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Forlorn travels pvt. ltd.
The lonely planet guides have aptly named themselves. I agree the lonely part with the travel part …..
I went on yet another escapade. This time towards the dark forests of Bavaria.
Munich came with the sun in the morning. I got off the station at 0730 in search for a tourist info booth. I did find it eventually , to be told that it was going to open at 0900. The purpose , u ask ?
Apparently eurail pass holders get a 60% discount on a certain bus called Europabus. NOBODY knew about this bus anywhere in the town.This bus is SUPPOSEDLY the one to take me to a tour of romantic road. Out of desperation and bored of time i boarded a tour to the castles of Bavaria.
But before i did so, i went around the city in the morning. The vegetable vendors bought their goods(i won’t say vegetables twice!) in VOLVO trucks. I bought the most bestest of cherries from one of the locals. Germans are not that formal, the guy named Juan told me all i needed to know of strawberries, as i told him about the belgian ones i had at Pratiroops place in Ottignies. He then gave me a small box of strawberries out of contention.(How so Indian). He simply relished my comment on german strawberries. They were YES indeed much better than Belgian ones. Enough about the strawberries !
Went to the three castles and a hike around the swan lake. It was bloody 4 kilometers of pure inclination !! I first exhausted myself from a hiking tour to the swan lake , (i left my bag and camera in the bus 
( ). The awesome view did compensate a little for the dehydration.
It was the turn of the high lofty bridge called Marienbruek …to cross my path. It was highe than the castles and had a VIEW !! I snapped a few quick photos of couples who barely managed to get them into the frame. (an interesting story to be told later.)Then the disney like castle and then back to Munich. I imagined the Lunatic Ludwig angry at me for snobbing off his castles like that. Anyways, Munich was ALIVE at night.
The whole city on the streets, shouting and thumping !! awsome sight !!! …….(to be concluded)
…concluding
so, the sight of so many people on the streets had me in a state in which i am barely at my hostel cheerings. I wished i was in India, i wished it was India . I wanted to be proud (cos i wore the german flag on my cheek, which was politely put on by a german girl sitting besides me) but i was ashamed of thinking that. But why was i ashamed at that time ??? It was totally irrational !!!
The night passed on and as i walked alone back to the railway station, a cocktail of thoughts poured into my mind one after another…..
Well that was a night !!! WOW!! Little did i know that the next day i would be so very close to german culture, that i could eat it. !!
Oh i see …!
There once was a boy, Who played not with the toy
His mind was free like a woman on a shopping spree.
Then one day he went to a new land, with a little helping hand
Served he well, lest the fear of expectations rant !
He lived the land like he lived his own, saving pennies ne’er to atone
Then one day he went to the bank, to check what he saved
To his surprise , there wasn’t anything of which he cared.
He saved some more , as days went by….
He didnt know the lore which money bore,
Now cometh the day, he hath got what he hath sown !!
He was abode the cloud named nine, as what he hath now was devine,
Pelf , it wasn’t. But it still hanged around his neck !
So the story ends there….for those of not-so-complicated-mindset….here is the bottom-line !
I am getting a small fortune as a reward for good work. I do not know what to make of it as the time is almost over. The dilemma continues ….
Forlorn Farcuer speaks……
‘allo !!,
Why the heck !!??
Naah ! i was just pulling your strings……..
How are you today ? feeling happy ? good ! (y/n i don’t care !)
Well , right from the oven freshly baked , i present to you a new fear.,”The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom” says the bible !! , is it how we want to live ??? or is it how it functions ??
Go ahead and try not delivering judgements on everything and anything for a day !! Maybe only then would the meaning of this be a little limpid.
My …what troubles do we go in , excersizing our minds on evaluation and judgements , to feel better. What does shock me is that humor is yet another form of feel-good-superiority. It is found that anything that is assumed to be humorous is mostly full of superiority complexes which are hardwired in us for so long that we dont even know !!!!
he he …try the non-judgement thing one day and u’ll know ….
Modified Chapter 1 Part 2 !
XY&Z and the Stale fish
Chapter one (part 2)
***Modified Story***
Chapter 1 part 1 (here)
(Disclaimer : The thoughts and storyline are not entirely uncorrelated to the real world and life as we see it. The only difference is that i view these things in an overtly obtuse fashion. Please feel free to imagine and fill up the holes with whatever wild explanation you find fit. )
How could you ? You are a fish !! …….(contd from previous)
The idea of Xy in certain fishlore involves a white colored environment usually in the clouds and a lot of leisure time. Some fishlores even go to the extent of insinuating the connection of logical steps to the assumed ease of swimming to Xynia !!! How absurd ?
I am simply amazed by all you fish, you have the most developed senses of denial. I guess that is the only reason that bought you here… see here go again with idea bashing…i should stop doing that. Anyways you wouldnt know that a specie or an entity is an idea, so whenever i say “idea” please substitute the word “specie”,in the correct context ofcourse , and assume that i am speaking politely. Joe is adamant about me being politically correct , with the ruckus about Z going on…it is natural to be in good light.
Z or Zeee , is a very notorious entity. It is known to all entity-kind ,not you as you are just a fish, to be a level 0.5 entity. Indeed it is true i conducted experiments with apples, candles, thermometers, pendulums and other sophisticated technologies. All preliminary results show that Z is not an integral solution…i mean Z is 1/2 level entity. Another stange thing i learnt was that Z goes stronger everytime you fish show movies like “gadar” or “kabhie khushi kabhie gam” or for that matter “veer zaara” !!! I was only able to enlist a localised survey but i know it for a fact that movies like “Torque” or “firewall” also contribute to his/her strength. But all that is different…..
The interesting thing about Z is that it isn’t an entirely living entity…!!! Think of the irony….the whole of cosmos is in danger from a not-entirely-living-thing !!! According to my studies i categorise Z under “Ideas & Blasphemy”. This means that the whole cosmii is under attack by a mere idea !!!!
The Intercosmos committee wasn’t too happy on my findings so they tried to get me fired, but the ancient laws on firing involved dancing around the fire naked and none of them was Xy enough to do that…..(they couldn’t fire me anyway as i supercede their decisons secretly)
Lets see now, i have introduced you to Joe or Xy, i have told you about Xynians and Xynia, I have given you an idea about the idea called Zee….. ,But what i have not introduced to you is you yourself. so Fish ! say hi to yourself. Many fish dont actually know about themselves. Some take entire lifetimes to know what they are and where they belong. Many fish dont event know their purpose is their own and no one is going to give a sign to them !! poor fellas ….rest of them just go around bashing each other silly for no particular purpose of importance , all they know is that what they can trade is their worth and hence they put all their efforts into collecting junk trading value !! wow !! what fools….eh pardon me for saying that, but i say what i should and can.
So, you are a fish, all you yearn for is barter and to reproduce. A certain darwin-fish somehow managed to sum up your monkeying around behaviour by connecting you to apes !!!!
I will tell you this in confidence, tell your fishkind to stop monkeying around ….because soon your bartering days will be over. Did you know that everytime there is fish-thought of being strong and powerful there is a felony of the bad kind ? And the intercosmos police has an upper ceiling for the number of these thought crimes….they just Shift+Del your planet’s account from the space time continuom account !!!!
Fish usually flow with the river……they have no mind of their own. Those who do are foolish with respect to the river but one may never know who has the right perspective on the matters of frames of reference, as the cosmos isn’t of any specific shape.You know, once you accept it to be sphere and have a certain perspective, the next moment cosmos changes itself to some other forsaken one…..leaving your perspectives all screwed up. Fish don’t know this…..all they keep saying to one another is “man !, where’s your perspective” whilst unknowingly and ironically the one having no perspective at all is the right choice to be made.
Okay now , i have given you the overview. Its time we move on to more serious things like breathing.
(chapter 1 concuded)
