November 15, 2004

Tired but Replete....

Thoughts crossing my mind... It does not take an American Indian or an Indian to have basic human characteristics. Do we really need to take tablets for everything ?? DUH !! or is India so wierd that anything you come in contact with will make you an alien... please forgive me for being an Indian...

All Bangladeshis maybe Bengalis but all Bengalis are not Bangladeshis... excuse me... where is GK when it is needed... just like all Madrasis may be South Indians but All South Indians are not Madrasis. God show them a little light and give me some patience....

Temples in South India ... are a definitely NO NO if there is a special occasion and you suddenly feel like offering puja unless you are from here . Takes more than an hour to stand in the sun... then reach the temple...

On a wild life safari, it is best if you are the first to drive through the jungles... it is a pleasure to watch wild animals roaming the wild freely... Never saw so many wild animals as we did this time in Nagarhole.. we even met fresh tiger pug marks.. If you are planning to go to Mysore this time... please make sure that you have hotel bookings.. hotel accomodations are rare now... if you are stuck The International Youth Hostel is your best bet... you will be surprised by their service and their surroundings.... Mountains bring out the best in me... It is not so easy to sit some thousands of miles away and judge how things should be done and how it should not be done... everyone's life is different and only the individual living it knows what he or she is going through.... Just because one travels does not mean that one who does not travel does not know about the rest of the world.. . Home stays are the best anywhere you are traveling ... I highly recommend High Falls Holiday Homes in Coorg. Excellent place, excellent view and excellent food... I would like to spend some time in one of the tent accomodations in Orange County ... my dream which is going to be fulfilled if the time and the money are in place.... he ahahaha !! it is sinful !!!

Ducklings are very very adorable unless the mother duck decides to hiss her displeasure.... yeah ducks HISSSS... when they feel cornered... ( I did not know that)

Turkeys may look very beautiful from afar but they are a menace if you go near them.... :)

Just when you thought that humanity was dead and gone.. something just reinforces my faith in it... incident with Jeep having one of its clamps broken down. We spied a shop after much searching in Hassan... somewhere in the outskirts... only to find that it was closed... but the good people came by and when they knew that we were traveling ... they quickly took us backside and fixed the problem... in spite of that day being a holiday for them.. and they refused to take money.... HUH.. how nice can you get... ?? May god bless them ...