I'm Free - Hakuna Matata!!! :D

Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase!!
Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze!!! yahoo! :D
It means no worries for the rest of your days!!!
It's our problem-free philosophy!!
Hakuna Matata!!!

Even if not the rest of my days, the next two months are mine for the taking!!! Finally, long due, much awaited freedom is mine!!!!!!!! :D

"The sweet is never as sweet without the sour."

And how!!!! :) All those days of cramming mind-numbing ^@#&$@ - and now blissfully vetti!! :P
End of exams and beginning of hols never ever felt this good!!! A gang of us girls camped out at V's place for a movie (MI 3), some awesome swedish tosca and her mom's famous vadai!!! Not to forget coke n 7up!! (in the new curvy bottle!! :O)

Then of course, the beach beckoned!!! This huge gang of guys n girls from our school showed ourselves up there and played....FOOTBALL!!!! Even if we didn't actually play - it was super dooper jus running around in the sand, feeling the salty air!! Hell, it was great just to be outta the house!! Catch more detail of the fun @ V and DD's blogs!! :D

Then we all shamelessly raided Planet Yumm - predictable, i know!! :) Oh, and the biggest feat of the evening??!

*Drumroll*
Ninju was made to spend a whole 97 bucks for ice-cream!! Note usage: was made to!! :P Bravo! Bravo!! =))

Anyway, now that hols are finally here, I certainly don't intend frittering them away in wasteful pursuits!! Disclaimer: What gets classified under Wasteful pursuits is my discretion. Solely mine. :P

Plan of Action:

1. Go Italian classes at the Italian Consulate
2. Continue my paatu classes
3. Watch as many movies as I can
4. Devour the 40 or so new books i've bought (which, incidentally, have been lying under my bed - coz they're "distractions" and aren't "academic" :P)
5. Go beach everyday - or as many days as I can - V, you're booked!! :D
6. blah...

And if you have sensible suggestions, you may please leave a comment on them. Notice I said sensible!! :)

And once again.....I'm FREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! Yipppeeeeee!!!!! :D :P

I'm It - Tagged!!

Shashi "chained" me, to quote him!! :) So here goes...

Five people on my shit list:
You know who you are. If you're reading this, you may please identify yourself and jump off a cliff for me!! :)

1. Burger Filling - Pinkish in the extremest of extremes!!
2. Wannabe dude who does weed coz it's "cool"
3. Punk across the road who thinks it's macho to rev his bike till the fuel runs out, thereby making himself sound like a you-know-what

Well...believe it or not, there aren't any more people I can't stand!! Either I'm too nice and accommodative or the world ain't all that bad!! I'm inclined to suppose the former! :P

Close brushes with death/danger:
It's around eight-ish in the night. We're driving up the hill to kodai. Suddenly, little things start falling from the sky. All of us are going - "What the...?!?!". It was a few minutes before we realized the little things were pellets of ice. We were driving up a hill - in the middle of a hailstorm - no lights, barely any vision, no signs of curves ahead - it was a bloody NIGHTMARE!!! *shudder*

Five preferable modes of suicide:
I'm generally considered an optimist. But after results come out, I might well be in need of one of these!! :(

1. Cyanide - Just like that.
2. Blow my brains out - ouch!! :O It's instantaneous though!
3. Jump off a cliff!! :P

Oh gosh! This is already giving me the creeps!! *gulp* Oh, if you want ideas, you could always read this and this.

Five guilty pleasures:
1. Chocolate and Coffee
2. Movies
3. Appa's almond-cognac cake and orange cheese cake *drool*
4. Books
5. Footwear collection! :P

Five things you never want to forget:
1. My passwords - If I do, I'm so dead!! :O
2. September, October, November 2005
3. The sweet is never as sweet without the sour.
4. The truth, at whatever cost, is the best you can do.
5. Do unto others before they do unto you.

Five loves of your life:
Not necessarily in the order mentioned!! :)

1. Books and Words
2. People
3. Chennai and Travel
4. Movies
5. Coffee

Strangest Dream:
I don't have dreams!! And if I ever do, can't remember a thing in the morning!! :P And no, it's NOT because of a hangover!! :O

Five most valued possessions:
1. iPods
2. Journals
3. Computer and Cell phone
4. Sanity
5. Love

Five favorite superheroes:
1. Superman - Dean Cain is hawt!!!! :P
2. Swat Kats - Dunno if they qualify as super-heroes!! :D
3. Suderman
4. Inu Yasha - yeah, he's a semi-demon!! so?!!
5. Samurai X - :D Blame it on kid sis n animax!! :D

People who follow may consider themselves TAGGED: (muhahaha!!)
V
Soumi
Paddy
Efreak
Vara
Sagaro

Do It!!!!! :D

Road Trip To Vellore

Sagaro and some friends are planning a cylce expedition to Vellore. You can check out the whole plan, itinerary etc at the Vellore Wiki.

The trip probably starts fourth week of June - short trip, around three days. They're inviting people interested to join them on the trip - a small group of 8 may be. So, if you're interested, put your name up in the wiki.

Also, they've got a list of essentials - check wiki. So even if you aren't going but can supply some of the things, please do so and indicate it on the wiki. If you've got any ideas - what they can do at vellore, places they can see on the way etc - feel free to edit the wiki and pitch them in. The password for login is 'c4mbt'.

Oh and if you can do spread the word about it! Thanks!! :)

Plans And Post-Its

A certain chem prof always said – Plan your work and Work your plan.

It’s very weird, you know. I seem to be able to do the first part of that maxim quite exceptionally. But the second part – I do mean to do that too, but determination and will just sort of frizzle away…

It just so happens that I’m a compulsive list maker, user of post-its and planner. Not a lot of people know that. Universal claim is that I’m a chaotic and disorganized individual in the extreme. :P

Sleepy eyed and tousle haired, I entered my room this morning. Something was amiss. I distinctly remembered my room being painted a calm, ice blue. This morning, though, it seemed to have assumed a sunshine-yellow with little sections of cool blue, hot pink and neon green! I reeled. You would too if you found your room morphing itself overnight into ghastly colours - which it had no business to do!!

When sleep very kindly released my senses and I was restored to functional mode, I saw that all the calm, ice blue had been covered inch upon inch by post-its – yellow, green, pink, blue, you name it!! Astonished, I realized that I never took off any of them from as long back as Feb. 24th!! I read one out loud – it said,

“1. Electrostatics Organic Solid State Matrices Alexander
2. Watch Alexander – educative purposes
3. Take the damn day off!!" - :P

Horrified at the prospect of parental units coming across such frivolous and flippant plans, I hurriedly ripped them all off. Wastepaper basket’s day out!

Note to self: Confine humour, however lame, to self/friends/blog.

You’re probably infinitely better organized than I am. But still, nothing like this ever happened to you??

That you make plans, stick post-its, religiously tick off finished agenda and somehow, just somehow that most important thing that you had to do got over-looked. Never had to scramble at record speed in the nick of time?

You’re intensely concentrating on integral calculus and the phone politely whirrs. But of course, it’s your bestest friend with the hottest gossip and so of course you just had to talk. And just let integral calculus be for the moment. And for the next two hours. Never happened? No?

Sigh…I guess it just happens to me.

Jottings

BIG UPDATE: We just got our awesome, new, super-sexy Ford Fiesta delivered today!!! Am typing this after going to the temple and the beach in it!! Woo!!! Go Fida!! :D

A lot of things have happened in recent times. I didn't seem to be able to sustain a whole post on any of them.... :P

1. First, a BIG welcome to Soumi who’s started her blog this week. She’s a terrific writer and I’m sure her blog is gonna be one of the more popular ones. Go Girl!! :)

2. One of the supposedly “major” exams, the AIEEE, made its exit out of the exam schedules this week, with students hoping that their answer scripts would somehow self-combust.

3. That done, student community is left with BITSAT and TNPCEE, both of which they hope will write themselves.

4. Pramod Mahajan, BJP General Secretary, shot thrice at point-blank range by his brother Pravin Mahajan, died today after battling against death for 12 days. For more scoop, catch this.

5. With Elections in Tamil Nadu a mere 5 days away, campaigns are going strong with all parties (except may be Lok Paritran) pulling out all stops – free rice, colour TV’s, free basic amenities…et al. For more scoop, catch this and this.

6. Freakspace achieves a record for itself. 63 comments on this post and 78 comments on this one – highest yet on this blog thanks mostly to FreakLord and Sagaro. :D

7. David Blaine, celebrated illusionist, lowers himself into a sphere of water and intends staying submerged for a week. Thereafter, he’ll try his hand at the World Record for holding breath underwater. The current record is 8 minutes 58 seconds. Blaine hopes to make that 9 minutes. His most famous stunt was the 44 days he spent in a glass box suspended above the river Thames.

8. Weather in Chennai seems to have confused itself. It, seemingly, has initiated an exchange program with Weather in Africa. Or may be it just discovered Thermal Equilibrium. Temperatures here seem to be raising the mercury and a lot of tempers beyond endurance.

9. Kaavya Viswanathan, episodical literary marvel and Harvard sophomore, was found appropriating passages from two authors – Megan McCafferty and Sophie Kinsella – in her book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. Her publishers have withdrawn her whopping $500,000 two-book contract and Dream Works have dropped the rights to an How Opal… movie. I’m sure she dreamt of her work flying off the shelves – but not like this!

10. Much awaited release of Gautam’s Vettaiyadu Vilayaadu is postponed once again from May 5 to May 12. Damn!! For more scoop, catch this.

A field day for cross-linking. Yay!! :)