I’m in the middle of something i don’t fully understand yet.
My childhood friend Mark is missing. I’m in India to search for him.
He went missing somewhere near Leh. I connected with some long lost
folks in Delhi and the bylanes of Chandni Chowk and have picked up a
clue. and now..get this..i need 100 stories of people who’ve ‘earned
it’ (to know more about what earning it means go here). So if you know of someone / something that has ‘earned it in your opinion – pls post your story in the comments or mail me on theoldhound AT gmail.com (if your story/episode/mail works for me, trust me i’ll repay your effort and of course i’ll feature it here with your name – nearly 2000 people read this everyday!) Don’t ask me why but it seems like the beginning of this sort of madness!
Posts Tagged ‘Loch ness monster’
Collecting 100 Indian stories on ‘Earning it’..
Monday, July 20th, 2009Another Unsolved Riddle!
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009It’s been a week that I returned from my three months of Scotland expedition . And there’s something, I would like to share.
This time my team didn’t fly. We opted for the Columbus way – Voyage. I couldn’t resist for it would help me discover the Loch Ness Monster mystery.
What’s the folk lore – A huge water animal is said to live in northern Scotland in a long, deep lake called Loch Ness. Many visitors to Loch Ness say they have seen the monster rising from the lake. Some have even photographed objects that might be part of it. The photographs seem to show a beat about nine meters long. It appears to have a long, snaky neck, a big barrel-shaped body, and flippers. Giant reptiles like this once swam in many seas; they are known as plesiosaurs. But all are thought to have died out 65 million years ago.
That’s what the facts say! My faith is a more deep rooted than my penchant for facts. The fear of unknown has evaporated with time and it was more like a call of duty to visit the place. The lake was a little distant from our expedition area. Greg, my team mate and I decided to take a boat along with a local fisher man to this place. We especially took one which had an echo sounder. An hour was spent on the boat listening to Enya.
We started returning to the shore, when suddenly the echo sounder showed something large that moving deep down in the lake. A silhouette that promised gigantic dimensions. The fishermen asked us to race ashore, and view it from there. We insisted on staying back, but we had to relent.
Once we reached the shore, we regretted coming back. With baited breath we waited for some form of life to erupt from the depths of water. Water currents reached heights that seemed terrifying. Each upscale in water, we thought was shielding the form of nature, a beast, that would perplex the scientists world over, but then the swell died down reaching the shore revealing nothing. Again and then again!
Greg and I said nothing to each other. We could not muster the courage to the string our feelings. We knew we had missed an opportunity, a date with the uncanny. An event so bizarre, a long wait that seemed to belittle the wait of any astronomer to spot for Hailey’s Comet.
We knew we had missed it.
Choco-Real
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Good Morning! Fellow readers!
It’s a bright morning in Yorkshire! The summer is setting in slowly and I intend to work on settling some home truths today!
Read as – Dinner with family, boring uncle and aunts, and the oh-so-crazy little Blake kids, who are somehow reminded of fossils (and comics, like this one http://www.submarinechannel.com/content/killer/) when they see me! Well they aren’t the only ones actually! I think it’s the dust cloud hanging on to my coat tails and the odd experiences I’ve picked up along the way!
Come to think of it, we are surrounded by the unexplained, right from the Pyramids to the origin of life to really tragic, freak occurences like the Air France jet that seems to have disappeared!!
The thing is, if I’m involved, even a harmless piece of chocolate turns into a legend. As my friend Kapodo was trying to say one cold night in Ghana, ‘the Legend finds you big man, no matter where you go’.
It seemed totally implausible then, I mean a chocolate, with a legend??? Apparently you can’t just buy it, you have to ‘earn’ it, and as if that’s not enough, there’s a ritual to follow – snap it, hear the gentle breaking sound, put it in your mouth and let it melt, don’t bite and so on..
Of course, I now know all about the legend but that’s for later, gotta rush now, need to investigate the funny sounds coming from outside…don’t worry, Uncle George seems to be setting fire to my garage but soon I’ll share a visit to Northern Scotland, to ’see’ the Loch Ness monster!
BTW has anybody heard of any more absurd rituals?
