Bangkok Diaries!!!
THE WIND RULES THE LAND, HOWLING LIKE A MANIAC,
FOR WHERE ARE THE TREES TO TEMPER ITS WILD LAUGHTER
INTO TOMANTIC WOOING?
[I COULD SEE OLD TREES LIKE OLD MEN, DIE OFF EVERY WINTER.
YOUNG ONES ARE PUT TO FLAME OR ARE NOT TROUBLED TO BE BORN.]
-- SOHRA
During our recent Bangkok office off site trip 1 whole day was allotted to the Flight of the Gibbon's - near Pattaya which is famous for its Zip-lining and the zoo.
Now being bitten by the the adventure bug I was quite excited to know n experience this new form of madness in the name of adventure.
SO we started climbing up the mountain, which has always been the most difficult part for me- considering my lazy n fat self..never the less once we got to the treestands i thot the most difficult part was done, n i was so wrong.
So v got all hyper, took zillion pics at the base of the first zip lining board as we climbed up the first tree there were butterflies and birds n dragons all at once flying in my stomach..
Ppl thot i was brave n experienced enough considering i had done bungee jumping and flying fox etc., but trust me standing up on the board seeing the tiny paths below n no way of backing out now I was as nervous as any one else.
That dreadful moment had arrived when it was my turn to take the plunge.. n yet again here i was trusting the harness with the butterflies and the dragons jumping in my stomach...The initial scary moments to LET GO of the board beneath my feat were the most challenging ones, where turning back was not a choice I'd want to make. The next board seemed my only rescue n praying not to crash land seemed like the exaggerated movie scene, only to realiase the truth, that v r abt 40 ft high which was the lowest point as from there each point got even higher..
As a child sometimes before exams or some nervous situation I wud get a dream or a feeling in my stomach that am falling in some kind of dark black space without any light and m just falling.
I had that kinda feeling once again where my stomach churned and mind oozed out some extra scary enzymes.. but my heart which is now become an adventure lover made me hold on to the harness tight and assured me that am gonna survive and survive zipping thru, hence this time being not mind over matter but heart over matter and I took the plunge...
while i took off I did have the "what if I crash land feeling" soon after the first few flights it turned into I am flying kinda feeling.. a lot changed from 1st flight to the 23rd flight which was the longest and the most exciting one. I had that dance in the sky feeling as the last flight was of about 3km stretch and by the end of the it i missed having the adrenaline rush gearing up for the next one..The trust building exercise is wat mattered to me the most, as it wasnt just abt trusting the harness but also abt trusting myself!!!
From the time I let go of the fear of dying or hurting myself I started enjoying the moment. I would sit on the edge of the board hanging my feet hanging down into nothing and just take a deep breath of fresh oxygen and drift in the space between the top of the trees and the sky.. The view from the tree tops was almost like being on the top of the world.. Cause for me the world is not the roof tops of the fancy sky scrappers with the heli-pads and the pools but the lush green exotic trees with the waterfalls. These moments were my little moments of bliss and I am certain to cherish those moments!!!
I survived n walked out, rather zipped out feeling zoetic n stronger in my mind n heart!!
THE WIND RULES THE LAND, HOWLING LIKE A MANIAC,
FOR WHERE ARE THE TREES TO TEMPER ITS WILD LAUGHTER
INTO TOMANTIC WOOING?
[I COULD SEE OLD TREES LIKE OLD MEN, DIE OFF EVERY WINTER.
YOUNG ONES ARE PUT TO FLAME OR ARE NOT TROUBLED TO BE BORN.]
-- SOHRA
During our recent Bangkok office off site trip 1 whole day was allotted to the Flight of the Gibbon's - near Pattaya which is famous for its Zip-lining and the zoo.
Now being bitten by the the adventure bug I was quite excited to know n experience this new form of madness in the name of adventure.
SO we started climbing up the mountain, which has always been the most difficult part for me- considering my lazy n fat self..never the less once we got to the treestands i thot the most difficult part was done, n i was so wrong.
So v got all hyper, took zillion pics at the base of the first zip lining board as we climbed up the first tree there were butterflies and birds n dragons all at once flying in my stomach..Ppl thot i was brave n experienced enough considering i had done bungee jumping and flying fox etc., but trust me standing up on the board seeing the tiny paths below n no way of backing out now I was as nervous as any one else.
That dreadful moment had arrived when it was my turn to take the plunge.. n yet again here i was trusting the harness with the butterflies and the dragons jumping in my stomach...The initial scary moments to LET GO of the board beneath my feat were the most challenging ones, where turning back was not a choice I'd want to make. The next board seemed my only rescue n praying not to crash land seemed like the exaggerated movie scene, only to realiase the truth, that v r abt 40 ft high which was the lowest point as from there each point got even higher..
As a child sometimes before exams or some nervous situation I wud get a dream or a feeling in my stomach that am falling in some kind of dark black space without any light and m just falling.
I had that kinda feeling once again where my stomach churned and mind oozed out some extra scary enzymes.. but my heart which is now become an adventure lover made me hold on to the harness tight and assured me that am gonna survive and survive zipping thru, hence this time being not mind over matter but heart over matter and I took the plunge...
while i took off I did have the "what if I crash land feeling" soon after the first few flights it turned into I am flying kinda feeling.. a lot changed from 1st flight to the 23rd flight which was the longest and the most exciting one. I had that dance in the sky feeling as the last flight was of about 3km stretch and by the end of the it i missed having the adrenaline rush gearing up for the next one..The trust building exercise is wat mattered to me the most, as it wasnt just abt trusting the harness but also abt trusting myself!!! From the time I let go of the fear of dying or hurting myself I started enjoying the moment. I would sit on the edge of the board hanging my feet hanging down into nothing and just take a deep breath of fresh oxygen and drift in the space between the top of the trees and the sky.. The view from the tree tops was almost like being on the top of the world.. Cause for me the world is not the roof tops of the fancy sky scrappers with the heli-pads and the pools but the lush green exotic trees with the waterfalls. These moments were my little moments of bliss and I am certain to cherish those moments!!!
I survived n walked out, rather zipped out feeling zoetic n stronger in my mind n heart!!
