yesterday.. nw it was a day!!

scientifically, it was a waste.. went to the institute, but ended up not doing any work while i was there, which was not more than 30 mins at a stretch, twice!!

otherwise,

walked as usual to the city centre, but it took me 30 more minutes than usual, becuse of the snow, and reduced grip on my hiking boots. My boots are perfect, only that they are not made for snow walking!!

reached the institute with frost on my beard and mustache and looked like a Tenzing Norkay moving towards the Everest summit! Was trying to settle down at the office when i had 2 calls.. Sweeta was on one and while talking to her i had to attend to another call from rajesh who had reached the city centre and was in fact standing outside my institute! Finished the called with sweeta and went out when i noticed raghav, another friend who was with rajesh freezing. I offered coffee and they jumped at the offer. so went back to the institute and sat dowm and had coffee. BTW, they were real impressed with the office and the Pawan Datta MSc. outside.. then moved on to the christmas market, had a gluhwineand then waited for another lot who had just arrived to the city centre. Had another glunwine, for small favors!!, with the next lot which had joined us, although none of them joined in.. i wonder why we waited for them before getting our glasses filled a second time. Na ya, it turned out to be getting colder with the minute. I finally had a feeling that I should leave because I was getting a bit uncomfortable, no fault of theirs of course, but u will soon know why. I left and returned to the institute, called sweeta again as I wanted to talk to her our usual beautiful and revitalizing stuff, but i noticed that I was not able to do it.. Nw that is strange because I never feel like that, never with sweeta at least!! So, i realised that smthing was nt right with me, told sweeta the same and decided to leave for home. I was really missing the warm apartment by now, which is again a first. Felt so cold on the way back, on the wait at the tram station and finally on the walk from the station to the apartment.. but finally there. I tried to reflet on why and what had happened to me, why did i get extremely sick while I was feeling perfect a few minutes earlier.

The revelation is quite interesting. Yesterday happened to be the coldest day ever. I was out drinking glunwine in -16 degree centigrade and i was walking home in -18 degrees.. Now that is something!!

The best part is that I realized that my instincts in recognising the cold conditions are still intact.. dat is I am still a kashmiri at heart!! The whole evening I felt something was not right, and I ended up being right. It was an exceptionally cold night!!