what is Jupiter thinking??!!

Today morning when i logged on, the first thing, even before i checked my mail, was to check the weather forecast for bombay city. it said that the temperature was around 37 or 34 deg centigrade (depending on the site being checked), but they all seem to agree that it felt like it was around 42 deg centigrade!!!

this is most unusual for me, because i generally do not concern myself with things like weather(although it plays a very significant role in our lives). but i had to, the weather's been driving me nuts for the better parts of my ongoing summer break. now had the case been that i am sitting at home and sipping on some lovely fruit juice all day, i would have absolutely no reason to worry. i would have rather enjoyed even the worst summer heat, but problem is i travel everyday in a crowded bus. the journey taking me approximately an hour and a quart. the heat causes sweating and a lot of sweating people in a small place like a bus stuck in bombay traffic is not exacly the best part of a holiday, eh??

so, my question - what is jupiter thinking? (for all you noobies out there who don't know who jupiter is, he is the Roman RAIN GOD). adding to the agony is the fact that for the past 2 years i have been living in surathkal, a place near manglore, as a hostelite, in my college and the weather there is very very hot. the winters are non-existent. ideally i thought that coming home would bring in some respite, but unfortunately its been a li'l disappointing. so that is why i sincerely hope that jupiter will hear the pleas of harassed souls like us and send in some showers in the next few days. he has been just simply generating anticipation by having grayish clouds cover the morning sky!! very smart, but now the jokes getting a li'l harsh!!

regards
sudhir poi

P.S. i would love to perform the Indian rain dance if it can help the case, so if you have the faintest idea how it is, please contact me.

MEMORIES!!

Memory - " the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences " - this is how the dictionary describes memory, among other definitions.

These can mean the best of things and the worst of things to a person, depending on what one remembers or rather commits to memory!! Very often people use the good ones to help them through situations - sticky ones as well as depressing ones. Experience is also in a way linked to memories.

Now the glitch comes when you tend to remember things without actually wanting to, or having to make an effort to. Then you sort of loose control over the things that keep comin back to you as flashes of the past events or "memories". Good things are always there to remember- that lovely holiday you took with your family, the awesome rainy day when you sat home and enjoyed waatching the world outside, the fun that you have had with your friends, the pranks that you pulled in school with your chuddy buddies!!!!

But then there is always the flip side to having a good memory, it tends to remember things that you wolud give anything to forget- the haunting memories of actions that you regret doing, things that make you feel stupid, embarassing situations etc. It is the worst thing when you have to face yourself and whe you have to think - "why the hell did i have to do this?" Very often it can drive you mad.

i have had this thing about myself. Ended up having a good memory only to discover that inspite of the fabulous advantages that it had, you end up having nightmares in the day when you suddenly outta the blue remember absurdly ghastly things that just want to make you disappear from the face of the planet.

but thats just me being my own old self. its amazing how even good things tend to have, or rather one seems to find something to complain about it too.

regards
sudhir poi.