5 Things I Learnt While Making a Card

1. Never eat or drink anywhere near 


very obvious... you'll ruin everything, no matter how lovely the card is !
been there, done that !






2. Don't overdo anything


okay so a little bit  of  glitter and bling and stuff looks cute. but don't you do anything in excess as it's likely to make it look not-good











3 Don't try to be a  geometer  (Google it!)

so if you're making a card like this, then it's better not to make it  at all ! there's a better place for such a thing ... and that is the DUSTBIN!














4.  Be as sweet as you can 

the heading is self explanatory. Need I say more?
the cuter the better !  









5.  And finally ....




creativity IS the word. 


Being creative may just be a matter of setting aside the time needed to take a step back and allow yourself to ask yourself if there is a better way of doing something. 


be patient and get inspired! 


Before today, i used to think that making a card is nothing of a tough job. but it was when I actually made one for someone, that I realized what it really takes!  
you might  think that it's better to just buy a card and give it to whoever. 
BUT
there's nothing better in the world than getting a special lovely hand-made card !! (:
and you might as well think why didn't I write my trademark dialog that I say at the end of every post.
well, the answer is - it just doesn't make sense!
but then,
everything doesn't always need to make sense 
so,  *disfrutar de la vida* :P

Writing Out Loud With a 4-year old ! :)

So, I happened to be studying for my Chemistry exam on a fine Saturday morning. 

Unexpectedly, i had an unexpected visitor in my room ! a little neighborhood kid who had turned 4 just two days ago !

 while i was knee down in preparing 2-Chloroacetophenol, the little kid was dead keen on not letting me do so! Tried to scare him away but he was more stubborn than i was! plus my brother wasn't there and only he could do that.

i handed him a paper and a pen and asked him to write down the Alphabet. i hoped it would get him working. 

but when i saw him write and draw a flower (yeah, almost!) and a helicopter ( omg see yourself), in a jiffy , i remembered my own childhood days. 

so instead of pushing him out of my room, i ended up teaching him to draw a flower ! ! ! ! !

TRUE- in every thingamajig of the world, there's something of the marvellous ! (:

**disfrutar de la vida**

Turning 17 ! ♥♥

I wish I could describe this day in a million words !

amazing, fab, one of the best days blah blah blah.

so today, November 28, 2011 completed the seventeen years that i have lived.  

unexpectedly , the day WAS unexpected .had started just like any other school day. had huge fun with my girlfriends. loved it. after school. we decided just to go out and enjoy for sometime. well,  Shruti drove  her Dhanno to pick me up and we were to meet Shivangini and Heena at the hotel. 

ordered our usual stuff! ate ate and ate a lot. like CRAZY . laughed laughed laughed ... like CRAZY ..sang on the top of our voices like CRAZY . went bonkers over a song and danced ..like CRAZY .then went madder . like CRAZY 

chocolate ice cream in the end was JUST the perfect finish! 

and those girls gave me a lovely birthday card that was just INSANE ! 

paid the bill . was getting dark . nearly 8 pm . so we started towards home. Heena and Shivangini went on her scooty and i sat behind Shruti on her Dhanno as she rode at 80 miles an hour on the nearly empty Jail Road. amazing to feel my hair flying in the air like CRAZY after such a long time. woohooo ! 

whoa whoa whoa... scarily fast that it took five seconds for me to slip back into my senses ! 

all in all, this was a day i can never ever ever forget.

so cheers , to my girlfriends, Heena Shivangini and Shruti. 

you girls made my day !

*disfrutar de la vida!* (:

the lovely card they gave me

YAWWWWWNN!!

I still remember how much i used to hate going to sleep when i was little ... but now, it's like I can never ever ever get enough of it !

So I've been having this cataclysmal sleeping disorder since quite a lot of time, which , unfortunately has become CRAZIER since two days! And this has made me realize what lack of sleep can actually do to you.  

So it started with an unusually busy day when i got back home after a terrible school day that i slept like a baby!... to wake up at 8pm in the night. then  slept late at night and woke up VERY early. and even though school wasn't that terrible the next day...i still came and slipped into my dreams because i felt like taking a nap ... only to wake up at 9pm. (wow, progress !) then realized that i had A LOT to study. So, on the verge of nearly flipping out... i somehow did all i had to do... and then slept FINALLY at 5am. 

the actual delirium started when my alarm forced me to wake up an hour later to get ready for school. bleary eyed, i  felt so , so , so , SO groggy.. 

it was INSANELY INSANE.. felt like all my dear sensory nerves had tied themselves into one of those pretty bows that Minnie Mouse wore on her head. 

No need to mention that my eyes were closing after every five minutes in the school. CRAZY. and now I've just returned from school and feeling same as yesterday.

Amazing but true - a few hours of sound sleep can do a world of good to you.

BUT a little more... or a little less ... is sure to make you lose all you senses, drive you nuts and turn you into a zombie ! 

**disfrutar de la vida!!**  :)

Today... !!

Today, i want to write about today

not tomorrow
not yesterday
Today was the best day out of the  6175  days i have lived. nor do i think anything, however good it may be, can match it ! 
if this was forever, what could be better?  this day gave me all i needed..all i needed to lift me up. this day saw me happy like never before, smiling like never before, crying like never before , brave like never before, scared like never before, saw myself into big big trouble ... but it was worth it !! 
but most of all.. 
THIS DAY GAVE ME A GOAL TO SHOOT FOR !! and made even a lazy one like me take a very very important decision. and i'm amazed at my suddenly discovered seriousness. (which i never ever had)
 i could describe today in 5 million words... but neither do i have that much time and nor do i know as many words (you know it makes sense, right?)  
so long live physics extra class
long live atiksha's cellphone
long live heena's scooty 
and long live the broken road that led me to this     
**disfrutar de la vida** :)

That SCREAM and that CAR

“That one chapter really screwed me.” I heard my inner voice say to me as I, with my friend Vidisha Barwal and my little brother  Bhavesh Tikku were walking home from school. Yeah, first terminal exams were over, mathematics answer sheets were distributed today and that one unit- matrices and determinants really did cost me 50 marks (which happens to be a great shock when you had never scored less than 93 in maths) OUCH! That really hurt.

As I made a mental note of what mistakes I did and the reasons of my poor performance this time, and as me and Vidisha were discussing about  my close friend Swatika’s unusual habit of excessive bargaining (even with gol-gappe vala) , something happened .

Something?

Yeah that WAS something! Not a hallucination. At least that’s what I hope.

A…. S-C-R-E-A-M
A scream of a girl from inside a car.

A scream of a girl on the almost empty NH-21. Before I could figure out who or, what it was.. .. a speeding car came .. from behind and literally did the snake dance on the road. Was the driver mad? Thank god there were no children on the road.

Within a second, it was gone… vanished. 

It all happened in a jiffy, the car went SO fast i could only notice it was an 

HP 2-something. plus the name plate  had red border that's all.

so now, instead of rogitating about the obviously mad person i again switched over to my phantom of repenting.

suddenly bhedu (vidisha) said "was it a kidnapping" , and mathematics mourning made way for ACP Pradyuman of CID (our THE best thing on tv) 

Bhavesh and Vidisha had seen a person in white shirt on the back seat lean forward towards the driver.

And the girl screamed BEFORE the car went wild

WHAT THE HELL?

"Did you see the car number?" was what we said at the same time. Surprisingly, even my brother, very famous for his extraordinary observation of everything, didn't notice (well, i wouldn't blame him. the car was TOO FAST) . so we kept thinking, gathering facts, more thinking.

meanwhile our we saw our auto come towards us being driven by 

the alcohol addict BUNTY (the STARE man)

we boarded. continued our discussion. (our no use discussion) 

whatever it was 

all's well was my wishy 

but i sensed something fishy

whatever it was, we'll never know

as ACP Pradyuman trademark dialogue goes "Kuch toh gadbad hai" 

SAVED .. By the Bell !

<!----Saturday.

  ----Hot summer day.

<!----Blazing sun.

<!----1:10 pm.

<!----Mathematics test going on.

<!----Chemistry class waiting for me !

Five things. … . Five perfect things ….. Five perfect things sufficient to turn a person like me into  a zombie .

For the reader’s knowledge,  I have no grudges against maths or chemistry.

It had been a long day.

Been standing continuously as so called Discipline Committee Member of the school for 120 minutes for the school environment day celebration (correction : wanted to run away but HAD to watch the yeah-i-already-know   save earth stuff)

One of my friends  Vidisha Barwal had once said.. we cut trees,, then make paper out of it … and on the same paper. , we write SAVE TREES… haha, very true, Bhedu dear!

So, coming back to the theme, had a crazy time celebrating  Environment day,  and after that..  read four more pages from the longest chapter in my English book-Vistas.

(Dear long chapter, you’re finally gonna be DEAD tomorrow *ahhh*)

This boring day didn’t seem to end.

Please end… or change, at least !!

And it DID change--- for the worse !

Physics

2 continuous physics classes. WOW. . the only good thing that happened in those 80 minutes  was that  the final lines of  AM- I -DEAD? – the poem I had been writing .. suddenly clicked in my head.

Somehow , the physics class finally ended. . . making way for the Maths test I mentioned above.

Managed to do 8 out of 10 questions in 25 minutes.

And THEN……. (!!!)

The last chemistry class which didn’t seem to end. Me and my bench mate were dying to hear the bell …

“did it ring?”

“just your  imagination, dear !!”

“but I swear I heard something.. YES  … I did ”

“relax swatika”

The class continued … and continued…..  and continued !!!

“whoa.. its 2:10. Why are we still sitting here ? what’s wrong with the bell??”

2:11… omg!

You’ve got to be kidding me, 2:12 !!! im sure the bell rang and we didn’t hear!

2:13 . . ahhhhh  NOW I’m getting mad!

2:14 . . . . oh come ON

And then  f-i-n-a-l-l-y

We heard the most awaited sound 5 minutes late… at 2:15

..

It made me realize 5 minutes = nothing… but 5 minutes extra when school ought to be over = something indeed !!

***disfrutar de la vida***!!! :)

It all started with a phone call

first of all, let me make it very clear that i'm writing this only because Bhedu ( very sweet friend of mine ) has updated her blog about today's boisterous day and i dont want to be left behind :p


so it was the day i was all happy and relaxing after my final exams ... 


and then... my cellphone rang !! should i take it? or not? i was busy a little . . finally i looked at it ..
it was Bhedu.. i like her a lot because she had given me this wonderful name DIDO 2 years ago... she asked me to go to Shivratri fair with her.. Since i wasn't doing anything, i expressed my willingness.
we met near the venue.. 
Believe me if not lakhs, there were atleast a thousand other people sharing the same road as us. so i had GREAT trouble finding her
COINCIDENCE # 1 - we both were wearing purple
immediately after entering, we went for a ride.. BREAK DANCE. YUCK nothing like break ... nothing like dance.. we were literally walking just here and there and looked at IIT board and i S-I-G-H-E-D. both of us badly wanted to get in there !!
we entered the DOME and for a moment .. it felt like we've landed on another planet. no kidding. me and Bhedu got some friggin cute clips and then kept walking endlessly here and there browsing stuff we didn't really like and had no intention of buying
COINCIDENCE # 2 - we both met our families in the fair 
COINCIDENCE # 3 - me and Bhedu's mothers were both wearing red !! 


then came the F_U_N part....
we met a girl ( im sorry i forgot her name ! she was Bhedu's friend ) who was scared to death from the giant wheel .. so damn scared that she ACTUALLY started screaming. I mean why the hell can people be so scared. i'm not saying i'm very brave. but i learnt a lot from that experience. i mean to conquer the fear and stuff like that !! we provided her a list of all the rides .. needless to say, she had a BIG NO to each one of our wonderful options. nevertheless she was hard to convince for the columbus. 
COINCIDENCE # 4 - we found another coward for that scared little thingie (sorry if i am rude)
Then we met 6 of my friends and we headed proudly towards C_O_L_U_M_B_U_S .. a long waiting time BUT IT WAS WORTH IT !! 
i was at first scared, unable to decide whether i should Sit on the ride or STAND.. but me and shivangini finally decided to stand like Vidisha.
 WOOHOO
 i screamed my heart out ( i know such an expression doesn't exist, but how else could i express the AMAZING feeling i had there)
 Then we bought something- ME VIDISHA AND BHAVESH .. *(i tried that when i got back home and i liked it.)* thanks vidisha for choosing that for me ** LOVE YOU**
In the end... we smartly headed back home with our stroll through the streets . . . talking about becoming science club captain, how quiet and peaceful it was at night  or whatever.. it was around 7:00 and getting dark and Bhedu's father was to pick us up. . . so we kept walking .. and walking.. and walking  and me , thinking in my mind of WOW WHAT A BLOG-WORTH day !!
 then i don't know what happened to my little brother, he said that he THOUGHT he saw Bhedu's car go to the other side. At first, Bhedu didn't believe. but when bhanu said that he also saw a CHOTA BACHA SITTING IN THE CAR, Vidisha went nuts. we kept standing there     
like dumbos .. in the dark haha !! what fun !!
finally the appearance of Vidisha's car OUT-OF-THE-BLUE confirmed that bhanu's observation had rusted.
if i had my way, i could describe this day in a million words. but neither i have that much time, nor i know so many words. (you know it makes sense, right?) (:
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I Don't Want to be Miss Wayward Anymore!!

Today I didn’t do much work. That gave me enough time to think and discover myself a little bit. People my age are doing wonders right now. They plan far ahead and seem organized humans. Look at me, I’m sixteen and don’t even know what I want to do in this life, all I know is home then school then back to home, with some amount of homework and a little fun in between.

Today was my mathematics final exam. Honestly speaking, I hadn’t prepared myself for it. As a matter of fact, I had started studying yesterday and finished all the 16 chapters like a machine. To my surprise, the paper was EXTREMELY easy …. Much more than I had expected. I could have got 100 but I won’t, and that’s because I don’t deserve it. But no, I didn’t cry over it. I have learnt from this bizarre and promised myself not to fall into this situation ever again.

To be true, I’m VERRY lazy and that stops me from doing all good that I want to. I’m like those who have a LONG to-do list that is of no utility except decorating my desk and then decorating the dustbin afterwards.

When I was little I wanted to be a million things (well most of all, I wanted to be a horse!!)

When I grew up to a nine year old, I wanted to become

The president of INDIA

An astronaut

A TV actress

A journalist

A photographer

A scientist

(+ 50 more things)

When I further became 15, I wanted to become

A writer

A genetic engineer

A supermodel

A professional detective

An astronaut

A painter

All this I WANTED to become. Not that I had ACTUALLY done anything in that direction.  Everybody tells me that I must have an aim – a specific aim and work for it, live for it, die for it and never lose sight for it. I completely agree. But I just can’t make my mind. Further, sometimes I think-who and what is I in this mighty world and then I go blank-COMPLETELY BLANK because I don’t know what I where to start and what to think.

So today, I’ve decided to do nothing but peep inside me, and come out with an answer so that when I go to bed tonight, I have a big smile from ear to ear and wake up with a plan tomorrow. =))

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