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