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Defining Year 2020 - A Snapshot

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 This year will be remembered as a year that was, a year no one anticipated or dreamt of. Year started as any normal new year starts amid all the chaos with CAA. Our routine life was business as usual. We were just reliving the fun Andaman Trip - revisiting old memories, refreshed and recharged with the azure blue water offered by the Emerald Islands. A fresh start with a fresh mind and a great memories.  Now on the hindsight we are glad we took that trip which carried us forward thru this lockedout year!  Year 2020 start was rather normal. Seemed like a bed of roses. Was a very positive start to the year..though as year passed positive had a different connotation altogether :) January was to a jumping start. World had not heard of Wuhan as yet - Good so far! Till now, the balcony garden and plants were hobby - glad we cultivated those as those were the window to the outside world for the rest of the year locked indoors. A welcome diversion of colors outside the four walls and the scre

Vertical city - Hong Kong 2018

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Visited Hong Kong in 2007 and the memory has stuck of the vibrant vertical city. Busy, bustling, vibrant, vertical as far as your eyes can reach and  island country where you can see catch all known modes of transport in a single frame! Gateway to Oriental Asia, financial hub, all world famous banks and insurance firms has a building on its name here. Average height of any building is 50 floors possibly. Learnt from folks that for  drinking water supply, the water board equivalent of the country pumps the water to water tank atop a hill with all energy and might. Utilizing the gravity and pressure system water is automatically distributed to all the skyscrapers! You name a fashion house and cosmetic brand, chances are you may have tripped on Givenchy or a Burberry atleast once in your trip. HongKong is famous for its tall scrapers and amazing skyline. So we decided to start the Hong Kong tour with what the city is famous for. We took Singapore airline Ex Chennai to reach HK. It