February is the Busiest Month!!!*

*apologies for such a bland and un-imaginative(?!) title

why is feb the busiest time of the year?? Ananya gets over n we have the ghost of projects/assignments/comapny visits et al on our heads. Accompanied by Youth Activism Day, V-Day,how much ever i try not to hate the day, i jus keep failing miserably( this time i'd gone 4 d antakshari comptn at UNIFY in which we lost :X), Japanese delegation (why, oh why?) and MCQs and a host of other menaces.Youth activism day n V-day~ordeal was over in relative quick succesion. Japanese delegation(Students from The Obirin University,Japan) arrives on Monday, we are informed on Friday or so and i'm clueless as to how we are gonna "interact" with them. Profs in charge do not know whether the students understand english or not or whther they are undergrads like us.The profs tell us its an "informal" session which we are gonna fill up wid ppt presentations about India and its great diverse culture,religion blah blah. They do not want any of the topics (or pictures mainly) assigned to overlap but the topics given are culture of India, Religions of india, Monuments in India, Traditions in india and god-knows-wht-not in inida. Only pics 2 b ther in the ppt, n no pointer texts. But then we have to show all that we are gonna "read out or say" during the ppt! The 1st day we have sum female frm sum NGO come n giv us a ppt abt "women's issues and concerns in india"-womens movement and stuff, the stats quoted in which would make u question ur own logical statistical aptitude n the general sanity of the presenter and you would be left with the question "why are we telling our woes to those Japs? why dont we let them sleep in peace?" (quite a few of them were just here to sleep). Two whole days of "interaction" which included about 10 presenations frm our side n some lines exchanged that bore some semblance to personal interaction. The second day was much better than the first, we had figured out names of atleast 5 japanese students by then. It was a nice n different experience, i guess,but cant stop whining about it nevertheless. And while all this was happening, Anna's frend Himanshu had come and me n Anna had sneaked out from the hostel. Had too much fun :D- different story, saving it for sometime else, when i 'd really need to look back upon "fond memories" to get out of the constantly pathtetic existence of mine.

There was the OB(call it outstanding bullshit- its just english in reality) test on stress after it, in which all i could think was " i'm stressed ". Then i wake up to reality one fine day before today and realise that i have to submit my Business English and Costing projects on Saturday and Monday and that i havnt even started working on either. I have managed to buy notes and MCQs but i'd just shock myself if i ever use them anytime hours befor ethe exams.

I thought i'd play it smart for Business Eng n use the report on Academic Summit which Vibhav n Me had written n i'd manipulate the findings and all that. Turns out the report is no longer on my laptop or with anyone with whom i'd thought it would be. As for the Acc. project- all i hav wid me is the letter from college. All in all, i've been ranting on about how busy it is these days, but havnt been doing all that much to resolve the problems on hand. Tomorrow i hav 2 submit my Business Eng project n there's way too much to do, but i sit here blogging, writing an extra long post.

YOUTH ACTIVISM DAY.

After all that work till 3 last night- it was so so impossible not to snooze the alarm 8 times, from 7 a.m. to 8.20 a.m.
managing to reach college somehow, missed the bus obviously.
after attending two lecs, we head to register ourselves- 11th hour people as always. get print-outs of our posters n get working.
our cause- STOP CHILD ABUSE. we have 4 posters n one badge pic. badges worked really well. people put them on willingly and many came to us asking for it. we even forced some people, celebs in college to wear them.but then some were also ready to buy it from us ( gave us a good idea for next yeras campaign)! ok all in all- our badge was a hit!! almost evryone could be seen wearing one by the end of three hours of our working around. i make up some powerpoint presentaion, throwing in random facts chosen on some instinctive yet lowly intellectual level. we began with just me n Anna. Udrrek joined in. Sakina, Aj, Agnav also joined in. Presentaion was ok(dunno whether its an understatement or overstatement)- judges n Dr. B grilled us- got kinda screwed. but its ok. atleast we tried.
it was a bustling active day today. i was glad to see so many people taking up a cause, supporting it, or the fact that they atleast bothered. Trying is better than sitting on the sidelines and commenting, i swear.

due to all this hustle n bustle we missed teh movie screening for Hotel Rwanda. But then we went for the movie screening of Water(giving our english presentation a slip one more time). its ok. Me n Anna, like inane, insensitive souls were foolin around making jokes. it was real sad in the ending. the movie promoted our cause, in a way it did. :P.

from now on..

god give me some more brains and heart,

to not crib about very small suffering my way,

for there are a million others somehwere,

who suffer much more, a lot more than we can imagine.

ok that doesnt mean i'm shutting down this blog( much to the displeasure of NERs).

i shall keep whining, so that one day i realise that all this whining had lent perspective to my views, propelling me to try n improve the condition in which i currently am into a non-whining, peace-loving, contented one.( wht crap?) a very difficult mission indeed.

Campus Rock Idols-a rock illiterate's view. Day 2

Sunday,11th Feb'07.

got up late. jus 11 a.m.( i knw, i knw its too early actually).
hav sum meager breakfast.wash clothes.we do not hav passes for the finals of CRI. we do not hav late out permissions.
a call to dad, some nice well said pleading( to both hitlers- dad and warden) we get our late-outs. whooopeeeeeee!! out till 11.30p.m.!! one who's not from our hostel and is not fattoo like us cant possibly imagine the exhilaration we were experiencing then. lucky day- warden's birthday.

after a lot of time,part of which was spent on working a bit for next day's campaign, we get ready and leave. finally- with interruptions like forgetting to take cellphone, i card, deo, and god-alone-knows-what-not!!

my resolution to not waste money on food and sticking to health food diet is broken with the amazing chicken biryani and yaam gai (sum friggin chicken salad-tatsed good though) at polka dots.rueben calls n msgs anna like a dozen million times before landing there, in the meanwhile ordering for nachos n cheese from his auto.
we finally reach elysium lawns a 5.30. an hour after the event was scheduled to start.three of us without entry passes. anna n rueben going on blabbering about whether we can enter with only our i cards or not. rueben gets on his cell every other moment, trying to find answers mayb. i go n ask the security- simple enough. we get in just to find that the its a long time till the event starts. bum around with others we know. one freaky moment- SHADES talkin to one of wid guys wid whom we were talking- oh god i was so wishing to jump up n down n do a mexiacan hat dance around Anna but i brought down my excitement to my evil grin. :D :D.
Rueben n Anna again take to troubling me due to which i go bump against 3 unknown persons- which i'm sure gave them enough reason to laugh,grin and smile. :X
Aj n his frend, whose name we didnt get till midnight began, offers me a smoke-which actually turned out to be pot!!, which i refused owing to Anna's vehement dissent. the vent finally starts. all gung-ho. we look for some more people whom we knw.we meet Anna's frends chetan, aditya n their frends. somehow they chose a place like near the toilets to be our meeting point!!! all engrossed in fagging, bumming around. kinda lost. soem head banging here n there, else jus sitting n babbling. passing on one lone cig amongst 7 ppl until the security comes n stubs it out.
finally head to the bar, anna tryin real hard to get high drunk managing to get partially high which is not any better.snatches of song yellow makes us run towards the crowd ahead. some more cheering, looking for someone, bumming around it finally comes to an end. FTN (Fuck the name- thts the band's name!!!), a band from Rueben's school,Delhi wins the comptn, for which Anna screams n whoops in joy as if her own band has won!!!
time to leave- wonder where to go for dinner. after some procrastination and a lot of confusion,Chetan, me n aditya on one bike ( yeah three of us on one bike!!!) n Anna n Saleel on one bike n Rueben Aj n his frend join us later at Uncle's Chinese- another common favourite KP haunt. a whole lot of fooling around and laughing there- one cant help but keep laughing in the company of such -oh-so-fuckin-funny guys. 11 p.m time for us to leave. Rueben, Aj n Agnav(finally we got his name- it ws not arnav nor,definitely not hrithik as Aj had told) still waiting for their yang chow fried rice, my recommendation- poor people at uncle's chinese had run out of noodles!
lookin desperately for an auto, Anna gets the urge to eat ice cream at Naturals there. so we ask one reluctant yet ready auto guy to wait while we get her icecream.
back at hostel-gates locked upon us. stupid security people.bluffed our way.
boring gig. but it was fun i guess.they played yellow- which acc to Anna is the highlight of the event.
back to working for 2mrw's youth activism day.
not a very gut nacht at 3 a.m.

Campus Rock Idols-a rock illiterate's view. Day 1

Saturday,10th Feb'07. after some wasted day as usual- bummed around in college doing nothing, again failing to give the english presentation, nor working on something for the college youth activism day as i had promised myself to do, even gymming was a futile exercise since i keep stuffing myself with foodstuff thats for sure not health food,i head back to hostel for a quick shower( a downright lie- i.e. no showers in hostel. jus the good old bucket ka paani)
We head to Elysium Lawns,KP- our fav place in Pune. Yet.
My 1st time there. In Campus Rock Idols(CRI). Anna's home now. Its her place-Rock events.
Some band's playing. Some crappy host blabbing on, asking the cold indiffernt crowd (at that time) to get bit moving/grooving/rocking/anything other than sitting on their asses. Anna n Me spot SHADES- i leave no stone unturned to act myself and embarass Anna to death with my antics.
We meet some guys from our own college. Hang around with them for some time.
( right now, hostel chicks-design i'm sure, :-> - playing doori- atif aslam again n again n againn its not good.sum jamming session. not good, not at all.)
Rueben derives some sadistic pleasure in poking my sides n making me jump hysterically. Anna n he then go for drinks where i'm the sole source of amusement n entertainment for them and they again resort to pulling my (short)legs.
see some real moshpet up-close. one of us goes and stands amidst the mosh. standing like a security guard, glares at all n then finally lends his way too solid support to some group.
our resolution broken by Aj's frend's goldflakes offering.
i dunno if the bands were amazing or sucked big time.
i dunno if it was a cool rock event or not.
i dunno what i-a philstine in all matters rock, was doing there.
all i know is that we had an awesome time. atleast Anna's been all jumping and freaky happy about it.
gut nacht. :)

Whats your Goddess Identity?

i gave this test on tickle.com..
and these are my results..
super-funny.

goddess identity:




You're Muse!


Alpana, you're Muse!

Known for your creative powers, you Muses are the poets and musicians of life, the patrons of the fine arts. It's funny, though — even with your inspirational prowess, you're probably not the type to boast about your guitar-strumming skills, or your latest published book of verse.While it's great when people flock to you for ideas, there probably is a part of you that prefers to blend in sometimes — whether dressing in muted shades or staking out a one-on-one conversation at parties and social events. But try as you might not to hog the spotlight, others can't help but notice you. Must be hard to be such a goddess! Despite any lingering modesty, you might be surprised at how much your mere presence can help improve the lives of those around you by infusing them with ideas and good thoughts. With that kind of healing energy, your inspirational ways have the potential to change the world, Muse. Whether you're scribbling sonnets, boogying with your friends, or drawing your own constellations — you're tapped in. So keep your eyes wide open to the possibilities and let that inspiration flow!

What's Your Goddess Identity?

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To do:

1.Complete my planning assignmet/ project- for which

• i 1st need to get some company details abt their rules, procedures, goals, objectives, blah blah and all the shit that they do.


• then i must make a word document.


• then finally make a powerpoint presentation in which i believe i've had a headstart- considering that i've made 3 slides containing the Subject-PPM( thats Principles n practices of management- old tosh of crap), the topic -Planning( which is an alien idea to me) and my name( i worked maximum on this slide despite the fact being that i claim to rather dislike my name)

2.Clean my room. This task includes many more sub- tasks :

• cleaning my wardrobe- separating piles and piles of clothes and folding them and all that or rather,


• shifting my stuff from one wardrobe to another completely or partially (depending upon whether we are getting the third new roomie or not).


• cleaning up both the tables and shelves- the dust on them can cause asthama.


• washing bedsheets and pillowclothes and the small heap[including smelly socks :( ] in my laundry basket.


• gathering all the containers and spoons and whatever i possess and cleaning them properly and keeping them somewhere safe, where i can find them when i need them.


• arranging footwear- very imp.

3. better start preparing something for the coming accounts project- dont wanna mess up wid this teacher.

4. complete reading one book/ novel.

5. start practising dance again- reckoning i may have to perform on stage after more than 2 years or so.

6. lose some more weight or rather flab/fat ( my dad expects me to weigh as much as, or maybe less than a 9 yr old would, ignoring the fact that i may look like 14-15 yr old kid though i'm actually gonna be 19 :) in seven months or so..) and finally get the trainer to actually do something other than just blabbing about too much exercise and eating food.

7. plan my singles only 14th feb party to celebrate or rather curse our single status. but as i mentioned earlier planning's not my cup of tea or coffee or whtver. still- lets just put it on my agenda for the month.

8. finally get down to writing something- anything, anything at all... or rather get done with what i have started and left mid way to fool around on something completely insignificant and inconsequential.