I STILL havent got my laptop yet!!!:( !$%^ the laptop actually ...I don't even have a bloody bank account yet nor a mobile! Pretty shitty huh?!! But I'm really trying not to miss them too much and think about how simple things were when I wasn't so used to such things in life. But then again..there are those other times-when it's impossible to roll out of bed without that certain song to start your day with or having to spend hours in the oh so quiet computer labs.... and then suddenly you're thinking- to hell with simple living!
2nd week of my post grads and coursework has gained a ridiculously... sonic momentum. Head on collision happening with the different courses and their assignments and readings. Guess thats what a bloody Msc is all about. humph! But ..I can't really complain..I signed up for this and it's just the 2nd week for !"£$ sake! BREaTHE. BREATHE....
RRight then...moving on. To a more chilled out note. One good thing: I've not been "forgetting" to have a good time amidst all this work ! So who cares if its a wednesday night and I have a 9 am lecture the next day? Sure as hell not ME!
It was a movie on tuesday night- Talladega Nights:the legend of Ricky Bobby- starring Will Ferrel of Mugatu fame in Zoolander.Was idiotically hilarious and Ali G is just beyond description! Had some minor problem with sound in the middle of the movie so they gave us free tickets to any other show next week ! :)
Now wednesday night..that was fun. A bunch of us from my programme met up in Sandy Bells Pub playing Live scottish music which just makes you want to jump around and do a Celidh. A couple of pints later, the place seemed too small and too noisy for the now "Merry" us so we decided to go for this other thing ..a university night in a club called IGNITE*. CAVANDISH, starring the Sun bloc girls!!Hmmmmm. Made me want to squirm at the thought of going to watch hot blonde WOMEN in swimsuits, dirty dancing to the Baywatch song club remix( which incidentally was quite nice actually) So anyway, we eventually get there and there 's a queue for about 2 blocks up the road AND we are not on the guest list!!boo hooo.. anyhu, it was just about midnight so we stood in line for about an hour( I kid you not!) , moving an inch in every excrutiatingly long two minutes and finally we got to the door! Inside it was just pure chaos! Just too many people, so guess what!!?yup..another easy 30 minutes wait at the bar to get A drink and finally we were ready to hit the floor! The sun bloc girls as I would've imagined were ....a sad sad lot...other than a few horny men enjoying watching them dance on stage, I thought the rest of the crowd was going to boo them off stage at any minute ! That sadly didn't happen but fortunately for me and other like-minded folks who just wanted to dance...there was a separate floor upstairs playing 60's, 80's retro and other glorious dance mixes!!!! Danced like a mad woman with great balls of fire on her heels..starring my new GREEN retro shoes!( sorry, just HAD to put that in!). So lets not get into how my 9 am class went this morning! :)
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Viva la Escocia!
It just had to happen to me!! First two nights in a flat full of chinese boys in a strange new city! Of the hundreds of thousands of new students accommodations deal with, they had to hand ME the wrong key to my flat! Anyway, the boys.... were a sweet sweet bunch who actually got quite sad I had to leave and was ready to help me shift flats again. So now I'm in the flat I was originally supposed to be in. Yea..an all girls flat I'm afraid. Still got to make that long due trip to IKEA coz the room looks too damn dull at the moment... needs some colour, a mirror and ..hmm..other interesting junk while I'm at it . My flatmates are all really nice (so far atleast haha) and they sure do cook alot..which is kind of a good thing coz in their company I've made quite a few meals myself. :)
The two day fieldtrip to Northern Scotland( Glenlivet Estate) was FUN. About 21 of us from the Msc course, spent two nights in a small quaint town of Tomintoul. Got really good 3 course meals ..ofcourse all of this for free! Got to love Simon, my programme director..such a nice person. So in those two days..lets see..visited farms, national parks, talks by park rangers about course related stuff, an ecovillage, walked for miles uphill in rain and sludge to see trees being sawed off(!), fed reindeers under that same bloody pouring rain...well atleast the rest of them did anyway. I was just pissed I had to be standing cold and soaking wet in a farm surrounded by a herd of &**%^ reindeers! Really sympathetic beings though.
They say you haven't seen Scotland if you haven't been to a Whiskey Distillery. So we did the rounds there as well. Had free tasting of an 18 year old single malt which wud have probably cost me an arm and a leg. I know now, for sure, that I am no whiskey lover. A pint of beer....hmm..now thats something else.Tried the local brewery's beer and ofcourse some gorgeous black guiness. Add to that a shot of amarretto and I was in my happy place! Came back to the city on f riday and headed straight for the Celidh( Scottish dancing)..amazing ..had an awsome time there getting thrown around my men in kilts!:) Later went to this 3 storey club called Espionage....missed the good old Cool Bananas like hell!!
Spent the weekend walking around the royal mile n high street. The good thing about this city is how you keep bumping into someone you know ...so met david n leo from my course n went to a pub called the last drop. Apparently this place was whr prisioners came for their last pint before they got hung in the gallows which is just outside in the square. Another reason why it isn't hard to fall in love with Edinburgh- all that history!!
Had my first lecture for my course today..it went well so im happy about that and looking forward to all the long sleepless nights studying in the Library..haha. ganbarenakya....
Would really want to strike a balance between having fun n course work. Some ppl manage it so well. Edinburgh's music scene is also too good to pass so will be hopefully going to atleast 1 live gig every once in a while. BTW, talking about music..hehe..met this 17 yr old kid during the fieldtrip..a wanna be rocker..sort of mixed up with all the smoking and doped out look plus the hanson brothers hair style and still breaking voice. Apparently he has a "rock band" and plays some nights in venues around the city. He even gave me his record which I must say is seriously deranged and mental! Oh and their band is called DED Rabbits( like LED zeppelin) The most hilarious bit was the fact that he was telling me about all his head banging rock band and hard core habits when the clock strikes 10 and he asks me for a mobile so that he cud call his dad to come pick him up from the pub! Priceless!
The two day fieldtrip to Northern Scotland( Glenlivet Estate) was FUN. About 21 of us from the Msc course, spent two nights in a small quaint town of Tomintoul. Got really good 3 course meals ..ofcourse all of this for free! Got to love Simon, my programme director..such a nice person. So in those two days..lets see..visited farms, national parks, talks by park rangers about course related stuff, an ecovillage, walked for miles uphill in rain and sludge to see trees being sawed off(!), fed reindeers under that same bloody pouring rain...well atleast the rest of them did anyway. I was just pissed I had to be standing cold and soaking wet in a farm surrounded by a herd of &**%^ reindeers! Really sympathetic beings though.
They say you haven't seen Scotland if you haven't been to a Whiskey Distillery. So we did the rounds there as well. Had free tasting of an 18 year old single malt which wud have probably cost me an arm and a leg. I know now, for sure, that I am no whiskey lover. A pint of beer....hmm..now thats something else.Tried the local brewery's beer and ofcourse some gorgeous black guiness. Add to that a shot of amarretto and I was in my happy place! Came back to the city on f riday and headed straight for the Celidh( Scottish dancing)..amazing ..had an awsome time there getting thrown around my men in kilts!:) Later went to this 3 storey club called Espionage....missed the good old Cool Bananas like hell!!
Spent the weekend walking around the royal mile n high street. The good thing about this city is how you keep bumping into someone you know ...so met david n leo from my course n went to a pub called the last drop. Apparently this place was whr prisioners came for their last pint before they got hung in the gallows which is just outside in the square. Another reason why it isn't hard to fall in love with Edinburgh- all that history!!
Had my first lecture for my course today..it went well so im happy about that and looking forward to all the long sleepless nights studying in the Library..haha. ganbarenakya....
Would really want to strike a balance between having fun n course work. Some ppl manage it so well. Edinburgh's music scene is also too good to pass so will be hopefully going to atleast 1 live gig every once in a while. BTW, talking about music..hehe..met this 17 yr old kid during the fieldtrip..a wanna be rocker..sort of mixed up with all the smoking and doped out look plus the hanson brothers hair style and still breaking voice. Apparently he has a "rock band" and plays some nights in venues around the city. He even gave me his record which I must say is seriously deranged and mental! Oh and their band is called DED Rabbits( like LED zeppelin) The most hilarious bit was the fact that he was telling me about all his head banging rock band and hard core habits when the clock strikes 10 and he asks me for a mobile so that he cud call his dad to come pick him up from the pub! Priceless!
Sunday, September 10, 2006
In scotland.
It's been a while...hell..more than a while..its been a little more than a month since I last blogged! So what have I been upto since? Lets see...there was the sayonara party in Japan, the depressing flight back home to India, a great ten days or so at home with mumn n dad and now...I'm in Scotland, ready to start school again in Endiburgh. With relatives at the moment in the countryside in Glasgow..simple beautiful out here. Drove around the Clover highlands and Lunan bay overlooking the cold North sea yesterday. Lovely weather too...had been expecting shitty wet weather but ever since I've come..we've been blessed with warm sunny days. Will take a while to get used to the accent with which people speak english here. Glenn's friend is driving me to my uni today. Sort of have mixed feelings about that....going to the uni! Im excited yet a bit scard. I guess we all can get that way when we're about to start something new in a new country. A slight nagging anxiety in the pit of your stomach. Other than that..it's been really nice so far. More later.
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