random thoughts...

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back to stable steady ground, working telephones (without having to think 'roaming'), computers, internet, clean bathrooms, my own room, TV, books, newspapers in english, mosquito-less-ness.......
ahhhhhh....... theres no place in the world like home!!!!
but the trip was nevertheless great. felt like shahrukh khan in swades ;o) (though unfortunately i didnt have a trailer home to take along!)
the road trip by itself was gorgeous. roads (surprisingly beautiful roads that too; smooth, clear, well marked, scenic... almost too good to be true!.... of course they didnt last all the way) that just went on and on, you could see the road ahead for miles; fields on either side (even learnt to identify a few crops), a huge forest (drove through it for about 2 hrs... awesome), a brief period along the sea coast (need i say more), villages, small towns, little cities, big cities, backwaters, lakes, rivers (though some of these were in a sad state as they were running dry - in fact in what was clearly a river bed, a bridge that once went across the river now stands stupidly- starting nowhere, going nowhere); and as we got closer to kerala - plantations. rubber, coconut, banana, betelnut (looks like ive become a tree expert!). also men in lungis on motorcycles, bullock carts on the highway and oh get this, just today i saw a cattle market! what looked like thousands of heads of cattle and ten times as many buyers and sellers! weird to think of cattle markets today. definitely logical and obvious but still, theyre the stuff story books and old movies are made of. (boy buys bull from girls dad (at the cattle market)-bull dies (on the way back from the cattle market) -boy sues girls dad- then sees girl (who hadn't come to the cattle market)- falls in love- they sing a few songs (around the cattle market) - father sore with boy for insult- refuses to let his daughter marry him- few corny actors show up to fill time (discussing the next cattle market) - boy saves remaining cattle from mysterious fire (at the next cattle market) (turns out the fire was planned by the corny actors) - all happy- lovers marry (at the cattle market if you please) - the end ---- you may have already figured that this was an original story. you may also have figured out as to why i am not a scriptwriter today...) but you get my point, dont you? actually i think i lost it myself. but i dont have the time to edit it so let it stay (actually i think its a gem of a storyline... could take me places this one. golden jubilee perhaps.... platinum even! ;o)

the rocking feeling has stopped (after 5 days stright on the road).

my room is beginning to look less heavenly, the comp is beginning to feel slow, i just noticed all the dirty laundry, cant call anyone up at this time of the night (morning), the newspapers are describing in detail the forgettable final indo-pak ODI, almost every news channel is talking about the new pope benedict xvi (my opinion - its a good thing for the church to have a conservative head, but so conservative....??)

country roads.... take me home...............................

posted by deepti @ 1:02 am