aarrrrgggghhh

i need a break!!
i really do.....the education system in our country does nothing but suck life out of the students in it!
seriously the line in the latest hit song from 3 idiots "bachpan toh gaya javani bhi gai...ek pal toh ab hame jeene do!!"... this is something that we all feel...every day!
though i haven't seen the movie yet..I've heard a lot from all the people who've seen it..

In India when does one be treated like an adult??........and especially for girls i know a lot of girls will agree with me here..that in India girls are never treated like adults...they are never given the right to have an opinion...because everything we say is either stupid or outrageous!...we are supposed to understand and pamper every body's ego...girls are not supposed to have an ego of their own...because if you do then it is definitely going to be crushed beyond limits until you sink into a shell and never come out!..and the day that happens you are a complete "bharatiya naari!" and that's how everybody expects you to be...or that is what they will make out of you one day..

Today the we are supposed to be modern and open minded...well that is actually far from the reality..We like to pretend that we are very open minded and we give a lot of freedom to our kids but in reality we are the same primitive paranoid parents who think that letting their kids have a life is against our culture!...
here are some very ironical situations that we get to see around us..
"going out with a friend you've known all your life--no no its against our culture!"..but getting married to a perfect stranger..ohh yes thats how its meant to be!
" going for a trip outside the city with friends--- oh no! no way how can you even ask for something like that!!! :O " "but going for a spiritual camp again with perfect strangers ohh yes..that will do you good!"
I mean i dont understand what sense does all this make!

"Struggle"

Today i got to see a new side to my dad....My father is not much of a story teller but today he seemed to be very nostalgic as he spoke about his childhood and his father...I've only seen my grandpa in old family pictures as he passed away when i was a little baby, but i have heard a lot about his dynamic personality and positive nature from my mother...but today it was different to hear about him from my dad...

As my dad spoke sipping his sugarless cup of tea, It really made me wonder how my grandpa's decisions made back then are the sole reason of the quality of life we are leading today....

He had 11 children and the only source of income was a shop he owned...
It was only his determination and willingness to educate all his children and make them capable enough to lead a better life...
It was only because he understood the importance of education that lets me lead a comfortable and carefree life that i have...

"Struggle"...do we really understand what struggle is??...I certainly doubt that...struggle is probably what our grandparents and to a large extent what our parents went through...
All that we can do is acknowledge their struggle and thank them for giving us the life that we have.... :)

pretty faces that i miss!

Today i sit down to write this...things or rather the people that i miss the most....somehow the people that I'm closest to are geographically very far away!...how i hate that!....my sister i miss her the most...i miss the long sleepless nights that we used to have...when i used to listen to her college stories or her office stories (ya that's right i used to only listen!!...because by the time i had something to say she would always be very sleepy and tired..and would shut me up and go to sleep! :x)....

and i miss intiiii( ishita) my best friend who is now in jaipur!...and soumya who is in cochin!...both of them were responsible for the most amazing years of schooling that anyone would want to have....the three of us were crazy in our own weird unique style...and together we were crazier!...i remember how we used to sing songs like "aa dekhen zara" so loudly, that the whole class would look for some other place to hang out in the break!...but we really didn't care what people thought about us!......And that's what i loved about us!

i miss pooji and janva who are my colony friends ...pooja and i used to have these study sessions in the afternoon(in which studying never happened!)..and when we got bored of pretending to study we would call janhavi over and do a lot of tp!!...i miss those sudden plans of shopping to colaba or bandra!..now we need to plan months before we can actually go for shopping! (coz janhavi madam is in pune and pooja and i live in either ends of the city!!).....

being stupid!

Recently i have realized that the level of stupidity to which one can stoop is really amazing....or

rather to level which i can go is beyond people's imagination....sometimes we want to go with the

flow and do things that everyone is doing and then realization strikes you that you are actually

incapable of being like the rest of them...you try hard to fit in...but somewhere you are always alone...and believe it or not some of us like to be alone.....

I used to wonder why its been so easy for some people to find their perfect one and i've had the

toughest time! (cheezy i know!)...but then it was actually because i wanted it to be that way...and

i still do..(chechi don't get scared! ;) ).........somehow its always been easier this way and as a

matter of fact i am too paranoid about having to be answerable to anyone other than my parents ...

what's your raashi??...DUBARA MAT POOCHNA!!

The most mind numbingly boring movie of the century!!...that's my verdict on the latest venture of Mr Ashitosh govarikar....this man needs to learn to let his editors edit some crap out of his movies!!...i mean 3 and a 1/2 hour nonessential movie is nothing but torture!!...the only reason that i dint leave the theatre was that i had paid 120 bucks for it!...i had even considered going to the counter to get my money back!...i think i spent more time looking at the exit door than the screen...and also vodafone service messages never seemed more interesting...i could actually physically feel the pain while watching that load of crap!....Its a kind of movie where your brain cells actually cry out loud for help!....how i regret bunking those lectures!..I'm sure my professors would have put up a more interesting show than Harman baweja (Who finds it troublesome to even move an eyebrow!!)...and Priyanka Chopra( it looked as if she was doing mockery!)....lesson learnt never go for a Harman-Priyanka movie!!

hmm

There are a lot of things the world that u wish were different..like u wish your loved ones to be around you all the time and you wish things are not difficult...you wish so many things...sometimes you wish bad for other people, we all do that there's no point denying...there are weak moments when we do that....the only thing that can keep you away from that is the belief that you've got to be careful what you wish for coz you just might get it all!!....

The easiest thing in the world is to be happy...trust me it is!...because all the reason for your sadness is the needless worrying that we all are so habituated of doing!..so just stop worrying!..sit back and allow yourself to think calmly about the situation that's worrying you and that calm mind will figure out some way that will lead you to the right direction.....

omg!..this almost sounds like a 'pravachan'...i guess i was in my preachy mood!....but seriously i do believe very strongly about it....

swine flu!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This seems to be the current hot topic of discussion for almost everybody!....But personally i feel that the actual problem is not the disease its the paranoia that's taking its rounds...people are so paranoid that they want to lock themselves up in a room and still be worried if someone sneezes because of dust!....I agree that taking precautions is mandatory in a situation where the disease is still unknown..but going over the top with it is just stupid!....The problem that is bound to arise with this hype about swine flu is that people will now not want to accept that they do have the symptoms and will want to shy away from getting the tests done...and that is going to be very difficult to handle then...so my plea to the media is that instead of giving number of deaths and creating a havoc, they should concentrate on giving proper information about the disease and the required precautions to be taken....

confused, hazed...traumatized!!

Its so disturbing when you find people that you grew up with, people u thought of as your younger sibling just change so much, that u are not sure of wheather you ever knew them at all....at this moment of time i dont know what to feel or how to react...somethings are just not of my level of understanding....sometimes i feel that my parents must have done something right that makes sure that i am never attracted to petty things which give you momentary pleasure...last night i heard something terrible about someone i really care about..and never in my life have i felt so helpless!...its so difficult to even believe that something could go that wrong.....and i hate it how my parents reacted to it...instead of figuring out a way to get things back to normal..they were busy feeling proud about the decisions they have made for me and how they were always right!...well i agree their decisions for me have always proven right but i dont see any point of discussing it at such a critical time!..may be even they couldnt comprehend with the situation.....wrong company can really ruin a person...but again what happens to the thing known as conscience..i mean how can you not be aware of what you are getting yourself into...somehow i have still not been able to get my mind off that ...hopefully its not as bad as i have been imagining it to be...and i'll pray that everything comes back to normal...

Today was good fun...went to see New York..it was a good movie as a whole but certain parts were a little dragy...but it din't really matter as long as john is on the screen ;)....neil nithin mukesh gave some good performance there...but the end was not very convincing...after the movie there was some discussion and arguments about the situations portrayed...but then we decided to stop that as we had nothing to do with it hehe....then we went to colaba to do some shoping thats when i realized that my wallet was missing from the bag!!!.......and i could not shop :(...i lost my return ticket and all my money :( :(..thank god i was not carrying my college id or anything like that!...i dont know why this always happens with me!.considering the fact that i have managed to loose 2 phones and 2 wallets in the past two years!...i guess this had to happen to balance out all the fun that i was having!...

My first blog

oK i know my title sounds like some kinder garden essay topic but i really did not know what else to write.....hmmm well yesterday was a fun day met up with a long lost friend and did a lot of catching up and obviously found a lot of things to gossip about hehe...its funny how suddenly you feel all left out and bored and you have nothing to do and the next moment you have plans set for the whole week!.....Its this time of the year which is actually the only time in the whole year that we engineering students of the great MU find time to chill...we make so many plans...i wanted to go to learn to play the guitar( i've been saying this for the past 4 years!..all my friends have learnt to play it and i'm the only one left now!!)...or learn to drive in this vacation..but somehow i was too lazy to go out and find out about it...hmm well i hope i dont waste the rest of my vacation and even if i dont do the above mentioned things atleast i should have some fun!