You Know It's Summer When.....
- You start seeing piles of dark-green watermelons piled up by the side of the road, the vendor displaying one cut-up to reveal the juicy red fruit within.
- You want to take a refreshing cold shower after a dusty morning, but the water that bursts out of the tap is anything but cold!
- The tempers start soaring with the temperatures and your own temper is perpetually flaring beyond control
- The coolers start getting cleaned up and serviced for the coming season and you start wishing you had an air-conditioner, knowing very well that those damn machines are one of the reasons why we are experiencing an increase of 2.5-5 degrees Celsius in summers!
- All your clothes with high-necks and full-sleeves get buried under other clothes in your cupboard and those delightfully light, summery cottons with barely any sleeves get pulled out to the top.
- You can smell the frustration in the air; there is a restlessness in your spirit that makes you want to run-away, but yet lethargy seeps into your bones and apathy greets you at every step you take...
- At every quarter, you're greeted with a stall of nimbu-pani and gola, or better yet, ganne ka ras.
- You're dying to wear the sleeveless top you picked up from Westside, but two things stop you - the damn sun burns your arms if you do and the damn top is too damn transparent for buses! Grrrr!
- You stop seeking the sun for it's glorious warmth and start seeking the shade, hiding from the burning heat of the sun!
- You reach for the bottle of chilled Pepsi or Apple Juice in your refrigerator, instead of brewing yourself a cup of refreshing lemon tea, even though you know your tonsils are painfully enlarged and need the latter rather than the former!
- Your bedroom floor feels wonderfully good against your bare-skin and you wonder why you must get into your pajamas at all!
- You start drinking water by the gallons, which is a real shock to your mom 'coz she has to often remind you to drink your first glass of water at the end of the day!
Yes people, like it or not, the verdict came in this afternoon loud and clear...
We've just entered March and summer's already here (or as we now know, in Kolkata, at least) - and here to stay for a good long time!
- You want to take a refreshing cold shower after a dusty morning, but the water that bursts out of the tap is anything but cold!
- The tempers start soaring with the temperatures and your own temper is perpetually flaring beyond control
- The coolers start getting cleaned up and serviced for the coming season and you start wishing you had an air-conditioner, knowing very well that those damn machines are one of the reasons why we are experiencing an increase of 2.5-5 degrees Celsius in summers!
- All your clothes with high-necks and full-sleeves get buried under other clothes in your cupboard and those delightfully light, summery cottons with barely any sleeves get pulled out to the top.
- You can smell the frustration in the air; there is a restlessness in your spirit that makes you want to run-away, but yet lethargy seeps into your bones and apathy greets you at every step you take...
- At every quarter, you're greeted with a stall of nimbu-pani and gola, or better yet, ganne ka ras.
- You're dying to wear the sleeveless top you picked up from Westside, but two things stop you - the damn sun burns your arms if you do and the damn top is too damn transparent for buses! Grrrr!
- You stop seeking the sun for it's glorious warmth and start seeking the shade, hiding from the burning heat of the sun!
- You reach for the bottle of chilled Pepsi or Apple Juice in your refrigerator, instead of brewing yourself a cup of refreshing lemon tea, even though you know your tonsils are painfully enlarged and need the latter rather than the former!
- Your bedroom floor feels wonderfully good against your bare-skin and you wonder why you must get into your pajamas at all!
- You start drinking water by the gallons, which is a real shock to your mom 'coz she has to often remind you to drink your first glass of water at the end of the day!
Yes people, like it or not, the verdict came in this afternoon loud and clear...
We've just entered March and summer's already here (or as we now know, in Kolkata, at least) - and here to stay for a good long time!
posted by the silhouette | Thursday, March 09, 2006
7 Comments:
hey, nice goin... a few additions though...
1. wen ur worst fear for a change is not death or getting pregnant, but the electricity going off.
2. out on a date, wen romance becomes the last thing on your mind, u actually wonder wen will u get back to the cosiness of ur home.
3. wen solar energy, for once, becomes anythin but human friendly.
4.wen you see the bong men, flaunting their pathetically bulged out stomachs, and wondering around shirtless, with confidence to give salman khan a run for his money.
5. wen u discover shades in the weirdest of places where u couldnt even imagine, from the leeward side of a parked truck, to stones, buildings, station shades and wat not.
6. wen while lookin at urself in the mirror, u suddenly understand the reason why the europeans call u "coloured", even though u arnt a black.
7. wen prickley heat powders become more desiarable than ur poison perfume.
8. wen suddenly ur stomach goes berserk, and the washrooms have a feild day (gross, but true).
9. wen at the end of the day u start lookin like an escaped convict.
10. wen the air is filled with the wild smell of mangoes.
11. wimbledon!!!!
12. wen watching movies in air conditioned theatres truely become a thing to cherish.
14. wen u get urself ready to fall in love with the first rains.
15. wen for once u sympathise with the people who sweat out relentlessly in the streets of the cities, and the fields of the villages.
oh, and another thing, if u are in kolkata, then summer havent really started yet, its more like late spring... so all the best for the toil.... hehe... cheers
And here I am... wondering how winter isnt giving way, even though its March! The last couple of days have been really cold, with the rain and hail making it worse.
I'd gladly take summer over this. Any day...jess
mangoes.....yummy yummy yum...
hey neel,
indeed u r rite. summer's yet to come. coz when it comes, u would be the one, who's gonna fret the most...he he he
hey vish, when did that happen, man? he he
u r so correct sweety.... but u know wat? my fretting sounds like mozart's symphony wen compared to ur factory sirens in ur blog... boooohoooo... :)
symphony?? cacophony.....actually
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