The End of year/New year post.

It's been a good year, na?
I got made Yellow house captain.
I had at least two amazing days on the beach in May.
I went to Manali and lost myself there, in the green and the waterfalls and the clouds and the hills.
I bought at LEAST 11 amazing books in Bombay.And had a LOT of fun. And got a niece!
I went to a Raghu Rai exhibition.
I met my best friend's girl.
I screwed up a few exams.
I got sexy SAT score.
Yellow house won.
I actually started studying.
I had a Christmas Miracle.
And here I sit, typing typing.
All the while hoping and praying the next year's gonna be even better....
Because. In 2009 i will:
Give my Board exams.
Go to mumbai, and then college.
Get my braces removed.
scary. But hopefully it's going to be evrything i wish for and more.
So i'm making resoultions to :
Handle my rage. And the rest of my emotions.
Live in the moment. And be excellent at everything i do.
Stop whining.
Cheers to letting go of the past, cheers to a brilliant '09.
*bottoms up*

And so it begins

I'm doing the grind.

No, not the one you do in nightclubs, all sweaty and ecstatic with the press of bodies.....though i wouldn't mind that grind.
No, not the one with the mixer.

I'm doing the grind that you do in 12th grade. Where grind stands for nose to the grindstone and shoulders to the wheel. Where the only thing you're supposed to come in contact with is the books. Not the good ones (though I'm rereading Shantaram at night). Phy-chem-math.

Surprisingly, it feels good. It kinda drives off the nervousness. And it's great doing differentiation, where everything just falls into place.

(contented sigh)

so i'll try and keep coming back here as and when i can, but i don't guarantee i'll have much to say........

85 and counting................should I be scared?

Similarities between Chikki and me..........there are over 75.....we managed to freak ourselves out a bit while we made this....

1. We love the smell of petrol.

2. We both wear men’s deo and perfumes

3. We both own at least one item of clothing belonging to a boy we know.

4. We both like our cereal soggy, with hot milk (this was the really freaky one)

5. Bikes, not cars.

6. Thin, almost the same size.

7. Lazy writers

8. Lazy photographers

9. Large watches.

10. Voracious readers

11. Hyper.

12. We’re both ‘one of the guys’

13. Expansive vocab

14. We will not hesitate to get physical. Any way you take it.

15. We WILL make dirty jokes even if it’s at our expense.

16. When we actually get angry, you might want to stay out of the way……

17. Slow eaters (VERY slow)

18. According to us, wearing shoes on a beach is a crime.

19. We say the frikkin exact same words at the same time…..

20. Chikki’s poems…..seem to come out of my head….

21. We LOVE Chandler, we ARE Phoebe.

22. We’re both considered VERY VERY weird in our school.

23. We love hammocks.

24. We love How I Met Your Mother

25. Jeans must be torn by strenuous use and not pre-worn in the factory.

26. Have very limited girl-phases

27. Will sell soul for dark (DARK) chocolate.

28. Same with Starbucks coffee.

29. Multilingual when we speak. We’ll mix hindi, English, French, Marathi, Mallu and tenu kee fark painda. Chikki does Punjabi and Bengali too.

30. Sliding down banisters.

31. Bloggers. (Chikki’s lazy, I'm active)

32. Trust guys more than girls. Why? Because they don’t gossip. And they do enough shit, so they won’t judge you.

33. Canelloni at D’Arcy’s Kitchen.

34. Will wait until absolutely necessary to wax.

35. Books in schoolbag must be in descending order of length.

36. Would prefer Elder brother, younger sister.

37. We scream for everything.

38. Our best ideas come to us in the shower in the morning.

39. Occasional drinkers.

40. No makeup except for kohl and mayyyybe a bit of gloss.

41. I'm a runner. But. We’d both love football if we were taught. We tried basketball and sucked. We tried badminton and sucked. We love high jump.

42. We’d both like to colour our hair rainbow combination……4

3. Cloud formations.

44. Hairbrushes, not combs.

45. Love dance. Dandiya anywhere.

46. Hate wet clothes.

47. We avoid text lingo. Mostly.

48. Instead of sending a long message in two pages, we’ll type it all out and then edit to fit in 150 characters.

49. Buy a lot of jewelry, but don’t use much.

50. Silver, not gold.

51. We both hate the ipod click wheel

52. Bad swimmers

53. Rock-climbers.

54. We love people-watching

55. We are both spiritual but not religious.

56. Our motto is – Ki fark painda?

57. We are also grammar and spelling freaks

58. We talk to inanimate objects and our own selves.

59. Always do our dares

60. We believe in real, tight bear hugs and only with some people

61. Find strange connections between things and people

62. Neither of us can do cart-wheels

63. We will sit where ever it is possible to do so.

64. We are also multi-lingual abusers

65. ‘Fuck you’ to marriage

66. ‘Yes’ to adoption

67. We will find sexual innuendo even if its not there

68. If we have aloo paratha, it will only be eaten with dahi

69. We will walk in the middle of the road, with no regard to traffic.

70. Don’t get freaked and/or scared easily

71. We are flat-chested and proud of it

72. Sing loudly in public

73. Love old Hindi filmy music

74. We use absurd nail colors

75. Moody eaters

76. Rather impatient

77. Ask stupid, obvious questions

78. Will violently swear at/attack the computer when it stops working.

79. Narcissists.

80. When we try to stop laughing…….we just end up laughing more…and then going out of breath….and then we can’t breathe….

81. Will find loopholes everywhere.

82. Perfectionists when it comes to actual work.

83. We draw on ourselves.

84. Garfield

85. Before we started this list…….We thought we were absolutely unique.

So our quiz kinda backfired, we got unlucky with our placement.

We didn't qualify for the semis, and now i'm back home. I managed to get some good shots in Dubai though..................... you'll find the rest on my Flickr Account

unprofessionalism thy name is...........

This is Shit.
at least, it is now.
yesterday was great, we took an air arabia flight to sharjah, then by road to Dubai.....
Dubai's quite nice really, at least, Deira is. The last time i was there, I didn't have much time to roam or anything, so i got the feeling we'd be really claustrophobic and cramped, but no, it's all quite open, and there's a Haagen Daz and a Dunkin Donuts right nest to the hotel :)
Went to DCC (Deira City Centre) yesterday and met Ady, my closest friend from grades 1 to 5, and she still seems the same. She's doin humanities and she'll probably get into Xaviers.......
And I met HER friend Ria, who i instantly clicked with.....wow man....I love her.....I actually found myself telling ehr my whole life-story......woww.
Bought a beautiful navy hoodie sweatshirt that says POWER TO THE PEOPLE........
And now I'm kinda sick.
We were supposed to be shooting for this quiz thing today, a preliminary round where we select 2 teams from each country. Bahrain, Oman and Qatar were supposed to finish today.
On schedule: shoot 6 episodes of this quiz series.
we've been here for 7 hours. so far it's just been bahrain, and they just finished shooting their first episode.
i HATE unprofessionalism
and i HATE the standard of questions...
"where would you find arboreal animals" it seems.
huh.

ahahahahahahah
while the rest of my friends are mugging chem, i'm in dubai.
i'm a sadist. i love you all <3