Mr Sunrise

I have seen many sun sets in my life. I am not trying to be philosophical and sentimental here. I literally mean I have seen many Sunsets, but I never have seen a sun rise. So today got up early and checked the sun rise timings, and it was 8:48am. The temerature was minus 2 deg but clear skies. I kept saying to myself that I cant allow the temperature get the better off me so I headed off to the beach with my trusty camera and tripod. My finger tips begin to hurt in spite of the gloves, but that wasn't enough to make me go back. After taking quite a few snaps I do have the satisfaction that "Finally saw the Sun rise,before my sun sets". Now i am being philosophical. Few more pictures on the link below.

http://picasaweb.google.com/badri.nair/SunRise#

Mr.Eddie Izzard

Since the time I have been in Dublin, i was always wondering how it would be like to listen to a person who has the gift of gab.What does it take one to perform with absolutely no props what so ever in front of a thousand, who paid quite a dear price without letting them to slip deep down into the spiraling abyss of boredom just by talking!!He has to make sure that he does not Monologue, does not repeat, makes the crowd laugh once every ten minutes or else, the smothering silence with be like Rain on a parade. Take it from me, my dear friends; making people laugh it definitely the toughest task. Here comes along Eddie Izzard, a transvestite. He is very popular across the world as one of the best stand up comedians. I thought, go for it just for the fact that I can claim later on "been there, done that". Paid hard earned 40€ and me and my good mate Mihir headed off to the O2 arena. This 'not so' ship shape guy comes on the diaz,(apparently he has run 43 marathons in 51 days with just 5 weeks of training). That is one record that no other standup comedian will ever break. I do respect that sheer will power of his. He started off with wikipedia and how civilisation started off and belive me he got all of us well within his story. within 30 minutes my throat was dry laughing. For me as a first timer i thought he was making it up all the time then and there, but only at the climax did i realize that it was well connected. That climax was 2.5 hours since he began!!! he had material made up to talk non stop ,2.5 hours of it. How good is that. I have seen the live at Apollo, and Eddie did not have any toilet humor or racists humor. He did not even pick out any member from the audience and make him curse his own existence like how other comedians vilify. There was a massive display put up where folks could twitter in messages and I did manage to get mine up there. The time was fantastic and i totally did not have any remorse for the money spent. Now, I want to go for one more. is Joe brand coming to town?

Visit to Kerry

Its' been a long time since I went on a long trip, its' mostly due to the weather that I have tethered myself down. but good company takes precedence over weather; so my good friend Chakra who currently is enjoying bachelorhood, because his better half is in the better part of the world (India) planned on a trip. Mihir another good friend of mine was in Ireland that weekend and so we decided to head to Kerry. Its the south western part of Ireland and has very many little islands sprinkled around it like bread crump on soup. "Dinlgle" whose very name has a definitive "tingle" was the destination. On Saturday morning at 5:30 am we headed off on the 350kms journey. The weather was absolutely horrendous. We got to our B&B; which is a pub come B&B was exactly in the middle of the small fishing town of Dingle. Thanks to rain gods all ferries to nearby islands where one can spot bottle nose dolphins a.k.a "Fungi" were all cancelled. Much later in the day weather calmed and we went out for a walk in the silent city. Some of the sign boards were amusing. I read 'Food server for Dingle residents only'. !! We stopped for a good dinner at a seafood restaurant where my non vegetarian friends had fresh Oysters and fish. Next day, after a wonderful breakfast we decided to head to the slay head, which is a scenic drive along the Dingle peninsula. Every time we stepped out of the car it was a battle against the wind. later we drove down to the "Ring of Kerry" which is a long 180 kms drive along the Kerry coast. The sights were heavenly, it made me feel insignificant, minuscule which on the contrary means I felt the world much larger than then tiny cubicles i spend my day . We stopped at the famous Killerny national park which is 10,400 hectares in area!! The entire landscape in the jungle was carpeted with the Irish colour ' Green'.The moss seems to be the chosen clothing for the damp trees. The thunderous waterfall sounded like a jet engine in full blast. Its mostly due to the incessant rains that has pounded the county since weeks. Sun sets by 5:30 here and we begun our trip back to Dublin. It was the journey (900 kms in total) that was fun and the beauty what nature offered was the seasoning to fun. This beautiful country side deserves another visit is what is etched in my head now, which i truly intend to fulfill when Ireland lets me soak up the sun.

For more pictures:

http://picasaweb.google.com/badri.nair/VisitToKerry#