Highways Of Life

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2006-03-07T09:04:00.000-08:00

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It seems like an eternity.....

2005-09-12T19:31:00.000-07:00

The journey continues.........

2005-09-12T19:21:00.000-07:00

Enchanting journey in the Land of The Orient

2005-09-12T19:04:00.000-07:00

Watching loads of movies and wonderful ones at that !

2005-08-18T02:21:00.000-07:00

At last, I'm really happy with these vactions...not that I've been freaking out or such...but this vacation has been special in its own way. If the other vactaions were all about sleep, wake up, play, go out, come back, sleep(min. 12hours:)), this vacations have kept me really really busy and I like to be active this way.Though I do get very little time to sleep, but at the end of the day i'm satisfied..just to have made sure i've moved forward from where I was yesterday.

About moving forward??? well I've been seeing a lot of movies..lots with the take-home value. 'One flew over the Cuckoo's nest' (Jack Nicholson's in it), 'Silence of the Lambs'(you wouldnt believe it, but i watched it only this vacations!), Godfather(watched it for the 'n'th time:) and after having watched RGV's Sarkar, shades of both movies criss-cross, both of them wonderfully well-woven as staple for their respective audiences, but dont ever make the mistake of comparing Marlon Brando and Al Pacino's Godfather with Sarkar...Subhash Nagre is nothing compared to the Don Corleone..Am sure you will agree when you have read Mario Puzo's novel).

Hmm guess I am digressing.... but I still have loads of movies to watch and not just the English ones.... Morning raga, Amu, Clockwork orange, shaushank redemption,.....just to name a few:)

but this movie i watched yeterday, if i said, it moved me to tears...it would be a BIG understatement. One needs a looot of courage and guts and not just great skills to make such a movie and Steven Spielberg's 'Schindler's List' has it all. Poignant in its portrayal of the holocausts of the war, if one hasnt seen this movie, they have missed out on an invaluable piece of history.

have always admired the Jews for the way they have clawed back....have empathised, but never sympathised with them. And definitely dont support the war between the arabs and israelites.

Having been initiated into reading the "Diary of Anne Frank " way back in 8th grade, and then read 'O Jerusalem' as well as 'The Exodus' and now this movie..each work has struck a chord in me.

Moved to tears reading Anne's diary, then the documentary about the exodus and creation of the state of Israel, then the fantastically knit story of Leon Uris('Exodus') its been a revelation of sorts.

But again come to think about the plight of the Palestinian refugees....its sooo gory and heart-wrenching to think what man has made of man!

Slowly my mind pulls me much more closer home,...... how would we have been, if we were one, what if the partition had not happened. And to place the hard-facts, any educated 'sane' citizen on either side of the border knows that a Pakistani is as humane(perhaps more) as an Indian is and same way vice versa. And everyone knows that its only those damn b@$^*%!s in power who play around with the lives of soo many innnocent souls.

Well am i really wandering away from what I wanted to tell you...well no, I dont think so...and me definitely not rambling..just come to think of how all these events play so much a role in colouring the fabric of humanity..something which has had tooo many blots/scars in the 20th century and getting way tooo dark in the 'new' century.

Coming back to the movie, its primary focus on Jews(than all the holocausts of the war) is more than justifiable when one considers the extermination of 6 million Jews and nothing in the world can get you closer to what these innocent souls went through...only being one of them would!!!

And all the while I was just thinking the movie's only phoney, how could just one man save more than 1000 Jews, but browsing through the net I found more than a million matches for 'Oskar Schindler'!!! Perhaps he was their (Schindler Jews) Moses in atleast a smaller version,........

but to even hope for a messiah in these trouble times is akin to hanging an RIP over whatever little hopes we have. Not being pessimistic but well even hopeis something we have grown to hope for............sounds a bit confusing? well I think everyone in this fast-track cyber age is confused..going after money and materialistic riches and definining success by waht one achieves by way of grades and promotions and comparing oneself relatively with thy neighbour......instead of just enjoying the simlpicity of nature and its beauty...

Well I dont wanna talk too much about the movie, sometimes puts you many many years back.....but again shouldbt we learn from history, lest we repeat the same mistakes. But again isnt experience a comb nature gives to man after he grows bald???that is provided we dont want to look back and shape a better future.Praying for a better world for our progenies.

Reminds me of a quote "We haven't inherited this earth from our parents, but have only borrowed it from our chilren", lets make this world a better place. Its going to be Now or never!

Hmmmm just getting started.....

2005-08-14T08:57:00.000-07:00

So I guess its now down to blogging n Divs is really driving everyone to blog their experiences(Thnx Divs........http://divyatyam.blogspot.com/).... well, blogging seemed boring(well, I love reading others blogs, but am a lazy bum, when it comes down to me putting my thoughts down on paper..rather the computer ;))

but blogging, all of a sudden, has become something I have started liking.... the next few blogs..... pretty much along the lines of Divs' will be a series of travellogues n my expereience with Chinese culture, the people, the events, etc,... etc,..... :)

ok so lemme just start of wid some things I've been doing in the hols....its nothing but the rather monotonous stuff...... but yeah lots of nice things happening tooo.....the preparation for the cul-prez(cultural presentation to be precise), meeting up loads of new folks, getting to know the old ones better, and catching up on those pals whom one hasnt caught up on in a looooong while....and alongside going on small outings away from the hustle n bustle of the city

... had been to white water rafting last weekend, and man it was a loooot of fun(though River Cauvery has just Grade 1 rapids, whereas places like Rishikesh have Grade 3 rapids)... getting tossed around by the waters was a looot of fun... and come to think of it...... so many ppl were of the opinion that it was too dangerous, now with the floods, monsoons and all, common pppl, when you have the life jackets n necessary safety gear, why fret n worry...life's short n why be sooooo conservative n safe....dont we need to take chances, dont we need to take risks...well I belong to the later category:)

Hmm but that was a wonderful day.... did a little of Joomaring(ppl into rock climbing will know what I'm speaking off) as well as the flying fox(not so much fun)...but something what I like abt these activities are they get you soo much close to nature.....
Rock Climbing puts you in a different zone altogether..its just, you, the rope n the cliff...it gives one sooo much of satisfaction, the high you get after getting to the top(these are the kicks, the highs n adrenaline rushes that I love to have again n again n again :)) man I really really wanna spend my entire life trekking, rock climbing, meeting ppl on the way...

sometimes you just wonder, if all the materialistic riches we are after, are really worth it.... when you come across these simple ppl, living in those hamlets, content to live in harmony wid nature..but I guess thats quite a bit of dreaming too...lik if we had remained in the forests or the hills..would we have progressed sooo much, would civilisation have come sooo far. would we have put a man on the moon(now thats debatable....with soo many videos/spoofs saying it was a farce?!?!?)

Guess all of the above forms the circle- the circle of life n without those hamlets, or without cities, the circle wouldn't be one....

Okies lemme stop here.....will blog back in some time...watch out for the travellogues:))

Highways Of Life...... Travellers For Life

2005-06-16T03:30:00.000-07:00

Just Christened my blog, will be back very soon......