Happy 2oo8 January 1, 2008
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A very happy, happy new year. I know I could have been more creative about it, but sometimes simple is the best way to be; and could-have-beens are some of the most futile words on earth, perhaps.
Okay, that was totally random.
No resolutions really for me this year. I’ve always been a failure at keeping resolutions unable to really stick to any…so I decided to give it a break this time. The last year was pretty good, so much more than all I dared to hope for, though towards the end it brought me the deep forever loss of no less than three people very dear to me.
Maybe I should just try to sum up all that I learnt this year. In no particular order:
- It’s good to stand up for something you believe in, and the world (or the part of it that you are trying to convince) will eventually see your point if it is right.
- “Getting lost doesn’t always happen by accident.”
- Always remember to back up your data before getting a hard-disk formatted. :/
- People forget your talents/traits unless you keep reminding them. By acts, not just words.
- When mom tells you to do something about some hideous pimples, better do it.
- Falling into reveries before an important exam isn’t a very smart thing to do.
- It might be just a little seemingly casual thing/ word that might erode your trust in somebody, or somebody’s in you.
- “Each day is the first day of the rest of your life.” But you just can’t keep starting afresh each day…u gotta begin, then proceed. You get nowhere by just beginning.
- It’s easier to not make/ not keep promises. But in the long run, it’s better to know in your heart that you made, and kept.
- Nothing is absolute. It’s all relative.
- “Be anything but obvious”, if you like. But then don’t blame people if they interpret you some other way.
- However you keep claiming that “The sky is under my feet…”, most of the people would still say you are upside down.
- Calling a person’s demise “their birthday in heaven” lessens the poignance, but only just a tiny little bit.
- No matter how much you keep saying you don’t want any; it’s always a great feeling to have somebody genuinely care for you.
I have so much to do, prove in this year. To myself, to parents, to other people who matter…And this year I’ll be turning 18, like BestFriend reminded me during our conversation last night. Finally, being an adult officially. (Though, for him, “getting entry in clubs” is the most looked-forward-to part of the deal 
)
Anyways, I have tremendous expectations and apprehension-mixed hopefulness this year. May The Great Being Up There grant all of us peace, love, happiness, prosperity, strength to pursue our goals. Shalom Aleichem. Have a great new year and thereafter.
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Some of the best moments in life…
Lying in bed listening to the rain outside…
Thinking about the person you love…
A long drive on a calm road…
Finding money in your old jeans just when you need it…
Holding hands with a friend…
Getting a hug from someone who loves you…
The moment you are breathless after a hearty laugh..
Wishing you all these moments plentifully in the New Year and forever…
(feel free to add to the list )
Well… May 31, 2007
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Have you ever noticed how sometimes some things just happen, or not happen. The same goes for me and blogging. All day long words, phrases, topics keep floating in my head, about people, situations, anything that can make a good something to write about…but then it just doesn’t happen.
Guess I’m having a writer’s block right now. It’s good, in a way, Now all those huge, thick, hit-on-your-head-see-stars chem and physics books don’t gather layers of dust like they used to. Having nothing better to do, I apply my precious creative imaginative mind inside my pretty head to actually think about how infinitely large charged metal plates with a dielectric between them behave and how are the properties of diamminechloridomethylamine platinum chloride different from those of tetraamminechloridonitrito-N cobalt chloride. (Yeah, don’t you just love scientific jargon? )
Four long hours, actually six from tomorrow, of coaching classes in our supposed-to-be-summer-holidays doesn’t really make a good background for being able to write happy-happy, non-crabby blog posts.
Friend since the silly days of eighth, Ank, says one day : “Gawd…life has become so complicated ever since we passed class tenth.. I really wish I could enjoy my present…” (Yeah, she’s the type who would much prefer that to all boring phy, chem and math.)
But then, looks like we only have two choices: chill marofy now and suffer later in some tedious boring underpaying job, or slog, slog, slog through the present and shape out a good life for ourselves.
I much prefer the latter.
Yeah, rare. March 23, 2007
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Took this quiz and got this result
| Your Personality is the Rarest (INFJ) |
 Your personality type is introspective, principled, self critical, and sensitive. Only about 2% of all people have your personality – including 3% of all women and around 1% of all men. |
I SO knew it !!
Moonlight Musings March 11, 2007
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So, after a long, long time, there was a power fault somewhere in the city and our colony was plunged into delicious darkness.
In the days before the pretty low-cost power backup systems, when I was a little kid; small-towners us, I mean the whole neighborhood, used to gather onto lawns/rooftops in the event of a night powercut— kids telling each-other spooky stories, dads together blaming the electricity department for irregular maintainence and picking the faults of the administration in general, and moms all together preparing dinner by candlelight and discussing the latest trends in jewellery to “101 Ways Of Tackling Unruly Children” and everything in between.
It was all interesting, in a way. And doesn’t happen anymore.
But me, I preferred solitude today; and armed with a scarf, went outside on the patio, shut the door of the room to prevent any streaks of light from inside falling on the patio and thus spoiling the effect; and sat down to enjoy the scene.
There was a light mist all around, a nearly-half-moon floating in an ink-blue sky among silvery-gray clouds; and the leaves of the kachnaar tree against it. It was good— the fuzzy, blurred shadows and silhouettes because of the mist, the absolute stillness of the night, the pale moonlight— it was wonderful.
What disappointed me was the limited presence of this ambience around me. Lapsing into an almost-dream, I wished I could have a huge estate in the suburbs of some beautiful place. A stone mansion with long French windows overlooking wide gardens; a cobbled pathway; a panoramic view of the countryside; some old windmill in the distance; bright white fences; flowers; huge oak and maple trees…
Then a succession of images floated across. Rain, thunderstorm, lightning, candlelight reflected on polished wood, a friend, remembrances…
I woke up and smiled at the obsessive charm of such an unreal, idyllic life, something which happens only in novels. No way this was gonna happen to me. Ever. Reality is so completely different. In reality, I’m just this ordinary girl, hoping, studying and struggling to shape a life for herself.
In reality, I would most probably get to have nothing more than a moderately-sized house on a noisy city street.
:/
The mist had drifted away. The moonlight turned from pure clean pale blue to a dull sickly yellow; and the shadows and silhouettes of the tree leaves were starkly outlined, the jagged edges clearly visible.
No softened, blurred edges; no dreaminess.
Slightly disappointed, I came back inside.
This blog is a laboratory mouse. December 21, 2006
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Okay, looks like I’ll have to explain to all ya poor souls who had the good luck to stumble upon this page.
This blog of mine is a secondary one. Right now, I ain’t linking it to the main one. Just to see how many visitors I can get thru those social networking sites if I put my blog address on them. Just an experiment. And if I get a decent-sized group of readers, I promise I’ll give links to my main blog.
Not that I won’t be posting here. I will, so you might as well bookmark this.
So, my dear mousie-blog, you remain an experiment for now. Hmm…better stop now, before the Animal Rights guys decide to sue me for talking against the dignity of laboratory mice.
Notice to the animal rights people:
No animals were harmed during the setting up of this blog.
PS: This is sad. I’m a very sentimental girl and did not really want this first post here to be so to-the-point and exact. Would have much preferred to write about beginnings, hopes and all such stuff. But well, can’t help it.
