Snippets

~ the statistic of viewer traffic of the blog shows the page views and visits, seeing this statistic, i am motivated to write ~

Day 43

1.4.2024
Monday

Udaipur, Rajashtan

i)
It has been a very long while I do not check the statistic of the viewer traffic on my blogpost. So, I get to check very quickly how has my blogpost going recently. When there are no new postings, the traffic will stagnant down. I get active again in this trip and I do a posting every day. In good spirit I get to know my blogs have achieved a hit of 425 thousand of viewers. This doesn't come to me in a month or year, but it is an accumulated deposit of postings for ten years. Every time when I go travel, I'll try to write about my journey as much as I could. So, this is the outcome I get from the writing.

I have also past the 200th posting recently.

When I begin to write ten years ago, I take several long hours to complete a post. As I persist to write, I find I write faster now. I notice I have a little improvement as I continue to write but due to the limited all word usage, I may write with low articulate in expressing my feeling and impression accurately. This is the aspect I need a lot of improvement.

I am writing, and I am thinking of becoming a travel writer. But that will take a long while because I need to improve my writing skill first. This blog is used by me as a platform to write. However, I speak very little english. Very often, I speak without able to show it behaviourally correct. I almost do not speak english. My listening skill is also not rated good. When I tune into the news in english on television, I have to listen to it very attentively and carefully, only then I understand what has been reported. Please do not ask me why, how about I could not understand my niece and nephew who have studied in international school in Shanghai, when they speak to me in english with almost a perfect accent and I am lost. This is a language mastery I am lacking a lot.

ii)
I get a palm reading yesterday. I have wanted to know how do I fare in my health because I feel my health is deteriorating with several illnesses. Because of the recent nasal infection, I am worried that the infection in the nose may be a malign disease. I ask the palmist several times to read the lines and other features of my hand especially in the palms and fingers more deeply, because I have wanted to obtain an assurance whether my health is manageable.

The palmist says that my health overall is good. He asks me not to worry about the little illnesses I am facing now. He also says, I would have long-lived when he inspects the life line on the palm. He repeats with an assurance, he says, I have to do away with the worry. How would I not worry when I have nasal infection with pus oozes out from the inner tip of the nostril. I am also down with walking if I want to stride fast, I would need to watch out for the injury of the snapping hips that pull down to both the knees. Then, my left socket in the shoulder is cracking because the socket is loose due to the long distance swimming for many years. The slip disc on the back of my body is another difficult problem to take care. And my heart problem is haunting me a lot.

The palmist however has said something soothing my emotions after inspecting the lines of fate, he says, I am given two chances by god to delve in anything I have not been able to complete. I ask him to elaborate in more detail, but he says, he can't read further. On the positive side, when god gives me chances to realign my mistakes and opportunities, I can't be anymore glad to know this news from the palmist.

iii)
The exhaust fan has been spinning intermittently even I do not press the switch. When it is spinning, not long after a while it will stop. I notice this odd occurrence since the first day I arrive in this tiny room. So, I go to check out what this spinning exhaust fan is doing in my room. Several nights ago, when I do not open the windows in my room, I whiff the spinning fan is exhausting a smell of shower soap like someone is bathing in the bathroom next door. When the room next door is vacated, I go in to that room. I realise the bathroom in that room has no openings or window-ways to exhaust the heat in the bathroom or release any foul smell from the toilet bowl. All the oddly smell is channeled into my room.

iv)
In Udaipur, there are no lizards. When I inspect the opening or holes of the windows, or a crack and opening gaps in a wall, I find no lizard droppings. The opening in the gaps is clean. I think the lizards are not surviving in this climate which is either too cold or hot but definitely dry. Lizards are best procreate in the warm and moist weather. So, there are plenty of lizards at home in Malaysia. I do not see even one lizard here. And, the sugar pack I leave open on the floor does not attract any ants to the sweet host.

v)
When I check the apps online at dawn, the train ticket is still on a long waiting list. Though the list of waiting is reduced by half, from 60 to 30, but I feel chances of getting a bunk sleeper tonight are very slim. Anyway, the ticketing agent tells me to check again at 5.00 pm when the allocating charts of bunk sleepers are renewed completely, then I may get a bunk sleeper. He asks me not to worry for it. To me, the chances are slim.

~ in palmistry, the art of supposedly predicting the future and describing the character of a person, is done by looking at the lines and other features of the hand, especially the palms and fingers, i am not obsessed into it but i take the palmistry knowledge as a guide when i need at most a word of hope and support, also an encouragement ~

~ the tiny exhaust fan is installed on the wall below the low ceiling in my room, it will exhaust all the heat and smell of the bathroom or toilet from next door into my room, this is oddly very weird ~

~ the train ticketing apps is showing a waiting list of 30, when i check it at dawn today, i am leaving udaipur for delhi by train today at 6.30 pm and expecting to arrive at nizamuddin railway station in delhi tomorrow morning ~