All my bags are packed...

I copied "Leaving on a Jet Plane" from Vod a few days ago, and now I can't get the song out of my head. Hence the lame title. Incidentally, Vod has actually left on a jet plane. And he's actually not sure when he'll be back again. Maybe it's not such a lame title after all then.

Got back from a trip to Bangalore this morning. It's nice to get away from the city for a couple of days. It's even nicer when it's all on the Central government's expense! The catch was that I had to sit in an auditorium and listen to THREE organic chemists speak, interspersed with biopics of two physicists. It's then that you realize what a bum deal biology gets in this country. The only science that gets less focus is Math. But then again, since physics owes a great deal to math, math does get some reflected attention. So it's just bio. And I've had to listen to physicists tell me how confusing bio is and how logical physics is for the last two years. Sigh.
It wasn't half bad, though. Only one of the lectures was really bad. Most people either gave up trying to listen, or fell asleep outright. The highlight must've been the time when the third speaker made a rocket in the auditorium. Using a bubble top water can and methanol. Really.

It was a fun outing otherwise. I met pseudo and Lioness after a whole year.Lioness hasn't actually changed very much. But pseudo has, or seems to have, rather. Maybe it's because I've gotten to know her so much better over the last one year. She doesn't seem like the self-conscious, slightly inhibited girl I met last May. More like one of the select group of people I'd like to have with me in front of my fireplace. If I had a house with a fireplace, that is :)

In other news, the last two weeks have been pretty hectic. I've been volunteering in a theatre company here in Madras. There have been a spate of birthdays. soupy, estarra, pseudo and Chitra, to name a few. Oh, and mine as well. Appropriate changes have been made to the blog since.

That's all about me for now. I'm gonna return to observing and commenting for the next few posts.

No time for losers, 'cause we are the champions...

I've been into quizzing for as long as I can remember (well, since the 4th standard, at any rate). And it's when I quiz that I get into my "show-the-bums-no-mercy" mood. Which, as people who know me would say, doesn't come by very often. Anyway, quizzing is my sport. My playground. It's where I play hard, and play to win.

And win I did. Almost. P and I came 3rd in the Economic Times quiz held here today. I can't tell you how good it felt. Considering that our opposition included people doing their MBAs. Considering that only a year ago, I failed to make the cut for the same quiz, by just one point. Considering that my last big result came in 2005, with estarra (we were great, girl. You were probably the best teammate I ever had). But mostly, considering that it was a business quiz. And I'm a biology student. (I know I said I'd never do a business quiz again. But I guess not listening to myself pays off once in a way!)

Additionally, last year the quiz master called us on stage, as the team finishing 7th, and gave us t-shirts. When he found out that we were first-year students he said, "You guys are just babies in quizzing terms, I ought to give you diapers". Cute. But what can I say. I grow up pretty fast :D
Yes, I realise all of this doesn't make much sense to you. So what? I'm a winner and that's all that matters now.

P.S. We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'cause we are the champions
of the world
and all of it in Freddie Mercury's voice. God, that song's been stuck in my head all evening

(Update 28/3/08: A more structured post coming up soon. Please don't go away. I need the readers!)

This just in

Ok, not quite "just in". I didn't want to use "Story of my life" again so soon. But this is a quick recap of all that's happened during the last two weeks.

*College annual day on the 16th. And yours truly went thru a whole gamut of duties, starting off as quizmaster (of a quiz that was never held, finally), to compere, to curtain-man, and finally ending up as the de-facto stage manager. It was loads of fun overall. We had students over from our sister institute too to join us. And it was only after talking to them that I found out just how much better off I was in Pune. Their workload is pretty tough. It's almost like 12th standard (before the rush for the board exam begins, that is)over there. Yesterday some of us took the "tourists" out to see some places in Pune. Mind you "tourists" includes me. These were places that I'd only heard of, but had never been to. and I gotta say, it's very cool to see a fort like Shaniwar Wada in the middle of a city

*College mag released on the 15th. And the article I wrote about blogging is in there. I'll put it up here sometime soon.

*Laptop conked off on the 9th. And it seems to be a hardware problem. I've tried searching the net for info on what the problem is, but I haven't had much luck. Some websites say that it may be a problem with the hard disk, or the RAM module, but I can't be sure. If anyone has had trouble witha Toshiba Satellite A15, let me know.
And besides all this, the classes have just been passing by. Haven't been paying too much attention this past week. I hope it doesn't come back and bite me. Also I just found out that Fred Epstein and Evel Knievel are dead (hopelessly behind the times, that's me)

Oh yes, and Ferrari had an awful weekend. Here's hoping things go better next weekend at Sepang.