Cool evening breeze flowing into the room. Ozzy's "Goodbye to Romance" playing in the background... Sigh! how I love that song. Then the electricity does a number on me. So a circumstancial step into the balcony leads me to this:






First thought: God has photoshopped the sky. Second thought : Shut up, you silly girl... if you were meant to understand it, you would have... just submit to this. So I stand here, humbled and defeated. If there was a heaven this is it, isnt it? No ords to describe it. No ode to immortalise it. The music is here and it is now... see it, hear it, feel it.....cut to Scene Two.

Scene Two:

Life at hell is , well, hellish. No sleep AT ALL last night, for some odd reason. Felt the pinch in the first class - economics. A little sad about that, because I happen to like it. Accounting is, another story, though. But the Professor is "inspiring" enough to keep us awake. The others classes, well, "happened". So can I sleep now, thank you very much? Oh no, sweetheart, you have got to wake up to give a five minute quiz. Now who sung that song, "There aint no justice in the world..."? Real smart guy, he was.

Decided to stick to my room for the rest of the day(quite unlike me, the gregarious soul that I am). My faith in the cosmos was almost re-estabished when a caring next door mate brought food from the mess without being asked. Ah, where would we be without friends. And then the sky... and somehow, all is right with the world... now what was that song again?

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A voice a thousand miles away,
A face my eyes have never felt,
A bosom I have never warmed,
A dream that have never dreamt.

Do I dare seek rescue,
In a nameless faceless voice,
Do I dare melt into that distant light,
Do I let them make my choice?

A crowd is a lonely place, they say,
But my solitude is a virtue,
I'll wait to see it their way,
But maybe they lied and it isnt true.


I will persist! I must.
Breath is all I have left to save,
Lest I be forgotten,
They only remember the brave.

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Lucknow has fantastic skies! The Morning Skies are clear azure. The Evening Skies are passion pink. The Night Skies are crystal clear.

This place can drive a shutterbug like me crazy. I never seem to be able to put the camera back in the pocket. Sometimes it's almost embarassing. Today I was curling up up on the library lawns trying to get the right angle for an elevation shot. Granted it's twilight and everything, but people coming up to ask if I'm alright is a little out of line. Bah.

Anyway, I had the last laugh. Got some fantastic long exposure shots. Look down below for a few of them. I hope I get time to continue the good work. Workload is scaling up rather ominously. Library is getting crowded. People are walking faster. The drums are sounding louder. And I'm sitting in a corner, watching it all. All I fear is losing the smug smile on my face and getting sucked right in. Hornets are building nests in my balcony.

The last bit is not metaphorical. I have defeated them temporarliy with a double helping of Mortein, moth balls and lots of cellotape. I love these mundane challenges :) Tomorrow is a new day.

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Sigh. You know the feeling. Suddenly your time's up. You have to pack your bags, leave your friends, family and everything and rush off to a new and strange place, with new and strange people, and begin a new and stange life. Is there a phrase to describe this? Shattered complacency? Swallowed pride? Curtailed dreams? Whatever, this was my choice... and its not painless.

Been in IIML for more than a week now... They call it hell affectionately, and I'm afraid, rather appropriately. Had a fair amount of work so far, with no indications of relent. Its downhill from here I guess, for a couple of years at least. (Damn, I miss my college...)

Made some friends, but haven't had the chance to open up yet, and a person like me gets really uncomfortable with that. Met some very interesting people and some wannabe interesting ones... I guess that's the same everywhere. Campus is very pretty and frighteningly overgrown, I should add. Its so green that your eyes hurt after a while. Some of the wildlife here is not for the faint of heart. Lets put it this way - I Have at least 20 itchy oozy red bug bites on me right now, and thats not even the worst side of it.

I liked the mess food ( i can already feel myself getting heavier) ...mmmmm... I'm such a foodie :-) and i LOVED the library. Now, this might have been a leetle facilitated by my love for libraries in general, but seriously, the library kicks some serious ass. I'm already at home in that wonderful building... I cannot explain this, I just like the smell of books. It's somewhat comforting... a familiar place in this sea of unfamiliarity. The place is perfect for long cool walks, another thing thats keeping me together.

More later... got to read an unfunny number of pages.

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