my Scooty!!!!!

I can drive a Scooty... FINALLY!!
I mean, how long could they have kept me away from it??
I had to have it some time!! And now I am such an expert at it that I can give mini-maxims to people when asked for, but no one generally asks me,unless they want to put their insurance companies' at work, of course!!
anyways, here's what I have learnt while learning the scooty..
#Raising the accelerator and speeding up does not require brains...
but then, technically, there is no traffic rule that tells you to actually "use your brains" when you drive!!
#You should know that your scooter runs when you turn the accelerator, not when you press on it hard. (something any beginner is bound to do out of tension) That just results in acute numbness that does not go away easily. (you are listening to an expert in here)
#use the HORN!
#never expect lady drivers to be courteous to you, they actually think you are stealing their glory on the road and can become quiet a pain in the ass!!
#Do not under any circumstances, take your mum along with you, especially if even she can drive, or worse, its her scooter you are driving!
#Never lose confidence when on the scooter, the scooty may then take charge of the situation, and you never know...
enough for now...
I am starting to miss my scooty!!!
I need a round!!
And I am gone.....

friends...

My bunch of pals just left... after a day full of fun and silly jokes and baseless gossip!

The only "conclusion" that we can draw from this "meeting" is that...*we need to do it more often* We are a pack of five:

Anaya, Mrudula, Shilpa, Prachi and Sonal.
Me, Mrudul and Prachi are from one college and Shilpa and Sonal are into another college, but we are together because of our coaching classes, “Mensa Commerce Classes”
Each of the four holds a special place in my heart, and I will always thank the stuff above for not making my college friendships a cosmic joke as it was in school.
Back at school, I had very few friends who had “a compatible wave-length” (as my mum put it) mostly owing to the fact that I read a lot-lot more and had a bit off-track (then called “weird”) likes and dislikes.
They said I’d find perfect friends at college, where folks are supposed to be a bit more pickle-headed (mature as in). Oh! How I wished that happen, or more so, I wanted it to happen!
So, well I’d spend days thinking about the kind of friends I’d like to have and what kind of stuff we’d do together!
But, the stuff above had other plans, and my classes started way before my college did!
May sound cliche, but it had a silver lining, and that was…
That was when I met Shilpa!
My first friend of 11th standard!
However, within a few weeks of joining the class, I had to shift to the evening batch because of my I.T practicals. But despite the distance, our friendship survived, and the credit goes hugely to Shilpa, because she kept thinks alive by frequent calls and stuff like that!(credit, the giver of benefit; a golden accountancy rule, applies here a huge deal!)
Now that we are back together in 12th, we are still trying to make up for the lost time!
Shilpa is the most softhearted gal in the group, and can catch even a slight change in your behaviour like a seismograph catches a sight tremble in the earth’s surface! Also, she hates it when it’s her behaviour that upsets you! That’s what I call “possessiveness” for friends, because when you are possessive about a thing, you tend to care for it all the more!
There is one thing about her that I envy, her long-long nails! My nails never seem to grow that fast or when they get long enough to be filed, I suddenly develop an appetite for them!
Anyways, she never judges people easily and gives everyone too many chances to improve, making her friendly with all!
Then comes Mrudul!
Well, she is like my sister, my better-half ("sweeter"actually,when I generally end up angry she is always there with a lot of "its ok's" and "calm downs") and the one who’s the most compatible to me!
And then there is the fact that too many people at college have asked us the same question, “are you two sisters?”(owing to the fact that we actually "look alike")
Initially we’d say “no”, but then such questions bug me real bad. I mean, even if we were sisters, how the fuck does it affect other people?
So I’d say “yes” anyway, and I don’t think I was ever wrong in doing that!
Ow! I haven’t yet told you the best part haven’t I? It’s the fact that we are totally worlds apart when it comes to likes n dislikes!!
Seriously, she has no eye to catch the divinity of Ian Wright!! Everything about us is different, but still she can see through me real clear!

As for Sonal, I met her in the evening batch of Mensa. She is the best study mate you can ask for!!
Someone whom you can bank on for always being there, giving advice only when asked for, cracking witty jokes during lectures and stealing secret glances at right cues! She’s the gal you go to if you want latest n crazy songs on your mobile through blue-tooth. Seriously, if all the gods were to resign, Sonal would actually start worshipping “Lord Blue-tooth”
We love to discuss sums with her, because arguing with her is a a frustrating stress buster!
(You generally end up telling her to listen to you first, but when she stops talking, you are laughing so hard, you can barely speak!)
Prachi… Prachi…Prachi (here’s my cue to sigh)
This gal is a complete enigma to me! She is like an iceberg, what you see above the surface is real small as compared to the stuff inside!
If they’d let me rename some people based on qualities they posses, I’d call Prachi something like “grace” or “patience” or “calm” or “tranquil”. I have never once heard her raise her voice, not even once! She can shut up the most “stinky-headed loud mouth” with a patient ear and a soft voice!

Thanks to them, I can finally say, "To hell with the past, I have great pals to take care of"
People at classes are actually jealous of our friendship and twice there has been an attempt to break into the fortress called "sisterly bonding" by a frog (do you call a female frog-"ess"?)

here, *I 'm hinting to a gal with extra large eyes that go far from appealing* and a walrus (the frog's best friend) and at both the times, we got them easily dissected!
Friends, they say understand more than you speak, as in, something like “reading between the lines” but these idiots understand my silence!
I feel blessed to have found such beautiful friends....

Hail the goth lord and bless us all!

on looking back...

Now that I am finally settling in this house,
I realise I had so much stuff I never did, but regret not doing it now...
I really wish I had spent a lot more of time on evening walks with Aakansha and Divya, I always loved the times we were together, and that was like right from me and Divya were 3 yrs old,

Aakansha joined the gang a little later to complete a trio and become an inseparable part of it!
It's filthy lonely in this place, and I miss them like crazy!!
I wish I had more time with Olivia and her little sister Tanya, who starts school this year!!
I really wish I had been all the more polite with Vipul, but he'd always take my sarcasms positively.
I'd love to bump into Olivia or Vipul or both of them at the station like it happened all summer, but i know it won't because our classes have fantastically clashing timings!
I never had the time to say a proper good bye to Naik aunty, my teacher who put into me not only the love, but all the basics of mathematics as well.
I never really visited the new ice-cream parlor!
!!JUST ONE LAST LOOK AT MY SCHOOL!!
Some more time in the mango garden would also have helped, there is not one fucking garden in this forsaken place, just a huge dumping ground(maybe i should use it to dump the agent who told my folks about this stupid place)
I wish I had all the more appreciated the convenience that my home offered!! To get to the station from this place, I have to encounter a lot a traffic and unstopable stomach churns because of the smoke!
I wish I had spent more time with Aakansh and Divya (a huge sigh) solving sums, I loved that!
these are just wishes, rather regrets!!

the only lesson that I have learnt from this is;

"not all things happen like you always want them to be- 'perfect'

they can get hasty, unplanned rushed and get you totally clumsy.

the best way to deal with them is either to get over or get along,

but when you feel like doing something, do it immediatly, the part of not doing and later regretting is

a stupid thing to do, and yeah..

it hurts"
*P.S. I can finally drive a Scooter! hurray!!*
the scooty has a mind of her own,(still trying to find out how it works)
i'll tell you more about my sweet heart the next time!
My college friends are coming here tomorrow and I am damn excited!!

the dawn of something new!

I had my first stay in my new house yesterday! I spent the entire day putting the house (read:my room) together and doing errands!!
At the end of the day,I never realised how tired I was until i actually went to bed, but sleep was so so so far away!

For the first time in 16 blissful years of my exsistance, i was having a room to myself!

all the excitement and wonderment was just too much for my head to go on with! (the demand for a pensive is gets more and more inelastic day-by-day!!!)

finally the sleep that came at about 3 in the morning was completely out of exhaustion!

soon enough, at around six, the radio alarm went on (i should not have played with it, cause I set the alarm and completely forgot about it!).

but then, my bed faces the window, and the window faces the east...

(any guesses what happened?)...

um

well, i woke up and went right to the window and there it was...

the sky in full preparation to welcome the coming day!

I sat there, waiting for, no wanting it to happen, in its most beautiful form..

slowly, gracefully the sky began to smile, shades of orange, pink and red began to dominate the stage, the stage of a play meant just for welcoming me!

Flocks and flocks of birds began to fly away from their nests, signalling the start of the day..

let me tell you one thing, there was so much silence today that I could easily distinguish the call of one bird from the other!
identification, though was a problem!!

so back to the star ...

the dear sun.....

slowly the yellow-orange mass began to rise, to show itself in it's most graceful self!

finally, at it's rightful place, it stopped, and it reminded me of just one line..

"the lord said,"let there be light, and there it was" "

I really feel this is a special "something" because for someone who is never out of bed before 8 'o clock (and is never in bed before 4 in the morning)

waking up at one tinkle of the alarm at 6, after such exhaution, just can't be co-incidential!
all this comes up to one bottom line,

"it is the dawn of a something new,

a "good>>better>>best>>best est"

kind of something new,

and I guess, its just for YOU!!"