Holidays

No, unfortunately, they don't give us holidays in office. One thing I miss from college, this is. Atleast one month between semesters, or sometimes even 2 months. Not that I made use of those holidays. I used to get bored in them.

So, now I had to take 4 days leave from office, from which I have got 10 days of holidays! Yay! I am going out of station tomorrow. I know I will get bored where ever it is I am going (I know where I am going btw ). So I brought books with me to read. Its been a long time since I read like how I used to read before. Whole day I would just read a book, coz I had to finish it before I could sleep. And everyone around me would get bugged coz I owuld be trying to ignore them as much as possible.

So the point is, I will not be bloggin for a week. Maybe if I get my hands on a computer, I will blog. I will really miss my computer the most. Gosh, a week without a computer. I hope I don't go mad. But the change will be good anyway from office, so its a good thing. So see you all next year!

Merry christmas people, and have a blast at the new year. Happy new year!

The ride to office

So I am on my way to work on the bus, right? So we are all sitting in the bus, happily chatting away, when we realize that there is a stop, which the driver almost missed. (Missed coz he’s a new driver, who is dumb, and will never remember when to stop and where)

So we yell at the driver, “stop at the left”. And this driver just sweeps to the left, without even looking who is there behind the bus. And uh oh, there was a car (who was trying to overtake from the left, idiotic guy). But luckily, nothing happened. And there was NO crash.

But it does not end here. What happens is, the car then goes ahead of the bus, and stops right in front of the bus. Driver applies sudden brake. We stop. And this furious lady comes out of the car, gets into the bus, and starts yelling at the poor driver. Now this driver is a young, lean (and I might add, small) guy. And he does not say anything.

It gets better. Then, the lady’s husband (probably, I am just guessing here) comes near the driver’s window (which was unfortunately open) and holds the driver from the collar. He almost pulls him out of the window! (Damn funny it might have been, provided I was not so shocked (And confused!) about what was happening). And then he just leaves. Just leaves!!

And then, the (bus) driver also, calmly moves ahead. I mean, no reaction from the driver at all.

But what I don’t understand is, why those people from the car got so pissed! It didn’t even touch the car. But then, I don’t know how close it was to the car either. Whatever it was, too much of road rash these days!

Yo!

This weekend is so weird. I’ve done nothing, and I feel so good (because of the fact that I’ve done nothing? Who knows! )

My driver’s license is expiring tomorrow. The learner’s license, that is. And by the way, I still have not learned how to drive. I will be wasting 100 bucks because of that. What will be better is, if I don't get it renewed at all. There is no point anyway. I haven't touched the car in something like 3 months. I am petrified of driving, and I don't know why! I mean, I can drive the two wheeler, and I can rip in it, like there is no tomorrow. But I can't sit and drive a car, so strange! And also so irritating, damn!

Whole of saturday was spent listening to music, and now, sunday again, I am doing nothing. I can watch a movie or something. Should go and see what's on TV today.

Oh, and I didn't eat ice cream yesterday. All coz others change their mind so easily, sigh! When I don't want to eat something, I will get it, and if I make up my mind to eat something, I won't get it. Why! Why why why! So many questions, and no answers. Who needs answers anyway. We all know that there are no answers.

FadedLights

Hehe, I was just reading all my old blog posts (don’t ask me why :D)and damn, I was laughing at the things I wrote. And then I started reading all the comments, and I could not stop laughing. Nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon, I know.

Man, I used to be in so much of trouble. And how I was in college. All the pranks, and my phone getting confiscated by the principal. Damn funny it was. The best part is that I was so annoyed by everything, that I actually wrote all that. I’ve become wayyy to serious now. Didn’t even realize it, till I read what I wrote. Damn it. I thought I would not like reading my old posts, coz earlier I used to write a diary (not anymore), and once I read what I wrote in that diary, and I was so messed up for the rest of the day!. But this was good. I really enjoyed it.

Everything that I thought about then, was how to write internals, and how to study, when to study. All that shit. Wow. How and what have I become now. Even though all I wrote was “random crap” I didn’t give a damn. (and now I do)

Some things never change though. I still like Amsterdam (no explaining on this). I am still a veggie. I still forget things. And I am still lazy. (In fact, I am more lazy than ever!)

Now I remember that all silly things used to bother me, like moving the computer away from my room, and things like that. It still does. But now, I think too much about it. Then, I used to get irritated, and think how to make things right. And now, I just give up. Will have to go back to doing what I was doing. Gosh! I used to be so silly!

Anyways, half of this wont make sense. Its not supposed to.

I’m gonna go eat ice cream now. Hot chocolate fudge, here I come. This is your last day!

Chasing bikes.

Yes, I’ve been away for too long. Don’t ask me what I was up to, coz I don’t know myself. Well, actually I do. But then, come on! Its been like, so long since I’ve even blogged, that I had forgotten how much I liked to blog. I just don’t remember what all I was doing. Not that you are interested anyway.

Ha! Suddenly I realized that it has been more than a year since I got this blog. Also, that I have not even opened my blog in such a long time. A comment to my blog, which landed in my mailbox, got me to realize that yeah, there is this blog of mine. And that I should write something. How much I’ve changed since a year! And it’s been so long since I got the job. Been so long since I started working.

Work is good, so much better than college. I’m tired of the same question asked by so many people. “How is work? Liked college, or work”. I mean, c’mon. Where is the comparison? Two different things, people!

The best part though, about working, is that you get paid. Money does not seem important to me, not now anyways. So you get to do stuff that you would not do, if you had to ask your parents for money. I would never be able to even ask for money from parents, not for bowling anyway! I went bowling twice. And it was so much fun. If you have not bowled, go do it. With lots of people. And make lots of noise too. And bug everyone around you. Ok, so that is not really easy to do. And writing that sentence does not mean that I bug everyone around me. I also got a new phone, went go-karting! Stuff that I never did when I was in college, for whatever reasons. I still am the first person to reach a place, and I still end up waiting for others. Sigh! Some things never change, now do they?

Now, the question remains, if I will continue writing, or if this will be the last post for maybe 3 months. Or 4. Who knows? And who cares. And who reads this thing now! I’m surprised! Suddenly, I am full of enthusiasm to write, but I have had this enthusiasm before, and I didn’t write. I don’t even remember what stupid reason it was coz of which I stopped writing. I was even considering getting a new blog and writing something there, coz everything is new. So get a new blog too, yeah? But I was too lazy to get something new.

I had to shift my room. Coz my stupid sister didn’t have enough light to study in her room? So now, my sister stays in my beautiful room, and I stay in her horrible room. Gosh, I can’t believe I am still not over my room. It’s been 2 weeks already! But my old room! Sigh! The walls, the windows, the view, looking out of the window early in the morning, the place where I charged my phone, the place where I kept my bag. All gone. I’m getting my good old room in 6 months though. Which is a good thing. But by then, I would have gotten used to the room that I am in now, and I will hate moving again! Yikes!

All right. I guess that is enough for the day. If I don’t stop now, I would go on writing, and never stop. That always happens to me. Either I have lots to write, or I have nothing to write. So what’s good though? Writing lots, or nothing? Another question! When will the questions end?

Ps. the title is called chasing bikes, coz I can name it whatever I want. It’s my wish, you know? BTW, "chasing cars" is an awesome song. Search for it, and listen to it. Now!

And everything stops because…

There is nothing to do this day. There are no shops open, no movies shown in theaters, no cable on TV (nothing except Kannada channels), and no public transport. People will probably start pelting stones if anyone goes out anyways. And all this, because of some dumb bandh. Something that we all are made to follow whether we like it or not. Because we don’t have a choice.

What’s the whole point of it (the bandh) anyway? I am just sitting here doing nothing at all. Even the Internet connection is bad. It keeps switching off every five minutes. Why stop at cable, and public transport? Cut even the phone connection. Cut the Internet. Cut the electricity. Cut off everything. That would make so much of sense. Then we can all sit like prisoners in our own houses and do nothing. Then you would be happy, won’t you? Of course you will! That must be the whole point of your sad existence.

Most of my friends don't even know why the bandh is even being called. It’s all crap. In this age we are forced to sit in our own houses and do nothing. Ugh, whatever.

I am extremely bored. I really have nothing to do. I just finished a book called Schindler’s list. (Need to watch the movie now.) It’s really good.

This post I had written somewhere around noon. I could not post it; coz when I wanted to post it the net was not connecting. Hence I did some other stuff, umm, like eating! And then, I thought I could sleep for an hour or so, and later think of something to do. But! But, but, but I slept for a damn five hours!! I cannot believe it. I am sure that I cannot sleep tonight after sleeping so much. And so now I am wondering what to do the whole night!

And because of this whole thing, I will be sleepy in the morning when I am expected to work! Gosh!

The only reason why I got up was coz my mom came to my room wondering what I was up to. She saw me sleeping and started yelling at me. And then I got up. And my eyes went towards the window. And it was dark. I was wondering why she is waking me so early in the morning. I looked at the watch. It was 7:30. This day sucked!

listen up! part 2

I just recently got my eyes checked and the power has increased. Looks like I will be wearing glasses for even longer that I thought. Don’t know if that is a good thing or not. Yeah, I know nothing.

I wish I could write something intelligent. Something that would make the whole world stop and read what I wrote. Yeah, that would be great. Unfortunately, my vocabulary is filled with words like “great” and “awesome”, and that won’t really help. Someone actually told me that I saw “awesome” a lot. And “you freak me out”. I say that a lot too.

Hmmm, sometimes I think its better if one does not become popular, and sometimes I think its better if someone becomes popular. I mean, both of them have good points. If you are popular, people will actually want to know what you are thinking, and what you are doing, or whatever it is that you do. But then, if you are not popular, you have your privacy, and you can write whatever shit you want, and no one will bother you.

Maybe I should sit and write a book one day, and fill it with crap. Just to see who would buy it. What would eventually happen is that I would buy all the books, or make someone buy it forcefully. I would go out on the streets with a gun (I can shoot. Muahahaha) and tell people to buy my book. That would be funny.

I remember reading a blog long time back. A guy wrote it, and it was supposedly (according to him) the most boring blog ever written. I don’t have the blog address anymore. But the blog had posts like “I saw a pencil today. I picked it up”. That’s it. The whole post had just one line. And it was so damn funny. Yeah it seems boring, but it tells a lot doesn’t it? Yeah, so why I said about the blog is that if I found a book with such things written in it, I would go and buy it. Nice way to spend an afternoon.

I’m just so bored, that I am just typing whatever comes to my mind. Which reminds me. I suck at typing. Damn, after typing for more than 4 years (atleast), I still need to look at the keyboard to type words that I don’t type normally. Yeah, that makes no sense. Let me give an example. The word “yeah”. I use that so much, that I don’t need to look at the keyboard while typing it. But the word “messenger”, I need to look at the keyboard, else there will be some damn typo. Which I always seem to make. Which always sucks.

listen up!

It’s been so long since I wrote something here. Almost 2 months (or more. Who's keeping count? NOT you!). That is, excluding all the tags. That can’t be considered a post, right? I don’t know why exactly I haven’t been writing, and I don’t even want to dwell on that anymore.

Anyway, its not that I had a blogger’s block, or that I didn’t have time to write. Hell, I’ve had loads of time to write. So, was I lazy? I think not. Oh, right. I’m not going to dwell on that.

So work has started, and right now, I am undergoing training. It’s just like sitting in college, except that I am being paid, and I actually have to learn something. Till now, in college I used to just study for the exams, and not really knowing what I was studying I used to write my exams. Some change, this.

Yeah, so training is fun. And from my first salary, I got some stuff for my parents and sister. Nothing for myself. Suddenly, I just don’t need anything. I thought so much what to buy for myself, and I could not even think of anything to buy. Which seems to be a good thing. I know people who have 5 bucks in their account. I don’t know which is better, not knowing what to do with money, or knowing what to do with it, and spend all of it.

I got my mom a sari, which I must say was the toughest thing ever to buy. It was also the biggest disaster. (Ugh, another thing not to dwell on. The list just grows.) I am a person who hates shopping. I would love it if someone brought me stuff that I need, and not having to shop for it.

Right now, I am having a huge desire to buy an iPOD. I saw one of my friend’s ipod, and it just looks great. I mean the feel of the thing, man, its just awesome. I am just stopping myself from buying it. Because I know that if I buy it, I will regret it later. But what if I regret later for not buying the iPOD when I could. Ugh. Confusion.

All of my friends have moved on to other places. Not that I have many friends, but the few of them that I had are not in Bangalore anymore. It’s going to get boring in the weeks to come. Just today one of them is leaving to another city. Weird thing is that all the people I know are in different places of the country.

Don’t know what made me write all of this(I know its crap), but I was reading a blog, and lets just say that I got inspiration.

Tag

My Accent: Indian. Duh!

Booze: Yeah, please gimme some.

Chore I Hate: Ugh. Cooking! Just hate it.

Dog or Cat: Dogs hate me, and I hate dogs. So I guess it is cats.

Essential Electronics: Cell phone, computer, pen drive, tv, music player, microwave (even though I don't cook).

Perfumes: None .. I'm allergic.

Gold or Silver: Silver. Anyway, old is gold... So new is silver?

Home: What exactly am I supposed to write here? Yeah, I stay in a home. Whatever.

Insomnia: Hmmm, I sleep early, but get up in the middle of the night. And then I can't go back to sleep for 2 or 3 hours.

Job Title: Software engineer (wheeee!!)

Living Arrangements: Again, no clue what to write. What kind of a question is this?

Most Admirable Traits: Nothing.

Number of Sexual Partners: huh?

Number of times in hospital: Once. No, twice. Ugh, ok, ok many times. I've an aunt who's a doctor. hehe.. so I've visited her there.

Phobias: Insects. And anything that flies. (except aeroplanes. Haha)

Quote: blah blah ... Don't want to bore you. You're lucky.

Religion: I don't believe in this. So, no comments. Though that was a comment in itself. Don't worry if it didn't make sense. Its not supposed to.

Siblings: A sister.

Time I Wake Up: Depends. Weekdays 7:10. Weekends no time. Whenever I wake up. NO fixed time.

Unusual Talent or Skill: Can sleep with eyes open. Can pretend to listen when I am not really listening.

Vegetable I Love: I hate vegetables. So, none.

Worst Habit: I never do what I am supposed to be doing.

X-Rays, Last time: 6 years ago. Now, what did you gain by knowing this anyway?

Yummy Food I Make: Does coffee count?

Zodiac Sign: Cancer.

Got this from killer's blog. Even though I was not tagged, I did it. No, I don't know why. And you all are really lucky people, coz you are NOT tagged. I plan on writing and writing until I stop making sense. To myself. I guess that's already established, so now I am gone.

Really I'm gone.

What are you still reading?

There is nothing to read.

Seriously.

The list

Bold the ones you did. * the ones you want to do.

(Star(*)? why a star? why not a question mark(?), or a comma(,), or a dollar($) ? Yeah, I've lost my mind. So?)

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain (I might have, don't know if what I climbed was a mountain, or a hill)
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive*
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid*
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said 'I love you' and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped* (I SO wanna do this one, but I know I won't. Will probably freak when I actually have to jump)
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea*
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game*
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg*
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment (oh man, always! ALWAYS at the wrong moment. And I always get caught. Damn!)
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 10 provinces
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach*
50. Gone sky diving *
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow (almost did. But I freaked when I got close to the cow. Was thinking it would kick me anytime... hehe)
56. Alphabetized your cds (cassettes)
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China *
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites*
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Got flowers for no reason*
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Had a one-night stand
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone*
92. Buried one of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror.
96. Raised children.
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour*
98. Created and named your own constellation of stars
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an illness that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote article for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane*
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (great fun! Muahahhaha!!)
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon*
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents*
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach (ugh!)
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read (Oh well, never missed an "important" author in school. I loved reading.)
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (Gross!)
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language* (If ONLY I had the brains! Sigh!!)
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts* (Again, brains come into the picture.)
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life

Most of the things I have marked here, I probably won't be doing. Sad, I know.

Oh, got this from green's blog.

Savandurga

At 11:30 Wednesday night I got a message saying “how about going to savandurga tomorrow?” Without even knowing anything about the place, I said, “sure, I’ll come.” Then I got a reply telling me to be in college by 8:30 the next morning.

I was thinking what could this place be, so I messaged another friend who was gonna come to the place, “hey what kind of a place is savandurga.” She said, “just a small hilly area”. So I thought fine, it will be fun.

So the next morning (yesterday) I got up early, and reached college at 8:30. Sharp. And why was I not surprised not to see anyone else there! The next person to arrive came at 8:50. And slowly everyone started coming. By the time the last person arrived and we decided to leave, it was 10. Which was really late.

We had decided to go by bikes. On the way we stopped to take some food from a hotel. After taking all the food and water we went on. The road was ok, can’t really expect good roads. But the scenery was really beautiful.

We reached savandurga at 12:30. And what do I see? A small hilly area? Hell no!! It was like this huge mountain when I saw it. Gosh, it looked so huge. And we were supposed to climb that!

When I saw it, I got scared, thinking there is no way I could climb all the way.

So we started climbing it at 12:45. After 15 minutes I had enough. I was already out of breath, and my legs had started aching. After all, it had been ages since I even walked for more than 2 kms at a time. So I just sat at the rock, and told the others to go, and told them that I’ll take my own sweet time in climbing up.

I actually was happy to have just climbed so far. I would not have minded sitting there until they all climbed up and came back down.

But do they allow me to do what I want? NO! My friends were all encouraging me, and stuff. They were telling me that I had already climbed half (which was not true), and just half of the rock is still left to climb. So anyway, took 5 minutes of break, and started again. And after 15 minutes, again I had to just sit. My legs would not carry me anymore.

The rest of them were already far ahead. Just 5 of us who were slow in climbing were together. We were encouraging each other to climb ahead. We went on, slowly. Half way through, there were remnants of a fort. Nothing was there, just the wall. Must have been a lookout at that time. The view from there was just amazing. The whole area was visible. We could make out where Bangalore was even though we were 60 kms away from it. There was also some river flowing.

At this point of time, 3 of us had enough. I really could not even stand. My calf muscles were aching. We just sat there for some 10 minutes. I closed my eyes, and everything was just so dark. I was so tired that I could just sleep there. It was so hot; the sun was beating right above us. Damn. So I asked my friend who was with us, and who had already climbed this before if we three could just stay here and the rest could climb up. He said that the return way was not this, and there is another easier way to go down, and that would be the way to go down. So we had to climb up.

We were so lost, that we probably were not even thinking right. One of my friend said,” I wish I had powers like Spiderman, then I could just climb so easily.” So I said,” when you are wishing for something, you may as well wish to be Superman, then you could just fly all the way. Why even make an effort?” Blah!

After this we were taking breaks every ten minutes or so. Finished all the water that we had. And finally after 2 hours, we reached the peak. And we got to know that the others had already reached there an hour ago. We then realized how slow we really were. We had our lunch there, looked around the place. The view was fantastic. You would think I could have pictures, but everyone seemed to have forgotten their cameras. So we just took a few pictures from the camera phones. Obviously its not gonna be very clear, but something is better than nothing.

After half an hour, we started the way back down, and I find out that the way down is the same as we climbed up. I looked at that guy and started cursing him. And he said,” If I had told you that it was the same way, you would never had climbed up.”

So true. Glad he told that lie though. I would not have got the satisfaction of climbing up otherwise.

There was this dog on the peak. It would go ahead of us. Wait there, and when everyone crossed the dog, it would go even more ahead and wait for us there. It was really funny. One girl who was really scared of dogs kept telling the dog “Go. Go”. But the dog would just not go. It was showing us the way down!

So we reached the bottom in an hour. We could go down without any breaks, coz it is not as tiring as climbing up. After reaching down, we sat there in a sort of bench, and brought some cool drinks and drank that. We sat there for half an hour or so. And then it was time to leave.

While coming back, I realized that I actually made it. I thought there was no way I could climb it, but I did. And I was happy. Totally enjoyed on the way back. The weather was also cool coz it had become evening.

I went back home at 8:30, and I just slept, without dinner. I was so tired; I didn’t know what was happening around me. Today morning I got up at 8. So it was almost 12 hours of sleep!! And right now, I don’t want to move. Just want to be sitting in one place. My whole body is in pain. Even my nails are aching! (Don't ask me how I typed this.)

But will I climb something like that again? I have no clue, but I probably will. Even though the going was tough, after reaching the peak, it was just pure bliss.

Ummm... time?

I’m spending a LOT of time on the computer. I played a lot of games that I have not played in almost 2 years. Didn’t even know it was still in the computer. I tried to remember all the games I used to like, and searched for it. And I played and I played. And right now, I am just bugged. Still have not played Age Of Empires though. Have no clue where that CD is! If I find that CD, then I’m sure mom is gonna take the computer, and throw it somewhere. I mean, I am totally obsessed with that game. If there is one game that I am obsessed about, it is AOE. Now, where is that CD!

I still have to play games online. Pool. It’s been forever since I played.

Other stuff on the computer is browsing. Read all the blogs that I had to read - almost 3 times. Funny thing is that I read so many blogs that I didn’t even remember if I already read it. I see a link, and I think, ’oh, I have not read that blog today. Let me read that now.’ And I go to the blog and realize that I already read it today. Damn my memory!!

All this free time, and I got nothing to do. Will be reading few books. Still don’t know which books I will read. Wanna watch a few movies. Don’t know how many I will finally watch.

Weird thing is that when I had exams, I used to think that I would do this thing, or that thing. Now I don’t even remember what I wanted to do.

I’ve been waiting for this whole college thing to end. Now that it is over, I don’t know what to do. Its not like I hated college or anything. It changed my life, the way I thought. Almost everything. I made friends, which I hope I would keep in touch. Don’t know if that will happen eventually.

I’ve been in orkut for a while, and I saw few of my old classmates from school. Nice to hear what they were doing and such. But the thing is, if all these years (almost 6) I didn’t care enough to keep in touch with them, why talk to them now? Nothing has changed so drastically that would make me wanna know what they are doing. All the close friends that I had, I was in touch with them anyway. Yeah, we don’t meet, and talk as often as we thought we would, but we still speak, and meet whenever we can.

Oh, I'm going off on a tangent.

[But there is NO point to this post anyway. So it does not really matter.]

Anyway, what to do now… Been listening to a lot of music while playing games. I didn’t even know I had so many songs. Now I have to sit and download some new stuff.

Ok, that’s enough for today!

Cops!

So today I was on the road on my two-wheeler, happily riding away, when a cop stood right on my way on the road, and asked me to stop. And so I did. I stopped, and waited for him to ask what he wanted. I mean, there’s no reason to stop me right? So he comes to me after 2 minutes, during which he was catching other unsuspecting people on the road. He says, “Can I see your driving license?” In English! I was so shocked that he was actually speaking to me in English and not Kannada! I said sure, and showed my license. And then he said, “You can go now”! Again, in English!

This was so different from the other experiences that I have had from cops in Bangalore. I’ve been caught three times, for the same reason of showing the license, the emission certificate, and once the guy checked even the insurance. All the three times, the cop was so rude, and so arrogant. They behaved as though I had committed some weird crime and I was getting some punishment for that.

Anyway, this was the 1st time a cop stopped me in almost 3 years. Looks like the cops have something against me or my vehicle, coz I know of friends who have not been stopped ever. And I was stopped four times! Atleast today he was not rude… still waste of my 3 minutes.

Maybe my bike is jinxed. Once I had parked it in the end of parking place. But just before the line that is drawn. The parking guy took a buck from me coz I parked there. I finished my work, and I come and see that my bike is missing. Sigh. I looked around, and no parking guy. He must have run off somewhere. Then some people around that place said that cops came and took my bike. Though I didn’t understand why exactly they took it, coz it was in the parking place, and not outside it. Screwed up people. So I had to go to the police station, pay 300 bucks and get back my bike.

So now we have English-speaking cops. Great.

Remember me?

I don’t know why, but I just can’t remember names. I had thought I could remember faces, if not names, but I guess that’s not true either. Like I found out yesterday. I was in a mall, and this girl comes up to me, all smiling. I thought, ‘maybe she’s smiling at someone behind me’. And then she comes to me, and says, “Recognize me?” I didn’t. And I had no clue what to say! The best I could come up with was, “ummm, no” and give her a stupid grin. Ridiculous, I know. Then she told me her name, and turns out she was my classmate in school. We went to school together for 2 whole years, and I didn’t even recognize her. Then we spoke for like a minute or something, and went on our ways.

Anyway, after she went, one of my friends who was with me started laughing coz I said that I didn’t recognize her! I never know what to say with people I meet after such a long time. I mean, we have not kept in contact all these years coz we weren’t really the best of friends. What do you say? So how are you, what are you up to? That’s it.

So I was in the mall, with all my friends from college. We were celebrating the end of our exams. Promises to meet each other, once a month atleast. I had made these plans when I was in school too. Probably with the girl I met as well. I must have forgotten her name coz I was not really close with her, but still, I could have remembered her face right? But no!! Funny that she could recognize me anyway.

I realized that I don’t really have a contact with all the people from school. I just know what a bunch of people are doing right now. Rest of them, I have no clue. If I see them on the streets, I would probably not recognize them. And they would not recognize me either. In fact, I don’t even remember all of my classmates’ names from school, or from PUC. That just royally sucks.

Exams are over; don’t even ask how it was. Now I have so much time in my hands, I don’t even know what to do!

Bye everybody!

No, I am not gonna stop blogging. But since my exams are coming up, I am off for 2 weeks. Well, less than 2 weeks. Yikes. I haven’t studied anything. What’s new?

Whatever. More than studying I seem to be doing everything else. So one day I decided that I’d get up early in the morning, like 5am, so atleast at that time I wont be bothered with the phone and the damn messages. So I put the alarm for 5 am, right? Alarm rings at 5, and I am just too damn sleepy. Let me just sleep for 10 more minutes. Snooze. 10 minutes later, alarm rings again. Still too sleepy. I decide to wake up at 5:40. Change the timings in the alarm, and go back to sleep. I must have been dreaming or something, coz damn, I was so sleepy. Anyway, alarm rings at 5:40. And do I wake up? No. Again change the alarm. This time to 6:10. Snooze. Snooze. Finally got up at 6:30.

So from 5 to 6:30, I neither studied, nor did I sleep properly. I woke up like 5 times in one and half hours. What’s the point? And when I woke up finally, I seemed to be so tired!

Hmmm, and why the hell do I care how much others have studied? I send and receive so many messages, asking others if they finished this subject, that chapter, and whatever crap. Funny thing is, in a subject, I have still not decided what all to study. And when exactly will I study? Damnit.

Holy crap! Just 3 more days for the exam. I’m outta here!

I love nature!

There was a hailstorm here! It was just so awesome... just wow. I'm normally a person, who likes to stay indoors when it rains, just don't like get wet. But today was different.

So today, when it started raining, there was lots of wind. And I thought, oh, just another rainfall. And then, after sometime I started hearing noises like stones hitting the windowpane. And I realized then that it is ice! So I went out to the terrace, to see it fall. Though I was in shelter, as in, I was not getting wet.

But after sometime I saw that the whole area is full of ice. I mean, really, everything was so white, and it was so damn cold too. So I don’t know what happened to me, but I went out of that shelter, carrying an umbrella, coz I didn’t wanna get wet, to where it was raining.

Why I went is coz I wanted to take photos. It was like snow! So what if there is no snow in Bangalore, atleast we have something that looks like snow!!! Yeah, I know you all are thinking, so dumb, but I don’t care! Whoooo!!

So I took photos, and then I collected some ice. This I have stored it in the freezer. Don’t know why I took it, but something made me to it. Oh, and when I was standing there collecting ice, my mom and dad came out as well, and started taking pictures! So weird!

After sometime walking in the ice with the umbrella, I got bugged of it. Kept the umbrella, and was just walking in the ice. Damn it was cold. Duh! At that time though there was just a small drizzle.

I can’t believe I actually went out and stood out when it was raining, and that too for so long. That is so unlike me.

Its not like I have not seen hail before. I have. But today I was totally out of my mind!! I don’t know what came over me. If only there was more brightness, it would have been more fun. It was so dark, and there was no power as well. So we could just hear and feel the rain and ice fall down. But it was just so awesome! I’m so excited for no reason!

I don’t remember doing all this even when I was a kid. God! I actually collected ice!

Anyways, here’s a picture I took. Not clear at all. Coz it was so damn dark..

In the center, everything that is white, it the ice. Rest is the grass.

Boo!

Ughh what a day… I had my seminar for the project today, and I was sort of prepared for it (I can’t say that I was well prepared, you see? Coz I wasn’t). Anyway, since the seminar was in the afternoon, I had enough time in the morning to get prepared. So my whole batch decided to meet up in college and do the preparation together.

So I go to college, with full enthusiasm, coz I was just waiting to give the seminar and get it over with. I reach college and see that they have put up the marks for the technical seminar, that we had given almost a month back. And I saw that I got a 43! FORTY-THREE! Wtf! This was out of 50. And I thought I had done well in the seminar? Then I see the marks of others and see that the highest is 50, and the lowest is somewhere around 40… so I am somewhere near the bottom. I’m so far down, that I don’t even know what ‘up’ is! Wtf?

This totally ruined my day, coz I saw that other people who didn’t even finish their seminar, coz they were stammering so much, have got 47s and 48s, and I am stuck in 43. Yeah. That’s 43. Four three. Ughh.

So I was sitting in the lab of my dept, thinking why I got so less. And I got no answer. And this made me realize that I would probably get less in the seminar that I had to give today as well. So I lost all the enthusiasm to prepare for it. And when I went and gave the seminar too, I know I didn’t give my best there, coz I sort of knew that whatever I did, I would end up with something less.

Whatever. As soon as the seminar got over, I just came back home. Switched on the computer, and had just started to read my mails, and started to browse, that it started raining. And obviously when it starts raining, the power HAS to go. Yeah, that’s a rule- the power has to go. Too bad you didn’t know. Atleast you know now right? Be happy.

So since the power went, what could I do? Study? Naah… I decided to sit in the balcony and listen to music and watch the rainfall. And I was actually enjoying the rain. Yeah, you read that right! I ENJOYED the rain. Well, atleast for 15 minutes anyway. Oh well, so I was sitting there, and what was I thinking? Duh! The seminar marks. I’m just so bugged that I got so less. It is so damn discouraging. It would have been so better if they had not put up the marks at all. I must actually be really, really to get so less.

Anyway, when someone is thinking so much, you should NOT listen to songs that have lyrics like “I think I’m dumb, I think I’m dumb”. So that was what I was listening to. Nirvana, and coldplay. But after listening to “dumb, I decided to listen to only coldplay. And today, I realized that I just love this song called “Amsterdam”. I mean, I didn’t realize it till now! Weird huh? And this song is there with me, since ever! It must be the rains or something, coz of which I liked it so much.

Oh, and lyrics are just awesome of Amsterdam…

And time is on your side now.

Be a Vegetarian

I just watched this video , and damn it. If you are some one who eats meat, and chicken, this is what you all are allowing to happen. Damn, I feel sick to even drink milk now. :(

I Forgot!

So today morning I had to go to college. I was already running a little late, and was in a big hurry. So managed to eat whatever I could as fast as possible, and left home.

On the way, I realized that something was missing. Something was really different. I just could not tell what exactly it was. And it was really bugging me. And then. Realization dawned. I forgot to wear my glasses. Wtf! How the hell can I not realize if I am even wearing glasses or not. I don’t even wanna answer that question. Coz I don’t know the answer!! The main reason for wearing glasses is that I get a headache if I don’t wear it. And within some 3 hours or so, I got a headache. And as the day progressed, it just got worse. Damn it. I could not even go back home and get the glasses coz I had so much of work to do. There was no way I could waste my time in going back home and coming back to college just for this.

Anyway, almost everyone in my class was asking me, “What happened to your glasses”. And my pathetic answer was “I forgot”. This totally sucked.

Then, if that was not enough, I forgot to get a book for a friend and a CD for my classmate. Seems like I am forgetting everything. I should get a book and write down everything in it. But as it is said, I’ll probably lose that book too!! Sigh.

I’m too lazy to write anymore. I’ve become too lazy.

Basic Instinct 2

Since we had only 2 classes today, we decided to watch this movie after one class. We bunked one class for the movie. So how was the movie? I found it boring. After 5 minutes, I wanted to get up and go. But I didn’t, coz I spent 50 bucks on it. Damn what a waste. The thing with the movie is I could totally predict what the ending would be. And this, after just watching it for half an hour or so. But I must say, there were a few moments when I thought I was wrong about the ending (but I was right, really!). And the ending - I’m not even going to say anything about it. Arggghhh!!

Sharon stone was really irritating. I have not watched basic instinct 1, or any other movies of hers. And she really annoyed me. I found her to be very unnatural. I have no idea what the guy’s name is. But he looked totally dumb and totally out of place. Horrible acting by these two people. Damn, why did I watch this movie. Damn!

Funny thing was that my classmate sitting next to me didn’t get the story, or the names of the people in the movie, and I was sitting and explaining the story to her. Even after the movie got over, she was totally confused as what happened. The story was pretty ordinary. I didn’t know what’s not to get.

Well, after the movie got over, we got a treat in Pizza Hut by my classmate. That was the best part of the day. Pizza is just awesome. Nothing can beat that! Actually, if any of you have plans to watch this movie, go somewhere else and eat a pizza. Atleast you’ll fill your stomach and you’ll end up being happier. Hated the movie. Loved the pizza.

The usual

I don’t know why exactly all my enthusiasm for blogging stopped. There was a time when I would log on to the internet just to check how many people read my blog. Just to check how long they stayed reading it. I was obsessed with writing something, obsessed with knowing who read my blog. And then, just like a snap, I just didn’t care. Now, I hardly check the counter and stuff like that. Its weird how I changed so much so fast.

So I have college tomorrow. I’m just bugged of college. Same old classrooms, same old teachers, and the same old classmates. It’s getting kind of boring. I’m just waiting for college to get over. I suppose it will soon. Maybe I’ll stop attending college in 2 weeks or so.

Funny thing is, right now I’m thinking that after college it wont be this boring. What I am scared of is that it’s probably going to get worse. I mean, I’m always like that. When I was 10 years old, I wanted to be 18. When I was 18, I wanted to be 21. When I was a kid, I wanted to be an adult. And now I want to be 6 years old.

I’m supposed to be studying now. It’s been ages since I actually studied properly. I have loads to study, and I am still not in my senses. And damn, the weather is so nice, that I just wanna sleep. That’s all I have been doing the whole day today. Well, not the whole day. The whole afternoon. And then it rained again. Yay!

But just so you know, I hate the rains. Then why yay!? Because it is better than the damn summer. Winter was better. Why didn't I like winter then?

Then I had a craving to eat ice cream (hehe). So I went with my sister and got my favourite ice cream- hot chocolate fudge with ice cream. And my sister took an ice cream called “death by chocolate”. Her choice was horrible. It had some choc cake, with vanilla ice cream with choc syrup or something in it. People would probably die after eating so much, maybe that’s why it is called so. She could barely finish it. And when she was halfway, she kept telling me that if she eats another spoon of that ice cream, she would probably puke. I think maybe that cake had gone bad. She says it’s supposed to taste that way. Whatever. It was just horrible, sis.

I feel like watching some movie. Damn. And I gotta study now. I’m probably not gonna be sleeping this night coz I slept the whole afternoon. From 3:30 to 5:30 or some shit. What was I thinking?

Why can't I think of some nice title? This always irritates me. "The usual"?! ughhhh!

And Rajkumar dies…

I don’t know what’s the big deal! He’s just a flimstar people, not god! I don’t get what’s the need for all this riots and stuff to happen!

I had gone to write an exam today in a college, which is pretty far from the rest of Bangalore. By the time our exam got over, and we could leave the college it was almost 430 pm. I have no clue exactly when he died, but we got the news of his death by sms in our mobile phones.

Funny thing is my friend and me were getting excited coz of what was happening. You know, all the riots and stuff. I mean, there’s nothing to get scared of, right? What can they possibly do to a college bus? But some of the people in the bus were really scared, and they were ordering us to close the windows and all.

On the way, we saw that most of the roads were blocked, probably coz something had already happened there, or maybe preventive measure. Who knows? So the college bus had to take a longer route to reach college. And which road does the driver take? Dr Rajkumar road. The whole road was empty. Nothing could happen in an empty road, right? Wrong. Four people blocked the road, and started yelling at the driver. The driver was yelling back at them. They kept on screaming at each other for 2 minutes. Finally they left, and then we also left.

As we moved on, we saw that there were huge posters of Rajkumar everywhere, with garlands and agarbathis and lots of people around. All the vans had his posters stuck, probably coz they didn’t wanna be hit by stones…

But everything was calm. Lots of policemen around. Nothing to get scared of. People’s mentality is such that we expect something to happen, and maybe we say something that is misunderstood by others.

Anyway, I reached home safely. Oh, and I started blogging again?

‘THE’ presentation

It was good. It was really good (according to me anyways). I was actually thinking that I will be nervous and that I’ll forget half the things. But when I went and stood in front of the class, I was so calm and so cool, that I was thinking why I am not scared yet. Haha.. I was waiting to get nervous. But I didn’t, so it was just awesome. And people apparently understood what I was saying, so I am happy.

This was really weird, because as far as I remember, I had stage fear. I could not stand in front of people and speak without stammering. But that day I didn’t even stammer once! So freaky.

When I was in 9th or 10th, I had to give a speech in the school assembly. I had prepared everything well. I don’t remember if I was nervous or anything. But I went there on the stage, looked into the paper, then looked at all the students waiting for me to say something. And I was just blank!(this with the paper in my hand) Then I said “good afternoon”. Thank god, no one laughed. It was 9 in the morning, you see? But after that good afternoon thing, everything was fine. I actually didn’t even realize that I had said something like that. It was only later that my classmates told me that I had made such a dumb mistake.

So anyways, after that speech in school I was always apprehensive about making mistakes like that. But after this seminar of mine, I’ve become confident. Which is a good thing, of course.

That's it

Finally I wrote only 3 subjects, even though I had prepared for the last one. There is this unwritten rule that you can’t write all the 4 subjects, so I had to follow it, you know? I know I will be regretting this later, when during the 3rd internals I will have no time to study coz I will be busy ‘preparing’ for the finals.

Anyways, nothing much going on lately. I have been trying to finish my ppt, since god knows when, and its not getting completed. I mean, I sit in front of the computer, and the modem automatically switches on, and I am connected to the internet. And then I start reading blogs, or whatever. I have no idea how people can manage to work AND blog at the same time.

So, my ppt is almost over, though I am not really happy with some of the slides. Come to think of it, I will never be happy with the whole thing. Every time I see a slide I see a fault in it. My seminar is in 2 days, and my preparation is almost zero. Heck! The ppt is still not ready!

I wont be panicking today, or tomorrow. But on the day of the seminar, I know there will be butterflies in my stomach. I can almost feel it. Haha. I don’t want anything to go wrong that day. Looks like anything related to my seminar is jinxed. First, I could not do the topic that I wanted to do coz some other idiot wanted to do it. And then, 2 days back (during internals), because of a high voltage power that came through magically in the wires, caused a spark in the CPU. And because of this, the CPU was not getting switched on. It got fixed yesterday evening by 8 pm. And I tried to complete the ppt. But by 11 or something, I was just so damn sleepy, that I had to go to sleep. This was probably coz of the 5-hour sleep that I had in the past 3 or 4 days.

Internals time yet again

Staring from Thursday, my internals are staring. And I just opened my books today morning. Well, I did open it yesterday too, but I spent most of the time staring at the book rather than reading it. I’m just not able to concentrate! Atleast today I studied a chapter in a subject. So am happy about that. And I have no clue as to how exactly I will complete studying for the internals in 3 days. Maybe I'll just write 3 subjects. Hmmm..

Whatever, the thing is that I am just wasting my time doing nothing. If I take Sunday as an example, then I can’t even recollect what I did the whole day. Haha, and today I bunked college, so that I can study at home, and here I am. Blogging. Don’t know what the hell it is that I am doing.

I won’t study now, and when the results come, I’ll wonder why I didn’t get good marks. Why the others got more than me. It’s the same old cycle that comes again and again. Ughh, so many more exams to write. Luckily I gotta study only 4 subjects this semester.

Talk to me

Wow… so many days since I blogged. And I just realized that in February I just wrote some 5 or 6 posts, which totally sucks. I don’t know if it is blogger’s block or whatever. It just seems weird for me to suddenly write what I am thinking and whatnot.

So my granny has come home, and she is totally bugging me out. Yeah, she has some stories to tell and all, but it’s getting kind of boring for me to listen to the same old things about the same old people that I don’t know. And the funny part is that she likes talking with me. And most of the times I don’t even listen to her. If I am not doing anything I just stare at her, nod after every sentence, and say “hmmm” after every 3 sentences that she says. And if I am doing something, like using the comp or something, then she gets nothing. Gosh I suck. I mean, there are these people who would do anything to spend time with their grandma’s and grandpa’s, and I am not even acknowledging her when she talks with me.

Oh well… I don’t get why she likes talking with me anyway. But what I have noticed is that most people like talking with me. Like there is this aunt of mine, who’ll come and tell me all sorts of things, whether I wanna listen to it or not. And there is this classmate of mine who comes and tells me all of her troubles. It’s cool. But I don’t know why they would rather tell me, and not others. I don’t seem to tell them anything.

I am not telling that I don’t wanna listen to these people when they talk with me. I like listening to people. In fact, rather than talking, I would rather listen to people. I find it very interesting sometimes. Just wondering why it is me that they like talking to.

Lets Dance

One of my classmates had a dance performance in kathak yesterday evening. So me and my other classmates decided to go and watch it. Well, I actually didn’t wanna go, coz I get really bored of all this classical dances. I mean, to really enjoy something like this, I have to know something about the dance, and something about the steps, and whatnot. I really cannot appreciate it. For me a dance would be nice, if it looks nice. I can’t tell if the steps are being done correctly, or if the facial expressions are correct. All this makes no sense to me. But I went anyway, just because my other classmates wanted me to come with them.

So we watched the dance, and it looked good. It was a solo performance, and she danced for around 45 minutes continuously, with maybe a break of 5 minutes. Don’t know how she could manage it. Wow, that takes a lot of stamina. I was totally amazed. I mean, I am the kind of person who gets tired after climbing up stairs of three floors, and she dances for 45 minutes!! Hmmm, I could not see all the facial expressions and all, coz we were sitting behind. So we could not really see that properly.

Till yesterday I had never seen any sort of classical dance live. This was a first for me. It keeps coming on TV, and my parents watch it, but I never had any inclination to watch it. I don’t like classical music either.

Once, when I was maybe 10 years old, I went with my uncle to a classical music concert. And it was so boring, that I almost slept. And I didn’t want to sleep. So I did everything I could to keep my eyes open. The problem was that the music was so boring, and it was pulled to almost 3 hours! I don’t remember why I agreed to go there in the first place, coz I never liked any classical stuff. I still don’t. And that day I had decided not to go to any sort of classical stuff.

Oh well, I don’t think I will be going to any more concerts or any dance thing. I’m done with it. Well, unless someone I know is performing.

Random crap

I don’t know why I am just not writing anything. I just realized that it’s more than a week since I’ve written anything here. A lot of things are going on in my mind, and I just don’t know how exactly to write it. Maybe I just don’t wanna write what I am thinking. This just totally sucks.

I’m getting nervous about something, and I don’t know what. Yesterday was just totally weird for me. I mean, nothing really happened, but still there was/is something in my mind, and I just could not figure out what was bothering me.

So, I’m feeling really crappy today. Don’t feel like doing anything. Suddenly I have this feeling of self-pity I suppose. Everything is not going the way I want it to go. And I am just sick of this. Didn’t I already say that? Ummm...

‘I don’t know’ seems to be my favorite sentence. I mean, I don’t know anything. Anything someone asks me, I’ll say ‘ I don’t know’.

Yikes!

I don’t know why I am writing this. Haha.

Why do they make movies from books? It does not even make any sense. A book, that takes days to finish, is shown in just two hours! What kind of justice does it do to the book? On Saturday I watched ‘Bourne Identity’. Well, I started watching it anyway, but I could not watch the whole thing, because it was just damn stupid. The whole story is changed! Nothing is similar to the book, except the names. Ughh, I got so bugged of the movie, that I stopped watching it. I knew the ending anyway.

I thought I would like watching ‘godfather’. Now I don’t wanna watch the movie. I’ll save 6 hours of crap. Yippee.

Whatever.

Project rant

Since I am doing engineering (in the final year), I have to do projects. The good (or bad) thing though, is that we can do the project in college, or in any company. So, I can’t do the project in a company, coz we don’t really have even 3 months. And it is so not possible to cope up with 4 subjects (yes, we have 4 subjects in the last semester!), AND do a project. So we have to do it in college itself. All that I have to do now is to decide on what subject to do it in, and then decide what to do in that subject.

So I am trying for a project from 3 weeks, and still nothing has been finalized. My group had decided on a nice project. We thought that we could do this one. Then we find out that the seniors have already done a project on the same lines. So we can’t do it. And we are right back where we started from. Now this is really irritating, coz we were one of the first groups who started searching (and researching, apparently) for projects, and now we have nothing.

Ughh this is so complicated. I was so happy when I found out that we had only 4 days of college. But looks like I’ll be busy all days in a week because of this.

Oh, and “eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” was coming on TV a few days back. So, I thought of watching it coz of the reviews that it has got. Jam Carrey even said that his best performance was in this movie. So anyway, I started watching it, and there was a power cut. So I’ve seen the movie, except for 15 minutes in the middle. And I have not understood the movie. Makes no sense at all. But it did seem similar to vanilla sky, like raj said. It was not funny. When Jim Carrey is in a movie, I expect it to be funny!

Happy Valentine's Day

Boring!

I have nothing to do, and I am so bored. Nothing. I got nothing to do. These are the things that I could do, but I can’t. Which is very, very unfortunate. Which is the reason why I am bored.

1) I could watch TV. But I am bored of watching it. Scary, but true. I’m bored of TV. I never thought that this day would come. Maybe its because I’ve been watching TV for 3 hours continuously, but whatever.

2) I could read a book. But now, I am not allowed to read books (read: novels) because my college has started. Yes, there’s a rule which says that you can’t read books when you have college.

3) I could listen to music. But all the music I like has been listened over and over again. Now I am just bugged of the same kind of music. I can’t download any music. This is because of a stupid, stupid reason. There is a download limit according to my internet provider. If the download limit exceeds, then we’ll (read: dad) have to pay more. More. Yeah. So no more downloading music. If I want to download, then I have to download it from 2 in the night to 8 in the morning (because there the number of bytes are not counted at this time). I can’t be awake till 2… and I can’t get up before 8, unless I have college. And if I have college, then I obviously wont be downloading any music.

4) I could read blogs. Which is what I’ve been doing. And now I am bored of sitting in front of the computer.

As I am writing this I remembered that Seinfeld is a show of ‘nothing’. Nothing.

Freaky Tuesday

Yeah, I know its not Tuesday. I had written this 2 days back, and I thought I had saved it; apparently I didn’t. So it is not as detailed as it was before. I’m too lazy to type the whole thing again.

My sister (yes, I have a sister!) and me decided to go shopping two days back. We hopped into the sad two-wheeler of mine and started off. Now, ya’ll know how bad the roads are, I don’t really have to spell that out. Me (and my great brain) decided to take a short cut, so that I could beat the bad traffic. Unfortunately the road that I chose had more of potholes than the road it self.

With my sister cribbing about the roads, and me telling her to shut up, we moved on. As I was maneuvering the potholes, suddenly the kinetic just started going ahead, without me accelerating it! I mean, I was just pressing the brakes as tightly as I can, and the stupid thing was going fast? What the…

And as I was trying to stop the vehicle, what exactly does my sister do? She laughs. Yes, and uncontrollably at that. Anyway, I switched off the vehicle and stopped on the road. My sister is still laughing. I ask her, what’s so funny? No reply. Why? Coz she’s laughing.

So I am wondering what to do. And the sister comes up with a brilliant idea. Take it to a service station. They’ll tell you what to do.

Problem? The service station is almost 2 kilometers away. So I told her to go home walking and decided to try to go there on the kinetic. And weirdly, when I started it, it was fine! So I told my sister to sit, and we were off again. We reached a signal, and we were waiting for it to become green. And some guy from behind started honking repeatedly. It was getting on my nerves, so I turned back and looked at him. My sister was laughing again. He was gesturing something wildly, which of course I did not understand. Finally, my sister got what he was saying. The air in the tire was less.

So we took a deviation. Reached a petrol bunk after a kilometer. Put air. Off again. Finally. I was hoping that nothing else would happen.

And then what happens? Yup, a puncture. It had to happen, didn’t it? (She was laughing again. I guess some crazy bug bit her.) So then we had to push the kinetic till the nearest repair shop, which was, like half a kilometer away. Not really far, but it seemed very heavy and the road was a little uphill. Both of us were pushing it. Taking a lot of breaks in the middle. And I realized that I was so not fit. And it was so damn hot.

Got the puncture repaired. After an hour that is. Why you ask? Yeah, because it was lunch hour. Finally we went back home, coz we were really tired of the whole thing.

This is again a post that makes no sense at all. Just want to remember it as the days go by… I just realized that I am not weird, but all the weird things happen to me!

Nothing and Everything

I’ve been meaning to write earlier itself, but I just didn’t want to sit in front of the computer. College is starting tomorrow. It’s too early. I didn’t even have 15 days of holidays. C’mon!! Atleast give us 15 days damnit. The holidays were so less, that I didn’t even get time to get bored. Its was so less. No more Sigh. All good things have to come to an end.

So what I have been doing is just reading and hanging out in malls. I finally finished Bourne supremacy. Finally is the keyword here. It took so long! (almost 2 weeks!) I mean, it was not boring or anything, but it was not that interesting either. As in, I didn’t care what happened in the end. After finishing this book, I read a John Grisham’s book called “the testament”. Now this is called a good book. Finished it in a day. The book is about a guy who has 12 billion dollars. He makes a will, and then kills himself. The will gives all the money to a daughter, without any money to the rest of the 6 children. And this daughter does not want the money. Anyway, it was a nice read. I normally like books that move fast, and give nice descriptions about the characters.

Suddenly I’m starting to like music of Rang De Basanti. Don’t know how that happened. Normally I just can’t stand Hindi music. But this was somewhat different. I don’t like all the songs though. Songs that I like are khoon chala, roobaroo, khalbali and rang de basanti, the title track. While watching the movie, paathshala just sounded awesome. But when I listened to it at home, wasn’t that great.

I have not watched any new movie, except for Rang De Basanti. And I already watched it twice. And I am ready to watch it again. This is so freaky. I don’t know why I like it so much either. Some parts of it were not totally believable. But still it was a nice movie.

So this is the last day of my last ever holidays. Its back to studies from now.

message mistakes

I don’t know why, but I’m getting a lot of weird messages (don’t know from whom) on my phone lately.

Like, once I got this message:

“I didn’t know you speak so well… In fact I don’t speak that well either.”
So I replied with,” Who are you? I don’t know who you are.”
For which the reply was,” First tell me who you are, and then expect me to reply!”

I didn’t reply to that message, thinking that it was just one of my friends just bugging me with someone else’s phone.

But it didn’t end here. Once, I was messaging my friend during exams. So I asked her a question and was expecting a reply in a few seconds. Imagine my surprise when I got the reply, but from a different number! So I assumed that maybe her charge got over, and that’s why she is answering from her dad’s phone. (I didn’t know her dad’s number; I assumed this.). I replied to this number, and asked some other doubts that I had. And I was not getting a reply at all.

After an hour or so, my friend messaged me, from her number, asking a doubt. Now I really got confused, and asked her,” Why did u msg me from another num just now?”
For which she replied, (get this) “I didn’t reply from another number!”
Which was really freaky, because that message was still there on my phone from another number! I know the message has to be from her, coz she cleared my doubt in the reply!

Anyway after 2 days I got a call. This number was not in my contact list.

Me: Hello?

Him (have no clue who he was, but from the voice I reckon he was a guy): Yes ma’am. Did u message me?

Me: No I didn’t. I don’t even know who you are!!

Him: well, I got a message from you a few days back. I just checked it, coz I had gone out of station. So I was wondering who you are?

Me (realizing that it might be that number which I assumed was my friend’s dad’s): ummm... I think it was a mistake!

Him: oh ok, I thought maybe it was important, that’s why I called.

[I must’ve sent atleast 3 messages]

CLICK!

It didn’t end here either. I’ve gotten 6 to 7 messages from people I don’t know, and they claim that they don’t know me either. But the best was this: I got a call. I did not pick the phone, coz I didn’t hear it ring. On seeing the miss call, from a number I didn’t recognize, I sent a message to that number, asking why he called me. He messaged back, telling that he didn’t call me!

I know that messages can get lost on the way, and can reach up in other’s phones. But getting a call when the person didn’t call anyone is just too much. My service provider just sucks!

Lots of TV!

Hi, my name’s freeze and I’m a TV addict!! Hehe... I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately, and the reason is obviously coz I have holidays right now. Once the college starts, I can’t watch TV for hours together.

Before starting engineering, I almost watched 2 to 3 hours of TV per day. I would watch anything. And if nothing that I liked were on, I would just change the channels for half an hour until I saw something that I liked. Even when I had exams, I would be on the sofa with the remote in my hand, searching for something nice. Ok, but that was only during the 5 or 10 minute breaks that I took from studying. But it still was (and is) an integral part of my day.

So these are the some of the stuff that I’m watching these days. I don't watch any soaps in the Hindi channels, they are just way too boring for me.

Stuff I like:

A little bit of Australian open and cricket. I watched the doubles finals yesterday. It was really funny when Paes and Damm were doing chest pumps and seeing them, even the Bryans started doing it! There was lots of energy there on the court.

Roger Federer won today, by beating Marcos Baghdatis. I dunno if he'll ever lose. Some matches were close, but he always manages to get through. He's just awesome, man! I wonder where he gets his energy from...

Cricket, well… I’m just forced to watch it when others in my house want it. I don’t really like it. And Pathan got a hatrick. Yay for him!

The OC- this is my new obsession. I normally don’t watch soaps and dramas, but this show is pretty good. I just can’t believe that more than 300 episodes are already shown in the US. And star world is just showing 1 episode per week. It’ll be ages by the time we catch up (if we ever will).

Monk- I always liked thrillers and mysteries. Nothing can beat this. And the guy (don’t know his name) who plays Adrian Monk (the detective who solves the murders) is just awesome. He acts really well.

American Idol- This show is reality tv at its best. It’s got things that are very real, very funny, lots of sarcasm, and great judges.

There are lots more…

Stuff I don't like:

Charmed- I just find this really stupid, the 3 sisters having weird powers, and crap like that.

Buffy, the vampire slayer- another show I cannot stand! I see a pattern here; I don't like things with vampires, and people having powers, something that are not (and can't be) real.
I don't like Smallville (superman when he was a teen) either. But Tru Calling (it shows a girl where dead people talk to her telling her to save their lives. She goes back that day and does everything to save them) is kind of ok. Don’t like it a lot though.

And any show that is a poor copy of the original.

A book.

I've had nothing to do in the past two days, except listen to music, read and watch TV. I watched some really dumb movies on TV. I don't know why, but whenever I have exams only nice movies come on TV. And when I have all the time to watch movies, nothing good comes.

I read The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. When the movie came, I just wanted to read the book and THEN watch the movie. So I plan on reading all the three parts before watching the movie. I always like to read a book and then watch the movie (Maybe this is another weird thing about me). The book is just superb, very captivating. Though there are some parts of it which are a little boring. There are some sentences which are in French. And its irritating, coz I don't know even a word in this language.

I didn't really expect his book to be this good actually, coz I didn't like the first book of his that I read. Many had told me that his books are wonderful. So I got Rhinemann exchange and read it. But it was SO boring! Even now, I have no idea as to what I read in the whole book! What a waste. Its possible that someone who read it would like it, but I didn't understand anything in it. Depends on a person's perception and his knowledge.

So now I got the next part of the book, The Bourne Supremacy. I still have to start reading it. It looks promising.

Farmhouse

I had gone to my friend's farmhouse. You would think that it would be boring, but it was not. It was a nice change just after the exams actually. We reached there around 9:30 am. My friend (lets call her M) showed all the animals there. A bunch of cows, 2 kittens, sheep, dogs, 2 puppies (which were cute), a cat, some parrots and some weird bird whose name I forgot. Then we were just exploring the place. There were a few rocks. We all climbed a few of them. I could not; coz there's something really wrong with my knee.

[During my exams, my knee just got swollen. And then, during the exam, I had to go to the hospital to figure out what’s wrong with it. Coz my leg was aching when I walked. So the doc told that its knee inflammation and gave me a few tablets. It’s still not ok though.]

So anyway, my friends (13 of us) climbed the rocks, while I was just sitting and cheering them up. It was still fun though. I wanted to climb one so badly, but I could barely walk, forget climbing a rock. After all that we had lunch. M’s parents were there already to ‘welcome’ us.

After lunch, M’s dad, who is incidentally an ex army man, showed us few of his guns. And then, he loaded them and told us to shoot at a target!! We were all totally excited. Coz we have never done that before, obviously. The target was around 10 feet far. We were to keep the target, and 2 parts of the gun (forget what its called) in the same line, and pull the trigger. The gun was pretty heavy actually. I did not expect it to be that heavy.

So the guys were just not allowing us girls to have a try. We argued a lot, and we finally got a chance. So I took the gun, took aim and shot. I was just an inch away from the target (which was a soft drink bottle, with Aishwarya’s face on it). M’s dad told that it was a good shot for the first time. Ha! And the guys were shooting all over the place. After that we girls got an equal chance to shoot. The whole shooting thing was amazing actually. First time experience. So people, don’t piss me off, I can shoot!!

After all the shooting, it was finally time to return home. We were there for around six hours. And it was just amazing. The shooting part was the best part of the day. (If I could do some rock climbing, I might have said that it was the best part.)

I'm on a roll! Tagged again!

This time I'm tagged by greensatya. I've to list the 5 weird things about me.

1. I am obsessed with books. If I start reading a book, I have to finish it that day itself. The maximum is 2 days, and that is only when I start the book in the evening or night. Until I finish that book I cannot do anything else. I'll read even when I'm eating. Till now, I've taken many days only for 2 books. 1st was Lord of the rings. I still have not finished it, coz the print is too small, and there are way too many pages. 2nd was a Robert Ludlum book called "the rhinemann exchange" it took 2 weeks to read that book. I found this book boring.

2. I love music. If I like some song, I'll listen to it over and over until I remember all the words. I normally like songs which I can sing along with.

3. I check my mails almost 5 times a day. It was really hard to stay away from the computer when I had my exams.

4. I am scared of dentists. The thought of someone giving me an injection in my mouth, and having a drill in my teeth horrifies me.

5. I hate dogs, and dogs hate me. I'm telling you, even if the dog does not bark at anyone, it'll bark at me. I don't mind cats but no dogs. You can also say that I'm a little scared of dogs. The reason behind this is a long story. Maybe I'll tell it someday.

This was really tough to write, coz it was tough to find something that was weird about me. It took an hour to write this. Phew!

I'm tagged!!

I've been tagged by raj. This is my first tag, and I'm excited!
Okie, here goes:

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE: I've never had a job. I'm a student.
1)
2)
3)
4)


FOUR MOVIES YOU WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
1) Men in black
2) Cast Away
3) Jerry Maguire
4) Speed-1

FOUR PLACES YOU HAVE LIVED:
1) Delhi
2) Bangalore
3) ---
4) ---

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH:
1) Friends
2) Seinfeld
3) Gilmore Girls
4) Songs on VH1 (Its not really a show, but if I have nothing to watch, I just see music videos)

PLACES YOU HAVE BEEN ON VACATION:
1) Shimla
2) Chandigarh
3) Jaipur
4) Agra

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS:
1) Sandwiches
2) Masala dosa
3) Hot chocolate fudge
4) Cold coffee

FOUR PLACES YOU WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1) Watching a movie
2) Hanging out with friends
3) Sleeping
4) Reading some book

FOUR BLOGGERS YOU ARE TAGGING:
Ummm, nobody. Anyone who wants to do it, I guess.

I'm Back!

Exams got over yesterday! And I totally freaked out later. Well, I had to. My exams were kind of ok. Not too good, and not too bad. Lots of interesting things have happened in three weeks. And there is lots to write. Which I will do so in the days to come.

All these days, I've been sleeping for 6 hours maximum. Total studies. So after coming back home, I thought I'l watch a movie or something. But nothing good was there. Still, I was just watching tv till 11:30, then finally decided to sleep. I was happy that I didn't have to wake up early today. But guess what? I woke up at 6 again today! I'm just so used to getting up at 6, that even without an alarm I got up so early. Then I was wondering what to do, coz I don't have anything to do! Ah, such a nice feeling. So I was just lying in bed listening to songs.

I'm going to my friends farmhouse today, and will be back after 2 days. So see you then! This is so good... No studies for one whole month! I've so much to do. Read books, watch movies. And everything that I might have missed.