There's something highly calming about early Bangalore mornings - the cool breeze flows into your system, simply, instantly calming the senses.
I'm at the Cantonment station waiting for the train to Chennai, to arrive and take me on my journey; to help me revive all my memories of "Train and Me"...The train arrives at the platform, stirring up a heavy cloud of mixed odors, the ground below my feet cheers merrily to the rhythm of the iron wheels braking on the rail lines...(*this is the part where 'boards-train-settles-down' is merrily skipped, well, almost....*)
The lifting aroma of steaming hot idlies, dosas and masala vadai with the chutney (a mouth watery delight you'd never wanna miss on such journeys) wakes you up to 'BREAKFAST!'...I hold myself back with great difficulty because I have milagaipudi (gunpowder) covered idlies my mother so loving made, at 5 am...(well... So much for the drooly-excitement - Sigh!)
Trains journeys are always a pleasure and there's always so much to learn from it.
Feel good factors: Returning lost smiles and waving merrily to random kids and passers-by...
You always see something unexpected - a weird colour of paint on a house, 'hilarious-but-absolutely-unacceptable' spellings of words, unimaginable growth in rural areas and what not?
Train journey's, I feel, are one's own council - it teaches you to value certain things that are usually neglected in the daily hustle.
The View and my Nokia XpressMusic fone:
I was lucky enough to get a seat by the emergency exit window, giving me an all access pass for perfect photography...Pictures of passing trains, the beautiful landscapes, random sights, vehicles parked in the oddest places...self photography...and a 360 degree snapshot! What more could I ask? My 2 megapixel phone gives me decent pictures, making my trip so much more memorable!
I saw a monkey sitting on platform with an empty water bottle in hand - who knew Katpadi JCT could actually surprise you with such rarities?
Hunger strikes right on time when you rise early... I quietly, but joyfully wipe down my spiced up breakfast -all wrapped in foil and banana leaves - doubling my eating benefits...A juicy apple makes its way in to my tummy for balance..(*chomps quietly*).
I turn up the volume on my I-pod and play my favourite songs - occasionally, smiling away at memories that ran through my mind...It's such a simple thing - to travel by train - and as they say, one does find joys in simple, little things!
I'm at the Cantonment station waiting for the train to Chennai, to arrive and take me on my journey; to help me revive all my memories of "Train and Me"...The train arrives at the platform, stirring up a heavy cloud of mixed odors, the ground below my feet cheers merrily to the rhythm of the iron wheels braking on the rail lines...(*this is the part where 'boards-train-settles-down' is merrily skipped, well, almost....*)
The lifting aroma of steaming hot idlies, dosas and masala vadai with the chutney (a mouth watery delight you'd never wanna miss on such journeys) wakes you up to 'BREAKFAST!'...I hold myself back with great difficulty because I have milagaipudi (gunpowder) covered idlies my mother so loving made, at 5 am...(well... So much for the drooly-excitement - Sigh!)
Trains journeys are always a pleasure and there's always so much to learn from it.
Feel good factors: Returning lost smiles and waving merrily to random kids and passers-by...
You always see something unexpected - a weird colour of paint on a house, 'hilarious-but-absolutely-unacceptable' spellings of words, unimaginable growth in rural areas and what not?
Train journey's, I feel, are one's own council - it teaches you to value certain things that are usually neglected in the daily hustle.
The View and my Nokia XpressMusic fone:
I was lucky enough to get a seat by the emergency exit window, giving me an all access pass for perfect photography...Pictures of passing trains, the beautiful landscapes, random sights, vehicles parked in the oddest places...self photography...and a 360 degree snapshot! What more could I ask? My 2 megapixel phone gives me decent pictures, making my trip so much more memorable!
I saw a monkey sitting on platform with an empty water bottle in hand - who knew Katpadi JCT could actually surprise you with such rarities?
Hunger strikes right on time when you rise early... I quietly, but joyfully wipe down my spiced up breakfast -all wrapped in foil and banana leaves - doubling my eating benefits...A juicy apple makes its way in to my tummy for balance..(*chomps quietly*).
I turn up the volume on my I-pod and play my favourite songs - occasionally, smiling away at memories that ran through my mind...It's such a simple thing - to travel by train - and as they say, one does find joys in simple, little things!
