This is my second time in langkawi and I can confidently call this place my backyard. A large island nestled away in the andaman sea just across the Thai border, Langkawi can occupy you for atleast a week. It is not too small to be accesible nor is too big to be distant. its about 428 sq km. One of the best things about langkawi are its roads. its a thrill zipping down the roads at 80 km an hr which is wat i did most of yesterday and today. i rented out a 150cc b...

I consider it absolutely befitting that the first entry of this blog goes to The bay- Maya bay. Ao maya's beauty is so stupendous and overwhelming that it seems to deeply affect those who travel to it. Having said that, i was very very lucky to visit the place when there were just 3 other people. I managed to charter a longtail boat along with this Australian dude, his jap girlfriend and an American. So it was just the 4 of us sleepyheads off to ao maya at 7 in t...

The earliest memories of Time are usually the warm overlapping comfort of a protective mother,holding the tired finger of a stubbled and a disoriented Dad lost at this new game of parenthood or as in my case grabbing the last enticing chip from an Uncle Chips packet.Time as we know it is just a institutionalized intruder of our monochromatic society..A stream of soothingly mindless hubub that defines our days and months. -this birthday,that date.Life really is a ...

As the Sun sets on the banks of the mighty Irrawady here in the ancient forgotten Kingdon of Amarapura,I cat help notice that this is a world so different from my own ...The past seems so petty,so empty, full of echoes.But here its different.This really is it.The life here.The simple Life.The life that lives off the soil,off a peaceful culture,off religions forgotten.I worry it will all change for the worse..Burma is intersticed in a time warp where strangers giv...

Self Imprisonment?Imagine a person leads the perfect life, would one ever really live? Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Maybe our mistakes are what truly make us. Without them what would shape or lives.? Perhaps if we NEVER veered off course, we couldnt fall in love, get dumped, realize we were selfish at times, move beyond the cosmetic shallowness of our society and instead become our own jailers- one cuff at a time? If we led a perfect life would we e...