Oslo Experience part 1

It can't be better timed than this one. Mid-summer holiday in a sun-starved scandinavian country. We decided to take a luxury cruise from Helsinborg in Sweden to Oslo in Norway. Thursday was pretty busy as I had to do a lot of stuff in and outside of office. But I, somehow, managed to do it well before the 3 pm deadline and at 3:15 I was in a bus racing towards Helsinborg. The two hour journey was not so good as I am (now) fed up of seeing the never ending woods. Helsinborg was an happy surprise. Being a coastal city it was warm and humid. We started walking towards the jetty. It was a nice view down there. Wind was blowing heavily and luckily no clouds in the sky.

Cruising towards Oslo

After watching a number of boats sailing here and there, the cruise ship, supposed to take us to Oslo, arrived. It was like a gigantic 12 storied luxury hotel somehow floating on a ship ! We were really excited by merely looking at the massive ship. We got in. Our rooms were at the 10th floor! very close to the top deck. After an announcement of departure, the typical horn blew up and I was on my first marine expedition ! It was really exciting, watching the distancing shore, dissappearing slowly. After sometime there was nothing else but visibly infinite sea below and the sky above. This particular situation made me realize how insignificant I am in the big world. After a bit of introspection, I realized myself being attached with the world in more than one forms. If you attach yourself with the almighty, you are the one who is everywhere, and if you detach yourself from the almighty, you are nothing. everything depends on how do you think and what do you think you are. I had been lost in the deep sense of spiritual satisfaction for some time .

please click on the images to see the bigger ones. !
I was dragged down to the earth by my yelling colleague. It was the time to take dinner and he was calling me for that.

"Only" dinner on a cruise journey was not making much sense :) So some bottles of Martini were brought to add some "spirit" to it :) It was a real fun enjoying Martini and good food on the deck at 12th floor with sun shining above your head and cool breeze buzzling.

Soon everyone was climbing to the *seventh heaven* ..... step by step. Alongside was the rising volume of songs, gazals, romantic songs, sad songs and even "koli geete" :) we were really enjoying, somewhat worried were the married women, worrying about their husbands making use of the opportunity to booze :) After this a lot of things happened, dance, disco and stuff like that, more on this was informed to me by my colleagues on the "next morning" :) I had a sound sleep in the lavish room.

I woke up by sound of the siren at 7 am. It was the time when the ship enters the *fiord* (A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska). It was a treat to eyes.

I am short of words to explain the natural beauty. There were many islands, hilly regions, full of trees with small and pretty farm houses. There was a small jetty in front of the small farm houses and a small road from the jetty to the farm house through the Green woods. All in all heavenly experience.


To be continued in the next post....

fair unfair

After a pretty usual day in office I returned back, and then, I was supposed to meet this guy. I had never met him before. Had not heard anything about him except his name. The time decided was 7:30 pm. I left home at 7:35. I knew, first he was supposed to talk with other people so the delay was permissible. He was a tall guy, with a innocent smile on his face. I was observing him as he was talking to others. His behavior reinforced my first observation that he's innocent and a genuine person. A person with a good soul. Later I came to know that he doesn't have any job. He was well educated, appeared well informed and technically adept. He had all that is needed for a technical job. Then why he doesn't have any? thinking on it further I realized, for getting a job, or for getting whatever one likes to have, one must realize "it's an unfair world!". But some people don't realize that. Their true, and hence good, soul makes them think, everyone else is genuine like them. They never use any unfair means and never complain or fight back if someone uses unfair means against them. They will leave any competition, not because of fear of losing, but because they don't want to hurt anyone. Hence they often lose the opportunity to someone inferior but unfair.

In a fair world such people should survive, not just survive but thrive as per their ability. But in reality it's not fair and just. The constant commercialization and globalization is the latest disguise used by the unfair people to achieve their motives and still not being characterized as one. They keep on shouting, "the fittest should survive!". True, everyone will accept that. But more often than not, the *fitness* boils down to unfair, dishonest and unjust means.

That meeting with him, made me realize all this. I am too, a part of this world, the world which is not fair with the people like him. A little bit of soul-searching revealed, though I am a part of the system, I was never involved, knowingly, in any of the unfair conducts. But still what can we do to improve this situation?

why not start with ourselves? let's take an oath that we will never make use of unfair and immoral means for our benefit. And in the same pursuit, we will not let go dishonest people without paying prise for their wrongdoings.

I conclude with the hope that one day we will live in a fair world, where every good person is taken care of and everyone else is made to understand that they just can't run away with their immorality.

long live truth in the real fair world !

Change !

a few changes. first in the template of this blog. it's now more readable, except the contents :)

also was busy last week shifting to a new apartment, assembling new furniture and stuff like that.

changes are not always bad, as they appear when they appear for the first time. thinking more on those lines, changes make the life, they make it interesting, they leave you guessing on what will happen next. you learn a lot, good or bad, only when you undergo a change.

to be continued....