Vizag Trip

After several weekends me and my wife were getting a weekend off. Neither of us were working on a "high-burn" project and so we decided that we will take off to some place outside Hyderabad. Since Hyderabad does not present many options for weekend trips, we picked the most commonly used option...Vizag.

I have been to the Vizag beach several times. It is a peaceful beach and is usually not very crowded. What I like most about the beach is the water is more violent compared to most other beaches I have been to. At Vizag we stayed at Palm Beach Resort. It was recommended by a few friends but since the tariff was not-so-high, I had my share of doubts. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised. The resort is very nice and is right next to the beach. There are a couple of good restaurants over there. Moreover, it has a massage parlour and a swimming. Overall, the place has all the facilities that anyone would require to make the stay enjoyable.

There are quite a few places of tourist interest in and around Vizag (Borra Caves, Araku Valley, Kailash Hills etc). Since we were really tired after so many weeks of slogging in the office, we decided not to be too adventurous and spent most of our time either on the beach or in the resort (We did go to the Kursura submarine museum, which was pretty close to the resort). For a weekend trip, that was a sensible thing to do as we did not want to reach Hyderabad feeling even more tired. However, we would like to go back to the place if we get a 3-day weekend and then we would love to explore all the great places that Vizag offers. I would recommend Vizag and palm beach to all the weekend travellers.

They dont really care about us!!!

Yesterday, I saw a news item about the Indian cricket team…how they are made to work so hard round the year and BCCI does not even care!!! Nothing new about the story as everyone knows that and I am sure most feel sorry for the team. While watching the story and looking at the tonnes of statistics, I was thinking, "poor guys….they work so hard….they were either playing cricket or were on a tour for almost 300 days last year…they may be making millions but they are not getting much time with their family (just around 70 days last year)...WAIT.... that’s not so bad!!!!". They make good money, they can take their family on tours, they can afford great lifestyle and luxuries.......but what about me??? I spend my life in the office, work day and night, usually do not get weekends off, am scewing up my health, do not get to spend much time with my loved ones, do not have any time for my hobbies and……do not even get paid well!!! No one is feeling sorry for me. I am in a much worse situation….How come I am not a primetime story?!!?

Read somewhere….

“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but have less, we buy more but enjoy less. We have bigger houses but smaller families, more conveniences but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge but less judgment, more experts yet more problems, more medicines but less wellness.

We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom and hate too often. We have learned how to make a living, but not a life. We have added years to life but not life to years. We have been all the way to moon and back but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We have conquered outer space but not inner space. We have done larger things but not better things.

We have cleaned up the air but polluted the soul. We have conquered the atom but not our prejudice. We write more but learn less. We plan more but accomplish less. We have learned to rush but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information and to produce more copies that ever but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast food and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses but broken homes. It is time when there is much in the showroom window but nothing in the stockroom.”

The writer, like a billion other Indians, knows the problem. Anyone who is not facing these “problems” is probably unemployed, a lazy bum or in coma!!! Point is that everyone knows this…consciously or subconsciously but is there anyone with a solution? I guess not. No one likes to screw his/her happiness but everyone has expectations to manage and constraints to play with. The writer wasted time in writing all this and probably made his/her life even more miserable. The readers wasted their time and are running behind the deadlines even harder to compensate the loss in momentum. I topped them all by reading it and then writing this nonsense!!!