oh damn!

yeah be afraid, very afraid.
my semester 4 exams are sitting right on top of my head (commencing on 22nd may by the way.) and what do i do? yeah sit online, watch tv, read comics, write useless blogs, and talk on the phone! so i know i should be studying but when you have subjects that i have, how can you!
i know people are going to be pissed if i tell them "ummm..by the way, i still haven't completed 2 chapters of the subject" but lets face it, its the truth. so i tried studying last night and the night before and the night before, with NO success whatsoever. i can be up talking on the phone or watching tv or chatting till 3-4 in the night but studying? NOT A CHANCE! so if anyone has any advices they should let me know..i am desperate!

P.S. even offline messages will do!

i found you

p.s: its the plural you
this one is dedicated to all my bestest friends who are and will always be there for me!
thank you! mwaaah! you guys know who you are. =)


watching through an open window,
wondering if anyone knows
what it feels like to be me
how alone i can be.

in the crowd of friends,
i seemed like the stranger,
everyone was immersed in laughter
while i think n feel sombre.

every little wish,
every little dream,
had seemed to fall apart before my eyes,
i wish i was smarter,i wish i was wise.

but out of no where
you came along.
like a fresh breeze of the sea,
you came to me.

past faded away,
new dawn arrived.
my fake laughter died somehow,
in its place was that true happy glow.

my friend, couldn't have you come earlier
i wondered as i looked at you.
it would have been easier,
because i know you would have made it disappear.

suddenly i feel all better,
suddenly life is so beautiful.
it was fresh and new,
because i knew i had you.

ha and i thought it was possible in good indian movies and cheesy novels!

You know they say/write that every person has a happy ending. well let me admit it, i didn't think so. for a long time in my life i ended up thinking some people have all the bad luck, Queen of tragedy being me. why don't ask me, thats like writing a never ending book of misfortunes. never mind that, point being, happy endings do exist. if you wait long enough for it, that is.

so despite all the melodrama in my life, as of now i am happy and super content with my life. thanks to some amazing people and end of stupid vivas (;p)
so i tried writing a few words on that. so ended up with the lines below. hope u guys like it. =)

My long suffering has ended.
Gone are the sharp pains only partially blunted by morphine.
Like winter into summer, my tears are now perpetually frozen
Into the joy of being happy.
Stillness for me reflexes a lack of suffering,
and that is my happy ending.

the inconvenient truth

yesterday was earth day, 22nd April. so HBO put the famous documentary "the inconvenient truth", i saw it for one reason because many people told me to. man i am glad i did. not only the documentary is fabulous but also,i cannot believe what we have been subjecting our planet to. our one and only home. the exponential rise of temperatures and increasing number of natural calamities, the population pressure, i cannot go on with the horrors of the situation. for that you must see "the inconvenient truth". i admire mr.al gore for this, a lot.

i made up my mind last night. i am going to be a little more eco-friendly each day! no more plastic bags, its time to finally use my paper bag collection. switching of lights in the rooms where it isnt required. and no more switching AC unless absolutely required. no more littering. let me just start with little things, then I'll take steps further, because in the words of mr.gore, what we take for granted today will not be around for generations to come unless we do something.

this should help...do visit them.
http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/pages/78/

http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/video/135/

home sweet home!

when you become friends with someone it is a natural ice breaker to ask where he/she lives, so when i get the question, i usually answer sion. (its not a lie mind you, chunabhatti is a part of sion (which is in mumbai,India for all the dumb people)). so yeah i stay in chunabhatti lovingly called chunnu by me! and now after years of living and cribbing about it, i have fallen in love with the place i live in.

lets face it where else in mumbai is there a place from where 2 national highways are walking distance, and it takes 20 minutes to both new mumbai AND vt! not to mention it is almost the geographical center of mumbai. plus Wikipedia even has an entry for it! doesn't matter if its just 3 lines long! so if Wikipedia says it exisits then yes it does.

so the other day i was talking to my cousin, he had a funny story to tell. his cousin (maternal) was supposed to visit him in chunnu. so he told him to take a ric from the suburbs. poor guy, instead of chunabhatti he happened to say chuparpati. the smart ric fellow dropped him off at Dharavi! now Nilay bhai had a task of finding him, and the only thing he knew was that cousin was near a slum. now only if he knew, whole Dharavi is a freaking slum!

stories aside. let me tell you the best part of being a chunnu-ite. we have a bus depot, a train station AND a rickshaw/taxi stand. ha! plus an authentic gaon type market with old aunties fighting et al. And for the religious people, there also happens to be a 100 yr old jain temple.

other random trivia courtesy wikipedia:

Chunabhatti is a suburb of Mumbai. It is also the name of a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Harbour line.

Chunabhatti (Chuna - lime, bhatti - kiln) is home to the first cotton mill in Mumbai (Bombay), which was registered in 1886 as 'Swadeshi Mills' by late Jamshedji Tata.

Chunabhatti
Next station south: Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar	Mumbai suburban railway : Central Railway (Harbour Line)			Next station north: Kurla
	Stop No:10	KM from starting:13	Platforms:2

oh btw if you are interested in seeing my building from the top visit: http://wikimapia.org/83786/

(ps: its tagged dharmashanti)