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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

THE LOVE FOR THE SEA AND THE FEAR OF BOAT RIDES

I love the sea and the boats and I have spent a lot of time sitting on boats that are pulled and kept ashore by the fisherfolk. As an artist, I love every vibration of the sea and everything around it.

I have had many opportunities to go for a water ride with my family during the several travels that we have had. They would try to talk and persuade me to hire a boat for all of us to go for a ride. I would politely refuse and discourage them citing some reason or the other. On very few occasions, I gave in to their persuasion and went along. This was for rides in small rivers but where the water was still deep though. While everyone else would be enjoying the ride, I would be very conscious and tense and wouldn’t be able to focus. It was fear inside me that was causing this. Nobody in my family knows swimming and that is something I thought would have really been useful for all of us. But again, will knowing swimming really help us to wade to safety from any type of waterbody? I am not sure.

Recently, on our trip to Langkawi, my family hired a boat for a travel to a small island. They told me that it’s on a shallow water and there is nothing to panic. Very reluctantly I stepped in as I did not want them to lose an opportunity. The boat started and soon it was going at a speed that I have never experienced before and we were actually going into deeper waters, first through a bay area and then straight into the sea. If I had known this earlier, I would have adamantly avoided this, but I was totally oblivious to this.

On reaching the island after the nail biting ride, I enjoyed every moment that nature unfolded in front of me.

I think in life too, it has happened to me, that I have been reluctant to take up something I loved because something connected to it was something I feared. May be what I need is an oblivious push.

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Saturday, February 13, 2021

REACHING HIGHER GROUND

Many times in life, it's the calculated risks that we take, that will get us to higher levels in life. We can always be smug and spend our time at the same level, but to push forward and go higher, many times the path would be adventurous and risky.

During our trip on this cable car in Langkawi, our guide told us after we finished this tour, as to how the cable car on one occasion, had got stuck in the middle and had remained still and suspended for hours. The visitors had gone through real panic and some of them had even missed their flights too, but all had finally come out safe.

This is sometimes what we see as the flip side in life too.

When it comes to taking risks, I think the three women in my family are way ahead. I think too much.

Location: Langkawi Sky Bridge.

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Saturday, January 30, 2021

THE POWER OF SOLITUDE

"Without great solitude no serious work is possible" - Pablo Picasso.

I found this island in Langkawi a great place, especially because there were very few people around. I could see long stretches of nature in its quiet form with very few humans. I don't get this ambience in a city.

It's in these solitary times that we hit the precious fathomless depths of our thinking and that's when the best of art gets created.

While most of us need a quiet place to focus, some great people have been able to find solitude and concentration while being in the middle of a cacophony. This is super human. The great cricketer Sunil Gavaskar used to mention that he could concentrate for long periods while in the middle of people talking and shouting.

Location: Beras Basah Island, Langkawi

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Saturday, August 8, 2020

THE BAT CAVE IN LANGKAWI - A RISKY VISIT IN 2018

With the pandemic that we are into now, I am not sure whether anyone will venture inside this bat cave again. I had been there just after the NIPAH virus outbreak in Thailand in 2018. Will I venture into that place again? Never. Bats have become such lovable creatures world over :)

My wife was very livid with me when I ventured into the cave very much against her wish. She, my sister and my daughter stayed out while I went inside along with the other visitors. Looking back, it was a big risk that I had taken that time.

Cameras were not permitted inside and we never not even allowed to flash our mobile phone lights as it could disturb a huge swarm of bats hanging above us on the roof of the cave. But some of the visitors still flashed the lights and that way I got to see the huge swarm of bats above me. I don't have any photographs of these bats but those images what I saw, still flash through my mind. I felt creepy later when my wife told me that anything that dropped off the bats' bodies could land directly on the visitors below.

Please use this link to google the images taken by other visitors. Some of them have violated the rules and captured the images of bats in the dark.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bat+cave+langkawi&sxsrf=ALeKk00eNkuJoF6-NiSbATu7gQd4cKSeyg:1596908926478&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGkbSqlYzrAhXoxzgGHfzlCKwQ_AUoAXoECBoQAw&biw=1536&bih=722

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

THE LANGKAWI SKY BRIDGE, MALAYSIA - A BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF NATURE

This was a unique and great experience, going up and down the rope way in Langkawi Island in Malaysia. A beautiful piece that has emanated out of a lot of effort. I loved the view of the mountains and the sea from the top. What a view!!!

I think I liked everything in this setup except the bridge itself. I thought it should have had a nice natural canopy covering, instead of a metal structure left exposed in the sun.

We had the opportunity to walk down from the top of the mountains through the thick forest's greenery and reach the white bird like shelter you see in the snap. We took the return up by a guided lift vehicle, as we were all zapped off energy to walk all the way up.

A place like this takes us very close to nature. Often, the stillness of nature gives us an opportunity to connect with our inner self in a much better way, as we soak in tranquility in those moments.

This white winged shelter, almost looks like a white bird taking off in the green mountain backdrop.

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

SAND BUBBLER CRAB ART - PANTAI BEACH, LANGKAWI

We had finished visiting all the major spots in Langkawi and we only had this place remaining. My wife was negotiating with me to give up visiting this place for some shopping that she wanted to do. But I pressed for going here.

Unlike the black sand beach that was pretty lonely, we spotted a lot of people here.

We spotted sand-bubbler crabs, at the Pantai Beach, Langkawi, Malaysia. Sand-bubbler crabs of the genera Dotilla and Scopimera produce remarkable patterns and structures at tropical beaches.

These crabs live in burrows in the sand, where they remain during high tide. When the tide is out and gone, they emerge on to the surface of the sand, and scour the sand for food, forming it into inflated pellets, which cover the sand.

The speciality of these crabs is that breathe air with their legs-Scopimera and Dotilla.