Simple yet elusive..

It was when I realized that the urge to escape from trifling and mundane tasks of the every day routine world can no longer be squelched, that I decided to go to Malaysia. What can be more ideal than an Island to yield to a craving of this kind? I did not stay in KL but escaped into the pleasant laziness of the Tioman Island.

I have always felt that huge water bodies or towering hills can influence our thought process by their sheer beauty and their huge dimensions. Tioman had the combination of the two. Bordered by the hills on one side and sea on the other side, I felt that the village of Juara had an intangible knack of lifting us several planes above the frivolousness of the world. I felt as big as the hills and as broad as the sea. I felt I could forgive anyone and in short, felt like God.




I was staying in a beach resort and it was really fun to be waking up to the blue waters every morning. I am hooked to my Ipod when I am outside or to my head phones in office most part of my day. But I used my IPod but for 5 minutes in Tioman. The rumbles of the waves and the gentle breeze provided all the music I ever wanted in those 3 and half days. I never imagined life could be as beautiful without the things that I imagined to be bare necessities - cellular phone, the laptop and the access to internet. It is not anything new that I say here, but it is a reminder that life is more than struggling to fit ourselves into the dimensions of successful people as defined by the world.