A very late New year post :)

This is my first post in 2013. I am slightly late in welcoming the new year it seems. I had an awesome time,spent Christmas and New year in the UK with Capricious,Loudspeaker and a whole bunch of friends. It was wonderful :) 2012 was a good year in all; I met a lot of cool people, I had a great time, did some crazy things for the first time ever in my life...the list is really long :) I am grateful for all the wonderful people in my life today, I am happy with my life. As great as 2012 was, I am wishing for an even better 2013:)

Also, I turned a year older (and none the wiser,might I add...lol), I turned 24, I'm officially old now! Sigh!!! On the brighter side, I got two cakes and two parties; one in UK and a 2-part 2 day thing in Innsbruck...Yaayyy!!! And I am going home in a couple of weeks...and then...it is, Buongiorno Italia!!! The very first days in Innsbruck seems to have happened ages ago,I used to feel like I was staying in a hotel or something.It was just starting to feel like home here...And time to move...hmmmm !

Well, so, that's it...nothing much to write about, except exams!!! I am alive and well, I hope you are too. Let's all have a fun-filled and wonderful 2013 :) Au Revoir for now :)

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Snow!!!

It is snowing outside. The whole world is swathed under a white blanket. It is all breathtakingly,heart-achingly beautiful. It is beautiful in a way that makes my heart yearn for your presence.

The snow is falling hard and fast. I hold out my hand to catch a few flakes.Snow white against brown looks pretty, but then they melt into nothingness almost instantly. 

It is the same tree I wrote about before. It has a curtain of white against nakedness now. It's wish has come true. I am waiting for mine.....

Musings and meanderings...

I am feeling that sudden clarity of thought you feel after a drag. It is the same clarity you lose after 4 drinks. I know that it is the Nicotine tricking my body into thinking it is relaxing, while it increases my heart rate, cuts blood circulation to my legs and leads me towards a premature demise. I  like it though...

The skin on my wrists is chafing a bit, a direct effect of holding my arms out into the cold dry wind, while it encases my surroundings in a white blanket. The pink vapour rising from my strawberry tea blends into the white and disappears into nothingness. I could explain it with the second law of thermodynamics, I don't want to. I just sit and watch it become cold. Now it tastes like the Strawberry Ice tea served at CCD's back home.

I am in one of those moods where I don't want to be an Astrophysicist any more. All I want to do is sit at a picture window and write. Maybe stare into space and dream...Or paint. Well, that would be a disaster.I am a terrible painter, I can't paint to save my life..! All I can do is splash different colours on a canvas and call it modern art.

From where I sit,I can see lights dancing high up. It is like "Diwali in the mountains". I am reminded of the tiny stacked houses in the high ranges of India. These are not as quaint. I try to make out letters in the light mazes. I see alphabets, but they make no sense at all.

There is a tree outside my window. I don't know what kind it is. It was green when I arrived here. I watched it's leaves turn deep red to orange to yellow and then fall off altogether. Now it stands naked, waiting for snow to paint it white. 

When light came to wake me from dreams
I woke readily,
Donning my dreamer's robe
I vowed to keep them alive
And set them free.
When the world turned golden
And leaves started to fall
I wrapped them tight
In the folds of my heart
And send them to the heavens.
When clouds would mate,
I see them fall back on earth
And call out to me
Hidden in the grass
Out of sight of all, but me
My tiny stars...!!!

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