Autumn has come and gone
The leaves have dropped
and the new season has definitively set in.
Yes.
Winter in all its glory!
And snow!
The snow in the first weeks of winter brings hope to the people of Helsinki - that this winter will be better than the one from last year which in their Finnish minds was 'too warm'!
This winter is one of change. Yet again.
Last winter was one that has perhaps changed my Life forever - in many ways than one - and Helsinki was just one of them.
This winter - I start with a simple change - I am moving apartments - and moving to a beautiful apartment in the North of the city.
It has everything my current apartment has - a sauna, a great kitchen - my sanctum santorium,and more - its bigger, its got tonnes of plants and the view 
from the balcony is spectacular! It's by a beautiful River. And it's by the Bay.
Right outside my home (would-be) is a running track that circles a wooded area and a stone's throw away is the river.
Serendipity led me to this place and how!
I have been searching for an apartment for sometime now. When one Sunday, I was helping a friend move some furniture. We dropped off another friend who was helping out (
and who was visiting her mother in the same neighborhood) and I remarked 'Its quite a nice place, wouldnt be a bad place to live in'.
Imagine my surprise when two days later, I land up in the very same neighborhood, looking at Suvi's apartment.
Anyways - I intend moving in after I return from India.
India!
10 months. And a sea-change in my outlook to Life later, I am heading back to India.
Albeit for a short while.
I have just agreed with my bosses to return back for another stint - a whole year!
As I look forward to my new apartment and the continued explorations of new attitudes, hobbies and friends, I am looking back at the year and wonder - what if the year before had turned out different? What if 2007 was different?
But thoughts aside - here is to a Year of Change.
