Birthday song!

Why the privacy stint? Because, this morning I wake up to see an email from my dad, which says, 'I read your blog, don't use fowl language, but I like it', or something to that extent. So we are now private!

It's nearly birthday day! :) 12 hours to go, PST. Post 2 hours IST.

It's picture time!!!


20th budday, also holi (duh, obviously)!


21st. Yes, I am Super awesome Sutta! :)


21st again!


21st, in Mocha, Bangalore.


22nd, Couch, Bangalore.


Aaand, the awesomeness certificate! It says, 'CONGRATS Silverstreak, you are now officially awesome!'

This is awfully senti, but I miss you guys and wish I was back home in Bangalore this time around as well. Much love! :) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

My December

That isn't a song I like, particularly, but 'a long December' seemed kind sad and what's there to be sad about December!? Nothing, December is awesome!!!!

Its time for my annual I love December post!

Reasons why I love December and the holidays!

1. These.

2. Shopping in Los Angeles is just wow! I can finally get down to buying fall and winter clothes, and ACTUALLY wear them. I now own boots and a fab trench coat! And some really funky sweaters. Online shopping is pretty fun, but not as much fun as regular shopping, but fun nevertheless.

3. I might have a super-fab new years!

4. I actually wake up smiling for no reason at all, and this, after four months of waking up wishing I could collapse and never get up again!

5. My exams end in less than two weeks!

6. CAT is almost over back home, and I know everyone is going to do SUPER well!

7. I get ideas to blog. I'm supposed to be studying but cannot help post this!

8. ALL my assignments are done and over with. They weren't all great, but its December, so everything's ok!

9. My online shopping is going to be delivered soon!

10. Christmas sales, and decorations!

11. Christmas candy!

12. The AWESOME Santa hat I bought!

13. Universal Studios!

14. Battle Studies

15. Scrubs!!

16. The new Archie gets married issue. I'm waiting for all six to come so I can read them together, but I don't think I'll last. The latest issue looks crazzyy!

17. 25$ I got from AT&T for referring my roommate!

18. The feeling that I get that something great is on its way!

Happy December, all!! :)

Hope you all have an awesome one as well! :)

Just so you don't forget.....ME!

Yes. Its official. I'm on a blogger's block. Its not as bad as this dude's though. But I can't think of anything. Its not like I'm super busy or anything. I'm just really really lazy and really really REALLY jobless! I love it!

*What're you doing?*

Quoting Ms. Hide n Seek, "NOTHING!!!!" *yes it does feel great to be able to say that!*

Other than that, I'm quite confused too. Confused about where to go from here. Do an M.S, work for a year, do design, there are just too many forks! And being jobless instigates the thought process with a bang. Thinking does no good either, every night I fall asleep, the same confused soul I woke up as. *help!*

On the movie front, I've been keeping myself busy. So quick reviews:

Bolt: Watch watch watch. Simply ADORABLE. Disney movie. 'Nuf said!

Terminator Salvation: OK. Timepass. Nice effects. Good ol' Arnie makes a special appearance and all!

August Rush: Nice. Predictable. Not super, but decent. Starring Jonathan Rhys Myers. I absolutely loved him in Bend it Like Beckham.

Fireflies in the Garden: Watch. Cryptic and all, but nice. Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts. Also, William Dafoe stars in it(Norman Osbourne from Spiderman). I don't know about you, but I can't somehow stand the guy!

Role Models: Paul Rudd, Sean William Scott. OK. Watch if you're really bored. But they have a land called Kiss-man-thia! And Paul Rudd as Gene Simmons looks really cute!

Hard Candy: Ellen Page. WATCH. IN BIG FAT CAPS. WOW! Ellen Page is just bloody brilliant. Man, new respect for her.

10 Things I hate About You: For the 10th time :) I miss Heath Ledger. Sigh. :'(

Haffun you guys!

Notes to self. And stuff. Read on.

I'd really like to blog about something other than studying and exams and the project. Really. Its unfair how empty and hollow my life is.

*Note - Its not as hollow as James Blunt's though. Not sooo hollow bab-aayy, not soo hollow*

There's a good chance this is going to end up as a draft.

Fine, its time for a change. Funnily, every time I decided I need a change, I get a new hair do. Unfortunately, I got one just last month and its also 11 p.m. Gaah.

OK, firstly I'm changing my display name. I'm a little bored of Ping. It sounds too hyper (which I am, BTW, and should work on, because I'm starting work soon. Did I say work? Oh my God, I'm oooooold. And going to be working! Hey wait, we're still on changing display name here. Close parentheses.). Thinking, thinking..

I need to stop thinking and STOP WITH THE OVER-ANALYZING! *needing help here* What if he thought that? What if I did this? Usually I'm a don't-give-a-damn kinda person but sometimes, I drive myself crazy. I analyze situations over and over and OVER again for every possible test case. Did I just say test case? Yes, you did. Ignore that, that was the afternoon's exam talking. Anyway, we will work on that bit, yeah? OK. Oh also, on the bit where you have pretend conversations with yourself. OK. And with others. *sheepishly* OK.

*Random question - Did you ever watch The Adventures of Pete and Pete as a kid? My download is nearly complete! Hurray for awesome unsecured wireless connections*

I just decided you also get trivia with this post. Lucky you!

I wanted to go to Bombay in my holidays and get-my-freak-on shopping. But then I remembered, I start work and that involves me wearing only formals 4 days a week. Me so sad, Sandra Oh style.

Sometimes, very rarely, I stop thinking God exists. Then I think about the 25 lives a day He's given me and I start believing again. Its true about the 25 lives. I'm extremely reckless when I cross the road. He saves me every time. My Guardian angel must seriously be working overtime up there. *knocks on wood*

Trivia time - Drew Barrymore. Bisexual. Whoa!

I think we can put in a random picture in this post, yeah?

No I am not drunk.

This was taken in Goa. At Baga. Chocolate Breakfast at Britto's. I think, if you read ~R~'s blog, you might see a similar picture. Sorry about the plagiarism, but my comp crashed and I don't have too many pictures on it now. Except those related to image segmentation. *gags*

Sigh. I miss Goa.

I can't believe I will be getting pay-checks soon. *touchwood, need to get joining date, yet*
I mean, its awesome and all, but it spells responsibility. In CAPS. Woah! Big big word. My brother, whom I don't speak to, already expects an allowance. FROM ME. And expects to move into my room in two months. So either I get the smaller room with NO attached bathroom, and NO double bed, or I move out. Man. I'm getting ultimatums from family members. What the hell!?
I've also decided to get a tattoo with my first salary. Any ideas?

Oh, I'm also going to be nicer to people. And give second chances. You don't care? Well, I don't care about YOU. Go away, now. Hey, I was only joking there! I'm going to be nice, remember?

I still haven't figured out my new name. I have a few ideas though. Help me out.
- Action League Now!
- Calabria.
- Diplo Rhythm.
- Singular Sensation.
- Penelope Pittstop.

Or if you can think of any, that'd be great.

Personally, I like Diplo Rhythm. Its a funky song and awesome to dance too. But then, so's Calabria. And Desi Girl. But that will NOT be my new name.

Trivia time again (yayyy!) - 'Joincidence' is coincidence with a J!

Actually Singular Sensation is re-heeeeaally (extend a little more like Dr. Cox) lame. What was I thinking. Ruled out.

OK, I gotta go now. Get jiggy with studying for Mobile Communications etc. There, I used get-jiggy-with and study in the same sentence. Officially time to sign out. Sigh. The Highs and Lows of one weirded-out 20-something. Go figure.

I have many many drafts lined up, but this day calls for a celebration. You may not think so, you may not know so, but it will be, like it has been for the very many years of your life, the best day ever.

*warning - high adrenaline levels*

The awesomeness levels will peak today, and there will be great unexplained deviations in all natural occurences. Did I say unexplained? Sorry. I meant there will be very obvious no-need-to-be-explained changes in the aforementioned events.(Did I say sorry? Scratch that. The Gods never apologize.)

It is, the happiest, greatest and the one day you all have been waiting for, all year long. It comes once a year, and be glad it does only that one time, because only the most awesome, nay, the AWESOME-ST people can handle the levels of brilliance this day brings. And that number, sad to say, is very less, and carefully hand-picked by yours truly.





It is, my birthday.





And that makes everything self-explanatory.




You may now disperse.

I don't quite know..how to say..how I feel.
Those three words, they're said too much..they're not enough..
If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lie with me,
and just forget the world.........

Tracing...

I was listening to this song today and it hit me how apt it was. In my case, that is. How sometimes I feel lost and without any direction. How sometimes nothing feels right. How sometimes we want to see the tiny ray of sunshine. And how sometimes we want to think the exact opposite of what we want happening, just to keep ourself safe. 

Tracing - John Mayer

Do you ever get the feeling
that we started in the middle..
Or do you ever have the sense
that we are lying, just a little..
I mean come on
its not like we have known ourselves that long

And I cant say I really blame you
for being bored with the beginning..
Always staring at the score
to figure out whose barely winning.
but dont you know
that there is a reason strong moves slow

And I'm ok.. if you're ok.. with wasting time..
But when you trace
you always see the bottom line

We are tracing... I hope you know... we are tracing

And if you want to know the moment
I knew that I was still alone
I found I never learned your number
I only stored it in my phone
you think by now
I'd know the shape of calling home..

And I'm ok.. if you're ok.. with wasting time

And when you trace
you always see the bottom line..

We are tracing.. I hope you know.. We are tracing
We're both alone..

We are tracing
Did you ever get the feeling
that we started in the middle..
Or do you ever have the sense
that we are lying just a little..
I mean come on
Its not like we knew ourselves that long...

Ummmmm....Yellow?

I just looked outside and its yellow!! Not black, or blue or normal coloured, but yellow. Like the Coldplay song! 

I came along, I wrote this post for you

It was called Yellow!:):)

This is my rendition of 'Tell her this' - Del Amitri. 

Tell her not to go

I aint holdin' on no more..

Tell her something in my mind,

freezes up from time to time.

Tell her what was wrong

I sometimes think too much but say nothing at all..

Tell her from this high terrain, I am ready now to fall!

 

I am ready now to fall!

P.S - I know the guy's hands are super thin, but this is the best I could come up with:)

My roller-coaster

This is one of the most random songs I've heard, and one of the nicest!

You were on my mind atleast nine tenths of yesterday,

Seemed as if perhaps I'd gone insane.

What is it about you that has commandeered my brain, 

Maybe its your awesome songs or maybe its the way..

When I look at your face, I can tell that we're not going to be stopping soon or even slowing down..

And if we keep up this pace pretty soon we'll know the names,

of every kid and every grown up, booking house shows in their town.

And if home is, really where the heart is, then we're the smartest kids I know, 

because wherever we are in this great big world, we'll never be more than a few hours from home..

And thats important, because I need to travel, 

I've got this itching in my shoes since I was just a little kid..

And before I had a mini-van I rode the grey hound bus,

My mom would say, I hope some day, you get paid for being Kimya Dawson!

(skip to last verse)

You were on my mind atleast nine tenths of yesterday,

Seemed as if perhaps I'd gone insane.

What is it about you that has commandeered my brain, 

Maybe its your awesome songs or maybe its the way..

You go straight to the top, you're not scared of getting squashed..

You know just when to jump off, you are so brave.

Then you run to the right, it seems like there's no hope in sight, 

then you drop down  to the tube that takes you right to level eight!

The song is much longer and I'm super lazy at the moment to type it all out. 

Slimy...yet satisfying!

This post goes out to all the worry warts in this world, or atleast the ones who know of this blog!

Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase...

Hakuna Matata, aint no passing craaaaaze!

It means no worries, for the rest of our daaaaays!

Its (y)our problem freeeee, philosophyyy, 

HAKUNA MATATA!!

                                Scary hakuna matata.

                               Ahhh, this one looks much better.

Zoom zoom zoom zooooom! Goes the world!

You know what the world needs? Longer rotation periods. You may react with a huh! Well, its simple really..

1. Longer rotation time would mean longer days. Longer days=Longer nights. Longer nights=More sleep. Yawn...

2. Longer days will be more than 24 hours. And considering I'm 15 days away from my finals, I could really use the extra time.

3. Again, longer days will be longer than 24 hours. More time to watch House. Yes, the last point and this were written roughly in the same time frame. Talk about priorities. Sheesh!

4. More sleep. No, no I'm not repeating point no. 1, it simply means longer afternoon naps:) There's just something about long power naps! Rejuvenating!

5. Longer rotation periods would be a great new discovery, so another lesson to be studied in Geography! Yup, I'm a freak, I love the subject. I can name almost all capitals. But I'll leave that for a whole new post... Or not!

6. Yes, this is my definition of a filler post.

Currently listening to Bob Dylan - Sign On The Window. And lovin' it!