WORTH THE READ....

“All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.”
Tenth, ‘The year of evolution’, as Kanika puts it, has taught me loads (Which can be proved by the size of this entry ; ) ) . At times life seemed a dream and then suddenly I would realize it is struggle. For one second it would appear a pleasant truth, and the next second, a horrible joke! Life indeed is a roller coaster, you do puke sometimes, but it is always fun in the end.

‘Tenthogeny’ unfolded the following hardcore facts of life before me:

~ Life is beautiful – it is up to you to see it so and keep it so (Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder).
~ You have to learn to let go.
~ Life is like soccer… You need goals
~ All kinds of people exist in this world
~ All ‘WHYs’ do not have an answer
~ The question is not that how can someone do it – the fact is that someone has done it.
~ Life never fails to surprise you.
~ Always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst
~ It is actually possible to feel grief and relief at the same time.
~ Everything that happens, happens for a reason and happens for good.
~ Confidently walk in the direction of your dreams and only then can they be yours.
~ Follow your heart but don’t forget to take your brain with you.
~ Diligence counts more than intelligence.
~ Don’t be so broad minded that your brain falls out.
~ Absence sharpens love, but presence strengthens it.
~ Destiny brings people to your life, it’s only your heart that can decide who gets to stay.
~ You can do something in an instant that can give you heartache for life.
~ It’s easy to advise but very hard to follow.
~ Friends are the jewels of your life – the spring after winter, light after dark – they are the pearls in the depths of the ocean – but true friends are difficult to find. (When friends forget you, it hurts, when they forget your friendship, it hurts even more) .
~ Friendship once broken can be repaired, but the scar will always be there. (Friendships can be broken ?? It’s something I still doubt! )
~ My friends mean the world to me. (All my friends - thanks for being there for me. You are the best!!!)
~ There are some friends who'll say 'I understand' and there others who'll say 'I can feel it too'. (Understand the difference now or you'll feel it when the times are tough)
~ All guys are jerks!!!
~ Truth is always bitter (Sometimes for you, sometimes for others).
~ The old order has to give way to the new.
~ If change is for the better, change is always good.
~ Hate and love- two very strong words, need to be used with extreme caution.
~ Don’t detest people, detest what they do.
~ Anger is only one letter short of danger.
~ Some times when you are angry, you have the right to be angry, but it does not give you the right to be cruel.
~ Excess of emotion, whether sorrow, happiness, anger or excitement, always blurs your vision and fogs your mind.
~ Frustration is more difficult to bear than grief or anger.
~ What is beyond your understanding, always seems rubbish (‘Ode To The West Wind’ was actually nice!)
~ Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~ Sometimes you have spoken enough, it’s time for you to listen and sometimes you’ve heard enough, its time for you to speak.
~ The more crap you take, the more you’ll get.
~ Happiness never walks up to you, you have to find it (Happiness is a state of mind).
~ Make sure that you are a nice person. (That’ll ensure that there is a scoundrel less in the world!).
~ We are no one to decide what's right and what's wrong.
~ Judge people according to the set of values they hold and not what you think.
~ Always keep yourself in the other person’s position also (Then it becomes easier to forgive).
~ Sometimes when you think the world has turned its back to you, think again. Most of the times it’s you who has turned his/her face away from the world.
~ Lost time never comes back ( Time never waits for anyone).
~ The same opportunity never knocks twice.
~ People enter your life for a reason, a season or lifetime. People come and people go. But all of them leave an impression – memories to be cherished forever.
~ Keep the photos, the never change, only the people in them do.
~ Laughter is the best medicine.
~ It’s no point taking out your anger on your food.
~ I love dancing and I love sports.
~ No one should be able to affect me in a manner, so as to make me laugh or cry.
~ You choose your life.
~ Why say “Why me!”? If not you, then why someone else?
~ Never go searching for emotional support. It makes you weaker. Struggle and you'll be proud of yourself (Nothing feels better than when your worst fear comes true and you sail through the storm).
~ Do not ask God for an easy life, ask him to make you a stronger person.
~ When you are asking for advice, make it clear to yourself whether it is actually advice you are seeking for or re-assurance. For you know the best for your self.
~ Three things in life should never be broken – toys, promises and hearts(Skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts).
~ First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
~ Know everyone you love but don’t love everyone you know.
~You know people and you know of people (There is a difference).
~ If it wasn’t the last moment, nothing would ever be done.
~ Smile is the most beautiful attire you can ever posses (Which is the curve that can straighten out a lot of things?…. Right you are! ...'Smile an everlasting smile...').
~ Life always warns you, its up to you to read the omens.
~ At the touch of love every one becomes a poet (Why, haven’t you heard the famous hindi song – ‘Mein shayar toh nahin….’).
~ Measure your life, not in years but in lessons learnt (Don’t worry, I am still young ).
~ There is always “more” to everything (Have you heard the song ‘Circle of life’? – It’s nice.)
~ We cannot truly feel happiness unless we have suffered pain. (You have to struggle to succeed - strive for success).
~ Sometimes time is all that it takes to succeed.
~ It’s no point ruining your present brooding over the past or worrying about the future.
~ I am weird, I can actually surprise myself at times.
~ Never trust anyone more than yourself.
~ Sometimes it’s important to walk away to see who’ll follow you.
~ Light can be found even in the darkest of times if you just remember to turn it on.
~ I am an optimist (But sometimes its heights of optimism!)
~ Learn as if you are going to live forever. Live as if you are going to die tomorrow.
~ You spend your life saying it’s too early and then one fine day it’s too late.
~ Never leave anything for tomorrow.
~ Live today or you may have to regret it tomorrow.
~ Moms are always right.
~ You are answerable to no one but yourself.
~ You are what you think you are (Don't bother about what others say).
~ Ultimately, the journey is inwards and you'll have to tread that path alone.

Well basically it’s most important to love everything that ever happens in your life. I thoroughly enjoyed tenth. It had its ups and downs but I loved it for what it was (I wouldn’t exchange my life with anyone, even for a million dollars)!!!! It taught me loads ( as you can see). And I must say you are all lucky ( you get to learn everything in just a few minutes, what it took me an entire year!). But I also learnt in 10th that some people learn from others’ mistakes, some people learn from their own mistakes and some people never learn.

And also…
Chalo forget it… Some other day ( The entry has become a bit long ; ) )!

Signing off for now, ( *Finally!* )
Rachita

Laugh a While! ; >

Well, it wasn't exactly just a while. I was laughing all the time I was chatting!!
Anupam, Omar and I were having a convo on the net and Anupam and I decided to play a joke on Omar. We copied his nick, font and font colour on our personal settings and boy! He was perplexed. At first he couldn't understand what was goin on - "This is confusing coz u guys have got my nick" (What is written is not exactly in his words ). Since all three of us had the same nick, he wouldn't know which one of us is messaging him! Once when he asked who is messaging, I wrote Omar (He'll get to know now, he thought it was Anupam then, I guess!). Wish I could see his expression .... Anyways, we had a great laugh. But after a while we switched back to our own nicks (We couldn't have continued much longer, that would have been injustice ; ) ).

If you think it was the end of the joke...... You are right! Because it was the end of this joke and time for another one!

Anupam had signed out. And now I was chatting with Omar and Kanika (On separate windows). Kanika hadn't added Omar to her contacts yet. So.. My mischievous mind once again at work! Kanika Wanted to add Omar. So I gave her his ID. And she added him. I told Omar that Archana Pental ( His last year's class teacher ) was online. And guess who she was! Not that difficult.... Ofcourse! Who else could it be? Kanika! He wasn't totally convinced but he did want to make sure that it wasn't actually Mrs Pental. So he asked "Mrs Pental" (Whose ID was 'pink_slipped' and nick 'No nick, just double click! ' :D ) what did he give her before she left for America. We didn't know : ( . I tried to ask him, but he wouldn't tell me. So "Mrs Pental" wrote that her husband broke it. But he persevered( How adamant!)... He wanted to know what "it" was... So, we finally told him that this was us! (During the convo, he had once actually apologised for not believing "Mrs Pental" was Mrs Pental!)
LOL !!!

Jokes aside (Gosh I am saying it) !!!!!
Signing off for now,
Rachita

*~|| Happy : ) Holi ||~*

I love playing Holi. And all us friends in the colony had decided to have a blast this time. It was never more fun. Well I started the traditional way... wishing the elders first and then after that......

[Part I] It all started on the terrace. My cousins (Dikshita and Garima), my brother (Paranjay)and his friends and of course me, went upstairs to start celebrating. One after the other I was hit by balloons. And it wasn't to stop there. They all caught me and made me sit. And there I was drenched with a bucket full of water. I was about to get up, thinking it was over. But no! I had an entire packet of colour all over me. I thought over finally. And I got up. And there was Gonu running behind me with a Spray. Then obviously I had spray all over me. And then another bucket of water over me. More colours! More Water! More balloons! It was fun!

[Now part II.] After we were through playing at home we were to meet all our other friends in a park nearby. There I was greeted with silver and golden and green and red and yellow and god knows what all. Some colour went in my eyes. And then came Mahima. Some colour went into her eyes too. And in Ustat’s. And Sargam to save herself, ran into Mahima’s house (right opposite the park). All of us followed. Washed our eyes and came back. Sunny and Karan got eggs (eeewwh). And all of us were running and the two of them running behind us.And there I had an egg broken right over my head and spread nicely all over my hair.
Then we went to Naina’s place. Mannat was standing outside (she lives in the next house). She wasn’t going to play Holi. How could that be ! ? ! We pulled her outside, and within seconds she looked just like us! And then it was Veni’s turn.
After that we were all outside Bakshi’s house. Manu, Sunny, Bakshi and Karan had silver grease in their hands. God! They finished the entire tube on Mannat. And all of us were laughing– Mannat giving us company. And then it was my turn. Once again I was running. But of course they caught me. And I had Purple colour (pakka wala) more in my mouth and eyes and in my hair than on my face. But still I had enough on my face for it to look nothing but purple.

[Part III begins] After all this, all of us decided to take a walk around. And we reached Kanika’s house. Kanika doesn’t really play Holi. And Soumya was there at her place. So I thought why not put, if nothing else, some gulaal(herbal colour) on them. And they came outside. And I very decently put a little bit of gulaal on Kanika and Soumya. And then Mahima followed me in and so did every one else. Mahima broke an egg over Kanika’s head. Her house was getting dirty. We all went outside (Soumya didn’t come – she hated the eggs). Kanika had SIX EGGS hit on her head today (Boy, her hair must be shining now!). But she was no less. So instead of a balloon fight, we had an egg fight there!!!

[Part IV] And then we decided to take a last round and go back home. On this last (but not the least) round - there was more colour, more eggs, more water. Aarja and Sanchan (Mannat’s and Ustat’s really small and really cute cousins) also joined us. At first hen they saw us, they were actually scared. But they got over the shock.
Poor Ustat, Mahima and I. We were already coloured so badly and there was more colour, that too silver grease, smeared all over our faces. We looked like witches with our silver faces and purple teeth. (My braces also got coloured , my dentist will be really angry!).
And then Finally so so sooooooo tired after all the running and playing (we played for 4-5 hours) we decided to go back home (Gosh! Sunny and Mahima were still not over yet, running behind each other with whatever was left of the colours)

[Part V] Now I was right in front of my house. Mala di was surprised to see me (though she looked strikingly similar). I was so tired, I could barely walk. But it wasn’t over yet. Rishi bhaiya had an entire tanker of water parked in front of the house. The tap on, I was dragged right in front of it. And there I was. Drenched completely once again. I was actually shivering! But then… It was holi! And it was fun!

[Part VI] I know this is getting too long - But it isn’t over yet.
I reached home. And I had to clean myself . Someone had told me if you put mustard oil, colour comes off easily. So I took loads of it and put it over my face. And then… Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh….
My face burnt so badly… and I screamed for Ice…. I put it… It got a bit better… I put toothpaste… It got worse….So I again put more ice….And I was shivering all the more.
I spent 2 hours, trying in vain, to clean my self. Even after all the shampooing and scrubbing, my hands and nails are still blue, my face a bit purple, one of my legs blue and the other one purple and my ears a bit reddish!
But still, it was great and sooooo much fun. I had a ball of a time.
Gosh! Today was colourful.

Chao for now!
Rachita

A Whole New World.....

It's a new day.... Everything new and everything so much more inviting - the morning nice and pleasant, the cool,fresh breeze, the gentle rustle of the leaves, flowers blossoming, the birds chirping, they seem to be singinging to rejoice in my happiness and they soaring high in the sky....just like my spirits are....

Yippeeeeee.... Hurrraaaaayyyy.... The boards are over. Now no tension - no need to wake up late and study at night, instead I can be on the net. No need to wake up early and worry about the upcoming exam, instead I can sleep till late. And on sleeping till late no need to wake up and worry about the lost time, instead I can debate on what movie to watch next. And I no longer need to stand gloomy in my balcony and watch my friends playing, instead I can join them. And best of all, no one is going to remind me that I shudn't have an icecream because I can fall ill, instead I can have 10. Yyyyeeeeeee !!!!!! The boards are over finally (they seemed to stretch on for eternity)!!!

I want to fly and visit the stars, celebrate my freedom, party with the angels, dine with the fairies and play with the pixies. I want to dance to the music of the sea, sing with the melodies of the wind and paint with the wonderful colours of the flowers. I want to feel ecstacy....

Now I can do everything I so much ever wanted to do during the boards - read my novels (and not NCERT), play basket ball, go to the park in the evening , dance , sleep, party, movies, cycling, walks, music...Everything. And also now I too can hit balloons and be a part of the balloon fights. It's HOLI tomorrow and my life is already coloured with happiness (touch wood).


"It's a new world, it's a new start, it's alive with the beating of young hearts. It's a new day, It's a new plan......I've been waiting for you....Here I am"

Rachita