Doing what you Love..

Chakky has already written on the topic Do only what you love!! And I don't want an argument with him on that, because he is very good at arguing. He could have taken up LLB as well, if it was not for Engineering. :)

Anyway, this is not the same. :-)

During our talk today, Visakh just remembered that he has a blog of his own. Regarding a train journey (first half of his blog), I share exactly the same feelings with him. However, there is one feeling which he hasn't expressed in his writing, but one which I enjoy a lot. I asked Visakh to try a guess. And this is the list he gave me.
1. FOOODD!!
2. The pulling of wind on your clothes?
3. The rhythm?
4. The wait for the eventual destination? That every second leads you towards where you wanna get so anxiously?

Atlast, he admitted his failure and I reveal the great secret here!!
Sitting on the door steps of the train :-D

Well, I am not joking. There are craziest things we can do in life which, on executing, others might stare at you. During a train journey, it can be sitting at the door step with legs outside and enjoy the wind and the rhythm of the movement.

Once I started doing this by putting my legs out of the train and was preparing to sit comfortably, when an old lady near me thought that I was going to jump out of the train. She shouted at me and all the people in the train started staring at me as if I were a suicidal maniac.

In Visakh's words (slightly edited by me): "people choose to live in templates.. Walk along beaten tracks.. Take only the pleasures that is promised along the track.. And they are wary of people who are not like them.. They don't know how to deal with them and predict them.. Those that cant be predicted is a possible hazard.."

There are still crazier stuffs which, on seeing, can make your Grand ma's eyes bulge. :-)

White water Rafting
Chakky started it off, as a suggestion towards our shift change outing. An alternative to the regular destination (Moonnar). Here is how he canvassed people for it. Anyway, the pics speak for themselves.


"Just an hour's drive from Kochi and you are on the last stretches of Kerala's famed River Periyar, winding down its long journey through the Western Ghats. Just the perfect setting for an adventure experience shooting the rapids of the Periyar. What makes any whitewater experience so compelling, so satisfying, and so incredibly exhilarating? It's for real! No video game or amusement park ride can compare to this primal adventure.

As you drift through the river with its thick forested shores, the growing roar of the next rapid pierces the air. Anticipation mounts as your raft picks up speed and approaches the drop. You follow your experienced river guide just as he yells, "All forward!" There isn't time to think. You paddle forward, stroke after stroke, when suddenly you glance up just as a towering white wall of water crashes over the bow, you keep digging in as the raft peaks the next wave, rocking you back only to propel you forward once again as it thrusts downward in the next instance a roller coaster of excitement!
Programme 0800- Arrive at Bhoothathan kettu, the starting point. Briefing & familiarization with the equipment. Start the run.
1330 - End run. Depart.
Safety: All equipments are certified & of International standards & quality. The river guides have 10 years or more experience in guiding.


Eligibility: It is necessary that the participants do not suffer from heart ailments, hypertension & problems associated with the backbone.

Tariff: Rs 850 per person"

Ours was a group of very dynamic people. And, the trip was mixed with music and action. And even after 2 years I can just feel the helplessness of that rain in River Periyar without an umbrella with even not our hands to shield our head because we had to keep on rowing,

and the taste of those few bananas Sunjith had in his bag, when everyone started burning with hunger. The calmness of Periyar where we could even jump in and the roughness of rapids which needed all our strength to get over it.