primary key , you will not able to do insertion , updation and deletion . To
achieve this add attribute to any one of the column for that table in DataClasses1DataContext class as follows
[Column(Storage = "_id", DbType = "Int", IsPrimaryKey = true)]
public System.Nullable id
{
get
{
return this._id;
}
set
{
if ((this._id != value))
{
this._id = value;
}
}
}

Trip to Isha

After a long wait I managed to visit Isha Yoga Center on 20th June, 2008 with my wife.
My wife sowmiya was 6 months pregnant at that time and Its her first visit over there.
We reached isha yoga centre at 8 Am, and went to volunteer stay area, where we get refreshed and went to Theerthakund.Timing is different for gents and ladies to take bath in Theerthakund. I have some fear to send my Wife alone. But there was many volunters who took care of her. She went with them, once she enterd in to the water pool she felt her baby's movement, which was her first experience. No movement was experienced before. She was very happy.
Then we had a brekfast at 10.00 with lot of varieties and hygenic foods. We went inside the temple and spend some time. We attended Nadha Arathana which was really superb. While enteing in to the temple also she felt baby's movement, she spend most of the time inside the temple.
There was no prayer related to any religion nothing. Simply silence.
Then we returned back in evening.
Really good trip. We have decided to go to temple once in a month.

Whats Yoga?

There is a beautiful story about a caterpillar that lived much of its life believing that it had come into being only to eat and sleep and do what the rest of the caterpillars did. However it was unhappy. Somehow it sensed that its life had another dimension not yet experienced.
One day, driven by a strange longing, it decided to become still and silent. It hung from the branch of a tree, weaving a cocoon around itself. Inside the cocoon, although constrained and uncomfortable, it waited, sensing and aware. Its patience bore fruit, for when the cocoon burst open, it was no longer the lowly worm that went in, but a beautiful, resplendent, winged butterfly which dazzled the sky. It soared and flew, no longer limited to its worm-like existence, but free and unbounded. The caterpillar had been transformed into a thing of air and lightness, magic and beauty.

Once the transformation had taken place, it was impossible for the butterfly to return to being a worm. In the cocoon, the caterpillar had become one with its inner being and in this union it reached its ultimate nature. What happened in the cocoon can be described as yoga. Yoga is the path towards being boundless.

Yoga transforms and liberates human beings so that they can reach this unbounded state. Humans, unlike animals, are not merely existing. They are becoming. To evolve as a human being is to become aware of one's limitations; to strive, with intense passion, towards the transcendence for which we all have the potential.

http://www.ishafoundation.org/InnerTransformation