How the holidays just start sucking

Exams are almost always followed by holidays. These holidays gives you time to rejuvenate ,recreate and repent writing those exams.
Holidays also gives you the time to do those things you wouldn't be able to do on normal working days like take up a class or go out somewhere nice etc.
I remember during the last few days of my exam I was always planning how I'm gonna spend my one month worth of holidays. But as soon as they started I realised things sometimes don't work out the way they were suppose to and even if they did you end up getting bored in a couple of days anyways.
So whats the whole point of having holidays when your gonna end up getting bored with it anyways? And probably spend most of your time online or staring at the TV watching a re run of some old show you've watched five billion times.
The only thing I've probably been doing in the holidays would be classes particularly driving classes - release clutch , depress accelerator, 1st gear , neutral , 2nd gear. Yup. Meeting up with a couple of friends and watching TV. So what if I haven't watched TV for almost a year this overload is not good anyways!
Anyways if anyone has good ideas about how to spend free time please please please help me out.
Thank you.

Sulthan battery

Didn't know where to chuck these here they are...

one of the most beautiful places in Mangalore

one year @ med school

One year at med school:

• She thought the guy sitting on the opposite side of the lecture hall was a snob and a smart ass at the beginning of the year. They ended up going out.


• Dead bodies are freaky, but after you start seeing them almost everyday during dissection you kinda get use to them around when your discussing movie plans for the weekend or playing truth or dare and pictionary.


• every open window in lab is a ray of opportunity to jump out and run after attendance is taken.
• no matter how much you try not to touch the formalin you always end up touching it


• white coats never stay white.
• You probably only learn how to insult after you hear teachers " you think you'll PASS? The only thing you'll pass is urine" , "go to the exam and pass urine". " You are PATHETIC! absolutely PATHETIC"
• lingo change - legs feel like ants crawling all over it after sitting down for a long time to its a sciatic nerve compression.


• sleep is a luxury students just can't afford.


• people just can't stop talking about passing.


• no one ever studies for the last exam. the fact that its a last exam is distracting.

But its over... at least for the next six months.

The present scenario

Time to open those books. Its about time to start studying!
"Start studying" is like the same line we've all been saying for a month now. Finals approaching in July .. it sucks. Lately I've been doing nothing short of cribbing, lack of sleep which could be attributed to my roommate who keeps threatening to pour a bottle of water on me if I don't wake up at five thirty in the morning. Its boot camp seriously.
Then there's the five million things to study and you don't know where to start. I've been chugging in caffeine for several nights to keep me awake or as its called in the hostel lingo -"night out" which doesn't mean a night with no in timing in the hostel but just means your gonna stay up all night in the hostel and slog your ass off on a topic that you wouldn't even understand if you read it some fifty billion times!
But hey... there's a promising one and a half month odd vacation after it.
So it should be worth it ... right?

The tag thing

5 things you wish you could say to people

1. Im giving one my fakest of fake laughs can't you make out?


2. That's the most pathetic shit I've ever heard (without making them feel bad)


3. Pink shirts make you guys look so gay I'm to disgusted to even throw up on them


4. It would make things a lot more easier if you guys tried to be yourselves sometimes


5. Mom I flunked

8 things about me

1. I can read anything apart from subject textbooks


2. I love chocolate


3. I like to sleep late into the day only if my roommate let me.


4. I supposedly have an acid tongue


5. I show sparks of intelligence which make people say " oh so you actually are smart?"


6. I love my dog . If its between the guy an the dog its the dog.


7. I'm extremely lazy sometimes and just refuse to get up saying my ass is glued to the chair. I was literally lifted and hauled out of the room once.


8. I eat rice with two fingers , aloo bonda and fish fry with a spoon which has made me the recent butt of all jokes.

one way to win my heart

get me lots of chocolate ( no i will not share)

5 things things cross my mind a lot

1. when do I get to go home


2. food.. good food


3. sleep


4. murder plots to kill some of my lecturers


5. when does class get done

one thing I wish I never did

slack off work

three turnoff's

1. fake people


2. guys in pink shirts


3. dirty rooms

4 things I wanna do before I die

1. travel the world
2. drive a car at 200
3. scuba diving
4. buy a bmw

one confession

I like having assorted sets of notebooks(spiral bound, hard bound , soft bound etc etc) even tho I dunno what I'd ever do with them. I just love to collecting them.

I tag

aareet http://nangineer.blogspot.com/

samu http://samulicious.blogspot.com/

deepika http://allswelldatendswell.blogspot.com/

Exam trends

This post has been a product of my observations leading up to and during this recent exam... I noted slightly exaggerated trends of some of my peer. They are as follows-

• Under eye circles due to lack of sleep become the new "in thing". Followed by skipping bath, food and reduced telephonic conversations with bf's.
• Bed time habits change, some sleep for two to three hours a day. I once was the earliest to sleep before an exam one thirty. They looked at me for days after like I'd sinned.
• some people start talking subjects... like once this female came up to me and goes like " your teddy bear seems to have some form of Cushings syndrome, the symptoms which are pot belly, moon face etc etc. I swear since then I haven't looked at my teddy in the same way and I'll never forget Cushings syndrome.
• constant dropping off or dozing on your books. I do this pretty often and when someone asks me to go sleep on my bed I reply I was just recollecting something with my eyes closed.
• If you can recite a chapter out of the text book word to word people start coming to you to explain the chapter to them cuz their too lazy to study themselves! The only time I knew a chapter from the textbook was contraceptives. I'd never read the chapter but people really didn't care, they asked me everything from the physiological basis of after pill to flavors of condoms. I felt like I was giving sex advice ...sheesh
• the most common thing which can be observed is I'm so tensed am i gonna pass? When they so know they are. I reply " no you aren't, your teachers will curse you, your parents will throw you out of the house, no one will ever go out with you cuz they think your too dumb and finally all your friends will turn their back to you all cuz u flunked in one internal in your entire year"
• common lines "will I pass?" , "how much you done studying?" "When did u sleep when did u wake up? "
• When the power goes off before back up comes those few precious minutes tick by people start taking out their cellphones and start studying using the light from it going crap theres so much to do.

So I guess exams do tend to bring the best in us and the worst in us too....

Changes

A recent phone conversation with my friend made me realise that a lots changed in such a short expanse of time. Aren't we all striving towards becoming better individuals than what we were? We can't all just stagnate over time can we?
We were just talking about close friends and how we've been all changing... constantly. I've lost touch with a lot of them and was shocked at some of the stuff my friend was telling me about. Like the fact that I missed out on this wedding of one of my friends back home which made me realise that crap! shes got a husband I don't even have a boyfriend! Then theres the transformation of one of my friends underwent like this radical makeover minus plastic surgery supposedly I won't even be able to recognise her. From this total tomboyish look to this total chic look . Sneakers were replaced by 6 inch heels, from talks about brands like Nike and Adidas to L'oreal over Maybellene even her taste in guys has supposedly changed. Then there was this one friend who's gone into total depression and is currently on anti depressants. I still feel really shitty sometimes when i think about this considering we were pretty close at one point of time.

I use to think only girls complained about how fat they've become but this guy I know keeps complaining about his weight when hes actually become super skinny. lots of guys who started wildly experimenting with their hair and some really painful piercings (ouch!).
Then there was my friend who was on the other end who became a lot more artsy, a facet of her personality I've never seen.
I asked her about what she thought about me. She said " You know... I've always seen you make right descions and fast ones too but now you seem to be totally and utterly... confused"
hmm...

Hows life?

Sunday morning
10:30 am
I'm still fast asleep
beep beep
With one eye open I try to find my phone. Its lying there somewhere on that table. Groping around for it and I finally do find it.

Text message : Hey , hows life?



Normally hardly any of us would think twice before replying to this. A friend who hasn't messaged in a while outta slight curiosity to know what you've been up to messages and asks "hows life?" Depending on how close this friend is I would use my discretion on how much information to give him/ her. But at that point of time I just stared at it for a while. I must have looked really weird at that moment with my hair all over the place in the morning, my blanket still on me in this awkward sit up position staring at my cell phone screen . My roommate walks in at that point and goes "you alright???"

"huh , ya just woke up"

After sitting up in a better position ,still staring at my screen I ask myself. So hows life?

Good? great?slow ? fast? bad? sad? terrible?sweet? spicy? icy? ... (the last part was cuz my stomach was growling.) But jokes apart how many of us can really answer that?

How is life? At that point of time I could say its relatively OK.. slightly on the boring side but otherwise I really dunno.

So I hit reply

"Life's... cool!!"
Cool???
Cool = I don't really know what to reply to that so I replace it with the most ambiguous word that could possibly mean anything at this minute.
Sigh... I've got a lot to learn.

Leaving home

It's just so hard to get from fun mode to back to college mode. Very hard...
We realized this time that if we extended our holidays we'd feel worse when we got back plus the fact that my friend has a lot to organize when we're back. So when I text her to ask if our tickets were booked (we were on the waiting list till now) she replies saying "sadly they are , how I wish we could have stayed longer". So true. But tickets booked it just confirms the fact that we gotta go. No point postponing the inevitable. sigh...
So getting those bags packed and then we're back off to coll. The worst part about it is my mom crying. And my moms a really strong person and seeing her crying every time you say goodbye when you come down is well.. pretty disheartening.

These are probably the few things I miss about home

• Dog licking me as soon as I get into the house
• Music when I want it how I want it
• the remote in my hand and sitting on my sofa
• non oily chappatis
  
• plain cold milk right out of the fridge in the night
• my bathroom!!!
• my warm bed with my nice pillow
• no 6 30 curfew
• sleeping into the morning
• washing machine and drier
• high speed internet
• air conditioning!!!
• neighboorhood sounds

the list is pretty endless so no point. Now I know what they mean by home sweet home. So true..

The relationship thing

One of the sad things about being single is after the initial few months you start hating almost every couple you see hand in hand together. Whether random people on the road or friends etc its annoying. Maybe this is a more pronounced thing when most of your friends are already hooked up you can only be happy that valentines day thankfully falls on a weekday this year.


The few things I've noticed is that whenever you step out of the corridors at mid night its not silence that greets you but a million low buzzing sounds of all those girls sitting and having mid night conversations with thier bf's. I have this one friend who just can't get off the phone. She probably even falls asleep with the phone. Wow...

The stupid things people do when they're in relationships like get you somes notes at mid night right at your doorstep or run away as soon as you spot friends seeing you with your girl on an empty beach or upper berth- train journey- one pm or jumping waves are like some of the absolutely hilarious stuff i've witnessed, kinda cute but still I ask myself was I ever this way? Did I ever have the whole "in love" expression? Did I ever have more fun then than I do now?

I dunno , don't seem to remember. Maybe I have amnesia.