Quo Vadis?

This post is another CBC tag effort, a part of :                   and a big Thank You to Aarti who tagged me. Aarti blogs at Tapestry of Words and is a contradiction of sorts. You can learn more about her by visiting her page.     If you are still wondering about the CBC, The Chennai Bloggers is a closed group of bloggers of varied interests, many of whom are living in Chennai and includes those who are outside Chennai but still belong here. If you are a blogger from Chennai and are not in the CBC, you are missing something.   Now for the tag, my life in six words can be summed up thus:                                                 "He IS still working o...

I missed out a few points in the earlier post. Contrary to what a reader mentioned I did not see naked people around but Amsterdam is also famous for sex tourism as prostitution is legal there and opium I was told can be bought in super markets. I did not have the chance to visit a supermarket but did notice opium candies being sold in the pavement shops. So the group decided to check out the red light district and we walked along the canals.  The entrance to the area I realized that the term red light area is literal for in some houses a red light illuminates a glass window behind which stand women in lingerie waiting for clients. What is different is that it can be part of a normal shopping street or just another avenue and people stroll by. There was a club offering live shows and some of the group dropped in, the others including me were exhausted and we stumbled back to our hotel for a well-deserved before another action filled day. Day 2: The day started off ...

Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions (MICE) is a buzz word in the world of business, usually this means that one organization will sponsor a trip for their clients or business associates as incentives for a job well done, some times for a job to be done well. On the 2 nd of May my colleague & I escorted 46 employees of a top client on an overseas trip. This was a 5 nights, 6 days trip crossing 4 countries and my second overseas trip ever. The following series will detail the trip. Day 1 – May 02: We departed from Chennai to Schipol Airport by the Emirates airline and so the stopover was in Dubai. A 4.25 AM flight meant a 1 AM check in and therefore no sleep for the hosts as we had to gather the travellers assembled from across the country in a city hotel and take them to the airport. The inevitable Indian Stretchable Time standards ensured that we reached the airport late enough to give me a nervous attack.          ...

Politician bashing is a favoured form of recreation for people.   It is part of many conversations and the collective ills of the land are blamed on the politicians and I have also been a willing participant. Politicians are evil, let us hold that thought for a moment and introspect to see if we are all not politicians every day? There is a phrase that has amused me ever since I started debating politics in my mind- “playing petty politics”. We often say that they were playing petty politics to describe certain situations, two important words merit further thought the first is playing and the second is petty. A professional politician “plays” politics for money and in doing so he is not very different from any of the mercenary sportsmen who play for the highest paying team. After all for him it is a question of livelihood and survival. When the others play politics not always for money but always for an end it is termed petty because it is smaller in scale and it is diffe...

There are times when you yearn to travel and there are times when you just want to be at home. I will be on the road again for my second ever overseas trip however this time I await it with mixed feelings. Elated that I will see or atleast visit 3 or 4 capitals in one week and thrilled to visit some places that was on my wish list but extremely disappointed with the haphazard planning and poor communication between the vendors and my company, the sponsors of this trip. This also means that I will be online sporadically so will be almost missing in action and may affect my blogging average; on the brighter side I may have more things to blog though I have not been much of a travel writer. I guess it is never too late to begin. And due to this trip I have to do one thing that I find most unpleasant and that is working on a holiday, especially a holiday meant for the workers. The perils of escorting a large group of clients in a foreign land and the associated challenges takes a...