meme... from Anjali

hehe... saw this on anjali's blog, looked like fun. weirdly enough, many are similair! also i'm bored and cant sleep... so here goes:

8 Fictional Characters You'd Love To Hang Out With:
1. Anne Shirley
2. Max (from Darkangel)
3. Willow
4. Nathan Scott (from One Tree Hill)
5. Lestat (although that would probably be really scary)
6. Death (the Pratchett version)
7. Nanny Ogg
8. Lara Croft

7 Celebrities You'd Invite To Dinner:
1. Joss Whedon
2. Terry Pratchett
3. Oprah Winfrey
4. James Herriet (as anjali said, post-humously… )
5. Bono
6. Alex Band
7. Gerald Durral (again post-humously. More’s the pity)

6 Things On Your Desk:
don’t have a desk… so the closest thing to that, my low cupboard …
1. a comb
2. a pen stand (with pens)
3. headphones
4. a calendar
5. my cell phone (but that’s only temporary)
6. my printer

5 Places You'd Like To Visit:
1. Australia/New Zealand
2. The Isle of Skye
3. the moon
4. ancient Mesopotamia
5. Paris

4 Things You Probably Don't Know About Me:
1. I used to talk to the wind
2. I make faces at myself in the mirror sometimes to cheer myself up
3. I once started crying coz a praying mantis landed on my bare knee (I HATE those things! They give my the creeps)
4. I have never slapped anyone.

3 Things You Wish You Had Right Now:
1. Thief (I love this game. And my comp is so game deprived at the moment)
2. chocolate
3. an ipod nano

2 Names You Wish Were Your Own:
none i can think of. I like my name just fine…

Day Of The Week You Love The Most:
Sunday. Coz that’s the only day I don’t have college.

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There’s someone stomping around above my head. Which is creepy. Coz our upstairs neighbours moved out!
Dint have college today, and dint go yesterday, coz of the rain!!! But it dint rain today… so actually, that sentence should go more like this.
Yesterday I tried to go to college. And got soaked walking up the road. Despite the fact that I had an umbrella. Thank god for cell phones… um… or who ever invented them. Which makes me wonder… who did invent cell phones? Do u know? I certainly don’t.
Anyway. As I was saying… I got soaked. Called our teacher (who, incidentally, is less then a year older then me! – and personally, I don’t think she’s at all qualified. She didn’t know who Orson Welles was!!!! our college is crap.) and told her I couldn’t turn up… then… The rain got worse. Luckily I was home and dry before that happened… but the police commissioner declared the 26th and 27th holidays for all educational facilities, coz road conditions are so bad. What with the flooding and all… today was the 26th. And it dint rain all day! so I guess we’ll have college tmrw. Coz as I said, college is crap… y cant they listen to the police commissioner? He is an authority figure after all… and he must have some idea of what he’s doing. Wait. This is India! What am I saying?! Lol… Just kidding, I’m sure he’s an excellent man and dedicated to his job…
Oh… damn. The internet just cut out… good thing I’m writing this on word… but it does mean I wont be posting again. Oh well…
Diwali holidays start next week. We get 9 days off! :) cool isn’t it… I love living in a multi-religious culture…
So… other then that, life is boring. In fact, I was so bored yesterday, that I sat ad watched Tarzan. How sad is that? It is such a crappy cartoon… but I was all alone at home, and it was raining! So naturally, a slight feeling of depression settled over me. and the only thing that helps in such a situation, is watching a really pathetic movie or cooking. And since I didn’t feel like doing the later… I sat and watched TV. Which, I should mention, is pretty much what I did today. Being on holiday is only fun if there are other people on holiday with you. Actually, Lavi had a holiday both days too… but yesterday it was all rainy and there was a massive puddle in front of her house, as in calf deep wading type puddle… so she was stuck at her place and I was stuck at mine. But today we baked :) which was fun. Made up a whole new cake recipe. Came out really well actually… so had that with ice cream… still some left. And k just about got home. She’s eating dinner right now… but when she’s done we can eat more CAKE n ICE CREAM! Yay :D

On the subject of the rain… what is WITH that!? Why are we having torrential downpours in October… seriously. This just goes to show, all u morons who thought global warming wouldn’t effect the world in our life times and therefore continued to pollute the earth without a twinge from your consciences… really brilliant move guys. Thank you sooo much for helping to decimate our home and make it that much less habitable for all the life it supports.
I think u should all go find some corner to cry in. and when u come out… go help someone!!! There are plenty of natural disasters to choose from… and almost everywhere in the world too… tragedy at your backdoors people. U cant turn a blind eye anymore… this means you! Get it now? I really wonder…

lol...

i was going to post a fairly rant-y entry on the ‘boyfriend phenomenon’ which was basically a grouse about the peer pressure to be paired off… but then I decided it was a little to controversial and possibly too much like an actual diary entry to have in a public journal… so instead I shall make this token post :) but if any of u want to read the rant I saved it… could post it up here later… but for all I know, my viewpoint may have changed buy then… not drastically I’m sure, but maybe enough that I wont want to post it. Anyway… gtg. Was working when something set me off on the relationship soap box. He he…

oh... i set up another blog. mns "my space" silly thing... don’t know how i'm going to maintain two! not a big deal to try though... actually i should probably go and post in that one too... now, while the writing bug is biting... he he...

Also, one mo ting i forgot to mention. the nasty, 'poop incident'! I dint say anything about this did I? Well… anyway. The weirdest and grossest thing happened to me the other day… last week or so I think… so... we had ethnic day in college, and therefore i was wearing a sari. Which means no pockets! I had my phone in my hand.

Well, we get to college and park the car… and I tell this friend of mine to watch out as there’s some really icky dog doo on the ground near our doors… and I get out… at which point my phone in a dramatic bid for freedom took a heroic dive out of my hand, bounced once on the ground and landed… face first in the shit. Yes… eeeeeeeeeew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was soo tempted to just leave it there. But it was new…

so instead, I picked it up, VERY carefully, using a plastic bag… and when I got home I washed it out with detol and other extra strong detergents… also wore gloves the whole time… which I later threw. Of course! Then I went and got it exchanged :)
lied to the salesman and said it hadn’t been working… so now I have a brand new Nokia 1600… which is an excellent phone. Very simple and basic, but it does everything I would want it to… still, I must say, of all my three phones, the first one, my plain old Nokia 3315, was the best. I miss it… wish it hadn’t conked out.

What to write?

This is officially a space killing ramble : ) u have been warned!
I’m in a good mood. Which is weird coz college really sucks, and that’s pretty much all I have time for recently. But tmrw’s a holiday! Yay! For dashera… it’s great to live in a multi-religious country. We get so many holidays! Lol… actually, having one day off isn’t really something to crow over. K and my mom have 5 whole days!!!! Lucky things… I wish I had that much free time too : ( But… not going to depress myself now… can wait till tmrw for that… he he : )
I may b a bit nuts… just an observation.
But then they do say that people who think they are crazy aren’t. and it’s the people who don’t even realise they’re acting cracked who turn out to b mad. But then how do they know that!? Maybe all the people who think they are crazy actually are, but being forewarned, have an easier time of hiding it from other people… doesn’t that make sense? Does to me… but then, maybe I’m nuts… : ) he he…
Okie… cant actually think of anything else to ramble about… not a very successful ramble is it… should be at least 12 paragraphs long to qualify! That’s what I think.
So
Lets make this twelve paras!
Lol
How am I doing?
Does this qualify as an erratic and strange ramble?
Damn…. This is still only 10…
Well… that leaves two to go. Lets make them count. Okie… what to talk about? Hmmm? Isn’t that how this started? Yep? Same old, same old… looks like I’m going in circles! Wooohooo… maybe I’ll get dizzy? Okie… more proof of the cracked thing… yes? Yes.
AT LAST! The end : ) heh heh… y exactly am I even doin this? Very good question… I could be sleeping. But NO! here I sit filling in a completely useless post… of no value or worth to anyone, including it’s author… which is a very sad case. All things considered. But then, it should be a little amusing to go back and read at some later date… primarily, that’s why I write in this thing. To amuse myself and others, with my silly trivial musings. He he… at least, it amuses me. not sure about all u other folks. Is this fun to read?
Well, whatever.
I think I’ll go to bed now… sleepy time : ) plan to cram in all the things I don’t usually get to do tmrw. Lol… probably wont b possible. So mayb I’ll keep some of them for diwali break. Which is a whole week! Yay! Bbye now.

Mass Media is a wonderful thing!

The strangest thing just happened. I’m listening to Virgin Radio, and on the news they said that there was an earthquake in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. 7.3 on the Richter scale… and none of us at home even knew about it, coz we haven’t watched any news this morning yet… weird. Wonder why it’s not in the paper tho, probably happened after the presses had stopped rolling.

All female planet.

Has anyone seen that really creepy movie set in the future where there are no men? The whole planet is run by women, and babies are developed not born. But there’s no war or anything bad like that, coz women are just soo much smarter and less aggressive then men…
Well. Let me just say two words. What crap!
Okaaay… so maybe we aren’t as hopped up on aggression and territorial instincts as guys. And yeah, I’m pretty sure that a world run by women would be better then the one we have right now. Considering – lets face it, and not to be horrid and sexist or anything – men are just plain dumb half the time.
Women don’t have pissing contests. We definitely didn’t come up with the idea of trying to squeeze the other guys hand harder. Or road rage. And then there’s the fact that statistically, women usually account for only about 15% of all violent crime.

Still, better doesn’t mean perfect.
Women are dumb too. We get emotional, have cat fights, act bitchy, and nag! Not exactly conducive to absolute peace and harmony. What’s more, and all u guys don’t get swelled heads over this – but giving credit where credit is due, without guys, life would be just plain boring! Men are a constant source of entertainment.
On a grand scale; they came up with football! And basketball, rugby, American football, hocky, extreme sports, action movies… the list is ENDLESS! No women is nuts enough to have thought this stuff up. Although, once they were invented many are more then happy to play.
But, lets be absolutely frank. One of the ONLY reasons any of us is willing to watch, is if there’s some pulchritude involved. No way would I watch a complete rugby game if the guys weren’t so hot.
Which is just plain weird now that I think about it. Why do women find it interesting to see guys compete? So maybe these games are relatively more sophisticated ways of doing that then actually dukeing it out… but that’s all they really are! It’s all about who’s top dog. And we LOVE it!

I guess it all comes down to instincts. Men like to fight. And women like guys to prove they’re the toughest. But it’s a lot more complicated these days then it was for the average cave man.
Most of us hate it when guys do that obvious, male posturing thing. U know what I’m talking about…
Where they eye each other up, and try to make them selves look stronger, bigger, tougher. There voices get all deep. And they shake hands in that macho idiot manner, one pump, up and down, squeezing just as hard as they can... slaves to testosterone.
And it really ticks me off when guys do that stupid possession act they all seem to learn at birth. This women is mine! I Tarzan!! Me big ape!!!!
But I’d probably be just as ticked if he didn’t do anything at all! If I’m with a guy, even if he’s just a friend, I want to know I can depend on him to take care of me. Which doesn’t mean I actually want him to take care of me... but if I should need taking care of, he has to be capable of it.

Being able to handle yourself in a fight is important, but being able to avoid the fight entirely is a much more valuable ability. Making sure other guys realise she’s taken while still letting her know u respect her independence is a fine line to walk… guys don’t have an easy time of it. And yet they constantly try. It’s amusing.
we need guys around. they add balance and provide distractions. it would be impossible to have female friends if u didn't also have male ones. who would u turn to when u actually want a solution to a problem and not just sympathy? and guys make much better shoulders to cry on... women get tired of other women after a while...

There’s no doubt about it... A world with no guys may not be as violent, but it sure wouldn’t be much fun either.