End of 2009

I am not really in the mood of writing but what the heck... It will make me feel good that I have not been ignoring my blog.....and my ignored blog might feel good too :) ....someone said right 'things have feelings too'. 2009 has been a very crappy year for many..especially for the people of Andhra Pradesh, what with all the Telangana stuff going on. People are scared to step out and party, what if some agitated protesters ruin it all and the party would literally become a new year 'bash' for them.. if you know what I mean....

Well another day and we can bury 2009 behind. Ooh 2012 is coming nearer ain it?!

Whatever I don't believe in that crap so lets not talk about it.

I have more immediate things to think about.. like my psychology exam tomorrow.

Those lucky ones who dont have to go through a bad year end:

Sabbatical is over! :P

All right Aditya since you reminded me that I have not been blogging... Here I am after a nice long vacation from blogging( Not that I was regular anyway :D).

I actually even forgot which id was I using out here (Akshay you did not help) *chuckles*

So now that I am here, I looked at my last post and read that I had wished that I could sleep through the whole 2009, given that todays date is 24th December, almost the year end, and that I have not blogged after that, I guess I did manage to sleep through it! *yippie!!*

So I am assuming everybody is happy that another year has flown by and of course to the pessimists: another stupid year will begin the same old dreary cycle of the same crap that you went through before, now in different days and different ways *smirks* and well sometimes even I cant help but think "what the heck its just another year!"

An well I have my exams from 31st DECEMBER!!! *distorts her face*

My year is gonna end on an exam note...how lame!! :(

The vacation is more like a preparatory holiday.

And yes most of my college mates have been cursing our damned college

(When we pass out, most of us who cant stop cursing it, will be crying over it and wishing we could have these days back-ironical eh?)

We all have a love-hate relationship with a lot of close things dont we.

Anyway my heads jammed *yawns* cant think of anything to write so maybe I will just end with a new year trivia:

"Auld Lang Syne" is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year. At least partially written by Robert Burns in the 1700's, it was first published in 1796 after Burns' death. Early variations of the song were sung prior to 1700 and inspired Burns to produce the modern rendition. An old Scotch tune, "Auld Lang Syne" literally means "old long ago," or simply, "the good old days." Here are the lyrics:

Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne?
For auld Lang syne, my dear, for auld Lang syne,
We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld Lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld Lang syne?
And here's a hand, my trusty friend and gie's a hand o' thine
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet for auld Lang syne

source: http://www.inspirationline.com/Brainteaser/newyear.htm

Roamer

Its feels like a decade since I last blogged. Quite a lot of my friends blog and I have been pretty late in joining the bandwagon, most of them blogging once in a blue moon. so when I joined up here, I thought to myself that I will be regular, but obviously I have been very unsuccessful!

Today is a 2nd saturday. It was supposed to be a holiday but we had our inaugral function(freshers party in simple words :D). It was quite fun except that I am not really in high spirits. I just feel like sleeping through the whole 2009 and get it done with.

I dont know why ever but I have been listening to the same song from the past one and a half hour over and over again. Though its not a new song I have heard it for the first time today and even now it is playing in the background. I really love the songs tune. And I just have this wish to put the lyrics down here even though they are nothing great. Infact I was not even able to understand the lyrics I was just listening intently to the music. Since I cannot put the audio file and I have not even seen the video. I will just put down the lyrics. The song is 'roamer' by enrique(he is not my favorite or anything but I do like a couple of his songs).

Roamer Lyrics

Hello, i'm coming at your town again

How's about a night, how's about a flight supernova
I know, i've been kinda hot and cold
But you never go away, no matter what i say,
In the mornings


My need is running low
I've been moving everywhere
Spreading out my wings, trying everything
But that's over, cos when i'm on my own
Waking up with someone new
And now i feel the same, i'm mixing up their name
It's like a roamer

Goodbye, i'm going on the road again
But i'm bringing you along,
In each and every song that we cover
And i, i always wanna see your face
Cos looking in your eyes, is where i see my life
When i'm older


Mississippi, tenessee
California ,lexico ,like a roamer
Russia, san fransico bay, to the uk,
Round the world in 80 days
Like a roamer

When i go away, don't wanna go away
Don't wanna go away, don't wanna go away
Don't wanna go away, don't wanna go away

Superstitious?!

He spends his nights in California
Watching the stars on the big screen.
Then he lies awake and wonders

Why can't that be me?
Cause in his life he's filled with all these good intentions.
He's left a lot of things he'd rather not mention right now.
But just before he says goodnight,
He looks up with a little smile at me and he says

If I could be like that
I'd give anything
Just to live one day
In those shoes.
If I could be like that, what would I do?What would I do?

- Three doors down

These are the lines from my current favorite song(last one was from metro station, my favorite keeps changing)

You know those people who are addicted to music, well I don’t know whether addicted is right the word so I would just say I cannot live without music(like a lot of others who claim the same thing). I cannot do a lot of things without music, infact a lot of times I need soft music in the back ground when I am studying. If there is a power cut for long and I have no means to listen to music, I start singing to myself.

I have reduced the time devoted to music these days though, but its not because of

no time, but because my ears start paining these days! :( :(

I would rather listen to less music than go deaf and never be able to!

Coming to the point of writing all this: Mp3s and Ipods just dont seem to be meant for me. I remember my aunt sending me a Mp3 for me. I was so happy with it but it stopped working! So I got my dad to buy me a Mp4 player after a lot of persuasion(after some time off-course) and I spilled water by misake on it and well.. you know... it stopped working.

Then again after 6 months I guess my aunt gifted me the cutest mp3 player ever, which looked like a pendant the other side if you hung it around your neck(samsung s2).. I did not bother to read the instructions and meddled with it..and voila: It stopped working! My heart almost broke(well you know how we girls can be sometimes, I mean it was so cute!).

Well I dont even want to give the detalis of the next doomed mp4 and an apple ipod shuffle which my brother got for me just three days back!

My mom had said me long back that music players are simply not in my fate, after two of them. And though maybe she said it in jest (and maybe to stop wasting money when they dont work in my hands)now I think so too! And I still miss my s2 :(

North south east west

A student who did not even know that News is an acronym for North east west south till almost her 10th grade(yes so very ignorant), wont touch the newspaper voluntarily, except the supplement which has a whole lot of crap to pass time is pursuing journalism! I really am not able to recall why I voluntary chose the subject??! Oh it was something about my strong communication skills..oh yes.. Its journalism with mass communication.. I can give the weather forecast on some news channel. :D
I really never understood why do I have to read things that do not concern me in anyway? Why should I know who is the UN's secretary? Why should I know what is hurricane Katrina or who is the president of France(with the model wife). Just day before yesterday I was in my consumer education class,(we have it as a general elective subject) when out of the blue the Teacher asked all the journalism students to raise their hands, she looked at me and asked how many newspapers do I get at home? I said two, and she was like "only two? how shameful, you being a journalism student!", as if journalism students get newspapers for free. I gave some counter-argument and we ate each others head for a while and then the topic was changed I guess.
Even our journalism madam gets very disheartened that not a lot of the journalism students read the news(see I am not the only one), but anyway I have started reading the newspaper from almost a week and it is actually good fun and obviously informative(you get to know things like: its raining dead tadpoles in China!).
I have been able to add up a little to my zero general knowledge, and hopefully I will keep up to the new habit(oh wait technically its not a habit yet).
Anyway I guess I will go watch the repetitive crazy news on Aaj tak(why does it keep winning the best news channel award?). Whatever....

Waiting for Rain

By now everyone must be aware of how serious global warming is. Some days back a girl in our campus fainted and was unconscious for more than an hour! All around me I can see people and friends suffering from heat rashes and boils. I just thank god that nothing of that sort has happened to me yet. But seriously the summer heat this time is really very bad(people keep saying the weather is better in my city! I wonder how hellish it is at the others?) . It gets worse when you have to commute by public transport, where you are jammed with people, the sweat and grime : completely disgusting!
Using the buses to do your little bit of saving money and reducing pollution is great... But damn! cannot we have more buses so that people might feel like travelling in them?!
I caught a share auto two days back and started listening to music on my phone. A lady was sitting beside me, her hand was pressed against my hand, I was so engrossed in music that only after she got down I realized all her sweat was smeared on my hands!!!!!!!! It was so disgusting that I rushed and took a shower after reaching home.
One cannot even do anything about it except pray that it rains and the weather gets better. Just today when we were having assembly in our college, all of us stood under the shade(at the side of the stage), but the tyrants that some of our teachers are, they made a lot of us girls go stand in front of the stage where the sun was merciless.
Everyday I look out of the class the minute the sun seems to be a little fainter then before and hope that it rains. Well that is all I can do... wait for rain.

Time is flying!

Its already almost the end of my weekend! I did not even blog once.. its like I wrote my previous blog just yesterday. I was expecting the first week of my second year to be slow and unimportant (what with half my class mates still holidaying), but no,the weeks out of my hands and a half of the portion for mid-semester in psychology & journalism is already over! By the way new journo teacher is sweet.
She also informed us about the college planning to release a souvenir(in simple words: a magazine) to mark an end to the golden jubilee celebration(uh yea its fifty years old, and yeah not that old). She told us about it three days back and the last day for submitting articles, short stories and poems is tomorrow! I have no time nor any idea about what should I contribute :(
One of the teachers thinks that the short notice would make the students buck up their act, help them get more creative ideas(duh!). Well we can decide that when the souvenir releases, and if they charge a lot I am sorry I don't think we can come to a decision. Anyway I will maybe sit and try writing something for it. Not much time you see. Buhbyee!

Back to College

Yesterday I was in two minds...Summer holidays had come to an end
and I wanted both to go to college and not go to college. The the main reason for me not wanting to go to the college was the heat. Almost every place in the country is burning(Okay except the hill stations)!
Then something happened in the evening(yesterday of-course) that
changed my mind..It rained(voila!). SO today morning I woke up at six
(after a very very very looooong time) and started getting ready for
college. At the bus stop I met a classmate of mine so we started
discussing what we did in the holidays. She did almost nothing, moving on to me we talked about my lost job and the missed vacation(read the previous blog).
Once we were on the bus we purchased our tickets and kept a hawks
eye on the conductor, he had not returned the change to either of us. He did in the end and we got down to our beloved college.
First day of the college is always a no show I guess, hardly anybody came(except jobless people like us; as a friend of mine would have put it), but hey I happen to like my college though I keep cursing it. We had assembly (yes, we are still treated like kids! my college is a girls convent
you see).
The first thing our principle Sister said (after saying "welcome back")was: "second years raise your hands" then she asked the 3rd years to do the same thing, after reassuring herself that her students have not changed by checking the dismal attendance she gave us a task: "your first task after you back home is to inform your friends to come back to the college".
Yeah right instead we should be telling ourselves lets not go back to college tomorrow I told a friend of mine and she obviously agreed to the idea. Well after that she dropped a bomb on us. "Girls you are going to have full days on Saturdays" AARRRGGGHH!!! All of us groaned. It is
so unfair man! Plus I guess we cannot wear civil on Saturdays(gotta bid farewell to the Saturday fashion parade *sob sob*).
Some of the girls went to the principal to talk her into letting it be half days and though I dont know what happened(they weren't from my stream) it sure must have been like beating the head against a rock.
Coming to the rest of the day, we had french class for some time,our sir proposed to have a
viva; "girls shall we have viva this term?" most of us chorused a noooo!!!! I again said no and suggested in a low voice that he should cancel the written exam if he wants a change(the surrounding girls started laughing...but I was quite serious! hehe)
We have a new journalism teacher again, she has done M.A in journalism(the first two were not even journalism students) so she seems to be quite good with the subject, there is just one problemo, she talks too softly, half of what she says does not even reach my ear. The ironic part was that she had asked something to my classmate and she could not hear my mates reply, so she said "The most important thing for a journalism student is to be loud...." I started laughing inside but then of-course how would she know that she is not loud she can hear her own voice right. English literature was a shock to all of us, we have Janaki Naidu as our lecturer who was supposed to be retired, and is very strict. On second thoughts I realized that its tit for tat with her, if you dont behave well you are gonna have it bad, but since I love literature I should not
be having anything to bother with plus she is a great teacher!
Well that is all I have to say about today and oh it got really hot in the afternoon my poor back is still crying from the heat :p

How to kill time!

I cannot believe summer holidays are ending! I survived two months of doing nothing really important without succumbing to boredom! Before the holidays I was all set to spend my time doing the part time job that I had got but unfortunately my college did not give me a no objection certificate in the last minute!
I was obviously not to happy but then instead I planned on going with my brother to Singapore! I was all excited about the trip but as fate would have it I had bungled with my passport(yes I can be very clumsy at times)number and my brother is vacationing without me(he is in Malaysia now)!
I was like "how am I going to spend my holidays????" but tell you people if you want to kill time Strategy games are the perfect answer!
I had not played PC games for almost 4-5 years but suddenly I got obsessed with playing games like Age of empires, age of titans! These games are just awesome time pass! not that I am 24*7 glued to them but time flies by playing them. There are a lot of such games with great graphics but I prefer the good old AOE because the other games are too much for a basic player like me :D
I do not play Lord of the rings but since my brother does its a great game too. So if you have a lot of free time in hand get a strategy game from your nearest CD store start with the tutorial and before you know it will be time to get busy again!

Francophone

In my twelfth standard my first chapter(In English CBSE) was how the french people were affected when Alsace and Loraine was added to the German empire and they were imposed with German as their language. It was the first time I had read that French was the most beautiful language in the world. Back then I had no clue that this beautiful language is going to drive me crazy! I had no second language in my 11th and 12th and never imagined that I would have a second language again, yet I did,French happens to be the second language in my degree!
While some of my classmates get 98,96 and 97 in french,I am always crying before my french exam that I do not know anything but somehow scrape through. Well to be frank I am always sleeping in my french class! I do love the words but I do not find french easy. Off-course it could be a mental block because I wanted to take Hindi as my second language and am always reminding my friends(who have Hindi as their 2nd language) how lucky they are. I had signed up for a language exchange in the beginning of my holidays. Quite some french people would add me for a chat to learn English and the first thing I would say is "Je ne sais pas Francais"(I do not know french) and the next thing they would do is exit the chat!(Its obvious is it not, I don't know french they don't know English, how on earth can we learn anything?.. you need to have a common language too)
Finally there was this guy who just wanted to practice English and not learn it so I helped him practice and in my turn just learnt a few phrases & confirmed a few absurd things my Sir had told about the French people. According to my sir the french can talk on anything you ask them to, they could write pages and pages on something like a pencil! (and I struggle here to think of what I should write in my blog!). The french guy said he was not sure of it. And then another interesting thing about the french popped up in mind(according to my french sir off-course): the men and women don't get along well, (french women prefer dogs). He said he was not sure that it applied to everybody and then after a pause added his ex-girlfriend was English. After sometime he added he prefers foreign women(gotcha!). Then he went back to asking me what more phrases would I like to know. I said him I would rather help him practice English(yes I gave up on language exchange after that, I bought a book to learn french which lies almost untouched). I also let him know that according to me French is very tough! He assured me it was very easy.

The French say french is easy just like the Greek would say Greek is easy.
(I am not going to bunk or sleep through French classes anymore.. I am gonna [try]study)

Au revoir!

Another Day

Know what? Monday mornings are as good as Sundays when you do not have any real work to bother yourself with. From the past three days I had wanted to get up early on a sudden whim of wanting to go for morning walks, which has been very unsuccessful! Well I still weigh the same (two moths of laze didn't add an ounce *yippee!*) so I am cool with it.
People have become so health conscious these days, some to the extent of obsessive that it is crazy. Well the point is to stay away from health problems when you get old, but I do not want to be old! I might change my mind later but for now I want to live no more than fifty years. Anyway aren't a lot of people talking about the 2012 apocalypse? The world is supposed to be coming to an end in another three years or as some other theories suggest we are heading to an Ice Age.... either case, I am not gonna survive. But hey lets hope its all not true, and we do not have to die in just next three years.
All this reminds me of something a classmate of mine back in school had written in the front page of her notebook: 'I want to die young so that I can leave a good looking corpse behind'. I wanted to tell her for that she had to be good looking in the first place. But I did not, it was none of my business, she could write whatever she wanted.
To all those people with drop dead gorgeous looks: Die young to leave a beautiful corpse behind(maybe Hades would take pity and not let you in hell) and to the rest of us:(ranging from good looking- mediocre-hideous) Die young to leave all the ugliness of life behind.

My first blog

I have been very busy in my two months of holidays. I have been eating, sleeping, playing games on the Pc, watching tv and been sleeping again. If you are a nineteen year old, and all you have been doing is all that I have just mentioned, it equals to a solid waste of sixty days*twenty four hours!(okay 53 days, I still have a week till college starts). I love my semester system, I do not have anything to study!
By the way I am completely alien to this blogging concept and when I have just a few more days to go till I become really busy again, I finally decide that I should be blogging too. Why should I leave myself out from what has gripped all the tech savvy people? At least I can say that I started blogging in my holidays to my friends(maybe I will leave the fact that it was in the last few days). I do agree I am the laziest person on earth, but I did look up the newspapers for summer jobs, and I did not really feel like doing any. All those people out there my age are doing things like DJ'ing, writing for newspapers, acting in commercials, going for workshops, earning cool bucks, but hey I love it the way I am. All the money in the world cannot buy joy honey!
cheers!