A beach bum's blog

  Recently I have been flaunting this old Printed Tee-Shirt of mine with a Anoman (hanuman In Bahasa indonesia) graphic on the front side and some ramayana story brush up on the rear, and so when people questioned about the Tee i got reminded about the beautiful landscapes of Surabaya,Indonesia. It usually used to be myself looking for places to visit for an upcoming long weekend followed by convincing people to join me for the trip and the organizing the entire thing and so the entire process lasts from one long weekend to the next long weekend (roughly two months), yeap this was life in Singapore. This time all i had to do was suggest the place to my friend, His Girl friend was an Indonesian and so she took care of the planning part. All i had to do was pay her the money and apply for a extra day of leave at the office. I knew the itinerary had volcanoes and waterfalls but i never imagined it in the scale and grandeur it was realtime. So it was 4 of us flying out on the ...

   Day 2 to put it simple Bike rides, heavy rain & scenic drive for 4 hours. Drenched completely after a cold shivering drive along cliffs, paddy fields,forest & hillocks we reach the besakhi temple on the slopes of Mount agung. We took a lunch break on dhabha like restaurant along a small stream , bought our sarongs from  the temple gates & we were welcomed to one of the best temples in the world. Insert facts from wiki " Perched nearly 1000 meters up the side of Gunung Agung, it is an extensive complex of 23 separate but related temples with the largest and most important being Pura Penataran Agung. This is built on six levels, terraced up the slope. This entrance is an imposing Candi Bentar (split gateway), and beyond it the even more impressive Kori Agung is the gateway to the second courtyard."     It was some auspicious day & so people had gathered offering prayers in almost every corner of the temple. It would have taken us atleast ...

My degree at NTU,Singapore was first instance in my life,when i was kinda away from my home. Though i was supposed to stay at my sister's place saving money on room rents, i found a more cheaper & fun way to spend my uni days by simply hanging out all night with friends & crashing in different friends room in the mornings. It reached to the level i got spare keys from couple of rooms so that i dont disturb them knocking their doors early in the mornings. My visit to my sisters place was limited to laundry & monthly expense :P. As my degree whizzed past my eyes my itchy feet remained dutifully itchy with regular parties,weekend trips & midnight hangouts within the city (country), But i hadn't stepped out of the country, let alone the one trek organised my the uni's activity club to "Gunung belamut - malaysia" second successful stamp on passport. First ever challenging trek climbing 90 degrees pulling up holding tree roots in rain & best part wa...

As the blog's title suggest after a really long time of extreme boredom ("Not travelling")  i resorted to the easiest way of reminiscing my past travel's through this blog. Once a wise man said  I once had a thought and came up with this extraordinary phrase "We are all born wanderers some get by their lives without this realisation & some become beach bum's while the rest realise & become what ever". This blog would also take myself & the poor souls reading this (mostly friends) from the city of chennai ("Insert city fact - 2nd longest beach in the world") to Dallas,Texas. Yeap thats right in heartland of desert state Texas - No beach of sorts in 600km surrounding. Paragraph of no importance - வரலாறு மிக முக்கியம் அமைச்சரே.   My addiction to beach started since childhood but of late some of the best moment that flashes through my mind which made me realise the beach bum i am today are listed     i) First beer of my life (k...