Life is all about...

What this life is all about?

A question probably you shouldn't try asking yourself.
If you're feeling vulnerable then you might wanna avoid this question.... that's what I tell myself.

But damn me...most of the days I end up thinking, I'm losing one more day of my youth and what am I actually doing? Am I doing what I am supposed to do? Am I in the right path or I am deviating too much?
But again I think I don't even know what's gonna happen to me the very next moment...specially when those huge earthquakes attack and I'm alone in my tiny room I feel is this moment worth living for? Am I thinking too much?

May be I am thinking too much about myself which I shouldn't definitely do...I can see there are so many people who are living in the worst situation in this world. They have a 'life' and I have a 'life'. They are fighting every moment to survive in this cruel world and at least I know I am able to live by my own.
And I hate the fact that some people have to admit their lives just because they are not born as a fortunate one in this society, like the child whose father is a rickshaw puller or whose mother is a sex worker. Could he or she decide how his or her life would be?
We are not given the power to choose our family, we cannot decide how we will look, we cannot land from heaven to the country we want to live in, we don't decide to have a white or black skin either. Then why do we discriminate people depending on all these factors? Why do we make life so complicated?

Yeah..the more I think about these all the more I feel dizzy cause I know I cannot solve any of these problems alone. What I can do at best is educate and train myself to be a better person.

But then another me comes out who cries over the trifling matters of life. Yeah, I know there are hundreds and thousands of people living in this world. Everyone cares himself or herself the most...no one really gives a shit at what I am or how I am. But why would not I think about the tiny problems of my life? I have got only one life.....
Or how about finding some way to split up my life and share with as many lovely people as possible? I know I have one life and I want to enjoy it to it's best but I don't wanna grow up as a selfish, materialistic person....may be it's not worth crying over one personal problem...I will collect the smiles of hundreds and erase my pain with those...that's how I want my rest of the life to be...

After the storm

After the storm, a photo by brishti 雨 (busy) on Flickr.

The typhoon just passed over our area yesterday and the weather had been super dramatic for those two days. There was heavy shower and gusty winds. But the sun was pretty desperate to come out and play with the clouds, so even after heavy pouring of rain there was golden sunbeams lighting up the surroundings.
So yesterday I got to see one of the most beautiful sunsets of my life. No, the viewpoint wasn't any special place, I watched the clouds playing from my veranda. At first they were some playful white and grey clouds. And gradually they caught colors. At first light golden, then yellow golden, orange, red, then the grey clouds took over. But after few moments the whole sky was a playground of colors! It was such an amazing experience. It was so beautiful that I wanted to share with someone....but I was watching alone while the cool breeze touched my face, my hair leaving a heavenly feeling.... May be sometimes it's worth watching alone...at least suddenly I felt that I am really lucky to devour this beauty....

Hope you liked this image :) I have lots of other images, will try to add few of them later!

Summer of '13

I am writing new post after pretty long time. This year is just terrible..don't know why there are just too many things to do. Anyway, it's summer here, actually almost the end of summer. I know some people absolutely love summer, specially those who live in the cold countries. But summer in Japan is horrible, simply HORRIBLE! The hot and humid weather of August turns everyone mad -_- Usually I go back home every summer but this year I couldn't due to my graduation thesis and stuffs. So I had decided to enjoy every bit of it! If you can't escape then you embrace! :D
We had a terrible joint seminar where all of us were literally killed with questions for 1hour! So we were super exhausted and me and 3 of my friends went to explore Lake Kawaguchi! It is situated at Yamanashi prefecture, supposed to be 2.5hrs drive from our place but it took us 4hrs lol!
There are 5 lakes, and the tourist buses offer packages where they stop at each lake area for a while. But we went by car and out destination was Lake Kawaguchi. This is the place from where Mount Fuji can be viewed most beautifully. But apparently during that there was too much mist and cloud, so even though we visited in a super sunny day Mount Fuji didn't come out...except for the few seconds we got to see it very lightly. But anyway, the place is really beautiful and very relaxing. I will be posting few of my fav pictures from the day trip! Hope you enjoy! :)

Sunflowers by the lakeside

Sunflowers from different perspective

Summer flowers and lake Kawaguchi

Lavender season was over but still it was pretty beautiful 

This was one of the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen!

After the sunset it looked so peaceful!

Even though we could not see Mount Fuji that well but it was a very fun trip and an eventful day! We enjoyed the speed boat ride a loooot! And planning to visit the place again during fall! Hope we can see the graceful Fuji that time! :)

Tulips Festival at Hitachi Seaside Park

I love flowers, I love to take flower photos. So I always try to take photos whenever some special seasonal flowers are in bloom.
Today I'm gonna write about tulips. Tulips are one of the most cutest and colorful flowers and who doesn't love them? The first time I had visited any tulip garden was on 2010 and the place was Showa Memorial Park, Tokyo. We went there on my birthday, but it was already May and the tulips were almost dying. Then I couldn't make it to tulip garden before this year.
This year I was totally desperate about going to see tulips. So I had been looking for nice tulip gardens since March and I found that there is a very beautiful park in Ibaraki which is called Hitachi Seaside Park. The park is really vast and the photos I saw on website were too alluring.
So I had finally made it to the Tulip Festival on April 29th! The place was so so beautiful that I can't express in words. I never knew that there are sooo many types of tulips! It was a great experience to visit such a beautiful place and I would recommend this to anyone living in Kanto region.
Here are some photos :)

I have lots of other pictures I want to post, but thought that would be too many..
Hope you liked the pictures! :)

Blue symphony

Where sky meets land, a photo by Ame 雨 on Flickr.

The day before yesterday I have been to Hitachi seaside park where Nemophilas are in full bloom now.
The park is really big and absolutely beautiful. It looked like there is no border between sky, land and sea! It was a complete blue world but that blue makes you happy :)

Cherry blossom (Sakura) in Japan this year

I had been thinking of writing about cherry blossom for long. But this year the cherry blossom stayed for the shortest time. It started twice earlier than expected, then the weather was really bad here in Tsukuba. It rained continually for days just when the sakura was in full bloom. I really wanted to go for hanami (see the flowers and eat, drink, have fun under sakura trees) this year but it seemed pretty impossible :-(

But I was desperate about taking some pictures of sakura this year since last year I couldn't do so. I went for a walk in a park nearby university and took some photos. But there were not a lot of sakura tress, so I wasn't fully satisfied.

Cherry blossom at Matsumi Park, Tsukuba University

Cherry blossom at Matsumi Park, Tsukuba University 

Finally I went to Tokyo on a good weather day to meet my friend and visited Inokashira park for the first time. And it was absolutely beautiful there!!! So I will be sharing some pictures from that place today! Hope you'll like them :)

Boats and cherry blossom at Inokashira park

Boat ride

Sakura in full bloom

Heavenly flower shower

This is all for this year's cherry blossom. Hope to take some better pictures next year!

Guests for a while

Guests for a while, a photo by Ame 雨 on Flickr.

Dandelions are so adorable! I'm absolutely in love with them! But they stay just for a while and then I have to wait again one more year for them...
Anyway, yesterday I discovered that a bunch of dandelions just appeared and suddenly the field in front of my dormitory has turned white! But there wasn't enough light yesterday..so some snaps today. Ain't they cute? :)