Yesterday while standing at a railway crossing, waiting for the train to pass by, I realized that I love train journeys. Bus journeys are painful, and flight journeys -too short. Trains provide you enough space to move (and jump) around. People you come across are interesting. Moreover, the journey is long enough to let you enjoy your “break” 
Tonight, I’ll be leaving for home to celebrate Holi and my B’day with family after a long time. This will probably be my last visit to Orissa because father got transferred. Return journey is flight from Kolkata, but tonight’s for my loving train . I have also realized that each time I get down from a train after finishing the journey, a sense of realization that I have failed to enjoy the journey to the fullest comes to me. I know that not everybody would be able to relate to this feeling, but what the hell!
This feeling, I guess, has a lot to do with my childhood train journeys. This is when I used to fantasize having a camera to click pictures of the changing landscapes. This fantasy is what drove me to buy a DSLR. There is also a disturbing memory associated with trains, but that’s quite personal.
Anyhoo! I don’t wish to stretch this post anymore. I posted it just to let you guys know a couple of things. One, that I’ll be on leave for around 10 days (Saturdays, Sundays included). Second, my love and fantasy for train journeys . But there’s also one more thing on my mind, and it doesn’t have much to do with trains.
I am considering abandoning this blog. There are several reasons for this. Most prominent of them (which I’d like to mention here ) are that I’ve never liked pouring my personal thoughts on anyone (Okay, a few 
), and I don’t REALLY feel comfortable doing it here. This blog started out as an outlet of my frustrations during the final year BTech (and a medium of one sided communication to a few). However, I am not sure if there’s any point continuing it.
Secondly, I am planning to move my tech blog to my server http://projectbee.org, once I return from home, and would like to focus on it. Nothing’s decided yet. Let’s see!
I Twitter at Twitter.com/bipinu/
Hhmm… lots of ifs and buts…
Need to say a few things:
1. D pic dat u’ve put up in dis post is jus awesum!
2. Yeah, I think I know abt dat painful xperience v all had.
3. I guess all our blogs started d same time for almost the same reasons…
4. Sorry that u won’t b visitin Bbsr anymore, or will u??
5. Now I shall be forced to stick with that stupid techie blog of ur’s if dis one’s gone.
Comment by indisch — March 11, 2008 @ 5:50 pm |
Have to catch train in a couple of hours, so a quick reply.
THAT BLOG IS NOT STUPID, OKAY???
And no, I won’t be going to BBSR.
Comment by Bipin 3~ Upadhyay — March 11, 2008 @ 7:31 pm |
Well, if you close down, i’ll lose one reason to feel good by reading something on web (specially shaer) and i may also lose my one of the readers
think about it.
Comment by Priyanshu Bahuguna — March 12, 2008 @ 12:36 am |
Are you going to abandon this blog???
So sad
Anyways,
Happy B’day in advance,
Happy Holi,
Happy journey (return flight from Kolkata)
Comment by karra — March 12, 2008 @ 12:18 pm |
@Priyanshu:
Even if I close down this blog, I am not going to disappear from the web. I’ll still be here and will keep reading your blog
In fact, I’ll be focusing more on my tech blog , and who knows, I might be able to revive the Dervesh.
@Srikanth:
Thank you so much for all the wishes dude
Comment by Bipin 3~ Upadhyay — March 13, 2008 @ 9:45 am |