I like breakfast meets. Particularly the ones that happen on Sunday mornings. It is a nice reason to get up early on a holiday and it also sets the pace for an interesting day ahead. Last Sunday (hey, is it just yesterday? Trust a Monday to make you forget that!), my family visited a good friend's home for breakfast. I was visiting their home for the first time and from my earlier meetings with this good friend (let us call him Mr.Bee), I knew it would be an interesting morning.
Mr.Bee is a fifty something person who has a tremendously successful foot in a lot of pies (forget the bad metaphor). He does some serious spice trading, dabbles in travel and real estate, networks with such a zeal that the phones in his home ring non-stop and makes interesting conversation with an unhurried air. He is always bang in the middle of some activity and volunteers to take on more. Happily married to a wife who makes awesome masala dosas and full of fatherly pride for a daughter who refuses to wear jewellery, this man is amazing.
While we were waiting for breakfast to be served, in polished silver plates, I struck a conversation with him about his passion, travelling. His eyes lit up and he told me he was off to Sri Lanka in June. "Do you want to join us?" he asked all of us. And before I could get an answer in, he was telling me about an Alaska trip in the offing. My eyes lit up now and I asked him all sorts of questions - when, where, what, how, who? He told me about the cruise he had in mind, how long the trip should be and how he would be delighted if we joined him. And all this when I had not even started complimenting the great breakfast! Now Alaska is something that I intend to pursue. He said next May. Hmm...I have an entire year to dream!
Mr.Bee was pretty well informed on a lot of topics. He moved on from Amadeus for travel reservations to the proportion of peaberry and chicory for a perfect cup of filter coffee, with effortless ease. At the end of a truly sumptuous breakfast that lasted long enough to double up as lunch, we left his home laden with farewell gifts.
In case you are wondering, I got a very pretty yellow Georgette saree as my gift. And did I mention that he designed his house all by himself and that Inside-Outside want to feature it in one of their issues?
It was one amazing breakfast meeting!
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Alaska has been in my dreams for a long time now. I want to go there during a summer and take some cruise. I want to go there during winter, venture as far as Barrow to see the Northern lights and polar bears. *insert long sigh of longing*. Don't know when that summer and winter will come.
hey Manjunath - want to team up?
Hey Guys - Add another one who dreams about the places in Alaska like Kenai Peninsula, Mount McKinley, Denali (hmmm...sounds like Thenali!). Well - I would be opt for a Summer or a Fall season for Alaska!
A get together of a subset of Uforians in Alaska! We should totally do that. VJ, winter is great too, just because of the Northern lights.
hmm...guys - let us try and plan this trip.
A trip to Alaska,cruise., etc
( I am letting my imaginory wings
fly..).During my shipping days,
I tried a lot to experience a
cruise,but unfortunately not..
To the best of my knowledge,
travelling in cruise liner ships
is diff from normal cargo ships,
u do not feel the pitching ( the
longitudinal movement of ship)
rolling ( the latitudinal moves.)
., etc..but lemons are unavoidable
to avoid vommiting, sea sickness..
Too much info ??.
Thanks echo for making me to trip
down my memory lanes
Bumblebee is one helluva charecter!!!
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