Spring, my favorite season, just arrived and here are a few things that i am loving. The Buddhist Bauharia Orchid tree, the flowers of plums and peaches, are in full bloom all over Nagaland, that too in pure pink and white hue. My cousins' cute Guinea pigs (2 of them) gave birth to 8 little baby guinea pigs and the 10 eggs of the hen in their backyard just got hatched and out came 10 little brownish yellowish chicks...Perfect timing i say!! So every morning as soon as i wake up, i go straight to my cousins' backyard and watch these little bundles of joy. Its an interesting observation, you see. The mother hen has already started taking her chickens for daily morning walks and guiding them how and where to get food. And about the guinea pigs, i find them very stupid and clumsy (esp the mothers) and irresponsible.While the pups try to suck the mothers' milk, my observation till now shows that the mother either shies away or does not care or rather they are scared of me.Anyhow, they have become one of my 'morning' obsessions. Just watching life taking its course is an intriguing muse, like watching the mother guiding her 'chicken littles' on how to adapt to life-a normal life cycle for living beings- and in some months these little ones will turn into smart independent cocks and hens.
So here it is, Spring is beautiful because it always brings change, newness and Renaissance and restoration.To celebrate the arrival of spring, i decided to try something new. I have currently gone MIA in Facebook and joined FreeRice.com. FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the UN World Food Program to stop hunger in the world. Their main aim is "To provide education for everyone for free and help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free". Here you can donate rice for free by simply playing a 'General knowledge' kinda game, you get to choose your own subject and all you have to do is give the correct answer for each question. For each correct answer FreeRice contributes 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme which is sent to povety-stricken countries. Right now, the 21120 grains of rice i donated are going to Cambodia. You can donate rice either by becoming a member by opening an account at FreeRice or you get to donate as an Anonymous donor.
And the plus point is that you also accumulate general knowledge (this comes in handy when you are sitting for those exams, you really want to get through) and information on world hunger while doing a good deed. So i say,"Kill boredom through good deeds and gain knowledge!"
That's my Spring Obsession, baby!!
Some lines from a poem on Spring-
"Your shower refresh all that breathe
And settle the wind-driven dust ;
In your presence are seeds sown
And flowers wild or reared blossom forth"
-O Spring by Wetshokhrolo Lasuh.
And lastly, a wonderful quote on the Arab Spring-
"Tell people there is no spring without flowers. Likewise, there is no Arab Spring without Women"- Dalia Ziada.
So here it is, Spring is beautiful because it always brings change, newness and Renaissance and restoration.To celebrate the arrival of spring, i decided to try something new. I have currently gone MIA in Facebook and joined FreeRice.com. FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the UN World Food Program to stop hunger in the world. Their main aim is "To provide education for everyone for free and help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free". Here you can donate rice for free by simply playing a 'General knowledge' kinda game, you get to choose your own subject and all you have to do is give the correct answer for each question. For each correct answer FreeRice contributes 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme which is sent to povety-stricken countries. Right now, the 21120 grains of rice i donated are going to Cambodia. You can donate rice either by becoming a member by opening an account at FreeRice or you get to donate as an Anonymous donor.
And the plus point is that you also accumulate general knowledge (this comes in handy when you are sitting for those exams, you really want to get through) and information on world hunger while doing a good deed. So i say,"Kill boredom through good deeds and gain knowledge!"
That's my Spring Obsession, baby!!
Some lines from a poem on Spring-
"Your shower refresh all that breathe
And settle the wind-driven dust ;
In your presence are seeds sown
And flowers wild or reared blossom forth"
-O Spring by Wetshokhrolo Lasuh.
And lastly, a wonderful quote on the Arab Spring-
"Tell people there is no spring without flowers. Likewise, there is no Arab Spring without Women"- Dalia Ziada.
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