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Why here?!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

I am bored.Really bored.Nothing interests me - not the novel I'm reading, not one of my innumerable campus newsletters, not Orkut, not YM, and my readings on the torture in Abu Ghraib prison - definitely no. I'm looking around for a way to waste time, but too lazy to talk to people :P Tried watching some English movies, but man, I want to watch some Tamil movies. MMKR would be awesome. Having nothing better to do, I opened statcounter and checked the visitors to my blog. I have no clue what Google ...

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I'll survive!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

I haven't even been looking at what has been happening in my blog for a while... it seemed to be asleep, devoid of much activity, and I felt so bad for it, my poor lil' blog!!It's been a helluva busy weekend and an even worse Monday of a new week. I'm just hoping I survive this week too, just like I survived today.Last Saturday was filled with riotous fun, as we celebrated Holi here. Really late, I know, but it was awesome. I was celebrating Holi after almost eight years, barring the episodes in ...

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And that's what happened...

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Long one....brace yourself.Read part-2 here.He groaned. Women and their own niceties. Women and their silly way of putting things across. All he could do was give a glare back.She smiled within. All he can do is to glare. She picked up her stuff and got ready to leave.“Wait,” he said, and ran behind her. “Yeah.. you know what? I hate ABBA. I wonder how any silly person on earth could listen to their songs at this point of time. And to think I had to hunt around for a t-shirt with their pic just ...

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Strangers in a lift-2

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Before anything, dearest Pisa girl, Happy Happy Birthday!!!!! May you have a blast today!See part 1 here. Meanwhile, she was smiling to herself too. He kinda looked cute, too. His class was the other way, he’d said. And he also would be 18 minutes late for his lecture, now. She was just a few paces away from the lift. He could still be there. She turned.He was standing at the little café in the same floor. Surprisingly, he didn’t seem to be in the hurry he was in when she was leaving. He stood ...

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Strangers in a lift

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

She stood in the lift lobby managing, with great difficulty, a huge folder, 3 books she had just borrowed from the university library, her backpack which she feared would tear open any minute with all the things she’d stuffed inside, and music. Her iPod was the only thing that held her calm in this situation; without it, she would’ve dropped the books down in anger and flung the folder across. (!)The lift seemed to be taking so long to come from just seven floors above.He came to the lift lobby ...

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The wonder called ‘Thayir Saadam’

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Yeah, it’s a wonder. Cool, refreshing, awww, it’s a gift from God!Things about thayir saadam that I can fondly remember:** An aunt or grandmother seating all the kids around her and giving each one a bit of thacchi mammu in her hand – with a dash of vetha kuzhambu (it’s actually called something else, but I don’t know what!), or maavadu or oorugai…**The curd rice I used to take to school for lunch inevitably everyday, and though I would complain incessantly to my mom to give something else, I would ...

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Why you should stay in a hostel

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Then (i.e. when I was in high school, before starting undergrad):I wouldn't enter a room if it had a cockroach insideNow:Cockroaches freely ran past me - they don't bother me, I don't bother them.Then:I'd run to the nearest chair or table to climb on it for safety if I saw a lizard.Now:I calmly watch it run away as I stomp my foot to 'frighten' it.Then:I'd call my grandmother to chase out the bug in the room.Now:I'm an expert in chasing bugs and moths out of my hostel room.Talk about the things ...

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Ever helpful bhais

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

I don't know whether to call this fate. When people knew I was going to Mumbai for my new job, they would excitedly tell me stories of that magnificent city - it's pace of life, it's human spirit, and so on. And about the metro train there - people travelling in it are actually kind, you know, they told me, they'll help you up if you're trying to board the train and it was leaving. I was delighted when I reached Mumbai. It was just like Chennai - it was just bigger and faster. I'd always feel at ...

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Pretty much random

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

What's usually a mundane trip to the Supermarket out of campus becomes interesting too, if you're jobless. Or rather, when you stubbornly refuse to start working on all those pending assignments and wish to do anything other than work.I went straight to the 'first floor' of the bus I boarded to get outta campus (yeah, going by the kiddo terminology of 'maadi' bus). I was so dead bored with life suddenly, that sitting right before the glass walls of the bus in the front side seemed so exciting. ...

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What if..

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

**I didn't have the scary quiz and assignment submission tomorrow?**I didn't have the headache that's keeping me from studying now?**I hadn't wasted all of Tuesday sleeping?**I had had a useful recess?**I had more than one recess for every semester? :P**I hadn't come to Singapore at all?**I hadn't been overconfident that I would come here?**I had studied engineering and become another engineer?**I had studied commerce in high school?**I hadn't done well in class X?**I hadn't joined DAV?**I had ...

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