Saturday, February 18, 2006

Plz follow these rules

if u go to krish's post u will notice it posted under cruise with navarchs and 2 comments also under that name. inorder to avoid this confusion plz do this.
accept the invitation sent to u- mostly sent to ur gmail accounts and post with ur name (or with some unique nick that u choose)
and ofcourse, post in the same single blog "masters of the seas" unless u think u need to create a new one.
if u did not recieve an invitation log in with the id and password which santosh has sent and send urself an invitation.

Friday, February 17, 2006

Of Sea, Sailors, and Pirates

My love for sea has started with reading Classics. They really project a very nice image of life at sea and bring an adventurous sort of image to sea. I still remember Kidnapped, Frankenstein, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Moby Dick, Around the world in eighty days, Count of Monte Cristo, some Alistair MacLeans novels, David Copperfield, ... the list goes on. These names bring nostalgia to me. I used to read in a "Ramakrishna Mission Library" which is on the Beach Road. My routine during holidays would be to cycle there in the evening and read there from 4 to 8. At first I started off with abridged ones and later on the unabridged versions. It was a very good library and housed a very nice collection of books. Reading there in the atmosphere filled with the smell and sound of waves would be simply great ( the sea in Vizag is quite close to the road unlike here in Chennai).

And ofcourse, along with these novels the comic that comes to my mind is Tintin. Captain Haddock - what a person! His curses ofcourse - "Billions of blue blistering barnacles, Ten thousand thundering typhoons" how can we ever forget them. The following link from Wiki gives us the list of all his swear words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exclamations_used_by_Captain_Haddock

Yes, Yes, with all this i will have to mention the pirates in Asterix who make it a point to bring some adventure in the otherwise uneventful sea trips of our Gaul friends and always end up sinking their ship. It is something that makes us laugh eventhough they appear in every journey.