Digitally Exploring the world

Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance.  Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery.  Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny.  Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy.  Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.  --Mark Batterson

Sis and Me at Jamalpur

Mom and yours truly a long long time ago :)

Weekend at green and serene Wellington

Back in the City after spending sometime with mom , surrounded by books and music and as I picked up todays paper I read that Richard Bach was critically injured in a plane crash that he was flying solo. Took me back to reading the his book during my school days and also Neil Diamond (one of my dad's favourite) .. 

Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act - paul coelho  

A great evening (rather post midnight) of music with dad's old friends at NDA reunion Lemon Tree Hey Jude Summer Wine Saints Go Marching In

With my niece Anya ..

  Another year gone by but still trying to find that elusive dream !!  reminds me of one of my favourite song's  from 'Sound of Music' Climb every mountain, Search high and low, Follow every byway, Every path you know. Climb every mountain, Ford every stream, Follow every rainbow, 'Till you find your dream. A dream that will need All the love you can give, Every day of your life For as long as you live. Climb every mountain, Ford every stream, Follow every rainbow, Till you find your dream A dream that will need All the love you can give, Every day of your life, For as long as you live. Climb every mountain, Ford every stream, Follow every rainbow, Till you find your dream. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxsCBIxr71M

30th March Bangalore : Just the other day on the tennis court , I was telling one of my friend's how much fun it use to be this time of the year when we were at school , with exams over and no worries of the world and upcoming summer vacation usually meant a trip out and it struck me that life wasn't that bad after all even today. I had booked my tickets to Indonesia , a short summer vacation after all for a working person but nevertheless. The day of the journey started with my first photography exhibition at IIM , Bangalore ,after a bit of running getting prints done and framed and also the jitters of first timers.I was exhibiting my travel pictures and lots of interesting conversations happened about places, travels, photographs and some folks even wanting to purchase them to my utter surprise. I headed home from the exhibition and got myself all set for the late night flight out of the city. The only booking I had was the return air tickets. My exploration plan w

06th April  Yogyakarta  The bus reached Yogyakarta (pronounced ‘Jogjakarta’ and called Jogja in short) at 4:30am and I tried asking for a Guest House I had in mind and read good reviews on the internet but that turned out to be far away from the City and there were no buses at that hour. It was pitch dark and just a few people around , So I got down at Sosrowijayan street where most of the guest houses are located and asked around for a place to stay .I was told that few would be vacated around 8am , so had to sit around for few more hours. It was a grueling wait since I was tired after almost 1.5days on the road after Ijen and in the same hiking clothes.  I found a nice little pension Losmen Uttar and dumped by backpack , had a shower and just crashed out for few hours.  It was a long weekend (Easter holiday) and when I woke up and headed out to the Malioboro Street to get some food , it  was jam packed with people. Jogja , is the cultural hub of Java and famous for Batik

This is post on my wanderings around some active volcanoes in Java. 31st March Jakarta I reached Jakarta on Saturday morning and after getting the Visa on Arrival stamped (25$) , took the Damri Bus (Shuttle service from Airport) to the Gambir Train Station. It was quite humid and there was some rain  as the bus passed through the polluted streets of Jakarta. I managed to get an evening train ticket out to Surabaya. The train station was fairly big with lots of eating joints and convenient stores and I spent all my time walking around , grabbing some food till the train took off. 1st April Surabaya The overnight train to Surabaya was AirCon Chair Car with lots of leg room and luggage lofts and reached the pit stop at 7:30am about 2hrs late. I walked out of the train station and bought myself tea and then found taxi drivers trying to talk me into taking a ride just like it happens in India. I had the details about getting to a hostel by local bus and after talking around fou

My First photography exhibition at IIMB Good response , lot of appreciation and people willing to buy some of the frames.. Encouraging for someone who's just a novice :)

Finally a new book shelf at home .. A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Cicero

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Picture taken at Minnesota .. We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. The beauty of this whole process was best described, perhaps, before people even took to frequent flying, by George Santayana in his lapidary essay, "The Philosophy of Travel." We "need sometimes," the Harvard philosopher wrote, "to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what." From Pico Iyer&