Travel Diary , Part 1

And my experimentations with story writing continue .


"Ouch."I whimper a little , just a little, as I scrape my knee against a tree trunk as I slip down it,the very first tree which I have ever attEmpted to climb ."Look ,Mr. Zero Figure is slipping ." my sister mockingly informs my parents . "Shut up fat abs owner. " I shout back to her just to shut her up . It's bad enough to scrape your knee and to be mocked on top of that , "Aargh !"
Oh , I am Anuj , a high school graduate , a kota returnee , a daydreamer , a voracious walker and as you may have noticed a wannabe tree climber .That is my sister who was mocking me a while back and we are here in the beautiful Andaman and Nicobar islands (specifically on vifer island right now) with our parents on a long promised vacation .

That's enough with the introductions I think . So now "Abra Ka dabra" and back to the present . I think of attempting the climb for a second time but when my knee begins to protest and threatens me with a hunger strike I decide otherwise . Since, the guide issued to our steamer had told us to return by 3:00 pm to the boat I glanced at my watch to check how further I could venture . seeing that it is still only 2:05 pm I decide to go on a little side expedition as I am pretty confident (bordering somewhere on the edge of overconfidence maybe  :P) of my walking prowess .I notice , a break in the woods surrounding the designated path . "Go anuj go." the adventurous voice inside me urges me ."What the hell !" I say out loud and plunge into the woods .


"Woah , this is some scene" I think as I notice the brook flowing right across the woods into which I plunged just a little while ago. That coupled with the Sun moving westward , the chirping of birds is making the view very picturesque .Seeing such a picturesque view inspires me to whip out my Nokia N8 and take a few snapshots. I think of posting the pics on facebook at this very instant(just to make my friends jealous :P) but find that there is no network ( seems like the vodafone pug decided to desert me  ).

I keep walkiing along the side of the brook and suddenly I notice something which seems like a clearing in the woods at some distance from where I am standing .  I decide to move toward it (just in case that I may encounter the vodafone pug).

"Woah, this is some scene." my mental voice almost shouts at me as I see what is happening inside : A couple making out !Nearly , every boy by the time he turns 18 has viewed at least one porno flick(some have seen multiple ) . I am no different , but seeing it live in action is something , well something entirely different !The couple seems to be a local couple if skin tone and clothing (whatever is left on them can be believed ) .I decide that before they notice me invading their privacy in public I should move forward .

I walk around the clearing(not to take a good look at them but to find a way to move forward ) and notice a kid watching them make out with a look of anguish on his face . Now , this becomes a bit too much for me to see and process and I begin to walk away fast away from the clearing .

"Bachao!(help)".I hear a cry for help and adrenaline pumping , I begin to rush to the place from where the cry seems to have originated .As I near the place from where the cry seems to have originated I notice that it is the same clearing from which I walked away only a little while back .

I peer into the clearing and the scene which greets me shocks me out of my senses . The man whom I saw just a little while back was kneeling on the ground with a blood covered hunter knife in his hands , and near him on the ground is the child , the child whom I saw a while back , blood gushing from a hole in his chest . The sight of it makes me sick and I make a slight retching noise !

Immediately the man turns to look at me,the source of the noise with his eyes bloodshot ,the hunter knife in his hand covered in blood .He starts to get up and seeing him get up strikes terror , stark terror in my heart . I turn around and begin to run .

I keep running , but I keep seeing only trees around me . I have lost my way , but I can't stop . Not now . I suddenly run into someone and trip over. I get up and notice that it is a woman , a local and she is giving me a strange look .

"Kya hua ?"(What happened ?) , she asks ."Jungle ke bahar jaane ka raasta kidhar se hai ?"(Where is the way out of the jungle ?)I ask . "Yahan se seedhe chalte jaana ."(Go straight from here.) As soon as I hear her say this I begin to run once again .

" Ah ! " I shout as I feel someone grabbing me from behind . I turn around and see , to my horror , the same man from whom I was running away holding me by the scruff of my neck and the very same clearing in front of me . Suddenly that woman who gave me directions a little while ago appears and tells the man holding me , "Lagta hai humain ek aur ko thikane lagana hoga."(Seems like we have to kill one more.).