A post long overdue

Yes... Long overdue is this post.
Its 8 pm here in Oxford. Dark. As night should be. But then, it was dark at 5 pm also. So, I really don't know the difference. And apparently its going to get worse. Sunset's going to happen at 3 pm as we move deeper into December.
Birthday's coming up. My first one away from India and the friends I had celebrated my last 4 birthdays with.
Its weird. Well, Diwali was also weird. I mean it was the first time since the last 4 times that I had not made a rangoli in the corridor and made it absolutely impossible for anyone to move through my corridor. Or do the 14 candles thing that I usually do. And light up the corridor. Yeah... there were firecrackers. But on Guy Fawkes day. But then, I'm not a major fan of firecrackers so wasn't missing anything major here.

I spent Guy Fawkes day watching V for Vendetta.

Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...

Natalie Portman can sure rock the bald look.
I haven't been able to write anything at all. Been busy with classes and assignments and all that jazz.
Anyway, I did manage to go to London last weekend. Submitted my case study early and made it to London anyhow. Bought a red hat, a red coat and my birthday dress and shoes. :)
Spent the day roaming around Oxford street, Regent street, Piccadilly circus and Covent garden.
In short, a day well spent.
Isn't Covent garden just magical in the evening?
Then we went to China town and had italian food there.
Yes... pretty funny. :)
Apart from that, I have not been roaming around Oxford as much as I would like to. But I have an Oxford Philharmonica concert planned the next week. Which FYI I am awaiting eagerly.
Oh and a formal hall dinner planned this week.
Should be fun. There's morrocan food. :D
Johnny Depp was here. In Oxford. At the Oxford union. And I MISSED IT!!!!!!
My life is sad... :-|
TinTin movie has come out. Which I have to find a way to see before it is pushed out of the theaters. Btw... do watch the Don 2 promo in case you haven't. (Totally off topic I know. But then where do you see the cohesiveness in the rest of this blog entry.)
Have I mentioned before how typing has a relaxing effect on me? I think I have. Its just that when I type on my blog, I don't have to think. I don't have to be grammatically correct. And google chrome being the cool browser it is, prompts me when my spelling is off.
I would certainly become a blogger. If it guaranteed me a steady stream of cash flows.
Arghhhhhhhhhhh.... too much Corporate Finance no?
This is a pretty random post? Ain't it? Well, you gotta take what you get.
I think I am going to sign off before it gets any more random. But increase in random is the state of nature. Since entropy is random. And entropy keeps on increasing. I think its one of the laws of thermodynamics.
GOD
Its official. I've become a nerd. Issokay. I'm still a fun nerd.
Signing off
Alternating between David Guetta and Ed Sheeran on Spotify <3
xoxo
The Rambler

And life goes on

The water continues to ebb and flow

The sun continues to rise and set low

Into a million pieces the heart can be torn

But inevitably, life does continue to go on

Decisions can be bad, they can be wrong

Choices that can make days tiresome, long

But out of those choices, decisions; life is born

And despite them, life continues to go on

xoxo

The Rambler

New beginnings.

As one life ends, a new one will begin

As you change cities, new people to win

As you come into a city, sunny and raining

Looking skyward and at my  new beginning

New beginnings eh? Yeah... definitely for me.

I have started cooking for one. Picked up reading again. And lost my enthusiasm for Gossip Girl. 

Started having a proper breakfast made by me. (Today on the menu is bread toast with cream cheese, hot chocolate and chocos with bananas and milk. Fancy eh? Gets fancier if I add raspberries and strawberries.)

Anyway, new beginnings has also brought new people into my life. New interactions. New revelations.

And new studies too. Yeah... definitely a lot of studying. Which I should start with. Once I figure out how to wake up in the morning. 

Yes... other not so nice new things are the fact that its insanely cold here. Ok... maybe its a bit of exaggeration, but I come from Bombay. So, even a tiniest amount of cold weather can probably give me hypothermia. 

Also, it has diminished my enthusiasm for Gossip Girl. Quite sad it is. I used to swear by this show once upon a time. And nowadays, I just watch the episode once. ONCE! And that's that. Quite sad.

It's 6:30 in the morning now. Not even a hint of sunlight.

I need to get ready soon because I need to leave for a class at a place which is a 30 minute walk from my place. So... Need to finish breakfast and get ready and wash dishes and I dunno... do whatever else that I need to do before I get ready. 

Off to face the cold world

Wish me luck

xoxo

The Rambler

Must see

http://www.shankartucker.com/

xoxo
The Rambler

Oxford, Oxfordshire

So, I have finally arrived on the hallowed lands of Oxford. And guess what? Emma Watson supposedly lives 5 minutes from my place. Quite cool ain't it?
Anyway, Oxford is a quite cool place. And not quite as cold as I thought it would be. I need to figure out how to get food though. I am not perpetually hungry like I used to be in BITS. But still. Like take today for example. I just had dinner, and I am hungry again. Okay, maybe I am perpetually hungry. But I don't blame myself. Its cold alright!!!!! Everything gets burnt up faster. Bright side? I am going to lose some weight.
Anyway, I was thinking I haven't posted any poetry for a long time. So, I was thinking of doing it the next weekend. Maybe. If I am not too lazy. Hopefully.
Signing off my first post from Oxford
xoxo
The Rambler

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The Rambler

Getting ready

So... I am getting ready to go off to uni for my masters. And by getting ready I don't mean packing. I am just watching my mom and dad pack. :) Utterly lazy I have become in the last two months when I was at home with absolutely zilch to do. Hopefully some of the laziness will wear off one the course starts. Else quite frankly, I'm screwed.
Today in US open final at some ungodly hour in the night. I'm not watching. Will try and catch the highlights. I so wanted Federer to be in the finals. Not because I am a Federer fan. But simply because its easier for Nadal to beat Federer than to beat Dokovic. Especially after he has admitted that he has some sort of a mental block against Djokovic.
I know I had made tall claims of writing with a particular topic in mind. But I am not feeling for, against or neutral about anything at the moment. And I was feeling kinda guilty for not writing anything for so long.
Hence all this nonsense.
Anyway, dunno when I'll be able to post again.
Hoping against hope that Nadal wins
Till the next post
xoxo
The Rambler

Go read

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The Rambler

The trip that was

So, I'm finally back on Indian lands. And back to blogging.
Some of my favorite moments of the trip:
1. The Sound of music tour at Salzburg and another version of Do, Re, Mi...
2. The Goulash at Budapest
3. The concert at Vienna
4. The Swarovski museum at Innsbruck
5. The musicians on the street
6. The roads of Prague
7. The houses of Prague
8. Wachau Valley
9. Melk Abbey
10. All the complimentary breakfast

Waiting for the next trip
xoxo
The Rambler

Summer, kind of wonderful :-)

Okay... So I haven't really posted anything for a really long time and this too is going to be a really small post. I'm off for a short vacation to Europe and I really don't think I will be posting from there. :-) The trip's the reason for the title of this post. And then in September, I head off for my masters. :-)
Should get some studying done though. Have been feeling extremely guilty about that.
Also, have finally started going to the gym. (Although today was a miss.) I think I have mentioned it in a previous blog post.
Anyway, I should go now... Make some tea I think and get down to studying.
Till after the vacation
xoxo
The Rambler
P.S. The title is lifted of one of the gossip girl episodes. S02E01. :-) 

Quite an awesome idea

I have six locks on my door all in a row.  When I go out, I lock every other one.  I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. 

~Elayne Boosler

xoxo
The Rambler

Gymming, eating, studying and all that blah

Yeah... I started gymming again. I don't know what possessed me to do so. And I am pretty sure my trainer has a secret agenda to kill me. I don't know what different thing he makes me do but by the end of a 40 minute workout, I'm all out. Sigh... The things I do to make my parents stop complaining about the fact that I am getting fat.

Anyway, I have been wondering how absolutely and marvelously wonderful it would be to a food and travel guide. Yeah... I was laying on the bed today in my favorite lazy position and watching something on Travel and Living. And I wondered, why I was working so hard to study and all, when I could just be a food guide. I mean... I love eating. And hopefully that should be the only qualifying criteria, right? Lessee how this plan goes. Maybe after I finish with my studies. :-)
And yeah... I should be studying and all that and not wasting my time on blogging. But c'mon, how could I deprive all those beloved people out there on the internet who are so religiously following my blog. Okay... No one's following my blog. But then, I'm quite bored. And this is kinda fun. As fun as fun gets on a thursday early evening, which incidentally despite being quite bright and sunny has given me terrible cold and cough. The other "fun" option would be to sit and kill ants coming out of my laptop. Yes... ants. My laptop is full of them.

Anyway, I shall be on my way now. Gotta find something useful to do one of these days. Eventually.
The nariyal paani guy did not show up today. :(
Off to have a fight fest with the ants
xoxo
The Rambler

One of my favorite pieces of poetry

Daffodils - a poem by by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

xoxo

The Rambler

Quotable Quotes

In my next life I want to live backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then, Voila! You finish off as an orgasm! I rest my case.
- Woody Allen
xoxo
The Rambler

The Boy who Lived. Come to Die.

So... It all finally comes to an end.
Harry Potter. The boy who lived. Come to die. Well not quite so. He did live to tell the late and did end up killing voldy.
Quite a money making franchise this was. Starting right from the books. I think anyone who's been associated with this has ended up well. Well, maybe not the first few Dumbledores. But eh... everyone else certainly did.
Anyway, I caught the first day second show. First show was at 8:30 am. :-|
I don't think I'm meant to see the first day first show ever. :-(
Anyway, the movie was great. It was waaaaaaaayyy better than all the other previous movies combined together. I mean... yeah... they were a few differences with the book. (Actually I am not sure about the differences since it was so long back that I had read those Harry Potter books) But anyway, the movie was very very good. And I loved Snape. Sir Alan Rickman. :-* The entire sequence of Snape's memories with Snape and Lily was the best part about the movie. And Of course Neville killing Nagini. Oh... And when Molly went "Not my daughter, you bitch" and did away with Lestrange, the theater exploded in applause.
All in all... A good ending. Well the ending I didn't like. But then, I didn't like the ending in the movie itself. But the rest of it was very nice. And the cinematography was simply superb.
Anyway, go watch!
Still saying bubye to the phenomena that Harry Potter was
xoxo
The Rambler