Got the bangalore form off finally today.
writing a statement of purpose is tough!!
trying to recollect all my childhood experiences, define and analyze myself.
but on the whole... A lot of fun.
now need to start reading up on stuff for the GD/PI which starts from next tuesday..
(oh lord.. That sounds awfully close)
I know I promised to blog more but don't have access to a comp cos my dad's home now and is on it 24/7.
need to hook my laptop up to the net.
reading india unbound by gurcharan das.
and saw barefoot in the park which everyone else (ravages, kribs, lazygeek) all seemed to love.
I haven't seen the movie.. but thought it was your run of the mill love story about opposites attracting etc...
Everyone seems to be saying they adapted the movie very well. Luckily I get to view it isolated, as simply a play.
And gorgeous sets and efficient stage management aside, it was sweet but fluff.
timepass
fun
and my counter is finally past 10 000
yay!!
*big grin*
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Among Other Things...
It's really late.
Another night that started out with promise.
And is ending.
With random thoughts typed and saved on my phone.
Tasks left unfinished.
Tired.
For tomorrow morning.
I'm dreaming of drowning in endless cups of strong sweet black coffee.
I'm thinking of friends. Who have come and gone.
Of brownies that were baked in a moment of insufferable optimism.
I'm thinking of my childhood.
Filling up all these essays for forms has led me to introspect a lot.
What is your most significant accomplishment
Well, making a quilt. From start to finish. Finding a piece of cloth with the right pattern. Learning to use the monstrosity that masquerades as a sewing machine. Talking to my mom for hours. Just like she had spent hours talking to her mom while growing up, making beaded purses and conversation.
What are your strengths and weaknesses
My parents who are simply, always there.
Who watch indulgently while i celebrate successes with friends.
Who taught me that when I falter or get lost, I can always come home to find my way.
My baby sister who'll sit up till 12 at night talking about school and books and fight over pillows.
Friends who taught me that family isn't just biological. Who'll remember things about me that I forgot.
These are my strengths.
And my weaknesses? .. Chocolate
I'm trying to remember my childhood.
Memories of books and singing and eating hot fudge sundaes come flooding back.
Eighth grade science fair and fighting with the boy who broke our experiment.
My fifth grade science teacher who taught me to draw the human heart.
Josephine Ma'am who encouraged me to borrow books from the senior library on her account because at ten, i was too young to borrow books from school.
Dressing up in my first grown up gown for our annual day play. And ballroom dancing with a boy who, at age seven was three inches shorter than me.
My first Enid Blyton that i read in KG2
Books covered in brown paper with labels and marked wit my dad's neat print.
S Sujatha
KG I C
Being brought home from the hospital to a black and white house on a black and white lane.
I remember through someone else's words.
A house with a terrace as high as the coconut tree.
Playing with my grandad and watering the plants
In a movie in my head.
With the pictures whirring past.
Black and White
At 16 frames/second.
Do we really remember anything?
Or in the retelling of the story, do the words themselves become the memory.
Another night that started out with promise.
And is ending.
With random thoughts typed and saved on my phone.
Tasks left unfinished.
Tired.
For tomorrow morning.
I'm dreaming of drowning in endless cups of strong sweet black coffee.
I'm thinking of friends. Who have come and gone.
Of brownies that were baked in a moment of insufferable optimism.
I'm thinking of my childhood.
Filling up all these essays for forms has led me to introspect a lot.
What is your most significant accomplishment
Well, making a quilt. From start to finish. Finding a piece of cloth with the right pattern. Learning to use the monstrosity that masquerades as a sewing machine. Talking to my mom for hours. Just like she had spent hours talking to her mom while growing up, making beaded purses and conversation.
What are your strengths and weaknesses
My parents who are simply, always there.
Who watch indulgently while i celebrate successes with friends.
Who taught me that when I falter or get lost, I can always come home to find my way.
My baby sister who'll sit up till 12 at night talking about school and books and fight over pillows.
Friends who taught me that family isn't just biological. Who'll remember things about me that I forgot.
These are my strengths.
And my weaknesses? .. Chocolate
I'm trying to remember my childhood.
Memories of books and singing and eating hot fudge sundaes come flooding back.
Eighth grade science fair and fighting with the boy who broke our experiment.
My fifth grade science teacher who taught me to draw the human heart.
Josephine Ma'am who encouraged me to borrow books from the senior library on her account because at ten, i was too young to borrow books from school.
Dressing up in my first grown up gown for our annual day play. And ballroom dancing with a boy who, at age seven was three inches shorter than me.
My first Enid Blyton that i read in KG2
Books covered in brown paper with labels and marked wit my dad's neat print.
S Sujatha
KG I C
Being brought home from the hospital to a black and white house on a black and white lane.
I remember through someone else's words.
A house with a terrace as high as the coconut tree.
Playing with my grandad and watering the plants
In a movie in my head.
With the pictures whirring past.
Black and White
At 16 frames/second.
Do we really remember anything?
Or in the retelling of the story, do the words themselves become the memory.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Ad Bloggium Ad Nauseum Ad Break
I've not blogged in a really long time
Going by how busy every one is, i'm not sure too many people missed me (cue to flood my comments box)
The truth is, i can't think of anything to say.
and surprisingly for once, that has prevented me from actually saying anything.
I'm sleeping almost fourteen hours a day, for lack of anything else to do.
I'm supposed to be preparing for GD/PI.. but have simply no clue how to go about it..
I'm procrastinating and yawning and looking up recipes for baked corn and spinach in order to avoid the inevitable magazines that are piling up.
I am also apparently setting up a wi-fi network with authentication at the wireless network edge. Did that make sense to you? if so, can you please come help me out? ;)
I wish i were a lot of things.. typical new year resolution depression time.. when i recollect all of last years' resolutions that weren't kept.. Thinner/Taller/Fitter/Smarter/Better.Read/Citius/Altius/Fortius etc..
I want to step outside my comfort zone and do new things.. But am as usual too lazy to do any of the above.
Started out having nothing much to say and am ending almost the same way.
Except for a few words about the Tsunami
Only level one and (to a certain extent) level two of the relief work has been completed. The resettling of displaced communities is as important as the immediate relief. Kinda like first aid versus the actual surgery. We'd do well to remeber that.
Also, this disaster has brought forth a lot of innovation. We have shown ourselves to be a terrifically generous bunch of folks.. Maybe when all this settles down, this generosity could be put to use to eradicate some of our more deeprooted malaises.
I've read about the blogging community coming together forcefully and proactively.. after this is all over.. this direction and energy can be put to use to educate our kids, free our women and empower our poor.
That's something i've been thinking about a lot.
I've also been amazed at how short sighted our administration proves to be (time and time again). Our chief minister now wants to spend 500 Cr to build a coastal protection wall.
*edit* ;)
Madam, are you trying to tell me that your administration which has been digging (ad nauseum) the road outside my house for th past six years (every monsoon season) is going to build a top class coastal protection wall that will withstand storms that private enterprises like the coastal beach resorts cannot construct? The same administration that hasn't been able to provide drinking water or clean up the city?
There are lot more viable solutions :
~ Afforestation - evergreen trees are usually able to withstand cyclones on the coast
~ Building of disaster relief centres every 50km to accomodate the displaced and affected after every coastal disaster - this would cost only some 10 Cr instead of 500
~ Setting in place early warning systems - Joining the Pacific Rim Warning system - this time around, meteorologists in hawaii didn't even have the phone number of someone in India who could have been warned about the impending tragedy
And that's that.
Enough has been said and written online/offline about celebrities and social workers and stories of heroes and miscreants.
I shall stop now.
Thank you and Goodnight
" We will either find a way
or we will make one" - Hannibal
Going by how busy every one is, i'm not sure too many people missed me (cue to flood my comments box)
The truth is, i can't think of anything to say.
and surprisingly for once, that has prevented me from actually saying anything.
I'm sleeping almost fourteen hours a day, for lack of anything else to do.
I'm supposed to be preparing for GD/PI.. but have simply no clue how to go about it..
I'm procrastinating and yawning and looking up recipes for baked corn and spinach in order to avoid the inevitable magazines that are piling up.
I am also apparently setting up a wi-fi network with authentication at the wireless network edge. Did that make sense to you? if so, can you please come help me out? ;)
I wish i were a lot of things.. typical new year resolution depression time.. when i recollect all of last years' resolutions that weren't kept.. Thinner/Taller/Fitter/Smarter/Better.Read/Citius/Altius/Fortius etc..
I want to step outside my comfort zone and do new things.. But am as usual too lazy to do any of the above.
Started out having nothing much to say and am ending almost the same way.
Except for a few words about the Tsunami
Only level one and (to a certain extent) level two of the relief work has been completed. The resettling of displaced communities is as important as the immediate relief. Kinda like first aid versus the actual surgery. We'd do well to remeber that.
Also, this disaster has brought forth a lot of innovation. We have shown ourselves to be a terrifically generous bunch of folks.. Maybe when all this settles down, this generosity could be put to use to eradicate some of our more deeprooted malaises.
I've read about the blogging community coming together forcefully and proactively.. after this is all over.. this direction and energy can be put to use to educate our kids, free our women and empower our poor.
That's something i've been thinking about a lot.
I've also been amazed at how short sighted our administration proves to be (time and time again). Our chief minister now wants to spend 500 Cr to build a coastal protection wall.
*edit* ;)
Madam, are you trying to tell me that your administration which has been digging (ad nauseum) the road outside my house for th past six years (every monsoon season) is going to build a top class coastal protection wall that will withstand storms that private enterprises like the coastal beach resorts cannot construct? The same administration that hasn't been able to provide drinking water or clean up the city?
There are lot more viable solutions :
~ Afforestation - evergreen trees are usually able to withstand cyclones on the coast
~ Building of disaster relief centres every 50km to accomodate the displaced and affected after every coastal disaster - this would cost only some 10 Cr instead of 500
~ Setting in place early warning systems - Joining the Pacific Rim Warning system - this time around, meteorologists in hawaii didn't even have the phone number of someone in India who could have been warned about the impending tragedy
And that's that.
Enough has been said and written online/offline about celebrities and social workers and stories of heroes and miscreants.
I shall stop now.
Thank you and Goodnight
" We will either find a way
or we will make one" - Hannibal
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Cos the love you give, won't mean a thing.. unless you sing, sing sing sing..
It's been a week and a half since the tsunami
and online blogs have helped mobilise a surprising amount of relief for those affected
visit kiruba for a regular roundup of what's happening where
Naveen has satellite pictures of the tsunami and also a list of places where you can contribute
and India Uncuthas daily despatches from Amit Varma who's working in Nagapattinam and Cuddalore with relief organisations
So there you go..
Please contribute your time, effort, money cos every bit counts.
Amen
and online blogs have helped mobilise a surprising amount of relief for those affected
visit kiruba for a regular roundup of what's happening where
Naveen has satellite pictures of the tsunami and also a list of places where you can contribute
and India Uncuthas daily despatches from Amit Varma who's working in Nagapattinam and Cuddalore with relief organisations
So there you go..
Please contribute your time, effort, money cos every bit counts.
Amen
Sunday, December 26, 2004
Water World
It was my mom who first felt the tremors
She was getting her morning coffee and paper in the hall when the picture on top of the TV began to shake
She ran into the bedroom and dragged me and my sis out of the house
We bonded with our neighbours for about half an hour before judging it safe to go back inside
Turns out there was an earthquake measuring6.6 to 8 8.9 on the richter scale in sumatra
A tidal wave hit sri lanka
and then water breached the coast in several parts of chennai. beach resorts, beach houses, ecr, tiruvanmiyur, besant nagar are all flooded. Sea water has come in by about 3 - 4 kilometres.
Water is neck high in Santhome and parts of Mandaveli.
Telephone networks are still working. And Sun TV (in the absence of any ACTUAL footage or news) is drawing patterns of major earthquakes occuring on the 26th of a month with surprising regularity..
In any given month, there is a 0.033 chance that earthquakes will happen on the 26th :)
(.. later updates ..)
as the news pours in, we've all been glued to the telly from the morning.
And casulaties.. from 500 - 1000 in India. atleast 300 in coastal tamil nadu. It's shocking, unbelievable and hard to digest.
We all deal with tragedies in different ways. Some of us live on the phone sharing information.. trying to come to terms with 15 metre high waves. Other obsessviely change channels trying to learn what happened. The gruesome scenes on news channel are hardly any comfort.
The tamil nadu coast guard has FINALLY swung into action.. where were they for so long.. it may be too little too late.. (hope not)
Most of the people who lost their lives were fisherfolk.. or simply everyday chennaiites who were out for a sunday morning stroll or game of cricket.
May their souls rest in peace
She was getting her morning coffee and paper in the hall when the picture on top of the TV began to shake
She ran into the bedroom and dragged me and my sis out of the house
We bonded with our neighbours for about half an hour before judging it safe to go back inside
Turns out there was an earthquake measuring
A tidal wave hit sri lanka
and then water breached the coast in several parts of chennai. beach resorts, beach houses, ecr, tiruvanmiyur, besant nagar are all flooded. Sea water has come in by about 3 - 4 kilometres.
Water is neck high in Santhome and parts of Mandaveli.
Telephone networks are still working. And Sun TV (in the absence of any ACTUAL footage or news) is drawing patterns of major earthquakes occuring on the 26th of a month with surprising regularity..
In any given month, there is a 0.033 chance that earthquakes will happen on the 26th :)
(.. later updates ..)
as the news pours in, we've all been glued to the telly from the morning.
And casulaties.. from 500 - 1000 in India. atleast 300 in coastal tamil nadu. It's shocking, unbelievable and hard to digest.
We all deal with tragedies in different ways. Some of us live on the phone sharing information.. trying to come to terms with 15 metre high waves. Other obsessviely change channels trying to learn what happened. The gruesome scenes on news channel are hardly any comfort.
The tamil nadu coast guard has FINALLY swung into action.. where were they for so long.. it may be too little too late.. (hope not)
Most of the people who lost their lives were fisherfolk.. or simply everyday chennaiites who were out for a sunday morning stroll or game of cricket.
May their souls rest in peace
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