Saturday, July 31, 2004

Thor rides again!!

we had the most awesome thunderstorm i have seen in years!! buildings shook, trees quivered and mere mortals withered in fear, and i? i slept the sleep of gods! it was amazing.. the Norse believed that during a thunderstorm, Thor rode through the heavens on his chariot pulled by the goats Tanngrisni ("gap-tooth") and Tanngnost ("tooth grinder"), and lightning flashed whenever he threw his hammer Mjollnir. Thor is the son of Odin, the god of war and death, but also the god of poetry and wisdom. Odin can make the dead speak to question the wisest amongst them, and is accompanied by the wolves Freki and Geri, to whom he gives his food for he himself consumes nothing but wine. Odin has only one eye, which blazes like the sun, and his other eye he traded for a drink from the Well of Wisdom, and gained immense knowledge. i like this bloke!! for people interested in this norse mythology, click here for a simple bare bones guide to it all - the scrollbar on the left has the names of all the gods. the site for the Encyclopaedia Mythica is awesome for those really interested.

was chatting with shruti (mohanty) today.. here's the link to some of her marriage pics.. in case you didn't know she married sarthak, an ex-RKite. spoke to ani & george in the UK on the skype thingy today.. bar the phase lag it's pretty cool!

spent pretty much the whole day packing up my shit.. we're finally moving into the new party house at 33 heath!! it is gonna be the house that party legends are written about!! dan and jessie came over and helped us move a lot of the smaller stuff.. then we went off to mal and nat's for dinner..

the original boyz (sank, vip and i) then had a sentimental reunion on the 55 tyler balcony for the last time, as we reminisced the good old year past.. truly we have had some good and some great times here.. and the thousand-plus bottles and cans of beer we've polished off.. and all the barbecuing, the stuff we've talked about, the jokes we cracked and the fun we had.. come snow or sun, we've seen it all on that balcony.. i don't believe it's already a year since i landed up here!! time to move on and write new chapters in the book of life.. sniff sniff ;-))

7 Comments:

Blogger Amit Mohanty said...

Marriage pics were awesome. he he..And just now I want to add all my friend's blog in my blog, but its fukcing the thesis which is killing me. Your blog is damn godlike..Hail Mitraism...abbe kuch to likhta hian, baap..Monty

12:18 PM  
Blogger Calvin said...

thanks monty for your effusive praise!! *blush blush* wishing you all the best for your thesis.

12:15 PM  
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