2 of my many best friends...

Anybody who knows me well would know the number of best friends i have... In life, u r lucky if u have met a few good people.. But i guess im really blessed to have so many good, happy n caring people who have stood by me in my every hour of need...
Anyway, this post isn't about me, its about them...
2 of my many best friends who have embarked upon a new journey in life...
Sonali.... who has left for the US for further studies (MBA)... A big step in any students life...
(I still cant believe i wasn't there to see u off girl! IF only id not met with that stupid accident!!! arrrgh! But i guess u can change whats meant to happen...)
Rucha... who has found he Mr. Right n got engaged last night... A big step in any girl's life...
(All thanks to could make it to this occassion though... I was really close to missing this one too!!!! Im glad i didn't, it was one hella party!!)

Anyway all i wanna say to these two friends of mine is that i wish u all the very best... I hope u succeed in what you do and be happy always! God bless..
Cheers to our friendship!

Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na

SOURCE: Wikipedia
Jaane Tu ... Ya Jaane Na (Hindi: जाने तू ... या जाने ना, translation: Whether you know... or not) is a 2008 Hindi-language film..
Plot:
The movie tells the story of Jai and Aditi, who are two amongst a group of college friends. They are especially close, leading everyone to believe they are a couple. When they graduate from college, Aditi's parents invite Jai home to discuss future plans and marriage. Jai and Aditi are shocked and insist that they really don't see each other "that way".

Aditi, quick-tempered and prone to extremities in life, would prefer a strong man, an archetypal 'stud', who'd get into fights to protect her. Jai, on the other hand, is a pacifist, and would rather have a more sweet-tempered girl than Aditi as his better half.

He finds someone just that way during a night out at a club, where he ends up saving the girl (Meghna) from hooligans by fooling them rather than fighting them. Jai and Meghna start dating, much to the chagrin of Aditi, who finds herself increasingly missing the company of her best friend without realising why. Eventually, she starts seeing Sushant, a family friend, who fits the notion of her ideal man, only to later realise the travails of dating someone hot-tempered and prone to getting into fights.

Jai breaks off his relationship with Meghna, who has by now realised his affections for Aditi. Sushant reacts violently when he learns of Aditi's true affections. They break up, and she decides to go to the US to pursue a film-making course.

Jai gets back at Sushant for hitting Aditi. This only lands him in jail, but owing to a typically crazy turn of events involving his royal cousins from Rajasthan and a horse, he makes it to the airport where, in a nod to Bollywood tradition, he stops Aditi from leaving and confesses his feelings. At the end of the film, the couple, happily married and back from their honeymoon, are received at the airport by their friends and a new admirer of their love story.

Well it was a boring tuesday morning n i had started feeling ashamed about the way i was bunking college carelessly... Thats when my sister called me up asking if i wanted to go watch this film "Jaane tu... Ya jaane na" with her.(Which i didnt really wanna watch initially, my only intention was go go out with my friends and have a good time.. As in, any other film would do too.. It wasn't ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY that we go watch just this film). Initially i rejected the offer saying id promised my friends i wud watch it with them. But the minute i hung up i started thinking.. WTH am i doing?????? Im giving up a chance to bunk college?!??!?.. So after a loooooot of convincing my friends FINALLY agreed to go... (They still behave like school kids and to think about it, it was they who introduced me to "bunking" !!)

So riding our bikes at the maximum possible speed within the choc-a-bloc traffic we finally made it on time to the theatre which was on the other side of the city n bought tickets for a good 120 bucks, still wondering if the movie was worth it at all!!

Well im glad to admit that the movie was TOTALLY worth it and more!!! Complete entertainer very lovable and complete with all the typical hindi film masala (The climax---> so predictable yet soooo funny!) We couldnt stop ourselves from LOLing at the end and kept singing the title song and other songs we know from the film all day next day until everyone around us was HEAVILY BORED!! Well i guess i wrote about it bcoz i had SUCH a good time with my friends that day!! And also coz the characters of RATS & MEOW (the nicknames of the two lead characters) touched our hearts... Not to forget the heavenly chocolate drink CADBY we had after the film!!!

One step at a time...

A huge thank u to Editha unni for introducing me to this inspiring song... I think it is apt for my current situation.. Xie xie ni!!!
"One step at a time" by Jordin Sparks...

Song Lyrics

Good people...

It is said that good people are very rare in the world today... But i have to say that i beg to differ. I think it depends on how you see the world and how much you appreciate what others do.. As some say- "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you take it"..
In this context i think im a very luck person (touch wood)... Coz i have met really good people in life.. We know that friendships are relationships we CHOOSE and are not born with and i have to admit that iv been blessed with really good people right since childhood...
Im grateful to all my friends who care so much and are always there for me in my every hour of need... They are my backbone.. Dont know what i wud do without them!
So this is just a toast to ALL MY FRIENDS from EVERYWHERE who are with me through thick and thin...
LOVE U GUYS and really really appreciate everything u guys do!

Taking tuitions...

Ever since i started engineering in 2005, ive felt like a complete idiot... Iv gone from topper to flopper... Though i knew that engineering is not something i would find interest in, i still selected it thinking i would manage it somehow, afterall the pay packets are high and there is job security!! Wrong decision! Or should i say, decision for all the wrong reasons! But it didn't take me much time to realise what a big fool id been... Clearly, when you dont like something, u r gonna try to avoid it! Thats exaclty what i did for the first year... It took me that much time to realise that i was only ruining my career this way and that engineering is what i have to do whether i like it or lump it!! So slowly iam working hard at improving though my dilly-dallying has caused sufficient harm... Obviously my dislike had showed up on my marks as well though not causing any irreparable damage. So bottomline. since i came to engineering, Ive felt like the biggest fool on earth!!!
My rescue from this feeling came in the form of taking tuitions for maths.. Taking these tuitions reinstated my faith in my belief that i wasn't a very bad student. I had a brain n wasn't a dimwit as id started thinking i was. I started feeling productive again and it gave me a sense of fulfillment.. Its true, that when god closes one door, he opens ten others for us... N i have to say, that my faith in god and these tuitions have played a major role in not letting me give up on myself because of engineering.....

EXAMS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to admit that though there is nothing as irritating and annoying and scary as exams, the feeling at the end of your exams is of an achievement (Almost a feeling of the victory of good over evil).. Hehe i know im making it sound like a war but afterall, writing exams is like going for a war right? A WAR TO PASS!! Anyway after my last paper i couldnt stop shouting... Infact my friends had to start pleading with me to stop...
I guess i have to conclude that the joy after the end of exams makes writing exams worth it ;)

EXAMS!!!

I dont know whose smart idea it was to introduce something like exams, but the truth is that we have to face it whether we like it or not...
And as im in the middle of exams now i better stop blogging for a while...
I now swear that i will not blog until the end of my last exam of 17th June!! :)

My wonderful (new) family members!!

Well, as i mentioned, a year or so back i was bitten by the drama bug too.. Since then iv visited a hundred sites looking for videos of the dramas i wanna watch n in the process got to know a lot of new people...
One of my favourite shows ever is the Taiwanese drama "It started with a kiss"... It was quite clear at the end of this drama that there would be a sequel. Anyway, so the sequel started airing at the beginning of this year. It aired every sunday, and all thanks to some die hard fans who understand mandarin, people like me who dont understand mandarin got to see the subbed versions of the drama by wednesday... However, anybody who has tried their hand at subbing before would know that its not an easy task... It requires a lot of patience and time. So naturally, the speed of subbing became slower by time (which is natural considering how much time it takes.. And come on, the subbers have a life!! They need to take care of themselves first! Coz so many of them fell sick in the process..!! So, love u subbers.. Take ur time!) But just to make sure that we, the loyal fans get to watch the drama we love so much, the subbers all came together and formed the TKA VILLA.
This villa has been my second home for the past few months now... I wud go there every week to watch this drama. But then so as to communicate with the people they were working so hard for, the subbers put up a chatbox on the site. The chatbox has helped me find sooooo many new people!!! We all belong to different parts of the world but our love for dramas binds us together... When we started chatting and getting to know each other, we realised that love for dramas just one of the many things common between us. We are so so similar, yet so different. I guess thats what "Unity in diversity" is all about...
Thanks to the villa iv met really great people.. We have formed relationships that i know and hope will last long.. As the subbers have rightly said, the end of the drama did not mean that we stopped going to the blog(villa). We still go there and chat for hours....
Iv always loved meeting new people, knowing about different countries, thei cultures, travelling.. Most importantly, making new friends.. And thanks to this marvellous invention, The Internet and the drama obsession and the subbers, have been able to do what i like...
All i wanna say to my new family members is that- "Love u guys! Im glad i met u and i hope we can always be friends!!" Oh also, i hope i can meet u'll someday :)

Drama Obsession!!

It was 2 years ago that my friend from Mizoram, who lives in the college hostel, got dvds of Full House... The famous South Korean drama starring RAIN and Song hye gyo... At first when i went over to the hostel and heard them talk excitedly about these dramas they were watching, i laughed it off... Moreover, I didnt leave any chance i got to tease them about it.. Little did i know, that very soon i would be at the other end, being teased endlessly by anybody and everybody i know, about this latest addiction of mine...
It turns out that it took me only ONE SCENE to fall in love with these dramas...
I started with korean, n then went on to watch mandarin dramas n now i even watch japanese dramas!!!!
Well, i dont know what it is about these dramas.... They give u those happy moments and then make you cry... I guess, its because the stories are woven finely and characters sketched impeccably. You take an instant liking to the characters who are so relatable and the stories which, at times, may be dramatized but are mostly enrapturing.. It successfully keeps you hooked... Besides, unlike most shows on TV, these shows have an END.
The stories are about happiness, hope and true love (the ones I watch, if I might add)... At the same time, they are well researched and impart knowledge to you about a wide variety of things, professions and people such as Pasta, Musicians, Patissieres etc, whatever the drama may revolve around. Moreover, it opens up avenues to learn about an all new culture. I mean, the media of any country is probably one of the best ways to explore its culture after all!

These dramas can truly take all your worries away and take you to a world where nothing is real but you want it to be...
Honestly speaking, im glad i found this obsession.. It is one thing that has helped to keep me going even when the going got tough.. Though all the incessant ridiculing embarrassed me earlier, now I have no qualms in admitting-
I LOVE DRAMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My brothers back home!

Well since this blog is all about good times (mainly ;) ), i'll talk about another time that all of us at home await...

Since the past 8 months or so my brother's been living out coz he works for Maersk international now... N the times he returns home are probably the best we have together.... Though he is my cousin, we share a relationship as close as real siblings...

If only i didnt have these stupid exams now i would be able to enjoy too... But i guess nothing can be done ablout that!!

Well heres a picture of the three of us... My twin, my brother n i!!