Down with a cold.... Again....

I am getting irritated with this delhi weather.... Summer was horrible and the 'monsoon' (of 2-3 rains) is making me sick....
Was down with a serious cold a month back after the first rain.... it was the dust affected infection... Now with the monsoon playing hide and seek, and making the weather unpredictable, i am down with another cold again...
The climate change is surprising.... It announced the arrival of monsoon with couple of rains and floods... suddenly all rains disappeared one fine day, only to be back after few days.... Its becoming difficult to get adjusted to this kind of a weather.... 
Cannot forget the hellish time of cold and throat infection of last time... cant go through the same again.... aaagggrrrr......

Rain.... and all dirty water around....

Finally monsoon in full swing on Delhi....


Whenever i think of Monsoon, all i can visualize the clean roads and greenary that follows the Kerala monsoon...And a walk through the roads after the rains, Heaven!!!!!


But commeth rain, its only the dirty roads you see... The worst sight to me is children playing in such water... What all diseases they are getting from that... god knows...

Well, the good news is its raining and if you sre inside your house in its warmth, its the best feeling... take a book, watch a movie... sleep well... without any kind of a disturbance from the noisy cooler....

Somehow, i am coming to terms with the fact that there is no other place like Kerala... After all its God's own country where everything will be clean and green... 
Yeah, i am missing home... the food, the weather... and most important the green and clean atmosphere... 


But Delhi is Delhi.... something will be positive here as well... Let's see....

Trying to grab all those non-dusty air....

Finally summer is over and i am back getting up at 5.30 in the morning, putting on my jogging shoes and hitting the road... Unlike Chennai roads here in patel nagar are not that bad and not that dusty even at 6.00am.... And on top of that nice crowd of joggers as company....

I have problem with the Delhi pollution.... just like in Chennai.... summer torture has an added flavour of dust in Delhi... Somehow, mornings are dust free and peaceful.... just the right time to grab all those unpolluted air.... Peace!!!

Coming back to jogging.... nothing can make me happier than getting to work out.... just only few days on road now... trying to increase my stamina and get to that runners-high.... Will be there soon... 

Clueless Monday!!!

When you have a relaxed and eventless week-end, you expect to start the week refreshed and in high spirits...

But after two days of relaxing, reading, watching some classic movies.... watching Wimbledon..... the monday was just so sleepy... and i was clueless most of the time on what i am doing or what i am supposed to do.... 

Even after a refreshing morning walk.... a delightful breakfast..... I was sleepy most of the time in office.... signed out exactly at 6.30.... had some more work to do, but didnt have any energy to stay back....

May be too much excitement of Federer winning a record slam, on which i was jumping up and down all night.... sending messages to all Federer fans, don't know.... 

Monday was just Monday... 

Flooded roads... Heavy Traffic... Thatz Delhi rain...

To add to that list are... confusion, panic, broken vehicles in the middle of road....

It was mayhem in Delhi today.... Monsoon finally arrived in the capital city.... Shouts of joy in office in the evening... every1 opened the window to catch a glimpse... smell the first drops of rain.... it was heaven.... But very soon, it turned out to be a  hell...

As soon as i got out of the office, the sight of flooded roads shocked me... it was just a flood, but dirty water flood.... there was no time to wait for the water to come down... Had to walk in that water.... Once i reached the junction, getting an auto was a hellish task.... Finally decided to pay one auto fellow extra.... Flooded roads, dirty water everywhere.... kids playing in that water was a shocking sight.... Topping all those was the heavy traffic... confusion prevailed on road...

Saw many pushing their broken down vehicles.... On the way back, i was thinking only about whether i have enough detol at home.... 

If the traffic was not hard enough, the metro was worse... i was stuck almost every stations for some reasons.... so relieved when i finally reached home....

While taking about all the woes, one thing is making me happy.... the end of summer is here.... a relief from heat.... thank god for that....

Planning to spend the week-end now reading some books, tea and cookies..... 

Where are you rain?

Its been 2 weeks since i have read weather forecasts on rains in delhi.... It drizzled for few minutes one day..... It rained somewhere and brought some cool breeze another day.... yet, the monsoon rain is yet to reach Delhi...

The humidity level is touching new heights these days... Sitting in a room without ac is becoming near impossible... Cant read, cant write, cant work.... going crazy at times....

All the rain updates from Hyderabad and Kerala are just making things worse.... 

So, dear rain................. 

Where ever you are, please visit us poor souls in Delhi... give us some relief from this heat....

Because i have many plans for this awesome July, finish reading two books and some other reading, some writing.... and spending some quality time in kitchen and continue my food photography and food blogging..... 

So............. we are waiting eagerly for you!!!!!!!!! come soon...............................

Disappointing end to the Euro

The whole 2011-2012 sports season has been a disappointing one for me.... neither federer won a slam nor Manchester united won a cup.... in cricket, team india was pathetic and my IPL teams flopped badly.... and Schumacher never won a podium as well (except once i didnt watch the race)...

So this Euro i was decided not to watch or follow any match... just to make sure my teams Italy or Dutch or even the Germans win this time.... or any team other than Spain....

But one a weak moment, out of eagerness and for the love of the game, decided to watch the finals between Spain and Italy.... All set at Chot's place.... tuned in the online streaming.... only to find out the flow of the game in 20 minutes.... Italy was defenceless.... helpless...... against the mighty Spaniards.... sigh.... 4-0.... glad we didnt have to watch the second half, it saved us from some heart breaks....

Well, the spaniards are ruling football now, and its a hard thing to watch.... hopefully by WC 2014 they will be down and out and some new team just smash them to pieces.... 

And i keep continuing jinxing my teams.... when will i get to watch a match properly....