Happy Holi

Sometimes I just spend time sitting on my office desk thinking about things. What if I hadn't left the country to pursue PhD? Had I been able to help Mom's illness better? It torments to think why we did not pay some serious attention to it much earlier. Probably we did. Met different doctors and nobody could do much about it and we just got used to it. Once the problem exacerbated, it demanded more care than ever. I was not around and couldn't guess whats going on. Had I been around could I have made a difference? I don't know. But in the hindsight I can say it needed more attention. Its funny how much you can analyze things in the hindsight

Coming back to the topic, Happy Holi to all my readers. No holi for me today. We may have a holi party in next couple of weeks.

Every Holi I am not at home reminds me of this one picture. Few years back I framed this picture and gifted to Mom on her birthday. She still cherishes this gift, specially on Holi.

End break

So finally I got to see the Atlantic sunrise in the morning. It was really beautiful. Picture will say the thousand words to you.

We had a flight in the night but we needed to leave early because of the 180 mile drive. But before we ended the vacation came the most amazing moment of the trip. The one hour snorkelling excursion. The beautiful underwater creatures were as colourful as they show in discovery channel. Let me tell you guys it is not a post camera edit in those videos. At one of the places the sea bed was very shallow and I could very clearly see the barracuda waiting behind a big rock to ambush a group of smaller fishes. I waited a bit to see the hunt but the game would take longer than I could stay there.
Those pleasing images are itched in memory like photographic images. I did not have a waterproof camera to take the images but you can catch something similar on google. It will take a long time for these images to fade from my memory.

Half break

The first half of the break gone. Actually more than half. Two days in city of Miami were good. The Atlantic ocean is majestic! truly majestic. First day was just hanging around the south beach, collecting some sea-shells and pebbles (old habits die hard). While walking on the beach I met a very interesting old man. He was Vietnam veteran and interested in history. Talked to him at some length before my buddies called me up. It is good to know the perspective of someone who had been to the down and dirty. He said his job was to fly small glider plane to be shot down by Vietnamese. This helped locate their positions.
Now I am in Key west which is southernmost tip of US. Im home blogging and rest of my team is club hopping. I want to get up early tomorrow. If I do I will be lucky enough to witness sunrise in the morning.

This is Atlantic Ocean as seen from Miami beach around noontime. Majestic, isn't it?

Break

After a long time Im taking a break for 4 day trip to Florida. I was not sure if I can go for it or not. It is in the mid of week. I will miss a lot of work that could have been done in this 4 days.