Boredom is a B*tch

I'm livin' the dream!

God it's been a difficult couple of weeks. 

Before I start bitching like a girl about the stagnation that has engulfed my life, I'd just like to wish everyone a belated but very happy 65th Indian Independence Day. It's been an up-and-down journey for our glorious country and it's going to be so for a while. We just have to keep our spirits up as always. 

Now, since my last post, nothing has happened that would make a person on a summer break particularly happy. On the contrary, more harm has come of this damn exile. So please don't get your hopes up. For starters, my Xbox has broken down like 92,000 times and I'm almost considering giving it to good will. A broken down Xbox for good will! How's that for irony? The Xbox customer support staff has itself acknowledged the fact that this is one crazy son of Microsoft. Well as far as my opinion matters, I believe it's because it's an out-of-region console and just can't get the hang of the electric supply in India. Anyway, that's that. Moreover, all my friends have left for college and there's seriously no one here to provide me company. Indian colleges start a bit too early as compared to their American counterparts. So what do I do? I just sit on my ass rear at home all day. Augh. Aren't summer breaks supposed to score kinda high on the fun meter? To be honest, I have watched almost 20+ movies and half a dozen TV shows in the last couple of weeks and my eyes look like red popsicles about to explode. And please don't forget my books which are being read as if they were a two-page article in a local newspaper. Give it another week and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go on a psychotic rampage. You'll read it in the news, don't worry!

The only thing that I've done that classifies for serious work is apply for my departmental scholarship. A scholarship would just be the icing on the cherry cake that is my first year of college. Most of the CSE scholarships are offered in summer, so keep your fingers crossed however clichéd that may sound. I mean aren't clichés out there for a reason? I believe clichés exist because they're classics. They grow on you. Well, let's keep the literature lesson for later. 

This post is gonna be closely followed by another post recapping my previous year as promised to you guys earlier. And you better read all that I gotta say otherwise...... Well I think the psychotic rampage is motivation enough. Haha. And I apologize for the language. I've been frustrated for a while. Unlike me, you guys keep your spirits up. Hope you find the post stress-relieving in the least. For now, arrivederci.

King Uncaged

Yeah, I know it's been a long time. You don't have to go around and keep saying it. Honestly, this post was due a couple of months ago when my summer break started but I just couldn't get around to it. I'd like to be regular with my posts from now on, so this would be the first in a series to come. This would also help me share the past year with you guys at a good pace. When I first started this blog, I just wanted to see what it felt like to have a blog of your own, to share with others that people all around the world stumble upon my posts and give it a brief read or a thorough one, for that matter. Now I just like to make people happy, make 'em laugh, make 'em turn that frown upside down by going crazy with this (at times berserk) compendium of thoughts and emotions. So let's get crackin'!

Yesterday was my birthday as many of you may know. I had come back to India for the summer in early July. So I got to enjoy my lucky day with my family and high school friends. We enjoyed dinner at one of the newly opened restaurants in the city which was fun and refreshing. Once again, I'd like to thank all of you out there for your wishes. 

Lots more about the present, the past and the future is gonna pour out of this crazy head of mine in the weeks to follow, so stay tuned. Till then, adios.

BTW don't the image and the title contradict each other at some level? I'll let you deduce the rest.

Light at the end of the tunnel

I don’t know where to start from. It’s been a helluva month. Someone has truly said,

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

You know how it happens that you get a rid of a problem when suddenly more complex problems arise because of your reaction to the former one. If you don’t know how it happens, I’ll describe it to you in the next post because that’s exactly what has happened with me during the past weeks. Some of you must be thinking I am so downtrodden most of the time. But guys, I have been having fun, no doubt about that. It’s just that my mind has been juggling with thoughts as I would be embarking for my college education in a couple of months. Thus it happens to be the best of times, the worst of times.

Since my last post, I haven’t had much time to sit and spill my thoughts for a new post. But there are only 24 hours in a day. You gotta adjust everything in the given time. I remember telling you about my tests that I had appeared in. What about them? Well the results were out in the last week of May. As I had said before that the results would be disastrous, please be soft on me. I don’t think divulging the exact details are important. Acknowledging the fact that the overall conclusion after these tests was bad sums it all up. This was the only moment since my birth that I couldn’t walk around with my head held high and presumably…….the last one. I know the embarrassment that I and everyone around me had to suffer because of my naïve decisions. My morale was at an all-time low. It was as if the Parasites from the ‘The Supernaturalist’ had sucked every drop of so-called life in me. The two weeks following the results were the most excruciating couple of weeks I had suffered in my eighteen years on earth. Well to give all this a break, my uncle had booked me a Hyderabad trip to visit his family who were leaving for USA the next month. I was a bit nauseous in the beginning about the whole trip but it turned out be an invaluable stress-reliever for me.

I hadn’t visited many places during the last two years and hence, this vacation was the perfect opportunity to let everything go and have fun. We were a gang of four maniacs who would wreck havoc in the whole house either doing something together or going on our own errands. A single post can’t describe the ball we had the whole vacation. So to put in a cluster of sentences, we saw a bunch of movies, went bowling and go-carting, played squash and a lot of X-Box 360. But people coined the term holiday implying that it’s a short-term get-away. So as days passed by, the evening came when it was time to go.

It was tough because I would not be seeing much of them after they leave for USA later next month. Well to hell with the sadness, we all have suffered too much of it lately. Let’s just keep thinking of the fond memories we shared together.

This is an acknowledging note to my lovely cousins that I had the time of my life after a very long time. Also I would like to thank their friends who gave the vacation a whole new funnier dimension.

Love you guys! Keep rocking.

Hoping to see you soon!

This is Twoccer signing off!

Arrivederci.