Globe trotting

Its been a while since I gave voice to my meandering mind, and here goes!!! I am currently travelling in the US, but reading a travelogue on Australia (Down Under by Bill Bryson). Recommended by mah friend R, I bought it along with a handful of other books during a recent sale in Delhi. Now in this distant land I sit and yearn for Oz. Oh those Ozzie days of my carefree youth!! How I wish to be young again. Sighh... Its like what Adam Sandler said in Big Daddy 'I drink a milkshake now and my ass shakes for a week!!' Bryson's managed to capture the minute eccentricities of Oz life so well... A must read for anyone even remotely interested in Australia...

My last trip to the US was marked by Amartya Sen (dont remember the book's name.. i gave it away eventually without completing it.. the man cant keep a reader!!... ) and Richard Branson (Losing My Virginity.. One helluva book.. you have to hand it to him.. the guy has guts and panache..) It was also marked by a lot of shopping (I had to buy a new bag altogether!!).. this time since i am opting to move into a better accommodation, I might end up being an impoverished trotter... saddd... so much for all those gadget dreams of mine.. oh noiee!!... I can see all those external hard drives take flight in my head.. Sighh... As Ned Kelly (famous Ozzie bushranger) said 'Such is life'!!!..