| Summertime rocks.... |
[Jul. 13th, 2008|08:30 pm] |
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| Jaane tu, jaane tu ya jaane na.... |
[Jul. 11th, 2008|09:14 pm] |
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Moving-out is big, far far bigger than the term itself :-) it is so at least for me.
It became apparent while clearing out my wardrobe, I have been using stuff years and decades old and it feels bad even to donate them. Then, there are so many books that they need to be couriered once I am there, I can't carry them with me. Receiving a make over of sorts from mom :-/ and my biggest problem is shopping for hours at end, which is because I have not much to wear after the clearance [my favorite so far is the knee length gangee :-D ]. Got my DL, it is nice to be finally driving on Bangalore roads and enjoying it too. Since certain Indian and particularly parental prejudices are difficult to let go, mom made sure that I learn to tie a saree without help after some hilarious initial trials. Am now a proud owner of a small little pressure cooker, tong, a couple of gaskets and saree-ing:-D
There are just so many things to put away - cassettes, CDs, books, note books, pages, a love-letter, colours - in all possible form, papers, canvases, innumerable empty pens which finally got thrown out, crayons from some godforsaken era, marbles, beads, magnets, bundles of tinkle issues that stood over six feet - my knight in multi-coloured armor :-D, dissected alarm clocks, kaleidoscope, my famous zoo of earrings (I used to collect ear studs with all sorts of animal motif on it) - all this right in the beginning, I wonder what more is still to come out in the days to come.
Got warned by parents about only one thing and that is not to ride bikes at all, ever, not even as a pillion :-(... Sometimes people have this morbid, inherent nightmares about stuff that are usually not quite possible and my parents, I guess, often dream about me on a bike ramming into nothingness. I too have been the last few weeks about a few deaf and dumb dacoits...
Watched some 20 movies last week and am not going to discuss about it. |
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| Farsh... |
[Jun. 30th, 2008|11:34 pm] |
I have so far seen only ants get as paranoid as [excuse me] the americans do. Got my VISA today and the consulate felt like an alien enclosure :-L I hated it thoroughly. The only part that was lovely was my interviewer - he was a live laughing buddha :-) all smiles from one end of his bald head to the diametrically opposite end. And anything that could be worse than that was the 7 hour ride back home in a chair car :-(
I feel a hole forming in my tummy with a million butterflies gushing out... I shall give myself two years, if I really don't like it there, am coming back home to work for dad full-time :-/
Lab to finish this week after which I have just 30 odd days left with my family :-( I did not think it would feel this bad. |
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| Hmmmm.... |
[Jun. 20th, 2008|06:31 pm] |
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I think animation is the next big thing...it probably already is :-) and I am just beginning to discover...
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| If I was a flower growing wild and free... |
[Jun. 7th, 2008|08:57 pm] |
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It is said - necessity is mother of all inventions, turns out it holds for evolution as well, see for yourself :-D
Watched a hoard of movies... Liked Juno the best. Its sound track, I thought, stood out the most in a wonderful way :-)
Two of my favorites [no visuals]
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| Gothica... |
[May. 7th, 2008|07:58 pm] |
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| Marooned... |
[Apr. 15th, 2008|08:32 pm] |
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To want to learn swimming is one thing and to actually slow and steadily grasp the way to float is another. Breathing all that amount of water down ones nose is a pleasure people like me could happily forgo. Having done all that, to swim in the middle of a cyclone in a quiet and tepid swimming pool is an experience of a life time. I don't think I shall have the pleasure again in sometime.
The warmth of the pool for having laid bare in sun all day,the chilled droplets from above, coconut to the very many fruit bearing trees smothered against each other and quite often to the earth [most of them rose again after the storm passed], and the ones that did not had gone down with the electric lines. The effect was somewhat severe in the pitch darkness that followed. It then rained heavily but steadily and we floated on our backs at times choking on the rain drops, the scene further heightened when enormous veined bolts of lightening tore through the sky... all of it was so surreal and out of ordinary it took us another two hours to really get bored and get off.
I can't quite say am not having fun :-D |
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| Chulbuli... |
[Mar. 25th, 2008|11:03 pm] |
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Had an outstanding day, i.e. I was stranded out for a large part of the day. The most tortured part of my anatomy for the day happens to be my tummy, ate hard and laughed harder, so much that by the end of it my system sort of threatened to explode from either ends.
Its a known fact that sweet chariot makes opulent use of alcohol in their confectionery and the one that I carried for Risha was no different. After some generous helping this is how things sounded:
Chicken is the tastiest vegetable around with wings and legs for show.
How do you spell QUEUE? K-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-E-E-E-E-W
One particular cousin of Ri's went and pressed his dad's tummy after the dad had had a filling meal which led to a noisy liberation of an indecent quantity of wind from the rear. He was startled so badly that he got up and shouted back 'I could have been killed!!!'.
There were more but my memory fails me.
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| Crossroads... |
[Mar. 16th, 2008|06:25 pm] |
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Going over old entries, I saw this. Well, I'll turn 25 next year and this is how far I've 'succeeded'.
1. I'd be a lot less unhappy and grim cause am hoping a lot of the current wounds would fill up by then and hopefully I'd be wise enough to not get into such soup again. Very happy right now :-)
2. Patched up with Ri. Long back, that is a huge part of why am as happy as I am today.
3. I'd still be studying/researching - god forbid. Hehehe, and that is how it is going to be.
4. I'd have waist-length hair. Well, I almost did but then at a moment of weakness+insanity that hits me time and again, I chopped it all away :-)
5. I'd quit keeping cartoons as user-pics. That'll take some more time to grow out of :-)
6. Would not be living with parents! I'm surprised at how close that day really is. I remember it being one of my nagging wishes I've expressed many a times on LJ and am surprised again that am actually sad.
7. Would definitely have a purely non-platonic relationship of some kind with somebody. Hmmm... I've come to dislike this issue immensely.
8. Would probably be better traveled than I am now. I am!
9. Would be a reformed movie-addict. :-D not in this lifetime.
10. Still be in touch with friends (goes without saying/typing).
11. Sharath, BU, Eraiah, RC would be forgotten as if they never existed. They seem like a forgotten dream already.
12. Metamorphosed into a slim-attractive creature (more of a wish than a distant possibility). (Also be able to afford a pair of white lens that makes ones eye look iris-less.) I'm over the white lenses but I've lost 6 kilos since I've taken to running again.
13. Would have read almost all of Ruskin Bond and a few others. About through, I've been hitting myself for never having read or known Gerald Durrell, I finally am and enjoying every bit of it.
14. Would have the audacity to complete at least 12 canvases every year by then! Thats way too ambitious I realise.
15. And have a baby in case my hormones and head go berserk simultaneously, farfetched but still I shall be shamelessly selfish enough to think of it. :-) I will, even if not at 25 sometime soon after.
10/15, I say not bad :-D |
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| One SUNDAY... |
[Mar. 11th, 2008|10:29 pm] |
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| Pehla nasha... |
[Feb. 27th, 2008|07:28 pm] |
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Months of relentless waiting and now the clouds are beginning to clear :-) Yet the perplexes have no end. I have been accepted by one university but there are 5 more to hear from, without which am stuck with accepting it too. I shall thus be gone by August. This is what I largely worked for so long, in ways it is a wonderful feeling but I'm also honestly scared about leaving everybody, wonder what kind of cultural or whatever shock am in for.
To top all this with, I've been unable to tell my guide that I intend to leave a little (read as 'a lot') earlier than intended...April is just a month away and I am left with no clue about how to put it to her. We are in the middle of something and if I leave now she'll be in deep crap.
Worries apart a very happy occasion has graced us all. Gou - one of my best pals is getting married to another of my friends Niru. What more, I'll actually get to be a part of it. Post April hoping to hear some similar great news from Ri, yet again with another friend :-D I must be Cupid, there is another couple in making among my friends about which am allowed to discuss/disclose only after certain issues are settled.
A trip to far north-east [India] under planning. Hope it happens soon and yes, soon I'm to own a camera :-D |
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| Tu talbat... |
[Feb. 14th, 2008|09:18 pm] |
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While the entire world around me is abuzz with red roses, heart shaped balloons ....red again...and love songs on radio - I cannot help but wish thee all a very happy valentine's day :-/ Had to, especially after I got asked a dozen odd times about what I was doing today. It is cruel being single in this city where even an itch on your body finds a mate if not attended long enough. Suddenly I feel so darn out of place even among friends, not their fault..neither mine... well... you know how it can get..:-)
I am not a cynic, I also don't care ... but then how long do you stay without caring? :-D and so, I took my parents out on a date and watched Alvin and the Chipmunks. |
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| Krack-jack... |
[Feb. 6th, 2008|06:39 pm] |
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It feels like the time of the year when there is a lot to do, say and particularly share. Woke up with my head still dizzy - a definite start to a disastrous day, which was almost proven right till this little kitten at RRI came along. I've never been too fond of cats or kittens, am more a dog person, but this cute fellow/felli made sure I was head over heels in love with him/her before I could start my lunch. Hmmm :-) it was wonderful to feel this warm after so long. Research can get hugely depressing and I see that now irrespective of how good or bad your guide is, mine is an angel. There is a strange correlation of things working out well when you are in a good mood and today's bit of experiment simply sailed through after lunch.
There was this bunch of amateur sailors from america that gave a talk rather shared their stories and experiences of having crossed several seas and oceans and places. They are five friends traveling around the world in their small boat and writing stories for school kids. One amazing and motivated lot.
I feel real good today. |
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| Grinch.... |
[Feb. 5th, 2008|05:56 pm] |
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Had one lousy day!!! So annoyed might pop like a pop-corn! First the experiment then the bus, after which the auto, then the grocery store and finally got home to find some unknown guest with the TV blaring away. UHHHHH, I need a bazooka. One of those unavoidable and inevitable bad days that come by once every few months.
fuzz and cuddle... ummm... ^_^ no better therapy.
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| Kunidu kunidu baare... |
[Feb. 2nd, 2008|11:05 pm] |
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Strange that I seem to have taken to purging on LJ only when hugely intoxicated :-D Some purging better than none I suppose. Since I'm on a sabbatical there are 'little' books or studies to get back home to, rather I chose for it to be this way. Thus, I have been tagging along with parents to the very many social-dos of the town. Any worth mentioning was what I went to last evening - the book launch of 'My Japanese Wife' by Kunal Basu.The reading was absolutely pleasant, almost therapeutic after the whole day's toil. He, Mr. Basu, was accompanied by Aparna Sen and a small piece of the making of the movie of the same novel was shown and I simply can't wait for it to release!!! When the hell are they releasing it?? What I loved the most was the Japanese wife calling her bengali husband Snehamaye - Senemaye.
Tonight was grander, Times of India had thrown a food award of sorts. We walked in at a safe time when the crowd was still bald and we could grab a couple of cocktails and seats :-) Ruby Chakravarty who vexed me to no end till before this evening was the focus of the entire crowd's as well as my attention - a very big focus at that, I admit I could not help but like the lady, despite her long, lustrous and very blond extension over a rather scarcely haired head, I liked her. I usually like people who keep themselves natural to their toe nail - without deodorants, perfumes, extensions, botox, hair colours etc and also ones who can drink a lot and hold it too :-D Anyhow back to the evening, I remember the first three drinks I had after which I continued with finishing all that dad got to taste and throw away, only my mouth was the bin :-D. By the end of it Mom, dad and I were so royally drunk I think I gave a standing ovation to every chef that was awarded. There was a point of time when the 'Mungaru Male' fame - Ganesh came onto the stage to present some award and dad questioned aloud 'Ganesher soond kothaye?' - 'Where is Ganesha's trunk? He walked around a bit after which his 'questions to reckon with' stopped - thank god. There was an assortment of food by the best of places in Bangalore by the pool side... after some super hot sea-food momos and delicate tea cakes I literally felt like stripping and jumping into the pool - that would be the perfect ending to a fun evening. For a person who can barely think of picking an odd bit out of her teeth in public forget stripping and getting into a pool, we instead ended it by driving back home at a 5km/hr pace, I wonder what that looked like, lol, each one of us would have failed the sobriety test miserably. There are very few occasions I recall when I have been this happy.
I am going to sleep till Monday, I have been working like a dog!!! |
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| Zilch |
[Jan. 25th, 2008|10:14 pm] |
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WTF!!!? Heath Ledger is dead!!!! This is way too difficult to digest. Whats wrong with these people??? So, so talented yet........ morons!!
Female on mars @_@ like there weren't already enough here.
On the main page of a certain news paper 'Nicolas Sarkozy not to be accompanied by his girlfriend', give me a break, who cares? Besides he isn't some teenager with raging hormones to be running around with his girl friend at toe!!!! HUH!!!
Am just unimaginably sad about Heath Ledger :-( |
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| Stuck... |
[Jan. 19th, 2008|06:38 pm] |
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| Akki rotis.... |
[Jan. 17th, 2008|09:40 pm] |
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Hope everyone had a wonderful start this year, in case otherwise, no worries there is always the next year :-D My good wishes to all.
Spent 31st cooped in a train bound to Hampi, reason being : Poo would be there on a study tour organized by her department, and I comfortably slept through 97% of the journey. Can't help admitting that I was dying for some of her, our home also had by then begun mimicking the cemetery next door. The stay at Hampi was as eventful as it could get, we managed to cover quite a bit of the area in two days. After a rough fight with her organizing authorities Poo was eventually permitted to come back to Bangalore for a week. Some more fun followed her arrival here but soon calmed down when she left. This time she flew back with my other granny, so mom and I are sort of home alone now.
The lab was getting numbingly cold and also because I had to work with someone ridiculously slow, with some exaggerated symptoms of a viral infection I managed to get a week off :-D I know, its wicked and am totally enjoying it. This week has been my most productive time in the last few months, no doubt that I'm this content.
Well, the applications are all done and sent, scores reported, now begins the endless wait for replies from schools :-) |
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| Kahaniyaan... |
[Dec. 11th, 2007|11:12 pm] |
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Yesterday was my last day to one of the IISc courses and the coming week will see the last of another. It is some time difficult to comprehend how time flies. By April my project also shall hopefully reach some definable conclusion and I'd know the schools that would dare to take me in :-D
My granny, the sweet little angle, had a cardiac arrest a month back followed by a bypass last week... I've been meaning to talk to her, there seems to be some block in me too and am not able to make that call and speak... while all I want is to be with her.
I am beginning to enjoy my solitary 'confinement', not something I'd prescribe but once you learn to like this, you can happily live through any situation life throws at you. There was also another revelation, I finally found out the cause of my anxiety attacks, when Poo was here I would shout or scream at her for no good reason and somehow with it part of my anxiety would also dissipate and over a week after having had enough battles it would completely vanish away. Now, none of it happens, so I run, I run 5 miles and at times10, hoping it would tire and throw all that worry and pressure out. Then I sleep and when I wake up again all of it settles right back in, rather comfortably... like a bottle of unfiltered wine. Worrying about worries hehehe.... |
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| Strawberry fields.... |
[Nov. 18th, 2007|10:39 pm] |
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The admission process is just draining me completely out! I don't think I've ever struggled writing as much as I did while doing up my SOP... and those bitches and their sons at B.U. have no clue about what an official transcript is and have ripped me off a couple grands, gave me photocopies of my marks card signed - ones that I only had made copies of!!! Bloody buffoons, they are actually selling their signatures...I could very well have gotten them attested from my dept. head if that was what I needed, not to mention the million times they've made me shuttle around! With all this non-sense happening, I came by a few pleasant things as well for instance, I couldn't believe how easily my requests for a good recommendation have been accepted and also some very indispensable help from Sharath while shortlisting the schools to the last 10... I truly am eternally grateful to him!
Caught up with - Jab we met I'd say is a cute one and Om Shanti Om a rascla of a movie, pure shit!! |
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