Back to College

guess what??? i was in Riyadh for the last 2 weeks! man, it was cool.... its not like i did anything special but at the same time it was special for me. its been 9 months since i'd been to that place. the same place that, when i was growing up, i wanted to escape from. lol... but now its all good. i think i've made my peace with the city of Riyadh. i guess that i've realised just how attached i can get to a place. the familiarity of it all was just plain comforting. not to mention the fact that i saw my sis n my parents again...nice.



well after i came back i spent a day with my cousin Ria... she's leavin to Australia in a coupla days. probably wont see her for another 2 years or so. she's a bit of a crazy girl. we get along pretty well. probably cuz she's quite a tomboy...like me. but i've become a bit more girlie-girl over the years. she's still allergic to skirts and nailpolish...lol.... she gave me a whole lot of her old CD's, so i guess i wont be too bored at hostel this sem. niiiice........



i've actually missed 2 weeks at college. i was supposed to have gone back on the 21st of jan. lol... last sem i didnt miss a single day, except for 2 days when i was sick. plus i had the annoying job of class representative. but now my classmates have informed me that i am no longer one. YIPPEE!!!! let me tell you, that was the biggest headache on earth! i've always hated being the rep. even in school when it wasnt so bad. all my best to the current one.



right. well my course for the next semester sounds quite hectic and heavy-duty. we have tons of sheets to draw and two big projects. we have to plan and make a scale model of a room with attached bathroom for a handicapped person. 2 words on that: not easy. then another one is making a scale model of a house or something like that. i dont know all the detals yet. gosh! i have soo much to catch up on, i wont now where to start!! anyways, my friends will help with that... assuming that they also know what they'rs talking about, that is. lol... we're all so hopeless, u see. hehe...

right, i just finished talking to Hadiq( my classmate at TSA). he also happened to be in kerala this weekend, so i had someone to talk to. Bee called today.... after like, a really long time. she's doin ok, i guess. says statistics is really hard. lotsa math. mary's good as well...she sounded bored when i talked to her just now, but she says she's havin fun too, so she must be....

then what else? oh yeah... met Aparna in Ryd, she looks a bit chubbier than before, which is a good thing for her cuz she was way too thin.... she's havin tons of fun in Bangalore, or Bangalooru, as it is now called.

right right...so nothing else to type in...i'm all out words.... i'm just off for a nice cool shower and then gotta repack my suitcase for tomorrow.... watch out TSA! Ann will be arriving shortly! God help.... my first sem results will be out this week or the next.... hope i'm an all-clear!

anyways, all u peeps who are reading this.... enjoy, wherever u r! cuz life's too short to keep urself waiting....!

Peace n Love!
Adios!

Back Home Again....

welll.... what a long time its been, eh?

my first sem is over. seriously... cant believe that im done with a whole sem! yea nyways me's done wit me xams n stuf... arch has been a really course, so far. a lot of design work....sheets to draw.... havent slept properly since i joined there....

hostel has been crazy... a lot of weird things kept happening. i dont wanna go into the details cuz it'll invovle a lot of bitching and it wouldnt be appropriate to do that over here. anyways... i've realised that life just isnt the happy-go-lucky ride that i thought it was n that unexpected things happen at unexpected times, however u try to control it. and also that not any single bloody person is who they seem to be. the only consolation i have is that i've discovered who exactly my friends are. over there, there's only one single person i fully trust. and thank god for that one person, or else i would have withered away and been scattered in the wind a long time ago.

its funny how many people got hooked up after they went to college. i guess thats part n parcel of the whole experience? i dunno... maybe it is.

anyways... thank god i'm goin off to riyadh in a few days. i dont think i can stand bein in india anymore.

yes! i am going back to riyadh. the place that i most wanted to get away from. and yet how much i look forward to going back now! weird, innit? yeah well...

i really dont feel like writing much at the mo'. maybe later...

anyways ...adios!

I'm Back!............Extended Weekend

PEEPS!!!!!

sup y'all?? its been a loooooong time, i know.......... but believe me there was no way i could get near a computer.... frankly my college is a loser college.... i dont want to go into the details.... just let it be stated that it truly sucks. like, no sports for girls, for instance.... but thats mainly coz my branch is a different college all together from the engg block and so far has only 2 batches.... what to do?

anyway, the plus point is that i 've got an amazing class... all the guys and girls are really nice and some of them are basically like kids...lol...its fun. most of us are 17-18 yrs old... but there are these 5 guys who've done diploma courses, and 2 of them are past 20.... got a bit of a shock when i found out....lol....

i finally turned 18!!! very few people remembered to wish me tho....:(..... like MARYANN, my supposed best friend... but anyways, i celebrated in hostel and in class.... the class celebration was the best.... they all surprised me with a chocolate cream cake! it was awesome.... we celebrated it during lunch break, and everybody gave me a chocolate facial...LOL! it was a really fun day.... reminded me of all the fun we used to have back in school... giving surprise parties to everyone.... beena's was always the best... we surprised her 2 years in a row! haha....

the guys in my class call me aanakutty or kuruvikoodu(this is reference to my short and very bouncy, messy hair).... actually everyone's got a nickname in class... it was an assignment given to one of the guys by the seniors... our seniors are pretty cool... they were strict in the beginning but are easing up on us now... we're having our Freshers Party soon(hopefully)....

my course is really fun too,other than the fact that we have to study math, which is a subject almost everybody fails. thankfully i'll only have it for the 1st sem, unless i dont pass it the first time....God help... my other subjects are history of architecture, art appreciation, computers(AUTOCAD), architectural drawing-1, basic design and, materials and construction. sounds funny doesnt it.... actually now i feel weird when i hear engg students say that they gotta study phys, chem and math and all that boring stuff( sorry all u engg peeps... this is just my opinion)
there's such a lot of drawing involved.... most of us are down with back aches, stiff necks and sore feet cuz we're standing over our drawing boards most of the time. me not so much cuz i take a break every 5-10 minutes and walk around talking to my classmates on the pretext of asking a doubt or looking for my eraser which someone always borrows without telling me, which means i have to go to every table and whisper, "did u take my rubber?".... u know,that actually sounds kind of sick...lol...

yeah well.... now that i'm back home, i'm missing my friends... i dont like being back in kerala, mainly cuz the minute i step foot back in my homeland i start itching...lol...i have this weird allergic reaction to this place.... its not mosquitoes...i just get these weird rashes... and besides i have to stay with my very young cousins, who are always fighting and shouting and insulting each other and after a while one cant help but get pissed off... mahn... its funny how i realised just how much i had missed being in the company of my peers for the four months that i had stayed in kerala. the only thing i dont miss about hostel is the food...i swear that stuff is shit...it seriously sucks...

anyways, thats all i have for the moment... i'll log in later, maybe tomorrow....

peace out y'all...

Time To Go...

hey readers....

this is gonna be a very quick and short blog... i had the bestest last week in Kerala before i left. yup...i'm going to college!! they only notified me of this fact day before yesterday. lazy college people...do they have any idea how much a person has to pack to leave to someplace? i mean... we are shifting our entire lives to a whole new situation after all... well whatever... the bottom line is that i'm leaving tomorrow morning to coimbatore... i still have to buy a mattress and all... i wonder how i'll manage all these things... there's soo much left to do!!!

anyway people, i'll try to check into my blog as soon and as often as i can. and since i dont know when that will be, i'm saying Adios! till then...

good luck y'all!!

Long Time, No Blog!

heya peeps...

sooo sorry that I havent written in here for so long. somehow i just didnt feel like it.

a lot has happened in the past one month. namely that my parents left, i cut my hair short again, and that i am very nearly bankrupt. boo hoo....

this is the first time that i have ever become bankrupt. and its mainly 'coz i spent a lot on my cousins and my sister...so all for a good cause. my college call letter hasnt arrived yet. no worries though... management says i'm definitely in.

lately, i've been feeling lonely. i wish my friends were around. now i cant even call anyone because my call credit is very very low. bummer. thank God for the internet. i would be so outta touch otherwise. lol...

its funny how when i lie down to sleep, i get good topics to write about, but when i sit in front of the computer i cant think of a thing..... lol....

yesterday, Arun and I had a very nice chat. he also read my poems and I guess he really liked them. he even compared me to Arundhati Roy!! well, i never read AR, despite the fact that my Grandfather has the book... but still!! she did win the booker prize! (it WAS the Booker, right?) anyways....

i wish that i could fly. at least that way i could go whereever i wanted and nobody could control me... lol... but we all know that will never happen... anyways, it got me thinking of a poem i had written aroung 3 years ago... it goes like this...

THE RESTLESS SPIRIT

This day seems completely lacking

In a certain degree of slacking

O! woe to the tumbling tide

It cannot its pattern decide.

O! woe to the mechanical clock

Which cannot decipher tick from tock

O! woe to the swinging pendulum

It doesnt know peace from pandemonium

Doesnt it seem completely absurd

Confusion just isnt a word?

O! woe to the earth on its axis

It doesnt know death from taxes

(But what do humans know anyway?)

I'd take on Hercules any day...

I'm happy I'm not a puny ant

I wouldnt be able o even stop and pant

And what use is a whole lot of teaching?

Students dont listen to preaching!

How can the moon replace the sun

When it wasnt told to, by anyone?

Why do plants leap up from the ground

If only to die- wilted and bowed?

It's better I dont waste time and wonder

Why i cant sit still any longer...

its a bit immature. but i still kinda like it. i must have been in the 9th or 8th grade when i wrote this...dont really remember. anyways, i'll stop for the mo'. i gotta check out and print some info for my cousins. they have these projects and I have to do the research...

hola!

finally! i get to update my blog again! yesterday, try as i might, this computer would not allow me access to my hotmail, orkut and blogger account. imagine how frustrating that was... anyways, i'm finally here so let me update y'all on all the recent events in my life.

as i had previously written, my dad was due to arrive as was the latest Harry Potter. By God's grace my dad arrived safe and sound, albeit a bit tired. but that is only to be expected. he also brought me a few gifts. the first being chocolate(ahh...how i had missed CHOCOLATE...from Riyadh... nothing like 'em) and the other being my very own digital camera! YAY!! a digi cam was one of the few advances in technology that i had kept asking him to get, since our old camera is from the 19th century... lol..just kidding... but that camera is as old as ME, and Earth has come a long way these last 17 years.

i also got my HP copy. and it was fabulous. the plot of this book is one of the most complicated I have ever read. all the questions that were left hanging in the last coupla books are finally answered. questions such as 'who is R.A.B?' or 'Is Severus Snape a good guy/bad guy' and the big one - 'why did Dumbledore trust Snape?'. and the answers were marvelous. at least,I think so.Sagar doesnt think so and he said as much in his last comment here. but i on the other and more heavier hand, think that the book was simply awesome.

most of my friends are now in their respective colleges. Shilpa called me just yesterday and told me about her seniors and the way they boss them around and give them all these rules to follow. apparently the ragging is state-wise. like, senior mallus rag junior mallus and such. in NIT Trichy on the other hand, the ragging is NRI-NRI based. the Tamilians dont bother with NRI's much. funny how each place has its own ragging rules? i wonder what my college will be like? i guess i'll know in a week or two. Lord...

i guess thats pretty much it for the mo'.

laters, all.

A Day With A Slight Difference

hola dear blog readers!

today is a special day for me. my dad is coming back from Riyadh. it will be the first time that i've seen him in 3 months. its unbelievable how time flies. i cant believe i've been here for almost four months and my mum and sis have been here for a whole month. and i havent done anything worthwhile or of note, except maybe start this blog. but since none of my family, except Yvonne, my sister(and she says she doesnt see the point of a blog), knows that i have one, i guess it doesnt really count. but i really enjoy this, nevertheless...

what else.... i guess u all know that the next Harry Potter book will be out tomorrow....i cant wait to get my hands on my copy. by this time tomorrow, i will probably be halfway through it! depending on what time i get it, of course. lol... reading has always been my first love. i guess i can honestly say that there is no better companion than a good book. and i expect this next book to be AWESOME, not just good. i have all the other HP books with the exception of Half-Blood Prince. dang it... i cant believe this book is gonna cost me nearly a thousand rupees... but i'm also getting 2 educatonal cd's with it. one Brittanica cd and one Oxford Talking Dictionary cd. i thought it would be useful for my sis. i really hope its worth it.

i talked to my uncle Dani today and i asked him what he was going to name the baby. after all, we cant just go around calling him 'the baby'. he told me he hadnt totally decided just yet but he would most probably name him Denzel. i'm psyched! i had actually thought about suggesting just that name to him, among a couple of others. another thing about me is that i like naming people. i have this strange affinity for cool, classic and christian names.

oh, before i forget... i want to thank my cousin Bobby for commenting on my previous blog. one thing i like about Bobby is that he's one of the very few people i know who can take my sarcasm and give it right back at me. for some very weird reason i cant stand people who are overly nice to me. i dont mean that i like rude, insensitive, snobby brats. but i just cant stand sugar-dripping. i hate it when a person is trying to be fake with me or lie to me. it really puts my guard up. usually when people are that nice to you, it means that they want something.

a lot of my friends are leaving to their respective colleges today. Beena's going to attend Vimla Women's College, Thrissur. Nimisha's off to NIT Nagpur, Geslin and Sharika are off to NIT Trichy and Shadia is gonna be at NIT, Allahabad. oh, and Anto and the other Dammamies who got into NIT Calicut are going too... thats quite a lot of people!

wow... so all the best, u guys... its been so awesome studyin with you or playing and chillin with y'all. what a ride we had together, eh? and now we're all going our separate directions, on different rides, hoping that we'll end up at the various destination we're aspiring to get to.

take care and God bless..
peace out..

ann