'Name is Bond, James Bond' -> Says the protagonist in the most popular spy saga of all time...
The more movies I see in the bond series the more I want to replace the word 'bond' with 'botch' (meaning blunder), what with the number of goof-ups and can I-do-any-worse-moments...
It is not surprising that movie series like Jonny English and Austin Powers have done so well...
In this series I will elucidate the nincompoopery of the spy in the Queens service...
Signing Off...
Friday, August 24, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Travelogue...
The difference between a 'traveler' and a 'tourist' is that the former will see whatever the place shows him and the latter will only see what he set out to see...
Neither of them is superior to the other, they are just different mindsets...
This thought occurred to me on the way to a paradise called Coorg...
A break, if one can call it that considering the fact it lasted all of 60hrs (two days and three nights), most of which was spent in some mode of transport...
Two 12hr train journeys (sleeper class, owing to me declaring August a cost cutting month) and two almost 7hr SUV journeys and another 4hr car journey -> for the numerically challenged the above mentioned numbers translate in to 42hrs of hydraulic help...
The other 12hrs more than compensated for the endurance course like travel...
Be it the Abbey Falls or the Tibetan Monastery, for that matter even the makeshift bonfire played its role in making the trouble worthwhile...
The Tibetan Monastery in question was built on the 400acres of land given to a set of Monks for a period of 100years almost 40years ago, the monastery - the pristine prayer halls - the bollywood styled corn fields - the students who when not in red and white robes can be found zooming around in the meanest of machines - the shopping zone buzzing with activity ->
take you hundreds of miles away to a beautiful country called Tibet...
Now the Falls, it actually took us a while for the whole scene to sink in. Be it the gushing sound of water or the brute force of the falling water or the vain attempt of stones (boulders would be more appropriate) to tame the ripples (read water tides), it was not one for the faint hearted. It was one of those moments when a person feels an association with something that she/he has never seen or experienced before. I could not even begin to imagine how I would react to Niagara falls if this is what Abbey Falls can do to me...
It was a travelers delight. I always wondered how can people just sell their cars, rent their houses and backpack their way around, the answer dawned on me the moment I jumped off the last step and swerved right to see what I had only imagined before -> it is these instances of ecstasy that drive people to do what is unthinkable to most -> just walk away with no destination in mind...
I almost forgot to mention that I came very close to missing both trains, albeit for different reasons...
Signing off...
Neither of them is superior to the other, they are just different mindsets...
This thought occurred to me on the way to a paradise called Coorg...
A break, if one can call it that considering the fact it lasted all of 60hrs (two days and three nights), most of which was spent in some mode of transport...
Two 12hr train journeys (sleeper class, owing to me declaring August a cost cutting month) and two almost 7hr SUV journeys and another 4hr car journey -> for the numerically challenged the above mentioned numbers translate in to 42hrs of hydraulic help...
The other 12hrs more than compensated for the endurance course like travel...
Be it the Abbey Falls or the Tibetan Monastery, for that matter even the makeshift bonfire played its role in making the trouble worthwhile...
The Tibetan Monastery in question was built on the 400acres of land given to a set of Monks for a period of 100years almost 40years ago, the monastery - the pristine prayer halls - the bollywood styled corn fields - the students who when not in red and white robes can be found zooming around in the meanest of machines - the shopping zone buzzing with activity ->
take you hundreds of miles away to a beautiful country called Tibet...
Now the Falls, it actually took us a while for the whole scene to sink in. Be it the gushing sound of water or the brute force of the falling water or the vain attempt of stones (boulders would be more appropriate) to tame the ripples (read water tides), it was not one for the faint hearted. It was one of those moments when a person feels an association with something that she/he has never seen or experienced before. I could not even begin to imagine how I would react to Niagara falls if this is what Abbey Falls can do to me...
It was a travelers delight. I always wondered how can people just sell their cars, rent their houses and backpack their way around, the answer dawned on me the moment I jumped off the last step and swerved right to see what I had only imagined before -> it is these instances of ecstasy that drive people to do what is unthinkable to most -> just walk away with no destination in mind...
I almost forgot to mention that I came very close to missing both trains, albeit for different reasons...
Signing off...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
