Last Few Weeks of University Life

College is a time of self-discovery, beer, learning, beer, friends, beer, planning for the future, beer, boundless energy and beer. After a few years, you leave university and look for a job that will eventually pay off all those loans haunting you. So my days are closing in!!! In the next two weeks I’ll be done with my MBA/MCom and my student life will finally come to an end.

I still remember getting advice from all the grey haired people telling me to pursue my post graduate study after working for a couple of years but I just felt like I couldn’t get enough of college days and therefore I decided that I wanted to do my Masters so that I could get another 2 years of college life.
Every time I enter the university now, I let the whole journey sink in. I still remember the day I landed in Australia and had a chauffeur driven service right to Deakin University and as I got out of the car I saw a massive structure of the university and I felt ‘WOW’ only to discover later, the university was a much much larger area than what I had seen. Though I dint attend too many lectures, but I have been loitering around the university campus almost everyday and I know I’m gonna miss every bit of it. The library, the coffee shop, bldg B and the Mac lab, Cafe at HE where I used to have my favorite Chicken Parma, the walk through the creek which always made me nostalgic and the tall trees and the cold winds always reminded me of Goa.

It’s time now to move onto a different phase in life from being a student to entering into the working class. Hopefully things will click for the best and I’ll be able to build memories of this new phase that I will cherish in the years to come. It takes courage and optimism to move to another country, and to study and work in a culture radically different from one’s own and I’m glad that I have made the best of a unique opportunity.

After a long time!!!

Its been over 4 months since my last post. I don’t remember why I suddenly stopped writing. So you must think, what I have been upto in the last four months. Well, I was living at Box hill south last and two of my very close friends had moved in too. I had a gala time with them and with no job, it was just party time (How Ironic).
It is said often that when you spend a lot of time with someone you tend to think only about them. And so I had another crush but this time it was different. It happened the American way, long story cut short, Niku and myself were very close friends, I confided a lot in him, to the extent that I would take relationship advice from him. He’s one guy who read me in and out and would always take me by surprise. I find it creepy when someone claims to know me. But this time it felt unusually great that someone understood me so well.
Then came the month of July when I was overwhelmed with feelings for him and I couldn’t have ignored it more. I’m amongst those who doesn’t feel like holding back when I like someone and irrespective of the outcome I go ahead and speak my heart. This time it took a lot of courage. The place we were living in was about to auctioned since the landlord hadn’t paid the mortgage on the house.We had to vacate the house and look for a new place on a very short notice. It was very very difficult for the three of us (ashish, niku n myself) to find a place together. Finally Niku managed to find a place for himself and he was going to share it with his brother who was about to come back from India a few weeks later. Ashish moved back to his old place and I was the only one left with no accommodation. We searched, searched and searched but hard luck. The day niku moved out, ashish me and sudeep were laying low at home. We finally got some drinks and a few hours later I was high and with a little bit of pestering, sudeep and ashish convinced me to tell niku how I felt and so I did and the rest is history. I never expected that he would like me, but he said he did and I believe him!!! (hmm…)
Now, we are living in together, we have our ups and downs regularly but we are stable which is good thing. It’s been 2 months now that we are dating and I feel good about this relationship.
Now for the miscellaneous activities, I have been partying way too hard, either going clubbing or having a house party every weekend. There was a time where I ALMOST made out with a lesbian and the nonsense goes on and on. Another exciting news is that I was interviewed by Delaware North for vacancies at the Australian Open which I felt like I sucked at the interview but I got a call today saying that I have got the job and I start induction next week. Now how about that???
Well, now I’m looking forward eagerly to catch glimpses of all the tennis super stars especially Rafael Nadal (whom I absolutely love) and definitely Andy Roddick (hopefully to see some court violations and piss my sister off by making her jealous). Will keep you posted soon.

Manic Monday

Another weekend gone by and another manic Monday coming up. I’m reminded of the song and I feel so miserable, that with the rise of the sun tomorrow, the routine is gonna begun yet again and I wish that everyday was a Sunday and I could relax and wake up lateeee.
Hmm so what’s on tomorrows agenda?? Well, I need to drop off the contract for my new job which I’m really thankful for at least now I’ll have a base pay. Need to finish an assignment discuss and finalize it with a group mate. Start working on another assignment with another friend. Aim to study at least 2 topics of a unit.
Need to meet some more thankless people who suck up to me coz they need my help and then conveniently disappear into the woods once their work is done.(I wonder why I offer my services to a bunch of asses) Hmmm…
I plan on bunking work tomorrow because what the hell, I dint even get paid properly, after all the hard work
I have exams coming up in June and 4 assignments due next week also need to show my face at work so that I at least get paid peanuts for my last months hard work. Ufff… what a headache!!!

So I’m signing off. I hope I hear the alarm at 6:30am :@

Hilarious and very true!!!

I clicked on tag surfer and also followed regulars blogs. It’s an early morning ritual to read stuff that people have taken so much time and effort to write and I came across this Hilarious list, that the author punkpolkadots has written about what makes women “Tick Tock” lol. I’m sure u’ll have fun reading it too. Thanks Polka Dot you made my day!!!

Clarity

Posted by: punkopinion on: April 14, 2009

* In: TheBoy| boys| feelings| girls| lists| love

Had the best Easter weekend ever! And what I have come to notice is that sometimes boys are truly in tune with a woman’s feelings and sensitivities. So although yesterday was hard to grapple with the fact that my boy just spent the weekend with me and he was now home, it had to be done. It turned a rather ‘blue’ Monday into a GLOOMY blue Monday and looks like an even “bluer” Tuesday.
Radiohead’s “Creep” is playing on loop in my head! (I wish I was SPESHSHOL, so fucking SPESHSHOL), and I have decided to pass my “cheeriness” onto all of you today. Yes, I am fucking nice to all of you… please take my happiness and rub it in your faces!! On a happier note, I actually wanna make you smile, so in turn you can comment positively at the end of this post and in return perk me up!
For those of you men who wonder, what it is to make my boy “speshshol” read on… I am not innocent of nagging here and I usually get into fits of rage, but he calms me down in the cutest way and his pretence of being silly makes me guffaw, ever so often!
Below are a few insights into making a women tock… lists have already been made on “what makes a women tick”!!
1. Nothing is sexier than a man comfortable in his own skin. Even more so if he finds our flawed bodies perfect. Brownie points if he doesn’t make a repulsive face.
2. All women have liked Backstreet Boys / Nsync / Westlife at some point in their lives. I was a Westlife Wannabe. I planned a future around “Mark” and his dreamy blue eyes. They’re all pretty.
3. We hate that you get called a “player” when you are a player. We get called “sluts”!!
4. Passionate musicians make our knees weak.
5. It’s a tough role to play when we’re juggling a full blown career as well as trying to be a girlfriend or wife. Cut us some slack every now and then.
6. We spray our cleavage with deo. If we like you, we wear a skirt to pass a subtle hint and chances are we have also sprayed the backs of our knees.
7. We hardly ever take time in the loo. It’s the other women that do!
8. We all have a flirting system. Pay attention and you will find it.
9. We know the power of our breasts and we aren’t afraid to use them!!
10. Most of us can’t cook a proper meal. You’ll be “awesum” to us if you can!!
11. Most guys that we’re attracted to, mentally and sometimes psychically is because you are a lot like our dads. Creepy, I know but it is a fact.
12. But we won’t tell you that, and if you, even accidently, compare us to your MOM, we WILL run!!
13. The clitoris is not a toy.
14. We’re almost always judging you, if we think you are a potential romantic prospect that is… if not then you may act however you want to!
15. That thing we do, that you like? It’s not spontaneous! We’ve probably practiced it a million times, perfected it with inputs from our girlfriends, albeit drunk.
16. Like hustling, we are genetically engineered to bargain and reduce prices from 5% to 10%
17. We are also unhappy that boys get off being stronger psychically rather than mentally.
18. It can be sexy though.
19. Looks aren’t really important to us and we’ve told you that a million times. Accept reason one million and one: all we really want is a good boy with a golden heart.
20. You’re not cute when you’re drunk.
21. You are however cute, when WE’RE drunk!
22. We really like to know what you boys think of, when you do think.
23. Most of us want kids. Even the ones who say they don’t. We just don’t know it yet. But then a few of us really don’t. Go Figure!!
24. All women are multi-faceted and can multi-task. It’s just that we don’t believe in showing off.
25. Although we have a tough shell image all we want to be is loved. And sometimes lusted for!
26. Sometimes we only want to be lusted for.
27. While in the nookie, if you noticed unshaved legs or armpits, granny panties, it’s so you won’t think we’re sluts when we sleep with you.
28. We know when you’ve been bad. It’s true.
29. We aren’t peeved or opposed with the idea of kissing other women. We like to tease you.
30. And finally, if you think that you can get away with sleeping with our friends and us not finding out about it. Oh, we will know. And we will gossip about the size of your penis and if you were unusually selfish and greedy in bed, we will compare it to bigger ones we’ve seen.

Disclaimer: Please remember that I am generalizing and this is to be taken with a dash of humour.

We haven’t seen a lot of big dicks. Not in real life anyway.

Boys you’ll are welcome to make your lists!!

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Happy Easter!!!

For all those of you celebrating the feast of the Risen Lord, Wishing you a very Happy Easter. Hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend. People of Melbourne have a public holiday on Monday too and they call it Easter Monday, I’m not sure what that means. Hmmm…..Last year it was my first Easter away from home and I went to three different churches (I’ll explain why I tried 3 different churches later) to attend the holy week, Palm Sunday (still have the palm from last year), Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Easter is supposed to be the biggest feast for us Christians but yet we give Christmas that extra edge. For 40 days (the Lenten period) we are meant to abstain from bad things (cigarettes, alcohol, eating meat) and anything that we find tempting. People above the age of 18 are expected to skip one meal on important days like Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (I can’t recall even one year where I might have fasted, I’m not proud of it, but I somehow cannot not eat on those days).

I belong to St. Vincent Pallotti Parish, Marol (Mumbai, India). And during the holy week we have the mass on our church grounds because our parish community is very large (not really sure of the stats, but we have a huge crowd). The air is different on those days, it makes you very pious. And with the choirs of angels you feel like you’re in heaven (lol don’t take me literally, but yes its divine). Our parish mostly always finds a priest who preaches a sermon that moves you and makes you want to change yourself i.e. if you’re not already a good person heheehe….. But on a serious note, that whole week is just different, it’s a period of transformation for many and you feel it from the very moment you step onto those grounds for mass. I think because its done on a large scale the effect is magnified. It’s truly a wonderful experience because each day of the holy week leaves an impact on you and it just doesn’t feel like a routine even though it happens every year. So back to why I tried 3 different churches in Melbourne last year, it’s because none of the churches compared to what I’ve experienced back home and it only depresses me that people here are not religious. That’s the reason I decided against going to church this year. Here’s link to my parish website. http://www.vinpalparish.com/cgi-bin/index.pl Take a tour.
Happy Easter once again!!! Enjoy the holiday.

PS: I miss being home, Miss my church, Miss the Easter Eggs, Miss Mum’s food and all the deliciousness on a feast like this.

In This Life – Delta Goodrem

This song by Delta Goodrem best describes my life. I have been listening it to it all morning!!!

I was nurtured I was sheltered
I was curious and young
I was searching for that something
Trying to find it on the run
Oh and just when I stopped looking
I saw just how far I’d come
In this life

You give me love
You give me light
Show me everything that’s been happening
I’ve opened up my eyes

Following
Three steps fight an honest fight
Two hearts that can start a fire
One love is all I need
In this life

I have faltered I have stumbled
I have found my feet again
I’ve been angry I’ve been shaken
Found a new place to begin
My persistence to make a difference
Has led me safe into your hands
In this life

I was put here for a reason
I was born into this world
And I’m living I’m believing
I was meant to be your girl
In this life

Guys, Learn to Cook X-(

Just yesterday, I was chatting with one of my friends from back home. Yes Daredevil, It’s you. So ya I was saying? haan and he was telling me all about, how he can’t cook and many people had tried to get him into the kitchen to try it out, and they failed.
So Daredevil aka Apollo (on Hub) gets up so early on a Sunday, I have no idea why and we chat about random stuff as usual and he begins to feel hungry. Then he whines about his mom not being at home, and no restaurant open this early who would serve him breakfast and he’s slowly getting irritated. So I suggested, he make an omelet. And omg he made such an issue about it, “it’s very difficult, have you forgotten I don’t know to cook, there’s nothing easier than breaking an egg but what do I do after that” blah blah blah. I was wondering, if he actually dint know how to cook or was he just lazy?? hmmm
Anyway, it took a lot out of me to convince him to try and make that omelet. It’s no big deal, don’t you think? But that bugga gave me a timeline, asked me to call for help if he dint return in 30 mins. Omg what drama lol. He was back on time and said that he managed to pull it off. lol I’m proud of you Apollo.
And here comes Monday, I was in uni all day, meeting group members regarding assignments, meeting few friends, studying a little and I return home all tired at 9pm thinking i’ll grab a bite and crash. I enter the kitchen and a pot full of rice is burning lol. It’s Alex, who doesn’t know how to cook rice. Poor guy has cooked such a lot of rice, looked like it was a weeks quota (eww lol) and it was all bad now. I felt sorry for the guy, so I offered him some ready to eat mix but he wouldn’t accept. He wanted to cook the rice again and he asked me in his broken English (his mother tongue is Spanish) what had he done wrong. So I explained, less water +high flame. The landlord very politely asked him, if he had the intention of burning down his house lol. It was very funny but I felt really bad for Alex. So I taught him how to cook rice and he thanked me like a zillion times. Anytime Alex!!! Anytime
So if you still don’t get the moral of the story. I’ll spell it out for you. GUYS LEARN TO COOK. Learn to feed yourself once in a while, don’t take your mums, wives, and gf’s for granted. And all the guys who can cook thumbs up.

PS: hahahaha Apollo I dint expect you to find out so quickly lol.

Eating with Chopsticks!!!

Chings Khaao Noodles Banaao (lol)

Last time I was in Melbourne and doing the Business Skills Program, we went to Chinatown for a group hang since most of the group members were Asian and it was their most obvious choice.  Chinatown and chopsticks scary thought lol. We ordered some amazing Chinese cuisine and along with it came the horror “THE CHOPSTICKS”. My friends did try to teach me how to eat with them, but I couldn’t learn the technique. And if you’re thinking I went home hungry, no no Thank God they had forks and spoons which a  few of us had to specially ask for

So today, I prepared some stir fried noodles with vegetables and I went to the kitchen drawer to pick up a fork as usual and there I see the Chopsticks ( Playing at the back of my head was the Noodle Ad Chings Khao Noodle Banao lol). So I thought lets give it a try. I also googled for a video that could possibly help with learning the technique.

So what you need to do is place one stick between your ring finger and the middle finger and keep it fixed and the other stick between your Index finger and middle finger and place your thumb to support them. And all you need to do is move the top stick to pickup your morsel. And at first my fingers felt so stiff. It just wouldnt click,  my palm started cramping, what pain (lol) but it was worth it. I have finally mastered the Technique, its not all that difficult.

Try it out, It’s Fun!!!

http://www.wikihow.com/Eat-with-Chopsticks

PS:  Eating noodles is still fine, think about eating rice haahhahaah, I’m definitely going to try it out.

New Abode

I have shifted to a new place now and though it’s not very fancy like the old one, it’s still nice.  My room is a lot more spacious and the window faces a large golf course, it’s calm & quiet, just how I like it. The weather seemed unexpectedly warm in the last few days even though it’s supposed to be autumn. I remember nearly freezing last year and so I prefer the sun.  So I spent the last two days unpacking and setting up my stuff, pretty tiresome. I’m sharing the house with Alex a Colombian guy who looks cute and Elaine a Korean girl and they aren’t all that friendly, though it may be too soon to judge hmmm… Let’s see, time will tell.

So I thought it’s not all that bad as long as I have my saving grace (the internet) I’m fine. And I realized that I had spoken too soon. The landlord has a broadband connection and she managed to give me a wire so that I could use the facility and to my dismay it dint work. And I tried and tried and tried to get it running and nothing worked. I started getting my anxiety attacks, I find the internet my closest companion here and so it depressed me not to have it. I started feeling so lonely. I dint know what to do so I came to the Uni, all sad and grumpy and thought I’d use the Wi-Fi on my laptop and great, the Wi-Fi  also wasn’t  working. Crappy Microsoft Windows, I have always had trouble with the Operating System.  I used the uni comp and chatted with my sister for a while and went back home and slept.  The Uni IT helpdesk is closed on Sat & Sun and so there’s not much I could do. And here comes Monday, and I finally got my Wi-Fi fixed. Thank God, I feel much better, all I need to do now is try and fix my broadband so I can use the net at home, waiting for the internet guy to show. Hopefully I’ll be online by tonight when I get home.

To All My Friends

I chatted with a college friend of mine today. Jonathan was the most irritating character in college. We used to fight so much, argue for silly reasons. He was a big pain, but I still liked him, may be because in time you become attached to people and 3yrs is long enough. He was very unexpectedly senti today.

jonathan_paes2003: do u miss coll
dinka_212 : i do
dinka_212 : a lot
dinka_212 : we should have a reunion
jonathan_paes2003 : any special people
dinka_212 : specially u n khandekar
jonathan_paes : liar
dinka_212 : no lies

And then he went on and on talking about ally, sneha, anu, joshu. Sweet!!! (I’ll keep my promise, we’ll surely sit down and have a drink the next time I visit Mumbai.  Love ya mwaah..)

Last night Rebyl buzzed me and that grandma, she wouldn’t stop only. We discussed such weird topics, she asked me so many crazy questions, only to find out later that she already had the answers. It was fun remembering all the funny stories of school. Woman, I love you a lot. You’re the best!!! I wish you dint have to go to Oman so soon. I was miserable in junior college without you.  I hope I can see you soon and that too in Oman (fingers crossed).

And after all that talk I miss my closest friend. I miss you Bhenkri, I know I have done a lot to upset you. I know that I could repair things by talking and sorting it out with you but…..  I can’t seem to take the first step. I did not call u even though I knew I should have. You were there for me through my darkest hours. The memories of the day before I left last year are still untarnished.  And I feel guilty that I wasn’t a good friend and I don’t know of a  way to make it up to you. I’m really sorry for everything. But know that I love you a lot even though I do not show.

So to all the people who I have been friends with all this while and for those who I have fought with, lost touch with, or just abruptly disappeared ( Vinita, Rebyl, Alice,  Sneha, Aleshia, Josilia,  Renita,  Sofia, Jonathan, Anu, Cherylann, Vicky, Darryl, Adrian, Pravin, Melroy, Elaine, Snadden, Salvador, Francis, Mandy, Gunveen, Ruchi , Stuti, Kunal, Adil, Nishant, Bhanu, Sumana, Uday, Divyesh & if some1 I have forgotten to mention,) a big Sorry for all the wrongs I’ve done and a very special thank you to all of you’ll for being a part of my life. Love you’ll guys mwaaaah.

As I sit alone
With the warm sun on my back
I realise something’s missing
A part of me which lacks.

Could it be the trees,
Reaching for the sky?
Or could it be the children,
Walking home, who pass me by?

Perhaps, I miss the birds,
Chirping sweetly above my head?
All I feel is restlessness
A part of me is dead.

I know now what it is.
Now I realize what is wrong.
It’s the feeling, they call solitude,
All my friends are gone.

Of course I know,
That as we grow,
We have to make our way,
We all must plot a different course,
To go by everyday.

I always thought my friendships,
Would be round,
Just like the moon
But you see,
I am not ready,
For it all to end so soon.

I miss their happy laughter,
Floating on the wind.
I miss the many secrets,
That circulate within.

The only way to keep,
Our friendships woven tight,
Is to keep in contact always,
And then we’ll be alright!