Ice ice baby!
Three days back, I witnessed something that is virtually impossible to experience in Chennai – hail rain. Having been in Mysore for 3 months now, I was kind of disappointed with Mysore’s climate, which was starkly similar to Chennai, except for the evenings, which are cool here. However, just like Chennai, there was hardly any rain. Locals talk about how much better the weather was, 2 years ago. I wish that I could make them understand that it is all because of global warming.
I was playing squash that evening when ice cubes started falling into our court through the vent. Before I could understand what was happening, my mobile was buzzing with messages. Unlock phone – 5 messages – “its raining fuckin’ ice cubes dude!”.
I dropped my racquet and rushed to the balcony with child-like glee that I haven’t felt in a long time. And there it was, ice cubes falling from the sky. Below, all the swimmers who were enjoying it soon had to jump out of the pool as the ice was falling heavily.
Somehow I managed to get an umbrella (which is very hard to find here in our campus, as all the free ones are held on to by the girls like dear life) and walked around the campus. And no doubt the lovers came out. Many couples let go of their umbrellas and instead held on to their loved ones. The guys who were out with their other guy friends were pushing each other and playing in the rain like 6-year olds. The few cats that were on campus (they came out only at night) were running amok, looking for a shelter. And as a girl was about to slip in the wet pavement, a guy helped her up and they struck up a conversation instantly. It was fascinating to see all the people having so much fun here!
Okay, so the previous paragraph was made up. I couldn’t really get an umbrella and so was stuck in my squash court. But then I’d like to imagine things like that, and I do believe all that would’ve happened anyway. With everyone here under extreme stress with all the tests, the rain was a welcome break. And now back to more studying, I’ve got my module test tomorrow!
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and i was stuck at gec1 for the same reason! no umbrellas. But then we had lot of fun with the ice
hitting each other, putting it in peoples shirt etc etc :p
@parikshith: and now all of it is gone