Fall :)

I went for a walk this morning. It was all so beautiful. Apparently, fall is already here...

Getting around Innsbruck

Today dawned chilly and cloudy and breathtakingly beautiful.

 

This snap would have been even more prettier, had I been able to zoom in a bit more. I clicked this in the bus, so didn't have more time before the helicopter flew by. It ws red and the contrast looked really nice.

 

We went to a fleamarket today. It mostly had clothes and knick knacks. It felt a bit sad, mainly because these were people who were selling there tiny treasures, nice things, because they needed the money more than these things. I'm probably feeling worse for them than they themselves do...I do that sometimes, well, most of the time :P. And the things are really quite cheap. I bought two books and a ring.

 

Here are some images from the flea market.

 

 

He belonged to one of the vendors there, paused for me very obligingly as soon as he saw my mobile camera, lol :)

 

 

 

 

It was such a beautiful day but for the cold. I wore like 3 layers to counter the cold, but my poor nose got so numb :(

 

This is a monument of some sort. I don't know what exactly. It looked nice  in an imposing,grand kind of way, hence the click :)

 

If any one can see the white spot in the mountains above this apartment bulding, I hope to buy that place some day (if it is a house) or go stay there sometime (if it is a hotel). In the morning when I woke up, the clouds were floating just below this place. It would be nice to live in such a place right, with the sky at your feet...I would feel like GOD!!!

 

Getting used to life in Innsbruck :)

Okay, so, I'm in Austria. I reached about a week back. I'm not going to blog about how good/bad it felt to leave and the accompanying dramas. I'm just going to say that I'm slowly getting settled and adjusted to the not so systematic life in a student dormitory,again. And I got a room mate about half an hour ago...She seems nice,for the moment...Time will tell I suppose.

I'm in this tiny little town in the Alps called Innsbruck. It is kind of a University town, it came into being only because of the University (now,my University). I suppose it is very beautiful, it is one of the most sought after ski places in Europe and is surrounded by mountains etcetera etcetera. I am posting a few pictures to that effect.

This is the view from my window in sunlight.

The same view in rain. I totally understand now why Ruskin Bond lives in the mountains and why he keeps writing on and on about them, has been for years.

This is the courtyard-cum-smoking corner on the ground floor of the dorm.

That's the river Inn, that gives the town its name. Innsbruck is actually a form of the word Innbrücke which means "bridge over Inn" (Brücke=bridge in German). It is a beautiful shade of green, and ever so clear.

There is this town tower sort of thing that we climbed one day as part of sight seeing. This is the view of the surroundings from there. It is pretty gorgeous :)

She is beautiful isn't she? And the dog is so adorable :)

This is a church of St.Nikolas, yes Santa Claus. I suppose it will have some sort of big blow out around Christmas :)

These are from a slightly larger church/cathedral (I don't know how to distinguish between them). It is called the Dome of St.Jacob. I don't know what he did, it is beautiful in that it has these frescoes and all. And apparently a part of it was destroyed in the second world war and rebuilt and all that. Frankly, I was too tired by this point so I just sat in the pews and rested.

So in a nutshell, I live now in a very picturesque place with unpredictable weather. One day it is all bright and sunny and the next its damp and rainy. Alps sure is mischievous ;) 

Life and Love :)

Hum raat ki intezaar mein

Din kaat lete hain…

Neend ki intezaar mein

Jage rehte hain…

Lekin jab se aapke hothon ne

Iss dil ko choo liya hain,

Humein neend mein bhi

Sukoon naseeb nahi hota….

I have a velvet box of dreams

I filled it with colours of love,

I set it in the Sun

It gave out a rainbow,

I saw your face

Shining out at me

And your smile

Said it all,

Without saying a word.

Waqt ka saath ho na ho

Aap wahi rehenge jahan hamesha the…

Humare dil mein, humare ruh mein,

Humare har dhadkan mein….

Clouds of gloom descend on me,

Now that its time to leave again…

Goodbyes have never really been my thing

I guess it never will be…

With you and me,

I hope it never needs to be…

Note:- Just some lines I wrote and felt like sharing...Totally random and totally mine ;)

                                                    Do not look back,

                                      No one knows how the world ever began.

                                                    Do not fear the future,

                                                   Nothing lasts forever.

                                         If you dwell on the past or future,

                                               You will miss the moment.

                                                                                 -Rumi

You :)

When the gentle rain kisses the waiting earth,
I hear your footsteps coming toward me...
When the wind blows my hair across my face,
I smell your perfume in the air...
When the leaves rustle and trees sway slowly,
I sense your presence next to me...
When am awake, thoughts of you deter my sleep...
When am asleep, dreams of you taunt me awake...
In rumbling thunder and shards of lightning,
In blinding sun and torrential storms,
I seek my haven, your arms, wrapped around me....... :)

Ticking away the moments...

We are often obsessed with time lines, deadlines,time slots...anything that is related to time. Some people have more (read too much) of it than they need , and others simply don't have enough.  When  you think you have it, it runs by like a rabbit, and when you are bored and don't really need more time on your hands, it does a 'comme un escargot'.  It is quite maddening!!!

The reason I got to thinking about time all of a sudden are basically two.

 Uno: My friend G is leaving for a masters course in the US. We had thought we have all the time to meet a few friends and take trips and hang out. So we had planned trips every weekend and checking out restaurants almost every day and the like. Mostly, none of it is gonna materialize, because she is leaving next thursday. I knew she was going to leave by July end, but apparently, it came too soon for my liking ( as inevitable (y bad) things always do). And the sent-off party of sorts we had planned fell through due to time constraints and family emergencies etc. Anyway, so that's that and she is leaving  for two years...sigh!!!

Secundo: It is EXACTLY one year since I came back from London. And it is almost time for me to leave as well. I have enjoyed staying at home, I really have. But inactivity isn't exactly my friend either. I am not the most active person on the planet, but even through my haze of laziness, I hate sitting at home all day, every day and watching tv or movies. I have had quite enough of that. So, I am leaving for Austria for a second masters in September. The first 6 months of my course is there. Then I spend a year in Italy and another 6 months in Germany. And here's the best part, I got a full scholarship yaayy!!! That should be fun. If these places are as beautiful as the Internet has led me on to be, I am in for a treat...and a Eurotrip...lol ;)

I am both excited and apprehensive about this whole thing. Excited because of the obvious, I get to meet new people and visit new places. Apprehensive because, I am leaving behind 'the familiar' all over again and will have to adjust to new surroundings and people yet again...I can't wait to leave though... Due to a not-afore-mentioned tertiary reason, I think it is too soon to leave as well... But then how soon is too soon really?  I'm confused....!!!  Maybe more time will clear my head (or confuse me further...sigh!!!). 

                       

                                                            "And you run, and you run

                                                             To catch up with the Sun...

                                                             But it's sinking, racing around

                                                             To come up behind you again.........."

                             

Some things I want to let you know...

There is something in you,that reminds me of my favourite flowers.....a freshness,an austerity..a something..:)

You make me laugh, you make me think, you make me blush (which is no mean feat, I assure you )...You get me, what I think, what I'm trying to say, better than anyone ever has (which,incidentally, creeps me out big time sometimes, but it is nice in a way). Your perfume reminds me of  the ripe golden leaves in Autumn (weird euphemism, I know,but it really does). When I sat on that park swing ,holding your hand, I knew it wouldn't be easy to let go of this one. Stringing words together isn't exactly my forte, as you very well know, but I want to let you know, that it did mean something. Maybe it isn't forever, but that doesn't make it any less. All I know is that it matters a great deal to me now...