Today it's the 24th.....hm! and only when I sign into Orkut, see that my college friend Shraddha's birthday is closing upon, only then I realise, my birthday is closing on too! I haven't felt the rush which is usually felt by me a week, or sometimes even a month before my birthday! Maybe it's just that I'm too busy these days, Yeah Maybe. 

I'm busy with Anubhuti -The N.S.S. festival coming up, I am not doing any great event managememnt part of it, I've just participated in the Marathi folk Dance performance [it's a group performance], hope I do well, and don't injure myself :P  

Again talking about my birthday, I'm done with the shopping and I'm happy about it :) Shopping and happiness just don't go hand in hand, they are like con-joined twins :P Shopping makes me happy, and trying new clothes over and over again is my hobby. The view of new clothes in the wardrobe brings a smile on my face. Birthday also reminds me of the last time I'd changed my "about me" on orkut. It talked about Things I've learnt in the 18 years of my life! Now that I'll no more be 18 I think I should change it. 

It goes as follows,

things i learnt in these 18 years!!!

=>When we look back to our past and laugh, that's the time we really have improved. => In your life you should not be a supporting actress, it's your life, take the lead!!! -The Holiday. => getting away with a lie might be a nice magic trick....but honesty works miracles!!!!!! -doogie howser m.d. =>>everyone's unique, but they lose their uniqueness in the quest of being someone else!. =>>people laugh at me cuz i m different, but i don't laugh at them even if they are all the same [:p] =>>whatever is happening, is happening for the best...right now it may be a sad moment, but later on you'll be happy that it happened!!! =>>a final destination is already set for us....it's the way we walk up to it!!!! =>rock n roll ain't noise pollution =>laugh and the world laughs with/at[if u laugh at the wrong time [:p] ]u and cry and ur best friend makes you laugh!!!!! =>we are what our priorities make us! => i'm eighteen ..i get confused everyday...eighteeen...ijust don't know what to say!!!!! -creed

Thanks to all the people who were with me, prayed for me, thought about me, changed me for the better, taught me, showed me this beautiful world, keep on doing this great job. You make my life better than what it would have been otherwise :)

WEEK-END....VACATION-END....................

The week has ended, and so has the vacation! Actually! Emotions are fighting with each other for the HOT SEAT! I seriously don’t know whether I am sad about the fact that the vacations have ended, or I am happy, because the busy life’s going to start again.

After doing a good analysis, I realized situations won’t change; emotions are going to fight with each other, till the very end!

I know I cribbed almost every night, about the fact that I am sick of doing nothing, and sick of sleeping. But that was at the end of the day. That means I really enjoyed doing nothing and sleeping all the day. Actually I’ve got so used to it, that parting from it seems pretty difficult for me! I also feel sad, when I imagine those 4 lectures back to back!

But lectures are just a part of the day, just some mere 4 hours. The remaining time spent in college is incomparable to any time I’ve ever had in life! I love spending time in college, canteen and also the Reading Hall! Those chats with friends, those leg-pulling sessions, and the weirdest theories we come up with, I’ll get to enjoy all that. Vishnu’s hot coffee, Gala’s cold coffee! I’ll get to enjoy that too! Oh! My happiness has taken the Hot Seat yet again.

Don’t worry about the sadness, it’ll take the Hot Seat too, now that I’ll go and sleep, Sadness will conquer, because I’ll really miss sleeping till late afternoon. :)

P.S. Doing nothing refers to, eating, watching movies, cooking, roaming and chatting with one of my Best Friend.

Espressing Myself!!!!!

I'm an absolute coffee lover! I love coffee almost in every form of it! Today I'd been to Barista, the outlet that's in Linking Road, Bandra.
And I am really SAD for one thing. The service is real bad. The place is too small, and pretty congested. You move a chair, people around you, will surely get hit. Still no offense meant. Mumbai is a crowded city, plus so many people coming in, you need those many tables and chairs.
Then finally after adjusting ourselves around the tiny table. We hope that we'll get a menu-card or something, just like people around us had. We wait, wait and wait. Finally after quite some time when the waiter stops pretending he hasn't seen us, and i sign him to get the menu-card. He takes it in his hand, keeps it, and attends someone else. Again we wait, wait and wait. Then again he fails in pretending he hasn't seen us, i remind him of the menu-card. Then finally we get one!. Ah! Finally!
Finally we decide what we want to have. I wave, and the waiters start pretending again! Oh God they need some acting classes. Then he takes the order of the family sitting at the next table, even though they haven't decided what to get. Another wave, and then he notes our orders on the small notepad he's carrying. Oh yeah!, I forgot to mention the family next to us, had walked in late! The reason for the waiter to do so is quite clear, the family's going to shell out for a larger bill than just three of us!
Then we wait, wait, wait, again. The family orders and gets what they want, before us!. Then we are just waiting, and a waiter walks in and asks for what we want! Then we have to tell him, we have already ordered something, if we get it today, then we'll think of the second order :P This is not what i actually said, I just said, we've already given the order!
Then we wait, wait, wait, wait. Finally as we are close to finishing, we ask for the bill. That comes soon enough, and the tissues asked by us, also doesn't take time. We thank them for getting something on time :)
We paid the bill, and in the suggestions and complaints sheet, of course, we did complain. I know the sheet might have been torn right away. But still our message that our face looks sick, not because the coffee was bad, but the service must have reached them.
Maybe this was the first time a thing like this has occurred. Maybe, but I hope it never happens again.

My life 17 oct to 26th oct!!!!

I stand at the window, and there is this nice cold breeze blowing! Winter’s here! It may not be cold during the day, but the nighttime coolness is something we should be happy about, or sad? Sad because with this coolness comes in laziness, the wish to stay cuddled up in a nice blanket and never wake up. This laziness is already starting to creep onto me, and I’ve been showing symptoms of the laziness a bit before the winter. Or maybe it’s just the “it’s my vacations” syndrome due to which I’m unable to wake up in the morning. Yes I accept I’ve been waking up in afternoons since almost a week now. And due to this “LAZINESS” I’ve been unable to bring in a good report on what I did in the “10 days camp” of The NSS Unit of my college.

Now I’m just trying to put together in a very brief manner the events of my camp. We’d been to Kolad Village; Taluka Roha; District Raigad. We were staying at the “Grampanchayat’s Headquarter”. This was my third camp and very different from the previous two. First reason since it was for 10 days long. Secondly I’d to do all the daily chores independently. Thirdly we did some social work.

The daily chores were just a bit of the camp days. The major feature was the work we did. We did some grass cutting [here grass refers to some big plants with loads of thorn]. It hurt but also was a great experience. A cleanliness campaign was run by some of the students, every morning they went upon the streets and collected all plastic garbage, and dumped into the “garbage van” which came later in the morning.

The part of work I liked the most was the work on the “adivasi-pada” of the village. The development in this region is very poor. The life there is really very disheartening. We tried to talk to the people, listen to their problems. We carried out an educational survey, by this we’ve selected upon a few children who’ll get financial help. We showed some documentaries. Clothes were also donated in these houses. Books were donated in the school.

The next best thing of the camp was the street plays. There were four performing groups on four different topics 1) Health Awareness [my group],

2) Literacy, 3) Negative effects of Alcoholism, 4) Village free from quarrels and fights. The practice, the last minute practice, the improvisation by every other character while performing, everything still brings a smile on my face. The plays were performed thrice and two of them were performed 4 times. Talking about my play I had two roles in two different scenes. In one an old woman dying of cancer, due to the use of tobacco, and in other I was a doctor, giving away some advice on the need for balanced diet. I enjoyed every bit of it, every moment of it, even when I’d gone completely blank during one of our rehearsal. And of course how can I forget the songs. Each street play had songs in it sang in chorus, the tune was a rip-off and lyrics modified which made it fun while singing it!

Apart from all this some group discussions were also held almost every evening on current issues. This camp has helped me a lot, most probably even changed me a lot for the better of course. And how can I forget to mention the new friends I made. I made a whole lot of new friends.

All in all, it was a great camp, lot to learn from it! All the social work we did was just an attempt in trying to improve the village. Last year camp had been in the same place, with similar or more work done. The improvements were seen this year, not up to the mark though. Hope this little effort taken by us helps us in brining at least a noticeable change next year, when we’ll be there yet again! Let us hope for the best! Fingers Crossed!