Rain

While browsing through tv channels I hit upon this song and I kind of knew this song has got something really kicking

Crowded House - 'Take the weather with you'

Their style appears to be similar to duran duran i.e strong rhythmic sound all through the movie typical of 80s music style. The lyrics appeared to be very simple too, though the video could have been much more interesting. Nevertheless, the steady beat and the genuineness of the song makes it so easy to relate to.

When people cringe about the dark clouds all around and the lousy rain spoiling all their weekend or weekday plans of going out, you feel sorry for them. Read some article a while back that suicides rates are much higher in western europe cause of its lousy grey rainy weather. The importance some give to weather forecast really beats you. One person on a TV interview replies 'It always rains here', when asked 'why she wants to leave England'. Thought these are heights anyway.
No wonder, this Crowded House song 'Take the weather with you' adores the blue sky.

Remember one exciting episode on NGC a while back, which tracked back as to how 'Cherrapunji' got the title as the wettest place on earth. Seems like one Scotsman was put on government duty to Cherrapunji more like a punishment posting by the English somewhere in 19th century. And the Scotsman got tired of the frequent rains in Cherrapunji, which was worse than Scotland where it rains 250 days of the year. In Cherrapunji, the rain is ferocious though and this Scotsman thought of committing suicide, but later to hit back on the boredom he started doing experiments on the rain water and came to the conclusion that 'Cherrapunji' is the wettest place on earth.

Leaving the trivia on Cherrapunji aside, I think rain clouds are a beauty to gaze at, thanks to the speed at which rain-clouds move around. And it is so beautiful when the rain does not pour down but just trickles and also when there is only rainclouds over you, but no rain. Those are the days, which I used to adore so much. Also, the exciting part when the school closes down expecting heavy rain, but by providence there is no rain and you play cricket all day.

Can remember a dialogue in 'Taxi Driver', where Robert DeNiro wishes that it rains in NY, so that all the dirt/sins are washed away from a sinned city like NY. Remember another interesting sequence related to rains in the movie 'City of Joy', Om Puri a hand-rickshaw guy charges more from the greedy Sethjis who take a ride in his rickshaw during monsoon time.

The best part about rain is that it gives a fresh start to various life-forms in the land. In particular, it is a delight to see how fluorescent green a grass gets during rainy days or just after rainy days.