It's that time of the year!

Yea... It is. That time of the year when you feel proud of surviving the winters, when you shove away the memories of gluttonous weak moments in some untraceable imaginary trunk, when the temperature's a little higher and the days are a little longer. When on a weekend, you finally gather up courage to store the warm garb for another winter. When you shed away jackets and boots and mufflers and warmers. When you put on t-shirts and cotton pants and spaghetti tops and shorts and flip flops and sun-tan lotion. THAT is when you realize that you turned into a PIG in those cold harsh months.

When those summer clothes don't fit you. When you realize you are out of decent clothes to wear at work. When you feel you need to shop every week. When you stand on the scale and miss a heart beat out of shock. When you look at the pics from a year back and yearn for that younger and slimmer you. THAT time of the year is here. Unfortunately for me.

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SO LISTEN UP

And I smiled..

It is a summer morning. Some time around 6:30 am in the morning, I am walking to the yoga studio. The roads are almost deserted at this time of the day, except for - maids who are off to work, a few people jogging around, few kids waiting for the school bus, few cycles and even fewer cars. But the most active citizens at this time of the day are dogs! (Believe me, I am a dog lover till my last bone) So as I'm walking along, enjoying the morning breeze and timing myself (Yeah, I am trying to break records :P ), a few dogs come trotting towards me, started sniffing my bag and hands. I don't pay much heed and keep walking. The dogs lose interest and turn away, except for one persistent dog: muddy white fur with black spots. He keeps following me, sniffing and nudging me with his nose. And then for a moment, I am scared. Goose bumpy. I turn around and give him a stern ''shush''.. and then fasten my pace and keep walking.

The dog was probably hungry or lonely or just bored, but I was so busy shooing him away that I couldn't even notice his wagging tail!

And then a site today, just made me smile!

The time was when I return from the yoga studio, about 8:45 am. I was walking towards home and I saw the same bunch (I think) of stray dogs following a young lady. She had a big packet in her hand. I almost empathized with her, but then I saw her going to a side lane and calling out the remaining dogs of the 'gang' and they all came wagging towards her. She pet them and cooed as she took out a bright coloured bowl for each of the dog. And then opened up the packet, took out a tiffin box and fed them.

:)

Summer - A love 'n hate relationship

What I like about summer:

1. Birthday Time :D
2. Swimming pools
3. Lazing around at home
4. Short Nights
5. Ice candies
6. Shorts
7. Water melon
8. Early sunrise
9. Mangoes
10. Cold showers

What I don't like about summer:

1. Temperature gets as high as 45 degree celsius.. ( inhumane.. I know :( )
2. One cannot go out in the open from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
3. Too many mosquitoes.. (Grr...)
4. Hot 'n dry winds...!
5. Tanning
6. Ants.. Bloody red ants $%#@&!!
7. Creepy lizards.. yuck 

This season's making me miss the harsh & bone chilling winters....sob.... :(