Christmas is around the corner, Christmas is around the corner!!!!! So, I am not a catholic, but I just love this festival. I remember when I was young, I used to eat my parents head till they actually got a bush for me to decorate and I used to pretend that it was my Christmas tree. Once, I even insisted on putting up my stockings. Now, I just have to see one those silly Christmas-Santa movies, its just not Christmas without them. The lights play a major part. I tell you, there just have to be more excuses to put up lights. The atmosphere, I don’t know, maybe it’s because the end of the year, everybody’s happy & merry. The college work is light, lots of free time, to ruminate & think about life. There’s a nip in the air, I am in tropics so, I can’t expect more but this is nice too. I hate winters usually, bundled up in all the woolens and virtually impossible to get out of the cozy bed in the morning, but I kinda miss it. I miss the changing of the seasons. Here there is only one season. Constancy is boring. I feel that each season has significance and a meaning. It personifies life itself. Winters signal the end, bowing out of the old and preparation for the new. The trees shed their leaves to make way for the new in spring. Even humans, I have noticed that there are more deaths and significantly much more number of births in this period of time. In my class there are atleast 10 people born in November end and December throughout out of a total of 40 including me,:D.
I just went to Khandala for the weekend with my friends. It was supposed to be a seminar, but we took out lot of time to do other things too. Yeah, you’ll have time when you sleep for only 4 hrs in 56 hrs. We had a blast, everybody staying in same villa, no teachers to play party pooper. We sang till all of us were hoarse, quite a few actually lost their voices. I remember one night; we sat up till 2 in the morning in the balcony in the cold singing (me was listening more) Christmas carols, and other favourites. In the mornings, I dragged everybody out to watch the sunrise, I got to know how crazy the guys are, who the hell wakes up at 4 am to take a bath in COLD water and wakes everybody up. How the hell are you supposed to sleep when somebody is shouting at the top of the voices ” P bahar aa, abbe so gaya kya? “ at 4.30 in the morning? Anyway, the cold wind on the face, foggy morning, mountains all around, waiting, watching as the mist finally cleared up was so rejuvenating. I can get up early every morning to see that and I did all the days I was there. The unadulterated air has that something which charges you and no matter you haven’t slept for 2 days and your muscles are ready to go bust, still you keep going on exploring the mountains & the ruins. We even sneaked out & went up to the cliffs at night. The clear skies above where not even an inch was without stars amazes me each time I see it. You could actually navigate your way around in the starlight if the moon hadn’t been up!!! It had been a long long time since I actually experienced the clear skies, and it put me in such a mellow mood. I am lucky I didn’t get a crick in my neck from all the stargazing I did! I did sleep for 14 straight hours after coming home and still felt hung over the day after!!!!
and for the desserts, one of my half-baked home spun theories: live like a cat, own a dog for a pet !!!!!!!&...........drool, drool...... s
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