Friday, June 24, 2005

Mexico in Korea



These days there is nothing much to write in here..All i can write about is the food that we eat..hmmm..so much for the "adventure"...Jerry came to know from one of our office collegaues that there is a mexican place in the city center area..We all decided that we should check it out today evening..It actually turned out to be far better than anything that I had imagined. The place was aptly named 'Mexico' and to our surprise the person who runs the place speaks pretty good english..and what's more..he is the cook too..so we could tell him what we really wanted to eat..Overall, the food was the best that I had in Masan so far..I finally got to eat a chicken dish other than the McChicken burger that I've been eating all these days..I am pretty sure we will be visiting this place quite often in the 6 or so weeks that I have to stay here...

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Who am I?

Its almost 4 days since i came back from Korea and I should say that quite a lot happened in these few days...When I say that "a lot happened" one would think that I went here, I went there, did this or that, kept myself completely 'occupied', had a lot of 'fun' and so on..On the contrary, nothing like that happened..i barely moved out of my apartment..still i personaly felt a lot happened in these few days. I am not sure when or how, but i stumbled on to a website on spirituality..which inturn led me to do a search on Jiddu Krishnamurti...reading some of his views on various aspects of our life was refreshing and i was pretty excited at having found logical answers for some of the nagging questions in the back of my head...His philosophy is based on self-inquiry which is to be aware one's own thoughts and to go to the root of it..a philosophy based on deep awareness and understanding and not suppression. Krishnnamurti doesn't mince words when he gives his lectures and neither does he intend to please anyone through his talks. Instead he says his sole objective is to set free man from his misery and his fears..He reasons this amazingly by saying 'If you go to a surgeon for an operation, is it not kindness on his part to operate even if he cause you pain? So, in like manner, if I speak straightly, it is not through lack of real affection'