Things I thought I ll never do!

One always makes a list of things one wishes to do in their lifetime
But at 7:15 am heading to work for a yet another grueling , exhausting , mind numbing day when I would rather be tucked in a blankie sipping tea , I can’t help but come up with my idea of things I never imagined I ll ever do ( but yet have done!) . What’s worse ? There’s no sky diving or jumping off a cliff here ! Mostly work. Yawn . Cringe. Well.

1.Work through the night. Without a wink of sleep. Just to check if even THAT makes my emergency -red-lights-blinking-crisis list any shorter. Nope it didn’t. And trust me – reading or a movie marathon IS much better. Hence proved.

2.Stay at office till one-thirty ! Hah! Many times over . But yes . Here’s the twist . To staple passes & parking tickets and label them . And NOT when I am an intern. Need I say more?

I can finish off this list right away but I gotto get back to work. So let’s continue chatting about life in a bit … Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone

The Curse

Like a predator from the dark alleys of doubts
It over shadows my moments of self worthiness

For joy is nothing but a momentary lapse of good sense
And it fades away with the curse of unhappiness

There always remained an old city buried beneath this urban landscape
You could live up the dream for a day but its reality you can’t escape

Dreams end and life begins , before you know you are on the other side
Whatever goes up comes down , are the rules of this joyride

The quest for the enigma called contentment is a fable we’ve all heard and told
The happiness is a companion only till the next turn on this road

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Breaking Stereotypes and yet leaving room for some :Goa

Some cities are like a dream . You nurture the thought of being there like a motion picture playing in your head. The sounds and sight have already played up in your mind a million times , different versions of the same story.
There’s nothing that one doesn’t already know about Goa that one can possibly include in a travel-checklist.
There’s the fenny drinking , the walking on the beach under the stars , the haggling at flea market for junk that maybe you’ll never end up wearing, the bike riding through a line up of coconut groves, lounging at the beach so on and so forth.
And in the idea of experiencing the many treasures that they hold, you some how escape the reality.
So when you end up making a trip to this tourist paradise and don’t end up ticking any of those checks in your head , you end up feeling a little disoriented and a lot disillusioned.

But perhaps like the saying goes – you win some , you lose some . It was the other way around during my latest trip to the land of beaches , fenny and coconut groves ( discounting the fish curry and many other items of sea food that don’t appear on my list )

And winning I did , at the Casino Royale , a floating cruise with a three deck casino – complete with a dance floor , a restaurant , gaming arena and splendid views.

But other than this fleeting realization , all the other stereotypical signs were missing. No carnival mood, no frivolous dressing up, no devil-may-care attitude. So does that count as a trip to goa at all?

I ll save my answer to that till I actually experience the must-dos on my next trip. But calling these 4 days (largely spent inside the conference rooms) a waste would be unjustified.

I did manage the sunset on a quiet beach ( the wind in my hair and the waves playing around my feet) & the long walks exploring the “limitless luxury” of The Lalit .

I came back with some pretty sights , but there’s unfinished business and there’s hope that it won’t be long before I am back to experience Goa the way its meant to be.

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14 June, 2011 23:35

A thousand thoughts at the speed of light

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