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| The view of RIM Campus from the Highway above. |
When
there was a first snowfall of this winter in Thimphu about a month back there
were only few places that could turn to white and remain whitely for sometime.
Other than mountains only passes could have remained white with snow for days
otherwise the places in Thimphu were hardly seen white despite there was
snowfall for few hours in that morning. The first snowfall was not that heavy
and there was barely heaped on the ground enough to build toys and play. It was just a light snowfall enough to get
holiday then. But this time, second snowfall, how heavy it was! How much happy the people in Thimphu are! And
with snow cover all over Thimphu, how beautiful it looks. It’s really amazing
and most of the people might have felt they were in one of places in RUSSIA or
some other countries. The second snow fall was really heavy. It could be one of
the heaviest of all the recent winters.
It
started snowing right from yesterday midnight but could not notice clearly as
it was dark and more so by then I was already dozed off. Unlike other days,
despite being the weekend I was woken quite early with yelling of my friends
around that there was snow outside. They
were right I could see snowflakes still falling and RIM campus already covered
with heavy snowfall. Abruptly, I rushed for breakfast and after having
breakfast I dressed up with warm clothes headed to RIM football ground with two
of my friends. We stayed there for some time walking around and hitting each
other with snow. Since it was neither snowing nor raining we decided to go
further. There was hardly any cabs plying, three of us decided to walk to the
town.
It
was cold morning but beautiful scene everywhere covered with snow. Three of us
intoxicated with beauty of the snow cover we continued walking along the road.
When we reached to Luntenphug, suddenly huge rolled snow flakes strike in front
of us and it nearly hit us. We raised our eye lids and looked up. Oh God!
People from all ages were just standing above the road in queue facing down to
road holding hard snow balls waiting to throw to passers by. They kept on
throwing and we could not do anything. Had we known they were standing there we
could have come with hard snowballs but we were already late. Had we bent and picked up the snow flakes they
would have hit as much as they could and picking up the stones would have been
lot easier but that would have been too much. So defending with our two hands
on side we ran as fast as we could. Amidst running we looked up if their queue
was crossed but what the hell still their queue was not yet crossed. We ran on
and on. Sigh! We crossed their queue and
finally we could past them, Of course with so many hits on our back. But what an
unfortunates day it was, we should have not have walked. Right after crossing the
queue above the road, there was another group of people along the road with
snow balls. There we did not surrender but we too reacted back with hard
rolled snow flakes. Since we were only three of us we could not compete with
them. Fortunately one taxi came by and we stopped the taxi, boarded into and
went to the town. How crazy are the people!..They were even throwing to the
taxi. Once we were into the taxi we were
relieved of all those cold and hard rolled snow flakes hitting on our backs.
But in the town also we could see many groups hitting each other but since we
were in the taxi we were escaped.
As
much as people were excited to have snowfall equally there was risky too. I
could see owing to heavy snowfall trees have fallen on the road and even
branches of the trees in so many places have fallen down to the road. More over even buses and
cars were out of the way and some were already into the drain. Whatever we
enjoyed our walk, the snow, and of course hitting the people along the road.
Hope with snow comes peace, happiness and prosperity.
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