Mundane Musings

Reading Sys’s comment on the previous blog I realised that a mere 3 days break from monotonous work life can accumulate memories that last a life time. My friend’s blog on this trip is more helpful to people who are planning to trek places rarely seen. You can read her version of this trek on http://www.pkblogs.com/royalvilla . For those romantics who like me need to first know the details/experiences from somebody before meaning to ask them the technical details; can continue reading this blog as this is a diary of my most favorite memories in the trek. The trip to the top of the waterfalls was accomplished in about an hour and half as we had lots of important duties to do in between – like taking snaps of every unusual twig and leaf that we encountered, taking snaps of ourselves standing beside all these unusual twigs and leaves, taking snaps of others standing or posing beside er…all these unusual twigs and leaves, stopping to eat foods that performed the noble deed of putting...

The other day I had the pleasure of starting on a trek with a group of friends, most known, a couple unknown. The word trek was virtually unknown to me until this latest expedition. So in order to expiate the doubts of clueless souls (like me) I hereby give you a gist of my favorite parts of the trek… nah contrary to popular belief, they don’t include time spent gorging on calorie-loaded foods. Atleast I shall spare you those details, again as a gesture of solidarity, which only food lovers like me would know. So being the ignoramus I was I started gathering information from my more experienced partners on what one does on treks. My friend who was in charge of the travel and stay did a good job of keeping us posted on what to bring, what to wear and what not to wear (though I got terribly confused at one time and thought I’d have to wear a bright coloured tee to keep off the bison! Oh yeah, I am capable of that). But still mental pictures of people who wore trendy tracksuits and je...