Sunday

sunday is everyone's favourite day of the week... mostly cause it's a holiday.. family time... good food... you can basically do what you wanna... it's my favourite day too... but for different reasons... you see, i love to read the newspaper... and on other days, i'm usually rushing for college and by the time i get back, i don't feel like reading every single article... plus on sundays, the supplements have more pages and with hindustan times you also get brunch which makes a good read....

now for the past couple of weeks, i have noticed a trend... on a particular sunday, some of the regular writers seem to select a theme and write on different aspects about it... like today in brunch there was an article about "first love" and also had sidelines of how firsts of anything always hold a special meaning... and very similar to that was the beginning of the article "why recapture the past" by sonal kalra...

anyway: other observations from today's paper:

1. JON STEWART asked : "is he bon jovi? has he appeared on sopranos?" while refering to shahrukh khan... ummm the first thing i did today was google jon stewart cause i diodn't know who he was and i think he basically said this to get some publicity... after all if you insult a man who everyone loves, then you are bound to get some (bad) publicity....

2. rahul gandhi travelled the metro! yippe... finally our politics has a candidate with some humility...

3.palak (roadies, iss jungle se mujhe bachao person) claimed that roadies is fixed... behen... show khatam hone ke immediately baad claim karti toh hota koi fayda tujhe... ab kya keh ri hai? and if at all what she said is true... then guys at mtv... honestly u thot NAUMAN would get endorsements??? the only place he came was your show connected and this time you didnt manage to make him win again...

4. this is the final point and i have been meaning to say this for a long time... how irritating is the UNDER HONEY'S HAT column???

Lucknow Trip

so finally the trip that my parents had been planning for over a year was realized last weekend when we went to lucknow for the 3 day long weekend... won't make this post a huge diary entry like the bangalore trip...so here are the top points in no particualr order...

1. omg you have to be a non vegetarian to enjoy lucknow... kebabs!!!! god!! awesome... tunday kebab are actually as yumm as they look on tv... they just melt in your mouth... and fell in love with shirmal...maybe becoz it was orange...maybe becoz it was made of dairy products to some extent... but shirmal and tunday kebab are awesome for any meal of the day... but really had a hard time facing the confused looks of people as to why we eat mutton and not beef... in fact we almost ate beef by mistake... thankfully the waiter guy told us and my parents didn't manage to convince me..

2. in any case if you are a veggie and you go to lucknow... a must try is the basket chaat at royal cafe at hazrat ganj... its not very different from the papri chat you will get at your local chat wallah... but the presentation is very innovative!

3. amongst the various sight seeing things... well nothing is worth visiting apart from the bara imambara with the bhool bhulaiya... take a guide and see the whole thing properly... its just awesome... the architect of that place really had some brains man!!! (all you architects and engineers out there would really get to know what REAL WORK is!)

4. there is this huge land area...gomtinagar where mayawati has spent crores and crores... (mostly in trying to convince people to make a statue of hers!)... no doubt that place is the CLEANEST part of lucknow... but it's a major waste of land and resources...

5. i saw how batashas are made... it was very pretty!

6. finally for those who love to shop for clothes... lucknow chikan is like awesome and is available in every budget range and mom and i splurged like crazy because DAD made us spend! in any case, we're not complaining ;)

Venus v/s Mars... uff....

day before yest i was reading priyanka chopra's column in ht city... and it was something to do with imraan khan's column about the war between men and women... and i had to check my newspaper date to see whether i was reading the newspaper of that day or of 2 months back... coz the last time that i read either of their columns... they were still fighting about men v/s women or something like that! i mean guys if you dont have anything to write about then just quit your column for a week or maybe 56! god! it's gotten worse than that book "men are from mars, women are from venus"... which i had originally thought would be a fun book... but had to put it down coz it basically turned in to a marriage counselling book.. so anyway... somebody please tell the people at ht that good actors dont always make good writers.... also imraan and priyanka should also get a clue from the fan mail that they get... none of the mails really write anything about their reactions to the posts!

Can't Think Of An Appropriate Title

Lately i've always found my glass half empty... and even within that half empty i find flaws... people are going away... things are definitely not the way i had imagined them to turn out, about 2 months back... and life in general life is slow...

for starters, i've been sitting at home alone for the last month and a half. that alone is enough todrive someone crazy, i would imagine... on top of that 2 of my closest friends from college are not joining the same masters course as me... and that is kinda sad... coz that just leaves me and this other friend of mine, heavily reducing the cahnces of me having friends in my class... on top of that my sister is leaving for her mbbs. now don't get me wrong i am very happy for her... but she's like a sibling to me.. we live in the same building... and 10 years is such a long time... and like monica and rachel say... "ITS THE END OF AN ERA"...

i started reading again... trying to make up for what i lost in the last 3 years... and also what m gonna lose in the next 7 or 8 years... sadly... i havent even managed to complete 3 books in th past 2 months... thats real sad for a person who finished a robert ludlum or frederick forsyth in 3-4 days...

the only good thing i have done is to get enough sleep to not complain at least for the next 2 years... coz that is all i do.. i sleep, eat, watch some tv (while half sleeping coz there r no good shows on air) and sleep again....

anyway some random updates:

1) i am gonna be in du for the next 2 yrs: deptt of chemistry

2) i joined twitter again... to follow me go to my profile through this link

http://twitter.com/jahnabiroy

3) i tried learning that barrons wala word list... gave up after the very first list... so if anyone has any ideas of better or rather innovative ways... please leave in ur comments or email me at jahnabi.roy@gmail.com

4) i am sorry to all those people who have seen me as offline on their gtalks for a long time now... i have blocked you prolly... but then it's just a phase... m having mood swings... and i'm sure u could do without my cribbing as to how much i miss my bf... i will add u back as soon as i am back to college...

5) same sorry to my blogger frnds whoz blogs i havent visited in a while... i cant think clearly... dont wanna put random comments on potsts i didn't have enough brains to read thru... will start reading again next month when m bak to college...

6) watched new york... awesome... those who havent seen it...should go...

anyway m sleepy again... will post shortly... ttyl...

The Consolation Prize

Everyone who managed to read through my previous post saw how absolutely unlucky i've been this year with my interviews and all... Anyway, so following the policy, you win some when you lose some... the man up there (although i dont believe in him having to do anything with all of this), did decide to even things up finally! I am a graduate now... and i managed to top my college in 3rd year and by such a huge margin that although i came 5th in my class in the first two years consequtively, i managed to come 2nd in overall in my college... :) I still can't believe it! At first i thought my friends were playing a prank on me... and now that i have seen the list with my own eyes, i have a new theory that the marks were printed wrong...lol... my mother even joked that i should give my papers for re checking for reduction of marks... lol!

This is like the first time ever that i have topped in the final exams, thanks to my best friend who never managed to lose his grip on that spot while in school and lets face it i've never studied since college started so this is AWESOME!!!