Missing Pieces

After going abroad for studies I have realized something. It ain't a cake walk..rather there's no cake at all..more like an uphill task. Pardon me if my ideas come off as a bit hazy,blurry or tired, but sleep deprivation gets to you after a while. You know its time to score yourself a good 6 hour sleep when you keep hitting your head at various random places and you know they exist but somehow manage to hit yourself. Ex-banging your head against the cabinet above your table that you know exists, for sure! So even though I feel kinda lame writing this I guess the adrenaline sources are dry off pumping energy or sense into me so....

10 random things I miss about India:
1. Fire while cooking
When you turn your gas on and it goes "click" and it gives out those warm copper blue flames that cooks your food day in an day out. You never realized you can miss it,did you?
2. Radio
When you switch on the radio you expect a communion of languages will greet you, followed by a mixture of Hindi and English songs that you have already heard a thousand times..well maximally that's why we do turn on the radio so that we get to listen to songs we already know.
3. Discipline
Never thought this would make the chart but it does. As students we have never really been allowed freedom... freedom to eat, drink, talk loudly in the class while the teacher is leaving...things like that.
4. Straight
Needless to say, India is very orthodox in its manner and fashion in which lives are required to be led to live in a society, peacefully. Gays and bisexuals maintain a low profile. I might be a girl of the 21st century and blah! but I'm yet to break the barrier where I get comfortable.
5. Advertisements
Never in a million years can I dream of Playboy party advertisements being distributed by cheerleaders along with pink bunny ears at the entrance of the main building. Everything has a place and a time for everything.
6. Grocery Stores
You step into a really small grocery store yet you will find more types, varieties and kinds of beer rather than vegetables or any household item.
7. Fresh Vegetables
Heralding from India, I fail to understand how "Peeled, Sliced tomatoes" tinned, cost more than fresh tomatoes. I just don't!
8. Classes
My 1st day of UG classes was like a blur didn't get anything what was being talked about rather taught and I didn't give a tiny rats ass about it. Here I got all worked up, even though I did join after 2 weeks,but still...
As a UG student the days you felt something really screwed up was taught in class and the rarer days that you actually bothered to go back and look it up it was all clear as a picture, here everything that you read is a bit turmoiling and yeah! 1 hour literally gets you nowhere!
9. Sun
The feeling of the soothing warm rays that you can see gleaming outside from your cold room, and just to bask yourself in that warmth on a cold chilly day is a wonderful feeling :) .
10. Closing time
All shops including clothing shops are closed by 6 p.m. and at most its 7 p.m. after that all you get are the fast food joints, pubs and hyper marts.

10 random things I love about UK:
1. No pollution
Oh! The dirt free, pollution free environment here is extremely lovable. My eternal cough and cold problem has bid me goodbye at long last!
2. Zero crime rate
There's practically no crime happening at all, you can walk to the local stall near your house at 10:30 p.m. feeling absolutely care free and safe.
3. Road rules
The technology for crossing roads is brilliant. Love it. You press the button on the pavement by the zebra crossing when you need to cross and wait for the signal to change, and then you cross. Simple. No jay walking. If the signal changes while you are still midway the cars actually stop for you and ask you to cross before they speed past you.
4. Bus Stops
At every bus stop there's a layout about the buses covering the main stations that passes via that bus stop. They also have a routine as to which bus comes when and you can see the time ticker change as the buses reach the particular bus stop.
5. Carefree nature
As long as you work right no one cares how you dress to class, work nothing. Do your job rest is your headache!
6. Calling cards 
You want to call overseas (to the few people who don't have access to internet rather Skype) just use the calling cards. It costs you a minimum and you can be talking to anyone you want for...well eternity!
7. Electronics
Not only is the range of electronics as vast as the universe but the affordability of the appliances is astounding. Everything in India and more, and CHEAPER!!!! Oh! Good Lord! :)
8. Approachability
You have a problem in a subject but you can't meet the teacher, no problem, email him! And oh! yes they do reply, more like ASAP.
9. Gizmo friendly teachers
It really gives you a spark when you think the teacher walked in with a sheet of papers or may be a booklet of some sort to realize, "Oh!No, it's an IMac and oh!yes, its thin as a wafer"!
10. Internet Speed
The 1st day I reached my flat, my flat mates told me the speed was good. There was a notice claiming that there's some work going on and the speed will be low till another 3 hours. So I hooked up my laptop to see, that oh!Fish!(yeah you know what i mean! ;) ),it was a whooping 2 MBPS! There are days when I have got speeds of 6MBPS! Believe it! :)

Bittersweet experience ain't it? :)