Sun(through the clouds), (lots of) Sand and Sea.

You know, how some people get really, really excited about a trip to the beach? 'All that sun and sand! Sooo much fun!' they say. Well, yeah, yours truly - Not one of them. I'd go ' Uggh..All that Sun and (shudder) Sand! Sooo not fun!'. But not today. A few of us classmates, decided to go to Kappad beach. We've been talking like forever about going for a trip, but never got around to it. Today being a pseudo-holiday for some of us in the branch, coz our exams finished earlier, we decided to just impulsively go somewhere. Not only was the trip fun, but i feel oddly calm after coming back. Like All warm and fuzzy.I'm actually smiling to myself occasionally too (am soo glad i have a single room now.:)) The weather's beautiful. Moon, wind, rain and all that jazz. Perfect weather to do the whole drink a mug of hot chocolate, curl up and read a book or listen to music thing. Which is what i did, although had to make do with Nescafe strong 3-in-1 coffee satchet instead of the hot chocolate. And all that new-found sense of contentment has made me patient enough to write this post too.

We decided to leave at sharp 11:45 am, go to Zain's ( a restaurant with awesome biryanis) for lunch, then to kapad. So at sharp 1:00 pm the guys arrived at the bus stop, armed with a perfectly valid excuse for being late .That they were "searching" for a volley-ball. I mean,im sure it's not downright impossible that one day all the volley balls in college decide to disappear together (perhaps to a parallel universe even, while we're at the not-impossible things that could happen.). Anyways, after a sumptuous meal at Zain's, we headed to the beach. There i was, on the beach, all jeans rolled up to the knee , trying carefully not to get the rest of me wet when a big wave decided to do me a favour and almost swept me off. Now that i had became fully wet anyway, the rest of the day was a lot less bothersome. We then played football (or some crude version of it.). Was fun, even though the probability of me being picked again by any team next time is kinda close to zero. I'm ,well, not all that good at it. (My team mates kept saying stuff like 'You do realize that the point of the game is to block the other team not your own, rite?' and ' I'm in your same team!' :)). The best part was, after a while, it looked like it was going to rain. The sky got all dark and gloomy. But it didn't rain. It rained in college. and At my friend's place (in calicut itself). But not in kappad. Like as if the Raingodguy, after it was done 'Let there be rain'-ing the other places, turned to kapaad, brought out all the dark clouds and then got bored midway or went to attend a phone call or something. The result of which was that the weather was just Perr-fect. :). If you looked towards the horizon,the landscape was brilliantly divided : A bright white strip of sky sandwiched in between the omnious dark clouds and the grey sea. Plus, one of us had an awesome Sony camera ( ok,9 mp is all the tech info i can give you. and no,i don't know the model number.can never remember them and just can't get how some ppl go 'oh u mean the 1524? its whatchammacalit is good but 123XY5E got way better whatsitsname. but the AC675-XE, now that's got...' .) .You know the sort of camera, which no matter how drab a pic you take, just comes out Wow. ( My 2 mp mob cam on the other hand, manages to make even a dazzling display of fireworks into a weird abstract blob.) So of course, there were a lot of Wonders of Nature Pics and Posed Pics ( Dil Chahta Hai Pose, the Let's all look Serious Pose,Heads In a Circle Pose and of course the most common the Single Photo turned Everyone scrambling in to be in It Pose). Someone kicked the ball a lil far off into the water while playing and while everyone was debating on who should swim to get it, the ball, tired of being kicked around, kept going further away. Unfortunately (for the ball), it was caught before it could make its escape. Then everyone just bobbed up and down in the water,catching the waves for a while. Of course, most of us kept getting swept away, often bouncing backward on and off the ground( ouch, not too gently). After everyone had swallowed enough salt water and ugghh..a bit of sand ( well, yeah, some of us sorta had a sand throwing fight) it was 6:00 and time for us girls to get back (yup, the NITC LH is one of the hostels which still has a 7pm curfew) and one of them gave us a ride back. The return journey was well, besides being a race to get back to the hostel by 7, cold. Had rolled down the windows and the fact that we were all soaked to the bone didn't help.Anyways, reached hostel in record time : at 7:05 pm, had a nice bath and then's when the feeling of calm came over. After which i went on to the whole mug of coffee thing and the rest of the first para.

There, my second day of consistent blogging. Tiny pat on back to self. Weather's still nice, btw. Still all Warm and fuzzy :).