to do : check - check

Attend a Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performance - check.
(@ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley)


Paragliding - Check

tut tut...

I find this social pressure to bubble with excitement, froth happiness and rollick in contentment during each waking moment, deeply distressing.
Let my morose, lost & lazy self - just be.

Fan of

I am high on political satire these days.
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Been watching.,

127 Hours
The King's Speech
Legends of Fall
John Q
Good Will Hunting
Paris, Je T'Aime
Eat Pray Love
Super Size Me
Food Inc
The Colbert Report
Real Time with Bill Maher
Charlie Rose show
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Reading.,

The Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
The Best of Lonely Planet Travel Writing
Political Essays of Hume
The White Mughals - William Dalrymple

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There are few things that get me as excited as a book sale does.
Pick anything for a dollar! Enough to make drool.

mad or what?!

Travel means different things to different people. Visiting places, getting-away, seeking stimulation - it maybe one, none or all of these. At the very least we want to be able to tell a decent story about it, once it's over.
There are of course lots of stories out there and 'sigh' , 'wow', 'Oh, how I wish', 'I have to do that before I die', 'THAT, I can not do' are usually my inspired reactions.
And then there are those that make you go 'who does that?! It's bollocks'. Stories that force you to reconsider the reasons for which people travel. While you struggle to see the point of putting oneself through all that, someone else might be silently nodding - 'getting' it intuitively.

Here's a story that made me go 'mad or what?!'