Adios!

This is just a post to notify that I’m presently infected by the 12^th standard studies and that there will large stretch of space in my blog because I can’t assure you continuous posts until the next March. To my regular readers, Thanks a lot guys. I appreciate it. But please don’t get bored seeing the same topic again and again, if my blog is not updated. I hope you can understand what I’m aiming at. Only for this year, please bear with me. Maybe my next and the last post before I go for hibernation would be a tagged post. Till then, Adios .

Amthecynosure.

P.S : In a world of Monosaccharide, Marasmus, Kwarshikar, odoema etc. *Sigh*

Who said Sixteen was sweet?

“Ah! Here comes sixteen… What do they call? Yeah got it, “Sweet Sixteen”. Right. My countdown began 5 days prior to my sixteenth birthday,”5….4……3….” I called my mom, “Mom! Am gonna turn 16 in just 2 days. I am a big girl, now!” I was very excited. Of course, to be in the middle of teen-age is something really exciting. And I was one such girl, carried away by the often heard words “Sweet Sixteen”. So, I thought I would throw out a big party, announcing everyone that I am 16. And what else? I kept the volume of my speakers in a full blast,

“Today I’m gonna ride away
And feel the sun throughout my hair
Finally free to be who I wanna be
Who that is I don’t really care

‘Cuz I’ve got friends who love me
Blue skies are above me
My blond hair (mine is not blond though,:-P)is everywhere

‘Cuz I’ve got friends who love me
Blue skies are above me
My blond hair (mine is not blond though,:-P)is everywhere

Sweet sixteen
Gonna spread my wings
Sweet sixteen
It’s my chance to shine
Sweet sixteen
Discovering
Sweet sixteen
So much more to life
Sweet sixteen”

After listening that Hilary’s song for the Seventeenth time, I listened and watched these shows, too. The 1984 film Sixteen Candles features a coming of age story as the lead character, Samantha Baker, turns sixteen. Before that, a song “16 Candles” was recorded by the Crests and several other artists, including Roy Orbison. A song by Billy Idol with the same name”Sweet Sixteen”, as well as a song by Neil Sedaka called “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen” and a song by Chuck Berry titled “Sweet Little Sixteen”. Fall Out Boy recorded a song titled “A Little Less Sixteen Candles. I know that was quite insane, but that happened 1 year ago. Now, am quite a matured girl. Sitting in the bed, I was thinking, “Who in the hell named the age that way???? Wait till I get my hands on him…And bless Hilary for deceiving me that way!(And every one else too!)

Rather than the Bamboozling Adjective,”Sweet”, They should have named, “Watever is the antonym of “Sweet””. Yeah 1 year has passed by since you saw that thrilled, excited girl, with a care-free life. Of course, all teenagers from 13 to 19 face the same problems. But still, Why should they have named sixteen alone this way?? There must be reasons, right? And I was quite determined to find out that reason. I found out from the web. It says that, In U.S, that’s the age when they get driving license. And that’s the age of consent and that’s a milestone for them. But being in a country like this, We must not follow this phrase. I am quite sure. Teens suffer from the studying-hard disease to many bugging up activities in schools and at houses. And for me, I realized I was silly to be deceived by just a I-DONT-WANT-TO-MENTION-THE-WORD of a phrase. That was the age I got really bugged up with school, where we had nothing else apart from studying. Even now I am doing that, of course. But “Sweet”, in this context means Fun, Joy etcetera…but I didn’t come across such a feeling , often at all. Warning: to teens from 13-15. Don’t get deceived by this phrase at all. It has no inner intentions of meaning.!!!! 😀

Nation without Education?

Well…at least once , let me stop being insane and talk (err…type?) something seriously. Am going to speak out on a irksome yet should-be-talked-about topic. “Educational System in India”. Rather than starting a futile community on this topic in orkut, where no one opened out nething …I resorted to blog on this topic. Just by seeing the topic, don’t assume that am a scholarly, well-learned, dexterous (Though, sum of ‘em are facts…ahem :-P!) stud who wants to talk positively on this!

Sum days, not Sum, in fact daily, I grill myself, “ Should I study? Why am I studying this, is this really gonna help me?” With heaps of formulae, theories, calculations, derivations and diagrams to cram into our mind, we almost go out of our wits b4 we study something appropriately.

India-A land of educated populace- Wat do u reckon about this? Are we really erudite? What exactly is education? Lemme think…..hmmm…..er…..hmmm…..oops, this is wat! Not even able to define education properly and I claim my-self educated.

Surfing online for obtaining the exact meaning of this word, this is what I acquired…

Source: Wikipedia

Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation. Education means ‘to draw out’, facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual.

Source: Dictionary.com

I got as nearly as 6 results, but here, I’ve put in the closest one.

the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.

Oh…..is this wat is education?? Then my assumption was erroneous then…. observe THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION.(Anonymous)

Education: Education is the act of memorizing the printed words of text-books, keeping those words in our minds till exams commence, reproducing(in simple words….vomiting) what we memorized into the paper, and then forgetting what we memorized.

Are there any correlation between the above definitions and the description obtained from internet? We all are acquainted with the fact that internet provides 100% accuracy in all the facts it provides esp. sites like Wikipedia n Dictionary.com. In fact there is not a single relation between these definitions. And the poignant truth is that India abides by this anonymous definition.

Compared to our counterparts in the United States or United Kingdom, we are substantially lagging behind in Technological Developments. But still we are Educated. Books, Books….That’s what we know…If we lose books before exam, We cant get through, that’s the situation here. No Application skills, No General Knowledge (There are few exceptions, though who take interests by themselves) Maybe if we get into college, we become a bit application-oriented. But still, School Education is the most important.

We have to remember a fact. Studious students are all not intelligent….It’s only their memory skills that promote them…but here too, no offense meant to studious students( as I am one, too…:-P)…There are few exceptions. I know some people who just work like a Xerox machine and secure the first rank, but the next day, they forget what they learnt.

What’s the use of studying then?? Here’s a small extract of a conversation between myself and a Austrian gal, who studied in my school for one year.

“Me: Hi, Temme something about your schools.

Gal: Definitely. First of all, we guys don’t have uniforms unlike you and there are no strict rules. As we are all quite matured, they leave us in our ways and we are never forced to study.

Me: Lucky yaar, you ppl are…By the way, what about your exams?

Gal: We don’t have exams often. Instead, our skills are tested by debates, quizzes, projects, skits, dramas, and many other activities. But in our tenth grade, we will have a main, important examination, where we are tested on subjects that we learnt from our 6^th grade. It’s not a big deal to take up that exam.

Me: Oh my god! IT is not a big deal?? You have to study all the 5 years’ book, na?

Gal: No. Why should we? If we just glance at the topics, we will easily recall the essence of the subjects.

Me: Cool…..”

So, got it? She does not even belong to UK, but she is in some part of Europe. Still, observe their way of education and ours. If we are asked about something that we learnt in our 5^th grade, we will surely not be able to reply, because, we just took it into our brains; we did not take them to our hearts. The difference is that those people take everything to their hearts, understand everything they learn, unlike us. We brood upon confounding derivations, mystifying theories, anonymous definitions, without comprehending anything.

Not all people who score 95% in their school exams get through carrier interviews. And not all people who get average marks in the school exams fail in carrier interviews. SKILLS, SKILLS…THAT’S WHAT WE WANT. BUT IN THESE SCHOOLS, WE DEVELOP ONLY MEMORY SKILLS RATHER THAN OTHER LIFE-SKILLS LIKE SPEAKING, COMMUNICATIVE ETCETERA. IF WE GO ON LIKE THIS, WHERE WILL THESE LEAD TO?????????? THINK AND VOICE OUT ABOUT THIS! WE CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING IF WE PUT OUR HEARTS, AS WE ARE THE FUTURE NATION ARCHITECTS.

P.S : My cousin also thinks the same about this topic. Here is the link:

Are we proud of Education in India?

HOW?

How far have we come through life? How sensible we are? How emotional we can be? How imperfect we are? How …How….How…..The constant question word popping up in my mind…rather than the “WH” Family…..The world is ruled by How…..When u meet a person, u ask “How are u?” And when adults meet teenagers, The FAQ is ” How’s ur studies goin’? How..can they be so pursuading like this? Cant they give it a rest?”
“How in the Hell we stop them?”
OOps……How is takin’ me up…! How?? Wonderin’?
In fact a famous website starts with this Question Word….and I recommend you to surf it!

http://www.howstuffworks.com
It’s a wonderful website where one can get a lot of stuff and knowledge….If am obstinate about my conscience and my mind, and if I assume that the grey matter of my brain can occupy much more, I surf this site.
Now, what the hell am I talking about??? Why did I start this article? And what is it heading’ to? GOD knows perhaps…. (Oops, I used type “Wh”!) Better I should head to the psychiatrist….now another question pops up “How can she treat me?”
As the famous Hutch oops…now Vodafone….whatever….tagline goes,
“Wherever u r, our network follows” I say
“Wherever u head-to the question “How”? Pops up…
Never mind…….At last this article shows….

“HOW INSANE A PERSON CAN BE” Again…..HOW!
Lol!

Some Humorous Laws

We, all being educated, would have surely studied many Laws and theories, that made us scratch our heads or make ourselves be at the wit’s ends….But here are some funny….nah humorous Laws , that will make us Laugh…….
Lorenz’s Law of Mechanical Repair:
This law states that “ After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch”
I think explanation for this law is not necessary…..Let me skip to the next one….!

Anthony’s Law of the Workshop:
This Law states that ” Any tool when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner…”
that is …..The tool rolled is inversely proportional to the distance from you and to the place where it rolls.
Explanation:
When you drop a tool in your workshop by mistake, the tool will roll to the farthest distance possible, so u have to waste some time in getting the tool back.

Cannon’s Karmic Law:
This Law states that, “If u tell your boss you were late for work because you had a flat tyre, next morning you will have a flat tyre”
Explanation:
This Law is also evident from the statement itself…’neways, lemme tell……You go late to the office one day, because you woke up late. But you tell your boss that your vehicle had a flat tyre (‘cuz you cannot tell your boss about ur laziness), unfortunately, the next day you will really have a flat tyre that u cannot tell the same reason….hmmm..

O’Brien’s Variation Law:
This Law states that, “If you change queues( maybe in railway reservation or banks)the one you left will move invariably faster than the one you are in now!
Explanation:
Nothin’ to Explain….So obvious!

Bell’s Theorem:
This Law states that “When the body is fully immersed in the bath tub, the telephne or the door-bell will ring!

Ladra’s Law of Bio-mechanics:
This Law states that “The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach….!”

Owen’s Law:
This Law states that” As soon as you sit down to a hot cup of coffee, your boss will say something which will last until the coffee becomes cold!!

Howden’s Law:
This Law states that ” You remember you have left a letter at home to be posted only when you are near the mail box!”

Kitchen’s Rule:
This law states that “You doubt whether you have switched-off the gas stove once you on the bus to office”

Enjoyed reading?????????? Any doubts, Leave a comment!!!

At last!

Welll…I am continuing my previous topic……and to those who don’t get what I am talking about, please read my previous topic, you’ll understand, This is actually a continuation…..

I concluded with, “Thus, The Great Gang was formed”….

Actually, I shud hav written a Post Script(P.S.) that The great gang was not for project, but for hanging out!( u would have got an idea now,….don’t u?)…Leave these all…I am continuing….This is gonna be big, so pls bear with me!

PLANNING THE STRATEGY: (Again…..4 the project??)

The great gang (Hereafter, I’ll mention it as GG,’cuz am fed up of writing Great Gang again and again) consisted of 6guyz and 4 gals! So our next plan was to plan a strategy for the project. We had to submit the project on Monday and it was already Saturday and needless to say, Sunday was a holiday! So we planned to stay after school hours on Saturday…..and wat do u think wud have happened when we stayed after school hours??? The guys were in a want-to-play mood….and consequently, they started playing cricket on the grounds leaving us gals lamenting(er….discussing?) about the project! We had nothing in our hands (I mean things to pursue our project!)only our wits (that too…was scarce that day, due to the mood of the guys!) So at the end of the session, we decided to give up! But others were stuck-up to the constant mantra of “We want 5 marks, we want 5 marks…….!” So as the head of the GG, I came up with an idea. As Sunday was holiday I suggested going to one person’s house and finishing the project! Everyone was in fact, excited about this idea and readily accepted. It was decided at last that we go to a gal’s (Let her be Sweetu) house, ‘cuz her house was in the vicinity of everyone else’s house!

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Yeah, that’s us Planning unnecessarily!

THE UNEXPECTED WELCOME:

My mom did’nt agree at first. After explaining that I ought to go, she relented at last. The guyz had informed that they wud wait at the bus-stop and Sweetu generously agreed to pick us up from my bus-stop….I mean by bus again(which means she wud cum by bus to my bus-stop and again take me back to her house, ….wat a foolish idea!!)And so we reached the stop, where we were accompanied by the guyz to Sweetu’s house. To our utter dismay, her house was so small, infact it was only a room,’cuz her real house was on reconstruction that she had to stay in that house (sorry…room) and to add up to our frustration, there was a power cut in the locality! A guy volunteered that he wud take us to his house where it would be spacious and we cud get everything 4 the project….Again we reluctantly agreed. We four gals, and the guy who volunteered to take us to his house, caught a bus..The other guys had their own vehicles with ‘em…The bus journey was quite scary, ‘cuz after 5 minutes or so, Almost everyone form the bus got down, except we 5 ppl…And to mention the conductor was looking’ at us dangerously, and we feared for the worst! We were relieved when the stop came, and got down from the bus as quickly as we can…! At last we reached his house!

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Our bus was almost like this only….empty n scary!

THE HAPPY FUTILE MOMENTS:

I was very much relieved in seeing his house. It was really Grande and spacious. And there was his mom who was so kind and caring. After satisfying myself that we could do sumthing useful at last, I sat down , beckoning my friends to form a circle…..Do u think they respected me??? Nah….Instead they formed a circle around the computer which was so very attractive, in the next room! That’s all, I thought, that’s the end of it…..And even the gals, how can they do this to me?? And their lame excuse was, that we meet only once in a day like this and there’s no harm in having fun….I too joined them, against my conscience! His mom started calling us for lunch, but we were too busy in our work that we did’nt respect her warmth! I exploded at last that we must do sumthing about the project. They saw the point(at last..!) and started thinking about the project. We realized that even now we did not have anything to start with! And we asked the host-guy, where the nearest stationery boutique was. He shook his head and told us that his place was almost like a village, and we had to go back where we came from for buying things…. I was so frustrated, but, I didn’t blow-up this time, ‘cuz I didn’t want to hurt his sentiments!(After all, he only wanted us ppl to his house). And now another guy popped up, that in his house, there was his sis, who cud help us and the shops were nearby. Without even giving a second thought, everyone agreed( wat was there to think? That was the only option left with us!)

HANGING OUT AT LAST:

We waited in the bus-stop for almost half-an-hour and no bus turned-up. The guy told us that his house was nearby and we could reach there by walking. We were exhausted and it was sunny. We stopped at a shop and we sipped sum lemonade. His” nearby” had his own meaning… We walked and walked and it seemed ages…. And to think, we nearly had walked for 3 kms. Thanx to him, we became lean within a day (????) At last his house came. As he had mentioned, his sis was there…but she was VERY FRIENDLY that she told us she had her own work and can’t help us. We were really famished by this time (It was nearly 3). And the guy’s mom asked us to wait for an hour, so that she could make us some rotis…But we were not ready to accept. The guy told us that there was a restaurant nearby and we could go there….. J! Restaurant???? That sounded good….we had only 250 bucks in our hand. And the irony in the situation was he took us to a restaurant of a 3-star hotel (what the…!) Two of them absconded(lolz.) which left 8 of us…We ordered four plates of Rotis(( Thinking about both the aunties, we felt gloomy!) each havin’ 1! And two plates of chilli-paratha, that too with less quantity..But sitting there under the A.c, in that ambience and the feeling that there were no adults around us and that we were free, gave us pleasure to the core. And chatting and talking of every kind, far away from our schools, which stood against boy-gal friendship, gave us more pleasure. While discussing, we had also planned sumthing about the project and I volunteered to complete it (me…..!! L) We had alsp planned about doing work in the hotel(in tamil….maavaraikardhu>>) if the bill was too high! And thank heavens; the bill relieved us, guess…how much??(250 bucks! J) We came out of the restaurant with happy faces, and biddin’ farewell to everyone, I left the place!

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Wow! The perfect ambience!

For guys, who were born and brought-up in cities with high storied buildings, shopping complexes, Theatre complexes, this may seem too trivial and this kinda hanging out may also seemv ery simple…But think of us, we hadn’t even gone to each other’s place….and to think we were seated in a 3-star restaurant all by ourselves seemed incredible to us! Even now I laugh when I think about the 3 km walk, the bus journey etc. how I was so juvenile!! Anyways guyz, I end here …The GG hung-out this way at last…And yeah, the climax, I sumhow completed the project( but really I must acknowledge my friends, who were so helpful :-P) and the teacher was greatly pleased by our response(hmm…) and she gave us 5 MARKS….Wow! And of course, I have to thank our teacher, who was behind all these!! Thank u ma’am, wherever she is! That’s the end guyz, Thanks 4 readin’ patiently! But I insist this thing, next time u wish to hang-out with ur friends, be sure u have a handful of money…lolz!

HANGIN’ OUT?

Well…Hi everyone!!! Am new to bloggin’, so pls dont mind my minor mistakes or my style of writin’…….Pls do encourage me!!! I am inspired by my cousins who are damn good…..er….make ppl to say”Wow” by their style of writin’….so i thought i wud give voice to my mind and ended here!!! SO…WELL….lemme open my mind??/

“Hangin’ out” was kinda a latin word for us teenagers, who were brought up in a city(er…town?”) where one cud see malls or theatres once in a blue moon day……! And especially for gals, who were greatly fussed upon by their moms and pups..(oops…Papas!)So in a place like that how did i end up hangin’ out with my friends which included guys too, violatin’ the rules that was imposed upon us?” I’ll divide my posts……..this is the first one!

FORMING OF THE GANG: (ER….4 THE PROJECT?)

It was a nice blue day over a quite li’l city call’d Madurai(Just givin’ a startin’ effect!). And in a wonderful school, classes were goin’ as usual! The students were becomin’ restless after incessant classes,until a wonderul period call’d”GEOGRAPHY” came! i know u’ll wonder how i reckon geography a s wonderful period??We considered Geography as wonderful period 4 two reasons(!) Thanks to the teacher, she seldom takes classes and her classes were filled with advices and scoldin’ and retorts to student’s comments…(!!) We students loved to make fun and got to talk with each other only in geo class…. So that special day, the teacher announced about sum project, which as usual we dint pay heed to!! Her words were like this……I mean wat we caught!!!

Students………project…………..Monday…………Exhibition……want………volunteers……class………topic…….best…….given….5 marks…..EXTRA!!!

Those last magical words made us to turn our heads…..we were all exclaiming….”What!” at the same time….She repeated, Now we caught her words, “ The best project wud be given 5 marks extra in the upcumin’ xams!” The next chorus exclamation was “Wow!”

‘cuz we rarely get gud marks in a subject like geography….and 5 marks extra was sumthin’ like getting’ 50% extra…lol! So now we payed full attention to wat she was sayin’……and by the end of the class we knew wat we had to do!(Un)Fortunately I was the PROJECT HEAD…lolz….sounds gud nah? So many people started asking me to join them in my team…ahem…ahem…! I reluctantly nodded to everyone’s request( wat can I do? Then I wud be called as Rude….if I had said no!) Then atlast my team was formed consisting of nearly 10 members !!! That was the great gang!!Wait……till the next post!

The Great Gang was formed…thus!