how to go about cleaning a dirty room......and then some other stuff

yup,....me the great is going to give lessons on how to go about cleaning your room.......
i'm a self taught expert on this topic, very much like a self inducted member into the udc(thats ugly duckling club for those of you who dare not read my blog)...
was going to talk about shortage of money, but rachana already wrote about that....and i could never make mine that funny.
actually i was supposed to clean my room today,....am going home tomorrow. i usually clean my room before going home, so that i don't regret coming back. i seem to have lost my mom's neatness gene during the replication process. yup, i do pay attention during my bio class, even though my bio sir's talking works much better than sleep itself. or maybe my mom's gene is recessive....hah....i know more bio...
anyway,...back to cleaning rooms....will do it. have finished packing though.
cleaning rooms,....so.. first pick up all ur clothes and push them into the wardrobe. then start sweeping and throw the dirt and wrappers and pen caps and any other paraphernalia lying on the floor(don't forget to collect the coins lying on the floor), to get people out of their rooms. then they will eventually snatch the broom from your hand and do the work for you. well, it works for sometime till everyone wisens up and then you have to get ecoclean people to do it for you.
yup thats about it.
u might want to fold the clothes if you are a cleanliness freak.....
there's actually nothing much to write about this.....atleast not at 6:30 in the morning.
there's no water in the hostel....its so damn frustating. no water, no electricity, heat......very soon they can start a military regime for us.....that'll be sooooo much fun.
i'm hungry right now......
i still have to finish cleaning my room. will do it today(hopefully).
people are leaving today for their homes....i'm leaving tomorrow. even eg evaluation was cancelled. the sole reason for my staying here till tomorrow is also gone.
btw, i gave lakshmy a haircut. she looked very pretty.
lakshmy gave gary a haircut. gary said that he looked very pretty.
had coconut water yesterday. was insufficient.
its so hot in goa.....can't survive in the lt's. they should cancel all lecture's. anyway most of the kids(or are they adults now?) don't attend.
i'm going home tomorrow.....hope to have fun...
i'm soooooo hungry right now......i could eat a horse....if it tastes good.
i hope the breakfast is decent.
venkatesh hurt his foot. he found out how popular he was. apparently some 30 people came to visit him while he was there at the hospital...his response to pain.....laughter. the nurse thought that he was some specimen nutcase.
k....i'm seriously bored now...
am finishing this post
signing off...
waiting for tomorrow
xoxo
the rambler

capitalism vs socialism..........strictly my view, not meant to offend anyone

while socialism is parasitic and symbiotic in nature, capitalism thrives on the motto: one for oneself. i, personally feel that a capitalist society is a much better place to live in than a socialist one for the simple reason that you and only you can enjoy the fruits of your labor or intelligence. the ideology may sound materialistic and shallow, but, i firmly believe that no other person should have a right to access and use your money, without your liking. i would certainly dislike my earnings, the ones that i earned through diligent and sincere work on my part to be squandered among people, people whom i bear no relation to or owe no liability to.the propounder, activist and supporter of a socialist society might argue that a socialist society can lead to interests and creativity being diverted from money making schemes to literary, artistic and musical endeavors. but, i beg to differ. these pursuits can be carried out alongside your monetary goals. paraphernalia maybe close to a person's heart because of all the hardwork gone into acquiring it.they are like trophies which signify success at a particular endeavor, and are meant to be flaunted. my friend feels that while socialists are parasites, capitalists are hungry sharks. she feels that it is easy to support the idea of capitalism when one belongs to the better off section of the society, that is when one is in a comfortable position. but in the pathos of destitution, socialism would be a welcome form of society. but, can one really accept another person looking down at him at thinking,"this man is feasting off my money. the only reason that he is alive today is me!!!!". isn't the condescending attitude of others towards a person ahuge blow to that person's self esteem?
capitalism can spur in people the desire to do well for themselves. it can lead to a much more educated and literate society, a society orientated towards progress; personal and therefore the entire society's. the situation leads to the condition of survival of the fittest; a situation where one is forced to bring out the best in oneself in order to survive in the race.
i do agree that the motto,"one for oneself" of capitalism is not completely just. feelings of compassion should be present for one's near and dear ones. they should certainly be helped because they will be the ones who will be present at the the time of your need. i also think that humanity should be an important aspect of one's character. one should definately try and provide opportunities for the underprivileged.
socialism is a boon for those who do not capitalize on the opportunities knocking at their doors, but a bane for those who do. socialism can lead to stagnation in the society, with only a few people working for the greater good and the rest reaping the rewards of the work done by someone else. capitalism on the other hand can lead to a spirit of healthy competition and can lead one away from the darkness of a stagnant society to the light of a progressive one.
despite of my support of capitalism over socialism, there are some aspects of capitalism that could be done away with. for me the ideal society would be a capitalist one with the better elements of socialism infused and the worse elements of capitalism extrapolated.
signing off....
waiting for my ideal society
xoxo
the rambler

random thoughts................ before an exam

tomorrow is my eg midsem. for those of you out there who have no clue whatsoever about what i'm talking.....eg stands for engineering drwing where one has to imagine the 3d shape from the 2d. well....that's most of the part, and i'm not sitting here to explain the entire eg course prescribed to us...
people reading this please wish me good luck. i need it.
nishith won tycoons'08. apart from the other stuff he got, he gets to visit us universities and won a scholarship for his entire post graduation studies........now that's simply amazing. actually being able to study in any university of your choice without having to worry about scholarships!!!!! kudos to him for winning tycoons'08. my heartiest congratulations to you.
everyone please do congratulate him.
back to eg....
i have my midsems tomorrow.....
i think i've already mentioned that. today i had coffee in the mess after a very long time. it was just as bad. no improvement in the standard of coffee. even the noodles were bad today. i didn't enjoy it.
yesterday, rameez chased a pink balloon around during the physics lecture....must have been a funny sight.
liza was trying to hit someone with a balloon. she told shridhar to stand as her target. as luck would have it, he ducked. poor poor liza. her precious orange water filled balloon burst as soon as it hit the ground. poor poor water filled balloon....such a short lived life.
today, i was trying to perfect raman's motor skills....was fun....but then after sometime, i felt too lazy to move my hand.....was too much work...
btw, pradeep tried his hand in reading mine. i am supposed to be good at workshop.....i used to hate workshop......hate it from the bottom of my heart.....i dunno how am i supposed to be good at it? and after a lot of palm reading, we(me and shruti) concluded that my destined career is that of an art critic......yup, i'm going to squat and "appreciate" paintings....
time to go back to eg.
signing off
waiting to begin my destined career
xoxo
the rambler

bored part 2

was going to write about waves, but right now don't have the patience or the .......well patience to describe it all, so am going to stick to this nice sweet small description of waves and then move on to the grander scheme of things.
well, waves.....my coll's culfest took place from 6 to 8 march...
it was fun. i won a competion too. poets at play. all thanks to venkatesh. i went to workshops too. dance, mocktail making and tile painting. was fun.... was different. got a tattoo and mehendi. ate....thats an integral part of college fests isn't it?...
ya thats about it...don't expect me to write about the colleges that visited and the events that took place...i'm not that jobless. today is soumya's b'day. happy b'day soumya. yesterday was adya's b'day, she took us out for a treat. we went to rangoli and stuffed ourselves.
my hand hurts, its all that stupid mouse's fault. the comp i was sitting at at the cc just refused to move properly. it was so irritating.
i have to do eg. have got my midsems on saturday. and then am going home on thursday. yahoooooooooooooooo............
life's boring.....i'm bored...lets play attack of the dots again.....................................................................................
yup, i'm very very bored.
sigtia's giving shruti and liza guitar lessons right now. i missed my guitar classes yesterday.
i'm sooooooo bored, i'm actually writing about other people instead of obsessing over myself. venkatesh and siddharth were supposed to have a eating competition today. today its chole bature for dinner. lets see who wins. i think maybe siddharth chickened out.
i gave liza a treat yesterday for helping me out in phy.....she's nice and a wonderful prankster.....we have a lot of fun. she's a great source of gossip too.
ever been on freerice? go and check it out. wonderful site.
i'm going home
to the place where i belong......
yup, i do feel like singing daughtry's home..
ever heard bad day by daniel powter? amazing song...
btw, regarding waves, we had junkyard groove on the last day of waves.....they were so good. i thoroughly enjoyed their performance. they were simply amazing....
i'm so bored that i am actually stating out my likes and dislikes?????
i can't believe that this is happening....
life's so boring....
i just wrote these four lines.....
i really like them, will probably work on them when i'm free.

right through the pathway
swift past the wind
a beauty to behold
in the garb of a fiend.

another set:

the world is being pushed right to the brink
bereft of compassion, empathy and zeal
it is nothing more than a comedy to those who think
nothing less than a tragedy for those who feel.

now, i'm bored once again.....my back has also started hurting now. my mom would probably say "aopatali duggarani". go and figure it out. i'm not giving out the meaning.
ever heard the bengali term "neka"? no dialect or language in the world has any word that is equivalent to the essence of the word "neka"....
i cover such a wide range of topics when i'm bored. a lazy mind is a wandering workshop.
rachana has just entered my room and she is blabbering as she usually does. and she is not letting me express my views. she is curbing my freedom of expression and i will rebel....probably...am too tired and lazy to do it now
priya thinks i'm going mad....no i've gone mad
sneha is thinking of starting a new hub on dc so that she can read everyone's pm.
rachana's refusing to leave my room in fear of what i may type about her.
and rachana says that she's going to delete the blog about me after i post this post.
ya look who's talking rachana......about long posts....rachana's so thin, she and me actually fit in a chair without me having to move an inch....
i've finished packing and i'm absolutely jobless now......
that's all folks
remember bugs bunny.....he was really funny, though my favourite still remains tom and jerry
gtg
rachana's accompanying me for dinner
signing off
waiting(desperately) to be back home
xoxo
the rambler

me!!!!!!!!!!

A little mischief
A little fun
A lot of bitchin
On my run
A lot of love
For those I care
A lot of hate for those
who against me dare
Love to write
Hate to play
Like to read
Hate a bright day
Fascinated by death
Dislike pretences
Love to hate
Adore silences
True to myself
Others, maybe not
Will fight
For what I sought
Lazy to the core
Work, I hate
Hardly ever clean
My room, always late
Love to eat
Hate to fast
Am probably fat
That thought doesn’t last
Pick up a fight
For no rhyme
Can always fight
Anywhere, anytime
Hate hypocrisy
Love honesty
Hate mediocrity
Not much into modesty
Thats me
And me it is
Thats’s all folks
Don’t give this read a miss


xoxo
The Rambler

brilliant bullshit.......not that brilliant.....more random

that is a term that lakshmy frequently uses and over time i have learnt to appreciate its value and its true deep meaning and significance. the post that i am currently going to spread out is a true example of the deep hidden meaning of that truly versatile term.
today we were supposed to get our mess coupons. after succesfully getting a guy to get them for me, rachana took us for a treat at the insti cafe(atleast i hope that it was a treat). we had bournvita and plain dosa. there were four of us. me, rachana, liza and shruti. being the absolutely jobless souls that we were, we started discussing the various clubs that exist in my college. and that brought us to the main topic of our discussion and a prominent content of this post. we decided to start the ugly ducklings club. and for that the following would be the qualifying qualities:-
1.must have ten or more pimples or spots on the face
2.must have dandruff on her head
3.must have an atrocious dressing sense
4. should have baths after a gap of a minimum of 4 days
5.should have a dirty and unkempt room(i was the first one to qualify for this and then rachana)
6.should either be very fat or be extremely thin
that's about it.....
well, after this serious discussion, all of us trooped out of the ic and went to take part in our respective competitons(well, with waves coming up, people with even the slightest sense of fun take part in events). well, me and shruti and lakshmy took part in dumbcharades. and we were competing with a lot of other groups, but we were mainly trying to beat gary, rameez and pradeep at it, by getting the movie, song, book and personality faster than they could. eventually though they managed to get it faster, but i still feel that they got an easier set. and no, i'm not acting like a sore loser, i am one. and i would've liked to whine but, i've got to write other random stuff down too.
then me and venkatesh went for poets at play. we wrote(well, it was mostly his idea, i just gave a line maybe...) about this old guy who has measles on his bum and sprains in his stomach and mumps in his throat. that also reminds me that today i wrote my first non depressing piece of poetry, and guess what the topic was????
being the narcissistic being that i am, i wrote on myself and will be putting it up today.
btw, we were able to complete the given set for dumbc within the given time limit. dumbc is definately not a career option.
well,.....thats all that happened today...
nothing interesting, just a page out of my daily life at the campus.
i'm bored and sleepy and tired and wanna just junp into bed and lie there.
maybe will......
btw, i went to anjuna and wagatore(amazing landscapes)....was great fun....was this group of around 50. i still can't forgive siddharth for the climb up to the fort....my legs are still hurting. but it was a really well spent day. and i had lots of fun.
i feel that i haven't done justice to the topic of my post, especially the brilliant part.
well, then maybe i should ask lakshmy for pointers.....
she can talk and write brilliant bullshit and you will listen to her and read what she writes as if it is the most fascinating thing that you have ever heard or read.....
maybe i should work on my jokes to try and get into the podiatrist club.....
maybe i should stop writing now and go to sleep....
signing off
waiting to join the ugly ducklings club
xoxo
the rambler

an affair with food

My love for good food is known far and wide. This passion is fuelled by the various restaurants than my parents and I dine in. I have and (hopefully) always will appreciate good food. Whether it’s egg and pav from a shack or bruchettas from little Italy. Good food always revives me. There is no better rejuvenator than a bowl of hot boiling soup. Sadly now though there are very few people who actually eat their meal and enjoy it (however small it may be).
The world we live in has been divided into two kinds of people. There are those who eat to live. That is there food to them is only a source of sustenance. Then there are others like me, those who live to eat. For us the gastronomic wonders of the world are something that we wish to taste each and every day of the year. We are passionate about what we eat and are willing to try out new options. Till date my fascination for sushi hasn’t gone, something that my mother will never let me have. I want to try out all the cuisines that are there in the world. From the Mexican paella (do accept my sincerest apologies for misspelling the names of any of the dishes. Will try to correct it in the future) to the Swiss fondue. From a clear soup to a tom yum. From prawn cocktails to wantons and momos. From sashimi to rotlas served in the Gujarati thali. From tiramisu to gelatos and jalapeno filled deserts (don’t be shocked, I really had it in some restaurant and it was very very nice). Yes, I want to taste the various tastes that the world has to offer and experience all of them and enjoy some of them.
The world is but a gastronomic palate. There are more culinary wonders than u can count. I haven’t been able to taste the culinary creations around the world, but I try to make it up by watching a lot of food and travel shows. My favourite remains Anthony bourdain. I absolutely adore this guy. He is so adventurous when it comes to the arena of food, something that I’ve always wanted to be but never really been able to carry out to the extent that I would like to. He tries out some of the most disgusting stuff that you could ever lay your eyes on and still appreciates it if he likes its taste. He is open to all kinds of taste and never restricts himself to a particular kind of food.
Another program that I like is hell’s kitchen. Gordon Ramsey (forgive me for any misspelling) is so good. The way he abuses the participants is just too good to watch. And the way that he orders them around to create the absolutely perfect concoction is real fun. I love watching this show as well.
Drifting away from food shows and coming back to food, good food can be anything. Right from the puchkas that one gets in the gullies of Calcutta to the kakori kababs from itc grand Maratha Sheraton.Good food is anything and everything that pleases my aesthetic senses of taste and aroma. Aroma is a very important aspect of food too. You generally smell the food before eating it. But then aroma can also be misleading. Take the case of the durian, which smells so bad that u feel suffocated. But it is considered to be one of the tastiest things that a person has ever tasted.
Food can act as an anti depressant as well as an accompaniment for joyous occasions. Food is something that is always successful in uplifting our moods. Take the simple soup for example. Even a cup of hot steaming broth can arouse our senses and give us a feeling of well being. The world is rebound with tastes to entice and lure our taste buds. Flavours range from piquant to mild, sweet to salty, hot to soothing. Playing with these flavours not only rejuvenates our senses but also heightens them. A food connoisseur is actually able to distinguish between the various ingredients present in the dish presented before him/her.
One movie which I especially liked was ratatouille. The movie gave an important message- anyone can cook. Right from a humble rat to a chef of a very big restaurant. Well ...that may not be actually possible but it most definitely is an incredible idea.
People generally consider food to be just a source of nutrition and overlook the fact that they are actually works of art. The best way to a person’s heart is by bestowing him/her with good food. The world doesn’t give food the credit it should get. I like the way that the French and the Italian eat their meals. They actually spend time with their food and enjoy it. With diets becoming the latest fad, enjoying scintillating tastes and smells have become a lost art. Even something as simple as macaroni with cheese sauce can provide a feeling of happiness that no amount of drug or alcohol will ever do. People have forgotten how to enjoy food. And being a food lover I hate to see the state that the relationship between food and people has reached today. People eat because they have to and not because they love to. In the fast paced world that we live in today, people do not spare much time to think about the food they eat. As long as it is edible and healthy (read salads), they are willing to have it. Dinners and lunches have become more about the people and less about the food. With the acute deficiency of time that the people of today face, time spent over a meal is usually spent catching up with friends and loved ones or carrying out some business transaction. Meals are no longer considered to be the time where one actually spares some thought over what they are eating.
The senses of taste and smell have greatly diminished over the years as the time spent over a meal has decreased with each passing second. There are very few connoisseurs of good food today. There is even lesser number of people who do it for the love of food rather than for the food and travel shows that they host of the good food guides that they write. Which also bring me to these good food guides.....a person’s taste is distinct. These good food guides tend to overshadow our own judgement about what we like and hate. I think that people should instead venture out and try and find out places which appeal to their senses rather than sit at home and decide a place to eat at after looking into one of these guides.
I am writing this article at the risk of sounding like a foodaholic.....don’t really know if there’s a word like this but I’m sure you must have got the message I was trying to convey, but the flavours and aromas offered by the world around me never ceases to amaze me. The world has enough flavours to hold your attention for a lifetime and more. The world to me is but a big restaurant which has spread out its branches all over the globe, offering a different and absolutely (hopefully) delightful concoction wherever you go, whenever you go.
So, get your knives and forks out and dive into this wonderful world that I’ve learnt to appreciate and enjoy.
signing off
waiting to savour more flavours from around the world
xoxo
the rambler