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.