my own metamorphosis ~ from a psychrophobe to a psychrophile + snow sliding @ sapporo
Posted by rocksea on 18 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: japan, photography
Prologue:
Remember the day when you set your foot at Sapporo? It was 2 years before, on a cold February, just like this. Snow was something new and strange then, and you were happy. First few days are always like that! *snow everywhere* and you will start smiling and laughing, it was so fun.. The Dean asked you how you felt abt Sapporo. You said beaming, snowflakes allover your cheeks, "I love the snow! It is so beautiful here!" He roared out a laugh, "snow has no value here!".
Remember the day when you set your foot at Sapporo? It was 2 years before, on a cold February, just like this. Snow was something new and strange then, and you were happy. First few days are always like that! *snow everywhere* and you will start smiling and laughing, it was so fun.. The Dean asked you how you felt abt Sapporo. You said beaming, snowflakes allover your cheeks, "I love the snow! It is so beautiful here!" He roared out a laugh, "snow has no value here!".
"but I love snow!!?"
So first few days were spend analyzing the so-called-snow, eating it to your heart’s content.. Later you learnt that you could better sit at home and watch those japanese comedy shows (and start laughing whenever they laugh..)
Well my (shifting to first person) first 2 winters went like that, good-for-nothing. Sat indoors for 4-5 months till I made sure there’re no white patches watching me. But this winter, one day while coming to lab, got soaked in the snow and like a revelation from heaven it transformed the psychrophobic 1 me to a psychrophilic 2 self! Thatz how my bicycle started slowing down on my way to lab. Thatz how soon a camera was hanging on my neck, swinging all the way but keeping an eye on things going around,,
So am not so fed up of winter, you see.. Though all my insects and butterflies are hibernating, I managed to find some amusement in the snow.. and thatz how I ended up taking all these winter photos.
So, the photojournal for the day:
Caught ‘em from my window first. They had spotted the snow-mountain (some snow heaped over) in our compound and had decided it is the perfect place for snow sliding.
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Kids never stop amusing us!
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I-will-take-you-up (ending in duhh-you-are-so-heavy)
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Wooshhh…
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He has a smile for me
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Letz all ride together!
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Now their sensei 3 has a smile for me
Moral of the story: Always smile at the snow, some day it will start smiling back at you.
1 psychrophobe: one who dreads the cold
2 psychrophile: those like me who loves extreme cold
3 sensei: japanese for teacher
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14 Comments »
on 18 Jan 2006 at 1:54 am 1.Suzanne said …
I love your site. I would like to add you as one of my links . . . would that be ok? Let me know
on 18 Jan 2006 at 12:27 pm 2.Lian said …
Hi there,
First of all thanks for dropping by my blog. I’ve visited yours before too. Anyway, great pix. Really captured the fun. Glad you found a way to enjoy the snow again. I was in Utah for 4 years. I don’t think I learned how to smile at the snow. Now I have no snow to smile at.
on 18 Jan 2006 at 9:15 pm 3.rocksea said …
$suzanne, do u have to ask? am flattered
$lian, am happy that i learned to smile at snow. something is better than nothing
on 19 Jan 2006 at 1:26 am 4.Deepa said …
Hi !
Thanx for stopping by ….
U know what ? i have actually been here ….
my colleague gave me this link .. he wanted me to check out the India and the Prakriti section …. i dont remember coming to the post , but i remember RockSea and the header pic …
It amazes me …
on 19 Jan 2006 at 1:27 am 5.Deepa said …
And now , yes , i remember some of the articles i had read
on 19 Jan 2006 at 1:28 am 6.Samudrika said …
The pictures are beautiful. I am amazed that you can enjoy the snow and take these pictures. I am a thermophile myself. I cant stand temperatures below 18 C!
on 19 Jan 2006 at 3:08 am 7.Pidiyana said …
Awesome! I luuuuurv the snow! Played in it just once… snow-clad Cypriot mountains ages ago.
on 19 Jan 2006 at 5:53 am 8.reshma said …
didn’t know you had a full-fledged English blog too. The I-will-take-you-up- duhh-you-are-so-heavy series is amusing:)”let it snow, let it snow”
on 19 Jan 2006 at 4:26 pm 9.anu said …
lovely post.. beautiful pixs.. u r very talented..
on 19 Jan 2006 at 4:31 pm 10.rocksea said …
$Deepa, you’re always part of prakriti, so no welcome!
$Samudrika, i attain the state of psychrophile-hood only for 1 hour or so per day, during my bicycle-ride/walk (thatz how i meditate) to and fro. Otherwise am a thermophile, enjoying the warm air inside my lab/room.
$Pidiyana, wherez cypriot? out of india? or in the himalayas?
$reshma, $anu, thanks for snowing on my blog
on 20 Jan 2006 at 9:54 am 11.Gini said …
Hey thanks for the advise…btw I always had sapporo beer when I go to Japanese restaurants, but never thought it could be a place in Japan. And did I mention great blog….
on 20 Jan 2006 at 4:32 pm 12.rocksea said …
gini, ya the sapporo beer is brewed here in sapporo
once i went to visit the sapporo beer factory, itz nearby,, someone else too mentioned sapporo beer in this blog! seems itz pretty famous hehe.
on 25 Jan 2006 at 7:41 pm 13.Marlin said …
“…soft snow on the covered white ground,sparkles and shines in the sunlight like white diamonds on top of the world’s floor Like a white silken cape which had been wrapped up in the night… Sky, Earth, and Tree frames the glorious sight, and there it will stay until the day turns warm and bright…”
nice pics…cute…
on 26 Jan 2006 at 1:59 pm 14.rocksea said …
and when that soft snow sparkles on those rosy smiling cheeks..