If Harry Potter is hailed as The Boy Who Lived, then
what about Mowgli of Jungle Book ?
Ponder.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Of Fiction,Fantasy and Fables...
I sit back in my blue cushioned chair, with two protruding arms, offering no support to my constantly typing hands, as my mind is clouded by different problems of a eighteen year old. The current problem however is that I dont have any immediate-solution-demanding problem to tackle or being victimised or to be nailed and eventually overcoming it, thus achieving something...
Maybe perhaps probably I should consult Mr.Harry Potter, the boy who lived ( as if we are dead corpses) about what he does when he is all alone in his room other than having an affair with loneliness, no.12 Privet Drive... Too bad I dont have a cousin who is as stupid as Dudley and as a matter of fact there is no cousin who lives under my roof, and even above it.
It wouldve been great to have a brother in here with me, where we can turn Hardy Boys and solve mysteries adventurously in an utopian world, where everything goes wrong initially for us ( hardy boys) but strangely culminating with everything going right.
Or have some cousins like every Enid Blyton book's character has, and go seeking places offering mysteries, which had been somehow eluding all others before.
Or form a Secret Seven Society, with stupid passwords to enter our HQ( where noone else will bother to come in) , but there is no farm house here though.
Or form an investigating trio with fellow vetti mates, the Three Investigators and have Mr.Hitchcock to guide us out of problems, which were created by him in the first place.
Or have a *a prefix*friend in Nancy Drew, and help her solve mysteries with her cute friends.
Or gain the unearthly powers of an Animorph, to morph into a parrot ( now Deepika Padukone has a parrot in her bedroom right? )
Or like in some Goosebumps book, having the power to turn a werewolf during halloween and take revenge on the guy who had stolen my pencil box, or enter a toy factory, where I get locked up for a night and fight the 'dangerous' barbie dolls or learn how to fly, making the rival for a gal go jealous over it, lead him into trouble and have a 'happily forever' ending.
Or have fun with Mickey and Minnie in my garden, though my mom will not like the idea of having rats at home, and if I do, she will have to employ Tom, who is already having enough trouble getting kicked all over by Jerry.
Nor does my home need 'another' Goofy ;)
Or there shouldve been a Uncle Scrooge for me, thus enabling me to have a bath in dollars ( or pounds if Mickey comics is from Britain) and dimes.
Or have Donald and Daisy ducks, along with Hewey, Dewey and Louie for fun, but being a strict non-vegetarian, mmmm...second thoughts over that.
Or Kalavakkam should be modified completely to Riverdale, and stay all day at Uncle Pops with my Archie gang ( xpt Reggie) , flirting with Veronica and buying Juggie hamburgers to keep him away.
Or turn a hunter as Shikari Shambu and tackle wild situations with luck and ending up with undeserving glory.
Or have a funny servant like Suppandi, who will stand under the sweltering sun waiting for his sweat to be dried up like wet clothes !
But all this is unlikely to happen.
So I had resort to writing a blog and take away some of your time...Now thats an achievement !
Maybe perhaps probably I should consult Mr.Harry Potter, the boy who lived ( as if we are dead corpses) about what he does when he is all alone in his room other than having an affair with loneliness, no.12 Privet Drive... Too bad I dont have a cousin who is as stupid as Dudley and as a matter of fact there is no cousin who lives under my roof, and even above it.
It wouldve been great to have a brother in here with me, where we can turn Hardy Boys and solve mysteries adventurously in an utopian world, where everything goes wrong initially for us ( hardy boys) but strangely culminating with everything going right.
Or have some cousins like every Enid Blyton book's character has, and go seeking places offering mysteries, which had been somehow eluding all others before.
Or form a Secret Seven Society, with stupid passwords to enter our HQ( where noone else will bother to come in) , but there is no farm house here though.
Or form an investigating trio with fellow vetti mates, the Three Investigators and have Mr.Hitchcock to guide us out of problems, which were created by him in the first place.
Or have a *a prefix*friend in Nancy Drew, and help her solve mysteries with her cute friends.
Or gain the unearthly powers of an Animorph, to morph into a parrot ( now Deepika Padukone has a parrot in her bedroom right? )
Or like in some Goosebumps book, having the power to turn a werewolf during halloween and take revenge on the guy who had stolen my pencil box, or enter a toy factory, where I get locked up for a night and fight the 'dangerous' barbie dolls or learn how to fly, making the rival for a gal go jealous over it, lead him into trouble and have a 'happily forever' ending.
Or have fun with Mickey and Minnie in my garden, though my mom will not like the idea of having rats at home, and if I do, she will have to employ Tom, who is already having enough trouble getting kicked all over by Jerry.
Nor does my home need 'another' Goofy ;)
Or there shouldve been a Uncle Scrooge for me, thus enabling me to have a bath in dollars ( or pounds if Mickey comics is from Britain) and dimes.
Or have Donald and Daisy ducks, along with Hewey, Dewey and Louie for fun, but being a strict non-vegetarian, mmmm...second thoughts over that.
Or Kalavakkam should be modified completely to Riverdale, and stay all day at Uncle Pops with my Archie gang ( xpt Reggie) , flirting with Veronica and buying Juggie hamburgers to keep him away.
Or turn a hunter as Shikari Shambu and tackle wild situations with luck and ending up with undeserving glory.
Or have a funny servant like Suppandi, who will stand under the sweltering sun waiting for his sweat to be dried up like wet clothes !
But all this is unlikely to happen.
So I had resort to writing a blog and take away some of your time...Now thats an achievement !
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Asia - Pacific IEEE students party...oops...i mean congress
IEEE student congress, happening in the subcontinent for the first time and that too at SSN !
I strolled towards the sports complex in the silent breezy night, unexcited of whats in store...
The entrance to the sports arena, separated a world of silent ordinariness and a world of once in a life time experience(s)....
As I entered the basketball arena, i found students from almost every country in the Asia-PAcific Region.
I walked up excitedly to the guy nearest to me, a Pakistani and we got introduced to each other. The next hour saw some 30+ such incidents and finally, after a 30 min chat with Mr.Martin from Netherlands about the working of IEEE R-8, everyone headed towards the canteen for dinner. Thats when I met Srinivas, a lively lad from Banglore and we sat beside each other with M.Martin right there in front of us. Martin was entertaining us with some anecdotes at his workplace, when a group of girls from Kerala took up the remaining seats in out table, ~did I say I was glad about that ;) ~ .
After an ordinary dinner, assembled at the lush lawn in front of the auditorium. We were asked to form two circles and the outer circle went around the static inner circle till the music stops, when they have to introduce themselves to the people in front of them at that instant. Thats when i met Ali Mansoor Shami from Pakistan and little did i know that this friendship will last (and grow) throughout the programme . After four such rounds, we settled down, with our minds clouded with dozens of names - Po,Lee,Chiang,Ameer,Sandeep,Christy,Fleur,Srijesh...~ Wonder how some tamilian will call the Chinese guy Po ! ~
All the student imports were then asked to introduce themselves to everyone and also do a performance.
Am confused why certain people look at Pakistanis in a bad perspective, all i can say to them is their voices about Paks are just a piece of complicated absolute pure shit. The pakistan group, which turned out to be the most entertaining group at the event, sang some popular hindi songs ; A Newzealander performed haka, the tribal dance of their National Rugby team ; Four Australians sang some of their yesteryear rock songs ; Three Japanese exhibited some martial arts ; Seven Chinese students voiced some songs ; A lone wolf from Thailand was made to sing a song ; Students from Delhi,Bangladesh section (about 28 ) danced and sung some HIndi hits ; then, it was our turn- madras section to sing, and so we did after an intro ; and the team with the strongest number 67, the Kerala section, danced to songs from four languages, with everyone's mood upbeat, the dance slowly gained pace and finally everyone there were dancing, or atleast trying to.
A humdinger of a day, capped by the dance towards the end... After a near midnight walk with my new friends, I headed back to my room, with a big smile... So IEEE can after all be so much fun !
After the breakfast at 9, the President of IEEE, MR.Terman adressed the gathering, followed by other topnotch officials in the IEEE organisation. After a mundane lunch, we headed back to the auditorium, for an integration activity, which turned out to be a quiz event, with Muthu from third year taking up the role of quiz master. It was a compilation of really interesting questions, which had us all hooked to it.After the celebrating the birthdayof Jennene, an IEEE spokesperson with a large cake, a dance fest was performed by the ssnites and the multinational crowd loved every bit of the onstage proceedings, which ranged from Bharatanatyam to Folk to Western... Following dinner, about 120 of the 230+ delegates ( i mean students) assembled at the auditorium for a series of informal events like Juiced, different kinds of proposals and arm-wrestling face offs. And then was the best event in this whole program - a free for all dance, where the organizers left open the dancefloor( the stage) to everyone... With some initial hesitancy like most others, I joined the 100+ lot on the stage, as we waltzed around, slamming against each other, performing unorthodox steps, with some stints of group dancing to all the popular peppy hindi songs. Unforgettable - its not everyday that you get to dance with a 100+ lot from 10+ countries ! We headed back to our rooms, unwilling...
The next day promised even more fun as we were having lunch and looking forward to the much awaited group activities. Arun, Sonia,Jason, Rizwaan, Jitendran, Hiro, William and me were pooled into the same team. Prashanth, a classmate of mine joined later. After a name-telling game, we were asked to build a miniature structure of Tajmahal with ten newspapers. With some initial dilemma over choosing different ideas proposed within the team, we finally decided on one and started erecting our tajmahal, * for ;) * . Our construction was selected the best by the judge, thanks to our specifications that went into placing sirens over a mini police jeep !
The next event proved to be an interesting one, a modified form of Ship Wreck. With the given ten minutes for discussion over, we had to send someone from our team to tell the crowd why they are going to push a particular person off the ship and justify their decision. Hiro volunteered to do this and on stage, he said we are going to push George Bush off the ship, and when queried, he just said..." because he is george bush ! *also some stuff censored* " . Though our group dint do well in the justification part, we were praised to be the team which had most of the fun from these events !! Cheers 'Zeitgeist', our team name ~ wonder what it means :D ~
We had a great dinner, and I played a prank with tamil language on Arun ( a keralite), a prank well planned and well executed. We were almost coaxed into the auditorium for the multic-national cultural program, after offering some resistance while having a photo session. . My college's music troop, which has been dominating college culturals in chennai ( or so was i told), did some feet-tapping songs. Songs, dances from all the sections, with the Newzealander's performance of Haka stealing the limelight. He even invited people to join him in the dance on stage. And many other teams who later came on followed suit. Chinese danced to a mesmerizing piece of music, Australian played a song with guitar, Taiwanese read out some poem, Keralites, boasting the largest number, did a series of songs and dances, Delhi section was the most boorish, as they played some old skit, Hyderabadis were the last on stage dancing for the song Chal chalre Hyderabadi. Clock read 12.20, two hours past the schedule !
With yet another ordinary breakfast, followed by Student branch presentations, the gift-exchanging time finally started. I got to exchange my elephant crystal statue for a mini phantomish mask from a Taiwanese guy. After hoggin at the lunch buffet, people exchanged their contact details and took an array of photos, as cameras clicked away snaps of moments that will never be forgetten by anybody there... Even the word IEEE, brings a big smile on you :-)
place ur cursor over any pic to get the title displayed
I strolled towards the sports complex in the silent breezy night, unexcited of whats in store...
The entrance to the sports arena, separated a world of silent ordinariness and a world of once in a life time experience(s)....
As I entered the basketball arena, i found students from almost every country in the Asia-PAcific Region.
I walked up excitedly to the guy nearest to me, a Pakistani and we got introduced to each other. The next hour saw some 30+ such incidents and finally, after a 30 min chat with Mr.Martin from Netherlands about the working of IEEE R-8, everyone headed towards the canteen for dinner. Thats when I met Srinivas, a lively lad from Banglore and we sat beside each other with M.Martin right there in front of us. Martin was entertaining us with some anecdotes at his workplace, when a group of girls from Kerala took up the remaining seats in out table, ~did I say I was glad about that ;) ~ .
After an ordinary dinner, assembled at the lush lawn in front of the auditorium. We were asked to form two circles and the outer circle went around the static inner circle till the music stops, when they have to introduce themselves to the people in front of them at that instant. Thats when i met Ali Mansoor Shami from Pakistan and little did i know that this friendship will last (and grow) throughout the programme . After four such rounds, we settled down, with our minds clouded with dozens of names - Po,Lee,Chiang,Ameer,Sandeep,Christy,Fleur,Srijesh...~ Wonder how some tamilian will call the Chinese guy Po ! ~
All the student imports were then asked to introduce themselves to everyone and also do a performance.
Am confused why certain people look at Pakistanis in a bad perspective, all i can say to them is their voices about Paks are just a piece of complicated absolute pure shit. The pakistan group, which turned out to be the most entertaining group at the event, sang some popular hindi songs ; A Newzealander performed haka, the tribal dance of their National Rugby team ; Four Australians sang some of their yesteryear rock songs ; Three Japanese exhibited some martial arts ; Seven Chinese students voiced some songs ; A lone wolf from Thailand was made to sing a song ; Students from Delhi,Bangladesh section (about 28 ) danced and sung some HIndi hits ; then, it was our turn- madras section to sing, and so we did after an intro ; and the team with the strongest number 67, the Kerala section, danced to songs from four languages, with everyone's mood upbeat, the dance slowly gained pace and finally everyone there were dancing, or atleast trying to.
A humdinger of a day, capped by the dance towards the end... After a near midnight walk with my new friends, I headed back to my room, with a big smile... So IEEE can after all be so much fun !
After the breakfast at 9, the President of IEEE, MR.Terman adressed the gathering, followed by other topnotch officials in the IEEE organisation. After a mundane lunch, we headed back to the auditorium, for an integration activity, which turned out to be a quiz event, with Muthu from third year taking up the role of quiz master. It was a compilation of really interesting questions, which had us all hooked to it.After the celebrating the birthdayof Jennene, an IEEE spokesperson with a large cake, a dance fest was performed by the ssnites and the multinational crowd loved every bit of the onstage proceedings, which ranged from Bharatanatyam to Folk to Western... Following dinner, about 120 of the 230+ delegates ( i mean students) assembled at the auditorium for a series of informal events like Juiced, different kinds of proposals and arm-wrestling face offs. And then was the best event in this whole program - a free for all dance, where the organizers left open the dancefloor( the stage) to everyone... With some initial hesitancy like most others, I joined the 100+ lot on the stage, as we waltzed around, slamming against each other, performing unorthodox steps, with some stints of group dancing to all the popular peppy hindi songs. Unforgettable - its not everyday that you get to dance with a 100+ lot from 10+ countries ! We headed back to our rooms, unwilling...
The next day promised even more fun as we were having lunch and looking forward to the much awaited group activities. Arun, Sonia,Jason, Rizwaan, Jitendran, Hiro, William and me were pooled into the same team. Prashanth, a classmate of mine joined later. After a name-telling game, we were asked to build a miniature structure of Tajmahal with ten newspapers. With some initial dilemma over choosing different ideas proposed within the team, we finally decided on one and started erecting our tajmahal, * for ;) * . Our construction was selected the best by the judge, thanks to our specifications that went into placing sirens over a mini police jeep !
The next event proved to be an interesting one, a modified form of Ship Wreck. With the given ten minutes for discussion over, we had to send someone from our team to tell the crowd why they are going to push a particular person off the ship and justify their decision. Hiro volunteered to do this and on stage, he said we are going to push George Bush off the ship, and when queried, he just said..." because he is george bush ! *also some stuff censored* " . Though our group dint do well in the justification part, we were praised to be the team which had most of the fun from these events !! Cheers 'Zeitgeist', our team name ~ wonder what it means :D ~
We had a great dinner, and I played a prank with tamil language on Arun ( a keralite), a prank well planned and well executed. We were almost coaxed into the auditorium for the multic-national cultural program, after offering some resistance while having a photo session. . My college's music troop, which has been dominating college culturals in chennai ( or so was i told), did some feet-tapping songs. Songs, dances from all the sections, with the Newzealander's performance of Haka stealing the limelight. He even invited people to join him in the dance on stage. And many other teams who later came on followed suit. Chinese danced to a mesmerizing piece of music, Australian played a song with guitar, Taiwanese read out some poem, Keralites, boasting the largest number, did a series of songs and dances, Delhi section was the most boorish, as they played some old skit, Hyderabadis were the last on stage dancing for the song Chal chalre Hyderabadi. Clock read 12.20, two hours past the schedule !
With yet another ordinary breakfast, followed by Student branch presentations, the gift-exchanging time finally started. I got to exchange my elephant crystal statue for a mini phantomish mask from a Taiwanese guy. After hoggin at the lunch buffet, people exchanged their contact details and took an array of photos, as cameras clicked away snaps of moments that will never be forgetten by anybody there... Even the word IEEE, brings a big smile on you :-)
place ur cursor over any pic to get the title displayed
Saturday, January 26, 2008
B(a)day !
Happy Birthday to myself !!!
An average performance in EDC, twin failures at iit and kurukshetra quizzes, totally about three hours of travel in PTC....
Where did all those 'happy's in "happy birthday" wishes showered on me go??!
An average performance in EDC, twin failures at iit and kurukshetra quizzes, totally about three hours of travel in PTC....
Where did all those 'happy's in "happy birthday" wishes showered on me go??!
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Bonnie and Lively...
~~She kept staring at me with those swarovski like eyes, smiling...
while i was looking stupefied at her...
...lustrous hair dangling in front of her fairish moonish enchanting cute face
It keeps dropping in front of her face within minutes after she brushes it aside or behind or *some proper preposition*
Feeling of enviousness creeps into my mind when i watch in awe at the cute. consummate,perfectly placed and shaped lips .
And a even cuter smile that can make a whole world of difference to any beaten man, appearing attractively on her lips.
Eyes that could spur the romantic devil in you !
To add to all the oveflowing elements of beauty,the thick yet sleek eyebrows, either connected or when not looks ravishing.
The bubbling cheeks that can be misconstrued easily as peaches when normal and apples while laughing.
has a peirced nose I guess, an icing on the cake...!!!
~~She retained unnervingly the happiness indicating smile at me that can melt Antarctica faster than Global warming ( science in romance ;) )
She....
carries an air of liveliness with her, unperturbed by those 'oorla naalu peru naalu vithama pesuvaanga" stuff...
Lives life the way she likes it, and good that what she likes is nice and unharming.... likes liberty, and when denied takes it !
Easily socializes with new people, can lift a sulky sorrowful spirit to an euphoric cheerful state... blissful and understanding
Amazingly outspoken... worth following
Gently hop-skips while normally walking, and catwalks unintentionally... gorgeous
Doesnt take a regular stance while talking and keeps dawdling every moment... adorable
Can fight the hell out of anyone with her arguements, which are.... stupid but strong
Can talk non-stop to everyone and anyone, not mokka pottufying mind u ... amusing
Keeps in pace with the changing vogue, a professional in it...a pro-vogue .... trendsetter
~~She still kept admiring me, not taking her crystal eyes off even for a nano second....
And i knew she will do that perpetually till...
... I switch off the monitor or open an application, coz desktop wallpapers are static (mostly) !
And the girl on the desktop is Genelia D souza a.k.a hasini ;) of Bommarillu fame...
or maybe not
;) ;) ;)
while i was looking stupefied at her...
...lustrous hair dangling in front of her fairish moonish enchanting cute face
It keeps dropping in front of her face within minutes after she brushes it aside or behind or *some proper preposition*
Feeling of enviousness creeps into my mind when i watch in awe at the cute. consummate,perfectly placed and shaped lips .
And a even cuter smile that can make a whole world of difference to any beaten man, appearing attractively on her lips.
Eyes that could spur the romantic devil in you !
To add to all the oveflowing elements of beauty,the thick yet sleek eyebrows, either connected or when not looks ravishing.
The bubbling cheeks that can be misconstrued easily as peaches when normal and apples while laughing.
has a peirced nose I guess, an icing on the cake...!!!
~~She retained unnervingly the happiness indicating smile at me that can melt Antarctica faster than Global warming ( science in romance ;) )
She....
carries an air of liveliness with her, unperturbed by those 'oorla naalu peru naalu vithama pesuvaanga" stuff...
Lives life the way she likes it, and good that what she likes is nice and unharming.... likes liberty, and when denied takes it !
Easily socializes with new people, can lift a sulky sorrowful spirit to an euphoric cheerful state... blissful and understanding
Amazingly outspoken... worth following
Gently hop-skips while normally walking, and catwalks unintentionally... gorgeous
Doesnt take a regular stance while talking and keeps dawdling every moment... adorable
Can fight the hell out of anyone with her arguements, which are.... stupid but strong
Can talk non-stop to everyone and anyone, not mokka pottufying mind u ... amusing
Keeps in pace with the changing vogue, a professional in it...a pro-vogue .... trendsetter
~~She still kept admiring me, not taking her crystal eyes off even for a nano second....
And i knew she will do that perpetually till...
... I switch off the monitor or open an application, coz desktop wallpapers are static (mostly) !
And the girl on the desktop is Genelia D souza a.k.a hasini ;) of Bommarillu fame...
or maybe not
;) ;) ;)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)

