Greetings from 2,050m above sea level.
Well it is now day 5 with the boys and other than sharing, beds, drinks, seats and loads of other things together this trip is turning out to be quite good. And yes I have stop shitting across india, though it looks like Govin has picked up the batten on this one.
Let see, how do I describe Amritsar,
Seeing the Golden temple reflect of the lake was calming and peaceful.
Standing in the land of my forefathers was enlightening.
And having a cup of cha in a dhaba in the middle of nowhere was just amazing...
McLeod Ganj was quite chilled, literally for as we just arrived it was pouring rain,
so me and Ravi did the only thing we could do then, proceed to the hotel bar to have a couple of shots. Once the rain stopped and we were errr a bit more chilled (ahem as the temperature dropped of course) we just walked around the streets and was taken aback with the breath taking scenary. Next morning we packed up and moved to Manali. Although we had to amend the plans from taking the toy train due to Govin's unhappy tummy, the van ride was great.
Todays plans are to just walk around and absorb the sights and sounds and chill ;)
On that note, I shall sigh out now...
~Peace to all~
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Shitting all across India...
Oh yeah, as someone so adequately put it,
I'm going to Delhi with a Delhi tummy...
Tho I did enjoy the 17hrs or so train journey,
the view from the toilet in A2 class was excellent.
I know a certain person would be all smiles now
whilst shouting at the computer screen;
See, see I told you soo ;)
Anyways all is good, the purge has reduce from hourly to 4 hrsly to now about 8hrs...
And hopefully by the time I leave with the boys, it would be totally over and done with,
For it would only be fair that I get the Delhi tummy as I come here
and be done with it as I leave here
let the adventure begin...
-dave-
I'm going to Delhi with a Delhi tummy...
Tho I did enjoy the 17hrs or so train journey,
the view from the toilet in A2 class was excellent.
I know a certain person would be all smiles now
whilst shouting at the computer screen;
See, see I told you soo ;)
Anyways all is good, the purge has reduce from hourly to 4 hrsly to now about 8hrs...
And hopefully by the time I leave with the boys, it would be totally over and done with,
For it would only be fair that I get the Delhi tummy as I come here
and be done with it as I leave here
let the adventure begin...
-dave-
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Good bye Nareshwadi, Good bye Mumbai
Hello Delhi...Yup the volunteer program has ended...
Hmmm im trying desperately to articulate my feelings about leaving here
This uneasy feeling i have as i say good bye to this place ive called home for the pass 3 months
For its been a bitter sweet experience
From the first going through the mad heat wave of Nareshwadi
To seeing the first droplets of rain on a hungry ground
From observing in Mumbai the blanten poverty all around
To seeing the hope of a better tomorrow by NGO programmes.
To loosing my fav mobile phone...to realizing Nokia has got some decent phones after all ;)
Well Iwill have to just rearticulate a saying an Aussy gal told me
Mumbai mere jaan, It hurts so much that you must just love it...
On that note,
alvida mumbai mera jaan...may i paths cross again soon
Hmmm im trying desperately to articulate my feelings about leaving here
This uneasy feeling i have as i say good bye to this place ive called home for the pass 3 months
For its been a bitter sweet experience
From the first going through the mad heat wave of Nareshwadi
To seeing the first droplets of rain on a hungry ground
From observing in Mumbai the blanten poverty all around
To seeing the hope of a better tomorrow by NGO programmes.
To loosing my fav mobile phone...to realizing Nokia has got some decent phones after all ;)
Well Iwill have to just rearticulate a saying an Aussy gal told me
Mumbai mere jaan, It hurts so much that you must just love it...
On that note,
alvida mumbai mera jaan...may i paths cross again soon
Thursday, 26 June 2008
A not so wise thing to do
Many a time after an incident has happen we cant help but wonder "what if"...
"what if!"...i truly think those words should be banned from the english language not individually tho but together!
God knows we always will need the word "what" and the word "if"...
i mean my most fond memories were bugging the life of mum n dad on
what is this and what is that and what is what...
and i always remember the famous answers of "becauselah" you know who you are and stop smiling!!
and how life would be without "if" for "if" i think was the mother of all innovations for i can imagine the great einstein sitting one day and going "if", not "what if" but "if" we put this e in front of mc then square it...and wallah!!!
ok by now you must be wondering dave has finally lost it...well in a sense you are right...yesterday i lost my phone and the whole day today this stupid "what if" has been bugging the life of me...well you must say...this was one hell of an opener ;)
Yup, I lost the one love i brought away from ....... the queensland
this mobile phone had been thru a lot with me and i guess like many things has gone away
but its all not that bad! ive got my eyes on this next beaut sony tho the nokias have come up with some nice alternative...choices......the death of the wise shopper
anyway till then ive got this new sony phone that reminds me a lot of the ol faith full t10s and it has excellent fm!!
well anyway enough of the "what ifs" i shall now send an email to the good people at oxford and see if there is any hope of banning those darn words, maybe if i get enough people with me...
hmmm something to work on in malaysia ;)
-dave-
Monday, 23 June 2008
Sunsets over Nareshwadi
These are just a few of the beautiful sunsets I've captured over Nareshwadi from just outside my room...
its a wonder how sometimes we forget to look up and look out...
Sunday, 8 June 2008
A day at the beach
Hi all,
Its been sometime, well its been a long week and what a week it has been!
Last Monday we decided to take the kids to the beach before the summer ends and the monsoon comes. The beach was not too far away and the kids really wanted to go. So we all got on the bus and off we went!
As soon as we reach the beach the kids ran into the water to play...so me and the 2 other teachers took shifts on keeping an eye on the kids, and with the two other teachers being ladies, I had to be the one in the water with kids! Boy I wished I paid more attention during the day to my swimming classes ;)
Anyway I was in the water keeping an eye on the two naughty boys beside me with the rest of the boys slightly further away but within running reach if anything happened...
So all went well and the two kids beside me were so happy playing in the water, especially Kuldip, the only kid who is HIV positive in at the boarding school...
Then around 12.30pm as planned I called all the kids back for we had planned to take them for lunch in town. So they all came out and I started to dry myself and thank God everything was going good...and I spoke to soon!
It turned out one of the teachers took one of the girls into the water so she can play in the water a bit and next minute I know the other kids had also ran back into the water but because the teacher was there I continued to get dressed. The next minute I know one of the kids is running back and shouting that Rohit is in the deep end, initially I thought he was kidding, then i saw the other teacher shouting for help from the shoreline and I looked up to see this black dot in the waters!! How my heart sank...I sprinted to the beach and ran into the water, I swam with all my might and hoping Rohit to just stay a flout for a bit more longer while i battle the huge waves to reach him...lucky there were a couple of elder kids who were parallel to him and heard all the shouts n started to swim to him.
Time just stopped for me and how I prayed he would just stay a flout a bit more longer...and boy did he fight to stay up and the boys reached him in time...I brought him out and rested him on bench, he was moving in and out of consciousness but he was managing to speak and kept saying dave sir dave sir...
Anyway a long story short he spent a night at the hospital and now is back at the school, the doctor did tell that his lungs we nearly full of water and a few more minutes he would have gone in...nevertheless all is good in the world and Rohit n his mates were caught stealing mangoes and had to spend the day picking up garbage around the school compound ;) kids!
well cheers guys.
Dave signing out
Its been sometime, well its been a long week and what a week it has been!
Last Monday we decided to take the kids to the beach before the summer ends and the monsoon comes. The beach was not too far away and the kids really wanted to go. So we all got on the bus and off we went!
As soon as we reach the beach the kids ran into the water to play...so me and the 2 other teachers took shifts on keeping an eye on the kids, and with the two other teachers being ladies, I had to be the one in the water with kids! Boy I wished I paid more attention during the day to my swimming classes ;)
Anyway I was in the water keeping an eye on the two naughty boys beside me with the rest of the boys slightly further away but within running reach if anything happened...
So all went well and the two kids beside me were so happy playing in the water, especially Kuldip, the only kid who is HIV positive in at the boarding school...
Then around 12.30pm as planned I called all the kids back for we had planned to take them for lunch in town. So they all came out and I started to dry myself and thank God everything was going good...and I spoke to soon!
It turned out one of the teachers took one of the girls into the water so she can play in the water a bit and next minute I know the other kids had also ran back into the water but because the teacher was there I continued to get dressed. The next minute I know one of the kids is running back and shouting that Rohit is in the deep end, initially I thought he was kidding, then i saw the other teacher shouting for help from the shoreline and I looked up to see this black dot in the waters!! How my heart sank...I sprinted to the beach and ran into the water, I swam with all my might and hoping Rohit to just stay a flout for a bit more longer while i battle the huge waves to reach him...lucky there were a couple of elder kids who were parallel to him and heard all the shouts n started to swim to him.
Time just stopped for me and how I prayed he would just stay a flout a bit more longer...and boy did he fight to stay up and the boys reached him in time...I brought him out and rested him on bench, he was moving in and out of consciousness but he was managing to speak and kept saying dave sir dave sir...
Anyway a long story short he spent a night at the hospital and now is back at the school, the doctor did tell that his lungs we nearly full of water and a few more minutes he would have gone in...nevertheless all is good in the world and Rohit n his mates were caught stealing mangoes and had to spend the day picking up garbage around the school compound ;) kids!
well cheers guys.
Dave signing out
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