This way up...

what have i been upto? a lot in a sense, although nothing in another sense too. realizing this is my first post this vacation, doesn't actually feel like i've not been writing all this time. maybe i was too "occupied" (or watever that is, that u call "doing nothing"). reached on 2nd june. left again on 7th for a 15 day tour to leh, srinagar etc. about that, although most of the people that i went for the tour with (some of dad's frnds and their families) didn't have the best of their times in Leh, i totally had a blast. that was majorly due to the high altitude of the place, which results in considerable drop in the amount of oxygen available in the atmosphere, which in turn results into severe headaches, and breathing problems, at times, too. nevertheless, the place was breathtaking, with its non-conventional charms as a cold semi-arid region. apart from Leh, other places that v visited were sonmarg, srinagar, gulmarg, pahalgam, amritsar etc. for those lazy bums of u who dont have nething better to do neways, check out my picasa album at http://picasaweb.google.com/saahil.in/LehKashmirAmritsar .
came back from that tour on 23rd of this month. been lazing around my time here and thinking about stuff. seems so unlikely, that i had not thought of these things before, though i cud've, looking at how spontaniously they came to my mind now. unlikely, but true. for one thing, it seems so straightforward to me now what some people have been trying to convey this whole time. but y is it that i cudn't gauge that then? more so that i know it now, it ceases to displease me ne more.
out of the blue, i think calvin and hobbes is the greatest comic strip ever. not only a comic strip, no other author (other than wayne dyer and maybe, ayn rand) has been able to project the trueness of a human mind and the simplicity with which it ought to work, better than Bill Waterson(Author and illustrator of Calvin and Hobbes). i am in complete awe of the philosophies that calvin and hobbes has been projecting for so long. for example, his attitude towards history lessons is precisely what i always thought of them, only to be short of words to explain what it felt like. his unusual snowman creatures as a form of "art" is also something that has a lot of thought put into it.
i guess thats about it for now. hoping to come out of this temporary blackout of my mind soon. until then....its me and the endless servings of tomato-cucumber sandwitches.