eH! Is everything okay?

I've never been in this point of life where everything I look at tells me something, has some memory or the other to it. Where's the good in goodbye? Why is it so difficult to say it out loud? Why does it have to hit me only in the last minute..when I'm packing my bags and ready to leave? What's so overwhelming about this whole goodbye thing!?! Don't I trust myself? Can't I stay in touch? Is this because I failed to keep in touch the last time I said goodbye?! Why am I downloading all the songs with the word goodbye in them now? Don't I know that it would only make things worse? What the hell am I doing even blogging this? Am I making a memory out of the way I'm feeling right now? Guess not! But yeah...I'm jobless now and have 9 hours to kill before I take my train. 9 hours to cherish my final days in Goa. The magical Goa. 9 hours to think about all the things I'll be doing in 10years to bring me back here. 9 hours to think about all the people I'll be missing...9 hours to think about all the hugs yet to be shared...(Yeah the dots are back! Just beat it!)....9 hours to feel things I've never felt before...9 hours to pay my respect to those who taught me and made my stay an intellectual experience...9 hours to have the final cheese maggi with coke float, donut and tea. 9 hours to think about everything that has to go into my book of life, 9 hours to think about the small moments we've had in the silliest places ever. I guess the rambling will go on for the next 9 hours, probably in different mediums (blog is just one.Should stop using it like my journal!) I guess it would be appropriate to say the damned words now...! Goodbye Goa. Love you and will miss you every single day!

BBC's list of 100 books

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other potential book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (English)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

P.S - Bold - Books I've read
Italics - Books I started reading but never completed
Bold+Italics - Books I did not read because I saw the movie first!

I'm tagging - Shara, Shruti, DPR, Dad, Niru, Disney, Niranjan

Tagggloooooo - After a BIG BREAK!

Rules - Type 20 names in random before you read the questions. Copy the questions to a file and start answering them.

Tagaloooooooooooo! (Missing count of the O's now) atlast! Just came across this old post of mine ( http://creativeexplosives.blogspot.com/2008/03/tagggloooooo-after-break.html). Thought why not now? Given the fact that I've stopped blogging for quite sometime now, I took it as an opportunity to make a memory out of it. I decided to make it my "Master Memory!" :P ! I've typed in the names of all the people I know, admire, respect, acknowledge or have atleast shared a meal with at BITS,Goa. I hereby declare that the following names were typed at random, and the questions following them were answered truly to the best of my knowledge.



1.Akriti
2.Savitha
3.Parva
4.Vishnu
5.Sushma
6.Shruti
7.Kalai
8.Moni
9.Sachin
10.Kabilan
11.Bhakti
12.Kushboo
13.Teju
14.Vidhya
15.Ganesh
16.Mayank
17.Arun
18.Krishna
19.Sumit sir
20.Prakash sir

How did you meet 14?

My junior in college. The first person to come to my room and give me a hug and a chocolate for "her" birthday! :)

What would you do if you have never met 1?

Goa would have been a boring place! Wouldn't have had anyone to share videos and songs with. Wouldn't have anyone to cheer me up when I'm low!

What would you do if 20 and 9 dated?

Laughed My Ass Off!


Did you ever date 19?

Noway! :) *Respect! Respect! *


Would 6 and 17 make a good couple?

HAHAHAHA! One of them would definitely be lucky if that happened! :D

Describe 3

Parva is a cool guy. Has a cherubic demeanor. Totally wild on the inside. Can speak about anything for hours.

Do you think 8 is attractive?

'Course I do! She's a cute person

Tell me something about 7

Kalai is a really good friend of mine. She has a mind of her own and stands up for something she doesn't believe in. Something I admire in her. Never takes shit from people.

Do you know any of 12's family?

Heard a lot but never met anyone in person.

What's 18's favourite?

That would be Music and Dance.

What's 11's specialty?

Her child like innocence. Her nature to truly care for someone.

Who is 9 going out with?

Clueless!


How old is 16 now?

Too much Math! (*dislikes question*) Hmm I guess he's like 26 now.



When was the last time you talked to 20?

Last sem!



Who's 2's favourite band/singer?

Band/singer - no clue. But I do know she likes Ilayaraja's works the best.


Would you date 4?

Nopes. We're good friends for now!

Is 15 single?

Probably yes

What's 10's last name?

Mani


Would you ever be in a serious relationship with 13?

Not really! She has other plans! :P


Which school does 3 go to?

Same as mine!


Where does 5 live?

A few rooms away!



What's your favourite thing about 6?

Her attitude! Totally rocks!