Scribble 11:26 AM 3/14/2008 : More nostalgia

This morning started with a promise and didn't deliver much. The ambience was promising to be just the type I had been longing to see. Cloudy sky early in the morning and an unexpected drizzle. But it didn't pour. It just drizzled for a while and stopped. But it gave the surroundings that dark, damp look so typical of dry earth and trees washed in a summer rain. The rain had stopped by the time I stepped out of my house to catch the company bus to office. However the atmosphere induced a lot of nostalgia. Waiting at a bus stop, water dripping on my head from the electric line above, cinema posters on the walls all wet, the road very damp and shining, buses that come and stop by wearing a clean look shorn of the usual coating of dust - I dont know what all these reminded me, couldn't pick anything specific, but I did detect some memories of the feel and smells of those monsoon days during my school and college days in Kerala.