Monday, October 04, 2010

Dance in the Dark

Ahh, I owe this blog an apology. As always. :(

Although, this time round I have a valid (maybe valid) excuse for being so late in posting.
University!

A couple of months ago, I had no idea what the rest of my year was going to be like. That uncertainty worried me. I'm one of those oddballs who prefers to know what to expect. Don't get me wrong though, I love surprises. Surprises when they're limited to Birthday Surprises and things like that. Not the-next-four-years-of-your-life type surprises. Those scare me. Another thing that scares me?

Change.

Honestly, I don't know what I feel about change. I've lived in the same city for my whole life. I've been in the same school since kindergarten. I've been in the same apartment building for ten years. I've never had to deal with change (which I usually believe to be a good thing haha).
Which explains why I was excited/nervous when I reached UVA (University of Virginia). I didn't know what to expect. New friends, a dorm, living alone, living in a town (with a duckpond) instead of a city .. essentially, university.

Fast forward to two months later - I'm so glad I entered university with a clean slate. With no ideas, no expectations and no ties. That allowed me to explore so much more, and I'm so happy with where I am right now. The strangest things happen when you least anticipate them. You make friends in a matter of minutes. You hold lengthy conversations with strangers. You feel like you can be yourself more than ever.

Of course I miss Dubai though. I miss my old life with my family and my friends and my house. December isn't too far away and I'm so psyched (yes, that's the word) to come back. But, I'm loving every bit of life right now too! I guess the only way to be happy wherever you are is to try and experience the place as much as possible. Even small towns can be as interesting as the biggest cities of the world.

I do lack the ability to update regularly (I've demonstrated that already) but I shall try oh so hard!


Song of the minute:


Uprising - Muse

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Replay.

I guess my resolution to blog regularly didn't exactly hold. Oh well. I refuse to waste another blog post on whining about how I'm lazy when it comes to blogging,

High school ended on April 7th. It is now July 28th, and I have never felt time pass by this fast. That's the funny part about Time. It rushes ahead and leaves you behind when you seem to be having too much fun to care, doesn't it? These past few months have definitely been some of the best days of my life. Of course, now that university approaches (or rather, I approach university), I'm quite excited! I've been in the same school since I was four years old, so an entirely new setting is going to be a pretty fresh experience. A new city, a new set of friends, a new room (no more orange walled happy room though.. =/), a bunch of new subjects - the list is endless. I'm off on the 12th of August. We're going to be in New Jersey for a week, before we finally reach Virginia, my sort of home for the next four years. :)

Another reason I'm looking forward to going to university is because so many of my friends have already begun university. I'm a tad bit jealous of you guys!

I'm definitely going to update more in the future (since I'll actually be doing things, I'll have stuff to blog about) - extremely short update posts. Hope everyone's enjoying the summer heat, especially if you stay in Dubai haha.



Listen to the lyrics of this one!



Friday, March 19, 2010

Dance, Dance!

I had originally planned to do a sort of exam by exam blog for the ISC board exams, but somehow I just didn't feel upto it. This 'board' experience is insanely different from my previous one. Back then, being done with Geography for ever (okay, in the foreseeable future) actually mattered. Actually meant something. But now, I don't really care. It doesn't matter that I'm done with EVS forever (no seriously, forever). It's great, but no real reason to celebrate.

Maybe it's because I have better things to rejoice about?
Haha, I do hope that's the reason. I've always been extremely vocal about 'happy things'(die EVS, die) and a logical explanation to my unexpressiveness (is that a word?) would be that I have happier things to be vocal about. Hmm .. such as?

My awesome three-four months of holidays.

TRAVELLING. Damn, I love travelling! I can't wait to go back to Bangalore for a week (and then maybe a visit to Spain or Singapore).
 
Tokio Hotel playing their first concert in Asia. Not that they're playing here, but still. I am easily pleased when it comes to Tokio Hotel.

The end of high school. I'm going to BE a cliche and say 'bittersweet'.

Finally, a chance to focus on music during these next few months where I'll have lots of time to work on covers and other things with Aparna. :)


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On a completely random note, I plan on naming every single blog post of mine after a song. I have no idea why, so please don't ask. :)

Please forgive me for the unbelievably short posts. I promise you longer and more detailed ones once these stupid exams are over.



Song of the minute:


Monday, March 01, 2010

Radio Hysteria!

The board exams begin day after tomorrow. Finally, the end-of-high-school exams and probably the last Indian Syllabus based exam I'm going to have to give (please do let it be so).

It's about time really.

As much as I've been dreading these exams, I must confess that I've been somewhat waiting for them as well. The sooner these ridiculously long exams end, the sooner we're officially done. I have been wondering off late though (I often, OFTEN, drift off while reading Macbeth), what will I be done with? School, yes definitely. I'll be done with the 'attending school' bit, but will I really be finished with this school?

I ask too many questions and I answer too few.

Honestly, though?
I doubt I will be done done with school. I've just been around it for too long - Having spent 13 years of my 17 (yes, seventeen *happy dance*) year long life in one place doesn't make it easy to try and be 'done' with it. So why try, right?


On a completely unrelated note,
Tokio Hotel released their latest album, Humanoid a few months ago, and what can I say? I'm in love with them. All. Over. Again. :) 

Song of the minute: 
Darkside of the Sun - Tokio Hotel

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Valentine's Day - My Future Spouse.

Just recently, when I was wikiing some random topic, one wikipedia page led to another and I ended up reading up on the Middle Ages. Turns out that Valentine's Day was a pretty fascinating event back then too. During the Middle Ages, most girls believed that the first man they would see on Valentine's Day would be their future spouse.

Another reason why those times were often called the Dark Ages? :)

Everyone, just stop for a second (guys included, just change it up a bit - first girl you see on Valentine's Day is your future spouse) and imagine this, um, peculiar belief actually applying to your life.
I tried to remember the first man I spotted today, and guess what?

I'm marrying Ramu, our houseboy. Just perfect.

[Though I'm definitely better off than a friend of mine who realized that by using that concept, her future spouse was her brother. Ugh.]

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On a less disgusting (and pretty awesome) note though, a couple of my friends ended up getting an absolutely adorable Valentine's Day doughnut cake, which inspired me to do a little shout out to all the people I love. In the words of Michael Franti,







Since Nishant insisted that I use the word 'dally' somewhere in this post, I shall be as innovative as possible.
I must stop dallying during my study leave and use this time productively.

 
Song of the minute:

Friday, February 12, 2010

Sigh.

Hey everyone,
I personally despise having to keep my comment moderator on, but due to the fact that I attract spam comments like Miley Cyrus attracts stalkers (phrases such as these are classic symptoms of YouTubeaholism), I'm going to have to keep moderating comments. I love constructive criticism but I LOATHE spam. :)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

YouTubeaholism.

YouTube YouTube YOUTUBE!

It's become my new cold coffee, my new Facebook, my new camera, my new Entourage and my new polo. And, when I say polo, I mean 2 packets a day kind of polo addiction.

I never thought I'd be one to join the ranks of the YouTubeaholics. But here I am, going through videos ALL day, sometimes even watching old videos again (and again and again and again). It's quite sad. Especially since I'm supposed to be at home for a 'study break'. It all begins with a friend sending me a link to some video, which I then watch and usually appreciate. By appreciate, I mean I end up looking at similar videos for an hour or so, and then glance at the time, get scared and tell myself, 'LAST video. Seriously.'

An hour later, since I'm still at my laptop, I send my friend an abusive mail. :)

Okay, I don't actually send the person an abusive mail. That would be a little crazy. Freaky, really.

On a more positive note, my YouTube addiction led to me realizing that I need something interesting to do. [And no, studying does not count you sad SAD people!]
Hence, my return to the exciting world of blogging! Or in a lamer fashion, the blogosphere. I haven't used that word in AGES. It feels kind of good actually.

Blogosphere. Blogosphere. Blogospheeere. Blogosphereee. Bloggggosphere. Blogosppphere.

Wow, no wonder people leave me spam comments. o_O



Song of the minute:
The Show - Lenka