bitsian lingo

a while ago, when I was talking to one of my friends, he cut me and remarked that he noticed I use a lot of the word 'bugger' and went on to say, it might be a bitsian lingo or something, but I am sure people in the 'real' world would not appreciate it. Brings me to these questions:
1.Do bitsians stand apart(no matter how old we are) from the rest of the crowd because of our language and manners?
2.Is 'bugger' that big an expletive anyway
3.Is BITS so stark different from the 'real' world?

travelling more

Last week was more of travel for me. I was at my cousin's place in New Jersey. I was meeting him after more than 8 years and I understood it was still difficult for him to believe that I am as old as I am :). After getting off that loooooooonng boring flight, he called me promptly and gave me exact directions to the exit.'take the third door, you should be fine. Don't worry, I will pick you up in 15 mins. Give me a call if you need anything.' I was amused..my parents never expressed their concern on my travelling around all by myself. Somehow, I think they are convinced that I can run around any place and come back home and safe and fine. So, here we are: wednesday evening with my brother again:
Me: So, I can take the train tomorrow to New York, illa?
Anna:Sure da, I will drop you off while I go to work. Cross the roads, get your ticket, I will give you a map of the metro. It is pretty simple, dont worry. You should be fine.
Me: Great, how long is it?
Anna: Oh, its about an hour or a little more by this train.
Me: Is there a tourist information center or anything like that in New York?
Anna: Nah, nothing like that, but I will give you directions later. You can see the statue of liberty, times square and everything without a problem...but later
I looked at my watch and it was already 11.30 and he had to leave at 7.00 in the morning...well, may be tomorrow.
Morning 6.45 am
Anna: good morning sleepyhead, sweetie..climate looks bad today, why dont you go tomorrow?
Me: err..ok
Thursday evening, a replay of the previous day's conversation took place. Resolving I am definitely seeing New York the next day, I fell asleep.
Friday Morning: 6.45 am
Anna: Its raining today, why dont I take you to New York myself tomorrow.
Me: err..ok
Later in the afternoon, my manni tells me that my brother was really worried about me travelling alone.
Trust me the feeling was really different, being a little sister to someone. I enjoyed every bit of it.
more later

come josephine like a flying machine

some strange reason, this song kept playing in my mind as I flew today. For the first time, I actually flew over the sea during day time. It was beautiful, is definitely an understatement. The blues of the sky and the sea merged at some point, which I cannot call horizon, now that the point of reference is no longer land. Little puffs of white clouds soon turned to white sand dunes..I wouldn't call what I saw a sun rise..the sun did not rise, I was rising and met the sun at some point. Going above, up I went..

India

Home Sweet Home, having all the fun. India, I now realize is a land for all five senses..the sights, sounds, smells of this land is far too mystic.
The connexions here are impossibly slow, will start penning after I get back.
Cheers, till then

end sem

Every semester, be it in Pilani or here in the Pilani of US, semester end has always been crazy for me. This sem, I have to wind up all work waaay before it is due. I am going home! Darn! No time to even get excited about the fact. It is going to be a good 1.5 yrs and I can't help but wonder how things would have changed. Even if it hasn't much, I am sure I would say that they have changed, just to make some ado about nothing :). With an exam tomorrow, course yet to be started, I have a long night ahead and a longer day. I should be able to get into shape pretty soon, and write more..India! here I come :)

one of those..

today was one of those
-beautiful mornings when I rose with a smile on mylips
-great days with soft sunshine and gentle breeze
-perky times when I felt I have all priorities in my life right
-connecting day when I spoke to my long lost classmate and we caught up with ol' times
-productive times, when I listed my todo list and actually struck off things from it(did u hear from me, rat?)
-just a happy day, with less than 7 days to some of the happiest moments in my life
-friendly days, when my roomie and myself had a nice walk and talk to the library

simply smiles,
C'est moi qui souris

lipstick lexion??

I am not a big make up beauty. Frankly, when I look at that tray, I have no clue which goes on which part of the face. I know bare minimums, like lipstick is for lips and eyeliner is for the eye. I always am amused at these articles on msn(or take your favorite time-pass site). Look at the one today: lipstick lexion. It advises: if you have a dark skin..now how am I supposed to know how dark my skin is, I mean, are we talking about dark like dark dark or are we talking about dark like medium dark or slightly dark. And wow..what is this dark tone that is being spoken about?and oh great! now I need to know if I have a medium skin tone with golden undertones, err..undertones?under to what? The article makes me give up all hopes of learning to make up. Me, who cannot draw a straight line of 2 cms without a scale, how can I hope to work with these unique tools of art aka lipstick,mascara... how can I hope to be a Rembrandt to paint Night Watch. It amuses/scares me to read the directions to apply on the sites..apply a dusting of translucent powder...oh, you lost me. I realized that I sport a bewildered look when I read these articles...who wouldn't? Imagine if I had to read these directions and follow them, God help me! I am supposed to get natural, understated wet look with a hint of color and varying degrees of shine. Help! this sounds a lot like deriving Penrose equation to prove disk accretion in Schwarzchild black holes(thanks VJ, for this part)..what now? Now, men of the world, do you understand, it would take us time to get ready, cause we need to get the right look and feel by throwing a slick layer of Hudsalva (Swedish, all-natural cocoa butter stick) or Vitamin E stick over a lipstick that is deep and riche so that with ingredients like porous silica seal it in, and cetyl octoanate, the lipstick would last longer.

Long live La langue de maquillage