Happy 100th post! Ah.... ah... Achooo!

Yay me! This is the official 100th post of this blog. I can't believe it's really been that long! Anyway, I don't feel like celebrating much actually. Blame it on my yearly bout of viral infection.

I'm really really sick and have missed two days worth of classes already!

And as if this wasn't bad enough, I'm being asked to submit my seminar topic pronto. I mean... what kind of a moron would actually keep this up until the last minute?! And the answer is -- My HOD!

And I heard that someone else was taking up a topic I was interested in. Can't really blame them though... nobody knew I was actually going to take up a talk on Carbon nanotubes! And so, now I shall talk on Fullerene Chemistry!

Yay me! *cough cough* Excuse me while I go bang my head somewhere and think up of a way to prepare a twenty something number of slides by tomorrow morning! Keh... like anybody's bothered! (Me... least of 'em all!)

Oh.. and I heard one of the professors doubts if I reeeeally actually have Viral infection or if I am bluffing to escape lab. Gee people! I actually am rather interested in coughing my lungs out than working with a He-Ne laser that pulses when it shouldn't and a lab group where they'd rather feed me to the vultures than help me out (Hmmmm.... maybe being sick isn't so bad afterall! >=D)

Psssst: I don't know where I got the sick ducky from. I hereby proclaim that was just used to portray how sick I was feeling and that I am not the owner of that piccie. It's either that or me puking buckets of bile people... pick your poison! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Achoo... Oooh... gooey!

Hello world... I've been waiting for a chance to see your face! uh~whoaa... hello-*coughspluttercough*

Ahem... Hello there people! It's been quite a day today. I'm feeling slightly under the weather (which is normally... as always HOT!) and I just realized that I tend to get head-colds more during hot days than during chilly ones! Right now, I've a clogged up nose that runs (I don't know how it does that... it's clogged up when I try taking deep breaths but the oooeey-gooey still does come out!)

And to top things up, I need to finalize my Seminar topic by tomorrow. And nope... my idea for presenting higher symmetry groups in Physics was turned down because the dodo of a professor doesn't understand the subject! So now, I'm contemplating whether "fracture to the skulls of silly professors and its characterization" would be good enough or if the "diminished viscosity of nose snot" will be better!

Ai Elbereth! I need a break!

Dide...you silly fool...

Dearest Dide,

How is it possible for you and your minions to so easily make friends and then discard them away when you've done using them up? How effortlessly you show how 'low' you are when you cut off all ties when someone you know gets something better in life? How can you accuse others of misunderstanding every bloody thing you do when you don't ever leave that silly pedestal of yours and look down upon everybody around you? How can you go about thinking of yourself to be a Tennyo in disguise when deep down inside I see the true Oni that you are?

How can you be so.... you?

Just so you know... He was a really nice person and you've lost out on his friendship by being the 'person' you are. And I shalln't repeat the same mistakes you've been foolish and selfish enough to commit. He has been a good friend and like a brother to me. I've had enough people being snatched away from me thanks to you and your ploys. I refuse to lose anymore!

Your friend who still can't believe you're being such a prat,
Kikyo.

Happy times at the beach!

Today, we went out to the beach with my Uncle and my niece! It was an awesome way to spend my Saturday! Here are some snaps that I managed to take!

My Niece - Varsha


Mom with Varsha. Dad's somewhere in the background, glaring at tiny crabs! =D


Random Photographer being photographed!


Dad, still glaring at the crab!=P


Random people at the beach


A log floated ashore and suddenly, a lot of Nikon toting dudes were almost lying on top of it trying to take its pictures!


Uncle dearest and Varsha


Daddy (finally let go of the crab ne!), Uncle and Varsha


Mom, dad and Varsha


Random kite flying so high.... *dreams away*


"The Log" that traps unwitting photographers to snap a picture of its magnificent self! Who was I to resist?! ;D


Magnificent Horses that won't take you places!


Samosa Channa! YUM YUM!

Kintama! ROFL


Chili Mala!


Playtime!


The sunset in Marina


Daddy contemplating how to get the car out from behind fifty rows of parked vehicles!

All in all... it was a wonderful trip!

My new knapsack! Woot!

When it rains, it pours! And I for once, know that this is true! how else does one explain getting two branded trousers and an awesome knapsack when one just walks into a shop to look around?

I know I'm tall... I've been bullied at for this one reason since my eighth grade. And add to that, my lanky stature and my buck teeth and you get the class clown. And though my lanky frame has become a bit more plumper (now they say I have a willowy frame!) and my buck teeth all fixed, my height still makes heads turn when I walk into the open. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad one. But being tall means lesser leg space in an already cramped bus, ill fitting ready made dresses and trousers... blah blah blah...

And so, I've been on the hunt for the perfect jeans for as long as I can remember! And well, the search ended in Eranakulam recently... at least for now!

Mom, Dad and I had gone temple hopping to Kerala and there, we managed to find an Levi's store right next to our hotel room. We just walked in to inquire the price but somehow, we ended up getting a pair of jeans, a pair of camo cargoes, and a knapsack! I'm way too lazy to post the pictures of the clothing right now. But the knapsack that I now carry to the university, I shall post it's pictures here.

Oh... And I am a HUGE fan of tiny dolls and trinkets that one adds to one's bags to personalize them. I should say my bag's become quite unique in my university in that respect (and this also leads to a lot of flicking of stuff! T__T)!

So.... here she is! =D

The front

The Back

I really love the material on this one!

Maybe I'll post the picture of the cargoes and the jeans (that fit me perfectly! Tra la la la la!!!) some other time! =D

Anatha Thandavam - a movie that made me go.... eeeeeeeh?!

Where do I begin? Hmmm... just so it is understandable as to why I am reviewing this movie, I'll let you guys in on one thing. I'm moved by two things in life. Something that's really mind-blowingly good and something that's utterly sad. This movie falls under the second category. Now before people think this is some tear-jerker of sorts, I'll have them know that this movie moved me - away from ever watching it... or even thinking about watching it.... ever again!

The story is an adaptation on the late Tamil writer Sujatha's story "Pirivom Santhippom" (It means, we'll separate; we'll meet again...or something along those lines). And I don't know how the book was. But if it was anything as corny as the movie, I shall be surprised. Because, Sujatha is supposed to be a really prolific writer (I haven't read his books... It takes me an hour to make it to the second page!) or so my mother says!

The story begins with an Anna University Mechanical Engineer (he's my University's alumini?! Gee... I hope there aren't many like him out there!). Even after completing his course, he finds it very hard to secure himself a job. And even though that is kinda surprising,(Anna University students almost always find some job or the other!) after watching his character for fifteen minutes, I can see why! And he returns to his hometown near Ambasamudhram to his doting and understanding father (one of the very few people in the whole movie with something between his ears!). There, he meets Madhumitha, the daughter of the Chief Engineering Officer. She is this really naive and sweet girl whose pranks "supposedly" show her mischievous side (though plainly, five minutes into the whole 'prank' thing, I wanted to smack her up the head and wonder if she even has something that resembles a brain somewhere in her body).

And Raghu sees Madhumitha and she beholds him... blah blah blah... they fall in love. Having known each other for a fortnight, they get engaged. And when any normal person would hear alarm bells going off in their heads, our hero floats about in Cloud number nine! And when his father asks him about it, he accuses his pops of being paranoid and silly. (Kids these days!) But things go awry when Raghu takes up a job that Madhumitha's pops sets up for him (he leaves, completely forgetting his father - the man who raised him and fed him and clothed him... Seriously, falling in love doesn't make people this selfish and 'jerk'y!)

Enter Radhakrishnan. He is some bigass executive working in Macintosh with an artificial bald-spot that looks downright tacky! And Madhumitha in her childish way chooses to marry him instead. When Raghu hears of this, he is heartbroken! (Le gasp! You don't say!) He tries to kill himself but survives and decides to carry on with his life after his daddy-dearest gives him some pearls of wisdom about how chicks dig dudes with the right bling... blah blah... you know...

He gets admitted into New York University and on reaching there, is kinda shaken up by the American society today. (or atleast what the director thinks of it - shootouts, Korean guys killing their girlfriends who cheat on them, coloured people robbing unsuspecting Indians...yep! That is all the ever happens there folks! Oh.. And pole dancing! Am I even making sense here? >__<) There, he meets sensible and well rooted Rathna, a girl who values her independence and her culture equally and has managed to strike a balance between the two. One almost begins to accept that perhaps Raghu has finally put his silly visage and probably lives on like a normal person with a cerebral cortex when Madhumitha makes a comeback in his life and he realizes he likes her even after all the shit he’s been through thanks to her! (Awww…. Sweet…. NOT!)

And so, they meet up more often and soon, Raghu realizes Mr. ‘Baldy a.k.a. Baddy’ is actually sending her off to meet him so he can frolic around with sweet young things. And in the meantime, he is drawn to Rathna and they’re about to get engaged when Madhumitha comes to know of her hubby’s bad side and suffers abuse because of it. She runs to Raghu and asks him to run away with her. And all of this happens on the day he is supposed to get engaged to Rathna in Pittsburg. And so, there’s this huge hullabaloo and Raghu is ‘forced’ to leave Madhumitha. (seriously… forced you say? Oy Vey! And hasn’t that female heard of helplines for abuse victims? Wait… if she was that smart, she wouldn’t be married to the jerk in the first place now, would she!) Madhumitha cuts her hand and gets herself run over by a trailer in Malaysia! (Yep! You heard me right! I don’t think road signs are in Malay in Pittsburg…. Do you? Uh huh! I can be observant too, ya know! B-D)

And well… everybody except the hubby repents and blah…blah…blah… a really boring climax and an abrupt end. There you go people! I’ve reviewed the movie. And if anyone’s wondering why I subjected myself to this misery, paying money for the theatre people and all, I didn’t. This is from what I saw of the movie from TV. And I might see it again. I love making fun of these stupid, brainless characters you see! Yep… this girl’s an M and an S at the same time! =P

Psssst... don't let this review make you shy of seeing this movie! What's life without a little bad entertainment?! And I personally think Rukmini Vijayakumar who plays Rathna is kinda cute. Oh... and I'm going through PMS. But that does not affect this review in any way! =D

I'm Pooped... but grateful!

Today, on my second day to college, I had to attend my first lab session. And this is all I've to say! I'm so tired that I can't seem to feel my feet at all! Phew! And combine a thirty minute walk to that and an empty stomach back home, you'll mildly get the picture of what I mean people. But you know... I somehow am grateful for all I have. I've loving parents who've never left me wanting anything... I've a handful of true friends who're there for me whenever I need them and loads of things in my life that makes my existence so enjoyable as a whole!

I'm glad people... for all those experiences that were enjoyable. I'm also thankful for all those that weren't, because without those, I wouldn't have learnt some of the most valuable lessons of my life. And I'm thankful for all the people in my life and I pray that all those who I've met and those that I shall meet in the future have the best that is ordained for them and that all creatures great and small don't feel the burden of my existence that much!

Phew! That felt great! And a special thank you to all those who actually read my blog! LOL Love you people!

Well, now I need to fix up a mini-project, complete my Lab report and try studying for a test on Wednesday (and it hasn't even been a week! That HOD is the closest people are ever going to get to Morgoth, I tell you!). But hey! I'll survive! =D