Me N Myself: South Korea

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Mom oh Mom ....

We humans at times can exhibit a charmingly strange behavior. And I prefer to call such human beings as "Characters". And among those species one of the most common people who show such character are Mothers.

Yes no doubt they are quite charming and innocent when do such antiques.

When I was a kid , like most of the kids in India and probably across the world, I used to carry my lunch from home and being the naughty kid that I was , most often when my Mom used to keep the packed lunch on the desk from where I was supposed to take it, I used to forget taking it and have to have Dad drop it at school :). And needless in the evening it would have resulted in heavy scolding from both of them.

That happened countless times in my childhood and biggest concern of my Mom everyday , apart from ensuring that I don't spill milk on my shirt, was to ensure that I have taken it from the desk.

And now if we fast forward to the present , there were times when I used to carry breakfast from home to office and during those time when I could have missed the box at home and still could have eaten a sumptous breakfast at office, she used to put it herself in my bag.

I mean when in childhood if she had put that in my bag then it would have saved both of us from the pain, her mental and mine physical .

When I mentioned this to her that why during school times you used to keep it at desk for me to pick and pack and now when I am grown up you yourself ensure that its going to office with me ? She had no answer, she just said she does not know why she used to do that.

The answer I could think of is that she wanted me to be responsible at that age and now she is just concerned of my well being and no longer needs to teach me anything :)

My Adorable Mom

This picture was taken at a bus stop in Seoul, South Korea, during our visit last year. This is so typical of the adorable character she is :), wearing those Goggles from 70's and wearing a customary scarf so characteristic of a Bengali in a cold place, all wrapped up. Love you so much Mom :)

Friday, July 6, 2012

Cherry Blossoms...

One of the main thing that was on my mind while I was planning for my Korea trip was to see and click the beautiful cherry blossom flowers that are main characteristic of the Korean and Japanese islands... So here I am presenting some of the photos of them that I managed during that trip.

My first stop in Korea was Seoul and there I could not see any cheery blossoms at all.... And for which I was told that its little early for them to blossom and I should see some by next week.

So It was only when I reached Jinju , where my sister was staying, that I could see some of it. And my first impression on seeing them was they are quite a smudgy flowers and as you can see in these photos , most of the petals are not sharp. Initially I thought it was my technique that was causing it but later on I checked some professional shots of it and they too looked the same.

The day I saw them , it was quite cloudy and was raining too in between , so I could not get bright and vibrant pictures but now when I see them then I find that the overcast has added a nice white background to the close ups of the flowers.

Then at Jinju Castle we found the below trees which were laden with Cherry blossoms and as soon as the sun was out ,they turned pinkish.And everyone was so busy getting their pictures clicked underneath them.

Jinju Castle

Jineyang Lake, Jinju

The above pic was taken at Jineyang lake at Jinju and and this was one place where we found scores of Cherry blossom trees. As you can see in the below pic all the paths in and around the lake had these trees laden with flowers on both sides and it felt so beautiful to walk amids them.

Lastly I went to Busan, which owing to its proximity to Japan (It was during the Japanese rule over Korea that Japan introduced these trees to Korea which have originally being native to Japan only) was supposed to have more Cherry Blossom tree. And although it did not disappoint but still I found the ones in Jinju more prominent.