Harsh, one would think, for a normally outwardly calm person. But hey, this blog isn’t called Volatyle without a darned good reason. First it was Delhi, where I just shut myself up for the most part, hanging out with a closed group of friends, not venturing anywhere beyond was absolutely necessary. I know it was [...]
There’s so much to do, so much to think, so much to write, but so often I feel oppressed and unable to do whatever it is I want to. I need to start living my life again, on my terms. It’s not gonna be easy but it’ll kill a lot slower than suffocating in this [...]
As I was growing up, and it wasn’t THAT long ago.. As I was growing up in the 90s in India, I always saw the sky studded with stars. I took them for granted. I never thought, then, of an eventuality where the stars would not sparkle any more. In Guwahati, Patna, Ahmednagar, Dehradoon, Pune and [...]
…women dare to walk about in dirty, stinking feet. Vietnam is a country of salon services. Manicures and pedicures can cost as little as 10,000 dong (or 50 cents) each, feet cleaning costs about 60,000 dong ($3), hair cuts cost 40,000 dong ($2), and getting your nails done (which is a mani/pedi plus painting the [...]
So the cross-country road trip is long over. And if there have been no updates since, it’s because life been a long series of habitual nothingness. In the time since the road trip, mid-Nov through mid-Jan, P and I were in India… chilling our butts off, if there is such an expression. It was sort [...]
We leave for our cross country road trip tomorrow. It’s pretty much the Great American road trip, going through almost 15 states. Why are we not doing the usual Route 66, driving across the middle of the country, because it’s so cold right now. It’s barely November, and a lot of places in the North [...]
I will name him Jinx. Isn’t that a really pretty name for a doggie? One day, when I have a home, I will have a doggie. Something sweet looking.. maybe like this..
After reading this super-scary post on a blog about robbery in Ho Chi Minh, I advised Pratik to leave his $500 Android in India when we go to Vietnam. Remember the $500 Android he bought because he was so excited about creating applications! (Well, he never did that) Here’s some excerpts from the post. Sqcary… [...]
It’s no secret formula to great writing. In fact, it’s been around for exactly 2009 years. Which means, back in 1 B.C., someone came up with this wonderful simple rule. And how do I know of it? Why, Wikipedia of course! This quintessential simple rule to rocking writing has been drilled into every journalist living [...]
Lake Tahoe was a pool of blue at 4580 feet (abv sea level). The Sierra Nevadas appeared brown in the distance but with binoculars, I could see the fir and pine trees shooting up the sides of mountains. We spent a leisurely Labor Day weekend lazing around in a nice hotel on Manzanita Avenue. Tucked [...]
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