No...this is not me asking a tele marketing executive who is trying to sell me the latest "0% interest credit card" ...... or me asking my boss who calls me at 8 in the morning on a saturday asking me to give him a document in the next 1 minute....
it was christy asking me over the phone when I called his mother on the mobile.....well I dont blame the poor kid...my sisters phone is quite frankly a scary phone....for starters whenever the phone rings its almost as if the entire orchestra has suddenly come to your room...startling you from whatever you are doing.....and that too bad hindi music playing orchestra...and then there is the screen which has a disco theme going for it ...so there are neon, blue and white lights blinking through the conversation....whoever designed the phone must have had a whacky sense of asthetics or what constituted a "peaceful conversation"...
Anyways enough of phone talk....last weekend was family time for me.......My sister, christy and I went to see Sanjay Gandhi National Park ...this was christy's first trip to a national park...and throughout he kept saying "I am going to the Notional park"....now usually the mention of a national park would evoke images of lush green surroundings with quiet pathways crowded by trees......with tiny deers running past you giving you ample opportunity to click one of those priceless (in your opinion) pictures of wild life....and you come away feeling as if the nature is still in good hands.....
ofcourse this national park was different......instead of quiet pathways crowded by trees there were noisy roads crowded by people...and instead of tiny deers running past you there were ferocious monkeys who pratically chased you down the road .... hmm...
Ofcourse the best part was the tiger safari ..... we were all cuddled up in a caged bus and taken to the tiger and lion den....and as soon as we entered we caught sight of a white tiger .....it was quite frankly the most beautiful looking animal I had seen (ofcourse excluding the good looking human animals like John Abraham :))......... Christy was so scared that the tiger would come and bite him that he kept holding on to his mom.....it was very cute I must say....after that it was a long drive without any sight of even a peaceful animal... and just when we were giving up hope we caught sight of two lionesses resting on the side of the road.....they didnt even bate an eyelid with the approaching vehicle... infact I believe one was even yawning ....
it was christy asking me over the phone when I called his mother on the mobile.....well I dont blame the poor kid...my sisters phone is quite frankly a scary phone....for starters whenever the phone rings its almost as if the entire orchestra has suddenly come to your room...startling you from whatever you are doing.....and that too bad hindi music playing orchestra...and then there is the screen which has a disco theme going for it ...so there are neon, blue and white lights blinking through the conversation....whoever designed the phone must have had a whacky sense of asthetics or what constituted a "peaceful conversation"...
Anyways enough of phone talk....last weekend was family time for me.......My sister, christy and I went to see Sanjay Gandhi National Park ...this was christy's first trip to a national park...and throughout he kept saying "I am going to the Notional park"....now usually the mention of a national park would evoke images of lush green surroundings with quiet pathways crowded by trees......with tiny deers running past you giving you ample opportunity to click one of those priceless (in your opinion) pictures of wild life....and you come away feeling as if the nature is still in good hands.....
ofcourse this national park was different......instead of quiet pathways crowded by trees there were noisy roads crowded by people...and instead of tiny deers running past you there were ferocious monkeys who pratically chased you down the road .... hmm...
Ofcourse the best part was the tiger safari ..... we were all cuddled up in a caged bus and taken to the tiger and lion den....and as soon as we entered we caught sight of a white tiger .....it was quite frankly the most beautiful looking animal I had seen (ofcourse excluding the good looking human animals like John Abraham :))......... Christy was so scared that the tiger would come and bite him that he kept holding on to his mom.....it was very cute I must say....after that it was a long drive without any sight of even a peaceful animal... and just when we were giving up hope we caught sight of two lionesses resting on the side of the road.....they didnt even bate an eyelid with the approaching vehicle... infact I believe one was even yawning ....
and then there were the kanheri caves......now these are buddhist caves built by monks some centuries back....it really boggles my mind as to how the monks found their way through the jungles and then patiently carved out these artistic caves out of stone....well no wonder they achieved a high state of nirvana...with such backbreaking work in the middle of the jungle you just had to develop a sense of detachment and believe in something bigger.....
All in all it was a good trip....and on the journey back I dont think Christy, me and my sister were thinking of anything bigger than just reaching home and crashing....
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