Indi-penchant Day

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action --

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

Here's my paraphrasing lime-wrecking...

Where the throat is without fear, and the nose is held high;

Where sneezing is free;

A dash of History, a stew of Culture...and a sprinkling of non-logisms

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Non-logism (n): A nonsensical neologism. 

My travels and travails remain undocumented so far - owing (for once) not completely to laziness, but also to being the busy man I am :D So here's a bit of flashback interspersed with the pick of the pics. 

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Crossing Continents, and Greek and Latin

Training sessions...a time to sleep off, or, less conspicuously, stare vacantly slash listlessly at your pc screen and lapse into a comatose stupor. 
Add to it the pre-cognition that the medium, if not the content, will be Greek and Latin (for all practical purposes) - Turkish to be precise. 
Top it all with the instruction for dress code to be what can be roughly translated as
'free clothing'. Paying no heed to the improbable possibility of sudden nudist tendencies of my patrons, I landed up quite a bit late, albeit decked up in my now usual business suit. The only way I could stand out more would've been if I had in fact stood outside. So by lunchtime I had been asked to lose the tie and willingly obliged. 

International Idle

The first few days in Istanbul were mostly spent idling, getting bored in office but picking up a smattering of Turkish - which, by the way, sounds like a cross between Arabic and French, and quite pleasing to the ear (easier on the eye actually ;o)).
But I seem to be getting ahead of myself.. (though that's like sayin' a snail overtook a slow-moving lump of tar)... so 'lemme' go flashbacking.... (picture those weird squiggles going round and round and the screen going B&W)...

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