I'll miss you!!!

What a wonderful year!I will defffinitely want to re-live 2005 if ever given the chance of reliving any year...and if so much generosity isn't offered and only a month is given to be re-lived....it would have to be December 2005....What a month!What A Month!!Simply Superb!So....for my own pleasure and for your's too...here's a short recap of what this cute and lovely year had in store for me...

January 2005:
->The play,we did(Shaista and I along with a few other people) for Ramakrishna Mutt.What fun that was!!
->Shaista and I travel to Bangalore to and fro all by ourselves...and what fun that was!!
->College farewell...What fun that was!!ROTFL with the kind of stuff performed for us that day!!
->TOEFL score.With just one practise test taken,kiddo scores 280 with a perfect 6 on the essay(ok...i really didnt expect to crawl beyond 260,so it does matter)

Febuary 2005:
->Prefinals.Stunk.I had doubts if I would even get through commmerce with the kind of silly errors I made!
->Usual birthday memories...of pals of course,roaming in and around the places of Hyd!
->Harvard rejection letter.

March:
->School re-union.Usual "oh my gawds!!"
->IPE!!!!!Total blasht!
->Lawrence approval letter with a clause of increasing the funds...bull!
->Yale approval letter in vain.Coz the paper works weren't even sent!

April:
->French 400 starts with a gang of fresh new buddies.
->Swimming classes man!!huhhh...
->freaking out with Vidz...
->French Wine rocks!beer sucks!!just a sip to decide that!
->IPE results out!87.8%!!!i surprise myself!!

May:
->First first cousin's (first??) wedding.First saree act!and last,I have to add.
->Bangalore trip for application to Christ's.First travel all by myself!
->First interview with the Principal of a super cool college like christ's!First college I had applied to.Glad to have gotten through the 30 students among gawd-knows-how-many-applicants for the J.P.Eng course!
->First actual Truth and Dare game played with proper dares and rules!!
->Kiddo startes blogging!!

June:
->Get through(hehe...1st name on the 1st list!!)St.Francis for the mass.comm course
->First attempt at writing to The Hindu.
->Sick cousin's sick wedding with him!!

July:
->Doubts of clearing IPE washed away with the declaration of the results in April.But standing college 2nd was an indigestible fact!anyways...thank u!thank u!
->Application at Francis re-considered.and re-chucked.
->revelations.revelations.revelations...and many more of them.
->A futile attempt at CIEFL at Japanese.Did i blog about that experience??nah,wouldn't want to get started at that beeping experience.

August:
->Kiddo turns 18!!!!
->My first,earnt salary!!600 bucks from my tutee,for the little french i teach!
->Sissy leaves to US :-(
->My first branded jeans!(no different anyways!)

September:
->600 starts.Diploma kathe!yea right!!
->German classes begin!!
->Old tutee out.Two new ones in!
->Dokku bandi under my custody.
->too many new friends!yeah!!Fun Fun!!

October:
->German Unification day at Goethe Zentrum rocked!
->Kiddo Out on the block!Ahem!thats about it!
->Lessons learnt.Never give in to persuasion.Specially when you want to say yes,dont!

November:
->Momma turns 50!!!first family event without vids.
->Cousin gets married.First big family event without Vids.
->My first tingu accident,just leaving a dent in ma dokku bandi.Cutey pie is pretty fit and strong for its age!
->Admission from some Spanish Unversity.Hehe!

December:
->Jazz concert and the fun I had!!
->The European movie and the fun "we" had!!!(no....not a word,please,my sincere apologies to one and all)
->The hawaaiin guitar concert and th epleasure it was!
->Organising the event and the fun we had!
->Awarded National Merit Scholarship,postal delay results in late submission which i hooope doesn't result in disqualification.
->The paper valuation and the fun/pain it was!
->New friends...ah haan??
->the many many college fests at Francis and the college "culture"??? shocks.
->Christmas party at German Centre.And yea,the wild german wine christiane made was oooooooh!baby!!(please,just a tingu cup-yes,CUP...like those 2 rupees chai ke cups??)
->Alliance Christmas Party rocked!Cute that each and every single person there was grooving!
->Tutees turn out to be more han just that.Cute things,getting closer now!
->First attempt at many many other stuff.yea!Stuff!!sighhhhh.....December sure has compensated to the otherwise,ahem,modestly interesting life of mine.

So,2005,You have been a total sweet heart.I hope my future years are good,but you my dear have been and i assume will be one of the bestest years in my life.Will come back to you,if/when i get the chance to.Lots of firsts.Many many new people.Whole load of dear friends.And my biggest addiction,blogging!And the best part-I have been learning new things almost every single day.If not in college,atleast elsewhere.Will miss you tons.But do roll in to give birth to beter and better years to every single soul cutee!adios!!!
And for all you readers-Happy 2006.And my apologies for the length of the post,but had to,coz this year has been very dear!

Conquests of the Heart...

The naive Heart yearns to cry,
but the 'high' Head shoots back a 'Why?'
The Head brings facts to its front
knowing well,that it hates the truth blunt...

(The Head scornfully slides,)
"Who chose to wander about,
into alien lands' open mouth?
Who chose to enter unknown zones,
without arms,in your bare bones??"

Not a word came from the Heart,
for she agreed-she wasn't on guard...
How simple it was to complicate things
and brood over the disasters it brings...

(It came out with it's side...)
"Wander,I did... for it allured me-
and for good reasons-you've got to agree
It's not my fault if the woods sheltered
strangers that just before me had entered...

Perhaps,I do seek solace in woods afar,
rather than living in a cluster,like you are,
Alas! The woods are always pre-conquered!
But the bright side-I'm still a bird...

I make friends with the healthy woods,
so I can,to them,run in bad and in good;
who cares whether or not I conquer any!
so long as I have a shelter in many...

Infact I'm glad most are pre-owned,
for otherwise,Amity may not have shone-and
True... At times I yearn to cry;
but I do have my woods,for help,to fly(to)!

And lost?I'm not, for I find my way
back to the caged world of 'head say'
But if it weren't for you I'd never
have learnt to fly or to woods discover..."

yinglis pyapers yanyvan??

A blend of perfect pain and rolling comedy, were the gifts my “valuation” work presented to me. No, I mean REAL fun at times when papers having excruciatingly innovative ideas to sell for menial marks! I was surprised at the amount of grammar the chicks knew…Don’t say “Look who’s talking!!” coz in “official English” I speak the tongue just as well as I speak the “unofficial English”. Anyways, as I was saying, the gals had me pounding the floor with laughter and at the same time had me wondering about this revelation…
While things like- “whose book is this?-it is my’s “ and “ she didn’t came” and “I sawed her childrens” and “you’ve got nice hairs” are as common as “suicide is a sin…aathmahathyaa mahapapamu” board all along tank bund,these came as a breath of fresh pungent air!
So,here go those few short-listed errata of highly talented damsels in doom:

#Aunt Jane refused to get layed/laid on the bed that Jack owed her…
(that is-Aunt Jane refused to lie down on the bed which Still Jack doesn’t own completely)
#A goat comes into the garden and chews down the cherry tree!!
(a sapling for god’s sake!!)
#After two years the tree grew above Rakesh!!
(The tree grew taller than Rakesh, is what she meant. Preposterous
prepositions!!!)
#The tree became Rakesh like…
(again the same sentence, indicating an enormous scientific development!!)
#As he kept the knife at his throght,he got aroused…
(ok…one-no knife in the actual poem.two-it’s throat.three-he got curious…gawwwwwwwwwwwd!!!!!!!)
#While committing suicide(psst….WHILE committing),he got curious to peep into the talisman!!
(before, just before, a little before honey??)
# The Talisman gave the Talisman a Talisman…
(ah haan??so what I had to understand is-The palmist gave the young man a Talisman…heights of egalitarianism)
#In Shakespreare’s ‘All the world’s a Stage’, in the first stage, the man who is a baby is an infant.
(huh??so,that’s like a pleonasm??iteration??re-iteration??crass????)
#That’s why I sent a plane clothed man.
( O.Henry’s ‘After twenty years’…script change.A fancy dress fiesta..how about “a man in civil clothes”)
#Ask her questions about what’s happening in periods.
(Class room hours, love…or just plain “keep asking her questions about what’s being taught in class”…economy of words leading to cheap drags!)
#The Silky Bob,wondering about his thing (??) thought if Jimmy Wells would have made even half of it.
(????????????... The story-After twenty years leaves n scope for ‘huh??s’ and substitutes the word ‘thing’ with ‘wealth’)
#A.P.J.Kalam visited Prof.Iyengar’s senatory celebrations.
(I’ll get back to you in a while,sweets)
#Savithri Naidu is the ‘night angel’ of India…
(change of name with a controversial title bestowed…blame me not! All Hindu names sharing the same first letter are substitutable)
#Goodmorning Sir,This is my mother Mrs.XXX
(couldn’t you cook up a better name dove???atleast a different letter???)
#Gandhi-An ordinary man with an extra ordinary thing.
(I kind of am not comfortable with ‘thing’…atleast in such sentences…what she wanted to give was-an extra ordinary strength…ok!!??!!)
#He asked people to do it(?) only after he had done it(?).
(again referring to Gandhi’s principle of not asking people to do things that he himself couldn’t do…hmm…)
#Never Never Nest deals with a couple that wants to install a baby.
(install is not the verb form of installment!!!! stick to ‘buy in installments’.)
#The grass woman cutted the cherry seed into half.
(abba?? grass woman?? cutted?? cherry seed??...)
#He was physically string.
(missed out on a few letters??striKIng may be??)
#The medical showroom was enlightened with lights.
(What an enlightenment! I sure am getting close to that!)
#Jimmy Wells was petrolling the streets.
(O. Henry could kill you for that. Wells was a sincere cop patrolling(A not E!!) the streets.)

While these were all highlights of the prolonged pain, the following are the ones I have gotten used to now…
*various forms of the word ‘sour’
soar, sawar, saar, sore, souar…
*various forms for the phrase “gardener (woman)”
Grass cutter woman, grass chopper (heights!!),woman chopper, cutter lady… *various forms of the word ‘centenary’
Sanetary,cenestal,century(!!!!!),senestary,scentry…
**The dregs of pain…
buyed,cutted,piyano,feeled,felted,notty(naughty),cotted (caughted=caught), Avul Pakir Jainullabdin Abdul Kalam AZAD!!!!!!!!!!

And none (NONE) of these are anywhere close to exaggeration or fabrication. I wish it were, but sadly these are genuine errors I was in direct contact with…and I swear I have the least idea of what schools are up to…Thank whatever I, at least, ‘know and understand’ that these are errors! I am sure the gals don’t even realize it…hmm…may be I should get rid of the little corrupt English of mine as well, lest I end up on someone else’s blog…phew!!

sand tunes...

Here goes the petit jotting of mine for "that" piece of violin, which I mentioned in the earlier post.It was random,involuntary,beyond/unlike-me, and terribly sudden...I missed the name of the composition,both the times (at the rehearsals and at the concert).During the rehearsals I got a call and so missed it and at the concert one old man sneezed so loud,I HAD to look at that 'strangely'talented man!!and so again I lost it!Nobody(i know) heard it as well...I tried asking the drummer and he gave me the name of the album...so with the umpteen answers that I got from various people there, NAZARATH was the highest recieved answer,though nobody was sure of it!So lets call it so...ahem!!have fun??

Hit the desert blues...
Embrace the sandy gloom...
Celebrate the pains of solitude...
Indulge in the warmth of capricious melancholy...
for it's their fall tonight,
for it's then,that we'll unite.

Float in the mirth of dejection...
Fly up the skies of death...
Rejoice in the lap of agony...
Smirk at their innocent ignorance...
for it's their fall tonight
for it's then,that we'll unite.

Your living form I'll recieve;
Your dusty hair I'll stroke;
Your trembling lips I'll feel;
Your tender self I 'll caress;
For tonight we shall unite,
beyond the realm of life...

And all that JAZZ...!!!!

Lady luck isn't always this giving!I am flattered by her unusual generosity!Not only being invited to the parrrdy but also getting to be an "insider" in it!!Now, that is exactly the reason I preach about being a member in some association!The story here,however,is different! Member of two of the three asociations that organised the event,moi! Having recieved invitations (for the jazz concert,4th Dec,by this band called 'Three Raags'),from both Alliance Francaise and the Goethe Zentrum,I was almost too happy to retain my sanity!
Also,the fact that Mrs.Desai had delegated the task of escorting the band from the hotel to the Secunderabad Cluband looking after their basic requirements for the rehearsals(very basic!!).And the fact that I got to spend time with was in itself a great delight!But I guess "this" is why I am called a kiddo.Wait until u hear the entire story!
I get to the hotel about 10 minutes before my reporting time(how professional does that sound!!) only to wait at the reception for a nice long time.Having obtained the room number,I quickly usher Mishko (on the bass,French) to the restaurant for his breakfast,where I run into Suresh and Alicia (the drummer and his partner).I later go around looking for Holger (violonist,German) all around the hotel only to find him all set to check out,sitting at the lobby!I introduce myself and wait for the cab to arrive which due to some reason is late,much to the fury of Holger(europeans and punctuality!!)
In due course of time the cab arrives and we set off to the club.The jazz collective Charminar Jazz is awaiting the 'Three Raags' there at the club and I enlighten them about myself!
The equipments are brought to the ballroom where they are to rehearse and other requirements are furnished.Then after a while Alicia and I leave to explore a little bit of commercial Hyderabad( on a sunday!).We did find the teeny weeny things she was looking for,during which i learnt a lot about Italy(thats where she is from),Europe(my love!!!),her life,the band,Italian food,language,her love for Pondicherry(hats where she lives now,Auroville),and all that jazz!She asks me if I did 'the' job frequently asuming i was a part-time guide!!I tell her I was a part of the organising associations (GZ and AF) and hence the 'job'!!
We discover that the rehearsals are not yet over,once we return to the Club.The collective-Charminar Jazz was sitting in one corner.I join them to disturb their privacy (shamelessly)!I am sitting with,what i would call,the Jazz rock stars(??) of Hyderabad,the future (i mean,very near future) rage and I am as mute as a log...I do manage to ask a few hilariously dumb questions to which they were kind enough to answer (without any trace of laughter) and a joint of genuine doubts in jazz i had accumulated over the months!I would have had a solid 15-20 minutes time in hand, enough to have had a rapid fire round with a million questions and there I was,doing nothing but feeling wierd!!!Kids,i agree!!!
Then I had to leave as my job there was done, and also coz the rehearsals seemed no-where close to wind up shortly.I exit the scene,having conversed about my new-found love in Jazz with neither of the Jazz pros there!Call me whatever!I mean,I could have asked dumb doubts(i did,a few)...not like they were gonna remember me anyways,but I chose to research by myself!!ha!
Evening,mom and I go to the venue plenty of time in advance.Like we had to welcome the empty chairs and the lazy mosquitos over our jet-black hair!Trying not to be bored we exchange a few lousy "jokes".One more point that proved my "talent" was this...A friend and I are heatedly arguing about the identity of one 'dude' present there.I go "No!!!That is not Anupam!!I remember his face!This is NOT him!!",in such an agitated tone that a lady behind me was giving me wierd looks!And then the 'dude' we were discussing about,approaches us,to walk right through and give this cuppa coffee to the lady giving wierd looks.UH OH!!!!That IS Anupam ( a guy that I had exchanged numbers with at another similar event in june,in a rather sidey manner!)He had changed sooo much!Trust me!Men change quickly!And I was in all my mirth announcing to the world that "that" was not Anupam!And yes,the wierd-looks-lady was Mrs.Anupam's father!!!!I am such a dumbass!!(anyways,...we quickly sneaked outta there,assuming the world has a lot of 'other' anupams!)
Finally the concert began after a while,inundating the lawn with a mellifluous pleasure.One particular piece was so intoxicating and powerful,I involuntarily started writing a pair of verses based on the mood and feel of the music!
Hmm...all in all,it was a wonderful learning experience(to sound as cliched as possible!).How to deal with punctualilty when delay engulfs you inevitably-smile as beautifully as you can!How to communicate with silence when you want not its presence-pray for another chance to speak out!How to avoid getting bored-donot be an hour in advance!How to enjoy music to the fullest-associate it what what you like doing best(for me- writing on the mood it presents!!)!How to stop regretting your idiocy-laugh at the amusement you spread by sounding as dumb!!You're spreading laughter for heaven's sake...which is always nice!!!
HAA!!!By the way-the concert rocked.Thank you's to Goethe Zentrum,Alliance Francaise and Secunderabad Club for the eventful event!And of course-Mrs.Desai who over looked my age to delegate a task so educative(ahem!!)!!