Travels
Grounded flights, delays.. and again mass confusion as the officials don't care to notify passengers and relatives that their flights are canceled or delayed – sometimes upwards to 6 or 7 hours. The reason? A lot of planes don't have adequate radar equipment to find the runway through the fog.
Travels
I am not even going to get into apartment searches, headhunter fees, job hunts and all the other stuff. Getting internet service set up is already a headache.
Travels
Black sand beach hugging the red cliffs. The waves comes in and out, and I try to imitate - try to blank my mind before the inevitable return. Float float floating on.
News & Politics
Shit – how am I going to explain to the JFK guys that all those flights between Cairo and Istanbul was only because I needed to use my miles to get back to the States?
Travels
And it doubly sucks because outside of the jungle, Kumily has absolutely nothing to do. I've read a couple of books, drank lots of tea, got YupNo to bring food to me, but that's it. Great scenery, lousy nightlife.
Travels
I love tea fields now. Green green green, and cut all even so they track the contours of the hill.. rounded on top, they make me think of little gnomes, heads underground while their bushy green hats plop out, a cover from prying human eyes...
Travels
I bought some giant crabs and prawns from the local fisherman (about $5/kg) and asked one of the local boys to cook the purchase for me on his makeshift grill. Had lunch under a shade of banyan trees near some fabric vendors.
Travels
What I got was a teste (yeah, that's right, bad pun) session where the slightly effeminate guy (nothing wrong with that!) kneaded my chakras and more with this thumbs of steel.
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So why? Maybe it's the fact that it's such a segmented society – girls and boys don't hang out until marriage. And this separation causes, what else, repressed emotions, ignorance, and suppressed anxiety about the opposite gender.
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I'm reading this book called "City of Joy". It's about blah blah blah some priest in Calcutta, more blah blah, and a rickshaw driver... readers have gushed about it since it's publication in the 70s – positively gushed – about how it has changed
Travels
It'll be weird to wake up and not have to plan for bus, train, or plane tickets. Doubly weird to think that one day could imitate another day so closely. To wake up and realize that there are no new temples to visit, no new mountains to climb, or new cities to discover... weird.
Travels
I suppose there is the need to have serenity is more urgent when suffering seems closest at hand. I'm not surprised that this is the origins of the philosophy of detachment, or karma, samsara, dharma and guans.