Love my family!!!

Though my eyes are red from lack of sleep, i'm totally not in a mood to sleep, especially since there are just 2 more days to go before the end of exams. What is the big excitement? Well, obviously going home is the biggest excitement, plus meeting my bro after about 3 years, plus our planned trip to goa. Sorry, i didnt mean goa...i meant GOA!!! Wow, i cant wait...

Meanwhile i just started on twitter. Its totally awesome! I tweeted abhishek bachan and guess what? I actually got back a reply. Thats so cool, isn't it? Plus i also got back a reply from chetan bhagat! Now you know why itz awesome. So for all those who's still not in, join in!

Gosh! I didn't know there were so many species of bugs in this planet. Presently my roommates are fast asleep, lights switched off, and the only light source is my laptop. So you can just guess what i'm going through. Busy shooing off the bugs while i'm typing.

I was thinking about home so much today, that i couldn't help pulling up some old pics and arranging them. Take a look...

My favorite one is the left topmost corner photo, the one with me and mom with the puppies. God! We had so much fun that day. We went totally crazy over the pups and dad was busy clicking away... That is definitely a day i'm not gonna forget.

And the second best has to be the one at the bottom, having the three of us_ mom, dad and me. We're all dressed to go horse riding up a mountain. Mom was so scared, we couldn't help laughing. On the way up she was actually cursing under her breath. She was cursing all those she could think of_the poor horse, the man pulling the horse, the mountain...You had to see her face. It was hysterical. And yes, on the way down, she preferred to use her own legs! Pity we couldn't capture that!!!

And double pity_ i don't have a pic having all four of us in my lappy. There are some awesome pics of us while we were in Manali, back home.

PerFeCt LiFe ...!!!

Have you ever felt this way that Life could not get any better. Trust me, i am feeling it right now. Sitting on the bed, absolutely relaxed, with a pack of lays by the side and watching movies is definitely my definition of a PERFECT LIFE..!!! And with 1 more exam to go, it just gets better.

I could describe today as one of the running contenders for 'the best day of my life'. Why?

Well, for starters, nothing beats the feeling of coming out of an exam hall, after attending all the questions and feeling entirely satisfied.

Secondly, it rained! Not a big deal? Well, for someone like me, who absolutely loves rain, it is. Not that i come from a place where rains are scarce or anything, in fact, i guess you could say it rains every now and then in Kerala. But for reasons unknown to me, i have always been in love with rains.

Thirdly, i had the best breakfast in years. I don't really know why, but our mess had an absolutely delicious breakfast today. I ate so much, it was then that i realized i had been purely living on maggi for a while.

And lastly, nothing went wrong at all.

Everything from the great breakfast, a morning call from my mom, my favorite mam as our invigilator, the unexpectedly simple question paper, the superb climate and the chatting with friends for hours in the canteen was perfect.

Well, if you are still wondering what was so special about today, think again. A day when not a single thing goes wrong is hard to come and for the moment i am throughly lavishing it.!!!

Trust me... m nt ABNORMAL..!!!

Would you say i'm abnormal if i said

"I LOVE EXAMS!"

Well, i guess most of you would... But i cant help it. In a world where i live (i'm specifying my hostel here), where people remain confined within their own rooms, refusing to come out, and watch movies all day in their laptops (and that includes me too) ... exams are the only time when you can actually see some excitement.

Students roaming here and there all day in search of study materials, students daring to get out of their rooms and get together for some group study, students roaming the corridors till late hours for some last minute study....

Only yesterday was i sitting at the first floor stairs, making some notes, when some junior came up to me, sat next to me and started a casual conversation. In these 3 years of my hostel life, i had actually never even known that she existed! Can you imagine that? Trust me. When you have a hostel like mine, where rules are stricter than your mom, and talking to juniors is an absolute crime, this is possible.

Well, exam times also brings out some rare characters of people you would never otherwise get to know. Take my roommate for example. Though i've been living with her for a year, only now have i realized that she's a physco. Not actually a physco, maybe a pseudopshyco. Let me illustrate. During normal days, where she behaves normally, dresses normally and seriously seems human, during exam times, she gets up as early as 4 in the morning (after actually going to bed at 2 am), does some strange sort of puja, applies abnormal amounts of oil to her hair, takes her books and totally disappears. Oh, and i totally forgot to mention her mysterious balm which she applies, leaving the rest of us with a terrible headache. She becomes totally anti social, forgets to smile, and the only time you'll see her would be when she comes occasionally to the room to spy on you. The way she looks at you scares the hell out of you. She actually sits there, on her chair, doing nothing, but staring at you, for a whole 10-15 minutes. Trust me, itz no less scarier than a horror movie, especially when she has her oil dripping hair left out loose, all onto her face. She looks less human and more like a zombie!!!

On the brighter side, exam times also brings out the good in people and makes you closer to your friends all the same. Only today was i sitting, with the exam tomorrow and in absolutely no mood to study, especially the last unit which was the toughest, my best friend and roommate for 3 years (We are 4 in a room, in case you are wondering), offered to teach me the last unit. She had made some great notes on the topic and she absolutely made the whole unit a cake-walk. Well, if you are thinking, thats what friends are for, think again. In the girl world, the only thing not acceptable during exams is sharing notes and helping others! Shocked? Well, itz the truth, at least in my hostel...

Oh, and i totally missed out the best part of exams. It has got to be the waiting of exams to end, so that you could GO HOME finally, sleep well after all the late night studies, gorge on absolutely fabulous foods and get pampered. Trust me, this is the best part of living in hostel. When you can go home only once or twice in a year, you get pampered so much, you start experiencing what the life of a princess would be like. Itz absolutely dreamy!!!

Well, thats it for now, and i guess, just sitting back and watching all the fun would definitely not help me score well. So am taking off for some studies. Have fun. And by the way, 8 days left for the exams to get over!

My horoscope for today from astrology.com

You may find that life is rather sweet today -- or rather sour. If it's the latter, though, you can bet that you're in some way misinterpreting signals or otherwise making life harder than it needs to be.

Well, till now, that is to be precise, its 10.55 in the morning, and till now life's terribly sweet... The reason? For once i gotto get up late in the morning, after a whole week. Just woke up 5 minutes back. Its a treat, you know, to wake up late during the exams, when for the past week you've been waking up to a damn alarm at 4 in the morning. Thankfully, we have a gap of FOUR wonderful days before our next exam.

Well, it wont hurt to look on the sour side either, will it? Well, when you're in a hostel, waking up late = no breakfast !!!

Its not that i'm a strict 3 time meal follower. But in our hostel, breakfast's the only thing worth eating. And though i'm starving at the moment, i seriously doubt if i would be having any lunch at all. The magic of our hostel food is - one look and all your hunger runs away! May be i could borrow a maggi or 2 from someone. Plus i have some biscuits. So i guess i could make through the day _ without starving to death...

WHY IS THE WORLD RUNNING????!!!!

Hey...why do i have the feeling like m starring in a movie, and that somebody is actually fast forwarding it.

I mean seriously, it was only yesterday that i joined this college, and now m already towards the end of my 3rd year.

Where does time fly???

I can swear to anyone willing to listen that it was only yesterday, i was scared to death about how it would be in a college, what it would be like to be ragged, what it would be to confront my seniors..and can you believe it? I have actually gone past it all!

I had my first taste of ragging in my hostel the very first day, after which i actually cried to sleep for a whole night. But honestly, it was not at all bad. In fact the only reason i cried was because i was being put away in a hostel for the first time and i was terribly missing my parents. Which of course, i still do but guess mature enough not to cry about it anymore.

Would you believe if i said i totally HATED my college the first time i saw it. Well, you wont have a tough time believing if you saw it too, at least 3 years back when i joined. And you cant blame me. After all having your brother studying in a college like VIT, you start expecting all colleges to be kinda like that. But trust me, my college's totally cool, at least for me, now. I've learned to LOVE it.

Well, people say college times are the best times of life. I cant guarantee you on that one, but there is one thing m sure of. It certainly does leave you with loads of memories. The memories of bunking classes, the memories of staying locked up in your hostel room hiding from the warden when you're supposed to be at the college, the memories of sparks flying when you met your someone special, the memories of staying up all night watching movies, the memories of laughing so hard that your stomach hurt....Oh My Gosh.... there are just so many, and i dont want it to end.

Why does the world have to run? Why cant everyone just stand still and stop it?