Journalism student currently based in Pune. Occasional writer. self-proclaimed bibliophile, reluctant photographer, Chronic music addict, obssessive bathroom singer.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Peer Pressure
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Top Twenty commandents of Indian teenagers
19.Thouself shalt try and maintain it
18.Thouself need not be a fashionista,just dress cool
17.Although thou shalt NEVER be caught wearing fake brands
16.Thouself shalt always carry loads of attitude
15.Thouself shalt Never wear the same shirt as someone else
14.Thouself should NEVER wear the same outfit twice to any party
13.Thouself shalt not celebrate birthdays without food fights
12.Thy accent shalt NEVER be fake
11.Thouself shalt never try imitating a celebrity
10.Thouself shalt always be in possession of thy cellphone if thou owns one
9.Thouself shalt never be caught using 90s slang
8.Thouself shalt ALWAYS be updated on music
7.Thouself shalt never have a teacher love you
6.Thouself shalt not go to bed before 12
5.Thouself shalt not be seen with family in hip places
4.Thouself shalt absolutely NOT be seen out with family on saturday nights
3.No less in hip places
2.Thouself shalt NEVER cancel time with friends to "bond" with family
1.Thouself shalt never ever be caught drooling over a boy of lower social status
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
My Papa.
My Papa is my best friend...I love him so much.
When i need a hug without a reason. Hes right there. If hes away, i can count on my cellphone and even if the distance increases,i can feel his heart beating right next to mine
Hes taught me so many things in life..
Hes taught me that its okay to cry...He thought me that i should always stand up for what i believe is right and he taught me that i should never be afraid of authority...or if possible i should get into a position of authority myself.
He taught me how to play fair and that even if the opponent or even a team member is cheating,i must try correcting them but never should i stop playing fair..
His arms are the world's strongest. Their hugs can heal anything...Right from a fight with mommy to a broken heart and he never asks me why i need them. He just always gives them to me.
Even if im lying on my bed alone. Depressed about my life or something....I swear to god, even if hes not in town i feel him talking to me and when i close my eyes, I can swear i feel him hugging me.
He wears deo so strong it could knock a skunk out...LOL sorry dad...HAD to mention that! Its not his fault...or so he says.
When im sick the first words i say are "I want my papa" And no matter how far away he is, he manages to contact me.
Hes way better than mom wen im sick...He stays up with me,giving me my medicines...telling me stories,even if i've heard them time and time again i never get tired of them
Our trips to the beach are something else...I used to be very afraid of water...but hes taught me to conquer my fears. We hold hands and walk together in the ocean as deep as we dare and if the tide gets too strong,we rush back laughing. Or we just sit...close our eyes and listen to the sounds of the tide..Daddy taught me that the ocean talks to us but we need to listen carefully
And hes right.
Daddy i love you. We've both become more busy but i always need and feel you here by my side. Your hugs make me feel like everything's okay and your kisses tell me never to quit and that i should always keep trying and that with hard work and patience, we can get whatever we want in life.
I love you papa.
Forever and for always.
Friday, October 12, 2007
The mystery of the missing sock!!
I know what you must be thinking the “mystery of the missing sock”??? But it’s the only mystery I face almost everyday so I thought it might make an “interesting” read. Or rather a funny one.
Anyway getting back to our “mystery”. I go to this huge bag where we stash the family sock supply. *Bends over and scrounges through the bag *. “That’s funny I could’ve sworn I saw a pair of socks while looking for my other pair on Friday. Hmmmmm…” My sister walks in. I ask her “have you seen a pair of clean socks I could use????” “I think I saw a pair under your bed while looking for a book of mine.” I go there and look for it under the bed. Its not there. Then I look at my watch. “Uh-oh it’s getting late”. I decide to wear a pair of sandals and I rush out of the house.
Then after I get home I decide to solve the “MYSTERY OF THE MISSING SOCK! I didn’t have anything else to do that day anyway so I get home and start in my room I look at the floor and realize that I can’t see my floor. There’s stuff everywhere. I walk in and trip and take a header on the nose.
Oh believe me you no idea how much that hurts. So I get up and walk through the mess. And bend down and look under the bed. Amazingly I don’t know how it could’ve escaped my eye in the morning but there is the other sock sitting innocently under the bed in the exact middle…. where anyone who bends down and looks can see it! *Sighs*.
I bend down and pick it up and toss it on top of my bed. I walk over to my closet and open it next. * Yanks the door open *. Uh-oh. A huge rumble is heard as a huge pile of clothes tumbles down and buries me. I lay still for a second. And then I get up. “Wow I had no idea my closet was this messy”,
I say to myself. Then AHA!!! There it is lying on the top of the huge clothes mountain is another sock!! “VICTORY IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”, I scream at the top of my voice and start dancing only to trip over a pile of books and fall again. Then I get up rub my elbow coz it got kinda well…. crunched. I walk to my bed and sit for 10 minutes. Then I decide to get up and go out. I step down from my bed and walk to the door.
I bend down near my bed to get my wristband and after I straighten up and walk near the door. I suddenly slip and fall…………AGAIN. Man I’m really clumsy… so glance down to see what I slipped on and it happens to be my favorite t-shirt, which I was looking for for quite a long time…Hmmmmm…maybe its time for my annual room cleanup....
Friday, October 5, 2007
I hope
I hope you're happy with your new found life
remember me?
and the crazy lil things we did?
Well its okay
if you dont
cuz all i wanna say
is i hope you're happy
i hope you stay happy
I hope things get better for you
i sincerely hope they do
i hope you finally start doing
all the things you've loved doing
Like the crazy things we talked about
that even included scuba diving
in the faraway caribbean isles
I hope you get to go on a romantic cruise
with your special someone
i hope you have the most beautiful children
even prettier than you considered me to be
I hope you're always surrounded by happiness
i hope backstabbers will keep away from you
or even better still,you'll protect yourself from them
Like how you taught me to be strong
and how to stand on my own two feet
Like that one time
when you held me so close
and told me that i was the single most important person in your life
I hope you never forget anybody else
as fast as you did me
I hope you cling on to old memories
like how i foolishly still do
I hope you never have to close your eyes to pray to god
to ask him to help you find something thats missing
or give you back
someone you've lost
I hope you have to feel in your life
as little as possible
I hope you wake up in the morning
looking forward to a new day
i hope you never have to wake up
being able to barely walk
or smile
I hope you have the courage
to throw your arms around someone you love
not caring for what others around you think of the 2 of you
I hope at a crossroad,
you'll always know the path your going on is right
i hope you know that your heart's very hard
maybe cuz its made of solid gold
I hope you find a person so important
you'd jump infront of a car to save them
or sacrifice something you love for them
I hope you're never alone
and that you're always surrounded by genuine friends.
Unlike me
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Chennai
And going around in an auto is another outta the world experience. Everything, starting from the heated debate about how much you pay him, to the dusty breeze that messes up your so labouriously styled tresses and you end up getting out of the auto looking like you've been lifted off your feet by a tornado.
First stop...Adyar bakery. Uh no you're not actually going to enter the bakery,its the side stall that you wanna go to. They sell the world's most delicious cutlets and steaming hot punjabi samosas. And it ain't a fancy restaurant. You gotta grab your order,put it on a magazine page artfully wrapped up like a fancy fragrant christmas present and (if you're hungry) rip it open and start eating. I don't know about the tourists or anyone who would happen to be visiting but my theory is that all the chennai-ites are immune to any kind of sickness that might accompany it.
Next stop, Krishna sweets. They sell basically the best south indian food ever. You also get the strangest but somehow tempting variety of sweets there. The sweets...ah now they're something out of this world. They start with a strange variety of colours-green pink,white etc. but pop one in and you'll know pure ecstasy,i have no idea how they do it each and every time.Squeeze into one of the tables nearby and the humid air that hangs about the place usually doesnt get in a person's way of enjoying the food much but still.
Oh by the way you may not wanna check out the pro bikers showroom nearby,bajaj bikes only(bleh)
And to sit on the beach,feasting on a plastic packet of sundal(tomatoes,chopped onions,green chillies and groundnuts) with the strong breeze [again] messing up you're intricately chopped/styled locks, with your best friend cracking jokes is an experience outta this world!
Next stop,odyssey adyar, as you walk in,you get hit by a blast of cold air which is something welcoming if you've stepped out of the heat. You can choose to either find a corner and sit reading a book, go up the stairs,sit by the DVD section and bob you're head to the music on the listening area complete with a view of the entire road or you can choose to head back near the entrance and listen to the worldspace satellite radio there,you can choose your channel or you can get gaming with the Xbox 360 gaming controller and 35 inch lcd monitor right near the iPods and mp3 players. Beware-after about 10 minutes of messing up on the Xbox (cuz of the stupid highly sensitive controller) get ready to get a lot of tips from the sales people nearby on drifting,racing or even keeping the car crash-free.
(Now really,i'd throw in a note about city centre,spencer's plaza,landmark etc but they're everywhere and theres not much special about them)
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Faithless-part 2
He stood there in silence
Confused and hollow inside
Carved on a tombstone
R.I.P
His messy black hair fell forward drenched in rain and tears
his knees could hardly hold him up
It seemed too good to be true
and it was
The whispered sweet nothings
the comfortable silences
the tickle rockets.
All lost to memories that were to fade
2 days ago they were walking together
hand-in-hand smiling
it seemed so silly back then
that he'd once considered leaving everything
The 2 of them as happy as they could've been
If it weren't for the drunken driver that swerved
hitting her as she collapsed on the road
She was rushed to the hospital
but the lines on the machine went straight
She had passed
He felt the hollowness beneath his heart
as he kneeled down sobbing
resting his head on the tombstone.
He could nearly smell her sweet mysterious perfume
"And she never told me what was in it"
He thoght to himself remembering all the times
he'd tried to catch a glimpse of the enigmatic
scent that he loved so much
He sighed heavily and settled down on the grass
the rain pelted down harder
he could almost hear her sweet laugh ringing in his ears
He gazed up at the sky
wondering what he'd done
or why they had such little time together
when there was still so much left that he didnt do
He sobbed harder trying to run away from reality
he could almost hear her call out his name
almost feel her slender fingers slip thru his
Her giggles at his jokes.
All their arguments
all the times they gazed at each other and burst out laughing for no reason
just because they could
and they did
He closed his eyes trying to feel something
Blank.
He opened his eyes and gets up
trudging through the rain again
all alone for good this time.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Faithless*-part one
his heart burning with hate
he loved her so much
but she played him like a game
He trudges on in the pouring rain
no one can see his tears
the pain of it all
rips his heart and blows it to pieces
he talks to his best friend
and she listens to him and everything he says
Shes known him
ever since
they were kids,
shes also loved him ever since then
In a flash of a moment
he saw a tear in her eye
he looked at her in surprise
and asked why she had to cry
she furiously held back tears
she loved him with all her heart
but she knew he didnt feel the same
way about her
He took a moment to hold back a silent tear
he loved her as a friend
but also as a lot more..
They looked away in a moment of awkward silence
no one knew
what to say
or what to do
He finally stands up
"I should go now" he tells her heading to the door
and starts to leave
The truth flashed before her eyes
he was completely shattered inside
there was no way she could let him do something stupid
like commit suicide
"Before you leave can i give you something i've always wanted to?"
she asked him nervously
"Its not like i care anyway"
he told her annoyed
"I thought we were friends
but this cant wait any longer"
she persisted
"Oh all right"
he finally agreed
"But make it quick
its getting late and i have to leave.."
She hurried into her room
and came out holding her prized possession
A soft white stuffed rabbit
with a tasteful note of childish infatuation
and an 'I love you' note in its paws
"I always have and always will"
she tells him blushing
"Go ahead and reject me"
she says with a weak smile
"I just thought i should let you know"
He stood rooted to the spot
speechless
he had no idea wat to say
he'd always loved her
but he'd never known
that her feelings about him were the same way
He sweeps her into his arms
and kisses her cheek
"My life has been a living nightmare this week
thanks for waking me up,
i've always liked you.
Holding you like this
is what i've always wanted to do"
She tries to talk
but gives up
when their lips met
their lives had just changed
without a moment of regret
*Note:This is a work of pure fiction,when writing this,i was not thinking of anyone in particular.
theres a part 2...anyone whos mood has been lifted by reading this poem will not feel the same when they read part 2...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Dont cha just hate it....
Saturday, June 23, 2007
A slang dictionary
Shaddup!!-Shut up
Chillax-Chill out and relax
Off the hook!!-Wicked kool
Whack-Crazy,insane,unbelieveable
Get outta here-dont kid around with me!
Shut up!!-Oh my god!
Hell hole-a place thats really really awful
Leave-get lost
Boo-(no it doesnt stand for scaring others)-Boyfriend/girlfriend
Homie-Friend
Homegirl-Gyal friend
Homeboy-guy friend
Caught up-involved in something
Freak u-the non-swearing word for f**k you
Get low-Oh come on....ur not THAT stupid right....?
Four eyes-A nerd basically
Poser-A person who tries very hard to be like a bimbo basically pretty much like hillary duff or Paris Hilton
Wannabe-Someone who tries very hard to be like someone else..(refer to poser)
Metalhead-A person who loves listening to any sorts of metal(trash,hardcore,death,black metal),may be slightly violent and twisted
Pyromaniac-A person who loves fire and its completely obsessed with it...(may own a huge collection of lighters,matchsticks,petrol etc...)
Pyro-A slightly toned down version of a pyromaniac
Mosh-To headbang violently scaring the others around you
Dark arts-Satanic practices,rites etc
Cell phone-A device that was invented originally to keep in touch but is now being used by teenagers worldwide to show off and listen to music
Funk you-Refer to freak you
Whatever-Usually Paris Hilton talk but it now refers to 'ugh shut the hell up' or 'ook i dont really care' or in most cases,it just means WHATEVER!
2face-A person whos a backstabber
Anime-An obsession for most ppl(NO ITS NOT CARTOONS)
Knocked out-Exhausted,totally tired
New do-A new hairdoNo stress!!-Don worry
social ladder-it usually refers to ur social status and where u stand in skoolRock-it usually refers to a diamond,mostly in engagement rings
To be continued...
Friday, June 15, 2007
A world of my own
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Boyfriend(Avril Lavigne parody)
[Chorus]
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I really need a boyfriend!
I swear! I swear!
I really really need one!
Hey!Hey!You!You!
Could you be my boyfriend?
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I know its stupid of me!
But you know its not a secret!
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I really need a boyfriend!
[Verse 1]
I heard you're fine
I need you mine
You're so delicious
I hear abt ya all the time
She said you're so addictive
I think i know what i can do to make you feel all right
Dont be scared when my mum sez im damn precious
You know me. I'm the only nerd princess
They can tell i like you loads and i know they're right
[Bridge]
Cuz, i'm like so whatever
And i wanna do so much better
I hope we can get together now
And thats wat all my friends are talking about!
[Chorus]
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I really need a boyfriend!
I swear! I swear!
I really really need one!
Hey!Hey!You!You!
Could you be my boyfriend?
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I know its stupid of me!
But you know its not a secret!
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I really need a boyfriend!
[Verse 2]
You can see the way,see the way
You friends look at me
And even when they look away
I know they think ima freak
I know they call me that all the time again and again
So could i come over there
And tell you wat you wanna hear
Better yet,
Make your stupid friends disappear
I dont wanna see you hanging with them ever again!
(And again and again and again!)
[Bridge]
Cuz, i'm like so whatever
And i wanna do so much better
I hope we can get together now
And thats wat all my friends are talking about!
[Chorus]
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I really need a boyfriend!
I swear! I swear!I really really need one!
Hey!Hey!You!You!
Could you be my boyfriend?
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I know its stupid of me!
But you know its not a secret!
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I really need a boyfriend!
[Verse 3]
In a second i'll be wrapped around your finger
Cuz you can
I hope you do it better
Theres not many others
So whens it gonna sink in?
But I'm so stupid what the hell am I thinking?!?
[Repeat]
[Chorus]
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I really need a boyfriend!I swear! I swear!
I really really need one!
Hey!Hey!You!You!
Could you be my boyfriend?
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I know its stupid of me!
But you know its not a secret!
Hey!Hey!You!You!
I really need a boyfriend!
Ok i swear im not a desperate who*e like dat but i just changed the song a bit,it has NOTHING to do with me
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Back to skool!!!!
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Homosexual rights
A few questions i've always wanted to ask....
*If barbie's so popular how come u gotta BUY her frends?
*Donald duck never wore pants,so how come he wraps a towel around his waist wen he gets outta the shower
*If americans park in a driveway,then where the hell do they drive?!?
*Why do ppl smoke cigarettes even tho the package tells them its dangerous
*Why do the cigarette manufacturers put its dangerous on the pack if they want the stuff to sell?!?
*They say mango frooty is fresh n juicy....but logically thinking how the hell can taht stuff be juicy?!?I mean its not solid is it?!?
*Everyone says that comic books and comic book artists(YES they're ARTISTS) are immature and useless,so why again do we all read comics in the morning paper?
*In the archie comics series,how can betty and veronica share the same guy?!?I mean my 2 friends tried it and they ended up (nearly) killing the guy!
*If Wil E Coyote has enough money to buy that acme crap why can't he just buy his dinner?
*And how come he never dies even after all those explosions and accidents?!
*And how come he only falls down after looking down!!!Logically thinking,he should've fallen off the instant he steps away from the cliff!
*How come that stupid roadrunner is so damn fast?!?And what is that thing anyway?
*How come bugs bunny is always cheating daffy?I mean daffy's not stupid right,all bugs does is quickly change his arguement and daffy agrees!Now take it from a person who tries but that never works in real life!!!
*And how the hell can daffy sink in water?!?!I mean hes a frickin DUCK!!!!Ducks cant sink!!!Especially not in WATER!!!!!!
And thats all for now,tell me if you've got answeres cuz i want them!
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
"According to her"
"According to her,i have a crazy smile
according to her,she'll always like wat i like
according to her,im completely insane,
damn girl i wish i could tell the world ur name :)
According to her,we're perfect for each other
Partners in crime,hand in hand
with dastardly schemes and crazy plans
Always looking out for each other
getting each other outta hot water
Junk food addicts
Ice cream freaks
Birthday time,the 2 of us scream "TREAT!"
Friends forever,We'll go on till the end
Just the 2 of us
Forever and always
As 2 best friends