my trip 2 sri lanka

about a month ago, i made this trip 2 sri lanka with my family.but tht is not what im gna say.... m not gonna describe the places, though they are worth being described. no, im gonna tell u what was MY experience, what i felt about the place.
apart from the obvious fact tht it is beautiful, i also feel that sri lanka is like a hub for foreigners....a place where we can meet people of all countries without having 2 go there, n vice versa. im an indian, n though i was also, for all intents n purposes, a foreigner in that country, i dinot feel so, not for a minute,although this cud be because i was from a neighbor country, with identical skin colour, fashion, landscape etc.
for indians, as i can say by personal belief, this place is a boon as well as a curse. boon as in, we are accepted easily into the crowd, cuz we are like them. we r not prjudiced against, and not taken to be different unless we tell them tht we really are indians, which was an advantage for us, over our western counterparts who cud be easily distinguished among the crowd of wheatish and russet people. also, take it as a fact, that sri lankans are very fond of indians...so that makes up 4 the second point!
for the 1st curse of the place, is the high rate of inflation. when we indians plan a trip to a country who's currency value is lower thn ours, we take it for granted very easily, as der r , sadly, very few such countries. however for any traveller in an alien country, it is important not only to consider the currency value, but also the inflation status. and tht was sumthin we failed 2 do on our trip. Sri lanka is a tourist based country with hardly any factories or industries, and so all products are imported into the country, in return for exporting spices and gem. in simpler words, sri lanka is not very cheap, nor extremely costly!
also, considering the above point, we have another factor to add to it: the profiteering minds! in the remote areas, tht is sumthin to save oneself from!!!!!!!! else, v might end up getting tea for a 40 bucks, or water for 70!these are very basic, yet the inflation rate is sad, and yet v were foriegners, we cud manage. think about the people who actually live there!
to end up with my thoughts, i wud certainly accept tht every place has its own pros and cons.n sri lanka, well to each his own!!!!!!!!!

a troubled soul

Hitherto lies a troubled soul,
his mind is wandering, without a goal;
without any knowledge of his traits,
even the devil may pity;such a state;

Hell breaks loose at his feet
and at him the good has faced defeat;
flung into the darkness livid,
is his once-so-pure spirit;

he wasn't like that when he opened his eyes,
his pure little soul had not yet faced demise,
His heart craved love,but he got none,
and that turned him into such a dissatisfied one;

He changed his mind, he changed his way,
he made all divine to float away;
he made up his mind to avenge
himself upon all; he craved revenge;

his eyes know no love, his touch knows no care,
and he only into the unknown, blindly stares;
there is only one thing assured in his fate
that he'll hate to love and love to hate;

Hitherto lies a troubled soul,
his mind is wandering with one definite goal;
without any knowledge of his pain
in search of a satisfaction he'll never gain,

never ever gain...............
- Shruti

i am a harry potter fan.

Harry Potter- the brilliant saga which started off as an imaginative action and teenage based fiction, created a sensation all over the world.those of us who follow harry potter so very keenly can only know how its thoughts and messages are so very applicable to people of all ages n types. Even we HP fans have our own reasons for being fans-some of us maybe for the action, some for the wonder of the magic, n some simply because the actors are so cute. But i have a completely different reason, and that is the story which the genius J.K Rowling so meticulously penned down.

The story has a connection to every book in the series, like it is intertwined through those 7 books. at the end we feel satisfied, not yearning for more, like we've just solved some large jigsaw puzzle.The books, though may seem huge, and they definitely are, have a power t grip the reader. Once you have taken up a harry potter book, it is really hard to put down. That was the reason why the release of each book made it to the news channels, because people wanted to know whole story.Now we are waiting for the movie of last part to release.Though most HP fans often feel that the movies fail to do justice to the books,the movies are always awaited almost as eagerly as the books were, because we fans want to know if our imagination and our own direction of the story while we read is the same as for all the rest fans of the world or not. J.K.Rowling makes the readers believe in magic, in miracles because even though our world is far away from Harry's, we can still relate to the feelings, the emotions and the convictions of the characters.Now that is the recipe for a world-wide hit!

Yes, i am a harry potter fan, but not just because i really love reading books, but because i believe that a little magic and a hell lot of imagination is necessary to get away from all the monotony and strife of life.