ALERT!!! * Class X Exam Results 2009 - To Be Announced on 29th May 2009 *

i had a good day... owkiesh, short aerobics class... i even woke up groggy and was thankful that today the class was short...

saloni and me had fun, laughing and talking... the rest of the day i'd spend in doing a lilttle bit of house chore, ironing clothes, else i actually slept the whole day...

short-short naps in between.. and that is how i'd spend my afternoon. in the evening as i was getting ready to go out, saloni was on her way to come at my place, for the zillionth time in the day sakshi checked the CBSE website and it read ' Class X Exam Results 2009 - To Be Announced on 29^th May 2009  

i called up saloni to tell the news... i tried calling my other gang of girls but niether of them picked up the phone, darn... and after that, i slipped... i mean i didnt slip onto the floor or something, i'd slip with my feelings! i became nervous... excited... scared... right now i'm on the verges of panicking... I HAVE BECOME A NERVOUS WRECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!freak man... i cant handle the anxiety anymore... yes, at one point i think that result should be out, already and on the other hand at the thought ''what'' will be the result, i really dont want to see it... i'm happy like this...

but this result is the ultimatum.. everything will be over after this.. i will truly be in 11th. freak, 11th means like less than 2 years left for SCHOOL!! i will start crying now only. i know i'm thinking in tooo much ahead in future however if time will fly like this, i can see my self panicking for my 12th result already! and it sucks! . ...maaa!!! help me!!! :(

i really cant believe that 10 will be over soon.. i mean always wanted it to be over soon.. but i will miss it... yeah, i'm one jumbled up piece!!!!

my parents have gone to the hospital. a co-worker of daddy, whose been working with him for more than 25years is hospitalised and he is in a veryy veryy crtical condition. i'm scared for him too.. he's family, you see... he's a veryy great man... god bless him... 

and then the weather's becoming good outside, windy and probably it will rain. now this is a good premonition for it also rained both the times on sakshi's 10th as well as 12th result. it wasnt raining, it was a STORM!! both the times, i'm talking about,.. freak.

and then at the camp my fav, favvv and my luck charm bracelet broke!! at the last day of camp which is nott a good omen! i mean i dont know.. on a brighter side i think to have lost a great thing porbably may return in the form of GOOD RESULT!! you never know!

i have decided the scene at my home, first i will check the result myself, alone and once i'm satisfied (nmw the result is,i  have to be),  i will let mum, dad, sisi and everyone else to see... past week there have been so many calls, ''arey!! how was her result... ohh not out, yet! , so when is it then... ohh...ohh''... they are asking for my result as though its on their behalf i have given boards and if god forbid i dont get good one, they are gonna eat me up... *no hard feelings*

for i'm missing my dadu(grandpa) now... just as i prayed and wanted him to sit beside me whenever i gave the board paper, i want him to be there with me for the ultimate show as well... i know he will be there... he is one luck charm that no one can take away from me!

ps. wishing all the best to, 

aakii

harshii

gaurs

deeksh

shefu

viku

samster

jhil-mil

hany

jai

ayush

nikhel

eku

joshi

harsh

both the prashant

and all the tafsians and 10ies

anupam

mayank

diya

shardooli

saloni

prerna

neha

nimish

archit

all pinnacle students

and in the end, me! :)

Day VI

suman ma'am had this weird way of waking us up... rather all 3 of them did.. they would go ''gooOood mOrning... goOoOd morning... gOOD morning... wake up, wake up.. fats, fast fast... oye, good morning... we have to leave soon... get up... pack up your tents... LNT (leave no trace) incharge, where is it?... good morning... " and they would not stop... they would go on and on anddd on... i dont know what fun they saw in irritating us... and waking us up at like 6... that sucks... this was for the first time that for 8 days in a strecth i woke up soo freaking early... i would get up late for school also, 6 is freaking early...

half groggily i woke up... harshita, shardooli and i went into the wilderness, *tada*..we did the unpacking...i had a lil problem packing the sleeping bag, but i managed it anyway...had to.. lol... ;) 

once i as done with packing all the stuff back, including the biscuit packets and cake packets and also few of baked beans tin, when everyone was soo into themseleves, doing this and that, i have no idea, from where i  had this fit.. fit of home-sickness... trust me it sucked...i hate it. for when i wanted to be outta my home, and i WAS<>

once their packing was done, todoos starting moving, leaving harshita, rachit, mayank, anupam and me at the end...we found that two spoons, the stoves, cooking oil, all the garbage and what not was left behind... it really made me mad at those guys... i mean no repect for all the stuff they are leaving and we had to carry the remaining stuff... errr!!

that day, our trek was of 8km! 8 KILOMETRES OF UPHILL... FREAKING STEEEEPPPP UPHILL!!!!! AND I EVEN LOST MY WATER BOTTLE!! :(( AND THERE WAS NO WATER POINT ON THE WAY... :((( 

the beginning of it was hard, the steepest ever... i found mayank in the midway of it, resting.. he gave me the reason to rest as well... once the peeps behing us caught up, we started moving...the trek following that was horrible... we were again in the middle of jungle...we found a burnt tree lying on the ground and we could detect the smell, as though the fire was recently extinguished...and it was due to that fire we saw the glowing the previous night.. limits!!

at our first resting point, we stayed at that place for like more than 30 minutes... it became hotter and hotter plus, the way was, wayyyy uphilll... later on it got damnn steep and narrow!! very narrow...

mayank, poor he, he had a very tough time uphill.. he was carrying about 80-90kgs that included his own weight and the tent as well... we all cheered for him... gave him a round of applause and did all that, that could encourage him to move on... even though he was in imense pain and was exhausted beyond limit, he didnt stop...

it is very very veryyy tough job, for it is beyond words to explain that how the trekking was... i cant put it in words to describe how i felt... experience, is the word for that...

once we reached a good height... the view was a distraction. 

as i marched on the narrow path, walking uphill, a mountain, there were many mountain peaks on my right, cold breesze blowing on my face... it was beautiful... pretty and totally out of the world.. well it got better... not the view my condition, and not exactlt better, worse, lol... i was much beyonddd the word ''exhausted''... i was on the verges of collapsing... suman ma'am, harhsita, arshya, anupam all ahead.. shardooli and mithali behind me and i'm in the middle of a mountain on a green field i can see the resting point.. i was sooo freaked out... i had no power, no strength and no courage to move, i became that worse...

we reached... we did...

it felt like we were on the ''flat''top of a mountain, named Rangali Top... i againg smashed my bag on the ground and laid down.. as i tried to get back to my senses, i found this place was bodered by a wall of stones... huge area... there were two huts in the area... belonged to the whites in time pre-independence time. there was a valley of white flowers, which looked amazing... behind the huts were many mountains... beyond the white flower valley, was tree where green, red colth were hanged and there was also a potrait og God and Godess kept.Further,was a gate sort, beyond which was a jungle that was actually the girl loo area.. lol... 

there, we all sat in the shdae area of a hut... we were sooo darn hungary... starving, as though we havent tasted food for ages!!! i opened up 1 biscuit pakcet out of three... that made me remain with 2 biscuit packets and one of chocolate cake ... *this was the secret* 

so i said, we were sooo hungry that, we started eating sugar... we also came to know on our back, those 5 guys who had already reached and diya had EATEN THE FRINKING CHOCOLATE POWDER!! THAT WAS A DAMN 500gm TIN!!! ghosh! and they feven finished another halaal tin!! *annoying* while sitting and talking kartikay and bharat came up with this accapella thing for singing the sixer song and make anupam dance on it... lol...

now, we were deciding to open the secong last tin of halaal or not since majority of us didnt have and few of us were yet to reach... however we did open up.. and out of 17 halaals, i ONLY GOT ONE!!! meann people... 

the remaining troop reached like, an hour later than we did, which included rishika, mayank, naveen sir, kuber sir, rachit and sanya! these guys had a tribal make up on them.. leaves on their head... the black charcoal from tree massaged on to their face! ha... these guys reached, we were relieved! :)

after another 20 minutes the other, ''killer rafters'' group arrived! it was a great reunion, for many of us! that evening i had my fits on.. i kept on laughing, going here and there... i messed a lil bit of mattar paneer that day for lunch, but mayank the great saviour, didnt make it a big deal and saved the day! that day while rohan, diya, shardooli, harshita, anupam, ashray, rohan and me were relaxing, we found out that a big game of truth and dare was on, on the other side... the highlight of the game ''shivani was asked to lip kiss diksha and she did it...'' i dont think i really should say anything, for it was their wish to do so, however, i think these guys are least bother about their dignity or its probably my NOT showing open-mindedness for i aint from that ''class'' of school... i believe maturity comes with time and  for these guys, its much before ''time''!! :) who cares, anyway!

that evening i went to the water point, supposedly 200 metres downhill.. a tap sort from which water came as though it was forced to take a route via that tap.. it was freaking slow.. i had gone with ashray, rohan, rhea and ranya later joined by aditya and some other guy! since we had to go downhill, i even slipped once... i swear, those pine needles are worse than a peel of banana!! :P

that evening after a bashing from our instructors we finally did, pitch our tents.. we had amazing matar paneer and rice in lunch, courtsey : Mayank! :) 

for dinner, we had daal and rice, courtsey : bharat and kuber sir! :) also naveen sir... that night was much cooler... and once in our pullovers, there was a huge debate ove whose going to sleep outside... mean... guys slept outside and we girls in tent... before that, we had our ritual of listening to ghost stories narrated by naveen sir... 

so that very area also had its story... it was believed that every night you could hear howling of a girl when ever breeze flowed and if you go beyond the perimeter of the area, that is the wall, if werent allowed to go after dark for the ghost of that girl might attack... and why? well that is part of the ghost story which i didnt listen to.. again, i was lying on the ground with many of my friends around me, and me with the fingers in my ears, all set to hear nothing but probably my own voice and close my eyes...hahahaha!!!

the horror tale was probably really scary and hence there was againg a big quarrel of who will sleep in the middle... trust me, i'm clever at this... i told them i'll sleep in the corner the next day... and what not...

ulitmately my most tiring day of the trip ended... 

*******

yesterday, i think was the best tuesday, till now...apart from waking up early in the morning, aerobics was fun... even though all the way saloni and me talkied about nothing but FOOD!! god gracious!! here we're trying to eat less, very difficult i must say!! anyway, so sadhika came at my place... and luckily, fortunately, sadhu and saloni clicked together, for it is always a  lil difficult mixing up your friends from two different groups!!

we went to Lajpat in late afternoon... there at McD, i had chiken nuggets! and they were delicious! first time i had was in London and now they are in india baby... awesome! lol

and then we'd shop a lil bit... i bought this amazing neck piece, a lil long but really hawtt! *ka-ching* 

via Auto, we went to Amar colony. The amar colony ccd sucks... they dont serve you... we sat there for like 15 minutes... only 3 table were filled.. the waiter served and heard to other 2 and not us... we enjoyed the free ac, did beat the heat for a while and then walked off... we had a paneer roll... and thats it... we came home around 5... tired.. had water sat.. clciked more pictures... happy day,good day...in the eve i did chat with a long lost friend of mine.. practically, i'd hear from him after a very long time.. 

in the morning i felt like cursing saloni, because of her i ended up in this aerobics thingie and now, it feels really annoying to get up soo early ... however this assures me a good sleep at night... now i have started sleeping early baby... anyway, how does it make a difference... and now at home, i watched a movie, ''down to you'' cute, rom-com movie... ate cherries and melon... so apart from watching tv and sitting online i practically did nothing...and i wanted to to isolate... isolate from everything i did... but my *shitty* laptop suppose to be my saviour for now.. i have no idea how i did ever survive with out it...i still do want to go away from everything... just as my sister says, ''i'm addicted''..

sherlyn's result came in Panchkula region... she got 77%

my congratulations to Naomi, she did realyy well.. and also to Shalomi!!

... and now i'm freaking scared for my result... earlier i was very chilled out, no excitement nothing, and now i'm scared... i have no idea how will it come out to be and then, when i think about it..it gets worse... cbse people are becoming like those reality tv show people who will raise your heat beat to the limit , make us sooo restless and then once they are satisfied to see the anxeity in us, they'll announce it...!! 

gracious!!!

My First Crush

I loved you because i thought

you were the cutest person

I loved you because i thought

you never were into a relation

I loved you because, i found

you in every motion

I loved you because i thought

as compared to you there was no human

I loved you because, i loved

the ocean i was in...

I loved you because, there was

always a reason to swing

i danced in rain because, i thought

that was a lover sign.

I loved you because, i thought

you were simple and fine

i hate you now, because you

never considered me a close friend

i hate you now because, you were

just another use n throw trend

yet, i still love you because evey chat

saved and read made me cheer

and all old things made me repicture

the last day we spent together

and as always remember you...

you, my first crush! 

discovered it in an old diary...wrote this one on 3 december 2007... 

I'm mad at myself...

''am i that unwanted... so ugly, hideous, the odd one out, Princess of myself...

whatever i maybe, whatever maybe its reason... i dont wanna know, i dont care, cuz here i repeat myself again , i'm FREAKING tired of everything CHANGING--> improving myself agn and agn... c'mon, now, someone has to accept the way i'm.. god bless everyone!.. i loev you,

*sign* "

Day V

i woke up early that day as compared to past 4 days... not only me, but everybody... because that morning we were leaving for trekking, we had to pack our stuff into the rucksack that were alloted to us and shift our main luggage to another tent... that day, behind us, the next batch was to come, we had to empty our tents for them... ta-da

so this morning, unlike other dawns, we were more energetic, running here and there... once we were done packing, we took our rucksacks, to the baddi court, lol, the lawn made badminton court, there, a mat was laid down which had all the food items that we were suppose to carry... 

i had, about 5 packets of  tiger(glucose) biscuits, the britannia cake packets and tins of baked sausages... and i was carrying my own water bottle... on the whole, amongst 18 todoos, mine was the lightest rucksack, hahahahahaha...however very heavy for me... mayank had the heaviest rucksack, ever! :-P

before leaving we had 2 glasses of water, CC took a picture of the Toddoos! yeah!!! :)

as we trekked upto the road, i could feel the weight if rucksack killing... and all i could say to myself was ''babe, its just the beginning..." 

we were transported from the camp site to the Khooni Ghat, via the cattle truck... Khooni Ghat was our starting point... 

as we began our trekking, Navven sir told us to tighten the band around our waist, he tightened the grip at my shoulders so that the weight is well distributed... however, the beginning suckedd, BIG TIME!!! it was steep... after every 5minutes i would stop... i would be outta breath... i was glad that kuber sir was walking with me... after 15 minutes the way became hell steep and narrow... awful... on the way, i became so freaking tired, i simply threw my rucksack down.. not down the hill but on the ground... i wanted to give right there and then... from then only, harshita wasnt trekking with me... she was way ahead... about 30 minutes later our first water point came... river, that is... we refilled our bottle, i splashed the chilling water on my face... e all were bathing in sweat... hun, it became even worse...

we were enlightened to know that to reach the Gujjar Hut, the first destination for pitching the tent, we had to cross 5 more river crossings, that is 5 another water points.. for the whole trekking of 3 days we were also handed a survival kit. which contained almonds, raisins, rasna sachets and eclairs... 

at our 3rd resting point, near a river only, ishan made rasna in his water bottle... poor guy didnt read the instructions which read ''add sugar''... we tried it, and it was the most horrible thing i have ever had... then started the thing for taking rasna shots... one by one, we started opening up rasna sachets, took the orange powder in our palms and took it in... ha!! it was freaking sour... and ruined the taste in my mouth... 

after that resting point, the trekking became WORSE!!!!!!!!!!! it was horrible... our instructors left us... that was rude.. the way was not that steep, however very confusing, trees all over the place, pine needles on the floor... the pine needles were the main reason that made the trekking very hard for they are so slippery, that once you fall, they poke in your ass and that hurtsss!!! hahaha... i didnt fall!! lucky me! :))

at one point we were soo lost that harshita had to take out her whistle to confirm the way... on one of the river crossings the stone was soo slippery i fell bad... :( 

somehow, just SOMEHOW, stuggling. with dry throats we reached the place... and that place was nice... we reached there at like 12ish... owkay we included harshita, richita, mayank, anupam,me... and few more!! else, many of them had reached before us!! we reached, slammed the rucksack on the floor and simply fell on the ground... never been so desperate to rest... our instructors had already pitched their tents... 

we found the water point was few metres away... between the rocks, there was a lil water fall, from where we collected the water... the place was flat land, only a lilttle of where we had pitched our tents was flat, or else, there was uphill way on one side, water point and a lil of jungle on the other side and else, there was only baren land full of naked trees on the other direction which belonged to girls to do their job and the jungle near the water point area was for the guys to do their job...

before we laid our tents, we laid all the food we were carrying on a mat... we had our packed lunch... and then, we finally did laid pur tents... and then, in the mid of afternoon, everone was lying outside, bored, some talking, some into themselves, i was watching harshita and ashray talking joined by rohan, anupam and i would speak in between... 

someone came up with this idea of playing truth and dare... that day i saw the ''horny'' and ''vulgar'' version of truth and dare, which made me back off from the game, however enjoy the show... 

1st was anupam... he got the dare to do ''a sixer dance''...what guts, he did...

2nd was harshita... kartikay was suppose to give her a dare... shivani gave her one... shivani asked her to give a lap dance... and then she added, ''lap dance to a girl"... harshi gave her look and was like, ''kartikay is the one to give dare...''. he asked her to do 5 pull-ups!! hrahsita, did them, mangaed to do them, somehow... and the reaction what kartikay gave... ''those were not pullups... you were making sex postions..."

cheap!!

and following that... Bharat got a dare to Hump a tree!! HUMP A TREE!!!! that sucks!!

and then there were few kissing dares... luckily, kissing on the cheeks.... anupam late on got the dare to give a BLOW JOB TO HIS MIDDLE FINGER!!!!!!!!!!! goddd... anupam, i swear, you have got guts, dude... you have the courage AND good sportamanship spirit... lol!! :-P

the ultimate show was when, Shivani (she's just in NINTH!!!!!!!!) got the dare to do a pole cum tree dance... we thought that she wont do... but she's a pro, mann... a complete PRO!!! she did the pole dancing, shaking and moving her ass, her and there, i dunno about the girls, the guys had the ulimate and a better show than they must have seen in the movies... ha!!!

after the truth and dare, round, these guys were deciding what to play... either ''7 minutes of heaven'' (guess on your own, what is this!!) OR ''spin the bottle" ... 

once it was 4ish, the cooking business started... even though i had volunteered for cooking, shivani was like ''i'll cook the macroni... and its gonna be amazing... i swear, that it'll be the best macroni you have ever eaten in your life..." the result was completely opposite of what she claimed... sad... 

she started chopping the onions, while bharat cooked the soup... soup was an evening luxury... 

before all this, we found out, that miss.shivani with few of her gang peeps, finished namkeen packet and biscuit packet... so i opened up the britannia cake packet... so it was then the fight for food sparked...

prbably it was there only the first tin of halaal was finished... rather stolen and then eaten by the guys... halaal chorrr!!! :P:P

the macroni was a disaster and in my words, only 0.1% edible.. behind the macroni packets, the instructions are given... over smart, i-know-everything lady, shivani added 3packets of tomato puree (requires only 1), she finished one cheese spread out of two and 1 myonise bottle out of two, as well...our 50% of food was gone... rather wasted... ishaan and shivani had a huge fight.. after the macroni experience everyone somehow started disliking shivani... i thought she was a desperate soul... sad... :-P

before it got dark, we got the water, many of them did their jobs, macroni makes you shit more... for a moment the scene was, everyone searching for toilet paper... hahaha!!

torches were out... and then the series of ghost started... and they were scary... horrifying.. so in the second one... naveen sir started ''can you see the wood logs lying there... there, lived..." watever after that, i had my fingers on my ears and i had my head on harshita, i took a 7 mins nap... i didnt hear anymore if that horror tale... for naveen sir had sacred us enough... we all were making noise and naveen sir was like noises and songs attract ghosts and then suddenly at the horizon of the other mountain a light started glowing... 

since i didnt hear to that story... we 5, diya, shardooli, mithali, harshita and me slept in one tent... it was pretty warm inside.even though i didnt hea to naveen sir, the darkness got me, i didnt sleep in the corner..i had mithali on one side and harshita on the other, diya slept next to harshita and shardooli the brave one was next to mithali.. i was tired, so that helped me fall asleep easily on top of that, i was lucky, for i didnt hear that ghost story...

********

sunday and mondayy... good dayss... gone by... lol... 

on sunday, i woke up to my mum's voice, ''arushi, get up, already... dad's unpacking stuff..'' ha... dad bought like 5-6tees for sakshi and me,ofcourse on share and care... a guitar giude, which was a big surprise... and also 2 pairs of lowers, including a pair of Levi denims...

the day went nice, and boring... lazying around that is!! in the evening saloni and me went outside in the colony... we did our gossip...

yesterday, the aerobic was fun... i'd lazy around as usual, nothing special, chatting for hours...my mood wasnt that good. when i asked, i was given ''yes'' as a reply for ''do i sound depressed?'' and thus, i decided to retreat to isloation no more checking FB or orkut, i just wanna be alone, however i'll have myself enjoy the luxury of blogging and messenger! :)... saloni and me somehow have become good friends now, that again we'd spend the evening together!! :))

i miss you as well...

sakshi my dear sisi wrote a blog post dedicated to our beloved (late) cousin Mansi dee, which made me weep... 

sakshi and dee were like twins...always together, same school, same class... and i was excluded from all the sisterly fun...so ofcourse, sisi had soo much to weep on and here i cant think of anything that included dee and me... however, she's the best sis i have ever had, even better than sakshi... i remember only this much that she wanted to be a doctor and i would always say that i would be your nurse... and she had, like, trillion of stuff toys that i'd adore a lot.. she even wrote diaries, my another source of inspiration to write, she taught me how to use the computer, with her i'd spent less, but, very precious years of life... she's always been happy go lucky person and that's how i remember her...dee had dark complexion, so her face with big colgate smile... beautiful long hair... what not...

since the day she's gone,she's left the family, i somehow started hating her... because she left me alone...i loved her soo bad... and i was suppose to be her nurse and she a doctor... because of her i was inspired to be a doctor... i even started liking silvy, her cat... i didnt like that she became mean for a moment and ended everything she had not realising that it made an immortal hole in our family which can never be filled, no matter what!!! (yeah, i'm being selfish here)

i was even jealous of sakshi for she got to be with dee more than i did... i so enjoyed being at her place, playing with her, especially tickling her... but i remember, that i really loved her,  we had fun at her place... i'm sorry, i dont miss you that much, anymore, probably because there's not much of what i can think and miss that...i have very very veryyy vague memory of dee and me together... yes, these 5 years did pass in a blink of an eye... 

miss you.

Day IV

so i woke up to find that the weather had settled down, it was cold though...

in the choti hazari that morning we were asked to wear shoes and were taken to a field about 700-800 metres away... trekking between the wilderness... there we played again games based on co-ordination and team work... since,the next day we were to leave for hiking-trekking we were taught how to pitch a tent...it was 'A' type of tent, its various parts- pegs, ridge pole, etc

that day was the last day of rafting... we all excited... today our rafting stretch was of 10km... our cattle trucks took us took a farther point. that only, a new instructor was assigned to only our group.. he was an american, born and brought up in California, name- Louise. he told us about, his dream to visit Chile and now he planned to go back home for sometime... he even gave a brief about his travelling experience... on that day's rafting expedition we went on grade3 rapids, which were fun... 

on our way back from Aquaterra rafting camp side, the truck in which the killer rafter group was going had tire-punctured... hahaha... so in the mini cow truck in which we todoos were going, the other 18 were stuffed...it was exhausting... the way wasnt that smooth, so many of us ended up having tiny injuries...

that afternoon we didnt go anywhere for any sort of minor activity, i took a head wash. there was apipe near the loo and bathing tents from which water flowed 24*7, so thanks to that we all would take a head wash... the whole place would turn into a fish market.. some shouting '' can you please help, me?", some ''oye, pass me the shampoo!!''

after having squash and lunch we went to the beach... it's like a pilgrimage for us... we laughed and talked and clicked pictures... after spending like 2hrs... everyone was asked to gather in the common place.

there on the notice board, a map was made which was actually a brief about the trekking we were going to embark in the next three days. the whole journey was of 24km. 1st day we had to trek UP HILL 4 km, 2nd day 8km to our main destination, final destination, lol, Rangali Top 7,5oo metres above sea level. on the 3rd day, simply trek DOWN HILL 12 km... 

following that we were given a list of food items and the maximum number we were allowed to carry... the camp was alloting us with a rucksack, a raincoat, sleeping bag, a bowl and a spoon... the instructors were going for the heck of it... we only had to carry the utensils, our clothes, the food as well as the tent... so we had to think judicially of how many tents we require and ofcourse how much food... there was a big, big, bigg debate over food...finally, we were carrying biscuits, cheese spread, bread, sausages aka halaal, matar paneer -ready to make packets, tomato puree, onions, britannia chocolate cakes,rice, pulses, utensils, stoves, garbage bag and much-much more... 

that evening the solo time didnt feel like one... for we had spent most of the day there only, so no body wanted to sit by themselves... everyone talking and laughing... kuber sir scolded me and literally ordered me to go and sit somewhere faarrrrrrrrr... so i went and sat next to water on the rock... i had my head in my lap... it was soo soothing, peaceful that i even fell asleep for 5-6 minutes... that eve i realised it was the 15th, my Dadu's birthday (Grandfather's), i'd miss him... but didnt get too carried away, i had no intentions on getting too emotional.

that night we again had another session of lame horror story... 

later on, one guy, who seemed like an instructor to us came upto us and sat... it was harshita, anupam, mayank and me at that time! he was barefoot had a maala in his neck... he had that complete priest look... on asking him he in his low peaceful voice, was like, '' i'm a wanderer... i was just passing by the place and they (the campus people) offered me shelter , food and water... so i'm here tonight...'' i dunno about others but he freaked me out... then he told us that he even read faces... when i asked him to read mine...

priest: with whom do you stay the most, your mother or father?

me:equally both

priest: umm... you're... you're slow in your actions... you do your work very steadily however your mind's very fast... you're actions are like your mother however your thinking is just like your father's....

me: *i had the shocking look on my face... you know where your mouth's open and you're surprised...* okay

I seriously couldn't believe him... his each word was true... seriously... oohh god... later on we came to know that he was one of the instructors there however he reads people faces and palms...

that night at born fire, this guy Bharat, he played the guitar and sang beautiful songs... that made my sleep good as i drowned into the peaceful night...

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today, woke up at 6.30 with saloni's call and ta-da did go for aerobics... yeah, it's owkay, nothing of that great sort... just going for i would have an early starting to my day by working out a lil and not by lazying around... plus, i wanna lose my belly fat, hehe! :P

following that, i started with my second month of belly dance class... and as i have always said, i never seem to get enough of it, it always makes me impatient to learn more... the only thing that makes me feel, ''yeah, i'm following my dream'', which is completely outrageous! :))

the whole day i'd lazy around.. at night, i had pizza.. was on date with da'ads, my grandmaa... i sat with her, we had pizza and coke and i told her about the camp... yeah fun... actually sis and maa had gone for a wedding reception and someone had to be with da'ads so i stayed back... 

after midnight, dad came back home... i was soo relieved to see him, somehow... i love my daddy... lol... so we all sat together, i was veryy sleepy, so i heard all the story of dad's journey with my eyes closed and already half asleep... but i know most of it... he had a great time... bua was very very veryyy surprised to seem him, ta-da mission accomplished... and what else do you need...

Ps. just a random question, how will you know that the other person is falling for you? (dont be surprised by my question, please...) ;)

Day III

now that i had sneaked into the tent no.11, i had to be concious that before any instructor opens up the tent to wake us up the next morning he/she should'nt catch me red handed... but you know, i had an amazing luck... amazing luck probably limited to that day only... somehow i woke up on my own to find that it was bright outside... i myself went outside... brushed my teeth. so when i was walking back from the loo area i found it was then the instructors started waking up everyone... phew!!! 

that morning, we were asked to wear shoes and come for the choti hazari... we went to this lawn area where there was bon fire the previous night... as i said the instructors over there were in love with shapes, we were asked to make a circle... we did some warm up excersices... that morning i found that i'm badly struck with cold and cough... anyway, after that we had these relay games, todoos vs. the rafters! it as like a player from each team had to run to a point 50metres away, inflate a balloon and then burst it with hus/her ass. once done, run back to your team and tag the next person... the second game was also relay where you had to pair up with a person from your team only, inflate a balloon, the pair had to balance the balloon between their back and reach the point same as before and then run back to your team and tag the next pair... hahaha! both the times the todoos won, you see, we are good at todo-fying stones and balloons... (lame joke ;) )

further we changed into our shorts and tees and today was the second day for Rafting... we reached the Aquaterra site pretty early so our guides made us play few games... they were fun... for rafting this time the guide didnt do the paddling, everything was dependent on us! and this time i sat on the front area, last time i was in the middle... as usual we stopped at a place took take a dip into the river, rather we stopped twice to swim in the water... plus this time the speed of water was faster and also the level of water had also increased for it was hotter and hence much of the glacier must have melted... 

back at the camp, we had squash, which i truly loved... we changed into our dry clothes... at dinner area where we usually sat, was the main place to mix up with people... thanks to diya and shardooli we got introduced to many other girls.. there was mithali, saniya, yaashna,diksha, upasana, avarna, etc... diya was amongst the prettiest girls over there...she was my height, she was thin, probably zero size had these beautiful smile and eyes... the perfect way to describe is ''doll'',she's from Chicago, US and else laughed silently, lol... shardoli her BFF is a lil healthy she also has an accent like diya, however she's lived in mexico, brussles and belgium.. both from sanskriti school, they were the only ones from class11... apart all these girls were like sooo tall and almost all of them zero size, fair and beautiful and even though they were like younger to me, they looked sooo mature, as though they were in 12 or even older!

that afternoon after having bit of conversations here and there and having lunch, naveen sir shouted''tadooos, guys, come here''.... we were confronted with a challenge for which we were given a map... there were 'X' marked at 3 places which meant that we had to ask the instructor for an activity assigned for that particular destination. kartikey, took charge for the map. he is such an ass, he would boss us around and i never even got to have one look at the map!! whenever i udes to ask him for it, he would so nicely ignore me.. as though i was speaking to a rock!! anyway as we started on the expedetion, we first came across a water point, which was a handpump.. there we all drank water... after covering like 100 metres from there, it was time for our first activity...

naveen sir paired us up with people whom we didnt know at all... harshi was paired up with ashray and i was with shardooli, even though i knew her, since she was my tent mate... eventually, what was the activity?.. one from each pair was blind folded, the one who could see had to lead the other one without touching the blind one... so shardooli was blind folded... the way was pretty tricky, full of rocks, mud puddles, too steep and turns as well... so i would have to instruct shardooli to take 5 steps here and there, jump to your right, left or forward.. most of the times i kept on telling her to keep right, and simply walk straight... next when i was blind folded, it was very difficult for me to understand her... she always asked me to kept left... eventually, i asked her to keep blabbering for i would follow her voice... and ta-da it actually worked!! yeah, fun!! 

our next destination was a mandir... very famous one in the small village of Anori... there no leather stuff was allowed... we were aksed to take off our socks and shoes... futher were divided into teams of 6.. mine included govind, rachit, rishika, sanya and mithali... we were given a paper and a marker and were assigned to collect as many information of the temple as possible in 20 minutes... luckily govind got hang of a person who was a local, lived there only and told us about every possible thing about the temple as well as the neighbourhood... the temple was about 450years old, built by lord Bheem. it's temple of Goddess Sudipta...there was even two large rocks, probably weighing around 100 kgs and it is said that Lord Bheem used to play with them.. many guys were able to pick up those rocks.. it is also said if you pick up that rock and are able to throw it and also make a wish, it tends to come true... there was also a tiny kaali maa ka mandir, near which we were standing, that was our group and listening to that guy who was giving all the info that suddenly a lady, must be in her 40s, starts wild dancing, throwing the prashad all over the place, moving her head which made her hair go here and there just like a witch's... she ran towards us... i got soo freaking scared that i ran... and then came to know she was not running towards us but the temple of kaali maa... a guy, sort of priest came, took hold of her, placed his palm on her temples and chanting something which calmed that old lady... on asking we came to know that it happens everyday but to different people for kaali maa decents herself into one of her true believers...

moving on, the instructors were like they would quiz us on the info that we had collected... we had 4 pages filled with soo much about the place, just like an enclyopedia... we trekked back the same way only that we stopped at a bridge... it was actually shivering.. it was an ancient one.. we crossed that and then there was a wall like pavement... we all sat there..and at that venue we were quized... and ka-ching, our team won... wasnt that obvious, already!! hehehe!

two activites : check, one to go... as we moved on from that place, about 200 metres ahead, it was a grass covered area, where the groups of six were divided into 3... it was mithali rachit and me this time... out of the three one had to be blind folded, one had to be the intrepretor of the signs the third one gave who could not speak to the blind folded one in order to collect the missing pieces of the hoopla... ghosh that was fun... following that we played a game known as ''big fish-small fish''.. while coming back, a goat followed us... followed us till we reached the camp... she was named ''bak-bak''

as soon as we reached the camp, we were pretty tired... however it was the solo time when we reached...so we took our cool book and and i took my fav place near the river... the solo time, was pure bliss... even though i have it at home also but a solo time on beach, is like the icing on cake... ummm.. lol

that evening, after it as almost dark, torches were out... all 36 of us were scttered.. we had soup... talked... sat on the stools, it was anupam, mayank, harshi and me, later joined by shagun... we'd talk about movies, life back home... and how we were not that homesick, now, atleast... hehe... probably after an hour or so, it started drizziling... the weather got worse... biting cold, freezing wind... awful stormm... we were wearing our pullovers already but now, we were holding our tents, so that they dont fly... lol... well another experience in itself... before dinner was served, we all 36 were in the common place sitting. a guy was playing the mini keyboard, few playing the mini congos and another a guitar... later on, the series of ghost stories started. Tara sir, took the initiative... so the 2-3 source of lights we had was switched off and we made a circle around him... the ghost story apparantly wasnt that scary... see, if a person like me didnt get scare, so you can imagine that at the end of it, the ghost story was not even a bit horror, rather lame... 

i was so tired that i had no strenght to even open my eyes that night thus i had sound sleep.. shagun was a great help that night, for she was aware of my fear so she gave me her torch before she slept... the storm continued for a while at night... but the funniest part was, in the middle of nowhere, bak-bak started with her  ''mei-mei-mei'' at night... and started pulling shardooli's blanket.. lol... it was soo funnyy.... i couldnt stop laughing... 

and then, i eventually felt groggy and laughing-laughing, i went back to sleep...

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past 3 days, i'm feeling pretty awkward...probably now that i'm back home, i'm mountain-sick... everyone said that '' we didnt realise how just time flew''... but somehow i disagreed with them... i felt each and everyday... i felt each moment i'd spent there, absorb it in me so hard, that it might because of that now, i feel weird being back home...but good at the same time as well :)

today in the morning i had gone for aerobics with saloni and landed up spending the whole day with her... it was soo much of fun... in the afternoon weather became so awesome for it drizzeled. so saloni called me up and was like ''lets go somewhere...'' we met again.. and then, first we went to meet, Pradeep sir, my tution sir... he's preparing for CA now, so he's completely turned his look to that of devdas... long hair, seemes like he havent shaved for like a month and that look on his 6 feet frame made sir look even taller... i felt totally, completely nostalgic when i went to the tution centre.. i was missing sitting in the class, sleeping-yawning, when sir taught boring subjects and what not, well, i'll write another post on my tution..

tomorow starts my 2nd month if belly dancing. 

i have a guitar class on 25th and i havent practiced at all, will do that probably tomorrow!!

else, my dad called to ask me what i wanted from US... apparantly i sent bua a big email, flaterring her and all and in the end asked her to tell dad to get me the most beautiful diary in the earth for my *svt16*

Day II

''good morninggggggggggg'' the intonation with which Suman ma'am used to wake us up will forever stay in my mind... at 6, she woke us up... i ran to the loo first. there were like 2 tents to take bath, and 3 for shitting. there were shit pots with pits, so u shit and fill it with sand.. there was a shovel as well to put the sand... hahaha.Hence harshi and me were the first ones to brush our teeth for we had no energy to stand in the que :) i had slept in the same clothes i was wearing the previous night for it was sooo freaking cold, so chilling that i was shivering in the blanket... that previous night after writing the diary, when it came to ''sleeping'' i became a baby... i fear darkness big time... so i had my torch switched on through out the night. i even woke up in the middle of the night to find that the torch had consumed all the battery, meanwhile that darkness was killing me.. so i hastily tried changing the batteries. that ended me having a broken torch... bahhh, hate it!!! in a nutshell i had a disturbed-cum-good sleep, lol, what a combo!

so that morning, once we were fresh we moved on to the dinner area, for the ''choti hazari'' (a short meeting). now the view was clear... as i had imagined, mountains everywhere, greenary, very peaceful only when we were quiet or else we 36 were enough to make a mayhem over there... could hear the divine water flow... it was cold... 

that morning, CC divided us into two groups... finally... according to them these groups were only for Trekking purpose however there was discrimination all the time on the basis of the two gangs that had been formed... hehe!! ;)

fortunately, in my group there was Harshi, Mayank, Anupam, Diya, Shardooli and NO SHAGUN!! somehow we escaped her for once... and then the rest of the people of which i remember Sanya, Rachit, Rishika, Sanya, Govind, Kartikey, Ashray, Rohan, Shivani, Bharat, Ishan, Arshya, and many more, tatal of 18... ta-da!! Our instructors were, Kuber sir, Naveen Sir and Suman ma'am! they took us to the ''beach'' area... few sat on the rocks and many on the tree trunk... we were given markers and a chart paper. we were asked to write everything about what we expect from Youreka! and meanwhile think of some name for our gang... i took the initiative to write first, while Kartikey and govind were thinking and making up stupid names... i wrote '' i wanna make good friends, have loads of funn... and take back good memories! :) ''

SO finally our group's name was ''Pathar uthaaoo, Todoo" (pick a stone and break it) lol... even i laughed when i heard of it, however it has a special explaination to it... that, 'whenever there'll be a problem as big as a rock or stone we'll break it and solve it, you see we are very strong!' so we were called the  ''todooos'' hahaha! i loved it... i seriously do.. i'll miss the way naveen sir always shouted for us ''oyee TODOOSSS jaldi aaoo'' (hey, todoos, come fast!)  now this will really bring tears to my eyes... (freak no matter how much homesick i was, i'm gonna miss it! freak!!) i loved being called a todoo! :) morover, after that our instructors asked us to make a circle.. we found out that or instructors were really fond of shapes, for later on after the circle they asked us to make a square... when we made a shape somewhat like square, we were aksed to introduce ourselves by telling something that no one knew about you.. so i said ''hi, i'm arushi and i'm learning belly-dancing''.. everyone was like ''wow''- i knew that would impress anyone!! hahaha... 

anyway, moving on, we were asked to change into our shorts and floaters, precisely anything but shoes, for our activity of the day RAFTING!!!... and move on to have breakfast... i changed into shorts, tee, combed my hair (not actually.. even though i had bought a new comb, i must have used it like thrice, nothing more than that, somehow i wasnt that keen on taking care of my hair...i simply hate them when they go oily, so i start caring less! :P )

i'd massage the sunscreen all over my body, even though it came out to be useless... we trekked all the way up to the road.. took us 20 minutes. it was tiring and we ran out of breath... the two groups were asked to board the mini truck alloted to them.. just like cattle is tranferred from one place to the other standing in the back of the truck, our condition was something like that only. the only difference was that we were 18 and falling on each other, the ride didnt turn out to be that  smooth and hence i had my first bruise over there... hahaha!! anyway, we  werent less than a cattle... all the instructors always regarded us as ''guys'', 'guys do this', 'guys come here'.,' guys lets go'... for all those who dont know, in hindi you call a cow - guy! hahaha! 

the rafting was hosted by Aquaterra poeple, about 5-6 km from the camp site... on the way a natural water fall came (or in mayank's language majnu's desperation), which became like a game, everytime we passed it, we had to escape from it.. hehe. on the way the "inme'' camp also came. i have heard its the camp by the reliance company... 

anyway, at the rafting venue, we were further divided into grups of 6... mine included, rishika, rachit, sanya, arshya, harshita and me! our rafting guide was Pankaj... he told us about various commands like -forward paddle, back paddle, jump in, stop and much more... there was a kayak as well which ofcourse the pro did, and also came with us as though he was the life guard like at swimming pools for he could help the one whose drowning... he even gave a separate list of instructions... 

we started rafting after 45 minutes and... it was fun.. it was a 6km strtech we rafted on... there were 1-2 grade rapids nothing dangerous... water level was also very low. the rocks in the river were also visible and the flow of the water was comparatively slow... we often bumped into other rafts and had the water fight with them... after 4 km of rafting a shore came where the guides would stop the rafts and we could take a dip in the freezing water... and there was also a bridge over there that lead to the inme camp.. there many of us shouted'' inme sucks, youreka! rocks'' fun it was... after about 20 minutes of swimming,lol.. we moved on... and my first experience of rafting was decent... decent because i have heard that rafting is dangerous, people fall and it was nothing like that... when i asked the guide that, arent there any tricky rapids, he said that if we come individually and not with any institution they take us to better rapids... nevermind...all this ended up having our sun-screen so worthless... i was a lil tanned...

oh forgot to mention... so whenever we went out as ''todoos'', Naveen sir would always make us shout out loud our slogan. he would say ''pathar uthaaoo'' and the18 of us would shout ''tod-dooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!''... awesome... and while rafting, pankaj would say ''jimmie jimmie jimmie'' and the 6 of us would shout ''oye oye oyyee!!!!!'' and there was another one as well, where we would shout '' yo babay, yo babay, yo baby, yoooooooooooooooooo'' and hoot with our paddle in the air toucking the sky! :) so much of funn... 

Navenn sir asked us, not to change but simply have lunch and after that we would go to this pond for swimming... once back at the camp we were first served with squash... they always did take care that we are hydrated all the time.. so before we left for any activity we would always have 2 glasses of water... so the squash was part of the deal.. our lunch was nice... we took a lil nap, just a mere rest and the the todoos, shouting our best slogan, trekked about 2-3km to the pond... it was tiring... before we trekked down to the pond, we were made to sit on the ground and were given instructions.. about mountain manners... 

1.walk in line, it is sophisticated, looks disciplined plus kills less vegetation. Fact: centimetre square of FERTILE land contains more organisms than the population of the world

2.greet the locals

3.talk in low voice, say no to noise pollution 

the trek towards the pond was very dangerous.. we had to climb down a hill, which had about 50 cm wide path, full of stones, awfully steep and there were nettle leaves all over the place.., felt like was in roadies, lol... and then further there were stones and big rocks to climb... i even slipped on one and thus, got my second injury... shoot!! 

the pond was seriously small... had rocks underneath that gave a bruise to harshita... i dived into that dirty, full of tadpoles water from a rock of good height like 6 times.. soo much of funn and as usual the water was chilling... harshi, chickened out when it came to jump into the water... anupam was so stupid that he dived in without taking off his glasses,  kuber sir searched for them and was lucky enough to find them...naveen and kuber sir would splash water onto us, and we would shiver out of cold when we would be almost dry... after spending like and hour or so we started moving back... at the camp, we rested, changed into dry clothes...

that evening we were taken to the beach.. there we were intoduced with ''cool book''. it is a journal sort... have puzzles, space for us to write the summary about, how we'd spend the day... that was the ''solo time'' actually.. which majority of people didnt like, please exclude me from it... i loved my solo time... you were asked to find a space, anywhere.. near water, far from the river, on the rock, on the sand, wherever, however 10ft away from the nearby person... i loved writing into my cool book and enjoyed the beauty around... that was the only place where i can actually agree on spending the rst of my life!... lol... after the solo time was over, we played games, based on team work..

that evening we were further treated with soup that had bread crums... lol.. that evening was however a lilttle boring, somehow...

the notice board that night read ''9pm bonfire''... it was okay... people were still in groups.. we got to hear ghost stories... hahahaha i even got scared... that night there was a lil trouble with shagun's bed.. so the instructors came to see it... while they were solving the whole thing, i sneaked out thinking that i would tell harshi to keep her tent open and i would sneak in late... ta-da...i realise that the instructors in my tent didnt realise that i had sneaked out, so i stayed there, anyway... what a luck... i slept with harshi and it wasnt that uncomfortable...we somehow managed... i was relieved to be with someone i knew, i felt homesick only at night... i hate darkness... makes me feel insecure inside out!!

and ta-da... that was my second day... still feeling that it wasnt that great an idea to have come here with harshi. either i should have come with my own group or simply should'nt have come... 

i closed my eyes that night, saying good night to diya, chandni and harshita thinking only 6 more days to go... somehow, i'll survive...

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so today, i felt much better... and guess what? my dear lil beshtie, Aaki gave me a surprise.. not literally a one, but i was surprised, lol... she called me and told me that she'll be near my place with her cousin and hence wanted to visit me... and i was like ''ache kaam mein kis baat kii derii''... we didnt have that good time, you know having serious talk and all, but had funn.. it was pure bliss to have met her after soo long!!!

in the eve saloni and me went to amar colony... all through the camp i missed the chaat papadii... it is like to die for, mannn... so we had that... we went and then sat in CCD... we were broke and ordered the least expensive , choco chip muffin... we shared the lil cake and sat there for like 45 minutes... i told her all about the camp.. and in return i was enlightened by all that i missed in past 8 days... 

even though sherlyn's outta station i went at her place, her father was home... i asked uncle about how she was doing and about her result for she gave all india board and not cbse... i was told that her result will be the same day as mine... plus i even got to talk to her on phone.. she's doing fine.. haveing a lil tiff with her mum...she'll be back on 27th... and i'm excited to meet her...

today my devils won and defeated the mumbai indians... and anyway, how does it matter whether we lose or win, we're already qualified for the semi-finals... way to go, Delhi DareDevils! mwaahhh...

i came to know that my chopra partner, aka, shefali aka shefu got a tatoo done... ohh, even i want one.. well i will, soon... soon as in, probably another 3-4 years, lol... but i will... *nmw* :P 

tomorrow morning i'm going for some aerobics class with saloni

Ps. my result's due for tuesday... i'm nervous...but more of excited!