Oh no.. I love this kind of weather! And I absolutely adore staying at home lazing about, so it's all okay! Weather like this is the perfect time to read a book under the covers... make some soup for yourself.. have a long chat with someone or watch something fun.

-smiles-

I wish I was home now...

I'm home! I'm home! I'm home! I'm home! I'm home!

Though for a very short while... :D

I feel like Tatsuki right now actually. Why Tatsuki? Well let's just say that now I know how she felt when she realised that she wasn't as important as she thought she was in Orihime's or Ichigo's lives. And how far away she is from them, despite being physically present every day. As usual, not much has happened to set me off to my low mode. Oversensitive is not enough. Anyway, I feel unwanted again. Not by family, but by friends. Like there's not a single friend who I'm important to. Well, not exactly that, but not a single person who attaches as much importance to me as I do to them. I know I'm not fun enough- I know I have quiet tastes and am a damper of crazy spirits in general.

But that's the way I am. Aren't friends supposed to like you the way you are? I'm not stating they don't like me, but... this is hard to say, but I'll say it anyway. I feel that given a chance, they'd rather have somebody else's company than mine. Yes, I'm sure that I'm nice to have around- but no one would miss me so much if I wasn't around. They'll miss me, but I'm sure I'll recede to a nice memory in the past, not referred to much.

What I have a gripe about was I needed to talk about that bitch. She knew it.. she tried calling and I didn't pick.. but still. That was once and I was sleeping then. Does she think that I'm over it? That I don't need a talk and reassurance sometimes? Appu made me feel like a useless piece of trash she picked up on a sidewalk... do they think it's so easy to get over that sort of betrayal? I know why I don't need to be called... I know inside, but saying it here will make it real.

What do I do? What? Are my values and personality more important? I hate the fact that I'm not spontaneous and lively. I hate the fact that no matter how much I've hung around a person, they cannot recollect any fun they've had with me. I hate the fact that when I'm with someone, all we keep doing is wish that somebody else was there... the unspoken implication being "instead of you" And though I miss her myself, I feel angry that I can't be like her. That I'll never be as appreciated as her. If I'm resentful, I get caught immediately and laughed at or sniped at for being an annoying child. Or worse, it gets ignored. Which is probably the best way, but I feel like my feelings don't count at all.

But I can't change... It's too hard. And too late. I'm 22 effing years old for crap's sake.

BTW I got a 90% on my first exam.. it's been so long since I've had a nice result in anything.

Well, it's Saturday today and I've finished with classes for the day! A long Sunday ahead tomorrow for me.. Hope I would not let the room get to me. Upto now things have been so busy I haven't had time to care much at all. But soon I will have to. I miss home, really, but am keeping my head together for now. Hopefully.

Well, this is it. I'm leaving for Mysore to join Infy tomorrow, so... goodbye I guess. Goodbye PC, goodbye house and most of all, goodbye, family.

I'm not sure what I'm feeling... Ten days ago, I was incredibly sad, but now... I guess I'm too numb to take anymore.

Just posted my new piece and I already have 3 reviews!!! Nice reviews! ^-^ So happy!!!! Oh, and I got my offer letter from Infy. DOJ is Oct. 19...

Ten steps to an imperfect date

Well.. here's the continuation!

(Morning. We're back at the same road)

Ichigo: Well this is where we saw the blanks and obliterated them yesterday morning... so they must come back to the exact same spot this morning. By the way, stay close to me, Senna.

Senna: -runs away-

Ichigo: Senna??? Where are youuuuu???

Senna: Stop yelling, I'm right behind you! Although I ran away in the opposite direction. Look, there's a convenient weeping child^TM so let me show off how motherly and warm I am!

Child: Can't find my dad... sob...

Senna: Your dad was with you?

Child: Yes.. That was obvious enough ne, you stupid girl? Errr... I mean.. my dad's not here.. we were going to a festival... sob...

Ichigo: Your dad's dead kid. So let me give you a soul burial and get back to what I was doing before.

(No one pays attention. New Quest: Find Tomoya's dad!!!)

(Random scenery. Melancholy music. Dad hunting is forgotten. We're doing 'fun mom, dad and kid' outing instead!)

Ichigo: What are we doing! There's no festival here. Let's just bury the kid!

Senna: No! He has a long journey ahead.. I can't bury his soul like this... sentimental dialogues!

OOC Ichigo: How sweet you are... drool...

(The festival. It randomly appeared. A touching reunion between dad and kid)

Dad: Thank you so much! By the way, everyone around you is dead. Bye bye!

(Half the people disappear. The other half is rotting)

Senna: Ahhh!!! Why is this happening? Sob!

OOC Ichigo: Senna...

(Luckily, Ukitake and the rest of the gang arrive before he drowns in OOCness)

Renji: Hand the sue over, Ichigo. It's evil will corrupt you!

Rukia: I did a crap load of research, okay. She's not a shinigami, she's a sue! Now hand her over, before it's too late!

Evil Sue Senna: But I am a Shinigami!

Renji: No you aren't. You are non-canon. Hence, Sue. And why are you in the living world if you are a Shinigami?

Senna: No.. I am.. confused.. teary.. lots of memories... -implodes-

Renji: See, she's like a boggart. Just give us the damn sue, Ichigo!

Senna: No, I say! I'm not a sue!

Ukitake: Fiiiiiine. You are the memory rosary. Which in Sueish means 'the spawn of Sauron'. Now will you come?

Senna: Nooo!

Hitsugaya: Come on, be reasonable. The valley of screams, the evil dude, alternate dimension, mass destruction... they all add up!

Senna: No... logic!!! Stay away!!! I'm.. I'm.. I'm-

OOC Ichigo: Too late! I'm already corrupted! I'll defend Senna with my life, against the one woman whose word I have always valued, her best friend and all the officers I trust!

Rukia: No! Ichigo! Are you insane?

OOC Ichigo: I don't know you! I must protect Senna!!! You are evil!

(Thankfully the villains appear for a small battle. Yay! Would've killed myself if they didn't)

(Senna is clingy and helpless. The rotting people turn into violent white things)

OOC Ichigo: Though I have the sharpest instincts in the series, I still will not notice a big fat guy behind me. Worse, I'll hold the sue in my arms and roll around with her on the ground!

(Somewhere in an alternate dimension, the real Ichigo screams in unison with Hichigo- “NO!!!! MY IMAGE!!!!”)

Fat evil guy: Hi, I'm back! And this time, I will take the rosary.

Hichigo: Please do. I can't stand the sue-ness any more.

OOC Ichigo: Oh no you won't! Attack!

(Everyone is inexplicably getting their asses kicked. Kon is batting with the white things using one hand)

Rukia: Damn it Kon, what kind of wimp-ass fighting is that? Die you white abominations!

Kon: Nee-saaaannn!!! Thank god! Save me from the sue! -glomps her-

Rukia: -is red- Get off me! You're in Ichigo's body now and I don't want you distracting me!

Senna: How dare you steal Kon from me? I'm Super-Strong too!!! I'll fight sexily and make him drool now! Ahem... Call forth the twilight, Mirokumaru!

(The inevitable white haired villain makes his appearance and K.O's her in less than a second)

Senna: Or I'll act the helpless maiden...again. Whatever works.

OOC Ichigo: From now onwards I shall start the “1001 times I will call thy name” chant... Senna!

Ukitake: Is it possible? You are the members of a noble house who were exiled for illegal cloning and mass production of sues!!!!

(The white things explode. The Evil gang^TM decide to leave but are stopped by DUN DUN DUN... OOC Ichigo in all his bankai-glory! Not)

OOC Ichigo: Senna! I'm coming! (When a guy says this and raises his sword in your direction, I would be scared)

White haired villain: -stabs Fake!Ichigo with Mirokumaru. Oh the angst-

Senna: NO!!! THE ANGST! IT'S NOT ENOUGH! I NEEEEEED MORE!

Bleeding OOC Ichigo: Okay.

(His eyes unfocus)

Audience: From that? Dear god, you're Ichigo! You're not even supposed to -blink- at a small injury like that!!

(Nonetheless, his eyes unfocus. They reach for each other.... but they don't meet. Woe is them! Instead, inexplicably, her ribbon comes off.. the token of their true love... oh angst!!!)

Senna: ICHIGO MY LOOOOOOOVE!!!

(The Evil gang^TM vanishes)

Rukia: I really shouldn't bother, but damn... I can't help it. Ichigo!

(She catches him. Everything blacks out and reveal Inoue, Ishida and Chad who have woefully small roles)

Orihime: He's fine now. I finished healing him.

Rukia: You mean he's back to the way he was? Before the sue?

Orihime: Now that I can't guarantee.

Urahara: Hey guys, I just found out their evil planTM! They plan to use the memory rosary to make the real and spirit worlds collide.

Ishida: But how can they-

(Is cut off before he can say “formulate such an incredibly useless evil plan^TM which is bound to have no advantage whatsoever to them?”)

Urahara: Shut up, Ishida and stop thinking! As I was saying... there must be a coincidental entrance^TM somewhere close to where the sue first appeared-

OOC Ichigo: Aha! I shalt get back my sweet Senna after all!

(Dashes off, followed by Rukia. She'll need a big hug after this is over)

 

-sighs-

Arrrghhh! I can't seem to finish this in one sitting! Will be back sometime soon with part 3...

My exams start tomorrow. I can confess to you that I do not have a freakin' clue about what I am going to do. Infy exams start on Friday- I'm not prepared for those as well. Project's going nowhere. I am consumed with guilt over music classes, but I can't- I just can't handle them too. Driving classes are on. In short, it's all a big huge mess and I'm in no mood to untangle it. And I'm not even stressed about it.

I should be.

Dad came back today with some interesting insights of SHGs (Self Help Groups) It made me smile, really. I... must say this- I actually want to write a book sort of thing with essays/stories about little things I think about. I have a few topics. I'll just note them down here-

1. Pigeons

2. Terrorism

3. Kites

4. Temples

5. The fear of driving

6. And now, SHGs

I wish I could make this dream come true. ^-^

Well last sem's results came out today- and I did horribly. As usual. In fact, I did worse, I got a fucking 56%. God, I'm so sick of the whole thing, I have never done well in the past 4 years!!!! Aaaarrrrrgggghhh! Anyway, it was just the last straw in a week that has been going steadily to hell. Every day has been awful lately. On Saturday, I had a huge blazing row with Poonam and Aditi. Yesterday, after some uneasy peace, we had another huge, huge fight in front of the entrance hall of all places. It ended with them walking out, me hysterical and raving (if I had a vase, I would've thrown it) and it just was terrible. If Anji wasn't there, I would have collapsed. Brrrr. It was nasty.

Anyway, Anji had to leave to take an interview, so I was sulking in the library when Poonam came. We talked a bit, then I went out to where Aditi was waiting. Luckily we had no fight- we just talked. SO anyway, after a loooooooooonng time, it sort of worked out. I guess. In the evening Appu calls and says she wants to give back the material. And she called Anji to ask her to give back the kurta she left at her place. Looks like it's really over, and she's breaking all ties. If only I fucking knew why. Two months ago, I had 4 great friends. Now I have 3 friends who will not speak to each other.

-sigh-

I'm not going to meddle. My meddling led to this.

Home is almost comforting now. I like being home. Dad's so disappointed about the results, I feel so bad. I told all of them 60%. He'll calculate on his own though, and tell mum anyway. I won't mind a lecture, but this sucks. It just sucks. It takes away all the good things that happened last semester- Great GRE, awesome TOEFL, being one of the winners in the LJ-Caferati writing contest, everything. I do wish things get better somehow.

Went to DLRL today... why is it that whenever I go there, my day is horrid? Anyway, Anji was kicked out in the morning for wearing capris. That was expected. I would've warned her in the morning, but I didn't really look at what she was wearing. Then, we had a lousy day of doing nothing. Poonam was ill, but still came valiantly, the silly girl. Anyway, when we were leaving, some mad man stops us and tells us to give up our id cards as we were wearing jeans. With a long kurta. Dear lord, do these people have nothing else to do? All they do all day is gossip and then stop any stray trainee and tell them off for breathing loudly or walking aimlessly or wearing non-formals. Blech. I swear, if they make a scene on Thursday, I'm going to just walk out and never look back. I'd rather buy a project in some god-forsaken place than this.

Well, today was the very important Security meeting at DLRL and all of us were supposed to go. I knew Ani was sulking about it, so when Poonam called in the morning I told her to make her come. She called back saying she sulked like crazy but she was coming. Then she misses the train. Okay fine. We call her desperately for a long time but her phone died and kept saying 'unavailable'. Fine. We go inside, we wait. We wait in the seminar hall. Then we go to the washroom to see if we could switch on our phones (in secret) and call her again. And suddenly there are a zillion messages saying "WHY ARE ALL YOUR PHONES SWITCHED OFF?" "I can't get a bus!" "Fine. I'm going to college"

WTF?

Anyway, I thought I'll e-mail the scenario as it is to her- she has to know what we're feeling.

"Anji,

I really didn't want to do this at all, I was too angry but I kind of have to let you know how we feel. When you missed the train,  we called- all of us did (except Poonam, whose phone was dead anyway) It kept saying 'unavailable'. We reach DLRL at 9:15 and my phone was ON at that time- I know, because Sravanti called. As you said that you hadn't your pass we tried to arrange for a visitor's pass for you (You needed it today to extend the date on it. You couldn't have entered without it) My phone got caught at the reception, and so everyone else also had to submit, as there was super security today seeing as it was the all-important Security meeting. It was after a lot of begging and pleading that we got it back at around 10:30. That was when all your messages got delivered. You can check.

I'm not sure if you're still reading, but I'll go on. Okay, you missed the train and you waited for hours, we're sorry you had to go through that. But there was a train at 9:40. You could have come to DLRL by 10:30, 15 min. before the seminar started. You knew we were going to be there. You could have come and asked someone where the seminar hall was and we would have been in it. There was nowhere else we would be. Frankly tell me, how could we have contacted you before we went? We tried and failed. And after, We're sorry but we had to get our phones back. It never entered our minds that you may not show, so we just kept waiting. You knew this was very important, that our project was at stake and our attendances would be taken.

Fine. You couldn't come. We were pissed, and send you the messages when we came out. We were angry and I agree we were rude. But we still hoped you'd say "Dude sorry I couldn't show. I tried my best to come" And you did try to come. That was all we wanted. But Anji, you never said it. You never did. Why? Is it so hard to just type something like that- something casual, even if you didn't feel it? I agree you were angry. But if we were even slightly important to you, could you not have lied and said that? And the message you sent Aditi was cruel, Anji. No going round that. We were rude and we did go over the line. I agree. But what you replied was cruel. It hurts like crazy and we were just plain shocked at how harsh you were, like we were strangers to you. It's just that if the situation had been reversed, had Poonam or Aditi or me missed the train and didn't show, you would've yelled the exact same way. Can't we speak freely to you? Can't we yell at you if we're angry? If we can't then just say so. This is not the first time, you've said horrifyingly hurtful things before. 

What hurt the most was not that you didn't come, but the way it all went afterwards. I know you're thinking- What a presemptous bitch she is to lecture like this when they've said nasty things to me as well. We have Anji and we're sorry. We have all said mean things and hopefully we've apologized for most of them.

I'm not blaming you or berating you, just telling you what had happened. Hate me all you want but I don't want a bunch of lies between us. It's because we all love you too dearly, too much and don't want this friendship to rupture like the last one. I don't want a relationship built on lies and resentment because its unfair- to you and us. You're really special to me, and all of us as a person and no one wants to let this go. Please try and understand. The last thing we want is a fight, a nasty fight because we couldn't say what was bothering us out loud. I'm not sure you read it all, but for what it's worth- atleast you know the score now. I've spoken my mind.  

Yashu"

Well I feel purged. And teary.

-runs off to cry-

Have to go to DLRL today.. have not read a damn thing. I feel physically ill. Hope the sir's not too inquisitive. Ours lives are not this project! We have a gazzillion  things else to do too! Bah.. Will tell you in the evening how it went... So darn busy, mum's leaving tomorrow, have to shop for Poonam etc etc.. wish it's next Thursday soon!

Am one of the winners of the caferati-LJ writing contest!!! woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!! Gods, I'm so damn happy!!!!!!! :D

Champion Daydreams: The life of a girl who aspired much and did nothing.

Yep, that would be me...

Hi journal-chan, I turned 21 today!!! I had a great day, went to music class and prayed for my veena.. and Anji and Poonam came over with a cake and A T-SHIRT WITH RUKIA-CHAN ON IT!!! KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! IT WAS SO DAMN CUTE! I'm wearing it forever and ever!!! Ummah to you guys!!!!

Had a nice, full lunch, watched Roman Holiday! :) It's a nice day!!! Wai!

Ran into a wee bit of an awkward situation with my dear, sweet, innocent mother. You see it all started about a year ago when I decided to convert her into an anime freak and pushed her into watching a few series with me. And now, I'm in a pickle!

I tried Mushi-shi first, as she adores beautiful, surreal artwork. It went well for a couple of weeks, and at around the 15th episode or so, she suddenly refuses to watch any further as she found them too sad.

Next, we went to Bleach, I was concerned first but then she surprised me by becoming so obsessed with it that we had a few happy months bleaching about (with a bit of Mushi-shi thrown in) until we ran out of episodes. Crappity.

So then, we went to Nodame Cantabile, Kino no tabi, Rurouni Kenshin and then Detective academy Q. Then she discovered my secret stash of anime (a cardboard box beneath my bed) and got pretty excited at the thought of even more anime.

Carried away, in a moment of pure insanity, I hit upon Death Note as our next mother-daughter series as she loved Detective academy Q and wanted another 'brainy' series. All went well at first- she loved Raito and L so much, just went on and on about how smart and cool and awesome they were. I listened happily to her exuberant squeals about the plot, we feverishly discussed each and every episode to bits and all in all had a lot of fun.

Until we came to the handcuffs.

And the very, very sexy fist fight.

You see, I had forgotten that she was my mother, and as a consequence she had a full blast of "OMG SQUEEEEEE, THEY LOOK JUST SO BLOODY GOOD TOGETHER!!!!! beep beep beep" fangirl rant. My little brother who was hovering about gave me a LOOK. Surprisingly she grins and goes "Oh I know what you mean!" We smiled beatifically at each other for a moment and I open my mouth to elaborate but (luckily) she beats me to it- "They are so similar! They can be such close friends... or brothers!" I blink for a second and then close my mouth with the refrain of OMG I'M SUCH A BIG FAT IDIOT running through my head.

So I've decided- No more series where there are any traces of yaoi. That eliminates Full Metal alchemist, Peacemaker Kurogane, Tsubasa reservoir chronicles, Vampire knight, Kyou kara maou... Everything I have. Except Mushi-shi.

Uggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh....

A perfect world? For me a perfect world would be a world where we are all children, eternally. A world where no one harms anyone, a world where you can dream freely, hope unboundedly, where you can be anything or anyone you want. A world where you don't need to care or worry about tomorrow, it just comes. A world where you have no sorrow or unhappiness of any kind.

Having siblings- Very important. Even though I'd rather DIE than let him know, life would've been pretty boring without my brother. We did (and still do) have a lot of fun, and I can't imagine a life where he doesn't exist. He's the only person who understands me almost completely, and I would've been pretty lonely without him in my life.

Well, life is certainly looking up now. The big fights have seemingly ended and everyone's happy for now? And my GRE date is booked for June the 2nd, classes are going great and 4 of my papers were selected! True, I didn't win the first one, but it was good experience... Life' s okay for now. I have things to do, and I'm not wasting my time much. I feel like I'm someone.