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.

Turkish Delight?

too many things happening- a lot more to blab n bore NERs
but for now- this happened yesterday evening...


Turkish Delight- rather a turkey vulture.

Hot cute guy sitting across
us at German Bakey, our haunt.
Bald guy with scary hair around
and a silly goatee to match,
happens to be hottie's friend.
With ciggies in his hand,
(the bald guy,unfortunately)
hijacks our favourite bench,
along with his other ugly friend.
Says "Smoking is bad for health"-
Bloody Filthy Hypocrite,
Asks," Do I look Indian?"
We nod, hesitantly nod.
Talks about himself, us and Bombay,
Then finally says,"I'm from Turkey."
Asks us a thousand more questions
to which we lie with all integrity and wit.
His ugly friend watches the show,
lets him try his best to hit on us-
very very bad attempt.
I'm busy making up
imaginary names and places,
while Anna's taking his number
force-fed to her N80.
Urging me to be done with
my omlette,toast and ginger tea;
Trying in vain to be un-obvious,
signalling urgent departure.
Some flimsy fake promises made
to meet on some unforeseen weekend,
we scram the hell out of there,
screamin,"WTF?!" in hushed voices,
walking as fast as my short legs
can carry the other short half,
bursting into giggles momenatrily,
turning around to check and double-check,
clicking " traffic in motion"
for some un-doable project, we finally
get a rick before the driver refuses.
Laughing our butts off in there,
we ponder whats with the place?
we always encounter such nutters,
asking ppl out all over space.
only way out: temporary avoidance.
for another two weeks( or mayb less)
lets say no- to German Bakery.

Da Gym-exercise,slog,stare n come back to hog.

The only reason im boring NER(thts non existent readers..im too lazy to type it in every post)

with this continuous onslaught of posts is bcoz i get my heavy(for me atleast) laptop only few times a week nowadays n today im in da mood to blog.

ok so now about the whole gymming thing...im not obese(not yet),i want 2 lose weight n flab n fat so tht i can get back into 26-inch waistline jeans.

2nd jan.. d official 1st day at symbii, pune, in d new year for me..me n zubs decide to go to gym.. sleeping,whining(abt not being able 2 sleep 4 long enuf), complaining(abt my trackpants which were body-fitting at d bottom much to my displeasure and im ashamed to admit tht i dont have ne long loose baggy kinda t shirts almost evry1 has!!) n panting(thats me!!) we reach d college gym..

1.d gym instructor asks if its our 1st time..i say yes d very 1st time(never needed it before ).(liar zubs nods wid full force).

2. he thn takes us into thi sroom 2 warm up in which whenver me n zubs were fighting hard not to laugh whnver we caught each other in d mirror in front..

3. he takes us to do cardio for 5 mins on each.. i try the cycle its ok..can see zubs nicely jogging on d treadmill on my side..

4. i do the treadmill where i go back at one point of time n jus managed to walk at a measely speed of 6 or so while others start wid tht level.

5. do crunches then- (too ahsamed to mention teh number of times)

6. my classmate who's into gymmin n has a gud body decides 2 bless me wid sum tips n suggests this exercise to increase my height n love handles.. very good for me. bad thing though i cud never reach the bars 2 hold so tht i could hang from them.. tehotehr gym instructor got 4-5 weights n made me stand on them,with few ppl around lookin at the fun show i ws performing, n asked me to jump and get hold of d bars( i think %$%&%& u.. n i say- no no no no i cant i cant..4get it lets do sumthing else)

7. now dis classmate again thinks up a new exercise for me- leg ups. this time zubs,instructor n 2-3 others r surrounding me while i try my best 2 lift my legs up.. i think i managed to displace them in the vertical direction by almost 6 inches(exaggeration i admit). all this while zubs laughing like she's watching d funniest friends episode or something in that league.. n d rest r amused/bemused watching me struggle- lucky ppl didnt hav 2 watch tht for too long- i gave up after 2-3 attempts.

8. we leave,FINALLY for hell's sake. we meet Anna aft tht n zubs regales her wid tales of me fooling n blundering around in d gym.. abt d guys we cud check out there-some hot-bods aroun ahem ahem.. n oh yes i did d weight check at sum point n ws overjoyed 2 knw i'd lost 2 kgs-laugh as much as u want- but 2 kgs is 2 kgs.

9.then i have mango lassi, allu bhujia, lip chips(they r so so tasty n amazing.yummmmmmmmm) in teh course of d night.(some diet food aft d gym,huh??) my legs starts hurting so much i can barely get up. it happens wid d 1st time i've heard. so i'll not curse my weaknesses, but rather believe in hearsay.

10. late night-we blab,bitch, do crazy orkut stuff(hail anna's internet card) n finally doze off to sleep at 3( th ws me,i guess thes 2 sat up bitchin,or for decency's sake blabbing till 4)

i wake up sumhow at 7 n ask aloud wat do we do? anna says go back 2 sleep, so i do. wake up at 2 or 3.my legs still hurt n i go to brush only in late aftnoon.

then we order this humungously,obscenely huge amount of food(5 naans,half chicken handi-tht could feed 10 ppl,n half plate dum chicken biryani---all this 4 jus 3 of us). obviously we fail 2 eat all of tht however big hoggers/gluttons we might be. n aft this super-uber-heavy lunch n a miniscule siesta me n zubs do manage to get up n go 2 d gym.

d usual routine.. its been almost a week since i've joined n i hav lost 1 more kg in d process-again laugh as much as u may want,1 kg is 1 kg. i do it everyday-check weight tht is- so aft this blogathon i'll go down 2 gym n try 2 lose a bit more calories than i did yesterday n do another weight check. lol-gym-lol!

to zubs.. may her laptop rest(or come back) in one piece.

a new year has come..
i hav joined the gym in a vain n futile attempt to lose all that flab...
those embarrassing moments 2 b posted soon,someday,whtver...
d main thing however is...
zub's laptop got stolen sunday tht was..from the hostel and evryone's fkin stumped how it happened.. weird thing being that someone(whoever stole the laptop most probably) stole teh laptop charger first, then realsied tht the charger alone wont help her ( her coz its a girls hostel n stray dogs are more welcome in our hostel than guys are, though guys at times are even worse than those creatures..)- thn nicely came around to her room n stole the laptop frm teh bag..
its weird we 5 keep our rooms lockers evrything open n for use out there..
funny sancho's laptop was there on her table, open and on, n the "theif" went to the last bed, took out the almost 3 kg heavy big compaq latop from zub's bag!! earlier gaurz' money had been stolen from her locked locker...
someone jus stole a laptop!! it ws funny at first! we did search everyroom,wel almost i think.. in teh cupboards, under beds, in suitcases. evry goddamned place.. but i(WE) dont really think the "thief" would hav nicely kept it lying in her room.....
n yestday sum stupid sid bimbettes came 2 search our rooms!!
idiots.watevr..
now am bunking bepc n bloggin n we go 8 mins left 2 turn off laptop, 1st log off d net, run down 3 flights of stairs, go the taj(asap!!!) thn crash into class 4 OB....

mood i..my mood..n etcetra

this has been some week!
did sumthing really stupid n crazy on christmas!weird!
then things did go a bit wrong and i was pissed and d usual.. but its k.. im fine(indifferent as i ever was).

met school time friends.had as much fun as one could manage with people you've met after loooooong time!!well i saw dhoom 2,loved hrithik in it n so liked the way my evening was goin.. that was wednesday i guess...

thursday-stayed over my frends place..got all dressed (typical things tht happen at evry girls nite out) and clicked horrible pics of ourselves, n swore never to let anyone see them! got tempted by dominos' 2 pizzas 4 just 200 bucks, cudnt even finish one(i was still suffering from my traumatic experience of food posioning aft eating smokin joes pizza)... watched movies till late...blabbed blabbed an blabbed sum more...

then came the big night:mood indigo.. had heard abt it.. saw teh real thing on friday n man i was so fucking awed and impressed by it all.. never much of a rock fan was wondering wht on earth am i doin in livewire finals n this hell of a rock concert... but i'm so so so glad i went.. parikrama was tooooooo cool... i just became an instant fan..bowed down a million times after "but it rained" and "the open skies".. that's called violin playing...!! i was just swept off my feet by the whole thing... cant stop gushing about it even now.. had a bit of trouble while comin back.. cudnt get any direct bus back home.. waited for long there.. thank god rajat was ther wid me..so took bus to ghatkopar and from there to vashi.. sandhya kept screaming at me on d phone all da while.. so did my dad n sis.. then bloody bridge over vashi creek had theis huge traffic... reached home i.e. sandy's place by 2.. her mood ws off.. had 2 regale her wid sum concert tales n crap.. then saw dhoom 2 again on cd.. blabbed for sum more(foolish cable guy had given wrong cd 4 2nd part...well lucky me) slept at 4 in d morning...
had decided to get up at 6, come home and pack n leave for pune in afternoon.. operation failed.
cudnt get up at all.. was forced 2 get up at 10.. came home brushed, had one lucky vada pav.. n slept off. until sandy came in 2 watch dhoom 2 second half..!!!!! watched tht.. blabbed sum more(WHEW!!!) then finished off wid harry potter 1st book(its like habit now. jus get down to
reading it whn i got nothing to do) . realised net connection is working again.. sat down 2 orkut n blog..

so here i am boring non existent readers stupid with my week's "happenings". now i wait 4 tomorrow to spend d whole day wid family(the very idea scares d shit outta me).. then spend a nice silent boring "happy new year" after many years...