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the flip-flop life is the life for me. I have come to realized that i don't like being constrained by shoes. it is true - so here is the analogy, metaphor the actual understanding of the flip-flop life. Shoes enclose your feet, they cover everything up and make sure that you don't show who you are, but what shoe you are wearing. so people don't know you, they know your shoe. in flip-flops people see your feet in all their beauty and allow you to move. with shoes you have to wear socks, another layer between you and your feet. you can't wear socks with flip-flops - that would look funny...unless you don't want your feet to get dirty, well, then you shouldn't be wearing flip-flops in the first place. flip-flops or "chapals" in hindi or nepali allow you to be free of everything. when one wears flip-flops they are casual, at ease, more themselves. they enjoy life and can at anypoint in time take off those flip-flops and go run bare feet. with shoes, you have to take off the shoes, take of the socks and then your feet are free...flip-flops allow your feet to breath...shoes don't. so what does this tell you about me - i like to be free - not constrained by life and what life has to offer. sure, i will put on the shoes - but i prefer to live in flip-flops. i think if everyone wore flip-flops then peope would be more laid-back, not so uptight and much more free. so wear flip-flops - don't go to bars that won't allow you in because you are not wearing shoes - go to places where flip-flops are loved not hated. if you go some place and they say - "sorry sir/maam, you don't have the right shoes on" - then walk away - you don't want to be there anyway...live the flip-flop life...be free - enjoy - break free of the constraints that society places upon us and be yourself...wear what makes you comfortable and makes you happy - for me that is flip-flops. ;-) 

posted by ravi @ 6:38 AM 1 comments

"The Terminal" - so as of recently i have been spending some high quality time in airport terminals. why? i don't know - but now i am going to start to rate each terminal that i have been in and what there is to do in them. first off, there is nothing to do in the jacksonville terminal and if you want to eat, do it before you get in - cause there is NO food inside...honestly - it is really pathetic. Atlanta has an absolutely massive terminal which you are guaranteed to get lost in and/or miss your connecting flight. St.Louis is home - so i have nothing bad to say about that one. Boston is easy - nice, fast. Baltimore is also nice - good coffee there. Pittsburg sucks. Charolette has rocking chairs - gotta love the south. Detroit - NW terminal, awesome. The other - about as ghetto as detroit. i have spent time in the NYC terminal - JFK and Laguardia - both interesing places, they are chaotic. Chicago, might as well find a seat on the floor, cause all the chairs are taken up by people whose flights have been delayed and they are sleeping waiting for the next flight, which is probably full because so many other people have been bumped. Reagan is a small airport - leave from the U.S. Airways side, the other side is pretty GHETTO - they have that old school P.A. system that is the middle of the airport and when they make annoucements you are guaranteed not to hear them. Dulles is a mad house - i have driven around that airport more than hanging in the terminal. I will tell you how it is after July 17th. Internationally the best place is Bangkok - AWESOME airport - just don't buy flowers before you come back to the states, otherwise they will quarantine the flowers, and you! india is a mad house. Nepal doesn't really have a "terminal" per se - you just get off on the runway and walk into a warehouse like structure and await your bags - customs doesn't really exist either. Indonesia is a pretty cool terminal, not as good as bangkok. Seatlle has a nice airport - but i don't remember it that well. minnesota surprisingly has a nice place - lots of space....

yeah - so that is it - soon i will be spending 6 hrs in Frankfurts terminal - i will tell you how that is then!

-peace

posted by ravi @ 3:39 PM 0 comments

So when do you realize you are part of a family...when you are sitting at breakfast and grandma ask you for half of your pancakes! haha! so that happened to me this AM...i am at my buddies wedding, having a blast - it is fun when you are part of the fam when you walk in through the door - it says a lot about a family...

posted by ravi @ 8:35 AM 0 comments