BACK!

I am back! yea baby...
ok..I am aware that I must have lost a lot of readers, some have probably stopped visiting cuz of lack of updates, but I promise I will try and be regular.

Lots of things have happened in the past month.

1.Entry to second year
2.Floods
3.Passed a french exam
4.Bandh
5.Blasts
6.Freshers party
7.Made new friends

ok that's about it.

and believe it or not, I missed blogging terribily, I don't like express myself through writing a daily diary, or journal, hence blogging seems to be a very good way to the same.

The course is getting competitive by the day. Everyone is trying to prove something everyday, class mates are getting agitated over small things, new friends are being made, old pals are getting to know secrets, groups are getting intensified and the project submissions are around the corner.

Just felt like writing the above, no particular reason.

I love my class , and I hate my class, after a few days I will feel like strangling each one of them, slapping all of them. Then, that feeling will go away, and I will again start thinking 'ah! nice people'. It's a cycle.It doesn't stop.

It is a wonder if even 4 people in the class agree on something.

Enough about my class. Now over to something else.

JACK SPARROW

YEs people, hez the one! The ultimate Pirate, Johnny Depp has done it again! Dead man's chest is one of the most satisfying sequels! Really, hats off to the movie makers!

Ever wondered about the origin of the idea-Pirates of the carribbean??I recently read somewhere, that the movie is based on a theme park ride in Disneyland. Wow, how cool is that, they actually made an entire story, out of an amusement park ride!

That's it for now.

Will update regularly.

Cheers all.

Duniya jhol hai

This write up is inspired by something which ocurred yesterday, more like something I hrd abt....
It is really funny how MOST people don't have anything much to do in life and start gossiping about other people.
Infact, their life revolves around it.."she did this"..."she did that"...etc etc...
God! give yourself a break people...go find some constructive activity for yourself rather than demolishing a person's image.
90% of the time the information is false, and even if it is true it is garnished with the most exquisite type of mirch masala so that when the news reaches the next person's ear it is made sure that it is not the same as the previous person heard.
People are creative, they create new situation in an already existing circumstance, and toss it to the next person, whoever it might be.
People are jealous...this entire summer of 2006 is a learning lesson for me which I will never forget. They just can't see you happy, everybody on the surface will smile, greet you cordially, and all that nonsense, but it is JUST SUPERFICIAL. There is not even 0.00001% truth i it. Inside they will be burning with jealousy, hoping that something soud go wrong in that person's life, hoping that things don't work out. They can't look at some one and be happy, or even let it go, everybody is looking for an opportunity to pull others down.Wherever it is, school,college, your colony, building, office ...wherever!
You are always under scrutiny....being analysed by almost everyone, so that you commit one small mistake, and BOOM!
Small errors get converted into something so HUGE that you probably wouldn't have imagined.
This is my opinion of the world , it's people currently, and it does not look like it will change in near future.
I am sure everybody knew this fact but when it hits you certain times, you just get disillusioned.

A post about????

la la la la
ok my enitre post is not about that.
first of all, I apologise for not updating my blog....was kinda not findin the drive to...now that I do...here goes...
Went for a trek to Rajmachi...had an awesome time..although I was EXHAUSTED!! but amazin fun...met a whole bunch of new people.
college will finally re open..YAY...!!!

I have five books to read:
1. maximum city
2.black friday
3.lord of the rings
4.home and the world.
5.my french text

any suggestion the order I must choose to read...???

I have a few things to do:
1.clean my room
2. update this blog n try to make it a lil interesting
3. study french for an exam
4. go for a bath
5. buy an umbrella

wht shud I omit???

A Poem:

*writer's block*


arrgggghhh...

cant come up with anything!...anyway..all FIFA watchers...GO PORTUGAL GO...GO SPAIN GO...GO BRAZIL GO....GO ITALY GO... basically...anyone but England go!!!

SAVING??? ya right...

Saw X men- the last stand..
okay this is not a movie review...I just wanna say cool flick..I hadnt seen the first 2 parts..but then it was cool
The best mutant was the chick who could go through walls!!! It was just fascinating...
hehe

anyway...So on my way back home...This pal of mine and I decide to save money(after spending 100 bux on a ticket+ 45 bux on coke+45 bux on latte) yea after tht I decide to save money! so we take a bus to our destination.
The bus was CROWDED....and it came after a long wait...so there were a lotta ppl..
now for some reason the conductor did not come behind to give us a ticket...and we thought we will take it when appreoching the last stop, by then the congestion will decrease...
SO...the last stop ws there, and by this time the conductor was in the front section of the bus, so when we were getting down, we went upto the conductor and asked him for the ticket( cuz we din intend to travel free of cost)..but the conductor sez"abhi fine bharo"
I was like "wtf!"
So was my pal...
so we got down....argued with tht guy..who was yelling at us for not buying the tickets and claiming that the fine is 200 bux but I am only fining you for 15 bux...!
"ya right" was the look exchanged between I and my friend.
Well, the argument went for about 5 more mins, I tried by best to convice him that WE DID not intend to travel FREE OF COST, and that genuinely the conductor was far away..
but alas, who can argue with them, I thought, damn lets just pay this and get away asap...
So he takes our names , writes it on that fine reciept..and hands it to us...

ALL rickwalas were staring at us...sum wht this on their mind" ya right, travel freely", or more like just plain "hahaha"

WE take the next rick available and leave for our destination....

So there goes my effort to save some money...

Hey but I have a ticket...! did sumthin illegal....guess I can say that.

This...is..

loooong time no post...
Things have changed...or may be I am thinking they have?
Well...
Things have been very chilled out as of now
I mean there is simply nothing to do
anyway

Following is something I am gonna come up with:

-----------warning: itz totally random and on the spot------

So this is what I came up with
itz not a rhyme and not a lymmeric

(tht sux already)

too much time,
too less mind,
too much boredom,
too less of mine

but he wasnt there

she always wanted to be there

but itz better to be left, when you know you are right...



There is a change..a big one

I always have some one

the day begins, the day ends,

but with you my friend...

there is no room to pretend..

MARRY ME

Met a few Skool pals today...
was a lot of fun...
This friend of mine...I met him after 4 years..I arrived late first...had to apologize a lot:p
then we were just discussin things ..like what have u been upto types...
During the convo...I sed "stupid" for sumthin...and he sez thats not stupid , u used the wrong word...My reply was " no thats not stupid itz funny stupid"...
My pal suggested we through my defininations again of stupid, cute,nice ,sweet etc etc
turns out to be
that I have subsets for every adjective,which people do not understand...
anyway..
something different..When I m in bombay, there are ways, strange guyz come and hit on you...In Lagos, they also had a way...
If they wanted to talk/flirt/tease etc etc the only thing they'll ask is:
"Will You marry me"

Now thats what i call FORWARD!
:P
seriously, on my way back from Atlas Island, the guy who was helping us to get into the boat asked me " Are you married? Would you marry me?"

a guy outside the parking lot of a departmental store yelled "Marry Me"

and finally when I was leavin Nigeria, at the Lagos Airport, after my immigration is over and the security gaurd is checking my bag, he casually asks looking at me
"So you are an Indian?"
I say "yes"
"You live here?"
I say"No , just visiting family."
"Are you married?"
I smile and say " No"
"Would you marry a Nigerian?"
I say "No."
"Why" he asks"
"ummm..well ..Just"
I smile..
He smiles...

Whoa...
I must say this one was quite polite!!!

"The List"

A good Sunday...Alonso won and that made me really very happy.
...
and I am back..back to my adda..that;p---Bombay..yep
Returned from the African voyage ...was amazin...awesome...has a great time!
If I was on an Oprah Winfrey show i would have simthing like:" the ecperience changed me as a person"
but I aint there..and wudnt hacve sed tht anyway....the truth is it changed my thinking...makes you question lots of things in life...in this world!
anyway....Now I am back to surfin the net more often...doin more timepass...and etc etc...
My plan of action as for now.....
--->sleep( as if that was never there)
----> watch sum more movies
----> bake a cake I think I am good at it....considering the last one was quite good
-----> blog more often
-----> ....
OKAY I accept that list was extremely useless....

will blog again..about something better...
cheers.

Rain Rain...

When the cloud cover got thick!!!!!!

It started rainin...and Dad , Mom and I got wet...it was lotta fun.

Eleko ka pic

On the left
Eleko beach on an overcast day....

Shacks and I am Chinese

On the left------->

view of the shacks present on the beach

Visitors can rent these for a day and relax in em.

Ok now I gotta tell you guyz this...

on our way to this beach. A man in uniform stopped us, on the road.My dad asked him what was the matter, he sez"Sir, I want my weekend chop"

weekend chop basically refers to chai paani equivalent here. So turns out to be the Cop officially stops most of the cars on that road and mints 50 naira(18 Rs) more each car.

And he peeps inside looks at my mum and I and sez"I like Chinese people, my next weekend will be in China".

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!

okay, so we look Chinese....that's news to me.

Ice age II

I already tol ya guyz I saw Ice Age II
I think it was funnie
not funny like the 1st one...but hey it was good
esp the posums
and ellie thinks tht shez a posum:D
and the scrat thing was as usual good
and the mini sloth sequence..oh come on don temme u guyz din laugh in the theatre when you tht sequence..I did!

go and watch it....I m probably gonna see cuz of sid the sloth!

BlAh bLaH

I saw "Humko Deewana Kar gaye"
Don't even ask me whyyy
cuz I m still asking myself
damn.....what an utter waste of time...My parents wanted to watch a movie..so did I cuz we hadn't been to a theatre here...but unfortunately this was the movie running in the evening show...
Anyway, so this si the second most pathetic movie I have seen, first one being Home Delivery...man a torture I must say
anyway...do I use that word too often...hmmm
so tom I m going for a better cinematic experience by watchin Ice age II :the meltdown.
It rained here like crazy today, was really pleasant.

Just a thought: How many mins/hours do we spend waiting in a day on an average?
I usually wait for a bus, then a train, then for sum friends, then for the lecture to get over, then for the sandwich to be made by the coll sandwichwallah or a sezwan dosa which I must say is a delicacy of many things offered outside my college, then I wait for the same means of transport.
Or I just wait for my fav tv show -LOST...hey I wait a lot...what about u guyz..??

Shows to look out for on tv and if you can download : Everybody Hates Chris, based on Chris Rock's life. Lost season II, Grey's anatomy, CSI:NEW YORK, Project Runway and yeah...JOEY!!!
ofcourse this is meant for people who have nothing to do...that is...moi!

cheers.

Pics from the Atlas Island

Here are a few pics which I took from the boat.
a lil bit of Lagos skyline on the right.

Somewhere in the middle of Equatorial Atlantic

I had an awesome day today!!!!Did the most amazing thing...
myself, my family and a few other families went to Atlas Beach, Lagos.
The journey was quite interesting, one has to take a boat from a suburb called Victoria Island, the boat ride is a lot of fun, lasts around 10 to 15 mins.
Enter Atlas beach, it's an Island actually, enter Atlas Island, and how does one disembark from the boat, simple..jump into the water!...yep u read correctly, there is no place where you can anchor the boat, so we had to get off on the beach...
First glance, WOW....there were shacks all around...most of them occupied, we ran towards an empty one and conquered it.
changed and jumped into the clean bluish green water...
coming to the most amazing thing...
u guys seen a surfing board, d-uh you have!This board I was swimming on, is similar, but you have to lie flat on your stomach and try going in front...and this is not a surfing board, I think it's called a floating board...
I was lying on my back, the sky staring at my face, soaking up the atlantic sun,and the board floating in tune with the waves, after sumtime I realised that I was in deep waters, and I was drifting away from the shore..then all of a sudden this HUGE wave flips my board ...and there I was, thrown into the water!....it was so awesome, I found my breath and started swimming to the shore...
Later on , I was lying on the sand, thats a different thing that i ended up getting sun burns cuz I forgot to apply sunscreen amidst all the excitement...
MAN... I love beaches and this Equatorial Island blew my mind!
will post more pics soon.
cheers.

Today

story of this day...
so anybody interested to know what I did today...
what the heck...I'll just say...
woke up at 10:30 am, and then did the usual...lounging around...
heard coldplay after a long time... "yellow" on loop..what a relief....and "hollaback gurl" sounded good for a reason..
oh btw...3 mins to go for net to disconnect..itz only avalaible till 11 pm..damn 2 mins...betta type fast..
anyway, saw everyody hates chris...awesum sitcom...anybody who get it puhlesee...itz about chris rock and his childhood...all I have to say abt it...HAHAHAHA...amazin stuff
discussed the history of left hand drive wid my dad...cuz nigeria has left hand...
oh danm itz 11....
will blog tomorrow..
cheers.

Day out in Lagos

Ruhie's day out in Lagos..

So I finally got to go out....see the city a little bit,
went to a local market called "Lekki" ...was fun shopping and looking at strange faces who stared back with you with same or more amount of strangeness.
One word which pops in my head when i was going through the streets of Nigeria-SURVIVAL
The locals-i.e Nigerians do almost everything to earn a few crumbs of everyday bread.
This is evident by a phenomenon called "GO SLOW", itz nothing but the usual traffic jam, which is present all the time on the roads, there are more go slows than bombay...a 5 minute drive will take you 30 mins during the peak hours.Now in these go slows, one can find a shopping paradise...hows?..well just look through the ur window, and you'll find dozens of people outside roaming around with various articles in their hands...the variety is really vast, it includes bags, calculators, batteries, softdrinks, cds, calling cards, fruits, vegetables, manicure-pedicure set, razors, dustbins,phones, their covers, carpets!! ...rice, table mats....and too many things to write down...
This is something I have never seen....seriously...it's fascinating, cuz I am not used to it, and these vendors . they are out regardless of the weather conditions, it's raining, or burning sun...and mind you, the items they sell are genuine...tested and tried by my mom! and I must say they are quite a hit...wonder wht'll happen if this starts happening in India...
I promise I'll post some pics soon(once I take em';)
hey but I must admit...the streets are full of people...unlike South Africa, where you would have to walk for 10 mins to actually find somebody! I aint joking here, on a sunday morning you'll probably have to walk for half an hour...yeah so back to the point..people on the streets, it's quite evident why Lagos is the second most populated city in Africa after Johannesburg.
Okadas---is another speciality, it's a motorbike taxi, yeah sounds cool n all, but hey one cannot gaurantee a safe ride on it, because the drivers don't wear any helmet, and in simple words it's just not safe, there are loads of Okadas in the city, this is due to the presence of Go Slows on the streets...the Okadas can easily find their way out or take short cuts.
And did I mention the vegetable vendors know a few names of vegetables in hindi!..yea man...they actually say "bhindi" and "aaloo" etc.
and when I went shopping I happen to tell my mum"accha hai" for a piece of clothing and the shopkeeper says" accha hai na" ...phew...you never know who can speak ur language here!
The above is thanx to the Indians who are omnipresent...they live quite separately here, all of knw most of em type of thingie...but it's nice to see known faces in a crowd
Thats it for now...will keep posting...
cheers.

Of airports, stewards and a new place

wokay people of the world....oh ok...visitors of this blog.....
guess where I am...ah okie...people wud knw....
I m in Lagos, Nigeria...!
landed here yesterday...slept for 12 hrs straight....
oh ya btw interesting things to share which ocurred on board... no i did NOT have a hot co-passenger...no...boohoo...
but went via Dubai...! man awesum place to pass time oh hell yeah!...wanted to blog from there...saw this big samsung cubicle ...but then i saw the screen in front of me screaming blah blah flight boarding..for Lagos..and i thought either I could blog and say hi to ya'll and wait for the dubai authorities to find me blogging and eventually deport me back to India, or I could just board my flight...so I did the latter..smart thing to do huh? Sometimes I really surprise myself...hehehe...okie in a mad mood...ya so I was saying on board....Emirates has some excellent in flight entertainment...oh yes...close to 150 movies to pick from...music albums...etc etc ..I saw " In her shoes" and "everybody hates chris" man....that sitcom is awesome...one of the best sitcoms i have seen...catch it if you can...
and the FOOD..yea baby the food roxxx...every 45 mins they r bthere"would you like to have
tho i had some champagne;)

the stewards were cute...

damn cute...

did I say cute...

ok i think i'll stop now...

Lagos-first impression....itz different d-uh...all African people around...place is very much like bombay when it comes to weather...hot and humid...roads are also like bombay..which wud b bad...and yea left hand frive , but my dad said and I noticed it soon that no matter what hand drive they overtake from any side! left, right and centre...all sies ppl does that ring a bell???....
anyway...there is major electricity crisis here...generator is on for 8 hrs...so that means everything works at home...the pc, fridge,tv,ac everything works on it...

so now I m goin...to watch F1...san marino, Imola...micheal schumacher got the P1 ..damn...Alonso is P5 ..lets see what he does to get the P1 ....or he better do it...
cheers guyz...
njoy urselves...
will keep updating...
buh-bye!

Animationnnnnnnnnn

hmmmm.. i do not know what to write about...
so may be i won't...
ok not really...
I just saw Madagascar for the nth time...whoa i think the movie is awesum!!!!
one thing going on in my head
"I like to move it,move it
I like to move it, move it"

by King Julien....

but my fav ch by are the penguins, who r equivalent to CIA agents..!
and...who can forget Melmin...voiceover done by David Schimmer, I thought the character of Melmin's of totally like Ross's ...very academic...when the foursome land on the island, he actually gives a quick analysis of the island according to him in a minute!...
People who loved the penguins must watch a 15 minute christmas spl...get it from sumwhere...really funny stuff
talking abt more animaton Ice age II is going to release tomorrow...I am looking fwd to it....esp how crack the squirrel deals with it...and guess whtz the movie called
Ice Age II-The MELTDOWN!!!
My fav animation flicks are Finding Nemo, Ice Age I, Madagascar...I also enjoyed The Prince Of Egypt, Shrek I, Road to El Dorado, and yes.. Titan AE....!

End ?

oh i thought those days were over...
i thought he was gone
i made myself believe it was all gone

he says something,
does something else,

like a toy at ur disposal
like clay which can be shaped the way you want

at times...i think itz not love

or i am in the love with the idea of
being in love??

romanticizing every move you make...
just beacuse i want to

they say read between the lines
but i guess i read when there is nothing there...

the complexity of the situation kills me within
over and over and over and over again

itz banging in my head

got to find a way out
outta this maze
dead ends dont take you anywhere
they dont even take you to an end!

the purpose of this "love"
I promise, i will figure out soon

Murphy's laws

Ok i read this book...
MURPHY'S LAW COMPLETE
All the reasons why everything goes wrong
by Arthur Bloch

itz full of stuff you ever wanted to know, or atleast close to
it has liners like
"the severity of the itch is inversely propotional to the reach"
and
"At any given event, people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last"

pretty funny huh...

But they r true most of the times...a day after reading a book, i went for Being Cyrus with a few friends, and we got corner seats, and we arrived last!....it happens all the time..just observe

the book is filled with laws and more laws applicable in various fields..like leadership, love,household, engg, medicine..etc etc...

Some of my favourites are

Lieberman's law:
Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter.since nobody listens.

Laws of applied terror:
1.when reviewing your notesbefore an exam,the most important ones will be illegible.
2. 80% of the exam will be based on the one lecture you missed about the one book you didn't read.

Moser's law of spectator sports:
Exciting plays occur only while you are watching the scoreboard or out buying a hotdog

Athena's rule of driving courtesy:
If you allow someone to get in front of you,either:
a) the car in front of you will be the last one over a railroad crossing, and you will be stuck waiing for a long, slow moving train; or
b)you both will have the same destination, and the other car will get the last parking place

Law of Life's highway:
If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Drew's law of highway biology:
The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes

Sinteto's first law of consumerism:
A 60 day warranty guarantees that the product will self-destruct on the 61st day

Kitchen Law:
The more expensive the gadget, the less often you will use it

Hamilton's rule of cleaning glassware:
The spot you are scrubbing is always on the other side

corollary :
If the spot is on the inside, you won't be able to reach it.

Ballance's law of Relativity:
How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.

Ruby's principle of close encounters:
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

...so that were a few good ones...
go ahead and read the book...makes u look at trivial things of everyday life wid a lil amazement.