Venus Kuiya

Early 80s flights between India and Thailand on Cathay Pacific (747s) had these deck of playing cards which no other at the time used to offer. Still have those somewhere. Exceptional airline.

KASHMIR DRAMATIC SCENES. 65 cable cars dangle precariously. A gondola ride turns into a nightmare in sylvan Gulmarg, Kashmir. Till now, Northern Army Command says 80 people from 16 cable cars have been safely rescued others should be out soon.

@coderzombie Was the song in Shanghai?

Dibakar Banerjee wrote a mocking song about this 15 years ago. That's how old this trope is.

@SnazzyLabs @applefiles_ I took to the Air courtesy your tweet then.

@applefiles_ I love and own the Air. No.

iPhone 17e is the most beautiful Apple device since the iPhone 4. It’s literally stunning.

Namah.

@vishalmisra will sign up. could it churn data for mumbai t20 league?

If RR lose, PBKS is in the driver’s seat. KKR will have a monumental task Infographic below generated via a single query on cricket lens. Try it out - open to all: cricket-lens.sfunicorns.ai/chat

What he’s saying is Toyato is wrong

@20_1NM @scaryhairyman Agreed fully. I am trying to get there.

@venuskuiya @scaryhairyman Octavia is next level sir

Virtus is the girlfriend you want. City is the wife you need.

No more Shravan Kumar

@GabbbarSingh Wrong answer before. B62 Studios so its Dhurandhar.

@GabbbarSingh Sholay.

After 2 years of using this. Watching countless hours of cricket matches, movies, TV series on this. Zero malfunction. Super clear. 100 inches of display. The XGIMI horizon pro. Probably the best electronic purchase I ever made. Guess the movie :)

A few Baltic try outs. #watches

@avataram What a beautiful croc strap.

Daredevil: Born Again What a beautiful setup. Do watch.

@himganj153 Wasim.

@pacificleo Been a year. Addendum anytime soon?

On spirituality and religion In the Age of AI x.com/pacificleo/sta…

Here is a collection of threads that I have posted on Twitter. I will be using it as a central repository for quick access and keep on updating it.

@thejayesh @mishra_baibhav

@mishra_baibhav No. I adore the brand and its battery life but aap ke liye nahi hai. Too downmarket. Iphone folding ke liye wait karo

Ok phone people Should I spend money on the Oppo Ultra phone?

@mananbhattnavy @abhinn Followed. Abhinn good repost

𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐖𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲'𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞 What happens when you sail a 200-year-old death sentence into the Bermuda Triangle? A retired Navy Commander's terrifying true story. 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑮𝑯𝑶𝑺𝑻 𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑻𝑬 On April 24, 1789, Captain William Bligh was cast adrift in a 23-foot open boat by mutineers near Tonga. It should have been his coffin. No charts. Almost no food or water. A death sentence in the vast, merciless Pacific. Instead, Bligh performed the impossible. For 42 days, he navigated 3,600 miles of hell—sucked into the Gulf of Papua, swept west by the murderous New Guinea Current, threading the needle through the Torres Straits, and finally limping into Kupang, Timor. It remains one of the greatest survival voyages in maritime history. Two centuries later, almost to the very day, we did something that sane sailors would call suicidal. The Samudra followed Bligh's exact route. We reached the Polynesian islands when he did. We traced every nautical mile of his impossible journey, including the final stop at Kupang. We thought we had cheated history. We were wrong. The real nightmare hadn't even begun. --- THE DEVIL'S TRIANGLE DOESN'T FORGET We re-entered the Bermuda Triangle with a sick feeling in our guts. The last time we had dared these waters, our gooseneck had shattered, leaving us helpless in a 600-kilometer current grip. We barely escaped. This time, sailing from Venezuela toward Panama, a northern depression unleashed its fury. 90-kilometer-per-hour winds. 20-foot waves. Total darkness. The frail yacht was a toy in the hands of an angry god. The generator died, choked by saltwater. Our batteries drained to nothing. We were suddenly, terrifyingly alone. No radio. No SOS. No GPS. Just the screaming wind and black waves crashing over the deck with the force of freight trains. Then came the moment that turns a bad storm into a burial at sea. The boat was shipping water. Not a trickle. A flood. It was already over the floorboards and rising—hungry, cold, inevitable. With no electric power, we had only our hands and our will to live. 200 strokes on the hand pump. Each man. Each turn. Sweating. Cursing. Praying. A search party plunged below with torches, hunting the leak while the rest of us formed bucket brigades in the dark. The water didn't care. It kept coming. We kept bailing. Hour after hour. If we stopped, we died. It was that simple. We found nothing. The holes were invisible in the torchlight. We had no choice but to survive until sunrise—or sink trying. It was the longest night of my life. --- THE MIRACLE AT FIRST LIGHT When dawn finally cracked the horizon, the search party found it immediately. Our echo sounder transducers had been ripped clean away by the violence of the storm. Left behind: two gaping holes in the hull, through which the Pacific was surging to claim us. But here is where the story becomes unbelievable. The securing bolts—the only things that should have been washed away with the transducers—were still lying loosely in the holes. Those two slender pieces of metal had jammed themselves in just enough to reduce the flooding from catastrophic to merely terrifying. Had those bolts been lost in the storm, nothing could have saved us. Not the pump. Not the buckets. Not divine intervention. We would have gone down in total darkness, another mystery for the Triangle's graveyard. When we finally reached Panama and touched solid ground with shaking legs, we learned the horrifying truth: two other yachts had sunk in that exact same storm in the Caribbean. Two yachts lost. We lived because of two bolts. --- Commander P. Kumar (Retd.) is a former Indian Navy officer and circumnavigator. To keep reading such Untold stories please press the follow button. #UntoldStoryNavy

Just utterly brilliant. Never seen this video of the ambassador.