New Beginnings....Again

oh my god!!! it feels like i have been away from home for a million and fifty years!!i realise that absolutely no one follows my blog,least of all the so called followers ,who are,lets face it mostly all my friends,trying to score on the "good friends" column!
but i myself have missed writing so much..i have realised,that strangely enough,that i feel completely absorbed and utterly content,when I'm gabbling away happily at the keyboard,har har.
so what have i been doing lately..well,you could say working hard at realising one of my dreams..and since i have managed to do it..here i am..in mangalore...
mangalore is a beautiful city..a lot of people have only heard of the similar sounding bangalore..but let me tell you as someone who had been in both..there is absolutely no comparison..Bangalore is loud,noisy,bustling,with incredibly annoying auto people..mangalore on the other hand is a haven..

trees...everywhere you look..tall,leafy,calm,happy trees..not like the stunted,wizened lot you see in other cities,fighting bravely and often losing the battle for survival..here the trees know that they belong..that they arethe city as much as the people ..that they hold the earth together as they reach for the skies...they know that standing tall and proud is their right by birth...they could never imagine it anyother way...and they have never had to find out otherwise..
my hostel room looks out into a bus terminal on one side and red slanted roofed cottages on the other..both journeys and its end..depending on which window i look out of..
there is a cock somewhere which crows its head off at dawn..i love hearing it then falling asleep again..
the people have been much like people everywhere,only more so..i keep getting the feeling that i have met them before..maybe between the pages of a book..or a dream..
the hot guys are hotter and more arrogant...the creepy jerks are creepier albeit well disguised as suave and charming people(its all very novel like,to tell you the truth!)everything and everyone is a bit larger than life..my sister asked me seriously if its like stepford!!
but seriously,its just plain amazing..i have a neighbour who is straight out of a bad saas-bahu serial..she is incredible..dressing sense,manners,conversation,mental scope..all of it from some ekta kapoor nightmare..i spent three days sneaking into my own room and staying inside with doors bolted and lights off because i am completely unable to cope with her..she scares the living hell out of me..i simple stare at her like a rabbit trapped in the gaze of a head light while she ruthlessly interrogates me on everything from the price of my plate to my current relationship status..brrrrghghh!!
there are nice people too i guess..and just currently someone who seems to be falling on both sides of the line,oscillating between being rather nice and a complete jerk(yes,hes hot!)
with so many new people in my life,its strange I'm still missing the old ones so much..in fact the more i meet new people the more i want to hang onto the old ones..at least the ones who are important,anyway..
i am not sure how many i can keep..how many will stay..i can but try..rest is at the knees of the gods...i at least,will not have any regrets...
i guess mangalore finally gots its hooks into me one night a couple of weeks ago...i was already falling half in love with it..the balmy weather,the polite autowallahs,the mango tree which unexpectedly drops mangoes like missiles just outside my hostel,the clumps of wildflowers everywhere...
and then one night i got up to open the windows because the room felt stuffy..and i saw..
a clear sky filled with a million stars...trees near and far swaying to a rhythm only they could hear..a night standing still in anticipation...and then..suddenly..in a split second.. a thousand bolts of lightening crisscrossing the sky and bathing the entire city in electric blue..no thunder,that is what struck me immediately..as if the storm did not need to make any noise to prove how deadly it was..it was primitive,powerful,dangerous..and for the first time in my life i was afraid,really,instinctively afraid and terribly joyous,all at the same time...i don't know why..all i know is,from that moment onwards i belonged to this city...