Death is Inevitable

It is sad to announce the demise of my camera which has served me faithfully for the past 4 years. The following is a short description of how it's death was diagnosed by no other than me. On Sunday, 4th March, myself, Pavithra, Kshama and Kshama's friend, Rebecca were going for the Chinese New Year Celebration in Uni of Leeds Great Hall. I promptly took my camera with not one, but two sets of rechargeable batteries. I go to the Great Hall and look at how beautiful everything is out there, and decide to take my camera out and take a couple of shots randomly for memories sake. I try to focus the camera, but the camera refuses to focus. So, I give it a few seconds rest and try again. Again, refuses to work. Then, I realise this is after all, technology. So, i switch the camera off and switch it on again after a few minutes. Still refuses to work. Then, I thank the stars that I brought another pair of batteries and decide to change it, figuring it may have something to do with batteries. It still refused to focus! So, by now, I have realised that the camera's refusal to focus has NOTHING to do with either the batteries or stupidity of technology. I try shaking the camera a bit to see if that helps, try ensuring the settings are the same as always. Everything is okay with the camera, but it REFUSES to focus, therefore giving me extremely blurry pictures. This leaves me no option but to say that this camera has died of old age and lens failure. It has been buried in my top most drawer of my desk underneath the endless pile of papers and stationery. During this sad moment in life, I must mention some of this camera's achievements. It was born in Japan, after which it was stacked in a shop in Bombay. When my parents went to see the camera adoption centre, they saw this camera sitting on the shelf all alone and decided to keep it as though it was their own child (clearly they were missing the presence of their daughter who was currently in a boarding school in Bangalore). This is when the camera started to face many new adventures almost everyday. Not only has it travelled around the world (places include: Sri Lanka, UK, Hong Kong and in and around India), it has also faced many random moments with me. During its last few months in university, it took many pictures that would be cherished as memories by me forever. *starts to cry* I really don't know how I would live without this camera anymore *sniff* All I can say is: May its buttons rest in peace.

The Evilness of Randomness

This was done by Shreya during the 1/2 hour or so conversation we had on skype... Now the reason for the towel on my head is because i had just come out of my shower and was letting my hair dry. Though to be honest, I quite liked the result which is seen above. I had no clue she was doing this! anyway, thats all for now.. Longer update in a while... too busy for that now!

Fie on Arriva Buses

Well, i know this is something i tend to complain about constantly. But if arriva buses are so incompetent and so unreliable, then i am left with no alternative choices.So myself, lizzy and isa leave the Lodge at 8:40am, as the bus is supposed to arrive at 8:45am. The reason we get out so late is because we are absolutely sure the bus will not turn up before scheduled time, and if it manages to (this is the point where we should all party, cos it never happens), it should wait until the scheduled time. So, we set out to the bus stop and see there are a few more people waiting for the same bus. So its clear that the bus still has not turned up. So, we wait in the freezing cold in the bus stop for our 'favourite' bus, X44. It's now 8:50am, and the bus has still not turned up. 8:55am... oh no! the lecture starts in 5 minutes! We refuse to take a taxi, because we have paid £55 for a stupid bus pass. So we continue to wait. 9am.. What do we do now?? We decide to give up on this lecture, walk back to the room and snuggle under the warm duvet. Oh! but what do we see approaching us?? is it a car? is it a 110?? NO! its the X44!!! We were 15 minutes late for the lecture. To top it all, another incident with the X44 occurred on my way back from bretton. The X44 skipped my stop. Yes.. it stopped a couple of meters away, but still. I pressed the button a few seconds before it was supposed to stop. I stood in front of the bus and yet the bus continued. Had i not asked him why he didn't stop, he would have carried on !! Conclusion and Moral of the story: DO NOT TRUST ARRIVA BUSES.

Bretton Hall and all the snowness!!!

Well... this friday, Kshama and Pavithra, my two friends from the main campus came up to meet me and also to see Bretton Hall before we finally close down at the end of the year. It was perfect, because that day, Bretton was quite white.. i.e, it had some snow.. Not much, but atleast enough to have some fun..!! I have put the pictures below... anyways, other than that, we came back and planned on having a movie marathon, but failed due to this thing called sleepiness. But we did manage to watch 2 films.. anyway.. thats all for now.. enjoy the pics!!

Apta Shirali and me in complete randomness and boredom

Fruitoholism

yes, thats too many to take in less than an hour, I am aware. It was 15 of them. I had finished a whole bag of them! The level of citric acid would have probably exceeded the desired amount for three weeks even, but I did not have any problems whatsoever! Does that mean I have now officially become a fruitoholic? meh. who cares? as long as what goes in me is not junk food, I am fine.

A devilish night

As usual, awoke at 2pm and played Funeral Quest. Thou who made me an addict to this game shall repent. And thou shall not be named for she knows who she is. Anyway, then i had to get ready for a birthday party. We suddenly decided that we would dress up as something completely different. Not surprisingly, I was the DEVIL. So, I decided to wear a black t-shirt and black trousers. But then, was forced to wear a black skirt instead. Then, my lovely friends decided to straighten my hair much against my wishes. This was the result: Then, I had to get ready... after which, i looked like this: scary, yes i know. Overall, party was good, though i wish more people had turned up. Laters! xx