One Month Later ...

"Its been a month ", i thought, as i sat on my chair , staring at my laptop ,listening to 'desert rose' , eating an apple (two actually) and enjoing the bliss of laziness which seemed to descend upon me from the overcast skies . Its an unusually lazy day , Not that i am usually active , But even the hyperactive shashank(More on him later) was feeling lazy so i guessed it must be the weather.

I looked at my computer screen, this time with more purpose ," June 19" . So it indeed has been a month since the day i arrived in tuebingen. For the uninitiated (Really why are u even reading a blog about a guy u hardly know!!) , i am here at Max Planck institute to do a summer intern. And ,as you know by now , it has been a month since i got here .

So what's the deal with it being a month ? I mean its not as if it has been a month since when you first met your girlfriend (You better remember that !!) ? Why write a blog about it ? Well , well folks ... i conceived of this blog long back , a month back to be precise...

" Good Morning Everyone . This is your Captain. We are approaching the Vienna International . Please fasten your seatbelts. We will be landing in 10 mins " .
a male resonating voice woke me up on the 19th of May as i was aboard flight OS-34 of the Austrian Airlines. I looked outside ( As a true indian i had asked for a "window seat ") and was dumbstruck ... As the morning sun rose and illuminated the clouds ... it looked so ethereal ... a heavenly kaleidoscope.

Suddenly the plane tilted to its right . And we began to descend into the clouds. And as the wings cut through the layers of clouds ( You could feel the resistance) and the vision below became clearer , i was greeted by another pleasant surprise . You see the way i used to picture Europe was a very modern place with tall skyscrapers and traffic rush. But the scene i beheld told a different story. I saw acres of farmlands and farof forests . The houses looked all quintessentially non-urban. The streets were not crowded. It was one of the , most picturesque sights i have ever seen. A perfect Kodak Moment.

And it was then , in that moment , that i decided that i would shed my characteristic laziness and would certainly write a blog about my stay in Europe .

So why did i wait for a month to do it ? Well to understand that you have to understand something very fundamental about me .. I am Lazy. Its not always apparent , indeed some people refuse to accept it , but those who know me the best know this for a fact. So keeping with the spirit of being lazy , i procrastinated... and again... yet again... till i got tired of procrastinating ( M too lazy even to do that) and i set a date " Alright , I am going write a blog after one month has elapsed since my arrival in tuebingen . On the 19th of June that is ." (Alright May was 31 days but u get the point , don't you?)

So here i am , on the 19th of June , writing the first post of this blog. But now i am tired of writing . Hopefully , i would continue this some other day. Till then ,

Take Care
-Aman.