The Music Run & Holi Celebration.

24 Monday Mar 2014

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I’m the least athletic person I know. Dancing the night away in heels, or walking around the shopping complex is the most exercise I do. Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, I do a half an hour walk from the LRT station to my office daily, but that’s about all the workout I do. But when my bestfriend-lover-person told me about The Music Run, I absolutely had to be a part of it.

The Music Run, that was held at the Selangor Turf Club was an interactive 5km fun running experience. No time clock, no training routine, no judging!; I was sold to the idea of walking to good music since that is exactly what I do when I walk to work, listen to music 🙂

With five different music genres, 5 zones across five kilometers; we made it!
My first marathon event. I didn’t exactly run, and walked through most of it but I’m proud of the fact I took the effort to walk 5km (& hardly felt it because of the amazing person next to me and the conversations we had).

Right after we finished The Music Run, we had another event we were looking forward to, SDS Holi at the Shree Lakshme Narayanan Temple.

Holi is a spring festival also known as the festival of colours and the festival of love. It is an ancient Hindu religious festival which has become popular with non-Hindus in many parts of South Asia, as well as people of other communities. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair ruptured relationships. (Yes, straight off Wikipedia)

We went there clad in full white, not quite sure what to expect but ended up having a fantastic time;

Everyone looked like walking pieces of rainbow art due to the colourful powder thrown on them. So many different people, from different religions and walks of life, throwing coloured powder on each other, playing with water, dancing to really good bhangra, and just having a really good time.

& of course, since I had my face in colours of the rainbow, selfies were a must;

I can’t wait for next year’s Holi festival!
Even if the colour did end up staining my skin, and I look like I’ve been abuse, it was well worth it :3

Travel; Perhentian Island.

03 Tuesday Sep 2013

Posted by harminiasokumar in Indian Mermaid Adventures, Travel

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I was in dire need to run away, escape from reality for a bit, and nothing feeds my soul and helps me get my creative juices flowing like the beach does. When my bestfriend said she wanted to head to Perhentian for a beach getaway, I immediately said I’d go with her. No questions asked.

Every single day I am thankful I didn’t think twice about it. I went to paradise, and I never wanted to leave.

As I stepped off the boat, this was the first thing I saw. The view on it’s own, made every tense muscle in my body turn to jell-o. I was calm, relaxed and at peace. It’s like my body automatically knew, I was home and I had nothing to worry about.

And that was the beginning of my Indian Mermaid adventures;

We stayed at Ombak on Perhentian Kecil. It was a small room, cozy and honestly, we didn’t care that the water heater wasn’t working. We were in paradise and nothing was going to kill our happy.

we spent the whole day lazing on the beach. The weather was sunny and perfect for tanning. Yes, Dark skinned people can tan too. That’s exactly what I did. I lay in the sun, letting the warm sunshine work it’s magic on me. I was 5 shades darker, and 10 times happier just basking in all the rays, sipping on my fresh orange smoothie and listening to the waves crash on the shore.

When it got too hot, we just went into the beautiful crystal clear water. Oh, the water. I have never in my life seen water so clear. The salt water touched my lips and I just starred in awe, at how the water looked exactly like mineral water but tasted of the sea. I spent most of my time just starring at it, wondering how it could make me feel so small, grounded and at peace.

I believe I’m a mermaid, or at least some form of a mermaid. I get an incredible feeling of bliss when I’m in water, completely weightless, and lost in the colours of my thoughts.

It gave me a sense of perspective. I’m trying to find ways to explain it, but the only word that comes to mind is; bliss.

I could go on about how inspired and in awe I was throughout my trip but the highlights of my trip were; snorkeling and completely having a newfound love and respect for the beauty Mother Nature has created, watching a turtle and rainbow fishes swim past me, holding a tan coloured stingray with aqua blue spots in my hands and feeling it tickle my palms, drinks and dancing on the beach at night, making friends with everyone and finding a mermaid drawn on the walls of the bar (a sign!), laying down on the mat with the bestfriend watching the stars, going for a walk on the beach at night and stumbling upon a turtle nesting (this was beyond words), staying up all night talking and watching the sunrise with amazing people, and just being free.