REVIVAL :D

More thn one year since the last post...nd i'm gonna restart bloggin coz of my new friend Hari whoz probably gonna be the only person readin this blog coz none of my other friends show any remote interest in bloggin :D...since i'm not gettin any flashes of brilliance to blog about i'll juz do a sum up of ths year...
2006 ws my first pure collg year...last year ws half school half college. So this year was supposed to special..
One of the biggest surprises of the year was the sports day. It was supposed to be for the kidz but our lecturers stole the thunder..They were long jumpin, shot puttin nd tug o' warring in full glory..I thought of takin part in the running race but then i chickened out seein our seniors running like mad elephants(no offence meant).
College day was fun..it went on till 1.30am or something..that day I got the certificate for the first prize i had won for the poetry competition in the artz fest..glorious momentz :)
Had almost 2 months leave b4 the S1S2 xamz..Visited athirappally, silent valley nd nelliampathy durin tht time. Athirappally ws as awsom nd grand as ever...Silent valley ws so green even at the height of summer..the air was so crisp that i felt like i had serviced nd upgraded my lungs..the only dampener was the attack of the leeches. Unfortunately cudn't see any hep wild animals. Just the usual lion tailed macaque, some giant squirrels nd som blue parrots..Last time we had gone ther we spotted a panther nd a leopard..i ws lookin in som other direction so i juz saw the black panther.
Nelliampathy was fun too..encountered som wild boars and deer..Had a most wonderful experience on the way back to dadz quarters at pattambi... It was really late at night and achan dozed off while drivin nd we went round nd round mission impossible style nd landed in front of som guyz gate..hehe
Faced my first university examz ever in June...It was ridiculous. The study leave was so long that in the end i was in a holiday mood even when the xamz kicked off. I had prepared better than this even 4 my 10th std. history board exam, fully considering the fact that I still have'nt finished readin tht History text book by som Xavier Pinto guy.
S3 kicked off some time in July..new lecturers..new subjects..i really want to comment about our ssd sir..but hez beyond words..infact we still havent figured out what language he speaks even after the semester is over...No wonder hez been christened as Arabi Sir...
I got my driving license som time in august..the inspector at the drivin test place ws flabbergasted when he saw such a tiny creature like me waitin to take the test..he asked me tht wudn't a cycle be enuf ... @$$+*!#
Had the most horrible/tragic onam ever... We had planned to visit munnar to see the neelakurinji bloomin..On the way we stopped by at ammaz house in Changanassery..Her brother ws kinda sick..So amma nd achan took him to the hospital nd he passed away in the ICU..We spent one week ther.. i was depressed coz of the death nd also by the fact tht i hd missed the chance to see kurinji nd the newspapers wer full of it durin those times...Steve Irwin also died in tht sting ray accident on the day tht my uncle passed away..tht news was like a hammer blow on the head..
Then sometime in September it was excursion time..nd the places wer kodai nd munnar..the same places i had missed the chace to visit durin onam..Had the time of our lives..drowned ourselves in homemade chocolates..me nd kp got firing frm Abdul salam sir 4 takin too much fotos of the kurinjis.. kalabodham illathe bloody iguana..When i told about the incident to my parents thtz what they also said..but in milder terms afcoz.
Then it was results time...guess what!! my EC marks are- 49/100 nd my grafix marks 96/100.. wonder why i evr took up electronics...shudve taken up architecture..biggest regret of my life :(
Then visited munnar again..this time with family durin the deepavali/pooja/eid holidays.. saw neelakurinjiz once again nd the biggest herd of nilgiri tahrs tht i hd ever seen in my life.. Munnar never fails to surprise...
At som point of time i got the weird idea tht i shud stand for the post of magazine editor in the college elections...filed my nomination nd even went on stage to give a kidukkan speech in the meet the candidate session.. afcoz i lost(gloriously)..Now the senior who had won has invited me to join the editorial board... buhahahaha!!!!
December arrived nd it was univ xam time again...3 over ..3 more to go nd thn lab nd w/s..but all thtz gonna be happenin in the new year..ha..whattan year itz gonna be...About the ones that are over...SSD was as an 'absolute delight'..i was the first one to flee frm the xam hall..nazia nd kp followed.. study leave cum vacation kickd off nd is still goin on..went to ooty durin christmas time..plant collection for amma as usual...
then found a real great friend frm orkut...wht to say abt him..mebbe i shud copy paste the testi i wrote 4 him in orkut..well u can see what a good friend he is juz cosiderin tht fact the he has kickd me out of a one year bloggin hibernation to write such a big entry :D..so three cheers for Hari or shud i say Huggie Hari..nay tht sounds awful..So signin off nw..Mebbe i'll post another one one year later ;)

The Morning Ride

Making it to the college in the morning by the city bus is a big event by itself. As I travel thru the breadth of the city, sumo sized aunties faintly smelling of sweat in the early morning sandwich me between them...ofcourse they're oblivious of my relatively microscopic existence.The fellow students dutifully load me up with all of their bags, files, books and uv-protection layered umbrellas. But even as I struggle to find my balance , comes the time tht makes the journey all worthwhile...when it happens the world around me seems to go in slow motion..itz my old school bus passing by nd it looks like an old foto album of my school life...all the faces in it r mine..when i ws in kindergarten..when i ws in primary school...when i ws in high school..but then the faces change..they r not mine but of strangers who have taken over wht ws once mine.Before i realize the moment is gone nd more sumo aunties have jammed into the city bus cutting off my view of the road...When I reach my college I'm miserable knowing tht the faces tht wud greet me ther r not the ones tht used to ride with me in tht school bus. As I day-dream my way thru the classes i hope for a day when i wud cease to notice my old school bus.

-To all my friends.Missing u all :(

yummy yummy paints

there is no better word for what i feel about colors nd paint other than "YUMMY"..i'm not joking. i sit in class nd drool thinking about winged frothy blobs of paints floating in the sky...i dream abt digging my hands into buckets nd buckets of thick colors... aaaaahaaa bliss bliss!!!but tht doesnt mean i dont like black nd white...sepia nd other tones..infact i'd like the sun to be a monochromatic source atleast once in a month...nd all of us cn run abt as black bodies nd white bodies or maybe some other toned bodies :)..nd the sun shud be a big disco ball too sometime ....

so as a tribute to colors here's my first oil painting which ws done some years back..it ws so cool to squeeze out the colors frm the tube nd mix it nd daub it aaaaaaaaahaaaaa more bliss!!!

through the distorted looking glass - a self portrait

What exactly is the driving force behind a self portrait?Is it an obsession with immortality tht makes us sketch out our face on something more lasting than a looking glass?Or maybe it must be that the looking glass doesn't give us back a creation of our own ... or maybe it shows the distortions we do not want to see or maybe it does not show the distortions we want to see...or maybe i'm just confused why my self portarait is not looking anything like me :)