Trip Memories

Activities- adventurous, semi-adventurous and non-adventurous-loves of life:P
(All are loved by me just the same, but are listed in chronological order)

1) Street luge-Sentosa-Singapore.

Go-karting lets you drive in circles and dashing car doesn't really move too far....but yes, luge lets you drive down a road, surrounded by tropical Singaporean trees! Heaven! You just pull the gear in front to move, and back to stop. I sat on the car, pulled the gear and just mooooooveeeeeeeeed!! And the thrill of relaxing and driving, overtaking, speeding down at the slope turnings(preparing myself for the Great Indian Driving Test-lol) and the experience is just so fabulous. Head to Singapore if you are planning a trip and explore more! Bonus: Great South Indian pure vegetarian restaurants too!

2)Cable Car-Genting

The cable car had been discontinued for three months but the day we went....it was operational once again!!!!!!!!!!! It is the longest in SE Asia! It was a delightful experience!! Tropical-temperate forests right outout of geography books surrounding you...and standing in the cable-car in front of the fully transparent windown- breathtaking! Who says you need wings to fly?! Genting has the most amazing weather. Sun shining down one minute, fog enveloping the trees the next. What more can you say seeing tropical forests one minute and pine and cedar the next! And the fog enveloping the beautiful pines and poplars! And a theme park? Truly amazing, and as Malaysia says, truly Asia!!

3) Parasailing

They stamp 'two dips' onto your palm(though I really wanted to just get over the stamping and go parasailing, so I didn't pay attention to the stamps!) and strap an uninflated parachute around your body. Then they tell you take three steps: a one, a two and a......a.......three!! You take off and then you are in the water again, right below, for a split second and then you just take off! he parachute inflates and you find yourself in the middle of the Pattaya beach! Only at a great height above the middle spot on the beach! Then after experiencing true 'atmosphere', you are propelled down again, and your legs are skimmed by water, and then you are experiencing a'tmosphere(not a punctutation mistake, it does look nice when spelled that way) again! After some atmosphere breathing, you are coming down again, and your photograph is being clicked! I smiled a hearty smile and then realized that they had clicked a pic of you while the parachute was being strapped on....and I was smiling in that too! Guess I wasn't too scared! And whenever you are scared, just transfer the energy into thrill! And we enjoy thrill when we are a little scared! (that untransformed energy of being scared)!! Parasailing is just 'beyond land, beyond ocean, and beyond yourself!'

4) Undersea Walk

Okay, I was 100% calm before this. Been there, done that (parasailing)....after exploring the atmospheric air, we were now going down, to where the fish/jellyfish/crustaceans/anemones/crabs/horseshoe carbs/octopuses lived. How can I forget, those beautiful plankton and phytoplankton! Corals! I went in first, and the helmet with an oxygen cylinder is gently put on your head, you climb down the ladder, and its bye-bye human habitation! Your ears feel uncomfortable, but yes, that is the way some of us feel while we're in an aircraft! After 15 seconds, you slowly get accustomed, and you begin exploring ocean world! And they take your photo too! I lay my hands on whatever I could find, corals, fish, anemones...the list goes on! After half and hour of fun, I climbed the ladded again and came to the boat! The sad part is when we go down to the ocean world, we are assured of a safe return! When the fish visit human habitation, they are killed and cooked! How unfair! Are we ruling the Earth because of our technical capabilities? Compared to the weaver bird, who has no formal education in architecture, and builds a nest keeping in mind climatic conditions and has all comforts compared to that of a modern home, in miniature form, are we really that great? I'm way off the topic, but yes, let us face it, and accept it, vegetarianism is the way too go! Your stomach is not a burial ground, mind you!

5) Banana boat

Banana boat is just a long colourful boat with black straps. We sit on it, and we are asked, ' Adventure or non-adventure'...and the answer to it is the former! We just sit comfortably as the speed ofthe boat changes frequently, alternating from slow to fast! Then, when we are nearing the shore, the boat topples and its 'all-fall-down!'. The best part is that we did not know this was the adventure! And, just for a split second, I thought it was my fault for having fallen down!

6) Scooter boat

Dhoom 1: I just sit on the scooter boat and it is driven by the scooter boatman. He takes it at 40 kmph and its 'dhoom machale' all the way! He then asks me, 'Do you want to hold the handles and drive it yourself? I say yes and I drive it at 30 kmph and in water, that seems like a hundred. The sun, sand, sea, water, scooter boat and me! I was sooooo thrilled and I am thrilled even thinking about it!

Dhoom 2: I'm on the scooter boat again, as a joyride passenger as well as the scooter boat person! I accompany a small kid and ask him, 'Slow of fast?'. In typical kiddie innocence he answered 'fast'. (The actual scooter boat person was there too). I started clasping the handles rightly, revved up, and sped! From my previous 30 to 40 to 50 to 55 to 60!! Yes, and now I was singing, 'Dhoom Machale'! And this, yes, this, is ultimate joy!! One of the happiest moments of my life! Then the kid tells me, 'Slow please'. I told him that he had asked for it, but I slowed down too. Then I asked again, 'Slow/fast?' He said 'slow'but I still sped on. And both us of were singing, 'Dhoom Machale!' At the end of speeding and revving, the kid wanted a photo with the Formula 1 Scooter Boat Winner of the Year! I gladly posed, and however dramatic all this may seem, the experience was blissful! It was just gggggggggggrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaattttttttttt!!

6) Dashing car on water

We were on dashing cars, knocking each other's car in the water.....racing and speeding!! Good fun, totally brand new experience!

7)Disneyland(Hong Kong)
If I start, I just cannot end. Caramel popcorn and cotton candy aside, Disneyland is the best place in the whole Universe. And I seriously mean it. I just looooovvvvveeeeee Disneyland! And my pics with Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald Duck!

8)Madame Tussauds(HK)

Wax figurines of the whos-who....and of Madame Marie Tussaud's too!! Clicking pics is the best part there!



All in all, all in all, HK, Macau(a place like none other in the world, except Las Vegas, and unlike 99.99% of cities, it is active by night! My lovely owl city! And Macau by day and by night is unrecognizable, it just feels like you're in two different cities), Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are just great! Asia rocks!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to my parents who made this trip possible!!