On A Voyage

Sharing stories in between the lines and photographs

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Things that hits you suddenly can devastate you. Like a tsunami after an earthquake, your message created tumultous waves in the scerene spirit of mine.

It never crossed my mind that it was so easy for you. You made me realize, how vulnerable I am.

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Q & A

Today instead of blogging, I decided to answer a question in Quora, which I am sharing it here.

Q: What are some things that most intelligent people know, but normal people don’t?

Answer:

Here are my 5 points, as intelligent people know that normal people comprehend lists easily :P

Unlike normal people, intelligent people know that they don't know about many things in the world and hence thrives on knowing more. Intelligent people talks with the assumption that the other people know more about the topic than themselves.

Intelligent people know that sometimes ideas are not created by them, but the ideas possess them. Any ideology that ordinary people follows; they spit out what is fed inside their brain. Brain is plastic in nature, and it can be shaped into various forms; Ideology and ideas are one of the criteria developing them. Normal people don't reflect on whether an idea is consuming them or the idea they are producing is creating some leverage.

Intelligent people know that normal people want to be judged. Just imagine how would normal people act if there were no likes and comments on Instagram and Facebook. Intelligent people put values on social media, and they know, it's more worth inspiring a single person rather than getting likes from 100 perverts.

Intelligent people know that silence is powerful and uses it effectively. Normal people like to keep on talking, while the intelligent people calmly listens. On this process, normal people don't realize that they have surrendered their trust to the listening person.

Intelligent people compare their present with their past. They know the only person worth comparing is themselves as faces depict every human being are unique. On their path to attaining the intelligence, they become well aware that they are tiny creatures of the universe that it's easy to get lost into oblivion. They continuously seek on bettering themselves, so that they can provide some consciousness to the oblivious world.

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Looking back at 2018

Everyone at the end of the year tends to go back and reflect on their precious events of life. Contemplating 2018, I think it was a great year for me regarding achievements and growth. Some of the lessons that I learnt through reflecting those events are: 1.    Travelling, a school of life: In 2018, I got to travel to Japan, participating in an International short-term course entitled, “Building resilient societies against climate change” organized by Kyoto University, Japan along with its partner university from Thailand. During the 14 days stay, I experienced Japanese culture, people and the country. Japan is a disaster resilient country, and it has raised its standard. The innovation and technologies evolving in Japan is extraordinary, and they have been able to utilize those for protecting themselves against the destructive forces of nature. Among many things to learn, these technologies were one of them.

2.    Friends make you feel blessed: Humans are social animals. We want to communicate with the people who understand and care about us. In this process, we make friends who are nearby. Sharing deep emotions with people you trust makes your heart light, and it’s an important issue that needs to be addressed in the ever-growing individualistic society. In 2018, I got opportunity to make new friends from the nations of Japan, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Taiwan, Peru, Indonesia, Sudan, China and Pakistan. It was wonderful talking with the heterogeneous group of people and the experience influenced me more to stay open-minded.

3.     Hard-work and Persistency is the key to every doors: In 2018, I worked pretty hard to make sure that my research was going according to the timeline framed. I excelled in my coursework too but as mentioned persistency is the key and should be continued in 2019 to achieve the set targets. This lesson came to me not only in a good way that I can brag about; I learned in another way too. I joined a gym in my university and began training for around four months of time but then later did not continue and naturally, the muscles that were starting to develop, stopped. I did not even cross the threshold that would have maintained the muscle in my body. Nothing big can be accomplished if you are phasing out soon.

These are the top 3 life lessons that I learned in 2018. What was yours?

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Fireworks at the countdown, Bangkok Thailand.

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Passion for Writing

I am not sure why I started writing, but whenever I finished writing it made me feel good. So, I opened my blogspot.com account and continued my writing journey. During the course, I noticeably improved my writing too but time and again, I began to grow wary if I was making a fool of myself. I knew my writing improved just from novice to amateur level and there I was sharing it with the world. Though at times, my friends supported me with encouraging comments; I began to think if they were saying it just for the sake of being a good friend, and was I aware of the fact that my writing really sucked.

This insecurity and dubious nature stalled me for a long time. I somehow looked writing as one of my chosen media to fulfil my egotistical need of being heard by the people. It got validated with the feeling that I got whenever there was a little greater no. of views, comments and likes received from the people. I was struggling to get views, and it made me question more about my writing. I compared myself with other writers that had a lot of followers, and mine was quite non-existential.

All of these were a psychological problem that I had to overcome. I should have never compared myself with the likes of a famous writer as I have not walked in their shoes. For sure, behind the screen, they have their stories of struggle, effort and passion which I was not willing to get into. I was not deep into reading, crafting and writing; I was very superficial. Greatness is not born out of a mediocre effort, and if I did not sharpen my skill then not any lucky patterns of stars in the sky was going to help. The only comparison worth was with my past. The only important thing was making sure that I was improving. Little by little or all at once, doesn't matter, the tenacity to fulfil the passion of writing was not to be wasted.

So, I decided to blog daily and am doing it on Tumblr. Tumblr is a relatively new platform for me, and I have no friends there. By that way, I removed the fear of being judged. I am also determined to put at least one quality blog on Medium, weekly, which is also relatively a new platform for me. For now, I am not too worried about the quality. I realised that I had not produced enough quantity that will in the long run with a little more effort be helping on my quality too.

Through this process, I hope that I will be able to make my writing effortless and nurture this art into a new level through which I can share my sweet and bitter experiences. Its been a week now and I am in love with this process. So far only 1 like and 2 followers for the six daily blogs posted, but I have realized that it is just a number which shall increase slowly when my writing excels and fills the void.

What is more important than these numbers is my ability to write effectively and be able to inspire people for the better.

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A New Year

It's a new Year, a new beginning, some of us were impatiently waiting. I wanted everything to start right from this year. I am intending to put my conscious effort into improving my life on general aspects of health, finance and creativity. Even with that determination in mind, I failed to wake up early. I woke up at 10 am which in actual is late to commence my general morning ritual. It had all to do with New Year's Eve, as I slept at 3 am the early night or morning in this case.

I went to a recently opened shopping mall, IconSiam. It's one of a masterpiece regarding architectural and interior design. The investors of the mall had been advertising on many social media about the mall and the firework that was put in place for the new year's eve. Lying at the banks of the famous Chaupraya river in Bangkok, it claimed to be a new destination for people around the world to witness one of the best fireworks of the eve. Knowing this, my sense for photography was triggered, and I had decided at the moment, that I will at any cost make it my first attempt in photography for the fireworks.

Reaching there, I was overwhelmed by the crowd, and most of the spot for taking a vintage picture was already booked. So, I decided that I will take a tour of the building and the interior design was just "WOW". It was 11 pm, and I decided that I should get a spot for myself to witness what was promised. So, I searched, and luckily I found a decent place where I could clamp my Joby Tripod and get the shot that I was expecting. Soon, the countdown began. 3, 2, 1 and

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New year’s eve

Apparently, I forgot to write yesterday. I was busy all day shooting a video with friends and got laid off soon on the bed. Tired as hell, I forgot to write.

Today is the new year’s eve. I have got some plans. Hope you guys enjoy the countdown and wish you all a happy new year 2019.

Will be posting tomorrow about today’s event that I am intending to attend.

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Lazy Saturday

After a long tiring work in weekdays, one often waits patiently for the weekend to arrive. I had been doing the same, but with just two days away from the New Year, my mind is wandering a lot. It's because I am waiting patiently to go to Icon Siam in Bangkok and there will be fireworks on the eve. Yes, the countdown. It's not the first time to see fireworks, but it will be the first time that I will get an opportunity to capture it in a photo, and I already imagine it.

To stabilize, the wandering mind, as usual, I came to Geotechnical Lab and began my Free-Free Resonancy Frequency Test (FFR). It's a test related to my research in which I will be analyzing the effect of moisture content on the stiffness of the soil. Oops!! Getting quite technical.

But yeah, it's a lazy Saturday. My heart is getting restless thinking of the things that I should do and am willing to do, but the way that I am rolling depicts another picture. The only worthful thing that I am doing these days is writing. I shall keep on writing, no matter how it turns out. This post is an excellent example of a non-sense post to the readers but its also a demonstration that I can pour around 200-300 words and still make not any sense. At least, I am not facing writer's block.

Enough for today.

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Photography Passion

Today morning, as usual, the first thing I did after my eyes opened was to check all the notifications on my phone. One of it was from my subscribed channel of Peter Mckinnon, on Youtube. He had posted a short movie of his dream shot, entitled, "The Bucket Shot". I watched it and woah boy, it was awesome and inspiring.

He unrolls his movie by deciphering on how he got into photography. I could relate a lot to what he said. I used to take some decent photos by my phone as a hobby, but my passion for photography grew very recently. It was when I once used my friend's camera to take a couple of pictures, and I was stunned by knowing what else could be done and the art that I was missing on. So, during my visit to Japan, I made sure that I was going to buy a camera for me as it is much cheaper there, but since I was a newbie, I had no idea which one to buy. Then, I started googling and youtubing it. At that time I came across the channel of Peter Mckinnon and since then he has remained an inspiration to me. If you do not know him, then I seriously urge to check out his channel. I shall keep his link at the end of this blog.

Delving more, I decided that I was going to buy Canon M50 which is a mirrorless camera and is for the beginners. Since, then whenever I get an opportunity to take my camera, I take it, click some photos and share it on my Instagram account (@thisizav).

It is amazing how a long tiring journey becomes worth it just for one single perfect click. If it wasn't for a passion, then even walking a small hill would be a troublesome job.

That's why they say, find a passion and work on it, only then will you be happy.

THE BUCKET SHOT video by Pete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r25IWquxe9s&t=4s

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Lights, Camera and Action

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Ample of time

It's surprising.

Lately, I have been waiting patiently for my advising committee to advise me on research work as I have been stuck entirely for a while. I feel I have done whatever I can do from my side, and now need someone to show me the way to walk through. Just like writer's block, I am facing with Researcher's block. My appointment with one of the co-advisor is on 7 January 2019, and it's still quite far away. I feel I have a lot of time in spare; nevertheless, I have been using it to stimulate my creative juices, which had been jammed for quite a while.

Today is 2nd day of a daily blog, and I am enthusiastic about how my coming days will be like. I sincerely hope that the storm that's inside me won't subside. The internal fire is burning, and it's making me feel alive. I am loving this process that will somehow make my writing effortless. The only regret I have is that I did not start early. If I had started soon then, I could have finished early and would have made me ready for another journey. Anyways, it's better late than never.

Modern technologies have made us impatient. Super processing computers, higher gigs of RAM on mobile and faster connectivity have produced results in a click. We expect results soon, and we never dare to start things that can take a long time and even if we started, most of us would fall off somewhere, without reaching the end. I have been victim of this process at many instances. We all know, time waits for none, it will pass away, anyway. Whether you commence or not, 2019 will begin and there will be the 2020s. So better to start now, and accomplish things sooner, cause life is short.

During my teenage period, I always thought that by 25 I would have accomplished something. I used to count the years that I had to reach 25, and with five years of time in hand, I thought I would do many things, but now, I am 27. Funny, things are still the same. Yes, in between I did experience and accomplished few things, but I had hoped to develop many life-changing skills in me, only if I had started early.

So, guys if you have free time, utilise it effectively. Invest it towards something you like to excel in. Discipline is a must in this process, that would be my another topic to blog but for now, keeping it simple and short, let's check ourselves with our goals and timeline.

Start, because that's the only way to end.

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Christmas night in Thailand, the land of Smile.

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Beginning of Daily Blogging

Is it possible? Is it something of my caliber? Do I want this from inside or is it just a little thrust of inspiration that will slowly fade away?

I have struggled a lot to find the answer to these questions and found that until and unless I try, I will never know. No one has the answers, it’s within me but needs some work to bring it to the surface.

Tumblr is relatively a new platform to me. I have not used it but have heard quite a lot about it. I have no friends in here so its going to be very private and I will have no fear of my writing being judged. Many of my posts are going to suck up big time with no sense and meaning. I will be struggling with the writer’s block a lot, and I am talking as if I am a professional writer, LOL.

I am a Civil Engineer of 3 years working experience and am currently a Masters student in Geotechnical Engineering (a branch of Civil Engineering that deals with the implication on structures resting on land, resulting from the interaction between soil, water and air). Though I am passionate about it, writing is something that I dig, and I plan to reinvent my self on it. I want to improve, and this profile in my Tumblr will document this glorious journey that I am determined to travel.

On this journey, blogging my daily living experience, I hope to be able to decipher some message to my readers and also hope that you guys will be able to comprehend to my writings.

Lastly, I apologise for my grammatical errors, for I am no native English writer.

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Moving Ahead, Together