Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Incredible !ndia

Almost a week in the beautiful, clean Singapore and I still cannot get the sights of Wellington out of my head. Those mountains covered with carpets of tea gardens with trees decorated at regular distances, several pleasing shades of green that merge at the boundaries, pink-purple-white-yellow-orange gorgeous flowers grown in the wild, gentle clouds touching your feet at any time of the day, scented fresh air with almost 0% pollution, that smell of chocolates when you walk down the street.

My house was just like I had imagined ‘Alice in wonderland’s house’ to be – like a dream. No it was not made of marble or had mirrors everywhere or had fairies or horses but the gardens that surrounded the house were exhilarating!

I have seen better in India but this was one of it’s kind and the beauty was so natural that I couldn’t help admire and praise the creator.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Recap

Dance camp, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, my birthday, meeting friends, everything is over. Moreover, I even finished watching all seasons I could find of 24! (It had become a part of my life. Jack Bauer, Tony, Michelle were like family to me. Too bad many of them are now dead.) There’s nothing to look forward to anymore. No! I was not waiting for the semester to start.

Dance camp was tiring but again, waking up early in the morning feels great when you know you are going to spend the rest of the day learning different genres, dancing to the imagination of the one person who have never met before, sweating, losing a few grams of that fat, chatting (okay, this was not really what I woke up for!).

Christmas was awaited for some reason. No I didn’t exactly think that Santa Claus is going to ride till my room and empty his bag of gifts on my bed and arrange a little party just for me, I just didn’t want to go out anywhere. 24 was my friend.

New Year’s Eve was happening. For all those who think that having a dance party with no age bar whatsoever (2-60 yrs) cannot possibly be fun, I challenge you to spend one 31st Dec night in Wellington and still stick to your argument. Kids doing the all time favorite 70’s steps with grandparents showing off Isha Koppikar and Bipasha Basu steps, it was a fun night.

My birthday, again an extremely awaited event, did not disappoint me in disappointing me. I had guessed there won’t be much to do other than spending the day with maa, sister, Mishti and the most adorable pups. Half the day went cooking/watching television/internet-ing and the rest of the day went taking care of the pups. Leave them alone for ten minutes and they can actually kill each other! I cannot even try to explain the pleasing sight of them playing, running after each other, biting the other all over, barking, and whining.

Feels nice to be back to Singapore…back home.