Day-I {Camp}

SO my trip was amazing... awesome... The following post is about my first day at the camp straight from my travel journal, at how i didnt have any patience and wanted to know everyone at once...How i simply judged many people wrong...and true as well!!!

DAY-I

I got up at like 3:45am, even though the alarm was on silent.lol. thanks to my sisi i'd wake up. i woke up to switch on the geezer. Then, i'd reset the alam to 4:15, and took bath. got ready in my Tee and a pair of jeans. I woke up dad and maa. Made tea for them...

All of my stuff was packed into a rucksack and also there was another bag that contained a pair of shoes and a lil more stuff... we left, around 5:30.

reported the new delhi railway station at 6, the time Youreka! wanted us. AT the station there was a youreka! banner and many other arrangements to guide us well till the old VIP parking section where we had to gather.

There, as sson as dad stopped the car, i saw sooo many people with luggage lying + many people + *cute* guys.

We got our i-cards.

After like 15 minutes Harshi arrived. Her entry was the bestt.. She tripped and literally fell onto me!! hahahaha. you know just like those dramatic entrance of a hero! :P

Maa was being too possessive about stuff-''mnake sure she's with a lady instructor'' ''take care of yourself'' she recited her list of do's and dont's!! but i understand.

Everybody had sexy rucksack, however mine was the most hideous one, thus i was pretty embarassed, even though i survived. 

We boarded the train like 20 minutes later. our i-cards had our seats number as well. my roll number was 15 and seat no.23.

SO harshi, always the lucky one, got a seat next to a guy and seat 23 was a part of the alignment of seats 24, 25. AND NO ONE SAT ON 24 and 25!!!!!!!! *annoying*

there are many cute guys but all so high class, rich snobs. dad recognised another parent there. i intorduced myself to their son. he is cute. (too much of cuteness, huh!! LOL)

and then, in the train we saw ''groupism''  everyone sitting in different corners. aparantly a girl came upto harshi and me and intoduced herself to us. Her name's SHagun, school - G.D. Goenka. SHe's tall, fat and a chepoo, that is, she would nag with us all the time. Too suffocating.

Gradually harshi made friends with the guy sitting next to him. his name's anupam and infront of them sat, mayank, anupam's cousin precisely. 

Mayank's a fatso studying in Birla VIdya Niketan School about 5'6. But freaking hilarious, then, was anupam, he's dark, my height. Both of them in class 11.

wE four became good friends. We'd play dum-sharaaz, that is, ''I'll act and you guess the movie'' game. lol! it was however fun. The train journey was owkiesh, we didnt come to know how just time passed away in playing and having funn...

then, after 3 hours(probably) of the train journey, we were embarked on ''car'' journey, where we were joined by shagun.

So in the silver golden scorpio (that i had chosen) we were 5peeps + an instructor and the driver. It was almost 8hrs journey. All the way mayank kept us entertained. we changed seats, ate and LAUGHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Atleast, I must have laughed SO SO SO SO SOooooo much after ages, laughed till my stomach was hurting and i had tears all the time ( my fits can make me do wonders)

Mayank is a dramatist. He's done courses in sooo many drama schools including National School of Drama, aka NSD, in delhi, Plays guitar, precisely veryyy talented!!. Anupam is an animator...

Thanks to his drama talent Mayank entertained us with on the spot made up stories about the scenary we saw around us as we climed up the mountain, round and round and round... greenary, lilttle villages, very less civilisation and river flowing along... Outrageous, it was...

On the way, around like 6 in the evening when it started to get dark, one of the tires of the scorpio became almost flat... our unluck... hahahaha! SO in the middle of the mountains just like the scene from a fairytale when no one's around,and you're stuck in the middle of nowhere, the driver started fixing the tire whereas we 5 enoyed the nature...

Once done, we moved on and it was dark by now... we were already running late... after like driving for 5km and not been able to reach the destination we asked the locals for the direction and the 3 men whom the driver asked were probably drunk... hahahaha. It was the first time Tons for the instructor as well so poor guy didnt know where we were suppose to go. Meanwhile mayank started with his ghost stories... Bahh!! I'm a sicko i started getting scared and panicking a little... what a loser :P:P

 However, with all the patience we moved on and finally reached the place... We had to trekk down the mountain on 50cm wide way down, to the camp side. Since it was dark we couldn't make out how the place looked like exactly... we 5 were the last one to reach... Our Camp Chief, aka CC, aka Avik welcomed us...''heloooo Ladies and ladaass!!'' 

All the 36 of us were asked to gather at the dining area... it was a circular area with stools to sit on, tables to serve the food, tubs to wash the dishes (yes!!! we had to wash the dishes on our own!! :P ), a white board where the notifications and the day planner is written... there were lights lit on with the help of batteries, else there was no connectivity, no cellphone. even the water to drink was supplied directly from the river that flowed next to the camp area... There were two sinks with a water tank that had water and a mug... there were soaps and mirror as well. So even if you dont look good you could check yourslef in the mirror... 

In total there were about 37 tents, i suppose, that included tents of the staff as well.

Behind the dinner area was the bathroom tents for guys... just opposite the dinner area was the way which lead to the ''beach''

Beach in mountains?? hahaha. there were stones all over the place, for a stretch of about 100 metres...and at the shore, ofcourse the immortal, great divine water of the river Tons flowed, 24*7. That place was the besttt part about the whole place...

CC assinged me in room 10 with Avarna and Arshya, however they exchanged the tents and eventually whom i tried to escape, the great Shagun was in my tent. There was Shardooli as well. She's a sweetheart. her bestfriend Diya and another girl Chandni were Harshita's tent's mates in the tent next door, no.11.

Our dinner was delicious (even though i dont remember exactly what i had). 

after saying ''goodnight''s we came to our tents and now with the help of torch i'm writing all this sitting on the bed. various sounds from outside has faded. very less whispers, my bags are on my bed for i dont want any creepy creature to be a part of my personal belongings!! I feel i could sleep with harshi, for i fear darkness and i do feel insecure at night. I can hear the sound of water...

Here at this place where Harshi and me came to ''meet'' people, make friends with them, they turned out to be snob, pretty, and ofcourse; rich brats!!! All of them have come in groups, mostly with their partners! wtf. here i'm happy to be friends with mayank and anupam, but since shagun is romaing with us, no one wants to talk to us. Fuck. and they are ALWAYS into their groups. this isnt fair. How do we survive i dont know!!!

All around are ofcourse mountains, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SKY WITH ACTUALLY TRILLION OF STARS, there are claimed to be!

Our tents are in rows. One row is of girls and opposite row is of the boys..

Apart from a CC, there's a doctor, his name's Adam (whose been resting as he's dehydrated, lol).We have instructors named Gulab, Tara, Naveen, Suman , Roopa and many other whose name i dont remember, actually! 

Goddd... i cant believe i'm homesick already... i miss everything... How will i ever survive the rest of the week...

Godd its cold, i'm in my jacket and socks... we've to get up at 6 in the morning.. we'll be divided into groups of 18 each; tomorrow.. hopefully get my room-mates changed as well... Fuck. Please help me survive.

*sign*

Ps. Why is it that, I've the worst luck???

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Today, after 8 days of tireness, exhaustion, excitement, having funn...i had the most relaxed day of my life... my Facebook status reads -wow, this day was surly worthy of the tiring past 8 days... have slept almost the whole day, enjoyedd!!! the pleasure of being pampered is just so out of the world!!! :D:D:D:D ps. gonna eat momos next!! xxx 

My body was hurting from head to toe, hence i got a body massage... so awesome.. i slept for like 4-5 hours in total... few hours early in the day and rest later in the evening... Then took bath after like 4 days... what a relief...

Ps. I didnt write my journal for the rest of the trip, gonna simply brief about each day here on the very page of Takyakalam... :)

All Set For The Camp...

I'm... where i was dying to live these days few months back it is no less than a dream that it is more than a month since i gave my boards... rather another 20 days my result will be out, *shit I'm scared* 

It was my dear sister who gave me this idea to go on a camp...and so unexpectedly it is HAPPENINGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[It's a camp by iDiscovery, known as Youreka. It is a rafting, hiking and trekking camp... It is at a place known as Tons, which is 180km beyond Dehradun. There'll be tents laid by the side of the river Tons, between the greenery of the beautiful mountains... aaah... awesome!! :D]

OoMiiGhosh!! Unbelieveable... this gives me an opportunity to meet new people. I think, I'm a bit of an introvert so it will be an amazing experience to test me... 

Anyway, so Harshita and me are done with the packing, there are some ''to-buy-at-the-end-moment'' stuff yet to be bought, else I'm done with everything else...

SoooooOO excited... :D:D:D:D I have no idea what I'm going to do after I'm back from the mostttt fab. vacation aka camp, but I promise you there will be TOnnNS of posts here; to expalin it all... Going to click MannYY pictures, memorise each and everyday I'm going to spend there for, it is going to the trip of my life (hopefully ;) )... I'm glad Harshita is going to be there, she's gonna help have ''more'' fun... and for all those who teased me that I may bump into a *cute* guy, i simply wish it happens, lol... you never know... :-P 

Ps. I leave on the 12 morning, gotta catch a train from New Delhi Railway station at like 6... and will be back on the 19 night, around 11-ish..

Pps. Wishing all the mothers a very Happy Mother's Day!! :)

Cedar and Cheer!

On the 1st May, I started with my new diary, aka Cheer... My last Cheer looked somewhat like this... It had a hideous cover page so I had covered it with a white chart paper... stuck one of my favourite pictures, of mine only... lol... And made it look ''good'' so that it is worth writing in! 

So above my picture, it reads ''zealousme'' , below it reads ''princess'' and then i have written my name all over the place... it isnt that visible, however i had sketched ''A'' on the left corner of the diary... it is a 400 pages journal... well my next task is to count the number of diaries I have written till now...

And you can make out the difference between a guitar and the diary.. so the guitar of course, is *Cedar*... then there is the back side of the journal, the last page of Cheer...and one of the middle pages of my journal... ta-da and thats it! :)

Chaos of being in school...

31st August 2008, was pondering over the fact of how time just passes by...

today i went to get my picture clicked, passport size, for my form of class 10. Due for tomorrow, but apparently I'll give it on Tuesday! Cute picture, I'm smiling in it. When i was in class 8, when i was soo chilled out that 10 is so far, but Now, I'm going through what i never thought of! i don't really remember my first day in high school, except! you know sun shining damn hard,my skirt HIGH waist and the class 6 is standing up of the Basket Ball court, wandering about, looking at those strangers -''SENIORS'', we were looking forward to a new start, dunno what's gonna happen and THEN, all of a sudden we are missing the junior school!!! We don't wanna live here! And as soon as time (which i hate) passes --> we have forgotten all, we live with faded memories, we are all adjusted to our new home. And as the clock is ticking, our skirts come down to low waist, hairstyle, fashion, high socks to a level that of the ankle and wear all abusing language, that, i thought didn't even exist! Class 10 then was a dream or More Than That!!! Aaki as bestie, Gen.X., being desperado, teachers, first crush-out of the world! Now 2 years!!! I'll make then the BEST EVER!!! The unexpected will do its best and i'll take it! There's so much in life and I'm sooooooo WAITING!!!! 

This week was the toughest, the hardest and not THAT terrible week of my summer, lol...

From my side i got all the tension settled with aaki-shefu-viku. I mean viku still has some problem however we 8 are all looking forward for that perfect night stay where hopefully we wont lose our tempers and not let our ego talk. I mean right now the only thing is the ''ego-clashing'' amongst us. We 8 are sooo different from each other that it amazes me when i try to answer the question that Sakshi had asked me ''how did you EIGHT become FRIENDS??"

Things with Harshi and Samster have, on the other side, got a lil worse...

When I had called Viku, I knew i was at fault, i heard all that she had to say... she was rude and harsh however i deserved it. i think with all the patience on this earth i must have listened to viku. but i couldn't stop crying!! the very thought that Gen.x. will be no more was an utter shock for me. I mean crying is something else. It was like ''wild''crying. This was the second time with in 14 days, i felt so HELPLESS that i thought all efforts i made were soo invisible. useless. My dad, was shocked at my status. he came and hugged me. all i could do was hug him back, so tightly and cry my heart out, wildly... shoot mann...A sister like sakshi is soo very hard to find.. trust me, had she not been there things b/w viku n me must have been even more entangled by now!! That very sense of helpless-ness was scaring and i don't want to experience it any more... That very night aaki had called me, we sorted things amongst us. 

The next day when she called, all she could go was ''blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah'' it was like she was speaking at hundred miles an hour speed, without any break. that is, she gave me NO chance to explain anything. all she could do was; go on n on n on n on!!! whoa, all i did was out of anger and also my EGO, kept the phone SO HARD.now, when she called back, sisi did the talking.

Now i'll take my parent's advice, now i made my effort, rest is all up to the others... even my patience has exhausted, to the core...and now my ego has become vulnerable, lol...I will stay quiet and give others the space and time...

So anyway, i was glad to have talked to viku and shefu already,so  that when we met for sadhika's birthday, it seemed as though nothing had happened. it was awesome. I even travelled in metro all by myself... yeah me! ;)

And on Tuesday, Sakshi, Sayan( her boyfriend), Saloni (my friend) and me had gone shopping.

I had to shop for the camp, which i didn't... bought these three amazingly hott tops apparently which i cant wear to camp, and yeah a pair of shoes WHICH is for camp only and a bit of accessories... It was funn.. had a wonderful day... Sayan bhaiya seemed tired of carrying the shopping bags, lol!

on Monday, in the evening, i had gone for a Dosa party at neha's place... after having dosas, idli, and desert (i don't know what it is called) we were 5 girls, went into the colony. The weather was ideally romantic, and we enjoyed it. There was a lil of dust-storm. We went to this big park, where there are swings... Mann, swings are my another BIG WEAKNESS, i die for them. it's like that icing on the cake, while swinging under such a beautiful weather... we were shouting, hooting and made a mayhem in that park, lol... due to such rainy weather many people had left, so it wasn't that abashing...

Else the very season of phalse is here , the month of May... it's an Indian fruit. appear as tiny berries... it is called phalse in delhi, however have no idea what it is regarded as, in the other states... :)

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.

  - Blaine Lee, "The Power Principle"

“every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us"
No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively. Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me. I am the creator of my own reality.
When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others. If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.

  - Bill Wilson, "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 88"

Gen.X. cannot break!!!

Gen.X. is the name of the group of 8 besties. Harshi, Samaster, Aaki, Shefu, Viku, Gaurs, Deeksh n Me. This is gen.x. for past 5 years... The group everybody envies, thinks that how come we all manage to stay together... that NOTHING can break us... Just because last week, harshi n me had a night stay at Samster's place, just because of this, SHefu n Viku have decided that they don't wanna be part of Gen.x. anymore. This is ridiculous. Terrible.Horrible.Unbearable. This for the first time that we've had such bizarre fight.

Viku has said so much harsh n awful things to the 3 of us--culprits, plus have been very insensitive to all our pleadings. Samster and i believe that just because of such mere lil thing viku and shefu cant decide to just walk away , there is MUCH more to it, which is yet to be disclosed. Samster is tired of all the effort, and now harshi and me are trying n reaching Shefu, just that she needs to answer our calls!!! ... moreover i can never let this happen. NEVER. We all have to stay together... Forever.