A Brewing Storm...

The last couple of days were frustrating, if not deabilitating. We had to push ourselves harder than ever, with the avalanche of assignments pouring in, coupled with a mad but largely unsuccessful attempts to do something in the lab. And the series tests themselves. My brain feels like a wrung sponge. Or should I say saturated? So saturated in fact that it cannot take any more without first taking a much needed break.
And all of this, it seems is barely the tip of the iceberg. October 19 happens to be our semester exam, and we have not yet finished our portions. We have extra classes tomorrow, Monday,and Tuesday. And after all that we still have to complete the lab work. It will all be completed by, let us say, 12 or 13. Then we have a week at best to study for the university exams. What a comforting thought to be living with!!!

Anybody there???

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...wondering what the hell that is???That is the number of comments on my blog. Sometimes I wonder why I even write, actually nobody reads this stuff except for just me, and maybe one or two, on my incessant prodding. But that doubt vanishes soon, you know. I just love to write. I love to play with words, use unusual expressions, and invent some of my own. But I get frustrated at times, please dont be angry at me...
And when I get frustrated, I need some means by which I can release it, and writing is one of them. Sometimes I am angry over God-knows-what and I feel down in the dump for the smallest of issues. Maybe that's because I believe I am something I'm not. Maybe because I have an inflated view of myself. Can't help it. That's me. I dont even know why I am writing this...this is all so incoherent...  

Back Home!!

Hi...I'm back home thanks to an unexpected twist of fate.Saturday, initially scheduled to be a working day, fell victim to a hartal, and Monday turned out to be a motor vehicle strike, so there is no likelihood of classes on either of these days.
So, I'm back home, again...
And as promised, my floral carpet is...

So...like it????
DO COMMENT.
Au Revoir.

Something New...and Big!

I know it is out of character for me to post twice daily,but something huge has to be said, and it needs to be said right now.
I've been on the blogging scene for a couple of months now, and I have now taken my next step. I have posted a couple of videos of me imitating idea star singer judges M G Sreekumar, Sarath and Didi.
I had to cut out the song part sung by my cousin D, as it was too much for my poor net to handle.
For those who missed the actual show, hope you like it, and do spread it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuaZl7lb2u0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCYrRJvtIqs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWKUksqIAo

Au Revoir.

Onam Holidays

Thankfully this time, Onam and Ramzan fell close by, so we could anticipate a near 2-week holiday. But, then again, was it going to happen smoothly? My eternal phrase comes to play again. "There's many a slip between the cup and the lip". Will everything work out?Or not?

I reached home on 27th. The days passed uneventfully,but one could literally smell the doubt lingering in the air. If Ramzan fell on 30th, its over. I would have class on 31st and 1st and 2nd...a bit too much to cut.After a nail biting couple of days, we finally got the news that Ramzan is on 31st. മനസ്സില്‍ ലഡ്ഡു പൊട്ടി !!! Then came the icing on the cake. I had thought that I would have to cut atleast one day, but now take a look at this...1st and 2nd were suspended due to first year admissions. മനസ്സില്‍ മറ്റൊരു ലഡ്ഡു പൊട്ടി !!!!!

And thankfully, I got a respite from college and was at home for 2 whole weeks.

Now...focussing on Onam...

It wasn't huge, we have had better, but this was all we've been having for quite a couple of years now. Anna and Sreekuaps came, besides the usual Bakkalam lot. That was it. At least, chicken biriyani and sadya (സദ്യ) made up for it.

( For anyone whom I might be annoying with jabs in malayalam, sorry, I cant help it. You see, I just found out you can transliterate using blogger...)

I saw a variety of flower carpets(പൂക്കളം) too, this time. Besides mine, which had no shape in particular(although that was unintentional) I saw a square one put at Anna's house. I'll try to post a picture soon, I seem to have left it at home.

Anyway, that's all history now, and I am back to college, looking forward to the end of the semester, which should be in 2-3 weeks.

That's it for now...

Au Revoir.

A Tiny Bit of Frustration...

Have you ever been at the receiving end of the following scenario???
The teacher assigns you a particularly nasty piece of work. You work on it day in and day out and eventually get it ready on the due date. You go on to submit and find out that some others havent even started the work. You start to feel a little bit superior to them for doing your work on time, when all of a sudden, the snake strikes. Lightning falls. The world comes to an end. None of these actually happen, but the date for submission is postponed. How hollow do your efforts seem now, and what is even more annoying is the constant jabs from the others, saying how lucky they were at not having spent time on it.
Seem familiar????
I dont know about you, but I have been there. So has a cousin of mine. I told him thats the way the world is and all that rubbish. I told him we will get our dues in due course of time, I even told him that procrastinators will perish sooner or later.
But the fact of the matter is, this scenario repeats itself over and over again, and most of the time, the benefactors are the same, and that makes me sick.
But my faith is strong. I still believe in the advice I gave, still hope it is true.

Time will prove me right. ( I hope...)

If any of you, at any point in your lives, have been a part of this, do comment.
Au Revoir.

The so called gettogether...

I told you so...
Yup, its happened. Remember that family gettogether I mentioned??? Yeah,it has gone down in flames.
It was supposed to be an all star event, with my uncles, aunts and 5 of us cousins. But...one by one all of us called in busy and eventually, there was no such thing you could call as a gettogether.
Well, I never anticipated the event, you know, due to reasons already mentioned. Then again, maybe, there was a bright side to that as well. I finally got rid of that awful load of backlog that I had been hauling on my poor back for so damn long. In the three days, I completed my fair record, my rough record, C assignment and maths homework, which has left me with sufficient spare time to do something I love, and that is write.
And all this was achieved while having my fair share of enjoyment.

But this has set me thinking about how much all of our lives have changed in the last 2-3 years. Taking a couple of steps back down memory lane takes us back to the Chennai trip. This is the last real trip that is in my memory. I had to pass on the calicut flat-warming due to the entrance class, and I was down with fever during last year's Pondy trip. Can we ever have that sort of a trip again? The answer at least for now, seems no. But stranger things have happened, and I happen to be someone who believes in miracles...

Au Revoir.