Good to be back!

Mall is crowded... WestSide is over crowded with a really long queue near the billing counter...McDonalds seems to be overflowing with people. And there are human beings everywhere in the bookstore, making it difficult even to stand and browse books...

By any chance, did the world recover from the recession in my absence? Or people have got adjusted to the recession ??

Definitely the later...

So back from the trip. It's been 6 days and i am still carrying the cough with me. :)
It's forcing one to be a really silent person in office...bcos one single sentence leads to few minutes of coughing.

Trip was great, a different experience. And i have learnt that 5 days is the limit for me to be out of the civilization, out of the so called life routine. I might crib a lot about this dull life routine... but out of it was also equally dull for me after 5 days.

I remember, 6 years ago, in one Yoga cum spiritual class, when the teacher mentioned that the ultimate thing for mind is not to think but to be still, i posed the question as what is the use of mind then?. Ofcourse, he replied some unconvincing answer for me. Similarly, for me, a break without a purpose seems difficult to digest. And this dawned after 5 days into the break.Maybe, i really donot know how to enjoy a break or maybe, i should stop analyzing a break to this extent :)

Or maybe, i didn't have the right company through out. One sad point was, there was a group of 15 school girls. Apart from them, i was the only individual girl. Quite a bad luck. And being called,"Didi" or "Mam" isn't that funny, when already one gets upset about the lost teenage days :) Also, one gets to realize that one is really old, when one doesn't seem to have any common subject to chat with the school girls beyond 1 hour. And one ought to spend 7 nights in tent with the same gang. :(

Apart from this one nibbling point, the whole trip was great. Got to meet an interesting bunch of people, realized how much being a team matters in trekking.

Also realized that wherever one is, amidst people or not, amidst civilization or not, one seems to have one's own world in mind to relish. I wonder whether this is a disease, bcos i definitely have that disease :)

But overall, the whole trek was organized perfectly. YHAI seems to have really made the whole trek fool proof. The trek routes were amazing. Everyday was more difficult than the previous day. But thanks to my Gym and stuff, i never really had a leg pain or any pain of sort. Ofcourse, there was a shoe bite. We were fed well... the tents were neat...even sleeping bags which i got were clean. If there is a thing to complain, it's about the Parathas and Aloo. But then one can't expect a five star menu after paying 3K in a remote mountain :)

One has realized that only 3 things matter for a trek - Best and right shoes, Excellent breathing technique and Mental stamina. It doesn't matter whether one is slim or not, one is physically fit or not, the above 3 things really differentiate a good trekker from the crowd.

Thanks to my cough after 4 days into the trek, i was suffering like hell on 5th day. And that was the day, when we crossed Sar pass. Thanks to the excellent bunch of guys around, i was able to finish it successfully...And this gang was formed as we were the first few to trek together and reach the previous camps. (btw, it's that cough which is still continuing and my brother is extremely irritated that i still haven't seen a doctor for that :) tomm is the deadline)

Guess, i am done with the random stuff for this post....i was actually diligently writing a diary for the first few days of the trip. Shall try to post it inspite of the terribly depressing mood one is going thru over the last few days :)