Of little stools,little people,onedies and wannbe youth!
Realizations category : General
-- All my trips start with an excel sheet. To be exact, excel sheet ( my bread and butter for a fact!), named as Book1.xlsx with 4 columns as Date of arrival, Name of place, What to do, Date of departure.To fill the mentioned columns I often do endless "googling" of images, and less often I trust Wikipedia!Once these columns are sensibly filled I save the excel sheet as Itinerary.xlsx
-- I trust and am ardent follower of "luxuriously convenient" style. No matter if I have to pay extra in exchange of hassle free planning and execution.
-- Only way I know to "explore" a city , country, or place is by walking the labyrinth of streets, drinking coffee or tea at cheapest of roadside coffee shops! and eating food from "thellas"
-- When I try to speak Vietnamese its hilarious! I like to think that the way I pronounce Vietnamese is equivalent of Charlie Chaplin's costume in "The Tramp"! a bundle of contradictions! (Over size shoes with tight cap!baggy pants with tight shirt! )
-- I like the freedom to spit! After careful thought I realized that though i don't spit often on roads, I feel good that I don't do it to keep India clean! but when you make a rule against spitting ( like in western countries I think)I am robbed of that feeling - "of doing some good"! And hence I like that in India we have freedom to spit, urinate and throw garbage on roads!
- I wonder we have cameras to capture the moods and colors of a city but what of its unique smell? its sounds? be it a slow thuds of the waves hitting a boat or an early morning prayer? or a silent traffic? what of sweet smell of fried wantons ?
-- Don't judge! Don't budge! Just purge! (people! beliefs! prejudices!)
Realizations category : Food
- Vietnam is a land of gastronomic delight , Vietnamese can make exotic dishes out of boiled water and boiled vegetables to stimulate every single taste bud of yours!
- Vietnam is where you feel coriander leaf is exotic !
- Order egg noodles in Vietnam - they'll break the egg into boiled water which makes your noodle soup! So if you don't like your egg like that just beware!
- Do try - Cao lầu & Phở!
Realizations category : Vietnamese people
-- Vietnamese are ingeniously efficient at whatever they do!!
-- Vietnamese are creepy! they kept asking me - "Are you single? how old are you? when do you marry? Any girlfriend?" whereever I went!
-- I hate Vietnamese people as they are so content in life that its almost insulting to me! its like they were mocking me!
-- They are crazy to the core. I saw couple of guys, in domestic flight wearing helmet. And there is dearth of people wearing the masks ( of the chicken flu fame)
- Vietnameese are wierd -- they drink coffee and green tea at the same time!
- Vietnameese are crude and unforgiving when comes to bargaining!
Realizations category : Vietnam as a country
-- Vietnam is similar to India to some extent like -Trains sound same as in India, Vietnameese don't use the tissue paper,but to some extent they are different too --Vietnam has left hand drive, Vietnameese they don't sound horn as often as we Indians do, though they have even crazier traffic.
-- Vietnamese women run more small businesses then Vietnamese men - like Restaurants,Cobbler shops,Jewellery shops, Retail shops!
-- Vietnamese track time of London, New york, Tokyo and Paris! You'll see in hotels and bars - 5 wall clocks, one each for the above mentioned cities and one for Hanoi!Tells loads about their foreign policy!
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