Day 19

How can the same person be great at dancing, an amazing singer, amazing at sports and be the most intelligent of the 500 student lot of class 10th?!

I know such a person. A friend actually. She is amazing company! Always messing around. Fun to be around. Whenever I'm with her I keep wondering how she does what she does. 

I think I now understand how the people who keep asking me how I score so well in the exams feel. There is no secret formula. I always thought that they're just being annoying because they know it themselves that I do nothing special or eat some other type of magical food. But now that I'm in their place, I understand the situation. How does she do all of that stuff so well?

There are those annoying people who keep on updating their statuses all day long and there are those people who post some really self-generated, thought-provoking things. I read something really really relevant status posted by a pass out of my school. 

It is so true. People do confuse good grammar with good communication skills. A lot of people with good grammar lack good communication skills and are socially awkward including myself. 

I didn't think of it this way until today. It is a fact. People really do that. My moment of epiphany. 

Day 17

I am such a pathetic dancer!

I went to a dance class today with my friends and it was a complete DISASTER! I'm never going back there. My body's not flexible at all! 

A friend did something today that totally boggled me. I took a bad picture of her on my phone and she snatched my phone from my hand. Obviously, I thought she's gonna delete it. But what she did next was unbelievable. She took my phone to take a look at the picture. And then she laughed at herself for a whole minute. In fact, she asked me to forward it to her ASAP so that she can show people how funny she can look in pictures. 

There are very few people who can manage to laugh at themselves. Others would just have rushed to delete the picture. She is one of a kind. 

Day 16

So today was the day My friend who had gone on a student exchange to Germany csme back. 

And obviously all we did was sharing stories. Having three people (me, her and mys sister) who've been to an exchange program to the same country there was a lot of sharing. Like a lot. 

The best part of having a friend travelled overseas is the candies and chocolates they get for you. Yay. 

 

Day 14

For the first time in forever it feels like I've eaten wayyyyy too much. 

Dadi was sick so we had to cancel our plan of going outside. So we ordered pizza! And I think I ate toooo much. 

Judging by my physique, most people think I don't eat at all. But I eat like an elephant! I never cut off on my food and never will. Never ever. Never in a million years. 

I seriously have no idea why I am so slim. I wish, work but never achieve to change that. I'm tired of all the "underweight" jokes. For eg.

1. It's too windy today. Do not leave your house or you'll fly away. 

2. Looks like your parents eat all your food. 

3. What did you have for lunch? Air?

4. What's your weight? 50 grams?

5. Even that small kid could hold you up. 

6. You weigh as much as a third grader. 

Seriously, people? You've made a really good point. Stop, now. Please!!

Day 13

So it's true. As long as you think you can think you can do it, you can do it. You just have to believe you can. These lines may sound cheesy but they're true. 

Until today I had thought it was impossible for me to do it as it required too much of patience and skills which I did not have. It required practice and time. A lot of people around me could do it then why not me? I took it as a challenge hoping one day I'll do it. And yes I did it. I'm referring to Scooby Wires. Owwwwwwwh Yeah! My first "scooby wiring", people. 

Day 12

It's high time I finish off with Insurgent. So I'm gonna do it. Today. Even if I have to stay up all night to achieve that. Feeling so so so determined, right now. 

Day 10

The day of the doppelgänger!

There's this smart new admission guy in school in the tenth grade who's  the only thing girls are talking about these days. And I have found his doppelgänger! Yes you read it right! His doppelgänger! There's this boy in my Allen van in the ninth grade who looks exactly like the "new guy". EXACTLY like him. I kept on staring that guy the whole time he was in the van but he didn't really freak out which is a great thing. The more I watched his face, the more similarities I could notice. I could feel a scream rising in my stomach (which I forced not to escape) because the extent of the similarities was just horrifying. 

Also I figured out something about making friends. There's this girl who sits behind me during class. I saw a folder with her with the name of a Medicine Company on it and guessed that her parents are doctors because I get that kind of stuff too having doctor parents myself. Turns out she really has Doctor Parents. And then I spent the rest of talking to her and we're friends. Whoa. Is that all you need to be friends with some one so quickly? A similarity?

And at the end of the day you're blessed with the most-awaited delivery from Amazon with super awesome In-Ear Headphones. Feels great. 

Day 09

So my name is misspelt. Foreverrrrr. 

G between two i's always had the sound of g as in Gym or Germany. For eg: vigil, digit, rigid. 

That way my name would be pronounced Mrigi with the sound of g as in gym. But actually it is the g as in girl. Boohoo! My exchange partner thought my name was Mrigi (gym). So this is surely going to trouble me for the rest of my life! The spelling could have been Mrighi. Maybe. 

Day 08

Okay so proven most boys are better at studies than girls. 

The top batch (out of six) at Allen constituting of more than 55 students has a sum total of five girls including myself. The other batches have at least 12 girls. What does this mean? Girls are a little less laborious or something? That is something I don't know. 

I spent the rest of my day watching HIMYM, The Big Bang Theory and Game of Thrones like any other typical holiday day. Felt good. I don't really want to do something productive because it's holidays! 

Day 06

Good day indeed!

The day of the Cultural Evening! Received a lot of appreciation for the comparing which was quite unexpected. And just when I was beginning to think I did well, my English Teacher Aunt told me I used wrong english somewhere. Facepalm. But people hardly pay so much attention so I think I can chill out. Everything else was just putting chairs on the stage and off the stage as a part of the volunteering business which wasn't really quite a bore. 

The girl I was doing the comparing with, we had set a dress code for ourselves : Red Pants. And then 5 more people show up wearing Red Pants. And we thought people would wear a black or blue jeans. So the dress code thing didn't work out so well. But at the end of the day, that's totally not the kind of thing you really care about. You just need to put up a good show which I think we did. 

Day 05

Lok Sabha Elections 2014 Result day!

Disappointed? Very. Wasn't quite a NaMo Sarkaar supporter. Well actually I supported nobody. All had their own flaws. This video by my brother and team sums up my feelings about the leaders very correctly : http://youtu.be/GMPEYPJvh3M

Day 04

Another day gone by in the Society Cultural Evening Practice. 

Attending the run through, I felt an inferiority complex watching the children dance, sing and play musical instruments. All I'm doing is a little bit of the comparing and editing the Event Sequence after being kicked out of the skit. There are "Jacks of all arts but masters of none". But I think I'm not even a jack of even one such art. Master is totally out of question.

 But I am a very optimistic person. Dancing like zombies and singing like a frog in distress is a talent in itself, right? 

Day 03

Another Society Event! Always so exciting! 

Living in flats is completely different from living in the Galis. The number of events in a society every year is triple the times of events in the Galis. Being that person who just has to take part in all the events, I ended up spending my whole day in typing the comparing and Event List (Which the organising team didn't even read today) for the Cultural Evening scheduled this Saturday. As the event nears, the excitement is constantly increasing. The practices of the dances and skits and musical performances have been going on for a month now. The success of the evening is one thing that is really important to all those who've put on their efforts. Because c'mon nobody wants a flop show, right? 

Day 02

Oh well, holidays! A lot of reading. Like a lot. Finish off all those novels you've been wanting to read. I found out I have more than 10 books to read this summer. Currently reading Insurgent, I'm beginning to think if I'll be able to complete even two.  (I'm quite a slow reader.) On a serious note, I think I'm not doing justice to the books. They all deserve to be read once at least. They're books! If I don't read them, that makes me a rotten owner. Had there been a "Book Court" or something, I would have lost half of my collection till now for sure. 

Day 01

And it's Holiday Season! 

I woke up to a Dementor an inch from my face. Okay, no, not a Dementor. That was just a teddy beside me, the bulbous head forming the body and the ear forming the head of the "Dementor". The silhouette was so Dementor-ish that there wasn't any "Getting Up Procrastination" today. 

Oh C'mon, it's Summer Vacation, what's better than a movie with popcorn and ice-cold Coke with a friend? The movie made us shudder with horror anyway. It wasn't really a horror movie. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. The movie was about how an 8 year old Pure Nordic Aryan befriends an 8 year old Jewish boy and ultimately they both are gassed in the Gas Chambers. It was more horrifying than any horror movie and gave us chills running down our spines through out.