Sunday 11 September 2011

maybe it is more than "blue city"

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Near Clock Tower, Jodhpur,

a cup of spicy tea

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glow in your eyes

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I return to your arms

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Sunset time, in Blue City, Jodhpur. Sound of Adhan calm down the hustle of the day and the city gradually gets back its divinity.


Saturday 10 September 2011

bejeweled

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Indian women are amazingly fashionable. Needless to say about their beautiful and colorful Saris, a lot of women wear gorgeous necklace,bracelet,anklet on a daily basis. I always wonder how they manage cleaning, washing and cooking by being dressed in such fancy way.

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Fashion is women's universal interest.

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Culture and ethnicity can never be separated from a person's beauty. Each culture has their own charms and beauties which cannot be found anywhere else in the world.

Indians are beautiful because they shine in their own way. So are Japanese.

Globalization sometimes make us forget to appreciate the beauty of each culture, but what I witnessed in lural India proved that true beauty lives in their own blood.

This is completely my selfish hope, but I really wish that Indian women dressed in a same way even in 20 years. Not in T-shirts and jeans please.

where are women?

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One of the mysteries you encounter in India at the early stage of your trip is that there are many more men out in the street but not so many women. Station, downtown and normally anywhere in the city street is occupied with men, men and men. From what I saw, maybe not so much in Delhi, but it was indeed very obvious in local city.

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In fact, in India sex-selective abortion is still carried out because of the conventional preference for sons due to cultural views of daughters as financial burdens largely because of the dowries required before marriage. It has led to huge imbalances between male and female population and study even says that in 20 years there will be 20% more men than women in India.




On the train, Jaipur to Jodhpur

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Ithaca

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Always keep Ithaca in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for many years;
and to anchor at the island when you are old,
rich with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.

Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would have never set out on the road.
She has nothing more to give you.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you.
Wise as you have become, with so much experience,
you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.

--- Ithaca,Constantine Cavafy ---



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Travelling is my most passion. I'd always love to pursuit something which hasn't discovered yet in my life. Like we never truly understand how warm the inside of your house is in winter unless you experience the snowstorm outside, one can only learn his/her true-self by crossing the unknown. So I keep travelling, and that is why I don't hesitate to set my foot into the country where I have to muster out 10 times of my normal energy just to get on to the right train.

India wasn't always kind to me this time either. The journey was all about wandering away from my initial itinerary. From some point, however, I've started embracing what was happening in front of me instead of trying to fix it all.

An Indian friend often referred to the word without any doubt.
" You know, it's karma, destiny."