The Wind Moves On..........

It was blatantly a horrifying and a thrilling experience when tornado was about to hit the Carbondale. As usual I used to hear the Tornado warning siren every Tuesday in the school and used to be curious of its importance and its existence in the beginning. The tornado passed through Carbondale that evening and It seems that peoples were so scared although I couldn’t realize what was going on as it swept away in the evening. It was an amazing and scary experience in the juxtaposition of inquisitiveness and fear as we get piled up inside our house and continue to check the website for the weather updates.

The school keeps on moving faster than before and I realized that everything is going to end soon, at least for a while. So there were lot of papers to write, many labs to finish and finals to take.  One of the weeks was the busiest week for me in the Carbondale, I became cunningly busy. It was an enjoyment and make me feel that time is moving seamlessly and endlessly. There were couple of field visits in different parts of town for the sustainable development class and I really enjoyed the surrounding of the school. Chef Bill’s interesting lecture about making the dining hall sustainability, GMO’s to Laura’s briefing on Organic farming. It definitely aided to visualize multidimensional facet of an environmental problems and social responsibilities. Although, I had never taken any classes in Human Geography, I felt it was the best class I had ever taken in my life although the hopes for sustainability cripples and creeps in horizon despite of global awareness in climate change. The advancement in technology and green technology practices we are adhering shows some glistening hopes ahead in contributing towards the sustainability of environment.

Secular student’s alliance picnic on May 3^rd at Giant City Park was fantastic.  As we move our caravan towards the park, it was beautiful dawn and we missed the way at first and were traveling towards the cemetery. Barbecue experiences and playing golf for the first time were amazing retrospection that would never get evaporated. Lot of barbecue parties was happening in the vicinity of the Carbondale.  The other day we went to Hanger 9 and It was wonderful experience listening country music.  It was a great time to cool down the grey matter after hectic weekdays.

The other day I met one of the students from Iraq who would be studying Physics soon.  It was a great time sharing each other’s experience about different facets of life. What are the barriers for non-English speaking students and how he is striving hard to make it work in short-time to start his PhD program? The park was a good place to explore the naturalism and It has already been my best friend to share the joy and happiness.  As we used to walk through the bank of reservoirs, the strong wind splashes into the water and it makes the reservoir lively. The fish starts to pop up and the fishing rods are ready! I was flamboyantly trying to understand the people’s keen interest in fishing. I would continue to dig more.

The poster completion was incredibly interesting and I made first poster in my life. It was a kind of accomplishment for me and I realized what are the basic things that I really need to take care of to make the poster. The department’s fare-well program was inspirational and we were happy to share the achievements of so many members inside our department.

Finally the semester was over and I am looking forward to start my summer ;) I felt I survived!!! for 140 days in Carbondale. Enjoy the beautiful weather and a summer ;)

After 100 Days

  It’s been more than hundred days now.  Life keeps moving faster than before, conspicuously with the insignia of hope and ambitions flying higher and faster than ever. The school keeps on making me busy and I was moving vividly in the vicinity of indulgent philosophy towards the rationalism of religious neutrality, boasting myself away from the religious fascist and materialistic wilderness of surroundings.

I was busier in starting the local chapter of secular student alliance. It was exciting and challenging task as the school doesn’t have that society. We keep on posturing and chalking around the campuses, engaging ourselves for endless meeting to make it happen. The Newton fish we chalked in the school were fading away slowly but we were more excited when we realize that more baby newton fish started to cripple eventually. It was a big motivation and synergy for us. Although, we didn’t expect large chunk of students who were interested in our group yet we were firmly committed towards the presence of the organization which is going to be milestone of our movement. 

The sustainable development lecture sound more interesting than before. As we watch the documentary Corporate – the hopes of sustainability were seamlessly at horizon and it was more than frustration, the ideal of ideality and the fictitious reality of environmentalist and green movement activists. The different buzz word really helped us to understand the multidimensional facet of sustainable practices yet looking around the capitalistic society, the receptions sounds inadvertently weak.

But the global impacts in the climate change is at alarming rate, the recent incident of leaking of radioactive elements at Fukoshima shows the havoc that is having a rippling affect throughout the globe in no-time, the worst nightmare for one of the  leader in the sustainable technology and a big challenge to the environmental scientists, economists ,and  political pundits. How the environmental ecology and catastrophe affect the social, economic and political equation?

The barbecue party, the cultural show and food festival was not merely a social event but it was the representation, collaboration, and cohesion among different countries to show up their food and cultural etiquettes in entirely a global arena. It was fun making the Momo whole evening – though I was not sure about how to make it ? It was merely breaking the tip of an iceberg and subsequently I learned a lot. Cultural and food festival were amazing. Thanks to the wonderful participation of many countries and especially our Nepalese counterparts for their amazing performance and showing the unity among diversity.

Retrospection of the last 100 days, there were environmental extremities that I encountered much with. As the silt and snowflakes fizzle away, it was exotic and adventurous event in freaking cold days. The last couple of weeks were extremely busy as the labs were infected with Trojans and viruses and that has to be cleaned with the strict protocols of IT department of school. It was long and tiring job but we were happy when the system was restored.

The weather was warming up and I could feel the heat coming far away. It was fun just walking in the park near-by and seeing the blue water in the reservoir where hundreds of ducks swims, laughs and smiles every day. The place where children play seamlessly, the environment where nature and human interaction was more natural than anywhere. It was just fun when seeing the matrix of the environmental entities and their actions envisioned in three-dimensional space. The worst thing about the park is all about fishing. I don’t understand how fishing could be such a great fun for the people. I would be exploring about it more in the days ahead.

The other day we went to watch the movie limitless directed by Neil Burger. Bradley Cooper  role as a young guy who got introduced with drug that will unfold the potentiality of human mind.  The movie was interesting to watch though it focuses more on materialistic empowerment rather than social and emotional manifestation an individual passes through with the sudden changes in body’s internal dynamics. The weird part of the movie was drinking the blood of human to inject a drug was not merely insane act but individual wish to survive till the last second.

As the spring was in our door-step I was busy in practicing and exploring new stuff I encountered in my life. The military attitude keeps on adherent and strong inside me and I have realized it will take some months if not years, if not decades to vaporize that has a deep legacy rooted inside.