In many posts, you would have observed me mentioning about Shruti. Now let me write about her.
2 years of my life i had spent in a place called NARAYANA JUNIOR COLLEGE, which was renamed by the students as NARAYANA CENTRAL JAIL.
let me give u a brief introduction about this place. It is a colleg which is located on the 6th floor of a commercial complex with very bad infrastructure. Sometimes we have feared that the roof might fall on our head. and stinky environment with conjusted classrooms which we hated. something that we hated further was that the classes were from morning to late evening. we d spend almost 12 full hours there with no holidays except sundays. we had just one day off for dasara, diwali and new year (coz it came on sunday). and if we were absent, they would call us home and enquire why we are absent. if the answer isnt genuine, we would be asked to come by the afternoon sessions. Ok this post is not to describe how bad that place was, but to tell that i found a wonderful friend there.
This is how we got to know each other:
I see this girl holding a book in her hand (novel). People who read books impress me although i m not a good reader myself. And i go up to her and ask her name, tell her mine and ask her how the book is. So now we know each other's existence.
Another day i was punished for arriving 5 minutes late to the class. yes i was made to stand in the last for the whole lecture. By then my place had been occupied by some other girl with whom i did not want to fight any further but preferred to move to another peaceful place. And i find that there is place beside Shruti. That whole day we were chatting as though we were there only to socialize. i dont think she ll mind if i mention that she liked my handwriting :P
Yes, here is the best part of conversation of that day
me: where do you stay?
she: ehh.. its a place called marredpally
me: where in marredpally?
she: shenoy nursing home... somewhere near that. (she was not sure if i knew that place. perhaps)
me: where near shenoy?
she: ***** store. (no i dont intend to tell where exactly we stay here in this blog)
me: (eyes really WIDE) you must be kidding coz i stay just adjacent to that store.
she: oh really?
both of us together: how cum i havent seen you before?
that was the first day we met although i dont remember the date well. i remember that she wore a green shirt on the first day of college. but yes there were also a few moments where we met at common places like the canteen (the canteen there was a bench where that fellow would bring curry puff on a tray and a crate of cooldrinks)
I did not see anyone as impressive, as friendly and nice like her in that place. infact she is the one of her kind and is the best. and slowly we got to know so many common things (but for harry potter. i still hate him and havent read even one page of his book. And i shan't. but yes i like dan radcliff :P)
she is a person really close to my heart and has her own unique position there. I owe all the credits to shruti when it comes to reading books. Reading has come into the passions list only after knowing shruti. i still remember the first book that she gave me to read was of O henry.
and i took more than a year to read agatha cristie's book. but now thankfully i dont take all that long to read books.
Another wonderful thing about her that i cannot forget is her lunch. Yes, her mom is a superchef and shruti is a very generous person who eats less than 1/3rd of her lunch and we eat the rest (me and suwarna :P).
There was this day when i wanted to make a cake for my mom's birthday and i forgot to get a dish from home to store the cake in. so she had to come all the way home to help distract mom to get it. this is what shruti and suwarna told my mom "aunty we would like to see the aerial view of the temple from your bedroom"
yes my mom smelled it. and so would any mom. but still i got away with it.
Another instance was when we brainwashed niharika to join violin classes. every free minute we would keep on coaxing her to agree to come to the violin class. at one point of time she got so mad that she stopped us and said" yes yes yes.. the violins is good for health" we both were shocked to hear that from her. poor thing we never troubled her again. but sadly the violin teacher who was just near our house for 9 years shifted to a place far far away that week. so we still dont know ABC of playing a violin practically.
There is this thing that used to happen really often. I wouldnt go to college on some days, and call her up in the evening and ask "what happened" and she would say "o i dint come because...." "wait.. you dint go either?" most of the days we d bunk college and stay at home not knowing that both of us are absent.
Aunty used to put some newspaper cuttings in her lunch box and we would have a wonderful time reading that. once she put a quote ehich was like this
Principal: you have missed school yesterday
student: no. not a bit.
the word student was cut off and replaced with shruti. many such cuttings which was a good stressbuster for us there.
We have had wonderful time in the practicals cutting open the worms and cockroackes, and making ultrasections of monocot/dicot root, stem etc.
there have been many more things that have happened in the English classes which i dont want to mention here now.
And those so many lame jokes that i crack during interactive sessions that we used to organise on our own. (yes i still remember that quantization joke for which she almost strangled me to death). And also those agreements that we d study serriously and land up chatting with the neighbour.
But something that i really loved the most and miss is that we d have fun and yet work as hard as we could in those classes, we had a healthy competition and would work together in solving papers, questions etc. But she always showed me painful assertion reasoning bits which make me get really angry even now if i think of them. but we always managed to do better than the others in the class which i miss a lot now.
So does she. if we were both in the same college, we would have certainly done some awesome project together.
I also remember those days when she used to go home in the middle of the class and tell my mom to go pick me up coz i wanted to go home too. and mom would come and pick me up.
Although we hated our part of life for being a part of that institute, our opinion towards the better degree college doesnt have much of a difference.
She is an awesome friend of mine, and to say the many nice memories that we have wouldnt be enough even if i wrote a whole blog just for her. Shruti you rock! :)
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Yesterday i had written about how my mind works, and how the voices are so close to me.
And i decided to put it up here on the blog when i had fun with the retrospection. so here is something that happened in the past that makes me laugh whenever i am reminded of it.
In the social networking site called orkut, i had an account and wrote down a description for myself in the about me section. Sometimes i d find sensible people with really good profiles and wish that i had a better profile than what i had. Believe me i never bothered to check what i had written in the about me section after i wrote it. Then one day, i got a friend request and i went up to that profile to see that the about me was so good. Again this thought that"hey this chap is just like me. i could have used these words in my about me instead coz this is THE thing about me!" then i go on reading it. Yeah it was one long about me. Not REALLY long like the other ones that i ve seen though. Then i read aline which says "although not so typically girly liking to only talk about lipsticks n nail polishes, i like talking about things that make sense".
Oh wait! this is the profile of a guy! where on earth does this thing come in?? then i went and visited my own profile to see that the whole damn thing was copy pasted from my about me :(
without adding him i asked him why on earth did he want to copy paste the thing instead of writing one on his own he says "your way of living is cool. i liked it so much". i perfectly understood that it was another fraanship request and rejcted it.
Now coming to the next part of it, i had bookmarked that profile to show it to Shruti.. and i make it up to meet her once a blue moon day.. and for a really long time that feminine line was still there on his profile.
God bless these wannabes!
P.S: Now i cant write anything more than one line anywhere for anything. i really feel it is a waste of time letting strangers know about me.
And i decided to put it up here on the blog when i had fun with the retrospection. so here is something that happened in the past that makes me laugh whenever i am reminded of it.
In the social networking site called orkut, i had an account and wrote down a description for myself in the about me section. Sometimes i d find sensible people with really good profiles and wish that i had a better profile than what i had. Believe me i never bothered to check what i had written in the about me section after i wrote it. Then one day, i got a friend request and i went up to that profile to see that the about me was so good. Again this thought that"hey this chap is just like me. i could have used these words in my about me instead coz this is THE thing about me!" then i go on reading it. Yeah it was one long about me. Not REALLY long like the other ones that i ve seen though. Then i read aline which says "although not so typically girly liking to only talk about lipsticks n nail polishes, i like talking about things that make sense".
Oh wait! this is the profile of a guy! where on earth does this thing come in?? then i went and visited my own profile to see that the whole damn thing was copy pasted from my about me :(
without adding him i asked him why on earth did he want to copy paste the thing instead of writing one on his own he says "your way of living is cool. i liked it so much". i perfectly understood that it was another fraanship request and rejcted it.
Now coming to the next part of it, i had bookmarked that profile to show it to Shruti.. and i make it up to meet her once a blue moon day.. and for a really long time that feminine line was still there on his profile.
God bless these wannabes!
P.S: Now i cant write anything more than one line anywhere for anything. i really feel it is a waste of time letting strangers know about me.
The Voices
For people who are voracious thinker (like me) they generally have a few voices than just one inside their head. My best friend also has the same, though we dont talk about the voices much as we are possesive about our voices.
On the last working day, the three voices in my head were having a hearty chat when i was on a retospection. What else could i do when i had to spend 100 minutes of free time where i dint even carry my lunch nor liked eating in the canteen. So on my way to the library these three voices cheered up my mood very well and i happened to record the conversation in a book.
i had a hearty time in absolute mundane silence and loud mind chatter. when we (voices personified :P ) almost finished our conversation, i was reminded about a poster my cousin had bought for himself when i was in class 2 or something. Its a poster of beer mugs and the attitude of people associated.
Voice one is a similar to 1.
voice two is similar to 2.
Voice three is similar to 3&4.Saturday, September 5, 2009
25 Random things about me
Here goes the 25 random things about me which i wrote for facebook, where i was tagged by nandhini my best friend. (narcissist i know. u have to bear the whole thing)
1.a.I always love to talk talk and talk and talk about myself, and can say that 25 is a very small number :P1.b. This is something that defines me just perfectly, that i am a combination of things. (not to be mistaken as kadavul padhi-mirugam padhi),rather to say a fusion of the best things that make me balanced. Poise is something that i admire in a person.
2. I can be a perfect introvert or an extreme extrovert depending upon the company.
3. I am a voracious thinker. I need to think atleast 3 things at a time. And all the friends who are close to my heart have this habit ("ornithological species of the same plumage congregate together" remember ? :P)
4. I always look out for something good in every person, and hate talking bad about others. And when it comes to secret, I will NEVER reveal secrets, because that is what i expect. (psst, anyone trying to get some gossip from me, dont waste ur time :P)
5. I can detatch myself from just everything mundane and go on the real journey of life at anytime. infact that is my real inner passion.
6.Now, considering the twist n turns life has taken, i ve given up on the idea of celebrating a birthday. although a cake is something for which i dont need a birthday. i dont look at it as though it points that i m getting older, its just a day for retrospection and correction and implementation of new ideas and assignments.
7. I get restless and bored very easily. And i always like experimenting new things. else, i can just enjoy myself in soltitude.
8. Whenever anyone asks me what i d want as a gift, the answer that i d say is " give me a surprise" (i tell this truth only when i m compelled). else i really dont expect anything from anyone.
9. Although i m lazy, and a procrastinator, i am very independent, and dont even expect anything even from my mom. i work hard to achieve what i want. so it is that fire of achievement that drives me to get what i want. eg: guitar, music player, a few classes, canvas boards etc. i ve been working since class 4.
10. Music is my passion. i love listening to music. so do i like singing. but i sing very rare. if u ve heard me sing, u are either ther by some fluke or someone close enough to hear me sing in ur presence.
11. another passion is dance. nothing can stop me from dancing. And grace is something i look forward in every dance i see. be it any form of dance, grace and sync is what makes it perfect.
12. i love travelling. i dont particularly need a company to travel. and i dont need a guide either. i know how to manage myself in alien places. eg: i comfortably went travelling to three countries all by myself. its not just going out of india, even within india, i like to travel, i like visiting villages with grenery of farms to places of concrete forests.
13. i like to greet people with a warm smile. and like to make people happy when they are sad. it is a resolution (the ONLY one rather :P) that hasnt been broken that i d make atleast one person happy a day. Psst.. anyone who actually likes this and want to follow this, heres a starting tip: appreciate the good points of a person without any ego.
14. I have to come online everyday. even if there is no mail or any of my friends online to chat. atleast for a few minutes.
15. There is nothing that i HATE to do. i observe just everything that i see, and learn things from it. hence writing down my activites is going to go for a few pages here which will definitely annoy the reader
16. Whatever u call it, stubborn, adamant, or whatever, what i call it is determined. i am always determined with what i want to do. Unfortunately i am selective most of the times.
17. when i was a little child, i wanted to be a saint and a scientist, not knowing what they meant. considering the great preceptor i have, i am in the right path to achieve both.
18. I forgive people of whatever bad they do to me. but i never forget it. and that creates a vivid space. i bear no specific hatred towards anyone, but there are people towards whom i neither have a bond of friendship nor hatred. Just cut totally.
19. I was short tempered. to the core. i remember breaking a girl's tooth in class 3. and remember kicking people till recent. but after i joined degree, i just found it pointless to express any emotion be it joy, sorrow or anger.
20. i ve developed a love towards silence. i feel wonderful zeal when i stay silent and dont open my mouth the whole day. and i d love to go on like this for weeeks.
21. i love to live every moment the way it comes. nowadays i even enjoy biocehmistry classes even if the lecturer takes great effort to put me to sleep. i am the only girl in my batch in my college who travels by car, and i drive really faaaast. in the middle i thought i should stop that and be like a lady and drive slowly. but it has nothing to do with it. all it means is that i enjoy every moment driving. this point is also explained by the fact that i am a gourmet and i cook my own food to suit my palate. courtesy: dad in class 1 when he got angry coz i used to demand food made perfectly right to suit my palate.
22. i can adapt myself to just any situation.
23. i dont fear death. but i look at it with dignity. i dont crib about any kind of pain i experience. i call it just another part of life and keep going. so is death.
24. i hate lectures. considering how painful it is in the recieving end, i dont go towards the giving end at all.
25. (i cant believe this is the last point and i finished this so soon). i have a few friends who mean life to me. They are assets that i have got after going through lot of pain and struggle in life.
1.a.I always love to talk talk and talk and talk about myself, and can say that 25 is a very small number :P1.b. This is something that defines me just perfectly, that i am a combination of things. (not to be mistaken as kadavul padhi-mirugam padhi),rather to say a fusion of the best things that make me balanced. Poise is something that i admire in a person.
2. I can be a perfect introvert or an extreme extrovert depending upon the company.
3. I am a voracious thinker. I need to think atleast 3 things at a time. And all the friends who are close to my heart have this habit ("ornithological species of the same plumage congregate together" remember ? :P)
4. I always look out for something good in every person, and hate talking bad about others. And when it comes to secret, I will NEVER reveal secrets, because that is what i expect. (psst, anyone trying to get some gossip from me, dont waste ur time :P)
5. I can detatch myself from just everything mundane and go on the real journey of life at anytime. infact that is my real inner passion.
6.Now, considering the twist n turns life has taken, i ve given up on the idea of celebrating a birthday. although a cake is something for which i dont need a birthday. i dont look at it as though it points that i m getting older, its just a day for retrospection and correction and implementation of new ideas and assignments.
7. I get restless and bored very easily. And i always like experimenting new things. else, i can just enjoy myself in soltitude.
8. Whenever anyone asks me what i d want as a gift, the answer that i d say is " give me a surprise" (i tell this truth only when i m compelled). else i really dont expect anything from anyone.
9. Although i m lazy, and a procrastinator, i am very independent, and dont even expect anything even from my mom. i work hard to achieve what i want. so it is that fire of achievement that drives me to get what i want. eg: guitar, music player, a few classes, canvas boards etc. i ve been working since class 4.
10. Music is my passion. i love listening to music. so do i like singing. but i sing very rare. if u ve heard me sing, u are either ther by some fluke or someone close enough to hear me sing in ur presence.
11. another passion is dance. nothing can stop me from dancing. And grace is something i look forward in every dance i see. be it any form of dance, grace and sync is what makes it perfect.
12. i love travelling. i dont particularly need a company to travel. and i dont need a guide either. i know how to manage myself in alien places. eg: i comfortably went travelling to three countries all by myself. its not just going out of india, even within india, i like to travel, i like visiting villages with grenery of farms to places of concrete forests.
13. i like to greet people with a warm smile. and like to make people happy when they are sad. it is a resolution (the ONLY one rather :P) that hasnt been broken that i d make atleast one person happy a day. Psst.. anyone who actually likes this and want to follow this, heres a starting tip: appreciate the good points of a person without any ego.
14. I have to come online everyday. even if there is no mail or any of my friends online to chat. atleast for a few minutes.
15. There is nothing that i HATE to do. i observe just everything that i see, and learn things from it. hence writing down my activites is going to go for a few pages here which will definitely annoy the reader
16. Whatever u call it, stubborn, adamant, or whatever, what i call it is determined. i am always determined with what i want to do. Unfortunately i am selective most of the times.
17. when i was a little child, i wanted to be a saint and a scientist, not knowing what they meant. considering the great preceptor i have, i am in the right path to achieve both.
18. I forgive people of whatever bad they do to me. but i never forget it. and that creates a vivid space. i bear no specific hatred towards anyone, but there are people towards whom i neither have a bond of friendship nor hatred. Just cut totally.
19. I was short tempered. to the core. i remember breaking a girl's tooth in class 3. and remember kicking people till recent. but after i joined degree, i just found it pointless to express any emotion be it joy, sorrow or anger.
20. i ve developed a love towards silence. i feel wonderful zeal when i stay silent and dont open my mouth the whole day. and i d love to go on like this for weeeks.
21. i love to live every moment the way it comes. nowadays i even enjoy biocehmistry classes even if the lecturer takes great effort to put me to sleep. i am the only girl in my batch in my college who travels by car, and i drive really faaaast. in the middle i thought i should stop that and be like a lady and drive slowly. but it has nothing to do with it. all it means is that i enjoy every moment driving. this point is also explained by the fact that i am a gourmet and i cook my own food to suit my palate. courtesy: dad in class 1 when he got angry coz i used to demand food made perfectly right to suit my palate.
22. i can adapt myself to just any situation.
23. i dont fear death. but i look at it with dignity. i dont crib about any kind of pain i experience. i call it just another part of life and keep going. so is death.
24. i hate lectures. considering how painful it is in the recieving end, i dont go towards the giving end at all.
25. (i cant believe this is the last point and i finished this so soon). i have a few friends who mean life to me. They are assets that i have got after going through lot of pain and struggle in life.
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