The Beautiful Bahamas

At last I could make some time to blog about our recent cruise trip to the Bahamas. Though I still have a pile of procrastinated ironing staring right at me, I guess that can wait before I actually forget about the whole trip.

Our trip started off with a 2 hour drive to Port Canaveral in Orlando. As we neared the pier the distant sight of the gigantic ships had us stare at them open mouthed. We went through the whole checking process and finally embarked the huge cruise. Once inside we took a deep breath to watch the way the whole ship was lay ed out. It was a total of seven floors and we were on the fourth floor which gave us a better view. One could literally eat themselves to death on a cruise. There was food all around the clock and with gyms to burn it off Phew!!!. We spent the whole evening on the cruise deck watching the ocean, it was an experience of a lifetime. Towards the night we went to the front of the ship and to our dismay the winds were so hard that at least I could barely stand, felt like I was looking at hurricane Charlie again. We woke up the next day to watch the sunrise from our window (we later regretted for the fact that we wasted 100 for the window and didn't put that to much of a use). We now reached the Nassau in Bahamas, the color of the waters , aquamarine felt welcoming.



The whole site was so breathtaking. After deboarding the cruise we were faced with a swarm of people coming towards us and telling us how they can offer us the best tourist experience. Made us kinda nostalgic hmm... We took a water taxi to the paradise island, where they had built the Atlantis resort resembling the lost city of Atlantis.


After Long walk around the Atlantis, we spent relaxing time at the beautiful Cabbage beach ( weird name but nice place)

Our day came to an end when spent the time in the downtown Nassau and their famous straw market. The site of people selling stuff and the whole ambiance of the place resembled the "Sultan Bazaar" of my home city "Hyderabad". We were quite amused at the site.
Once of the cruise after the eventful day, we had a formal dinner night , after that we spent sometime in the casino to try our luck. But as always we realised we are unfortunately not that lucky enough. We then went to the disco and joined some fun activities on the deck.

Next day was whole day on the cruise , we felt our stay in the Bahamas was too short but we chose it. We spent the day on the cruise juut lying and watching the ocean, some mini golf etc. Fun part was in the afternoon when they had a hairy chest contest for men. It was really hilarious to watch these people do some crazy stuff , it was really funny. We cooled off the day in a jacuzzi. All to all it was quite a memorable trip and will cherish it for quite a long time. And let me not forget that I had my hair braided just to add a touch to the whole island experience...

Does my education really makes me stand out?

Did it ever occur to anyone what does education give me? Knowledge?? Of course.. but the question is how far does this knowledge take you. For most of the it ends up in a comfortable job or at least a job that can help you lead a good life. All our lives we have given exams tried to excel in them and struggled hard to work towards a prosperous career. I followed the same route that the million other Indians like me have done, picked up Computer Science as a major considering the fact that it was best Engineering branch to get into. Seemed attractive and definetely lucrative. After getting the Bachelors , what was next step just like millions other I took the route of GRE and got my Masters. What was next step now just like millions other find a good company and find a developer position just like how the masses term it "IT" job.

Looking back at the decisions I took make me ponder, may be I should say the decisions we(my parents and I) took. All my parents saw was what would get me comfortable life and only tool they knew "Education". May be all I thought was this is risk free or may be this what the smarter people do. Was education my only weapon good enough to make mark for myself in this world? No, I don't think it was, I defenitely have more talents in me than pushing a concept into my brain. Alas!! never got to realise them. All my life I thought that being smarter at studies made me superior, how wrong was I. Now I know being talented and putting that talent to the right use is the smartest thing. I started this blog to with different thoughts as I write I realised new things. Probably this just another another "Road not taken".

Too lazy to blog

Now that I have blog for myself...I still feel it takes so much effort to put some words together Auh! Anyway Christmas is right around the corner, such a festive atmosphere. Christmas has always signified happy times to me... coming from a missionary school it signified the end of half yearly exams and the christmas holidays. I always feel joyous during this time of year. Now that I am in the US and have an easy access to the oven.. I try my hand at baking cookies and cakes haha. I know some way of not eating healthy. Next couple of days are going to be pretty exciting, we are leaving on a cruise trip to Bahamas. Sounds exciting got to check out whats coming for me.

Weekend Escape

Oh!!! Monday is right around the corner again.. Phew!!!! another long week but the thanksgiving holidays have made this week more shorter. What a relief. Saturday was indeed an escape from the hush and bush of the city life, away from the traffic, noise and people. The canoe trip was relaxing and definitely a treat to the eyes. Perfect spot for nature lovers though can't count myself one among them. Gators !!! Gators and Gators were every where, being a Nole fan one wouldn't love to be in the company of Gators but this time it was an exception. We saw Gators in sizing from 8 ft to about 2ft was an experience in itself. Different kinds of birds, turtles also river Otters. Canoes are a definite relationship testers might sound funny but they are. All to all it was quite a eventful adventure canoeing beside gators, and arguments as to who is paddling the wrong way. There were places during the canoe where all we could hear was just the water and few distant birds singing... a perfect weekend escape.

Waz up for today

How can one define the zeal of people to move forward and be successful? to me its just a rat race. And of course I am a part of that rat race and will not stop until I reach the goal. How many times have we seen people trying to make others look bad just to make themselves look good? if you didn't see anything like that till now then boy! I must say you have had a really clean work environment. Time and time again I have seen people do that, partly we can't blame them as thats needed to survive in the world of fittest. Personally I don't want to loose my ethics or the way I conduct myself just to emerge out as the flawless one. Rat race!!!! Success!!!! leadership!!!! Zeal to be at the top... will make people do things which are not professional or acceptable. But you know what that's life for you or may be the "real world" for you...

Life come at you very fast

I always wonder if there is any way that one can have a control over their emotions and frustrations. In todays world you see frustation every where, work, family, spouse, traffic, grocery stores list is never ending. I have tried many a way to have my emotions under my control but in vain. I see people everyday who are so calm and composed always with a smile on thier faces, they look so content and calm. Calm.. thats the thing.. being calm ... is that too much to ask for in every day life??I tried dabbling with spirituality tried if that is of any help, alas! a person like me who cannot be at one place at a time will not have any success with that. I am still on my quest to find things outside or may be within myself that will help me win over my emotions or lets just say "myself"