kiss the rain!

…and after a long patient wait…its raining in dubai…dubai usually gets to see rain only during winters…i.e. december and january….but to my disappointment, there were no signs of rain or even dark clouds during december…just when i was consoling myself and cursing the usual cliched culprit..’global warming’….things turned….some for the good and some for the bad…

the bad….i had had enough of sleeping thru weekends…and leading this loserly life…so one fine day…i enrolled for an astronomy group in dubai…(DAG) …which included one of my passions….star gazing…so just when i had collected all the courage to overcome my reclusive tendencies and step out for an observation (obviously constellations, etc) with the group….the dark clouds gathered over the skies….without saying the observation was cancelled till further notice…sigh..

the good part..the RAIN!!!!…how much ever people complain about the traffic jams and dirty puddles and mucky roads….the rain is one of nature’s best creation…something that still manages to bring a smile to my face….and bring to life that stupid kid in me…who wants to run out and dance in the rain…jump into every dirty puddle…look up at the sky and let the rain drops touch my face…

(ya ya….the usual shit u get to see in the movies..where a girl is trying to act all girly …u know…dancing in the rain…and eating pani puris…which is ’supposed’ to make the guy like the girl…i never understood though..why do they show eating pani puri like its a turn on for a guy…hmmmmm…:P…)…

…well the weather forecast says that its gonna last for a week or so…these clouds and rain…and im praying that it lasts longer…though i dont get to smell wet green earth..the smell of wet cement roads still are better off than dry weather…the sad part about all this….the fact that i dont get to see much of the outside during office hours..and the fact that our cubicle is nowhere connected to the outer world…sigh…

funny thing is…dubai is so not used to rains…that u see people actually run for their lives when it drizzles…:P…a little bit of water really wont harm anybody…or oh ya..maybe its all that gel and hairspray…they’re worried that it will washed away and reveal their ‘real’ beauty…now thats a sight we all really arent ready for..

its really sad u know…people travel so much and visit places…rome..paris…switzerland..maldives…blah blah blah…just to see those hyped places and their beauty..that they sometimes dont notice the small things that make their home city beautiful…how every place has a distinct smell…distinct feel…the music in the air..the sky and stars..the weather…the rains…….every weather has its own special ‘feel’ in different places..

..when people shift cities, or even countries…they might miss people and their home or office etc….but what comes to me everytime i think abt the different cities ive lived in…its this special feel, smell, music that i miss the most..

it probably might sound corny…all this stuff..yes..its the same sky we all look at…but its how u look at it…wether u use ur eyes or heart..u use ur reasoning or fantasy….something like how all of us perceive love in various ways…how people think so different about the same thing…