Microphile

I have started blogging for this site called Parakhi. The primary reason I started doing it is because I think I could use some good writing practice (especially with all the academic papers, I have been feeling that I am losing my touch with creative writing; or at least with the way I usually express myself). 


And, I had to decide on a profile I wanted to use for this site. I had the option of using my real name but I went ahead with "Microphile" (someone who loves traveling in micro-buses a.k.a micros; a common public transportation in K). 


Here goes my schizophrenic profile:

Microphile loves to travel however, since her fantasies of travels into the Egyptian pyramids and Saharian deserts are, well, mere fantasies; she makes do with the hazardous amount of traveling she has to do in micro-buses, aka, micros. She loves to read while traveling in micros. All that traveling has most probably caused some spinal/brain injuries that she is unaware of; while she continues to travel by micros every morning; observing the mundane and writing about them in this blog.

So far, I have written two blogs: Micro-waves and On the Road with Kerouac.

It is a weekly thing so I get a lot of opportunity to think while I travel; observe things that I would usually think about but forget soon enough and also share my experience of reading books inside a micro!!! Yes, I think that is one of the best thing about a public transportation (except from the fact that you are trusting a stranger with your life), you get to open up a book (if you are not standing, clinging, hugging, crouching, pushing, shape-shifting) and read.

More to travel, more to read and definitely, more to express :D