Shooting The Breeze

Realize i've been blogging very infrequently of late, and feel slightly guilty about that. So here i am, struggling through another entry, even though i have nothing of any significance to say. But seeing how i have a pretty decent knack for bullshitting, i'm gonna struggle some more.

Been running out of my macro class every single time after giving attendance for the past fortnight. The fact that we have two doors helps matters greatly. Gave me a real adrenalin rush the first 4-5 times (yes, i had never run out of a class before....i can hear you snigger. :-x), but now, frankly, it's getting to be a bit of a drag. Tried running out of micro today, but the professor's a real jerk, kept looking up every 5 minutes. Idiot.

The lousy weather is really getting me down. Travelling to college these days is such a major hassle anyway, i can't deal with that along with crummy weather. *sob*

I've got a spanking new bright pink 4 GB ipod! Yippieeeeee. :-D

Best part? My brother's never gonna borrow it, seeing how it's pink. Double yippieeeeeeeee.

My birthday's coming up in less than a month. Triple......you catch my drift. Just that, despite the crummy weather, i've been in a pretty good mood lately. Let's hope it lasts. Coming back to my birthday, for the uninitiated, it's on the 21st of September, and i happen to share it with a very good friend of mine. So we'll celebrate together, and it will be So. Much. Fun. :-)

Last year as a teenager. Better make the most of it. *sigh*

Guess what i've kept as my display name on orkut at present. Keep in mind the facts that Chak De India has recently been released, and that i'm inordinately fond of one particular actor.

Shahrukh is sooooooo yummy! Self explanatory. :-p

Also, I've realized there's more (so much more.....lol) to The Doors than just 'Roadhouse Blues' and Jim Morrison. Brilliant band, brilliant music and absolutely brilliant lyrics (courtesy Morrison; he wrote most of their songs). You might wanna listen to some of their stuff, especially their first album (self-titled).

And now i'm feeling inexplicably sleepy, so i'm gonna cut the crap.

Until next time (which shall be very soon, hopefully), goodbye and go watch Chak De!

P.S. - To get you started off on The Doors, here's the link to the video of the first Doors' song i ever heard. Not 'Light My Fire', just for the record. Do take a look.

Wind of Change

Funny how things change behind your back without you finding out until it's too late. And funny how you think you're perfectly okay with the idea of change, but then you realize that you're not, and that change scares the shit out of you.

And funny how you never seem to learn that some things just can't be helped.

I never realized it, but my life's followed a pretty steady path so far. I've lived in the same city all my life, same house even. I've never changed schools, was in the same school for 13 years. Still hang out with pretty much the same set of friends, people i've know for quite a few years (except for my college friends of course, seeing how i've only been in college for about a year). Like the same actor i've liked ever since i was inducted into the world of movies. My favorite cuisine's been the same for the past 15 years. (Shahrukh Khan and Chinese respectively, just for the record).

I guess that's made me a little too complacent. And a little sensitive to change. Better start getting used to it.

Anyway, i'm done cribbing. so i'm gonna take off. Will go have my 6th Snickers of the day (there really shouldn't be so much chocolate in the fridge, especially when you're not exactly in the best of moods).

Until next time, good bye, and a belated Happy Independence Day to everyone (i'm gonna spare everyone and not talk about how it's lost it's relevance in today's times).

Tag!

So i finally get down to doing a looooooong overdue tag. Both Jahanbi and Arunima had tagged me, that too about a month and a half back, so i better get down to it.


5 of my favorite characters from books.

1. Holden Caulfied from 'The Catcher in the Rye'. My favorite-est character ever. The way he was completely messed up in his head, the compulsive lying, the crazy swearing, the (so-called) teenage angst, i love everything about him. At the risk of sounding cliched, in all of us there's a little bit of Holden Caulfied. :-p

2. Arthur Dent from 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. Yeah i know most people prefer Ford Prefect, coz he's funnier and wittier and cooler, but Arthur is just such a sweetheart. I feel so sorry for him, the way his life keeps getting fucked up as soon as some semblance of order is established. And he's such a naive, helpless thing.

3. Atticus Finch, from 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. Self-explanatory.

4. Rhett Butler, from 'Gone With the Wind'. Though i didn't thing the book was anything extraordinary, i loved Rhett's character. He was so suave, so hot. ;-)

5. Hamlet from, well, Hamlet. Even though he's full of faults, his intensity is extremely appealing. And the fact that he might be slightly mad makes him highly interesting.

Alright, i know that the tag only calls for 5, but i can't help but include a sixth character.

6. Scout, from 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. Yes i know, 2 characters from the same book. I like the book THAT much. She's a brilliant kid. Perceptive, smart, witty. That's the kid i always wanted to be. :-p

Alright, now that's done. My turn to do some tagging. I tag Aditya, Diya, J and Sahaj.

Goodbye all!