Things to do before your final set of exams for your Masters

Watch Men in Black (in 3D)
Watch the Euro Cup quarterfinals
Drink Cider
Watch an episode of MasterChef Australia
Oh... and study a bit

xoxo
The Rambler

The afternoon tea

I was just watching 'The Hairy Biker's cookbook' on 'Travel and Living' (God help me but I love that channel!!!). Anyway, I saw the guys enjoying the afternoon tea. And it brought back all these memories of the afternoon tea that I had had at Hampstead Heath. It was wonderful. The entire experience. The tea was tasty. It was a quaint little eating place. And the cake was so vibrant in taste and look. It had fresh strawberries and blueberries and I don't know what other berry. But I loved it. It had just the right amount of sweetness(which was a major win for me, since I am not too much into sweets. ) Also, I had good company. (Sneha, take a bow) It was also the perfect weather. Not too hot, not too cold. God, I sound like Goldilocks.
But I love this tradition of the English Afternoon Tea. :)
I have only realized a few days back that 'High Tea' is something completely different. High Tea involves the full meal (meats, fish, eggs, cheese, bread, butter, cakes). Whereas, in the afternoon tea, along with tea, there would be pastries with clotted cream or preserves, delicate sandwiches and scones.
My 'afternoon tea' was a highly toned down version of the actual thing. Still, I never thought I could enjoy something sweet with my tea ever. I generally enjoy my tea by itself. No accompaniments. But somehow, the cake seemed to be the perfect accompaniment. The fact, that I was sitting close to someplace where George Orwell used to sit did contribute to the extremely pleasurable setting. I loved it all.
I tried doing the afternoon tea back at my hostel. Horrible disaster it was. I didn't have cake. Instead, I used Jimjams and Bournbons My tea, made from a tea bag tasted quite ordinary. And my desk was an absolute mess. The weather was terrible. It was quite hot for the rainy season and it was sultry coz it was the rainy season. And the only virtual presence I would've got of a literary luminary would've been from my laptop. So, therein ended my experiments with afternoon tea.
Hampstead Heath is a wonderful place btw, with its parks and ponds. I really liked it, more so probably because of the afternoon tea. :)
Anyway, back to work for now.
Waiting for my next 'Afternoon Tea'
xoxo
The Rambler

things that happen in the girls hostel....

they say that girls have more fun...here's why:
1.everyone's (especially shruti's and my) affinity for rachana's deo...rachana says that we spray it on ourselves as if we are spraying mosquito repellents...that may be true due to the infrequency of baths...
2.loud singing (especially versions of enrique's hero) which would make the singer wonder if he would rather have us fried in boiling oil or have us thrown into a sea full of sharks...
3.waking people up with the loud banging on the door...except the one supposed to be woken and on whose door the pounding took place...
4.having to listen to swear words on doing good deeds like waking people up at obscene hours...
5.roaming all around the hostel looking for water and then waking people up from their slumber to take their buckets...this has happened with me quite a few times as being on the ground floor we get more frequent supply of water(and by frequent i don't mean 24x7)
6.standing on the corridor discussing the latest gossip...but i think the guys must beat us to that...guys definitely gossip more than girls do...
7.having to clean rooms...now that isn't exactly fun until you get some of the dirt into other people's rooms...
8.watching movies like goonda...cooped up in a room...
9.playing football in the corridors...or at least trying to...and then watching the attempt turn into a attack aimed at a person's head
10.discussing sizes of foreheads...and who will make a better housewife...or in some cases, who will have a better househusband...
11.emptying bottles of safi and milkmaid and cold water and a horrible smelling deo all at once on a person on her b'day...hope you had fun shruti...
12.sending random messages to guys on dc and completely freaking them out...that's liza's favorite pastime
13.locking the doors of people when they are sleeping and then completely forgetting about it...and then...
14.putting up the message that sigtia and devina are dating on dc...a wonderful concoction of our devilishly fertile brains
15.running in the corridor with bhalu and with devina shrieking after you...
16.trying to enter malvika's room...
17.watching shruti wake up...she smiles...or trying to make her open the door on a hot day...
18.stealing shoes and then making liza mad...she had workshop that day...and that was lakshmy's doing
19.giving people company when they wash clothes...even if its at three in the night...
20.trying to get treats...????
21.going around begging for food only to discover that the hostel is out of food...
22.finishing off someone else's tang...
23.doing silly dances to completely inane songs
24.getting drunk without booze and acting like completely drunkards...lakshmy's coffee does help sometimes...
25.eating the inedible food that we cook and better, making others eat it...
26.samhita's obsession with skin...hers and everyone else's
27.running after kittens and trying to have races with them
28.watching liza laughing and speaking(trying to) at the same time
29.watching sneha carry her entire range of beauty products into the bathroom
30.rachana's solution to everything- the big bong theory
shruti's solution to everything- whining
liza's solution to everything-physics???
lakshmy's solution to everything- words
samhita's solution to everything- vicco turmeric ayurvedic cream
priya's solution to everything- lo'real beauty products
sneha's solution to everything-food(it seriously helps...)
devina's solution to everything-bhalu
malvika's solution to everything-clean and tidy rooms
my solution to everything- zzzzzzzzz
31.freaking people out with my 'depressing' pieces of poetry
32.screaming out a person's name at high decibels...this is especially fun when you have 7 sneha's, 9 ramya's etc in the hostel...

thats a lot of stuff...i bet the guys can even put up one fourth(thats 8 for those of you bad at calculation) of that unless they include their inane and frivolous( philosophical??????) conversations on whether the purpose of life is happiness or their podiatrist jokes that don't always induce laughter...rachana is way more funny...
and in case u are wondering...yes we do sleep a lot...considering the number of disturbances we have, our hours of slumber generally tend to stretch out throughout the day...
and this isn't even the complete list...will definitely be adding points to it at some later point...
till then...
waiting to write more about the fun that a girls hostel is...
and return back home(yup...thats still there at the back of my head all the time...)
xoxo
the rambler