Havelock

Langemarckstr.

My first address in Germany - Langemarckstr. 62. Its across the river Weser. Its a part of the Neustadt or the New town. There is a Srilankan family that lives on the first floor. On my second day here, their house was broken into and robbed at 10 30 in the morning, while they were working downstairs in their store.

The room is 11 sq meters, which is small but quite comfortable for me at the moment. I share the house with three other people. I have this room till the end of March.

I've put Baking paper to cover my window at the moment.. but I think curtains of some kind would be a better idea.. 

I can't reach the microwave which is on top of the fridge. I am at least a few, perhaps several inches shorter than the rest. We share the fridge - in four sort of uneven parts - each of us is meant to have our own space, but we often use whatever space we find. H calls me the Little Indian. Sindhu she is maybe a bit taller than you. So are A and P.  All three of them are vegetarians.  H eats meat once in a while maybe. I am sort of happy not eating meat too.

I can't keep plants alive anywhere in the world. But I think I am not the only one with this curse.

After Avani Reaches, Avani Leaves.

Mumbai

29th September 2015

Goodbye Bangalore

birthday greens

Birthday was very leafygreen, with lovely company. 

Missed you both. 

24's nice so far (:

Seeing double

I dreamt that I had travelled a long while, and I walked up this tight spiral staircase, and you both were there, sitting at a table and you looked and me and yelled in happiness because I wasn't supposed to have come to that city but I did anyway. Avani hugged me and then I hugged Sindhu and I remember saying to you in my dream, that this is exactly how I had dreamt this situation to be.
The maroon tables, the light, the low ceiling, everything was exactly as I had dreamt of, before, or in the dream. 
You both looked at me and smiled. 

Pre-sleep Holiday Question

Do you every think about making a manifesto?

important memories

Sorry I dont have a better picture from that afternoon, I thought I should put it somewhere before I lose it.

muchlove,

avani

Received

Picture via Dhruv
Self timer
Udaipur Old city

Roadtrip

Kapil bought a new car in Dehradoon, and flew me down to drive it back for him to Bangalore since he had never driven a car before this. We drove a total of 3500 kms in two weeks via Delhi - Jaipur - Ajmer - Udaipur - Ahmedabad - Mumbai - Goa and finally to Bangalore.

We met friends and family, saw new and old places and made it back without any major misadventures (except my phone is now broken and so is kapil's camera and I had a crazy spell of food poisoning).

I missed seeing Ishita by -this- much, which was most unfortunate! Sorry shoo, only if I hadnt had that ridiculous food poisoning..

More from this trip to follow.

trinity

We've all been to sri lanka now! I went trincomalee-sigiriya-colombo-negombo and it was like a dream. 

Trincomalee especially, only a few years past bombs and tidal waves, is a bare but beautiful reminder of how the land retains memories. Of course, most tourists there don't have a clue. The sea there is just so beautiful that it's hard to turn your back to it. But one morning we found ourselves chatting with Sajeeth Khan, a boatman and snorkelling guide, who told us stories about his 5 months in LTTE custody and close-range details of genocide in the area. His almost poetic Tamil ("time of the moon" is night, for example) was being washed away by the sound of waves, above us it was the noon sun, and all the stories he told us seemed so unreal. As if he was reciting a poem on tv, with a lot of static. Crazy. After a while the sun bathers flipped like eggs on a pan. Our skin was burning so we said goodbye and went to find some shade. 

I wish I had spent some more time in Colombo. Tell me what it was like? I want to go back for a longer time.

cheeks+xin

I miss you, xin.
Love,
cheeks+chin ishooe

You were here Xin

On the rickety bus back from Gokarna
Sunburnt
Dec 2012
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Fluorescence in Gokarna

Shantanu had left with us two very cool looking 12 hour fluorescence sticks that you had to unwrap, break and then shake a little. We tried playing catch with one on the beach in the night but everyone was too hungry and we only played for 5 minutes, but I did end up getting some mad pictures.

For everyone who made it to the other side peacefully end of last year and beginning of this year, hope it's nice and comfy where you are. Love. 

Clay/mountains

I was in Gokarna recently, with a few fellow graduates. I found, on one of my secret early morning escapades, this little pool filled with water on a rock. 

These pictures make me feel like I'm hurtling towards the earth at a great speed!! I love it. 

Sindhu 22

I'd promised you this a while ago, because I thought of you when I made it.
Well, here it is.




I think I've lost the original.

The just-post-afternoon sun at 5th block is absolutely heavenly. My window faces the west, so at about 5 o'clock in the non-winter months (and earlier these days, as we approach winter), the wall opposite my bed gets painted in the most amazing moving-light imagery.
If the curtains are drawn, then my window looks like this.
The tree near my window is a telltale sign of the climate outside. When it rains, the leaves droop low, and suddenly spring up as the water droplet rolls off. In the non-monsoon months, it just sways a little every now and then, its dark green leaves shivering in the wind.
I am going to miss living here so much.