With a tech-poetic licence, probably boring the senses out of the common homo-sapien with the heading itself, here i am sitting on my bed, with my DELL on my lap, trying to key in a few lines about the flurries.
I was not motivated by the flurries, nor the 29°F or the -2°C, it was just that a friend of mine called up from Denver and said a lot about the SNOW around her den, about the feet melting the snow, about the trees seeming to grow old, about the toddlers wearing winter wear and enjoying the snow, about the balnket of snow on the lawn ... Yawn ... Yawn .. Yawn ..
Well ... to get started and put the brakes on your brain which might think that i do not appreciate the beauty snow ... lemme tell you that all my life have been dreaming of going to a place where it snows. Seeing bollywood actors in a half sleeve t-shirt singing romantic numbers and their peers who seem to enjoy the snow more than them (on television of course). Well snow is just not that, realized that when i reached Chicago.
Winters that can make you itch beacuse your skin goes chap chap chap, waking in the morning to go to office by saying crap, crap, crap. But when it snows, the joy of seeing snow, feeling the flurries on your face is just awe!!! Seeing everyones caps/hair covered with little white particles which make it look dreamy, you wish your eyes could pop out lile Jim Carey's in the Mask and you could look how your scalp looks with those little flurries on them. But then you try and avoid standing on the side walk againt a store window and admire the flurries thinking WHAT WOULD PEOPLE THINK !!!
Well ... thas the beauty of it. As far as you can see (which could be 3 blocks) all you are gonna see is something floating down gently with the wind. It falls on the ground right ahead of you and disappears in the family thats settled there in the past hour. It kinda feels good when you try to breathe in a bit hard and a particle just gets sucked into your nostrils but fails to go all the way in. You cannot remove it coz your fingers are about 1 inch thick with the WINTER GLOVES and thats all you have got to avoif frist bite and make your 1 mile walk back from office. (Sorry if this sounds a bit too Yucky for a topic like SNOW ... but then this has happened ... and its MY blog .. i can write what i like ...)
Staying a few blocks from Sears Towers has its views. You can see the monster tower only half way up .. the rest seems like clouds have taken it up in their arms. Thats when the rest of the buildings become smart asses coz, the Sears seems to be just as tall as them about 60 storeys. Else .. it would look down upon them...
Living on the 39th floor does give you the view of the area around. One side i see the Sears Tower and the rest of Downtown Chicago. On the other side i see the open areas leading to the western suburbs. The top floor parking lots with cars covered in an icing of snow. The roof tops which seem like ... cakes .. icing ... nah ... what do they seem like ? .. well ... lemme think of an appropriate sentence to describe them later. You dont see the horizon coz the view is limited to a mile or less. You can see the particles which seem to be materializing out of the blue ... and drifitng down in a way which makes you feel gravity is around 4.9.
Another thing i like the most in this weather is the condensation of warm moist air. At the top of every building woud be the exhaust vent of the heating system which would give out clouds .. the warm interior air condensing in the freezing weather of Chicago. Where do you get to see every building having a chimney these days ....
Hmmm kinda getting tired to sit and type, rather make myself another cup of tea and sit and watch the snow ... ahem .. its already dark ... so ... well ... thats about it ...
So ... my friend ends her blog by saying ... Let it snow .. let it snow ... let it snow ...
well LET IT SNOW .. i dont have a problem ... but let it snow LOTS ....
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That gives a lovely & snowy picture of the place although after reading the blog i had to think for a while what it had to do with 'dihydrogen monoxide'... Ahh.... my chemistry knowledge!!
Well written.. quite a true picture about the biting snow.. ur dream almost freezes if u r outside.. isnt it??!
Cheers for the first blog.. Keep blogging!
hey .. I thought u would put up more stuff !
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