Showing posts with label jungle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jungle. Show all posts

The Pilloo Story

This is what happened to me yesterday..
Sometime during the day, a pilloo (worm) must have jumped onto my hair from some tree or something.
Last night, I was sitting in bed, reading a book and suddenly the worm slid down my hair and onto my shoulder. I thought it must be a big insect and just flicked it. And then I realised it was a worm and that too, had landed on its back on the ground and it was just so yuck!
But that didn't kill my laziness. I finished eating the chocolate I was eating, finished reading the chapter I was reading and only then did I get up to throw that thing outta my room :D

Outside my window!!

When we moved into our current room two years ago, this is what you'd see if you looked outside the window - a lovely sight. Barely any sunshine could get through all this foliage; felt like we were living right in the jungle!  

Soon however, the trees within the LH campus were brought down. That made me really angry at first but soon it was fine.
There was some problem with our fan and they took it away for almost the entire semester. But it was never that hot, we never needed to sleep in another room.



Beginning of this year (2010), they came up with the plan for a new hostel for the gals (something they should have done a long long time ago for there is a serious lack of space in here). And this is the transition that has take place in the last month.



By last week, all that could be seen was barren red soil. And the glare of the sun was so intense even through the tinted glass that the blinds had to be kept down from as early as eight in the morning till atleast five in the evening.


And tell you what, that was a luxury. For this is what it looks like outside my window now...


The 'SLUG' Video!!!

Here it is!

Exam time in the middle of a JUNGLE!

It's our first sessionals this week and it makes me so gloomy! First sit and study and then, find you've ruined all your exams and your GPA is plunging down at the speed of light!
What happens everytime exams come around is I suddenly begin to notice all the wildlife around me! Like just now I spotted two baby peacocks playing outside my window. And the moment I get my cam out, they're gone!
So no pictures for you guys to see. But, last semester, I did manage to capture some of it (the wildlife) so I'm gonna put that up, right here, for all of you to see.

The first bunch is this family of mongooses that I think lives right across from my window!



Next is this slug I photographed in our bathroom the morning of my last exam last semester I think, when I really should have been studying but was so bored!!