Defined Happiness

 Bags Packed  Winter trip of the year to Sikkim. The last 3 months were very hectic work wise for both of us. This trip was most needed to refresh and get back to the flow. We are not taking Amudhan with us for this trip due to climatic conditions and the hectic travel involved. Day 1:  We started around 3AM from home to chennai airport in Ola Cab. We had checked in the previous day and it was a comfortable flight from Chennai to Kolkata. The direct flight to sikkim that we booked was cancelled and we had to shift the booking to Chennai-Kolkata-Bagdogra in flight, Bagdogra-Gangtok in Cab. We had a 5 hour layover in Kolkata and we decided to explore a bit of 'The City of Joy'.  We walked out of the airport with our trolleys. We stopped a cab wala and enquired the rates and time to reach Park Street - the famous lanes of Kolkata. From the streets of Kolkata We reached Marques street - what we saw is food , kashmiri shawls , aloo cleaning , chicken cleaning , palak clea...

 I read this book named 'Peaks and Valleys' by 'Sponsor Johnson' recently and I enjoyed, realised and visualised every line of it. Making Good and Bad times work for you - At work and in life , is the essence of the book.  This trip took us through the routes that wa studded with very high peaks and deep valleys enroute.  I felt I need to map those quotations from the book with the views that I saw.. From the book's point of view, Peaks means success and valleys means failures.