Rain

[lostboi]

It allways makes me feels so nostalgic and contemplative. maybe more so because I'm alone and I can just hear it pattering against the window sill almost mocking me in a way..How does it make you feel?

 

[redlady]

Depends on the season - in summer i feel relief when it comes. In winter it just adds to the gloom, especially if it just wont stop. I always like the smell that it brings - that 'fresh' smell.

 

[lostboi]

I always like the smell that it brings - that 'fresh' smell.

..Isn't that magnificent? Everything just smells fresh and clean and reborn. yes I agree about the summer rain. I love it when the asphpalt is still hot enough that when the rain impacts it creates a rising steam.

 

[redlady]

Clean, yes that is a good way to put it - it is nice to walk outside after and see everything wet and glistening.
Oh and the asphalt - i even like that smokey smell - and then walking on it as it is hot and cool at the same time - that's a nice sensation.

 

[Chilling__Echo]

that's so weird, it's raining here now. it's been raining all night. i can't sleep (it's 4:30 here now) and i've been singing one of my fav songs to myself as i look at the ceiling content:

"...shut the window love, keep the world outside, i don't want to think about anyone... but the footsteps are getting louder, drowning out the sound of the rain as it knocks on the windowsill... i'm not answering the phone, let it ring... lately i've been feeling like, a falling bomb... the ground is getting closer..."

it's by thursday and it's beautiful.

 

[Horatio]

I love rain too, which is good because it rains here a lot. Rainy days are happier for me than sunny days, because on sunny days I feel guilty for not being "out and about"

thunderstorms are the best :twisted:

 

[Chilling__Echo]

i've heard new zealand is really pretty... what's the environment like?

 

[Horatio]

i've heard new zealand is really pretty... what's the environment like?

it varies a lot depending where you are in the country. where I am down south there are lots of tussock covered hills and rough sandy beaches with wild waves. some of the beaches on the peninsula here have sea lions and penguins and if your lucky you might even see an Albatross. in the winter it can get rather chilly and snows here but in the summer the twilight seems to last forever some nights with a beautiful blue haze on the horizon.

further inland there are a lot of dry tussock covered rolling hills and then the Southern Alps which are huge, this is where a lot of Lord of the Rings and some of Narnia was filmed in forests along the mountain ranges. nestled amongst the alps are deep mountain lakes and white water rivers perfect for rafting. this is the realm of the Kea, an evil alpine parrot which tries to eat car tyres.

further south there is Fiordland which is where I took the photo in the Landscape section of the photo album. Fiordland is a mixture of majestic mountains, meadows of wild flowers and thickly forested valleys and you guessed it, fiords. It nearly always rains there but that just adds to the enviroment, beautiful waterfalls down nearly every cliff. A lot of Fiordland is completely inaccessible and some remains unexplored.

the west coast is one of my favourite places, it is very rough with thick rainforest, beautiful glaciers, misty valleys, abondoned overgrown mining towns, stoney beaches with angry water noone dares to swim in and a battered rocky coastline of cliffs dotted with surf spray, seals and nikau palm trees. Very few people live on the coast, perfect for hermits 8) nothing beats walking through rainforest in the rain to find an abandoned cemetry full of old miners gravestones, most of whom seem to have died from river crossings gone wrong.

where I used to live at the top of the south island there was a lot of golden beaches with a quiet warm crystal clear sea. in some places beautiful native bush grows right down to the sandy beaches with limestone arches and caves offering perfect places for unsuspecting tourists to be ambushed by angry seals. some parts of this area can only be described as paradise, except for the pesky Wekas, flightless birds which run into your tent, steal food and run away before you can stop them.

then there is the north island...

I never really liked Auckland when I lived there, purely because it is the largest city in the country and therfore full of people but it really is rather beautiful in parts with fantastic beaches and volcanoes dotted all over the place, thats right, they built New Zealand's biggest city on about 12 Volcanoes, the last of which only erupted about 500 years ago!

there are still active Volcanoes on the appropriately named Volcanic plateau in the centre of the North Island, a high altitude flat triangle of land covered mostly in tussock and sorrounded by native bush on its flanks. Mt Ruapehu erupted in the mid 1990s and covered the area in ash.

Rotorua is the thermal capital of the country, the place smells of natural gas and is full of geysers, boiling mud pools etc. this is also the best place for tourists to experience the culture of the Maori, the native cannibals who europeans met here, only we aren't allowed to call them cannibals anymore because thats naughty

Northland (the very northern tip of the north island) is my favourite part of the North Island where there are HUUUUUUGE giant trees called Kauri and amazing beaches with a fantastic warm almost tropical climate. I especially love the Bay of Islands where the first settlements were formed, cute little houses next to beautiful beaches.

Overall I prefer the South Island where Im living currently, mainly because there are a lot less people and the enviroment is still relatively untouched in a lot of places

argh = sorry for going on so long Echo, I hope this post doesnt crash the server!

 

[Chilling__Echo]

haha! WOW - i feel like i'm there!

what's a fiord?

and a tussok? haha sorry

 

[mikeofbodom]

love the rain

 

[Horatio]

a fiord is a long deep inlet of the sea between mountains

tussock is a long grass, no higher than knee height. when your in tussock country you can see for miles in complete contrast to the dense rainforest on the west coast where you can be completely lost 3 metres from a road, haha

 

[shyandnumb]

I love the rain, it reminders of so many things. Sometimes, when I can't cry at a certain moment; it feels like the raidrops are crying my tears for me. Also, there are times when I just want to dance out in the rain to became clean of all the negative things during the day. I especially love the stormy kind, because it feels like its releasing all of my bottled up anger and frustration.

 

[lostboi]

plus its the best excuse for not going out!

Sometimes I think the opposite Chavette.

I like the thought of being in field somewhere alone in a thunderstorm and spinning and dancing beneath the lightning. I'm with shyand on this one. though It does depend on my mood.

 

[allanboy]

There was this time, i went down to a girl´s house to tell her that i wanted to date her. Went there, sat with her on the couch, did all strenght of the world but only said "i really like you", "these weeks have been great". Got up and went home. Embarassed as freaking hell. Ashamed of myself, deeply. Took my things out of my pocket, and went running, masochism act.

Well, it started raining.
Never ran all that much, i guess i, never felt so good under a rain.
My relation with god has been nice since that day.


Yeah, i like rain all right.

 

[lostboi]

So maybe I'm not quite understanding. The experience with the girl wa a good thing? even though you were only able to tell her you liked her.. Did you wind up seeing her more after that or..?

 

[allanboy]

Oh, yeah, i went out with her like, 5 more times. No, make that 4. Went to the mall with her. Kissed a little less than i wanted(heh, first time i went out with her was my first kiss, i think i did pretty well ^^).
Man, i´m really wanting to say this to someone, hope you dont mind. I have two ways of thought about this girl. One optimistic another pessimist.

The optimistic one, has strong proof that she´s got either schizoid and/or avoidant disorders. Just like me! And i cant decide if thats good or bad, but, i´ve found the person of my life!!

The pessimist... She just isnt interested in me. Went out with me in pity, my friend told her how i´ve never been with a woman and how "that would be good to me". And i just got in her studies way...

Whenever i think of her, these two sides come into fight, heavily and... that just crashes me...

 

[lostboi]

Contrary to popular opinon (and perhaps bad cenema) I don't think girls go out with guys out of pity. There is always some degree of investment. and if she went out with you and you were kissing...that's pretty intimate. that's definately not going to happen out of pitty. Go with your optimist side, I think your on the right track there. Have confidence that this girl really likes you and give your self some credit where it's due and realize that you might just be an attractive and engaging enough guy that you caught her attention. :wink:

 

[allanboy]

That doesnt work. I´m way too paranoid to overcome the pessimist side.
I dont like giving disorders out to everything and everyone but, i think i have a paranoid personality disorder.
Thanks for the reply man, ever watchful lost boi.

And besides, i´m with another girl now. I cant go back to her.

 

[lostboi]

With another girl?
You seem to be doing just fine allanboy..

 

[allanboy]

I hate to break my humble inertia but, right now, i´m kicking loads of ass

heh, but guess what, i phone messaged here this morning, and still didnt hear from her, i´m here thinking that she´s avoiding me.
Nothing i can do, going tripping tomorrow.