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This is another random post...mostly coz it was a sudden reminder that i still have a blog..(thanks marc)

Anyway....as i was pondering on what to write about(cant upset the readers, see) i was constantly interrupted....my brainstorming session wasnt really storming up with anything...thinking should be uninterrupted...and my five minutes of peaceful gray mater insight wasnt as peaceful as i hoped it would be...simple...i was on the internet, logged into orkut, on google chat, online on yahoo messenger AND i had my cell phone next to me..phew!!....
talk bout multiple levels of communication......!!

Ever happened to you before...?...u chat with the same person simultaneously on orkut, on yahoo, and continue to sms them...?i have,....i know it sounds like the height of joblessness...but it still does happen...

On another note, this actually set me thinking..its noticeably harder to just call up a person and talk nowadays....people without these facilities seem much tougher to keep in touch with....hell, i'm in constant touch through orkut with a friend in KL, but to some of them in hometown chennai, i havent spoken to them since i left school...weirD!!
Happened to u before??

Movie mania!!

Ok, i'll admit it...i'm not a movie buff...quite the opposite to tell you the truth..but i am a bond fan...big time..

So its quite fair for me to consider having seen the latest movie 'Casino Royale' an achievement...and to no one's suprise, i think its way better than the last one..or even all the previous ones....i go with the rediff reviews..and they're always right!!

Its better...darker and more approachable cause its the man James Bond this time...not super-spy, amazing gadgets, hot girls, not afraid to jump off an iceberg James Bond....its way too cool..to see the hesitations when he has to jump heights..the flaws the mistakes he makes..awesome!!more believable....and the best part??..no annoying MoneyPenny...but that alse means that Q isnt a part of the movie either, which is sad...(but then again i preffered Desmond Lwellyn much more than the recent one)...

It was great how i got to see the movie in the first place...without any plans..and somehow thats the best...i was with a friend en route to spencer's when we decided to catch a movie...turned out that tickets WERE available and that we were also 5 minutes late..which meant that we ran into the theatre ecstatic and also that we missed the movie song...which sucked big time coz the song hasnt been promoted at all and i still havent heard it...grrr!!

So that was a fun day...the movie was just way too cool...the stunts were actually in the 'humanly possible' genre and not like the ones that pierce brosnan would do...i mean, come on!!..the one in 'die...', where he jumps off the iceberg and surfs on the wave with the top of that machine....puh-leasee!!!...the girls..??..well..umm...i mean, i was looking at Daniel Craig..*drool*...so no clue about the girls....

Daniel Craig...*sigh*...the perfect choice for the 'man behind james bond' although when it comes to the next movie where he has to be all suave and sophisticated again??..well..lets wait and see..certain amazing scenes (where he smirks when the bomb is switched) and especially the last one where he finally says 'the name's bond...james bond'...wow!!!!!!

Final word...AWEsome movie....definately worth spending time and money over....go Daniel!!

(cool pic...*drool)

Diwali time....

Dont be fazed by the topic..its not a positive thing...am not being jolly...am being a complete, thorough, out-and-0ut pessimist here(kinda like Marc..)

Dont get me wrong here...i used to love diwali...back in junior school...getting up early in the morning for the customary bath(i know people will make stupid comments here)....dressing up nice with the ethnic wear....being suprised with the crackers by my parents(from the list that i chose)...gearing up with all my other tiny friends to burst cracker after cracker all the live long day....but the evenings were the best..with all those amazing lights..and the lovely colours....and somewhere in between all that the sweets...and the friends and relatives coming over....that euphoria would last a week at the least..

And now?..sheesh....my mother's influence has creeped in...suddenly i find myself too old for crackers..too sick for sweets....too annoyed to meet endless relatives....is that my innate self just surfacing after being smothered in childish living?..or is it just the way adults and "grown ups" are?....or maybe even the new trend?..to be above petty things as crackers at noon..cause if i remember right adults used to love it too...

Its more of a cascade of things that people lose interest in when they grow up......given that i'm neither here nor there on the whole adult/adolescent thing, i think i can qualify to comment on this.....

How is taking a walk in the rain so difficult now?Or watching back to back movies on TV all sunday?..or taking a midnight walk in the beach even??...ordering take out....if you are too tired to cook..dont!...why does everything have to be neat?in order?spic and span to the extent of blinding the next person who walks into the kitchen?...so what if the cat plays with your dresses?..or drinks up all the milk?..they are supposed to arent they?

Anyway..the point of the blog is....is this whole 'growing up' phase that adults cant seem to wait for us to enter, really as good as it seems?...are we forgetting to have fun?..is it something that u have noticed or experienced hands-on?..

Do i need one...??

Given that all my blogs or posts are just random thoughts do i really need a topic??....wouldnt it just be 'yet another update?'....or would that border on me sounding mallu-ish?....you know that pathetic joke we all heard in school or at home from an equally annoying aunt...."how do mallus spell 'moon'?"....."Yem, Wo, yet another Wo,Yen...", after which you'd jus go "...." and wonder the exact right and appropriate age is when you can tell your mother's friend to shove something..

Random thoughts indeed....well anyway....this whole embargo of old depressing relatives came over sometime yesterday to check on their favourite neice(me)...being the newly crowned birthday girl and all...i guess they felt it was time for their yearlt check-up...

Anyway...now that i'm all "grown up"(ahem), i felt it was about time i spoke my mind for once in front of them..(oh boy did i pay for that later...)...
Simple issues actually.....funny...if you think retorting when you've had enough to annoying old people is funny...

"Oh, my God,....you've grown...!!"....."well, you didnt expect me to defy nature did you?"....
"Ohh....you get phone calls from boys now do you?"....."they dont seem to mind the syphilis...."
"Isnt it a little too late to go out for dinner now?"......"i dont have dinner in the afternoon..."
"A coca cola addict are you?"....."helps me get over the marijuana...."

Was fun at that moment....but unfortunately my mum doesnt seem to share my sense of humour....damn!..people these days...no personality!...

Even though i didnt want to, i was forced to hear their conversations....husbands, work, tensions in life..and i was thinking to myself (this could be heaven, and this could be hell), how rough adults have it...and i never understand why they always seem to think that we 'teens' are jus the beginning of their complaints....i mean, is it really that tough to have an adolescent at home...?...are we really that troublesome...?...i mean, sure, we have our mood swings, but who doesnt?...sure, we feel that you parents prefer out siblings and the rest of the world to us, but who doesnt feel that way?
..its not that bad...all we do is slam doors when annoyed...most of the time we dont really know why we are pissed...but so what?....the point is that we are annoyed...and since when did the phrase 'leave me alone' become so difficult to understand...??...and do parents think that the moment they turn into parents they are professional psychologists...??..everything we do or say needs to be analysed..every non-committal action has to be reasoned...perfection the key rule...temper is not allowed...retorts, door slamming, silence, or even chit chat are abhorred.....
Bottom line?...parents are way too complicated!!!!!!......

I kinda feel like Lindsay Lohan in that movie of hers..Freaky friday...where she switches places with her mother....

Anyway.....mother alert..."too late to be online"....hmph!

The Blood donation Camp...

Given that i've successfully bunked another afternoon at college, i might as well put the time to good use, and update!!....well, as marc rightly said, this blog demands an update, so marc, this one's for you..

The blood donation camp...held at nandanam on the 10th..and am glad to say that it was actually successful...we (youth for equality) had organised this camp along with nandanam news...

Was a bit of fun, although i didnt get to donate, with a funny looking van for the doctors and the donors, vivek's 'incident'..getting people to actually donate their blood and not steal the free food,..campaigning in the middle of the day for new donors (at one point of which we almost entered an appartment of an ex-MLA, only to run in the opposite direction)..

Its funny to note though, how grossly misconstrued people are about things that come to blood...some seriously irrational fears...but despite all the last minute hassles we did manage to collect a fairly decent amount of viable blood..

Oh, we also had some time to take some candid photos of the core members of the YFE...(me included)..so thats me with my hippie look at the blood donation camp having fun with the camera...

Casual Update..

"well...the last thing that i left up in the air was the blood donation camp, sonja!,...college, my aids awareness camp..yeah thats about it...
Perfect time to be blogging actually right now....close to midnight...raining outside..that nip in the air...excellent...
Well...first things first....the aids awareness camp....10 days in (i finally got the name..Thirunanravur..i think) a school called Sevalaya for orphaned and abandoned children...based entirely on donations...so anyway, we went there to teach the 8th and 9th graders what we know on aids...and a lot of other things actually...It was 8 students (me included) from my college and 15 students from an university called the Johns Hopkins University in the states..extremely varied backgrounds..as appealing as that sounds, trust me, it does have its own set of problems..
not meaning to sound square, hey, i can get along fairly well with anyone...but not everyone can...the language barrier, the cultural difference,...led to a few problems actually...

The camp as such was quite a cartload of fun, kids can be really receptive at times..although the lack of proper education and the background of the families did make them highly rambunctious at times...man, that was tough to control!...And not only did we teach, but we also had to play 'simultaneous translator' to the other students...not as easy as one might think it is...

The horrible parts were of course, the lack of proper hygiene, food, water..accomodation...things which can really get to you after a point..so much so that when i came back home, a bath for more than 5 minutes in warm water was such a luxury..!!...

Anyway.. there were things to be appreciated about the camp..we did really learn a lot..its fulfilling to have to teach and spread valuable information to kids..10 days is a lot of time to bond with them and connect..so much so that they cried when we left..ok, i admit, i'm not the type comfortable with public display of emotions and affection but that moment floored me..
But all things said and done, it was a good time, despite the problems...

Feline Frenzy!!!!!!!!!!

Good news....i have a cute lil tiny precious furball named 'sonja' at home...she's adorably cute, orange and white(more white than orange), irresistable when she curls up.....but she just wont stop SHOUTING!!!!!!

I guess my mum and i made the mistake of bringing a one and a half month old kitten home...as we now very well know, she cant adjust too well, and insists on bringing the roof down at the drop of a hat...

To be fair, i do admit that she has her good moments..like around 2 am in the morning (can you believe i've been up since 2 AM for her??) right after she clawed my sister(wait, that wasnt the best moment...good, but not the best), she came into my room where i was asleep, and curled up right on my tummy and woke me up...
It was SO sweet..one of those 'awwwww' moments actually...so i started scratching her behind the ears and she loved it so much..that she wouldnt let me sleep after that...so everytime i scratched her she'd have this cute grin and her eyes would become slits..such a cute face..and everytime i'd stop, she'd have that pathetic look with her eyes wide and staring at me...now how could anyone say no to that??... :-(

So thats what i've been upto from 2 am...playing with sonja..she's in the middle of exploring her environment now...and keeps mewling all the time...maybe she misses her family..she was with another kitten and her mom when we took her..so its play for now..and good bye in a couple of hours....i've got to take her back..cant stand seeing her like this..

The pilot..one of many..

Well,...lets see...tuesday afternoon..3 pm...at home instead of college...
Happens to many right?..

For the purpose of killing time, i'm on the computer typing in my first (not first ever) blog in this spot..i have to admit though, a friend of mine convinced me to start blogging all over again...although i dont think i'm doing a very good job at paying attention with bold and the beautiful in the background(:D) and careless whisper on the headphones...

I spent the last weekend (well saturday actually) at mahabalipuram...sad given that i've been in chennai ALL my life and i've never been there..
The trip to mahabs is the first of many that i plan to make in and around the city..i love travelling, but my family doesnt..so as an 18 year old i think i'm old enough to start on my own..(by dragging my unfortunate friends along of course)..the place is scenic..no doubt..although the ride to and fro was no piece of cake(go there by bike, if u have good company..makes it a lot easier!!)..the city (or whatever u call it) was a lot of fun..shore temple with beautiful structures that didnt really make sense(was fun making up stuff for it though,..have u ever seen a temple shrine with intricately carved sculptures that were actually supposed to be gargoyles..??..well we did)..shelled items(no other name), beautiful beach, odd-french-massacring-guides, ..and a lazy atmosphere...perfect way to take a break..

So now that i'm almost back to normal life(well not entirely, coz i have the viral fever, and i havent been to college in two days[yayy!!]), i'm unfortunately occupied with the things that tend to annoy me...work!

Like for example,..is it possible for me to ponder over all these at the same time...
....the blood donation camp that i'm supposed to help organise on the 10th..
...the new kitten at my home, who's being very cranky and is crying too much...
....my mum's health and the new viral epidemic,(the chikunguinea!!)....screw the spelling!
...the fact that i havent been to college in three days{actually thats not so bad}...
...the camp that i'm supposed to leave for in two days....(more later)..
...my french diploma exam...(dont get me started!)
...my incoming semesters...(already missed about a month of classes!)
...and a general feeling of doom....but thats not something to worry about..

I've just noticed a general feeling of my post becoming too much of a punching bag...ah well who cares..with my luck only my friends are going to read it, and they've heard me complain a lot anyway..:D

Hmm..okay...organised thoughts...
YFE.yeah!...youth for equality..thats us..youth(generally) against reservation..although for the information of the not-so-updated, the bill was passed in favor of the obcs today and counterparts in delhi are protesting...and those in chennai....?.are wondering what to do...
But for all purposes the blood donation camp will still continue..and moi?..am in charge of making sure that college students turn up for it..

Kitttttyyyy....well..thats her name for now..although 'felix' would sound a lot better...my new kitten...cute lil furball..in orange and white..shit scared now..just in the middle of getting used to me and my home...

My camp...well thats through college...the red ribbon club is organising a 10 day camp on aids awareness at a village called 'i cant seem to remember for more than 5 mins'...which was exciting at first when i heard about it..(so exciting that i actually volunteered to be president..and won!)...but now that i think about it...10 days in the middle of nowhere..doing hard physical labour..after recovering from a viral fever...joy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Diplome exam....scheduled for the mid october at the alliance francaise de madras...need i say more??

Well...i'd call it quits now...unfinished, blunt, and left hanging halfway through...coz ladies and gentlemen,..thats exactly how i feel now...

More later...eventually...