赤船 Red Boat ankered in the harbor, Harbor Front Toronto Jul 10 2009

一葉片舟 Life on a Tiny Boat, Harbor of Mumbai India Jun 2006

In the harbor of Mumbai as one of the busiest port in the world with enormous flux of goods for import and export, I saw all the gigantic modern ships of LPG tankers, super big container ships, brand new air craft carrier with state-of-the-art war ships and luxury cruise ship even.

On top of those dynamic movement for today, there were still couple of very traditional fisherman's sailing boats and some were even without any sail. Though the contrast was really high with the all the big ships in the background, the small boats under the morning glory in Arabian sea was so friendly and heart-warming to see. Hopefully it's a good coexistence of way of living..

迫進的多量性 Full Variety of Oceanic Transportation, Jun 2006

Such a short span of time when I got back from Rock Temple in Elephanta Island, I got to see almost all kind of different type of ships in the harbor in Mumbai from wind-sailing traditional fisherman's boat to state-of-the art aircraft carrier.. Varieties and dynamics, whatever they are, give me energy or at least a room for thought for moving forward..

Watching ships is as romantic as for trains for me. Floating over the blue ocean, navigating from here to there on a reasonable speed, not like 2.5 super sonic, our ships still live along with mechanical era far detached from jet-lagging world of digital box of Pandora though they've been also challenged by the super-powered nuclear ships or ultra-speedy racing boats.. and also much threatened by the evilly pirates.

Goldberg Variations No.1 J.S.Bach



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Symbol of the Oceanic Power, Naval Base Mumbai India 2006