Xi Sang for Father Luigi Jellichi…

mother you know in china, people who passed away at his age, normally if over ninty, it called xi sang, that means he has spent a complete life with big family-including people like u, and live natually for so many years till pass away. xi, means not sad, means it is a complet end without pity, sang, means furnaral,

he has spent a natural life till pass away, no pity and devote what he has to his family to his friend..

-Tana, my daughter from China

Father passed away at 8.20pm yesternight and will be cremated on 15th August 2009 in Selisian College at Sonada in Darjeeling.

Father Lurgi Jellichi…

is terminally ill now in Gangaram Missionary Hospital. He is 94 now. On 17th August there is to be his 60th anniversary of Priesthood in India, his immediate family member are arriving from Italy on this friday. Here he is seen with my grand daughter Indira during Dolly’s marriage in February 2008.

We all pray for him and his health…

Buddham Saranam Gacchame…

This laughing Buddha statue in Ma Gu Shan in Jiangxi on 23rd April 2009 inculcated something in me, which came to my table few months after from a buddhist monestry in Bhutan, where Vivek has gone on a byking trip in June 2009.

Serendipity…

Wuyishan Ridge…

If you look at the border between Fujian & Jiangxi, the main length runs along the crest of Wuyishan mountains where bamboo grows unabated alongwith tea and soil is normally red.

Singalila ranges where lower fingers of Sandakphu ridges forms the hills of Darjeeling, where the exotic teas are grown are virtally the same, where the boundaries of Nepal, India, Sikkim & Bhutan meet.

Quite a similarity in the soils too.

Luck…

Everything is related to destiny & luck, a combination of possibilities & permutation – but something are more intriguing then others, like this seed talisman given by Ms. Xu in Wuyishan on 20th April 2009 and this most complicated chinese charactor. No idea weather this is true or not.

Can anyone help me understand this.

The art of imitation…

Goomtee follows Margaret’s Hope and Rohini & Gopaldhara in trying to experiment with Pearl, Bi Hao Yin Jin, Pi Lo Chun, Oolongs and what not. We believe in something is better then nothing as long as it sells. Japanese have market for these teas and with suitable high brackets as they dont like their Sancha and Ganmeicha to be imitated in China.

New Lochan…

Ankit today got engaged to Sneha Prashad of Calcutta. How things happen – and they happen fast. Let cold weather come and we may see the wedding done in December 2009 itself.

My blessings…