Home.

All this shifting made me start thinking... What is home? Eric Weiner said, "Home is where the heart is" and someone else once said, (don't ask me who, because I can't remember!), " A place is only as good as the people in it". I completely agree with both statements. Home doesn't have to be an actual place! People are home. Family is home. I admit that a house is necessary, because we need shelter. But how can you call it a home if you have no one to share it with? No one to argue with, no one to cook for, no one to cook FOR you, no one to chat with after a long, long day just to unwind. That's not home. That's just a house! You can be a nomad and still feel at home with your tribe! Because they are your comfort zone. In my opinion, that's home! Home can be anything, but mostly it's the people you're with. Because what is home without friends and family?I chose a weird topic didn't I? I really am weird that way! But that doesn't mean I don't believe in everything I just said!

Moving

God! Shifting a house is such a pain in the butt! There is so much work to be done! The first day, we decided to take all our shoes to the new house. It was just two houses down, (please don't ask me why we moved to a different house in the same colony! I've answered that question one too many times!) so we,(me and my sister) stuffed our shoes into packets and carried them there! And we have WAY too many shoes! Now I get why my grandmother calls us spoilt brats! And those were just the shoes! After that we carried cutlery, crockery and so on and so forth! Finally removed into our new house.... But our work was far from complete! The air conditioners were tripping,so we had to get new MCBs',the television and the DVD players had to be connected! I accidentally screwed up the sound bar wire, earning the nickname 'ruiner'! I've sworn not to go anywhere near the connections again! And look what that resulted in! No one has connected the other DVD player! Someone has to and it ain't gonna be me! The curtains had to be put onto the rods and my sister has gotten into a kind of tizzy! Every single day she wants to do the dusting of the house! She goes to the gym before I wake up and before she comes I make the beds so that she doesn't start screaming about that as well! And dealing with people is not easy! And we've had to deal with a lot of people. Starting with the household help to the electricians and plumbers! Then our Internet got disconnected and it took them a week to connect it again! I was cursing BSNL day and night! Can you imagine a week without Internet? I can live without Facebook, but without Wikipedia and google? No way!anyway, I guess we've finally settled in, but it takes time to adjust to a new house. I still kind of miss our old house, with all it's faults! Nostalgia, I guess!

Movies and Dance!

There are times when I wish I could just escape into the world of movies and pretend to be something I'm not! I think it's much easier than being yourself! My favourite kind of movies are about dance! Every time I watch someone dance, (well, of course!) I wish I could dance like that as well! While I don't have two left feet and I can get the rhythm, I'm not exactly a spontaneous dancer... I've always felt a little self-conscious! But everytime I watch a movie like Step Up, Dirty Dancing, Flashdance etc. I just feel like getting up and dancing my heart out, matching them step for step! Not that I can, of course! Watching those dance scenes never fail to bring a smile to my face. The kind of dance I like best is the one that looks spontaneous... and although it's rehearsed, there's something so joyful in the way they move, trying to outdo each other or just plain tomfoolery! Although I can dance, I need to be taught steps, otherwise I'm just lost! There is something very free about dancing, it's almost liberating! At least that's the way I feel!

My View of Paradise

Hello there! Sorry I didn't write for a long time. I'd gone to Barcelona and Paris! Europe is beautiful... Everyone has their views of paradise. It's mostly a beach with tropical climate but as usual I have a different view of paradise. It's Paris. I can see myself spending my entire life there. Brilliant weather, the most amazing food I've ever eaten, beautiful buildings and lovely people! What more do you need? I can imagine walking down Champs-Elysee's eating crepes or macaroons, visiting the Museum d'Orsay and admiring Monet, getting a caricature done at Eiffel Tower and writing stories in charming little cafes found all over Paris! That's paradise for me! And the added advantage is that you don't need to exercise! Because in Paris, like everyone else in Europe, you walk everywhere! It's a dream come true! Paris was all that I'd dreamed of and even more! I can just close my eyes and find myself there. I definitely want to go there again! I also still have to visit Versailles, so that's a reason. For me, walking through Paris is like jumping into a storybook, a fairytale! I was very sorry to leave-for two reasons- one, I wanted to see more of Paris and two, my board results were due any day. I wanted to live in my fairytale for just a little while longer. But that's the thing about fairytales... they end before you want them to. My results came out today. I didn't do as well as I wanted to but my family is happy and that's enough for me! Anyway, I'll see you soon, hopefully!

My trip to Bangkok

I am seriously running out of things to write about! I went to Bangkok this week! God, the malls there are huge! One time, me and my sister found this really cute shop that sold these extremely cute accessories like hairbands, bangles, clips etc., etc. The next day when we went to buy some more, we couldn't find it! We searched and searched and searched and searched. My use of the word several times should convey how much we searched! It was quite frustrating especially when your sister doesn't listen to you because she thinks you don't know squat! We spent the whole day there and didn't even cover all the floors of the mall, that was how huge it was! And then we bought bags and clothes and shoes! Oh God, the shoes! I think we bought about ten pairs! My sister tells me I'm a useless shopping buddy because I never offer my opinion on anything. There's actually no point in me offering my opinion because she takes it as an opportunity to make fun of me! I think she yelled at me an infinite number of times on this trip. Each time I'd open my mouth to say something, she'd just say and I quote,"Shut up, you don't know anything!".  My best experience was eating the ice-cream! I know, I know, I'm a total hog, but that's just me! The Cornetto ice-cream there is so much better than the flavours here! They shouldn't have removed 'Chocolate Truffle Tempt' and the brownie ice-cream and they most definitely should have kept the blackforest ice-cream the same! Not the disgusting thing that they have now! The original one was so much tastier! Anyway, I ate only two flavours there - Chocolate Royale and Black and White (a mixture of white and dark chocolate). Both were AMAZING! Then I ate gelato! I asked for two scoops and they gave me the equivalent of six instead! I couldn't finish it but it was tasty! Wow, I can't believe it's come down to this... I'm talking about ice-cream. I really do need something to do! My mom was right, I was more creative when I had studying to do! Anyway I also had a sundae, if you are interested! I won't bore you with the details! I'm usually a good flyer, but this time I had a bad experience. First of all, the flight was at 1 in the morning on the way there and then my sister kept fidgeting around in her sleep! Then on the way back, everyone around me was snoring and I was barely able to sleep! In Bangkok, other than shopping, we didn't have much to do so my sister and I watched this show called Greek together and also, of course, fought! My mom would spend the whole day working and then come back to the hotel room and we'd all go out for dinner! That pretty much sums up my trip to Bangkok!

A Little Bit of Everything!

So, I'm running out of things to write about. There is absolutely nothing going on in my life right now. No new experiences, no funny stories. Nada, zip, zilch! My mom says that considering my board exams are over, I should be writing everyday and not wasting my time. I've always wanted to travel, you know. I want to see the world! Well, mostly Europe! I want to go to Athens to see the Parthenon, Rome to see the Sistine Chapel and the Colosseum, Verona to see Juliet's house, Paris to see the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, Belgium to eat the chocolates and Greece to... to just see Greece! It's also the reason I'm waiting for 'Mark of Athena' by Rick Riordan to come out! Because they go to Greece! They haven't given us a sneak peek! I wish the movies based on these books were as good as the books! Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief was such a disappointment compared to the book! If you haven't read the book, I'm sure it's very enjoyable but otherwise, it's not bad but not what I expected! It's the same with Harry Potter! The books are sooooo............ amazing! According to me, the last movie was the most disappointing! Even though many people wouldn't agree with me! I wish they'd shown Snape's memories better, shown us more of Fleur (I think she's really funny!), and in general just put more detail! It's really odd the number of people I know who haven't read Harry Potter! Practically all my friends haven't read it! They say it's boring and they might as well watch the movie. How can you call one of the most iconic books published during our lifetime boring? Wow, I can't believe I started this post talking about which places I wanted to see in the world and now I'm talking about Harry Potter! I guess this is the way conversations move too, isn't it? You start off with something and midway you realise that you're talking about something totally different! I think I'm going completely insane! Anyway, see you!(I know that the title is a little misleading because I've talked only about two things but calling it 'A Little Bit Of Two Things' is not as catchy, right?)

Ummmm....

So, I've been doing a lot of reading these days, considering I have so much time on my hands! In the past few days I've read quite a few books of Robin Cook! He freaks me out a little! There's this one book where these two girls donate their eggs so that they can spend a semester of college abroad. One of them, Deborah, is studying microbiology, or something like that (I read it a long time ago, so forgive me if my memory is a little blurry!), so, anyway, she asks for local anaesthesia not general because she wants to know what's happening. Meanwhile, her friend, Jennifer is frightened of hospitals, so she agrees to general anaesthesia. And the doctors take out one of her ovaries! How scary is that! And then, in another book, Coma, some of the doctors, purposely kill off their patients and sell their organs in the black market! The most recent one I read was 'Mutation', where a couple, Victor and Marsha, desperately want a second child, so they try in-vitrio fertilisation and Victor, who is a scientist, fertilises the egg himself. He inserts a special gene into the zygote, so that the child turns out brilliant. He gets what he wants but Victor Junior also turns out to be a killing machine! I wonder if these things can actually happen! Imagine if they did! The world is already scary enough, if this happened, it would be like landing in a horror movie! I mean, we put our lives in their hands! There's this other book, where they purposefully give patients brain tumour! I didn't really understand that one because it had terms that I didn't understand and also that I wasn't really interested! Anyway, as long as this stuff happens in books, I'm fine. So, see you around!