All I've learnt and a bit more

After a whole year,a million fights,a thousand laughs,a billion tears and a whole load of other things,I realised that this year I've learnt a lot of things.
1.)Night after night of Masterchef has taught me a whole load of cookery(though I still can't cook!)Most importantly I learnt that foie gras is goose liver!
2.)My friends taught me that there is nothing called weird.Being called crazy is actually a good thing.The more the level of madness the better the person.
3.)My sister taught me that there is always time for something you love to do.Even if your exams are the next day,there is always time.
4.)I also learnt that no matter how well I practice something,perfection comes last moment.
5.)Benglish and Hinglish exist.
6.)Turning 13 made me more childish than I ever was.Not only did I try to go back to my childhood but so did many of my friends and especially so did my sister.I started watching The Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's lab all over again!It made me realise that I knew about Amoeba long before I studied it.
7.)Starting a blog has made me realise that how few of my ideas I actually use.I also understood that most of my literary ideas don't make sense and how they always come to me while I'm bathing or eating.
8.)I can't sing.I can't sing at all.
9.)I am capable of liking a dance form even if I am incapable of doing it well.
10.)I CAN watch 3 movies back to back(I know it's not that big a deal and a million other people can do it too,but I needed a tenth point and I have run out of ideas.Sorry)
Ah well!Bye 2010!Hello 2011!
p.s.-2011 BE NICE!

Two left feet

Dance.Well,what do you say to a girl who gets too embarrassed and is unusually shy?I'm shy only when I have to dance.No fear of speaking in public or anything else.Just dance.My hand and leg coordination is probably negative.
So now imagine my position when I heard we have to salsa for sports day!I felt really scared.I had to dance in front of all the parents,teachers etc.!I was filled with dread as I started to learn all the steps.
In the beginning,my two left feet refused to obey my teacher's instructions.I felt too embarrassed to do any of the steps.Slowly and steadily,things changed.
I started liking or should I say loving the graceful dance. Even though I was still as challenged in dance as I was in the beginning,I managed to pick up all the steps perfectly.Before I would dance only in the privacy of the bathroom or my room. But now?
Now I'm dancing in front of people.Funnily my I now have a partially left right foot and a left foot!
Salsa is lot of fun!And considering it's the first dance that I'm doing with actual care I'm liking it even more!
Ah well!Hope I don't go back to the same position as I was before, after sports day!

Thoughts

I have loads of thoughts passing through my head every second.Most of them are too good to be true.But who knows what the world would be if they came true!
1.) People say that picturing a crowd in their underwear makes you fell less nervous when you're on stage.I think that by doing that you feel like bursting into peals of laughter. So whenever I imagine myself up on stage, elocuting a tragic piece and imagining the crowd like that, I see myself bursting into a huge throaty laugh just as someone tragically dies in my elocution piece.

2.)What if spiders could talk?Would they say something like,"Hey i wish i had shorter legs!" or "wow that was one delicious moth!"? When we shoo them away will they say,"Alright,alright I'm going!You don't have to be so pushy!"?
I wonder if they have a parlor where they go for their monthly hair cuts.
Well who knows?I guess I'll have to wait till I am one!(not looking forward to it)

3.)What if dolls are really murderers like that doll in 'Child's Play'?Would my ladybird soft toy a.k.a. cushion try to attack me at night?

4.)What if God had an 80's style wig and an electric guitar? Since Hindu's have a God for everything,there should be a God for this too!

5.)What if there is really a 'school' of fish?Do they learn how to lie down when they are being fried?Or how to free themselves onto a fishing hook?

6.)Maybe there are signs inside our body lined with lights pointing out the way to our ear or stomach.Maybe there are tiny little yellow creatures called minions(like the ones in the movie Despicable me)which help out our body to function properly!

7.)What if there were these voodoo dolls you could use to control people?That would be too good to be true?

8.)what if clouds are actually made of cotton candy and rain the water falling from an upturned vase in Heaven?Then thunder would be chairs and tables falling and lightning would be torch lights!

9.)What if we could change form like Mystique from X-men?
How great would that be? We could become Kate Winslet or Jennifer Lopez in the blink of an eye!

These were only a few of the array of thoughts that I have.
Caution;Stay in touch with me for a while and you'll have such thoughts too.Craziness is contagious!

There she sits...

There she sits,all alone
She has no one to console
her,to feel her pain.
As wisps of her dirty hair,
Fly across her face,
She counts the days.
The days she spent on the road
The people who ignored her;
There were loads!
All her happiness gone with the blink of an eye,
All her life became a lie.

Why was she abandoned on the street?
To bear the bitter cold,the terrible heat?
Did no one feel for her?
Did she have no mother or father?
The pain destroyed her from inside,
Sometimes she wished she died!

Another traffic jam to start her day,
Another group of people shooing her away.
She begs, she tries, she really does
But who cares for her?No one does.
The cars drive off, she's alone
No one's there to see her moan.

The people walking about
Some give her a penny or two,no doubt.
But is that enough to heal her soul?
Or give her a piece of food as a whole?
People laugh,they point and stare
At her clothes,her face, her hair.
The pain kills her from inside,
Sometimes she really wished she died.

There she sits,its late at night,
She looks up at the sky and sighs,
Another day in her life gone by......

Letters

Dear Computer,
Do you have to shut down whenever I'm listening to a great song?Do you have to hang when I'm chatting with my friends?
yours inquisitively,
Adrija

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Dear Biology,History and physics,
Could you please have a little less information?
yours furiously,
Adrija

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Dear Blog,
Does anyone read you?Does my writing bore you?Do you have better things to do with your life?,
your's depressingly,
Adrija

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Dear Adrija,
WHOA!You must have lost it completely!Your writing letters to weird people!I suggest you shut down your computer and have a glass of water and go to sleep.Please do visit
your psychiatrist tomorrow.
your's concernedly,
Adrija

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Note to self: Go and find your brains as soon as possible.
Caution to reader:Grab a pillow this might put you to sleep.

In reply to 'Late'

It didn't happen.I still followed my watch absolutely ignoring my father's tries to tell me I wasn't late.
AND
It happened again!

Late

School starts at 8 a.m.I got out of the house at 7.35 a.m for school, absolutely sure that I would be very late for school.

As we zoomed through the light morning traffic near my house I thought maybe I wouldn't be that late.Maybe I'd be just in time.

Who was I kidding?The worst was yet to come.

Pretty close to school,I found myself stuck in a massive traffic jam.I was pretty used to that because I usually was this late.But little did I know that that day would be like no other.

At around 7.50 a.m. I was stuck at the end of a never ending row of cars.I was still calm,having been in a such a situation many times previously.

7.55..........7.56..................7.57..............

I was still stuck in that jam.Slowly I started to panic.My father(who takes me to school)tried to tell me that I had a lot of time left.But I was no one to listen to others at this time.My father(after a lot of coaxing) and I jumped out of the car and started our walk to school.Though it was pretty close to school,when you're walking it doesn't seem so close.

After what felt like forever I reached the gates of my school.Breathing a sigh of relief,I glanced at my watch.8.02 a.m.! I was late and now I would be late for morning assembly.Walking at the speed of light I rushed into school.The sight that met my eyes made me feel more frustrated than I've ever felt.I saw a few girls walking about here and there, a few others ambling along to the assembly hall and many others coming in late just like me.But I still had the long walk from the back gate to the front gate.

I started walking briskly to class(which happened to be on the floor above the hall).

Passing by it,I stole a glance into the hall.I saw a few girls there standing around and talking.

Puzzled,I looked at my watch.8.05 a.m,time for assembly!Feeling utterly confused,I climbed the two flights of stairs to my classroom,breathless and sweaty.

My friends stared at me as if I were demented.

"What time is it?" I asked one of my friends.

"It's just 8 o'clock!"she replied.

The world came crashing down as these words reached my ears and the realization struck me that I wasn't actually late and I had uselessly walked like a speeding train the whole distance to school.

Furious,I went down for assembly,sweating buckets and promising myself that from the next time I would trust my father's watch and not mine.

War

Why is there so much sadness?

Can't anyone stop this madness?

Everyday in one place or the other,

People kill one another.

Don't they have a heart?

They have no conscience,thats a start!

Breaking news!A train has crashed,

Everyone shakes their head and says,

"Oh its nothing but the Maoists avenging the past!"

2 People dead after a bombing,

1 of them a child,

With a bright future dawning.

People with families,friends and foes,

Are dying,

Doesn't anyone know?

Why this war?

Why do people fight more and more?

Suffering,dying,

Grieving,lying,

Can't people care a little more?

After a death of so many people,

How do people apologize?

Have they no heart?

The pain ,it hits me like a dart.

Day after day the suffering happens,

Shoulder after shoulder the tears dampen.

Dear reader,please believe me,

There is nothing worse than a mass bombing in your city.

Or a hundred deaths after a train crash,

Or all the people in charge taking decisions so rash.

So let's take a step towards a better world.

Is it so hard to love mankind,

In this wide,beautiful world?

Vampires

Blood-sucking creatures.That's the easiest way to describe a vampire. The craze started with Twilight.There was Count Dracula before that, but it was nothing compared to Twilight. Edward Cullen to be more precise. The whole concept of cape wearing,coffin staying,razor toothed creatures just disappeared. In came the porcelain skin which would shine in the sun,the golden eyes,the unmatchable beauty.

After that came a million other books with similar story lines,human and vampire bonding. Um....seriously? Even after reading my fair share of vampire books,I still prefer the creepy blood-sucking ones that could be warded off only with garlic. I still picture them sleeping in coffins, with their arms crossed across their chest.When those coffins opened bats flew out and the vampires magically came out like a jack-in-the-box.

Not to say that I am against Twilight.I loved the books and was infatuated with Edward Cullen too. But after pondering over it, I discovered that the word vampire still holds the old image in my mind.

I guess I have to find out the truth about them by myself. Anyone know any vampires? No? Ah well, I guess I'll have to Google it!

Creepy crawlies

Insects are really weird.They watch us all the time.When we bathe,when we eat,when we sleep.I wonder what they think.I bet it's something along the lines of-"Look at those freaks of nature!Only two eyes!How do they see clearly?Just two legs! No wonder they're so slow!"

I love nature but I just can't feel fine when there is something with so many feet,eyes and sometimes multi-colour wings staring at me.

I hate spiders. I just can't stand those eight-legged freaks.There is something about them that really makes me feel like jumping up and down screaming 'EW!'I guess it's their multiple legs. Or maybe it's their numerous eyes. I just don't know.I've hated them since I was little.

Spiders have this weird effect on me. It's like I freeze in place. I just can't move.I can't even scream for help. So I guess you can imagine my position when I am stuck in the bathroom with one in there.Some of them are even professionals at broad jump, so when I see them on the wall at one moment, I see them right beside me the next!

Earthworms.I just can't be close to them and not freak out.They are these slimy weird things that I just can't stand.Why are they so slow?Why do they appear in toilets?Why do they have to come during monsoon,when everything is slimy and slippery anyway?Why do people step on them and make matters worse?

I hate those things with shells.They happen to be called snails.YUCK! Even 10 years of Spongebob Squarepants and his snail pet Gary, couldn't change my opinion about them.Some of them are HUGE!

Moths have to be brown.Why?They have to fly haphazardly.Why?So they can scare me?They have to come and place themselves on my head.Why?I hate them too.

Ah well, after all that hatred lets move to a better topic...........um..........lets see now.......anyone any ideas?..... OK I got one!

Lizards. I HATE THEM!!!!

Overworked

The title says it all.I'm overworked.This is all because of the fact that I'm growing up. I hate growing up. Growing up means more work, more things to do,more things to worry about,more things to learn...the list is endless!

The past two weeks were spent staying back at school till 3 p.m. saying my elocution piece a million times. My piece happened to be an extract from Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer. When I first elocuted my piece in front of the class 11 girl in charge of my category, she stared at me as if I was speaking in Hebrew. My piece had two kids and their older brother, Artemis.It was a part in which Artemis tries to teach his two brothers,Beckett and Myles (who happened to be two years old and twins), a few restaurant terms. The excerpt follows with the mayhem that follows considering the fact that they were kids and barely understood what their 15 year old brother was trying to say.

After I said my piece the girl asked me,"So, what is the moral of the piece?"

Those two weeks saw me eating my lunch at 4p.m. and studying till 10p.m. and then practically passing out.

After that was over, I thought i could breathe a sigh of relief..... BUT no no no, the world wasn't happy with what I had done.BAG LOADS of homework came after that and just to put the cherry on top I caught a cold. AGAIN!!

Really I can't take it anymore.There should be a way out of this dark hole of despair.To make things worse, there is a science exhibition coming up and EVERYBODY at school has to take part.I'm doing chemistry.And guess what our topic is? It's glass.GLASS?Really what experiment can you do with that?So now I have to go searching high and low for experiments.But the silver lining is that our teacher agreed to change our topic.Phew....at least one good thing!

I really envy my sister. 1 and a half months of holiday! WOW! I could KILL for that!

With everything in such a mess, I haven't been able to do anything properly.I've been reading a book for a WHOLE month! I haven't even been practicing my Mandolin!I'm just too tired to do ANYTHING!All I do is listen to hard rock and rap music and eat and do homework and sleep.

Just my luck that I haven't even been able to watch a SINGLE proper match in the football world cup!Now Portugal's out of the tournament so I don't even have Cristiano Ronaldo to ogle at!

Things just couldn't get any worse.Life as a cat seems like a good option now.

True confessions of a lie

Hi!I'm a lie,

I'm everywhere around you.

Even though you say you don't use me,

I know for sure that you do.

"Why didn't you call me yesterday?"

Your friend asks.

You know that you did it on purpose,

but you put on a mask.

With an apologetic smile,

(which is as fake as fake could be)

You say,

"Sorry, I completely forgot!

I had a long and tiresome day!"

Here you use me without a thought,

Whether or not your friend understood,

As if you cared a lot!

"What where you doing a minute ago?"

Your mother asks.

You know you were talking on the phone when you weren't supposed to,

But why speak the truth and create such a hullabaloo?

So you put on an innocent smile,

(which is as fake as fake could be)

And you say,

"Oh I was just studying loudly,

Couldn't you see?"

Again you use me without a thought,

That your mother actually understood.

When you lied she made up her mind,

That you are banned from using the phone for good!

Dear people on earth,

It's is my request to you,

Stop using me as frequently as you do.

Let me be locked up in a dusty cupboard,

Never to be used again,

And honesty will get you trust, love and many-a friend!

Let me gather dust

And become brown with rust!

Because you see my friend,

Though I might help you through sticky situations,

When used constantly,I lead you to a dead end.

Don't think I like doing that,

Because as a matter of fact I don't.

And since I help you,

You can help me too with a simple 'I won't'.

My dear friend,you see, I'm honest,don't you?

So why don't you convert to honesty too?

ACHOOOOO!!!!

*sniff* *sniff*
I have a cold yet again. Why? Why do colds keep attacking me?I can almost hear the Commander of the virus army saying "Okay soldiers, all of our next attacks will be on Adrija!"
Colds are disgusting.For example,when you're having a bath and you bend slightly down, your nose starts running and your covered in snot. Baths are supposed to make you clean not dirty.Colds just complicate the whole thing.
Worse still, your talking to someone and you can feel the sticky phlegm in your throat and smell the disgusting smell coming out of your mouth.Just think how disgusting and embarrassing it is.
But well I'm used to it. I'm so used to it that when I don't have a cold, I find it really unusual.
Anyway, coming to other news I had Mandolin class yesterday. I learnt On Top Of The World.It's a really nice song.
I'm reading Princess Diaries 7 again. I like that book.
I made a card for my mother for mothers day(which is today).I am terrible at art and craft(I'm only good at glass painting), so my card looked like a 2 year old had made it.But mom liked it.She likes everything I make; that's what makes her the best mom in the world!
Anyway I better shut down the computer because its going to rain and if there is lightning the computer will blow up.
So, see you till my next blog entry!
A-A-A-ACHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Lots to do

I have LOADS to do.
I have 4 essays due for tomorrow and I have no idea what Im going to right.
I have answers to learn up,which again I havent done.
I have books to finish.
I have a song to pick up on my mandolin.
I have to study.
Oh my god!How am I ever going to finish?
Ah well..the grass is always greener on the other side.
P.s- Going back to my previous post,I have stopped spending endless hours on facebook doing nothing and I am reading and writing more.But I haven't stopped talking endlessly.
Hope I can soon stop doing that soon.
Oh and also I have more or less stopped saying 'You all' (hope my sister's happy!)

A New Begining

Hello world!
I'm a 13 year old girl inspired to make a blog after watching the movie 'Julie and Julia' (though i can't cook) . I play the mandolin and had thought myself completely musically challenged before I started playing it. Now I love it to the power of infinity. I love to read and write.
Have I mentioned I love talking? I can go on for hours and hours.
Anyway so this is supposed to be a new beginning so from now on I'm going to :-
1.) Talk a little less because I know my family and friends are tired of hearing my constant babble.
2.)Read and read and read(though I do that anyway).
3.)Write more(that's also why I started a blog).
4.)Stop spending endless time doing nothing on Facebook.
5.)Do the things I love( waking up at 11am in the morning not counted, heh heheheh).
Finally I have a to do list to um...do?
Anyway, jokes apart I hope I can carry this out.
p.s. 6.)I'm going to stop saying "you all" on my sister's behalf so she can stop screeching herself hoarse asking me to say "you".