1st Nation: I need to work on my limbs by climbing up trees. 1st World: No. Ride a bicycle. Better still, join gym club. 1st Nation: I’m going swimming in the river/lake/sea. 1st World: No, it’s dangerous. Go swim in the pool. We’ll build a pool, fill it with clean water & add lots of …
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Love ourself by loving our earth
F**k. After two days in Mumbai I’m down with cold. My body temperature goes high. My chest gets heavy. I cough incessantly. It must be the Mumbai air. Gotta find something to blame on, hey:-) It’s just too foggy and smoggy. I stay in bed the whole day while Ben goes out exploring the city. …
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City of Mumbai seems to rise up from the dirt & pollution. The bay by Haji Ali Dargah clearly is not for swimming. Or even to wade in its water. In the background, skyscrapers of Mahalakshmi Chowk are barely visible through the haze. India, namely Mumbai’s Bollywood produces the most number of movies in the …
After we pre-book an INR500 taxi for our hotel, the sales counter guy directs us to our taxi. It’s a Hyundai Santro, the maker of taxis in India it seems.The driver is a slim, middle age man. He might be a few years older than me but his weather-beaten face makes him look much older.Hyundai …
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I am in the queue to buy pre-paid taxi tickets in Mumbai Airport. The space between me and the person in front of me is about 1 foot. On the other hand, the gap between me and the person behind me is aboout 1 inch. Sometimes none at all. I can feel that he is …
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Morphing myself into a night butterfly. Pre-new year ended up in a moat-like water surrounding a building where the club I was supposed to go to was. Clipped wings, soaking wet, I took the walk-of-shame home. Phone dead & buried in a bowl of rice. 4 days later resurrected & it came alive. Post-new year …
I stole a pair of shoes !!!
“Citizen of the World, Citizen of Everywhere,” Theresa May!
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