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A different kind of New Year's Eve

My first New Year's Eve alone... If I'm not mistaken, my first New Year's Eve away from home!! It's a totally different feeling. Perhaps I am feeling a bit homesick. I mean, what are celebrations without family?!! Christmas and New Year have been a tradition in my home for some time now, more likely to be celebrated than Onam or Deepawali. I don't know if this is because Christmas and New Year allow a lighter, simpler, easier celebration or because of the spirit of 'Goa'. Back home, the celebration continues without me and my brother. We, away from home, celebrate in our own little ways. Now I wonder... What thoughts are going on in their minds? Just like it is my first new year away from family, it is their first new year without me, in years. They probably miss me like they do everyday. But for me, today is special. Everything about today is special. The boredom, the homesickness, the loneliness, every little feeling is special. It is as relaxing as it

A weekend well spent!!

Weekends are generally supposed to be spent in leisure. The satisfaction that a jobless weekend gives is said to be unmatched. But all happy weekends are not plain and uneventful. Some are made of action and drama, swift movement and sudden brakes, awakenings and falls... often quite literally! This was one such weekend. It all started with a theatre workshop held at the college where I work. The purpose of the workshop was to extract the creative talents of the students and to inspire them to rise beyond their inhibitions. I was looking forward to it for it was something I too needed, to an extent. As the person responsible for organising the workshop, on the one hand I was busy coordinating with the students, while on the other, I was planning shuttling between home and hostel, all on the day before the workshop. The next day, a Saturday, began with my usual chores. After a lot of running about the city for various works, I finally reached on time for the workshop, whi

The mandatory Introductory post!!

Hi everyone..!! Let me introduce myself in the usual boring way! I am Ar. Medha N. Gayathri (no, not Dr. !! It's Ar. !! It means Architect) and I just joined a school of architecture in Kerala, India, as one of the teaching staff.  I have been wanting to write for a while now but, I never found enough time or leisure to actually do so. You will probably hear me lamenting about that a lot, at least in the first few posts! For a start, let me show you the introductory note i wrote for this blog a year back. Hello dear friends!! I have been looking forward to this moment... when I would FINALLY write something that would actually be read! But of course, lack of time is an integral part of the beautiful and exciting field of Architecture. Four years into the course and I am yet to learn time-management. A final year student now, I have begun to think about the wishes of my past and my expectations of the future. My increasingly frequent encounters with the words 'the