5

Idhu dhaan limit!!!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Adippaavi.. I'm scolding myself.Sitting in SCI (that's my school) and reading blogs with no care in the world. Another 45 minutes and I have a sad tutorial coming up; I'm trying to read more about Singapore's Free Trade Agreements for the economics presentation on Friday; (padupaavi, yevan thaan idhellam yosicchu vechano theriyala, ellam en thalaiya vandhu uruttudhunga!)Waiting to go back to hall.To do more work.Seri, I'll close this blog. Feeling guilty. (No, well, actually it's like other people ...

Read More
5

Everyday Adventures!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

A whole week of fun and laziness getting over.My recess week is getting over! :'(Back to back breaking and irritating work, and getting up and running to the lecture theatres for 8-30 classes. Back to shivering in the cold LTs and labs.Wwwoooaaaaaaaahhhhhhh....Ohhhhhhh!They just burst a bomb.My university is situated dangerously close to the Singapore Firing Area and the Singapore Air Force Training Institute. So we get regular doses of firing, bomb and flight training exercise sounds. In the ...

Read More
13

A Tall Mug of woes

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

I can still feel the cheese and chocolate in my mouth. (Fine, maybe it's an exaggeration, but, by jove, I don't want that taste to linger any longer!)It all started with this $10 gift voucher I got from Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf here. You could say it's a more posh version of namma CoffeeDay. And it was expiring on 28 Febraury. So I decided it was high time the voucher left it's place on the soft pin board where I'd put it up so that I could see it everytime I go out and therefore use it(though ...

Read More
6

Free mania!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

The first time I came to Singapore, I was surprised by the number of things they gave free here. And this was especially high if you are a student....thousands of offers, discounts and thousands of flyers everywhere! I'm quite sure that this is the only place wher I've to hand out flyers to people passing by near the canteens as part of my extra curriculum work.About a week after the university opened, there was an ECA fair held here. And every stall I went to gave me something free. As though ...

Read More
6

Amazing cocktail

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Note: The idea for this blog came up when I read a fellow blogger's experience of mixing some cocktail with his friends. Sorry for borrowing this idea!!July 31, 2004, 7 P.M., Canteen 1. Just finished dinner and sitting with some batchmates trying hard to make a conversation; we all were "trying" because all our minds were busy thinking what the seniors had in store for our ragging tonight.And there came a second year guy, asking all of us to buy a drink (the normal ones, guys!!). I went and looked ...

Read More
7

Misunderstood

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

The one thing I hate is to be misunderstood; of course, nobody likes to be misunderstood, but sometimes I feel I get quite a lot of this share of being misunderstood. Take some time, people, don't jump into conclusions. See me the way I am.Does anyone who's quiet have to be shy? Is just talking the sign of being a jovial person? Why I'm always branded as a shy person is something I've never understood. Just the fact that I don't go talking to every soul I meet is NOT a winning formula to conclude ...

Read More
6

The ignominy of wearing glasses

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Well, maybe ignominy is too powerful a word to describe how one feels when wearing glasses, but it just describes how I felt when I knew I had to wear one.It all started with a trip to Ehrlich's in Chennai before coming here, for a complete medical check up. I stared with disbelief and anger as I struggled to read those black, huge letters on the white board. I CAN'T BE SHORT SIGHTED!!!! Sadly, that was the fact and the doctor was surprised as he asked me how I'd not realised all this while that ...

Read More
8

Wallah??!!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Well, don't think what it means....it's not our Indian rikshaw-wallah or paper-wallah, or the famous kabulli-wallah...it's the Singlish language.Oh my god, here in Singapore there is another breed of people happily killing english.What the heading means is "what-la" spoken fast. (I'm sure you all know 'la' is the trademark Singapore-Malaysia umm, huh...I dunno what!)The people here are very to-the-point; no round about ways please.Ask "Till when is the shop open?" and they give you looks like you ...

Read More
0

Thank God!!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Finally..My computer is working!!!!(or so I think, but let me be optimistic!)It took the sudden brainwave to take my CPU to the university computer center and let them see it themselves...and viola! It works now...all the pesky work of some viruses and ad ware stuff!Thank God!!!!!Thank ...

Read More
3

Desperation!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Ok, so before any of you get absurd ideas, let me tell you what I'm so desperate about...my computer! That mad thing never seems to get right and today it's exactly a month old, and it hasn't given me anything but problems ever since I got it. Problems with installing the OS, installing MS Office, activating this and that, getting anti virus softwares, anti ad-wares and spy-wares (whatever the heck they are!)... whew! This thing has driven me so crazy that this is the second blog I'm writing on ...

Read More
12

Random Scribbling...

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Oh my god.. Its almost 12 midnight and I've not done my posting for the day! Ha, I was reading my horoscopes post and was finding one of the last few sentences very funny, the one about bringing the chapta boyfriend home and marrying him....(well, for those who don't know, chapta is how we here call the chinkies) Hmm..I don't ever think i'll have a chapta as a boy friend... boy, I never will! I've been teased a great many times for my conservatism, and comments that I've been brought up in a very ...

Read More
7

The mania

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Huh? You don't listen to Metallica? I shake my head. So what at all is the english music you listen to? I tell them BSB, MJ. They sigh. I don't know why we have such kids here, they say. Well, what's wrong, I think. And why this obsession for english music? You know what, my friend says, once you've left India for studying, there are some things in you that you got to change. You have come to a place that is increasingly becoming American, and it's best you change too. And in a place like this ...

Read More
13

Horoscopes and match making...

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Well, its just an obsession this minute. As I struggle to start my next weekly report which I have to submit in less than 12 hours from now, my mind wants to type some random crap in the blog. So here I go... Hmm....indha rendu jathagamum nanna porundhirku, 90% poruttham, aana idhu vendaam, ivvalukku kalyanam panni vechelnaa eppomey sandai pottundrupaa... So rambles on the astrologer (not that I've seen him do this, but I'm sure my karpanai is right!). I can almost picturise the scene perfectly. ...

Read More
4

A Day of Awesome Fun

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

5th Febraury, 2005. My first performance for NTU outside the campus. I was thrilled to go sing elsewhere, and that too for a noble cause, Tsunami Relief fund raising. All dressed in "ethnic wear"(as Anto put it), we cabbed our way to the place where the event (we thought) would be held, only to realize we had come to the wrong place and went about searching the tiny streets and malls of Singapore before actually finding the actual venue. I went in and had a peek at the place we were about to sing. ...

Read More
1

For you, Anu!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

A 24 year old girl asked me why my blog did not really contain any mention of her. So, this piece, written about two months back, goes out for her. The earliest memories I have of my sister I have are when I was two or three years old. But earlier photographs carry pictures of a smiling me being held by a beaming sister. Hmm...maybe she was beaming then, but how would she have felt when I was born? Well, going by the norms, I can guess that she would have been a little(a teeny weeny, little bit) ...

Read More