Spring Special

Spring in the plains are a short affair. Maybe a couple of weeks or 10 days max, before the full onslaught of harsh, cruel summers.
This time for once we have prolonged spring after a phase of prolonged winters where temperatures touched an all time low.
Creepers are bursting with flowers and you even have tiny yellow ones blooming in hordes on the road side. I had seen this sight only on the mountain roads before.
Temperatures are down, the breeze is blowing, flowers are at their best and birds are chirping like never before.
Aah! Spring.......

P.S.: Have to get bird seeds for the sparrows today.

Chinta ta ta Chita Chita......

There's school right across the window of my chamber where they play this number almost every morning nowadays. And it usually it plays on "repeat" so it must be pretty popular with the kids.
I was a bit mystified at first about the fact that who was playing this song on full blast on their speaker system.
Then I spotted kids in full school uniform dancing on it in the school courtyard. Must be some kind of a new age exercise regime.
Jo bhi hai, I love it!
Nothing like a good Chinta ta ta Chita Chita to pep you up early in the morning :-D

Furgie kicks ass!!!

So here I am walking Suzana outside just a few minutes back. And the two cats, Furgie and Soxie come along for company.
As we reach our place there's this big white dog, around 3-4 years old, standing outside our gate.
I shoo the dog, Suzana gives a mock charge, and then from nowhere there's a buzz of fur zips pass me and then Suzana.........
It's not a plane, it's not a shooting star..................it's Furgie to the rescue!
In one single motion she leaps on dog's back and bites it!
I am stunned
Suzana is zapped
And the poor dog runs 100 meters at top pace yelping for it's life.
So now I have a dog that only barks
And a cat that just bites!
"Killer Kombo"

Ven & Van

Both deliver on the same day, i.e. today, 12th of March.
Ven, her son, second child after a daughter.
Van, twins, a son & daughter.
Seemed like Dwd re-visited to me.
Tamil eelam forever!

Side by side it's also Afshan & Auntys b'day today. This should be taken as the biggest proof of how bogus astrology truly is.

12th of March.
Huh! What a date.

White Magic, Dark Death

It was a warm day, the first one after months of cold and a spell of rain. Sunny, bright and a bit dusty. 4th of March, Chotti's b'day.
As I rode up to Shaheed path it was surprisingly empty. I was on Thunder Bird, oblivious to the events unfolding just minutes ahead.
I reach the straight long stretch near Ansal's Golf City and there's just me on the road at that time of around 3:20.
Far in the distance on my side of the road I see a white Tata Magic carrier standing on the side of the road at the left curb.
A man is underneath it. I assume repairing some fault in the machine.
As I move closer I see that both the doors of the carrier are open.
By now I am pretty intrigued by the whole thing. A bit uneasy. A bit apprehensive.
And then I get close to the Magic.
I see a bicycle underneath it, right between the fron and back wheels.
And then there is the poor guy. Old. Dark. In white.
Dead...
Lying all alone, the occupants of the Magic on a run and his blood just starting to seep from his ruptured skull into the black tarmac.

P.S.: I call 100 to report. They put the ball in my court and instead ask me about the jurisdiction!

Time goes on, so slowly......

There are good days, bad days and days when time just comes down to a crawl. All those theories of time is relative anecdotes come to your mind at that instance. I think I need something to think about to make time pass. Not in the mood for anything bugging, just something pleasant to think about. Or I can just go home. I need a distraction, a diversion. something to chew upon in my head.

South of Lucknow, Right of the Sun

I am back on Blogger after ages. This time from a new place, a new tablet. Not one of the best days to write as my mood is really not in it. Just wanted to see if the blogging thing will work from this place. Spring is the season for rejuvenation so I should make use of it and get back to my writing. Lets see if this goes.