Saroja....

had entered with a lot of expectation... a venkat prabhu movie is of late awaited... well... atleast the reviews were great... thats the best i can say abt the movie.

the movie opens with a song and the initial ten minutes were just to introduce us to the characters. after which i felt the opening for the four friends was too much like kal ho na ho the saif preity srk triangle re appears here,the characters had no particular depth in any of them, the dream debut that vega spoke of is nothin but a drag. the movies picks up its pace only in the last fifteen minutes. drop of a hat songs, the supposed to be tiltatting number was nothing but a joke... the movie moves without a strong story line, the song dance routine imitating the om shanti om typecast was a passable number. sad sad script, the so called funny moments were not so funny after all... the running around the place searching for one another was dragged a bit too much. after which the escaping part had the same kind of feel to it... i dont get whats so thrilling watching a bunch of people running around the place looking for each other. jararam was used only in the end that too very marginally the climax was where he walked away with the movie as such:) , prakaash raj was wasted all through the movie... why cast actors with such great potential when the role requires so less of them that they need not be mentally present on the set to assay the role???actor sampath deserves a special mention though... a good performance.

my rating poor to average. passable. watch it in the dvd and fwd it as fast as u can to enjoy the story.

preparing for exams.... tips i followed....

Having a week with nothing to do but study is a daunting task for me. At my school, we usually don’t have so much time to study for an exam, but since this covers all of the basic science material learned during our first two years in med school, they give us a week to prepare. I’m sure all of you out there have either already faced this issue, or will be facing it in the near future, so I decided to make a list of some helpful suggestions that have worked for me.



1. Make a schedule, and try to stick to it. This is probably the most important tip. Having a schedule provides you with structure, and is a good way to prevent falling into the trap of running out of time in the end. It also ensures that you always have a task at hand, instead of sitting around bored, wondering what you should do. I usually go as far as creating a schedule down to the hour, but depending upon how much time you have to study, this wouldn’t always be necessary.



2. Get up every day at a similar hour. This obviously goes along with #1, but it’s always a good idea. In addition to getting up around the same time every day, it’s also a good idea to "try" and go to sleep at a reasonable hour every night.



3. Don’t forget to schedule in "fun time" or time off from studying to relax. This is incredibly important, and will prevent the dreaded "burn-out." If you’re lucky enough to have a dog (or other pet), take them for a walk, or play a game of fetch. Playing with my dogs is one of my most favorite de-stressors. If you’re somewhat obsessed with cleaning (like I am), take off 20-30 minutes to wash your dishes or do some laundry. Do you enjoy being outside? If so, take a walk around the block or to a nearby park. You may have noticed that all of these activities involve physical activity. There’s an obvious reason for that. Unless you are studying while on the elliptical trainer (which I actually don’t recommend), you are probably sitting on your butt for hours at a time. We’re med students. We know that moving around and getting your blood flowing is advantageous to both your mind and body. Don’t forget what you know.



4. Do questions. This is a great way to learn. Use an online question bank, or one of the thousands of prep books. And don’t just look at the correct answers. Actually figure out why you got the question wrong (and even right), and learn from your mistakes.



5. Don’t study what you already know. This is pretty obvious, but people sometimes do it anyway. Stop wasting your time!



6. Caffeine is your friend. Never forget your friends.



7. Change it up! If you find yourself getting incredibly bored, and wondering if chewing your leg off might actually be a more enjoyable experience, change something! Either change the subject you’re studying, how you’re studying it, or where you’re studying. If you’re lucky enough to live by a beach, go there and crack open your books! It will save your sanity, and also your innocent leg.



8. Take the day or night off before your exam. Don’t forget to do this! I don’t care if you’re behind, or you think you can stuff more information into your head if you keep studying. Don’t do it! And especially don’t stay up all night before the exam. This might be the worst idea ever. Let all those pharmacology drugs simmer in your brain for a while. Give the information time to cement. Have a nice dinner or go see a movie (preferably a completely mindless comedy) and reward yourself for all your hard work.

i once had a very very very close friend lets say b... he was a brother that i never had.... and i trusted him with all my life... took him for granted and he did too... one fine day a guy who was b's friend told b that i was bitching abt him... this guy believed him totally and from that min dropped me like hot potatoes.... thats when i realised how fragile friendship is....

the entire funda of friends is based on trust, trust that comes on a few people and when that doesnt happen they arent our friends but that doesnt mean someone else cant trust a person who we were not able to trust....

my trip.....

                 had gone to mayavaram finally after weeks and weeks of postponing..... me and mom.... sans odie our ever faithful, had gone to visit my ailing great grandmom, a 95 yr old lady who is the coolest person in my entire family i must say, shes one of the most forward thinking women i have seen among the whole bunch of narrow minded people around here, she was so cool though bed ridden, anyway met my great uncle too, thats not my 'great' uncle thats my great-uncle, myy grannys brother... or step brother, the spine of the family actually... hes sick too, after years of smoking his lungs are finally catching up and they aint moving even an inch guy is awesome hes like breathing with his tummy literally..... and wat a huge tummy that...the indignity of growing old and being at the mercy of someone else aint something i dig....i jus hope i dont go onto my second childhood for too long!!!
               
                after the socializing mom and i set out to see all the tempoles we can which fall on the way to nachiar koil which is where the famous garuda is from the speciality of this statue of garuda is that during the yearly festival while taking him out of his room he would weigh just right for 4 people to lift him the min he gets to the first level he doubles his weight and is jus right that he can be carried by 8, the next level he trebles his weight and requires 16,the next 64 and so on..... amazing... i dont know the scientific explaination for it but its true!!! now, where was i?? yeah on our way to see the amazing garudan we stopped over at 4 temples out of which two are stuck in my memory for ever!!! one is gonna be in my mind for ever because the sculptures there were so beautiful.... especially an idol of goddess Durga in the side wall of the main praharam of "om kaaleeshwarar" the temple where goddess Kaali worshipped lord Shiva, the durga was so pretty that she had a laugh on her face with eyes that were so beautiful.... her body language said she was laughing.... she looked so real.... so beautiful..... i just stood there looking at her....  the other two temples were the usual temples.....there was this one other temple mahalingeeshwarar, the temple was so huge, built in the typical chola period, perfect fortress plan. four large praharam's.....i went in felt so peaceful, one word that was in my mind awestruck, thats how i felt, was so totally awestruck, the power emnating from that temple was so great.... i felt so good... anyway... that abt sums it all up, went tru pondy had our dinner at ginger this place thats owned by mohanlal the actor and headed back home at 11.30... nothin great but yea my one day off:)

jus a bit of introspection day

lets see... today was off... may day.... i didnt know that and had rushed back o kanchi late last night, so i slept til early afternoon... woke up in a very introspective mood... just figured i have 2months to go and not having started studying yet makes things worse.... my college being regarded the most expensive medical school in the whole of asia..... which brings me down to planning my study schedule.... i always make my plans of how to study when to study by when i should be done with a particular subject, but the fact is even if i plan  everything realistically i dont seem to be executing it....like ever.... keep wondering where im going wrong... but not able to see where it is im actually going wrong.... its jus not happening,the execution is not working....

moms bday.....

a new guy in our family.... a new way to start a year, a new responsibility at 47+... a lot f love.... a load of time.... a lot of wrk... all coming through a pet is an amazing companion for u mom....

now instead of bugging us and asking us what we are doin and where we are or some chatter mom keeps runing behind odie:D i can picturize it... him and his cute backside waddling ard our place and mom runing behind him to make sure he gets potty trained, him peeking into the kitchen to see where mom is and there she senses him and comes tells him hes a bad boy... him runing away and disappearing into a heap of junk juist bcoz mom told him hes a very bad boy:P mom tryig to cajol him back.....

gosh the three weeks that hes been home have been fu... mostly bcoz iv been home oly the weekends... but mom loves him and thats all i care:)

hoping for good memories....:)

results....

after the month long wait... and the feeling of impending doom.... incase u had gotten in touich with me during or a day before my exams you would know exactly how much i actually studied... so youl understand when i say DOOM.....
          The knots in my stomach wouldn't subside everytime someone says dont worry you'll toh pass.... it would jus get a million times worse....

sad but true
            when i met my ent hod the guy who torments me no end in the corridor and i tell him im scared of my results replies with a scorn and a disbelieving expression and says i wont buy it if u say YOU are SCARED.... and  to think i convincend him after an hour...now im not so sure if he bought it in the first place....hmm...  
         where was i...  yeah the knots in my tummy waitin for my results... outta the blue a rumor is heard in the corridors of hell(read tht as my college) and it says results out today.... and im like yeah iv been hearin that past week hmmpf so wat.... i still rush to my lappy... and activate the all new net connection that i have got for meself:P the tata ind five hr per month scheme:) the tata people ought to thank me... for all the free publicity iv been dishing out for them....well so i decide against checking it...

                   finally work my guts up to take a peek and the site give the last update 30secs back and my results are there!!!  


                            I CLEARED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):):D:D:):):D

                 im finally in ,my final year... im writing my final exams this august.... im hoping i clear the whole thing in one darn shot.... its so darn important i do it this time.....

                    so one exams  tru.... onto the next one.... in TWO months....... it never does stop.... life does go on and so do the exams............

lost phone!!!

iv lost my phone so all you jobless ppl reading this itl help if u guys  got in touch with me leave me a msg from ur numbers with your names.

im lost without any of ur numbers!!!

please help with any common frdz numbers too!!!!

the fruit of th five hour travel!

day before, the day i realised that my practical exams were gonna be held in kmc(yipee yaay) and that i didnt have my books in chennai.... i went the next day evening started the tortuous journey from here to kanchi and back on the same day.... gosh... my travel from home to guindy was surprisingly uneventful.... but that was where the uneventful stretched... there were totally no buses tht were headed my way!!! finally after almost an hour's wait did get a bus which ended up being a moffusil bus... darn those buses which stop in the middle of the road... the only cue it needs is a person standing on the road with their hand out in the air.....

             finally get to MY place by eight thirty or so, get in and out with my books which was just a three minute flat job and i jus missed the darn bus with which i came, so got a friend of mine to drop me back. on bike. i know im crazy. i don't really need someone to tell me something people have already pinned on as my trademark.... got home only at eleven something. my battery had died,my mom was freaked, al in al day was plain FOUL!!!

          the five hour travel got me my books back home....

          so, the books are here now what i think, i haven't touched my books last two days for which i might have as well gone and done the travelling today when it wouldn't have taken its toll on me!!!

          whats done is done....

           lets see how much i get done... oh remind me to tell u abt the students in the damn college!!!

my exams and valentines....

the exams were actuallky a horror story....

lets start... i bunked one month of college to actually sit and study now didnt i.... i didnt get around to doing that.... i was sitting around reading the paper which i get tired after reading and fall asleep to recover the lost energy... the on the 20th of jan i went to dolly's bday party... i cxant believe my guts.... but thats wat it is... i met a coupla frinds... and had been spending time with them til two days before my exam... nice eh?
if that is not enoough i was counselling another friend of mine the eve of my exam... never mind what it was abt... he needed a shoulder to cry on and most of them prefer mine:P.... but finally wat i did do was lost my sleep on my exams went to the hall without sleeping the night the worst thing u could do when writin an exam... and promptly my memory fails me.... but did manage to write it tru though.... im waiting for my results... thats wat is churning my tummy the most now.... anyway the day my exams were done did i catch up on the weeks lost sleep? no! are u nuts to waste the time on sleep?!!?? i went out with my frinds and spent quality time!!!

oh did i tell u my exams covered two days before and two days after valentines day and included the day in it too?? well now im telling u it did!!!

 not that i believe in the concept of one day being special and stuff... i got two gifts... one by i dont know who and the other was really sweet... a coupla friens o mine got together and came to kanchee puram and searched my place out and gave me a card... pretty touching that.... anyways... like i have said before my friends aint masters at holding their secrets:P... i knew they were headed this way early in the morning itself but the poor dears took the long way in during the time when the highway wud have been free and they took the highway during peak hours all in all they met me for half and hour and travelled close to 7 hours for that....

yup, so exams ARE finally done with next time i worry abt that wud be comin in 4 months... lets hope i do blog before that:)

the great maaru wedding!!

             the funny thing i noticed while browsing through the very few posts i HAVE made is the fact that all my posts are mayb two days before the exam or is jus after declaring my exams are done... and i figured that it is pretty obvious that my days are packed.... :P

         packed with sleeepin or meeting up long lost friends.....

             last weekend was the busiest i got... well not really i have seen worse but it was busy none the less... morning i met three friends... afternoon i got my hair cut real short... not he 'Bob' cut... my hair just abt reaches my shoulders.... actually did my eye brows... i dont know which bloody female thought the brows are beautiful only when shaped.... id dig her out from the grave and kill her all over again if i have to...... gosh... and the waxing!!! daaaaymn.... this place i went to was good... only to make us burn or bleed to death... they i must say did a good job on the hair:)..... i actually did socialize... very surprising NOT? lets say it was not in a pair of jean and tee's... i went all over town in saree's....and GOD was it difficult to handle...!!!!      
 i didnt have my own bike... so....:P

                   there was this maaru(marwadi) wedding i went ot on satuday eve.... or friday eve... not sure which eve it was actually...        me the stupid woman i was i left the only kundan(stone) work saree i have in kancheepuram like i am ever gonna drape it again when im there....and went to this wedding in a stupid silk cotton saree... very simple... and no prizes for guessing who won the award for standing-out-in-the-crowd-and-feeling-out-of-place!!!! the women there were dressed like these real life tv serial people... way to dressy... was left wondering how those puny tiny women who look like they never eat actually were able to take the weight of their pebble studed saree's.....!!!

and the rocks on them!!! now i know why most of the other states are poor and why india is running on a loss!!! its bcoz thew brains of the community are not jus that they are the banks of wealth too!!!!

                   now i know why the maarus never invite outsiders to their family functions... its the family can see and have to see" im richer than so and so" attitude but they would not want anyone else to know the vastness of their wealth and oogle and im not ashamed to say it OOGLE at their stones... i mean i met this woman who looks like a girl who cant afford a 2thousand rupee saree... and there she is not one inch of her skin visible... jus her face... every where else had gorgeous lookin ornaments.... i guess thats the advantage of being stingy... they look like they dont have cash but are loaded with it!!!

                  wat a laugh they must have when they watch us... the not so rich lot buy stuff for them!!! actually how smart are they to get us to buy stuff for them thereby saving up to buy more of the eye blinders for themselves!!!

smart people i must say!!!!