Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Ko Phi Phi Don, Thailand - Gemini Travel Diary

Well, my number one favorite of all places. This is just one place I'd die just to be there even for one hour. Ko Phi Phi Don Island.Whenever I hear that name, the photo below is the the first thing that comes to my mind.


Ko Phi Phi Don is the largest of all the Phi Phi islands found in Thailand. The major part of the island is basically made up of rugged limestone mountainous jungles with several beautiful beaches approximately eight, which can only be accessed by water taxi from Phuket or from mainland Krabi Province. This serene paradise is crowned as one of the most naturally beautiful islands in the world boasting with several activities such as kayaking, rock climbing, snorkeling, diving, fishing in the beautiful clear waters, camping, sailing and cruising and e.t.c...the list is long...






















Who would surely want to miss such a beauty? What even makes Ko Phi Phi Don as my number one gotta-go-place is the cuisine which has its origins in Malay, Indonesian and Indian food and not to forget the almost everyday fireworks and the bars and restaurants of all types from Italian to English to don't forget the all green Papaya Restaurant which serves authentic Thai food....























Surely if there's one place I'd just want to retreat to, most definitely with a spouse, this be it...serene, green, beautiful, clear and friendly Ko Phi Phi Don. Okay I'm sure there are other beautiful places such as this island, for example Maldives which one day I'll boast about here too but Ko Phi Phi Don just rocks especially with its rugged mountains and flora, that totally makes it stand out.



Saturday, July 14, 2012

The Leaking Hour Hand

The poem below is written from a child's point of view. A child crying for his tomorrow.


I mop the hope of tomorrows from my eyes
Slowly vanishing into the broken arms of tonight
As I try to satisfy the hunger of my thoughts with why(s)
What tomorrow do we promise the unborn?
You are so blinded to raise trees till you forget to raise us kids
My parents teach me to dread my neighbors as a substitute of loving them
Orders of the day have become follow tattoos and overlook taboos
As you leave footsteps at doors instead of leaving them on our hearts
Love has become of nothing but a game of trophies
Losing a phone is a catastrophe while losing virginity is just an incidence
Our friends have more faith in us than our own families
You walk down the aisle for the profits of divorce instead of love
I see you every Sunday morning nursing hangovers instead of fellowship
Then later set your hopes in gold and when it fails you blame God
Please whisper in my sleep to me who are my role models
You tell me to make me wishes instead of make prayers
You spend every night enjoying the humorous Hollywood stars
But never for once have I seen you enjoy the glamor of sky and its stars
All you teach me is make money from the poor and leave ‘em in bare bellies
Racism is no longer a subject of skin pigment but class
You say you are happy and living the life at its best
While all I see are zombies playing humans; a party of dead ghosts
I look to the sky and it rains down on my velvet suit
The drops of rain tinted in red with tears of the unborn terrified to be born
This is the era where Government rights come first and citizens’ come last
In bookshops bibles cost more than story books
Where emotions pollute environment more than automobiles
They pledge us freedom then inject into us micro-chips to control us
You feed me on genetically modified meals then call me fat
Why do you say you are fighting for peace, when fighting itself is a war?
Why are you looking to the sky for aliens instead of help?
We are all nothing but a leaking hour hand
And before midnight we’ll all be hymns of ghosts
Yes I hear you all say You Only Live Once
But at least leave crumbles for me and the unborn child.
© G!ovanni


Thursday, July 12, 2012

The Infinite Action

Okay this pretty long but ensure you read it for it's really useful.

Each and every single minute we interact with different people in our lives. Knowing or un-knowingly and with a single act or word towards them changes a lot plus it changes a huge number of people. Within your palms you hold destiny that is not only yours but of a lot people. Here is a story:

John’s alarm rung at 6.00am as always to wake him up and prepare for work, but today John was still exhausted from the fun he had the previous night with his girlfriend to be Julia. So instead of waking up, he stretches his hand and accidentally knocks the clock to the floor leaving the clock broken. At 8.00am Julia is disturbed by the absence of John at work, thus she decides to call him. John still suffering from confusion, he rushes outside his house and accidentally steps on a ball that was left at his doorstep by the neighbor’s kid. He trips landing on his butt leaving him with a scratch on his arm.

He furiously walks into the neighbor’s house to find the mother of the kid, Jenny, sleeping on the couch. He yelled at Jenny on how irresponsible she is and she shouldn’t even think of herself as a mother. As he walks out he slams the door behind him leaving Jenny jaw-dropped. Jenny in the meanwhile was actually thinking of how life at her house has become a living hell. She takes a few minutes to think of how minutes before John walked in she prayed for a miracle, for someone to just walk in and tell her that everything is going to be alright. She regains her conscience, picks her phone and calls her husband Jeremy who happens to be interviewing someone for job and asks for a divorce.

Upon hearing this news, Jeremy reacts by shouting at the interviewee (who actually happens to qualify for the job) for accidentally knocking the files on the table to the floor as she was standing up and telling her that the company doesn’t need mindless people and under-educated like her. Jessica, the interviewee, who happens to be turned down now for the seventh time in a row, leaves the office hurt and disappointed at the fact that her parents could not afford taking her to a college that she wanted and studying what she wanted. She leaves the building crying and considering herself not worthy of anything. She suddenly gets a call from her boyfriend Jude who wanted to meet her for coffee.

After roughly fifteen minutes, Jessica joins Jude at a café, Jude looks happy and optimistic in his heart knowing that Jessica had forgiven him for the infidelity he had with Judith a couple of weeks ago. In her heart, Jessica is happy at the thought of at least spending the afternoon with the one she loves. As she sits down at the table trying to hide the pain of losing another Job opportunity she fakes a smile to please Jude. They start a chat but after sometime Jude notices she is not really up for talking and fumes at her that she can’t let go of little things even after apologizing. Not able to take it any more, she yells at him and walks out on him leaving him sitting.

Jude leaves the café pissed off and makes a call to Joel his friend. After a few minutes Joel pulls by and Jude hopes in. Along the way Joel asks Jude why the sad face but instead, the short tempered Jude answers Joel in a rude manner. This offends Joel and the two friends involve themselves in a verbal fight, in the meantime Joel pays a little attention to the road and accidentally hits a girl that was coming outside a bookstore from buying his to-be boyfriend a novel that he so much wanted. The screech of the accident draws attention to the pedestrians and those in the near-by buildings.

Meanwhile, John who was being lectured by his boss Jade for reporting late to work just stands there lost in thoughts about the next date he would have with Julia tonight but suddenly a fellow worker, Jasmine, rushes in and alerts them of the accident outside. John on reaching outside he slowly manages to squeeze himself through the packed crowd and succeeds to be at the front only to see Julia covered in blood, lying next to her is the book he was telling her about the previous night. The Diary: Chronicles of Neill. End of the story ♣

Be careful on how you live your life. A single small act that you could have just turned around but instead avoided can kill a lot of people. Be the source of hope to people. Be the miracle they are looking for. If only John wouldn’t shout at his neighbor Jenny, he maybe would have saved the marriage of Jenny and Jeremy, Jessica would have gotten the job, Joel wouldn’t be going behind bars and maybe John would happily have married Julia.


Legal Disclaimer: The characters and events depicted in this story are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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