27. Boredom can unleash creativity!

Yup! That’s the truth that I discovered recently! All thanks to the 3 month long vacations, when for once, time really seems to stand still and seems to extend like the mighty oceans and when laziness prevents you from indulging in any physical activities, and when ‘academicophobia’ prevents you from doing anything related to acads, and when your grey cells so stubbornely refuse to churn out some good topics to blog…you really have no option but to get stuck with boredom!! Yeah! I too get BORED! And what do you do when you are bored? You have absolutely nothing to do that you find some means of evading the uninvited guest –Mr.Boredom…And that is when I was reminded of brushing up my long forgotten pass-time of sketching… I tried blowing off the dust from my not-been-in-use-for-quite-sometime aristic cells…and voila! A little coaxing from a friend and a few strokes from HB pencil did bring forth something! :D

Yeah! You might have guessed it right! I’m really outa topics to blog. sigh!..........

26. Let The Music Do The Talking

Devil tagged me again! This one’s all about muziq. I’m no muziq buff and couldn’t do this tag alone. Had to take help…

The tag doesn’t have a title..it’s left for the bloggers.Let The Music Do The Talking is a song by Aerosmith(well I haven’t heard the song myself…google found this one for me…)

1. Which song is being played in your mind right now?
Heart of Worship by Matt Redman(ya, as they say...it's hard to play any other song in mind when its currently being played in the Mp3. )

2. One song that describes your life... (No self made compositions please!)Amazing grace……“But by grace, I am what I am” [1 Chor10:15]

3. The song you listen to most on your I-pod/ MP3/ cell/ PC/ etc
My favourites keep on changing from time to time…but invariably I have to hear the windows music each time I turn on/off the comp. Dun think I’ve heard any other music this number of times….( I know… that was a poor attempt…sigh!)

4. A song that describes best the following stages in your life
- School days: KK's Yaaron Dosti Badi Hi Haseen Hai....
- Love: Love by Petra based on 1 Corinthians 13….there’s no better way to describe it!
- Your mood right now: Linking Park’s Numb…the dull boring vacation is responsible for making me go NUMB!

5. Your all time favourite song and the reason for it... maybe some memory/ some funny story etc!!!
Ditto answer to ques no:3 …my favourites keep on changing….

6. A song you wish you hadn't heard!!! (More than one is always a pleasure!!!)
All..(well not all…almost all…) the heavy metals and death metals and other metal craps(milder versions being an exception) which threaten to pop my brain out of the head and eyeballs out of their sockets…

Death metals have disgusting lyrics too. Take a look at A Skull full of Maggots by Cannibal Corpse. Dont tell me i didnt warn you...the lyrics are repulsive...

Lying there cold after a torturous death
Your life ended fast you took your last breath
Dead in a grave, your final place
The maggots infest your disfigured face
Pus through your veins takes the place of blood
Decay sets in, bones begin to crack
Thrown six feet down left to rot
Brains oozing black down the side of your broken neck
Skull full of maggots
They enter your tomb - maggots - beginning to feast - maggots
Crawling on you - maggots - now they eat you - maggots
Rotting maggots - maggots - infesting your corpse - maggots
Parasites of the dead - maggots - now dwell in your head

Ew! Who comes up with such stuff?!

7. A song that would best describe... me
(Hey, I took pains to tag you, I guess I deserve this ;-) )
A rather difficult question to describe a rather difficult female…but the good old nursery rhyme is rather a special song for her….so here’s to you Lee---London bridge is falling down…

8. (I just couldn't miss this!!!) If, you were in an elevator with Himesh Reshammiya and Altaf Raja, you would...
(please please please... something funny!!!)
Er…who are they??( toldya I’m no good in dis muziq field :(

K. Now to tag people.
I tag Chronicwriter, MultiMenon, Viajero, Evil-blogger, Crazy, Paroo and all others who want to let muziq do the talking…

25. And dat's why I stopped thinking!

24. Friends, bloggers, ATM users…

Yeah…so the above mentioned people…lend me your ears(ya am in shortage of ears…)for I have come to telya something important and not to just blah blah!

Last day I went to the ATM to withdraw some cash. There was a man who was already in the ATM counter collecting his cash, so I had to wait for him to get out. I hopped in as soon he got out and guess what I saw in the ATM monitor?

Do you want to continue? Enter YES or NO (a timer was doing count down)

My reflexes, being a little too sensitive, my fingers hit the YES option even before I realized what I was doing. The monitor blinked for a moment and there comes before me another screen:

Welcome Mr shivakumar.(oh! so dat's the guy's name eh?)

I was elated!

Enter your PIN:_ _ _ _

Uh oh! There comes the trouble…But once again my reflexes took the better of me..and once again, before I knew..my fingers punched in four numbers **** (my pass code to be precise).

Incorrect PIN. Try again…

Well this is what I expected to appear on the screen but guess what? Guess again! There comes on the screen the page showing,

DEPOSIT...................FASTCASH

TRANSFER................. CASH WITHDRAWAL

PIN CHANGE............... BALANCE INQUIRY

OTHERS MINI.............. STATEMENT

My excitement knew no bounds…I could have jumped up with excitement. I hit an unknown guy’s unknown PIN correct -a probability of 1 in 9999.Woah!I coudn't wait to tell it to the whole world....

I punched the FAST CASH option and sure enough there comes the next screen with various options…

RS 1000

RS 2000

RS 3000

RS 5000

I got a little scared now! I couldn’t trust myself…so before my reflexes do its nasty play again, I pressed the cancel button and the transaction was cancelled. What would I have done if I had punched in some amount and the money came out?

So next time you use your ATM, make sure that your transaction is complete and you properly log out, cos not everyone will have a problem with using somebody else’s money…

Well…this is what I was planning to blog as soon as the incident took place last week. I was really thrilled by the whole thing and was wondering what could have happened if I had entered some amount, and got the cash…I couldn’t wait to get back home to tell my parents about it. I was infact puffing up with pride that I had acted honest, in a place where I could have treated myself to some bucks. Only later did someone explain to me while I was in the process of narrating to the ‘n’th person, my little 'episode at the ATM' that I was enlightened of the fact that SBI ATMs logs you in with whatever PIN you enter, and you could do all the above mentioned processes without any problem. Only at the last step when you really punch in some amount to withdraw cash, will the monitor show:

Incorrect PIN!try again!.

And that too, you will only have 3 chances of entering incorrect PIN after which the card gets locked automatically…Anyway thanks to the guy, I saved myself from a lot of embarrassment. But still…all you ATM users, please be careful henceforth ;)

23. 123...

Tag again! But this one’s quite an interesting tag. It’s weird too. I got tagged for this post by Lee and Chrony at about the same time, when I had already made plans for stealing this tag from some arbit blog:D

The rules: Pick up the nearest book. Go to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the next three sentences. Tag five people, and acknowledge the person who tagged you.

The book that I found nearest to me was my mother’s personal diary. No! I dare not touch that one…for one thing, the diary obviously doesn’t have its pages numbered, besides who knows what lies in the 5^th sentence of the 123^rd page. Should I dare browse through her diary? Naa….

So I went for the next book; found the 123^rd page; and the 5^th sentence goes on like:

That is why worldly pleasures cannot satisfy our deepest longings.

The next 3 sentences…

The cross says, “Don’t look to the material world for ultimate meaning and fulfilment.” The day before His crucifixion, Jesus warned, “Now is the time for judgement on this world”(John 12:31). Our worldliness was in Christ, and the Father judged it at the cross.

The book is Outrageous Mercy by WM.P.Farley.(Yea I still haven’t finished reading that book which I had started 3 blog-posts ago ;)

Now,the tagging part:

Crazy (glad to see you back after 1 whole year)
Viajero
Multimenon
MechRani(do you know that she has a blog?)
Harivishnu
(huh? All NITians??)

Now for the acknowledgements(what’s this for anyways??):

Lee: Blah…blah..blah…blah..blah
Chrony:Blah blah…blah blah…blah blah…
(I bet you guys’ll not get acknowledged like this ever, willya? You can thank me now!;)

22. Anything can be an art!

Argh!!!Household chores! Remember how I hate them? Well if you don’t, then you gotta better go through my post on mopping the floor once again…

Anyways, then it was mopping the floor, but now it's folding clothes...argh!such dull, boring, mundane job!!!
But not anymore after I came across this video…it’s kinda intresting...goes to prove that anything can be an art!

(funny language they speak, dont they?)

Try it out for yourself! You’ll find it interesting too... at least for the first few times.By then you’ll have gladly helped your momma too. But make sure that you don’t end up ruining the cothes!

21. And that’s how the graduated chick lost its life.

Ha! Sunday afternoons, after church, nothing to do till the 11^th hour when we all scurry about here and there in a frantic attempt to do the long forgotten assignments, submissions, tutorials etc which never seem to go out of existence.

And this particular Sunday was no different. As usual we took our own time to finish our lunch, along with the round of the week’s chit-chattering and gossiping. Oh before I forget, this ‘we’ I’m referring to consists of the trio Maya Sarah John (henceforth to be called as MaSaJo), Angie Alice Abraham(AnAlAb) and Neethu Krishna(er…NeeKri?? :| )

MaSaJo: Blah..blah..blah
AnAlAb: blah..blah…
Neekri: Haven’t we finished? Shall we then make a move and go wash our hands?
AnAlAb: MaSaJo, is there some curry left in your plate?
MaSaJo: Oh yes, but you are not supposed to eat potatoes…
AnAlAb: I know that silly, I just want the curry. I swear, I won’t eat the potatoes. See the pile of potatoes on the side of my plate.

Pieces of potatoes, along with some curry, get transferred from MaSaJo’s and NeeKri’s plates to AnAlAb’s. The blah blah continues and AnAlAb’s hands always restless as they are, having finished feeding her, began to work on the left over potato pieces-smashing, pulping, kneading, pressing and rolling the pieces until finally it took the form of a snow ball (or technically speaking, a ‘potato ball’.)

Neekri: Hey this looks like a snow man. Give it 2 eyes also na?

After a brief search, 2 mustard seeds are extricated from the leftovers, and the curry-mixed, pitch-black eyes get implanted on the potato man.

MaSaJo: Ooo that looks like a tiny birdy now. Shall we give it a beak as well?

The leftovers prove to be an infinite source of body spare parts. A tiny tomato peel was perfect for the li’l red beak and there was our chick, created by 3 Michaelangelos-in-the-making.Voila!

(Aint it cute?? :D)

Neekri: I wanna do something with the pieces of banana peel as well. How about getting the chick graduated?

And soon enough the chick got graduated. :D

(Hope you can see the graduation hat on it’s head)

By now, we were attracting a hell lota unwanted attention from the neighboring tables. Ignoring all those have-these-gals-gone-outa-their-mind stares (after all a little publicity never hurts), we sat there admiring our artistic work for how long I’m not sure, but alas! all good things must come to an end…We had to bid goodbye to our chick(the mess was closing down). I was given the privilege of taking our li’l birdy to its final resting place(the kitchen sink!)

Reluctantly, I put the plate in the sink, but couldn’t take my eyes off our piece of artistic delicacy. As I was still ogling the chick in that smelly wash area, surrounded by dozens of stinking plates, there came a dudette having had her fill, emptied the leftover into the dust-bin, and as though finding no other place, kept her dumb plate right on top of my plate, smashing my poor chick :(

And that’s how the graduated chick lost its life…sniff…

PS: So as not to offend any sensitive blog-readers the pics of the smashed graduated chick after it met with the dreadful tragedy have not been included.

20. A topsy-turvy world!

I came across a few books recently. I was quite intrigued by their title…Clearly, people should learn to do things in the right order….












Sit first, then leap up and walk without standing, and then stand eventually???

The next one is even more bizarre….

Er…should that really be the order in which it should go???

Hehe..but the book is a good one though. Still the cover page drew accusing stares and bewildered looks from many a people- “Neethu, you started reading such books already?!” Grr...couldn’t the dodos read the title fully before charging innocent me with reading adult stuff? hmpf!

PS: I finally ended up covering the book with a newspaper before proceeding to read further ;)

19. Tag to the rescue!

Tags come to my rescue again!(hadn’t blogged for a while).Took the tag from chrconicwriter(you happy now?).Here’s the 30Q tag.

1. Last movie you saw in a theater?
A. Guess it was HP-5(regretted later for having watched it though…) I prefer my lappy and DVDs compared to the cinema ;)

2. What book are you reading?
A. The monk who sold his Ferarri, Outrageous Mercy, Ruskin Bond’s Book Of Humor (yea I start off with a lot of books at a time…a few lucky ones get their last page meet my eyes ;)

3. Favourite board game?
A. Spell Bound.

4. Favourite magazine/s?
A. RD, True friend, Educare.

5. Favourite smells?
A. Smell of the soil after the first showers...hmm..it's lovely

6. Favourite sounds?
A. My phone ringing. Love it when people call me up

7. Worst feeling in the world?
A. Getting up in the morning thinking that it is a weekend when it is actually a weekday, and realising that there’s class at 8’o clock, and that I’m already short of attendance!Sheesh! I HATE 8'o clock classes…

8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
A. Do I have to wake up now ?

9. Favourite fast food place?
A. There no place where I eat food as fast as I do at the hostel mess during breakfast…all thanks to the 8’o clock classes :x but yea the BF is good almost all the time..

10. Future child’s name?
A. ?!!

11. Finish this statement. “If I had lot of money I’d….?”
A. Spend it. Duh !

12. Do you drive fast?
A. Naa…vehicles are anyway prohibited inside college campus. Else the 8’o clock classes would have compelled me to drive fast daily!

13. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
A. Would love to…but no one would buy one for me :(

14. Storms - cool or scary?
A. Depends…

15. What was your first car?
A. So far have driven Maruhti 800, Fiat, Alto, Ikon, Baleno..none of them were my own though…yet to get a job and buy one :)

16. Favourite drink?
A. Milo!(they always give free gifts :D)

17. Finish this statement, “If I had the time I would….”?
A. Again… spend it! Like Duh!

18. Do you eat the stems on broccoli?
A. Haven’t ever eaten any of its parts.

19. If you could dye your hair any colour, what would be your choice?
A. Pitch black

20. Name all the different cities/towns you’ve lived in?
A. Trivandrum - Calicut - Trivandrum - Calicut - Trivandrum - Calicut –(will be the same for next 2 years :|)

21. Favourite sports to watch?
A. Cricket World cup finals( if India’s playing), football world cup finals(doesn’t matter which country is playing), tennis (if its Federer vs Nadal)

22. One nice thing about the person who sent this to you?
A. He said i am a sweetheart :P

23. What’s under your bed?
A. Weighing machine. Every morning I get up and stand on it hoping that the needle would at least budge towards the right

24. Would you like to be born as yourself again?
A. Hmm…yup! But there’s always scope for improvement ;)

25. Morning person, or night owl?
A. Night person. Am not an owl! Hmpf!

26. Over easy, or sunny side up?
A. Huh?

27. Favourite place to relax?
A. Classroom last bench...preferably with some boring lectures.

28. Favourite pie?
A. 3.1428571428571428571428571428571 :P

29. Favourite ice cream flavour?
A. Butterscotch .

30. Of all the people you tagged this to, who’s most likely to respond first?
A. Whoever first runs out of topics to blog.

I'll tag Lee, MultiMenon, Viajero, Evil-blogger(how evil can you get this time?),Paroo, Crazy (in the hope that you’ll someday remember your long forgotten blog)

18. Suggestion plssssssssss..........

It has been the same old look for over a year, so I have been wondering whether my blog should get a different look all together...But I'm not sure though...Help me out, wilya?Suggestions plssssssssss..........
Does the new look look better?