Sky Full of Clouds

Okay, this is just random stuff. I found this pic funny:

This is a view of my gmail account. Just look at the spam folder. Thats the amount of spam I get in my gmail account every month. Well, its more every month and it has started going down only now. But still, the figure of 1111 looked quite funny.

In about 11 days I leave for home. That searing hot place called home is where I know I will be happy. That place which has powercuts of up to 6 hours a day is where I want to be. That place… that place… the list goes on and on…

Honestly, I now know the importance of my country. Just earlier today a friend of mine left for Bangalore. Another will be leaving for Delhi before the coming weekend. I am myself preparing to leave in 11 days. Few others too are going to leave for home soon. But these Europeans are just damn lucky. They have those low-cost, no-frills airlines that take them home at the drop of a hat. I was once talking to this Italian girl who was bragging that she got an air ticket for just GBP 25. God! She had no idea how jealous I felt when I heard that. If I could get an air ticket to India for that price I’d make a return trip home literally every month!

But these last 11 days are hard to pass by. Even though I have 2 exams remaining, my thoughts are more into my trip back home. Even though I will be home for just 2 weeks, I am looking forward to it. So many things are going on in my mind, I have no idea how I will manage to do it all. I want to meet my grandmother (this will be the first thing I will do, I know that), then I have to meet my friends. I’ll ask some of my relatives to come and visit me at home. Then there is a good amount of shopping to do and most importantly, sort out the bank related issues. How much time will I have for my mom and dad? God! I have no idea.

It will be a whirlwind trip at the end of which I know I will not have the heart to return to this horrific country called UK. Seriously speaking, I have started disliking UK now, perhaps this is not the right place for me to live and work. But thats a different issue, I’ll talk about it later, probably in another post.

Home! India… I just can’t think of anything else right now. Raploch project is what I was studying half hour ago but I have no strength left to do it any more. I’ll just quickly revise my entire course tomorrow morning and then will go to write the exam on Thursday. I just hope I pass in it with decent enough grades.

11 days! Could they be the longest 11 days of the year? It is quite possible!

The farewell season is almost here. Exams are going on. Some of us have already finished our exams while I still have a couple of them left. And many people will be vacating their student accommodations at the end of this month. Some of them are moving to London while others may move to Edinburgh or Glasgow. Just an hour ago I got a call from a friend who intends to leave his bag with me while he goes on a short trip to London.

It is hard to believe how the last 8-9 months have gone by so quickly. We’ve practically not had time to do anything else except studying, making presentations, working on case studies and projects. And now that the exams are also getting over, most of us are either going back home or are getting ready to do our dissertations. It almost looks like yesterday that we arrived here. We’ve all become such good friends that it is now a bit hard to part our ways.

As for me, I will be staying here for another 3 months. Okay a short trip back home is included as well and as a matter of fact I am already looking forward to going back to India in about a fortnight. Ah! Come to think of it, 2 Sundays from now I will be on my way out of this village and the next morning I will be on a flight back home. I am really missing India. India is the best place to be in the world. That hot burning sun above your head, those powercuts, that yummy food, cricket, catching up with all those long lost friends. God! There’s so much to do back home and I have so little time there.

Part of my thoughts about India are also enhanced because a dear friend of mine is leaving for India in a couple of days. She is going to Bangalore and I know that she is more excited than me. But what about me? Yes indeed I am excited, I am looking forward to meet my grandmother of all the people in the world. Then there is this huge list of shopping that I have to take care of. And not to forget those financial matters that I have to seriously and urgently pay attention to. But seriously, I miss India. If ever I have to chose to stay between this dreadful place and any other place in the world, the obvious and most comprehensive answer would be India.

But yes I will miss this place too, particularly because of the friends I made here. All those people, particularly my neighbors are the ones I will miss the most. This is not a great place to live but it was made easy by the bunch of friends I have here. I do certainly hope to stay in touch with them. Most of them are on Orkut and it is good that I’ve found a lot of the others on Facebook as well. Now in hindsight I can say that it is good that I kept maintaining my Facebook account.

People of Stirling, I will definitely miss you!

Einstein is the funniest parrot!

A magnificent view of earth as seen from space. A 24 hour rotation in just 42 seconds looks magnificent!

It has been a rather good week for me although the coming week doesn’t not offer to be a great one. Much of what I wanted to accomplish was achieved without much fuss. But what is going to happen now? To be honest I don’t know! And I am already wasting my time by writing this blog post instead of researching for the work to be submitted next week.

Wish you good luck!

It may seem like an unusual title for a blog. Some may say that it conveys a deep meaning to it or it has an abstract thought attached to it but the reality is that there is no meaning attached to the title of my blog. As I look out of the window right now all that I can see is the sky full of clouds. The place where I live is full of such clouds. Clouds that cover the entire sky and leave you longing for some sunshine.

I wish these clouds go away soon. I don’t want any more rain or snow. I don’t want any clouds either. I want some sunshine and I will love it. I now know the importance of sunshine in my life. I wish I get it sooner rather than later.