ITHACA:

As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon -- don't be afraid of them: you'll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, unless you bring them along inside your soul, unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope the voyage is a long one. May there be many a summer morning when, with what pleasure, what joy, you come into harbors seen for the first time; may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, sensual perfume of every kind -- as many sensual perfumes as you can, and may you visit many Egyptian cities to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you are destined for. But do not hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you are old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you have gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her, you would not have set out. She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have [deceived] you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

-C.P Cavafy (1911)

This poem would mean a lot to a lot of people and that is the brilliance of this poetry.

But the essence can be in the little meaning I have managed to contirve with lot of help form a brilliant teacher and a dear friend, AMME.

" the journey is more important than the destination itself, a beginning is definitely better than an ending. Beginnings gives us the power to be curious once more... Destination or ending gives only retrospection..."

My journey to something new begins. I am not sure what the outcome would be but after being nudged gently by AMME I realised I am looking forward to this journey to the unknown outcome because it is going to result in some construction...

This would have to be the loud channel of my bitter sweet and sour esperiences in the Great Britain, my life in London and my time in the University-which-has-accepted-me.

Lets see what this route to Ithaca teaches me...

Desi signs off... Namaste!