Beat D Heat !

The following is my Entry for the contest in Bloggeratti (Orkut community) given the topic "Summer-heat"

With still 24 hrs left for the dead-line, I didn't want to make a last minute entry. I wasn't planning to participate coz sumhow I wasn't managing to get enough time for the thought process but then my mom says 'Participating is half victory'. N i didnt want to lose without participating, so here goes my scribbling....


A summary of the "cool" "cool" things I do in summers, a few reasons y I love summers!!

Lying on momma’s lap,

Eating curd-rice from her hands

Waking up dad, 1 at night,

Demanding for ice-cream.

Pouring ice-water on bro,

To giggle seeing him crying

Wishing he would do the same,

Unfortunately he is too lame.

Standing below the shower,

Playing splash-splash with little drops

Till mom warns to break the door,

If I don’t rush out.

Mango shake, the best breakfast

Dad gets dozens for me!

Lemon and orange juices

Works wonder to beat the heat.

Rushing outta house in the morn,

As usual forgetting the sun-screen

Pledging not to repeat the mistake again,

But then the same routine.

Going zip zap zoom in car

Adoring, admiring n praising Delhi roads

Loud music and full on speed

Overtaking the bikers are thrill indeed!

Talking to the dear pink lilly,

In the name of gardening.

Watering n taking its care,

Loving to see it smile at me!

Struggling to cut the water-mellon

With a small little knife.

Amazed to see it getting disappeared,

But I kept it pending for tmrw night!

Going to garden for evening walks,

In loose tees n tracks

Noticing the number n kinda guys following

Ofcourse without their knowing.

Passing sarcastic smile,

On the stupidities that people do

Wearing goggles while driving cars

To guys in pink t-shirts posing to be cool!

Sleeping with AC on

Winters were never so cool

With the Prince Charming walking hand in hand,
In the cool cool heavenly dreamland ;)

P.S. @ other Contestants , am very sorry I didn't go through any of the entries but I had my own reasons:

1. I didn't want any influential shadows in my work
2. I seriously didn't get time!!

But I promise to peep in all those entries b4 results r out :)

Guys vs Gals again?

The following is not really my style of blogging but then am feeling a little lazy to polish the chit-chat in a paragraph format... so I'll b pasting the convo directly from saved chats.

This was a small part of a chat I had with Karthick yday after a long time.... He got to a new job last week n is keeping very busy these days.... It was almost a week when I caught him online yday... One of the very few Intellectuals I have cum across, a very close friend n a good guy! Met him through Blogger but all the chats n emails made him a 'reality in this virtual world'. His blog speaks for him so I don't need to do it here (karthickspeaks.blogspot.com). No post for long time, as I said, Busy Bee with new job!

Hey Karthick, am taking u for granted here ;)

10:16 PM me: i was just wondering

y do irls hav to leave thir house after marriage?

*girls

Karthick: bcoz..theey have to look after the grooms family..

and the grrom also..

10:17 PM me: isnt it so damn unfair?

Karthick: well..

me: must b sum guy who made this damn rule

Karthick: there is another pioint also..

ur parents cant kepp u for ever..

so got to stay with him.

finnaly after them he is the one who is goin to take care of u.

10:18 PM me: well

y is it that my prents cant keep me with them forever

when 'his' parents wil b keeping him with them forever

10:19 PM Karthick: well..wat happens after urs and his parents..

he is the one for u..

so it just better quoted u stay with their family.

its not biased in any way.

me: wait a min

y cant i b the one for him

after his parents

i mean

10:20 PM y should i b the one leaving?

Karthick: is there any problm for u..??

me: ofcourse

i got a lovely family here

my mom my dad my bro

my pc

my study room

my bed

my house

my kitchen

eveytheing is mine

i chose things

10:21 PM i decorated d house

i have my choice here eveyrwhere

i liv in each thing in my house

n suddenly one day i have to say a gud bye to all this?

damn

Karthick: dont u want a change.

life..always moves on..

10:22 PM u cant staganate...cant reamin a kid for ecer.

me: y cant guys have that very change?

Karthick: ever.

me: u r biased buddy

u taking the male side now

Karthick: yeah...i am a guy.

10:23 PM ;)

u finnaly got tht one.

me: hee hee

men n their egos!

phw!

10:24 PM Karthick: yeah..yeah..if wen dint have tht much..hw to survie with grls.

me: but girls do survive well enuf without that

:)

dont get into a war of words on this topic

Karthick: yeah..

me: i hav a good exp on this topic

Karthick: better..

me: u wil lose

:p

10:25 PM Karthick: let things happen the way they r..

it always nice.

me: contoversial line!

but then let it b

Karthick: am conservative shennaite rember..

chennaite..

so..i wud lways like things my way.

me: mine talkign to u on this wont get me a guy who agrees to liv with me in my house n not to take me away

10:26 PM well ya

typical!

probably my next blog topic

:D

10:27 PM Karthick: i will always want my girl to be in my house..

give my mom a break..

she is wroking so much for us..

let my girl share some resposiblity as well.

me: ah! wat abt the girls mom?

who wil help her out

u dont care for that aa?

10:29 PM anyways

We switched over to a lighter subject but then I have always hated this rule of girls needing to leave their house n their family for sumone who doesn't need to do all that.

Personally speaking, I have a family so so so good that if god had asked me to create my own parents, I wouldn't have done a finer job! Last week when I was low, that evening suddenly dad got ice-cream n cold drink n said we will mix them up n have... something which I always suggest n they used to classify 'yucks!'... my off moods will make my parents go down... they r so lovely so caring... they let me do things my way... not always but then I understand when they stop me... they care a hell lot. Very protective. When I'll b studying late nights for exams there sitting in my study room with door closed, mom dad will b sitting out in the sofa waiting for me to come out of the study room... they r the kind of parents who asks me y I bother to study so much when I can easily b playing around n have 'fun'... they rnt the one who says y u didn't score first class rather they say y do u bother so much about ur marks!

"My dad's purse is my open ATM", he never asks me y I need money or how much I need nothing... take as much as u want is what he says... needn't even ask! But then its me who keep a note by his purse whenever I take out money from that. My regular readers would have noticed mine talking of my mom in almost every second post of mine that coz I worship her... truly... honestly... from the bottom of my heart! Couldn't have asked for more ever! My bro... d stupid innocent idiot who by default comes n hands over his salary cheque to me every month! At-times when I imagine myself away from my house, my family, my world... living out there with some god damn stranger... I feel can there really exist some 'heart-less' creature who will be so damn heartless to take me away??!!

Sad Days R Here Again!

They say “Don’t cry over split milk”. Okkkk Fine! Am not gonna cry now… am a brave girl… I can face disappointments... there must be some way out… It can’t all get over so easily… damn it! My life it at sake… I can’t b kidding around!!!

Its as if it just happened yday… the picture is still crystal clear in front of my eyes… me n Ayushi getting out of the metro station happily singing “Yaaron dosti” n chit chatting… I telling her one of the story I wrote long time back… giggling... happily… least concerned about the world around… entered the Department of Physics n Astrophysics (the place where I study) with so much grace n confidence as usual… happily greeting a bunch of our seniors who stopped by to pass compliments on my brand new pink top….

There as a usual day we went around to the notice board to see if something important is there n suddenly the crowd there froze both of us! Wat r so many ppl doing here? Whats so imp? Its hardly 2 months since college started… there isn’t any examination dates to be announced… whats so interesting? With all the thoughts pouring our minds, we both caught hold of a girl who seemed to have had a look on what the onlooker’s r seeing n with great efforts managed her way out of the crowd. Me with my usual excitement in voice asked her wats going on n in reply she gave me a big smile n said “Congratulations!”

Err?? For what?? Me n Ayu shared confused looks n were still amazed to find out that she wasn’t the only one who cared to congratulate me for something I still don’t know… there were many… I was still struggling to get a look into the notice board to find out exactly what am being congratulated for. After a good struggle for a few minutes I found my first internal assessments marks of ‘Quantum mechanics’ there hanging out in the notice board… never knew it wil b displayed like this… the whole list… in my undergrad colg, they used to show answer sheet to individual students n not like this, displayed to the whole world to c…!!

My heart skipped beats when I found my marks… sure it was worth the congratulations I was receiving n I was so happy that day!! And what pleased me more was the conversations I overheard… ppl were looking out for this girl named Shruti n hello! I was just standing there… that was a moment! An instant stardom! Ppl wanted to know who I am… I was no more one of the 200, I was ‘d one in 200!’

Ever since Quantum mechanics became my favorite subject… when I gave the final exam on this subject n came out of the examination hall, I was grinning like anything… happily telling everyone that I have excelled it n am expecting at-least 30 outta 35 this time!

But then when I got my results, I saw in my mark sheet - internals : 14/15, finals: 19/35.

Couldn’t have been less disappointed but then I had an option of giving for re-evaluation. Without a second thought, I went for it. Damn! Y didn’t anybody stop me there!!! Damn! Damn! Damn!!!

Today my re-evaluation results came out. And they say now my marks will be read as ‘14’ instead of ‘19’. Hell! Now when I go back to college, all those who now know who ‘Shruti’ is will come to me to take their ‘congratulations’ back… no am not really concerned much about the lost stardom.. who cares for that… but then I lost my position n 5 marks!!! 5 marks rnt just 5 marks here… its almost 5%!!!!!! I was one of the top 5 in my Dept… now I hope to find myself in top 10…!! Damn! Damn. Never expected this will be happening to me… god!!! Pls give me a magic wand!! I’ll be going to college on Monday to ask if I can apply ‘re-evaluation’ to the ‘re-evaluated’ marks... lets c what they say… but then I seriously donno if I should go for it again… what if it again reduced my marks?? I cant really take it anymore!!!!

Physics n Philosophy.

For all those who don't know, am presently doing my Post Graduation in Physics n by next year I'll b awarded a degree which will call me 'Master of Science' 8) How I got to this stream.. this subject... will make way for a damn long post n am not in a mood for 'story telling' now, so I'll keep it pending for the time being... but one small reason was coz one of my 'good' friend once said that he finds Physics very interesting n wanna write a book on this subject, I just wanted to find out what was so 'interesting' that he was so 'interested' in... well finally I found out :D

My mom always says that to become successful in the academic field, u either have to be Blessed with intelligence or u need to work very very hard. I never belonged to the first category but yeah I work hard. U c working hard could always fetch me amazing score but then I have to confess that I never really understood what I read... it was just the 'mugging up' thing for me always n I always scored well thanks to my memory n the 'almonds' my dad used to get ;)

Till my school days, I was one of those 'typical dump toppers' who had nothing else to do in life than studying the whole day long, well... u c mugging up actually takes longer time! It was not that I was completely blind about what am mugging up but then 'learning' n 'reading' r two different things n I always did the later. It was not until I saw my first year graduation marks that I realized my 'old golden rule' is not gonna work with Physics... this one subject need me to tickle all the other cells in my brain n to actually work hard in not mugging up, but in understanding the subject.

I don't claim to have understood the subject by now but then from where I stood a few years back till now, I can definitely say that I have started understanding the subject. This one subject has changed my personality like anything! U know what, a true Physicist is never interested in the final answer to the problem, all that he/she is interested is to find the 'right approach' to solve the problem coz once thats done, its just Mathematics to get to the final solution. And we Physicist use mathematics as a tool to get to the sophisticated form of final answer but are never slaves to mathematics.

What Physics has done to me is something which my old friends can easily see n feel but for all those who don't know me so well, lemme tell u...

Back in school I was d kind of girl who didn't even had the courage to raise her hand to ask doubts coz I used to fell so shy thinking the whole class will be looking at me. When we used to be given questions to solve, even if I could solve it before anyone else, I used to feel so awkward to let it out... yeah that was me... very shy n so low in confidence that I used to tremble when someone talks to me. I used to be so lost those days... day dreaming... n I used to do everything in dreams only. But today I find myself changed... I have learn to approach my problems n I have got the confidence that I can solve it. I feel very proud of the fact that am conquering a subject which is considered 'very tough' n only a handful of people can understand that. I feel on top of the world when I c my the reactions like "Oh! my god! Physics?"... or "U must b Einstein to be studying Physics"... "U know Physics is one subject I never could understand".. blah! blah! blah!

Well... now Physics is my breathing subject. Now that I have learned the way to study Physics, I find it amazingly 'Interesting'... this subject doesn't asks me to sit with a pile of books open n spend 7 hrs in my study room... this one just asks me to spend 24 hrs in a day thinking about it... I have now kinda become something like a crazy scientist who has 'great Physics theories' running in mind non-stop... its not just why do birds fly n why do apples fall... its more than that now... I can now find Physics in everything I do... yday my bro came back from play n sat "thud" on the chair n the chair moved backward a little... I rushed to take out my diary to note it as a problem of 'moment of inertia' :) A few days back standing at the metro station I was noticing the springs n transmission lines n was trying to figure out the applications of all those things...

I feel proud of the fact that I have really grown Intelligent thanks to this subject... I find myself more witty n quick to answer these days. The change in my personality or rather the improvement wouldn't have been possible otherwise. Though I do feel nervous when I face some problem but then I remind myself that am a Physicist n if I could solve complected 'Quantum mechanics' problems then this is nothing... I get back my cool, analyze the problem n choose the right approach. 2 great things Physics has taught me 'Observation' n 'Analysis' n am much more confident n smarter these days :)

I love Physics!!