Phuket - 'Pearl of South'
Monday, June 15, 2009
2 months back, I made a small trip to Phuket, Thailand. It was a 5 days trip, although a trip of a lifetime. Phuket is a small island amongst the chain of islands in Thailand. Its a 3 hours journey from Bangkok. It is mostly occupied by tourists from East and West. There are a million of things to enjoy in Phuket - Patong Beach, Coral Island, Phiphi Island, sunset cruises, para trooping, para gliding, para sailing.. hmm, games with para word was always enjoyable, river rafting.. And not to forget those colorful shops with candles, wood work, sea shell work, sarongs, funky beach slippers.. Oh my God, I have to hold my horses now!
Check out some cool snaps from PhiPhi Island and Phuket in this blog..
Out of all places, my personal best was PhiPhi Island. Awesome scenic beauty with blue and green sea water, small green mountains, white beach sand, big sea shells.. close to heaven! What more, yeah you enjoy this place best when your love is around.... :)
Life with an objective
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Have you ever wondered what you are living for.. Let me put it this way - do you know your life's aim?
This thought can bother you a lot.. Especially when your brain searches desperately for a food for thought - I speak by experience.
Back to childhood days, in one of our religious prayers, I got to know that our very own Hanuman knew the objective of his life; he knew he was sent for a cause - to help the good win against bad. And by all means he succeeded.
I haven’t had any premonitions like him after I was born till date. If I see around, everybody is living, living to earn, ya, living has become costly these days.. but yes, living knowing that we live to die one day.
Millions of us rush to work everyday, the day is exhausted finishing off mundane tasks, face the rush hours to reach our nests, and then wait for a new tomorrow but with the same routine.
Days are lost, years go by. This is straight and does not involve much effort to know what you are doing and why you are doing it. But what is not this straight is that we are living to do something, a thought that moves with you like your shadow – a thought which requires much effort to shape itself as an objective.
There are numerous life stories walking around us. Some of us believe in running fastest in the business rat race throughout life is achieving the life’s goal. Wonder who is the Pied Piper of Hamlin – though the rats you bet are grey, brown, fat, small, tiny!
Another section of us think of living to give their best to family, to cover ourselves from unseen calamities, sustenance of our offshoots is the key word.
There is one more type – how can I forget, the ones living each day as it comes – fastest growing section these days. They plan for today, they do not have any strings attached – self sustenance is the key word..
What most of us fail to see is something that lies beyond our lives – and this includes me. We all walk through our lives the way we are taught to walk as we started to live.
If I compare all ages, there is one truth that applies to all eras - the win of truth over lie, good over evil. Each day for me becomes an effort to have my roots holding tightly the soil of Ram and Ravana. To figure out ways to fight against evil, to help is making the earth a better place to live in, to fight against poverty, terrorism – to bring smiles to faces which have become blurred fighting with tears. This is sure not difficult in this era..
And then, I feel your life might lose its meaning for sometime, but if you think through it, your life has so much more meaning that you can lose the count of new set objectives!!