7:00 AM - 12:00 AM.

That ^ is the average duration of my day. Its pretty short compared to the future IITians of the society. Well IIT is not for me.

Students of my school wear a grey, dull, depressing, hospitalized type uniform, if you visited my school yesterday, you would've thought we were wearing such a dress to mourn for the unfortunate victims of 9/11.  We wear such a dress everyday.
My school also has the weirdest timings EVER! It starts when students of other school are bubbling with excitement since their school-day is coming to an end and can't wait to go home to their favourite cartoons and ends when they're done with their homework and are roaming around the streets, right next to my bus, with their relationship partners. So annoying. So uncool. So depressing. So sadistic of them.

Sing me no songs of daylight,
For the sun is the enemy of lovers
Sing instead of shadows and enemies,
And memories of midnight

Sappho

Reading about the 9/11 10th anniversary tribute reports in the newspaper makes me wonder whether the same unity, grief and togetherness would the shown by the people of India on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks' anniversary, or for that matter, on the anniversary of any of the inumerous terror attacks on India. The pictures in the newspaper show the integrity among the Americans, even among those who have been fortunate not to lose a loved one. I just hope the Indians learn something from the Americans in this matter.

Djokovic destroyed Federer. Nothing can be more depressing. Wait, school in 3 hours. Damn. Oh, wait again, the person who sits next to me can get live TV on his mobile phone. Winner.

"If fishing wasn't so much fun, it would be dull and boring". "Yea". From the comic strip, Tiger.

The Vacations Are Over, It Is Time For School.

Nooooooooooooooo.

What a cliché title. Pfft, bastard.

So what if vacations are over? Its not the end of the world, is it? Its not as if you go to Azkaban to study.

The last-day-of-holiday talk is amusing.
"Doooode, I didn't do anything useful this summer!" - Reality : They did a LOT this summer.
"Dooooode, I didn't study shit! So depressing! Uggh!" - Reality : They studied a lot this summer.
"Doooooode, I don't want school to start maan! Fuck it!" - Reality : They can't wait for school!
"Doooooode, I've become fat!" - Reality : They have become fat.

My holidays were pretty cool. As usual. Fucking cliché.
I met new people in B'lore when I FINALLY went there after a gap of about 2-3 years. Nice people. Better than you. This blog came into existence then. I travelled half way across the world to survive a hurricane and earthquake. No, I'm NEVER going to stop talking on that! I watched Star Wars in a car. I  got a hair cut. I started thinking about life after Grade 12. Have lots to think about that segment of life.

I actually want school to start. I will be bored of it within a week and will want the holidays to start again. 'Cuz I'm cool like that, bro.

First-day-of-school talk is also amusing.
"Hey."
"Hi."
"How were your holidays?"
"Boring, yours?"
"Boring."
"Okay."

That is my every-year-first-day-talk.

"Heeeeeey!"
"Hiiiii maaaaan"
"How were your holssss?! AAAAAAAAAA"

"OhMyGod, they were the shiz! I did ___ and ____ and went ___ ...Yours?!"

"OhMyGod, how coool, mine were So Coool! I did ___ and ___ and ____."
That has never happened to me. Pretty shit.

I'm missng  the Federer v/s Djokovic match. Damn it!

For some reason, I can't wait for 9/11. I have a feeling something uncanny will take place. Something new. Something spectacular. Something unimaginable by the weak minded.

I also can't wait for the Tribute In Lights spectacle. 88 7000 Watt lights going to shine in place of the doomed towers. Wonderful concept.





By Sam Spratt.

I shampooed my hair by mistake today. It was fun realizing it.

It's About What You Eat and other things.

It is Onam today.  To me, its not about harvesting crops and things concerned with the Harvest, but about my friends from the South, from God's Own Country (How?) wearing a fancy, white cloth instead of jeans, eating off banana leaves and giving me banana chips.

My mom decided to get into the Onam festival mood by making Onam related food (damn, I'm rhyming it like a boss) which tasted like normal Gujju food with an infusion of coconut milk and brown banana (How? Stale? Damn). Is the coconut and the raw banana separating the food of North and the South, and thus their respective cultures? Hmm... I wonder.

Food is a wonderful way to "learn" about and feel other cultures. It helps us experience what the respective cultures have endured over generations and thus food acts as a link to connect a community to the outside world.
Eating the Aviyal, (The almost Gujju food ^) I felt so Keralitey. I was connected to the South.
Similarly, eating an exotic pizza, with the dripping cheese and wonderful sauce induces an Italian in me. A burger makes me a lazy American Fat Man.

I need an Apple product. The only apple I have sits in the Fruits and Vegetables Basket inside the fridge.

Start of school approaching fast, so is the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I wasted the holidays as always. 2 months are not enough to burn the stress accumulated in about 10 months of school.

Tribute in Lights.

Say What ?!

Look who's back, back again.

Foodie's back tell a friend ;)

Today I watched Sherlock Holmes. Again. Every time I watch that movie, I giggle like a tween girl listening to Justin Beiber. No need to worry, I think.

Other news, I still haven't gotten my Pottermore invite. I feel like how Snape must have felt when James married Lily. Don't have a word for it, right now.

I also saw how Rajnikanth looks like without makeup and the works. He reminded me of the guy working in the supermarket near my house. I wonder if he'll give me free things if I tell him.

Food for thought, apparently Hummus cheers you up. So if you're depressed, instead of grabbing that tub of ice-cream. Eat some Hummus with you thumbus!

Some writer once said never use an exclamation mark in your work, it's like laughing at your own joke. I laugh at my own jokes ! B)

The heat seems to be dying out. I feel happy, I wasn't fried this summer.

School starts on 9/11. Another unavoidable tragedy. *sigh*

Some random cool facts about 9/11 :

20 people were pulled out alive from the rubble.

Fires raged on at Ground Zero for 99 days.

The plane engines survived the crash.

People in Iran were arrested for taking part in a water fight. Lol.

Signing out with a song about Hummus <3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIybz6axr1Q