Roopkund - Tales from a Distant Land

Aug 12
A day to go.. Our Trek begins tomorrow..Am pouring over the checklist to make sure that I have everything I need..
Lots of hectic last minute shopping.. Tracks, Thermals, and a whole lot more..
I wonder how it would be to live off the suitcase.. oops my trekking bag for an entire two weeks..
Not too sure how I should pack my sleeping bag.. Decide to take it as a separate entity..
Oh o..Cant find my camera charger.. Frantic Search.. Its right there!.. Thank god for that..
Packing really is an art..

Nighty Night!

As the saying goes the journey begins the moment you register for it..

Luv
Meena

Bangalore Mornings.. (The Mundanely Interesting..)

Bangalore Mornings..

Bangalore Mornings..

I'm besotted with my Canon..
Couple more shots taken this morning..

-Meena Venkataraman

Bangalore Mornings..

The Morning mist has an irresistible allure to it.
Silhouettes that could inspire poetry...

All these were taken when my cell phone camera.
The resolution isn't great. But this was all we had to catch the moment..

Colors of Winter..

Took these pics at the Intel Campus with the Cam in my Cell phone
Pretty! :)..
Was really scared that I would get stung..


-Meena Venkataraman

Crossroads..

Was deleting old files and found this picture, Taken in 2005, the view from my room in the Makati Shangrila Philippines..
It still invoked the same emotions it did then.. and is very very reminiscent of the thoughts swirling inside my head at the moment..

Any of you watched Cast Away.. ?
Sort of reminds me of the time when Chuck Noland Says

"We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. 'cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over *nothing*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring? "

-Meena Venkataraman