Coming Back To Life...

It’s some twenty months since I had written my last blog, it would be gross understatement if I say my life has changed upside down and turned on its head by 360 degrees since then. Actually it’s changed more than that.
Why did I just let this forum slip away is a mystery to me also, I guess there was no room for creativity left in those roller coaster months of mine.
I have come back with an intend to stay put this time with firmer resolve to update the blog on regular basis and perhaps with more amount of understanding, greater skill sets as far as knowledge of words goes ( took my GRE recently) and more experiences to share.
Wish me luck!

Comments

Balaji Sharma said…

Welcome back, bugga. Look forward to updates. Cheers.

10:04 AM

Houte Route - Summary Post

It's a pretty popular walk from Chamonix (France) to Zermatt (Switzerland). In winters, it becomes a cross country ski route, but in summer, it transforms to a hiking route, which traverses through pretty high elevation, hence its called Houte Route (High Route). Unlike backpacking in the US, this backpacking was supposed to be much easier, as we were basically staying in hotels/dorms, and we didn't have to carry tents, sleeping bags, and food. But, we were surprised how hard some of the hiking days were. We were a group of 6 friends. My wife (Mona) and I were the most "untrained hikers"; others in our group were more committed and better prepared than us. We expected to walk through Swiss meadows, mountain villages, hi-fi ing cows along the ways. Even though some days were exactly like that, around 1/3 of the trails were very tough and tested us physically and mentally. Here is a very brief summary of our daily adventures on the trail. Day 1 : Chamonix ...

Walk in a Temperate Rain Forest

We marched along exhausted, wet, and worried, on a lonely trail in a densely wooded rainforest. It was getting dark; we were hungry. We have been walking in the rain for more than 3 hours and we expected to arrive at our campsite any second for the last 40 mins. My socks were wet, my backpack was weighing heavy on my shoulders, and I was ready to just crash on the trail. Why torture ourselves by backpacking miles in unpredictable weather and challenging landscapes, rational people often ask hikers and backpackers. There is not one definite answer; there are so many reasons, and everyone has different personal ones. For me, I derive energy from the natural world whenever I am in a forest. Additionally, I truly experience living in the moment, all that matters is the next milestone, which path to take, how much water is left, do we have enough food and where is that damn campsite. Out of mist of rain and dwindling dusk light, the sign board of Lewis Meadows campsite greeted ...

Buy My Book

This was part of our assignment in the class. We had to come up with adverstisement of an imaginary book that we wrote , and speak for 2 mins. ********************************************* Have you heard something like this from your friends? “Hey you know what, I got a super deal from Wal-Mart, the chair you bought for 70 $, I got it for 7$”. U smile and say, How nice, but on inside u r thinking “what the hell”. Well not anymore, I bet u don’t have to worry about these situations anymore. After you read my book “ The essentials of super market ”. I am Aniket, and once like you victim of super markets, always getting bad deals , mocked by my friends and buying stuff that I never used , just because , it was on Sale. Then one day I said to myself Enough!!! . I got down to uncovering truths about these supermarkets. I did odd jobs; like salesman, watchman, even janitors in these stores to understand there working. I went through their catalogs, from point of their incepti...

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