Last day of 2005

So its here..........the final day of 2005. Once gone, it will never come back again. Everyone's busy shopping and roaming around and going to parties and celebrating. There will be no shopping but the rest of the stuff on the menu tomorrow for a majority of the people around the world, other than me.

I did a lot of things today. Studied........was a good girl after a long time and spent a lot of time in understanding Electronics. Now that's something worthwhile to do atleast on the last day of the year. It will be good if I continue this practice on the first day of the new year as well - tomorrow. Its likely to happen. Or maybe I wont study just for the fact that tomorrow is a sunday and tomorrow is new year's day and its supposed to be one of those days which you can use as an excuse to not study.

I also bought a nice birthday card for my Dad. His birthday is on January 16 (I think) and I wanted to send him a nice birthday card. Its a very rare thing that I send birthday cards to people but Dad is one person I dont wanna miss.

I am pretty soon gonna cook a nice dinner. After dinner, I am gonna have a nice sleep. That's a wonderful way to end the last day of the year. Perfect....

Backstreet Boys - I want a fat babe

Hey has anyone heard the song sung in parallel to the Backstreet Boys song, "I want it that way"? The song is called "I want a fat babe", and its about slim girls being stupid about their weight and that the Backstreet Boys want a fat babe. More talk about doughnuts, steak, and everything you think that can make you fat. The band who did this song call themselves, Snacktreat Boys. Not-so-surprisingly, all of them are thin. The song is almost the same as the one it follows, much better maybe. Check out the link on my list of websites on the page. This is so cool........

Nelly Furtado-not about Love

There are a few songs that say a lot of things-like "Hey you, get a grip on your life", "Be nice to people", "Have tons of courage", something like this. I was listening to Nelly Furtado's "Powerless", its really a nice song. The main idea of the song is "Say what you want". Its a cool song. There is another of hers, "Forca". That song conveys a lot too. I liked the video of the latter song a lot. There is this little boy who is playing football and he kicks his ball high and it gets stuck up a building. The people around come to help him. Slowly, many people get accumulated. They build a human tower and the boy climbs up and retrives his ball. The idea I got out of the song is that once people get together and decide to do something with one heart and one motive, they can achive it. Its like this parable - a single stick is easy to break but its hard to break a whole bundle.

I love dogs

I love dogs a lot. I have grown up with them when I was young. Our first pet was Holly, a alsation-rajapalayam cross whose mom had been in an estate and killed a robber in an attempt to project the property (so Dad tells me - I have no idea if its true). Holly didnt have the mad instincts of its mom. She was a kind dog, but possessive of its owners. She loved my Dad a lot. Me and my sister were very little-around 4 and 3 years when Holly came into our life. We were naturally scared of the huge dog when we were small but we loved its babies. One of them was Lovely, so Dad named because she was really lovely. But she died because of Rabies.

Holly died when she was 11 years old. We had got another dog, a pomeranean called Fluffy. She was there when Holly died. She gave birth to her first set of babies the day after Holly died. She was a lovely dog, a white girl with big huge eyes that conveyed so much, all that she wanted to tell us, which was mostly "I am hungry, feed me!" She had a special affection for my Mom and her sarees. She loves it if we keep petting her with our legs under her neck, rather than our hands on her head. It was actually good, because I had to use my hands for the other two poms we eventually had. She got used to getting petted with the feet because she always used to sleep with my parents, her head on my Dad's feet. She died three years ago. I didnt get to see her before she died.

The other two dogs we had and are still alive are Gremlin and Cherry - Father and Daughter. Gremlin was named by my Mom after the movie, "Gremlins". I named Fluffy and Cherry. Dad named Holly and Lovely. We never let my younger sister do any naming; she came up with names like Sherry and something else silly than this one. Gremlin is a very nice guy, but he doesnt like socialising much. We suspect he has now become deaf and blind, because he is having difficulty in recognising us from a distance. He is old, around 11 years now so this is to be expected. He loves it if I keep him close to me, with my hand on him all the time. I dont have to stroke him or anything, I just need to keep my hand on him. He loves to pee on my sister's bed. My sister doesnt go near him at all. They have this mutual hate for each other!

Cherry is the most sweetest dog we ever had. She is quite a personality to write about. She doesnt care about anybody except us. She is the most carefree among the dogs we've had; so carefree that she doesnt even bother about her babies when she has them. We have to remind her to go to them to feed them and take care of them. Most of the time, she leaves them and runs away to play with the other two. She is 8 years old now. Both Cherry and Gremlin are brown in colour. Cherry is very short than Gremlin. She is not a pure pom, only Gremlin is among the poms we've had. Cherry is very agile. She can dodge anyone, climb chairs and sneak into the house when there is a tiny gap in the door, while Gremlin just watches on and whines. She loves walks, so everytime we get ready to take her out, she knows it, grabs her leash and runs to the gate and waits for us to come and get her.

We had another pom, Fresco (named by Mom), for a few weeks. He was a black-and-white pom, and very naughty, so naughty that it cost him his life. I dont remember much about him, except that the episode that happened the day we got him. Dad told us we have a new pup as soon as we came back from school and told us the pup was hiding under the bed. Ofcourse it was scared of us because we were so excited and stayed hidden. We wanted to lure it out, so me and my sister took two stainless steel plates and two spoons, one for each of us, and kept banging it under the bed to get it out. Poor thing, he was scared to death!

Here am I

Hello. I have started blogging (on a serious basis, and also on a regular one) coz of a lot of people suggesting a few things about my writing - three people actually. Two suggested I would make a good journalist(!) and another suggested I could try writing stories. I actually did some writing when I was younger. I wrote a few articles for a newspaper and a couple of them got printed. I even got money for it! I should maybe have pursued that writing talent in me. I didnt and I am gonna give a new start to it now.

To say something about me first....I am a biomedical engineer, graduated in 2004. I am on the lookout for a job, taking liberal vacations in India and Ethiopia before ending up in USA, where I am now. One and a half years have passed since I graduated. I see a light of hope on the horizon, a light so distant. I am waiting for the light to come closer and brighten up my life soon. So until then, I will have loads of time to do little things, one of which could be blogging, but thats for future to tell. So lets leave it to that.