You're Beautiful.... Tennis Style

Since tennis fever is in, thought i'd put this up. I laughed all the way through it. Federer's love for Sharapova on the tennis court.....
The last part is amazing...

Happy New Year.....

My late new year wishes to all. Nothing more now. Cheers... ;)

A few more days and 2007 is history. It is due to this that i thought i'd look back at the highlights of 2007, and look forward to 2008....

Recap of 2K7

My last full year of school!!! (How much i shall miss it)
The Indian cricket team winning and losing two different world cups in the same year.
Passing 11th grade successfully. (I know its dumb)
Our band (if you can call it that) playing at culturals...
BV (cultural secretary) acting DUMB in dumb charades...
Batchmates hooking up with each other.. and others.... I dont need to mention names.. You know as well as i do...
Hmmm.... What else?? New indian woman president??? Cant think of anything else. So lets move on to........

2008!!

Turning 18...!!! Becoming an adult. :)
Legally being able to drive..... vote...... drink?? :)
Board exams.... (Seriously... I am interested)
Going to college... :)
End of school life... :(
Just to emphasise... END OF SCHOOL LIFE!!!
The Olympics.. (Not really but hoping india gets more than 1 bronze... It is an embarrassment)
The U.S. Presidential elections... (I'm not into politics... But look at the bright side.. No more Bush)
World peace.. :)
The development of india into a more developed nation... Jai Hind!!

Its been like an aeon since i wrote something here. A small vacation you could call it. Anyways, i thought i'd put this up after reading an article on the internet which quite amazed me. It said that a normal commuter in urban cities could spend up to 2 weeks in traffic every year. That is 14 days of your year spent in waiting for the car in front of you to move. Also, the cost of traffic around the world in the year 2006 was estimated to be $90 billion. That is, not counting the environmental pollution and damage to human health. The obvious solution for this would be to widen roads so that traffic could move more smoothly. Research says that contrary to this belief, widening roads would do no help in removing traffic congestion as it would result in more cars using the road which would cause heavier traffic. And the situation seems to be getting worse as more and more cars flood roads everyday. Now this was the interesting part. The article had a list of cities which vied for the world's worst traffic. In the list were 3 indian cities, including our very own chennai. The list is....

Los Angeles, USA
Bangkok, Thailand
Beijing, China
Washinton D.C., USA
Dubai, UAE
Cairo, Egypt
Mumbai, India
Calcutta, India
Chennai, India
San Francisco, USA
Jakarta, Indonesia
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Shanghai, China


Most of the traffic in indian and chinese cities is said to be due to the two-wheelers weaving through larger vehicles.
Chennai is on the world stage. I feel so proud....

Its All Coming Up

There always is a buzz around the school nowadays. With a lot of things to look forward to, everyone is busy doing something. Preparations are on for the Annual Day, the Sports Day, the Teachers Day, maybe something else i have missed out on too. The teachers too are involved. You'd see so many of them sitting with the students performing the Annual Day play. Coming from prior experience, i can tell you that half of the teachers there would have no idea of what was going on. The other half would keep fighting amongst themselves as they'd have completely different view points. It is chaos, i tell you!! Poor old Govindarajulu sir could be seen staying away from the commotion and painting designs for the backdrop in the confinements of the physics lab. Then there are the girls of our class, who started preparations for the dance they would do on teachers day "1 whole month" in advance. Yes, you read it right. With so much practice, we're all expecting fireworks on the D-Day. Our respected cul. sec. B.V. is busy allocating students for every teacher. Hehe, and then there is our band. Oblivious to the fact that we have to play. We're not even planning to start practice anytime soon.
Sports day is around the corner, and intramurals are being played everyday. House captains looked tense at this time of the year, counting up their teams' chances at the various sports played. As of now, Bhagi is leading!! Yay Manish and captain Preethi!!
And yeah. I forgot to mention our Chinmayam coming up. No more than 3 schools participating, its not something i want to write pages on about.
Well, with all good things comes some bad ones. This time, not very surprisingly, it is in the form of EXAMS. Cycle tests, followed by the Quarterlies right after all these festivities end. The busiest time of the year i'd say. Everyone on their toes....

Forwards....

As i open my mail box today after a week, i see the usual mails flooding in. I could find just one personal message in the 2 pages of e-mails i looked through. The rest...?? Forwards. These mails are a popular means of wasting your time sending people threats, make-beliefs, and sentimental stories. And these mails move in a chain as people faithfully keep mailing them to every contact in their address books. Only if it was all true......

This girl Pavitra has been in her final year of college for quite some time. She has lost her eyes and needs money. Yahoo, google, and all the other e-mail service providers have alloted 10 paise for every time you forward her story to anyone. By now, she'd be pretty rich if that was the case.

This one was funny. Someone's daughter had a huge hole in her heart. And.... (I guess you'd know the rest)

The president of Argentina got the mail but didn't forward it. His son died the next week. Another recipient lost her job. I wonder what i lost when i didn't forward the message.

Some Ashish or Kirti would add me as a friend on orkut. This request would contain a virus.

I'd not use deodarants as they cause cancer.

I'd not drink colas because they were only useful while removing toilet stains.

I'd not go to the theatre as i might have sat on a needle affected with AIDS.

Orkut would have deleted my account a LONG time back.

If i forwarded those messages, there would have been so many girls who would have proposed to me by now.... :D

I'm tired of writing already. And i've not even read half of my new messages. Some people sure have time on their hands.
P.S.- No offence to people who forward mails. Keep at it.

See you next time. Oh, and by the way, if you dont forward this post to 4374926734 people in the next 1 hour, you will turn into a cockroach tomorrow.
Enjoy!!

Talent From All Around

As the name suggests, this column is about recognising talents from all around . Today's edition talks about two such people........
The madness of 12th sweeps through the whole of the ground floor. Away from all this choose to stay a few people. Two of them are the topic of this post. Hidden in the corner of the class room, these two study, eat between classes, play bingo, and write poetry. And by the way, i'm not talking about P.B. and Pramod (Haha... Them writing poetry... ). It is the amazing poetry of our editor Upasana and her sidekick S.P.L. Nikitha that is today's subject . This was their work during Kanti ma'am's class. All with words taken from what she was teaching.....

Note:- None of these are inter-connected. They were just made using four words which rhyme.

Sin sin
Makes strangers of kin
It is an empty bin
Of all that you didn't win

Pain pain
Makes men insane
Some gain
From this stormy rain

The swan is a bird
Whiter than curd
Its life is absurd
Complicated as a surd

Chinmaya Vidyalaya is my school
It is uber-cool
Anyone who wont drool
Over it is a fool

Profitable profitable
Freedom is a fable
No exit from trouble
That can only double

There were a lot more. Thought this would do for now. If any of you want yourselves or anyone else you know to be the next subject of this column then leave a comment. Till my next entry......... SEE YA...