Saturday, June 13, 2009

My last night in sweden ........SIGH!

months have passed so soon! i still remember the day when I hopped out of the bus which took us from copenhagen to Lund...a snowy damp cold janauray night.... 5 .5 months flew like anything !!! I have never felt so close to any place...the longest i ever stayed in a place..was mylapore..i liked the locality nut never got emotioanllly attached to it..i always believed in shifting places like nomads and never got so close to any place...though i liked many places...but for past one week...the very idea of leaving lund have been eating my mind!!! may be becos this was the first place which altogether taught what it is to "live by oneself"...the most kiddish things i ever wanted to try in life...how is it to be in a house...gave me the feel of independence..the feel of belongingness..a sense of individuality and freedom. i have enjoyed my solitude a lot here! the view outside my window..the butifl pigeons and sparrows coming to fetch their food everyday...the dew drops taht i get to see in the lawn every morning...the localbus rides..(drivers here im sure will not survive a single day in chennai traffic :D), the kind, frank, easygoing swedish, their unique way of speaking english :D..our class in hydrosfaren...the city centre..with so many nice butiful shops...boutulfsplatsen(which i manage to pronounce like the swedish themselves..:P), the wonderful classes on system analysis and my time with mark and ellen :D..my cykel rides...where once i managed to escape from the local police for driving in the wrong pavement and then once again jus escaped from bashing a car cos i drove in left :D...i could discover a lot of hidden faces in me..somwhow after coming to Lund...i did lot of travel plans but never travelled much except the exotic trip to stockholm, helsinki and kiruna! though i regret for not making to the norwegian fjords!

my room...o the always messiest place :D ....the poster of che guevara(wh im generously leaving it for the next occupant), the midnight strolls in the streets with ilayaraja songs in my ears....ooo unforgettable..endless nights before the comp struggling with my assignments..! the intelligent laundry booking system..the mystic kyrkans..allhelgonakyrkan(passing which i go everyday to school but got to enter this amaaaaazing church only today.!!), my lonely dinner at the newdelhi restaurant :D.. and yea! my encounters spending endless hrs with my 1500 jigsaw puzzle..!!! and my experimnets with the acrylic..thats when i realised i too can paint...somehwere deep inside me a painter is waiting to be discovered.. the 2 filed trips across skane!! my crush with my professor TH.... :D..his classes, my hassles with thesis selection..baking everyones head for that :P...shopping in Netto..experiments with self cooking :D piled up dishes.gosh if only i could have kept this place a bit more clean!! running everyday to the busstop and missing the bus in a second or two ... :D ya ya.....! the coffee everyday at the gym cafe...my experiences at the yoga classes...swedish yoga...LOL..i can jus laugh at wat happend there, but cant really explain...!!! :D and the stadsbibliotek(public library)...where once i borrowed 8 books and paid **** fine for all 8 books!!!! :D and most pathetic...read none!!! somhow i have this fascination for books, buy them or borrow them but never read!! crazy me!

in short, my life here was filled with lot of happiness, freedom, experimentation and self discovery :)

Thanks to life for such a wonderful experience :)

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

My new ocarina

Finally received my first ocarina :) has been expecting it pretty long time! would not have been disappointed even if it dint come taking into account the ambiquity in cross continental post deliveries...!
aahhhh! glad i got it intact, all the way from california. Still remember that day where i "Wasted"(acc to others ofcourse!) a whole day watching videos and theory abt ocarinas. a series of youtube videos really impressed me and so very much excited abt the whole concept to play a whole octave in just 4 holes! i have always been so much attracted to wind instruments esp indegenous ones.. besides i also own a butifully painted peruvian flute, which i bought it at Birmingham christmas market! 



Hope to learn the basics of playing an ocarina soon! Once i get the fingering i shud be thru..and then i go scaring all my neighbours aound! yipppe! sheeer fun waiting ahead! ;)

its been quite a while!! hmmmm! i have lots to share but i dont really sit down and make up my mind for writing 1000 odd words...! i will do so soon i guess...now that i need to transfer my mental garb somewhere. also, now that im leaving sweden in couple of days i obviously have something to share abt this place and my days here! wooooooooooof! looks like a dream! an experience of its own! cool! anyways...now i have got loads of assignments to finish! <> :( gosh!!!