I had real good fun at my home town, Chennai before I headed to spend three days with my sis, her hubby and her two kids in Manama, Bahrain and boy did I have some fun…
I had real good fun at my home town, Chennai before I headed to spend three days with my sis, her hubby and her two kids in Manama, Bahrain and boy did I have some fun…
A collection of pics from the biggest concrete jungle of the world – Dubai!
Day 1
“Hi there… I am Jack the vulture. My nest is way over there, beyond those mountains. I can see it from here, but am not so sure if you will be able to! I’ve been living in this arid desert since I was born.”
“You see those dunes moving beneath us. Yeah! Well I’ve seen them do the same for ever. Damn sands, they never get tired do they? Keep shifting from one place to another troubling everyone. But I don’t want to curse the desert, because it has fed me to what I am.”
Ahoy there rider!
You, who comes to explore me;
I welcome thee to my open lands
Welcome thee to thy death!
Men die in their prime
Thinking I welcome them with open arms.
To intrude is fatal and
There are no exceptions to this rule.
As we reached the final few hours of our amazing and weird journey we still doubted catching the train. And our doubts became more pronounced as we ended up getting stuck at a toll gate. Some lucky day we were having!
The guard just told us all to wait until he got a clearance from the other end, meaning the toll gate at the bottom of the hill. We decided we had had it and decided to bide our time by making calls to inform our kith and kin that we may be reaching one day late.
Continue reading ‘One Unforgettable Trip-IV (The Last Lap)’
Someone rightly said life is full of surprises. I realized they couldn’t have been more truthful especially after having experienced a surprise at the very next turn of our journey.
Our bus was told to go slowly since a truck with logs was taking a difficult turn at the opposite side. Some of us sitting in front got to see it happen. The truck was not just carrying logs, it was overstuffed with it. Some morons had decided to maximize their profits by fattening the load per trip.
Continue reading ‘One Unforgettable Trip-III (The Strange Case Of The One Tyre Truck)’
You can put it off as a series of (most) unfortunate events or that some demi-god was having fun by playing pranks with us, but I would simply surmise it as the result of playing too many games of hide-n-seek.
We started our way downward curling and twining down the slopes of Munnar. Most of the people had slept probably because of mere exhaustion of all those aforementioned games. We could hardly have traveled for half an hour when the bus grinded to a halt around a curve.
Continue reading ‘One Unforgettable Trip-II (The Psycho Auto Waala And The Stupid Bus Driver)’
Our team trip to Munnar-Tekkadi went really well. The accommodation was good, the food was okay, we visited all the spots we wanted and overall the organization was really nice. It was too good to be true, until we started the return journey down hill that is…
We knew we were running a bit late already and only around 10 hours of time left to catch the train at Madurai. The driver informed us that it would take anywhere between 4-5 hours to reach the station and we can catch the train with a lot of spare time left.
Continue reading ‘One Unforgettable Trip-I (The Descent)’