Skype on holiday...not a good idea!

Prince is much better this morning and goes for his dive.
I write and wait for his return.
He is very happy and tells me all about the fish he fed under-water.
Lucky Prince...I miss it too!
Time to bake (30SPF, hat and umbrella) and beach, once again, doing what is done best on vacation.
NOTHING.
We are very happy and the service, even on the beach, is impeccable.
Oberoi, we can only praise you.

Or let's say - almost, because things look a bit different when sunset hour is gone, (again with a golden sky and a pretty ugly tanker sitting very ugly right in front of it!) and we return home, where Prince has a skype business call and the connection keeps breaking.
OH-OH... I can smell trouble. First, up goes the AC to minus something, and then the outbursts of anger...
Luckily I am no working here!
So it is the poor IT guy, who has to come to our room till late at night, trying to fix the unfixable.
The problem appears to be on half of the island. Of course - it has to be our half.
By 10.30 Prince gives up and we go for a late dinner. No problem, we still get served, just us and the Banyan tree (I now know its name) bird house, which has no less than 2000 (about) birds, and 6 species as its guest.
COOL TREE!!!

Magical tree?

• In Hinduism, the banyan tree is considered sacred and is called "Ashwath Vriksha." God Shiva asDakshinamurthy is nearly always depicted sitting in silence under the banyan with rishis at His feet. It is thought of as perfectly symbolizing eternal life due to its seemingly unending expansion.
• Also in Hindu culture, the banyan tree is also called kalpavrikshameaning 'wish fulfilling divine tree'. In modern parlance in the Hindilanguage, it is known as Bargad, Vatavriksh, and Barh.
• Buddha is believed to have achieved enlightenment inBodhgaya in India while meditating under a banyan tree of the species Sacred Fig. The tree is known as Bodhi Tree
• In Buddhism's Pali canon, the banyan (Pali: nigrodha)^[8] is referenced numerous times.^[9]Typical metaphors allude to the banyan's epiphytic nature, likening the banyan's supplanting of a host tree as comparable to the way sensual desire (kāma) overcomes humans.^[10]
• The Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees (林村許願樹) are banyan, and are a popular shrine in Hong Kong. They are located near the Tin Hau Temple in Lam Tsuen.
• In many stories of Philippine Mythology, the banyan, (locally known as balite) is said to be home to a variety of spirits and demon-like creatures (among the Visayans, specifically, dili ingon nato,meaning "things not like us"). Maligno (Mystical creatures) associated with it include thekapre (a giant), dwende (dwarves), and especially the tikbalang (a creature whose top half is a horse and whose bottom half is a human).^[11]
• In Guam, 'Chamorro people believe in tales of taotaomona, duendesand other spirits. Taotaomona are spirits of the ancient Chamorro that act as guardians to banyan trees.^[12]

I think one of those days I will visit the Banyan and maybe try the divine-wish powers for a happy-healthy 2010. (and maybe less spots and blotches and less bad things happening...would that be too much to ask?)




Nighty night