The clock ticks seamlessly for 365 days. The beautiful greenery
are gone; trees are hibernating for the snow that might precipitate any time.
They look insanely naked, utterly natural, and blatantly transparent.The sun loves to hide, most of the time. I didn’t
realize that time is moving so intensely yet with subtle experiences, and
everlasting spatio-temporal memories, keeping myself in the verge of litmus
test. Nevertheless, the year 2011 has
been phenomenal for me. It’s been
exactly a year in Carbondale, and I remember vividly the white snow, when I arrived
here last year, the very same day. Paradoxically, the global myth of climate
change or the hoax that was always there which has never been noticed before, at
least invincible for the penguins marching in the poles, and perhaps, absence of snow in Carbondale. Personally, the military attire is
relinquishing, and fading away faster than ever, hopefully, good things are staying
forever.
As we walk around the Carbondale main-street, the downtown of
Carbondale, Friday nights seem to be extraordinarily and plethora in
enjoyment. The beautiful wind and midnight, PK’s and Fuss ball, Cali’s and the
DJ’s, are bitterly enough to get rid of the natural beauty ,and humans encroachment,
the dynamics and the vibrant Carbondale, at least on the Friday night.The Cali's has been wonderful place with dance music drumming our minds and souls , dragging our body to dance seamlessly.
Other day, we watched
the captain America, in school’s theater and figured out that it was one of the
worst movies I ever watched. It merely takes the advantage of veterans and inertia
of status-quo, molded for commercial ratification, absolutely fusses for me.
The temperament of erotic kiss, the notoriously masculine life of soldier was
not merely an extreme but coupled with hyped bio-technology that not only pushes
this world towards techno-human but inherently degrades the aesthetic value of environment.
I remembered the time in the Bangkok in the year 2004, an
art of striping! I remembered the movie Pretty Woman each time when we were in Desoto-the
club!, cultural shock again but resembles the beauty of woman shielded into the
gas chamber and the thin layer of vacuum that separates an individual with the realm
of reality, and makes you feel hyped, take you to the virtual eternal soul,
explicitly fenced by the gleaming and smoothing wax, that get excited for the
insane rein of masculinity.
The temperature began to drop sharply and we feel the
coldness of the winter knocking in the door, making you ready for the cold days
ahead. The football game was more than excitement than we were wondering; the
participation of Nepalese Team was really encouraging and playing for the first
time in a team and in a match was again another personal achievement for me. Also
we took a participation in table-tennis completion and as usual ended up with
nothing in our hand, but a sense of experience to play any sports in more professional,
and structured paradigm.
The other day, I went to Fredrick Town, the small country
town in the MO and was trying to portray as a cow-boy for a while, looking at
the farm house, and seeing the hay getting ready for the icy-winter. The
enjoyment and the fun, was certainly the ballooning of the feelings in early
teens when we used to watch the cow-boy movies. It was so much fun to learn
horse –ride, knowing little about the saddle and behavior of this wonderful animal,
yet it inherently pushes you to start the cow-boy life in rural area, with
a pacifist insignia in a mind. That was
one of the most subtle memories of the year 2011. Thanks to the wonderful
creatures and who cares them.
Again, We went to east of the Carbondale and watched
entire seamless united states as much as we can with our greedy eyes that want
to see everything far up to the horizon. It was a flat land yet I could see the
some ridges of the small so-called mountains. Being Geography major, it’s a shame
to me as I couldn’t locate east or west!
GIS student society was instrumental in starting the
different GIS related documentaries and we watched couple of them with Soda and
get amused with geo-spatial technologies having huge impact in our daily lives, technology is changing faster than ever and shaping our life
to understand it more vehemently and apply to solve the problems of the all
disciplines. Thanks President Amber, for the refreshment and
encouragement you showed up to start our club.
Playing Geo-caching was a noble idea for me, Thanks to
Nicholas. It was fun when we start to figure out the Geo-cache around our
school area and get excited to write the name of GIS society of SIUC in those
miniature log books. That was one of the exciting game I played.
The growth of SSA (Secular Student Alliance) at SIUC this
year has been instrumental in shaping the secular movement and sharing the
secular values to the larger community in the region. From five members to more
than 30 members, we are really excited to keep the spirit and momentum of our
movement. The death of Hitchens was really a big setback for the entire
community and around the globe. Some other day, we attended the in-house
concert in the university premises and get indulged into the phantom of music
in no-time.
In the outskirts of the Carbondale, neighborhood looks
beautiful and amusing, the houses and streets are decorated with lights and
garlands, waiting for the snow to come and flush away the bad memories forever ,
reviving the fresh hopes, expectations, motivations, and initiations, for the year 2012. The semester is over and the schools
looks completely deserted and is keenly waiting to revive its presence in the
year 2012. I am excited to travel 3000 miles to feel the New Year in New York and
Florida, next week, hopefully my last plan for the year 2011. Good bye 2011! and Happy New Year and
Holiday to all of you.
