புது வெள்ளை மழை ...

Though the title is in Tamil, decided to write the post in English. The word, “for the first time “has been dominating my blog in recent times...This post is no exception...Obviously crossing many first times is part and parcel of one’s life…Same here.

Yeah as the title says, the post is about our first snow experience. The Christmas-Santa-Snow combination is always a perplexing thing for me since childhood, for I have never seen a Christmas with snow...This time the butter got clarified into ghee. Yeah I learnt this term, “clarified butter”, here in UK, as they call ghee as clarified butter. The butter I‘ve mentioned here denotes the literal Tamil meaning that points me and my neurons.Atlast I had the opportunity to see and feel the snow in my life.

It was one fine morning when Selva gave me a call from his office to inform me of the snow. That call turned out to be a missed call and a missed snow...That happens with me most of the time. But some time later the same day I was lucky enough to attend the call and I did see my first snow. That was really a visual treat; Feeling the freezing cold is terrible though.

The first snow din last long. It was snowy and flaky cloud burst the same night and it did prolong for more hours. The next morning the city looked so creamy everywhere… I mean the vanilla ice-cream. The trees had the icing on top of them so did the cars on the roads. The flakes decorated our balcony too. We touched it which reminded me of some sweet.

Children made snow man in the streets. I was reluctant to walk on the streets as it was so freezing and I was lil panic if I will happen to be a snow woman on streets petrified by the snow. I am a finicky creature even towards Chennai’s rainy season and Maargazhi Matham(Winter).Needless to mention how fuzzy I wud be to expose myself to such -7 degrees Celsius temperature. But had to put up with my fuzziness due to week-end shopping and till we reach back home Selva had to put up with my jabbers reg my incapability towards the freezing ambience.




The thick vanilla consistency snow transcends to a transparent flakes a day later if they fail to top up with some more snow fall. Transparent flakes will help us take a break. After all a slip needs a break :) I wish Chennai has snow fall instead of a heavy rain fall. Flakes are manageable than the heavy flood. Our Madippakkam gets a shape of an island every year. May be if its snow I wud yearn for rain. That’s human nature.Okay may be blaming the entire race wud be insane;so rewriting the sentence as That's my nature.

In sum, though my neurons were fretting and fuming regarding my first snow experience, my arteries felt the ecstasy.