My Best of 2008 :)

The year 2008 has given me some of the best moments of my life and it was a complete contrary to what 2007 had to offer. This year was literally the year for expecting the unexpected. So many new things happened in my life and everything turned out to be for my good , which I'm really glad about :)*touch wood*

The start of 2008 was wonderful indeed with a family vacation to Singapore. This was my first trip abroad, starting with this 2008 also turned out to be a year of 'many firsts' to me.

Few days after returning to Chennai, it was time for me to move into my new class in college. It was one time I was filled with anxiety, little did I know then that this would be a class where I would meet some of the best people of my life who would bring in a change that I would have loved to see about my life :)

I moved into hostel, thou' I come home every weekend. This was the first time I was gonna stay away from home for so long and so often. Now, having been stayed in the hostel I truly believe everyone should experience it sometime or the other as its one place that teaches you some of life s lessons. Thanks to my parents who opted to send me to hostel, anyway not that I really relish staying there ;)


To my surprise I also started taking studies seriously and did score well in my exams. A surprising 9/10 gpa last semester(first time). I know I'm boasting, never mind I don' get such opportunities that often :D . Thanks to Dhruv (my group study partner ;))

It was a year where we (Me and Dhruv) got selected for two major events (Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Quallcomm Innovator Challenge) at IIT's Shaastra'08. We were among the top 5 finalists of the 5000 odd entries to the event :)

We also got to intern at GRT hotels and Resorts during our summer break. It really mattered to us, as 'Hospitality Industry' is our key field of interest :)

2008 was also the year where I got to visit Goa with friends as a part of my college tour (yet another first time), where I had the time of my life :) - My first time in a water scooter, first time to a night club.. yaay!!

It was the year I got loads of blog buddies and I bumped into Vasanthan on a random day.

Thou' there were a few set backs, well don' really remember them. I would anyday remember 2008 as one of my best times both academically and personally and in all other ways it could be. At this time when 2008 is coming to an end, I would like to thank god for all those lovely moments in 2008 and would like to thank each one of you (parents, friends, blog buddies, relatives, strangers, sun, moon, stars, flora and fauna) to have made my 2008 very beautiful and special in every way possible.

With so much of goodness 2008 had to offer, I wish 2009 is as much good and fun too :)

Good Bye 2008! And a very happy and a prosperous NEW YEAR 2009 to you all :)

Vaarnam Aiyiram - Movie Review

I have been wanting to watch this movie right from the time the songs were out and more so when I happened to see the trailers but unfortunately had my exams going on the time it was released, so the first thing I did after I was done with my exams was to catch up with this movie the very same night :) (I'm a big time Surya fan ;)

I wasn't disappointed . Thou' the movie was on a sad trail after the interval which I didn't expect it to be like I still loved it :). Surya has done immense justice to both the roles(dad and son) he has done in the movie. Sameera Reddy was equally good too and I loved her clothes in the movie :)

All the actors have done their parts well . Two messages I got from the movie are:

Whatever happens in life, life has to move on.

Whatever difficulties one faces in life they can surey come out to have a better life when they have constant support despite their set backs in life :)

Loved the way Surya was wooing her ;) . This is one of my favourite scenes from the movie , especially the way he plays the guitar for her :)

Wishing you all a great weekend :)

A little more about me :)

After a long time I'm doing a tag here, this one I flicked it from Anoop's blog .

The rules are:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, and pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.


The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food? right now?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. What is one word that describes you?
12. What is your user name?


I would like to tag Navin, Shanthini Akka, Vasanthan, Krithika, Melanie, Lena, Drama Diva, Preeti lata and all others who would like to take up this tag. Drop in a comment so that I could visit your blogs.


P.S. : I'm off to my native place for the weekend , will be back on tuesday. I'm planning to carry my laptop with me but I'm not too sure if my data card would work there. But, my posts will be coming as usual as I've scheduled them all :). I will be back with a lot of stories to share and I also intend collecting some info. about my native place and its neighbouring towns so that I can share it with you all in my travelogue.

Ice Princess - The movie

I was watching this movie sometime back after almost a year. My dad had got the dvd from the dvd library after reading about it in my blog here. This is one movie which I would love to watch over and over again.

** spoiler alert **
Tranchtenberg plays Casey Carley a brilliant high school science student who initially films figure skaters for her physics project which would help her get a scholarship from Harvard. But, as time passes by she learns it herself to understand the sport better thinking it would help her in her project but eventually falls for the sport and turns out to be a figure skater herself. All this despite her mum wanting her to get the scholarship and go to college after her high school. That's when she makes her mum realise that she has shattered her mum's dream and not hers. Her heart was always in figure skating. The movie is ,how she goes about achieving her passion.

This is one of my favourite scenes from the movie and has always brought tears to my eyes. Her mum comes to see her perform despite she being against her, it is this support that actually makes her win :)

Fortune, favourite and Falguni...

My today's fortune in Orkut turned out to be
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
How true! Thou' this is not something that has been happening in my life now . It is something that has happened sometime back and I'm sure it would repeat itself in the future. As a kid I did things which my parents or grand parents asked me not to do jus' to see whats so peculiar abt it and it all turned out to be fun . In life too challenges never cease to bring out the best in me , so I will still have fun doing things what others think is impossible :)

This is one of my favourite songs sung by Falguni pathak . Came across the video of it in youtube sometime back.. Here, I am sharing it with you all :)

Have a great Weekend!

These are a few of my favourite things....

I used to love the movie 'Sound of Music' when I was a kid and I still do. The whole idea of remembering your favourite things when your sad or jus' low in life , I thought was a fabulous idea.. And it has never put me down in my low times and has always made me smile :) ..Each of us will have our list of favourite things and here are mine ...

1.Happy old memories
2.Surprises
3.Long chats with friends
4.New bags and bag shopping
5.Long drives
6.Beaches
7.Meeting up with your childhood best friend
8.Remembering birthdays and Anniversaries
9.Weekend shopping with parents
10.Special song that means something to you
11.Old photo albums / childhood pics
12.Long bus journeys to college(I'm gonna miss them soon :( )
13.Eating during class hours and getting caught
14.Rain drizzles
15.School annual days
16.Dancing
17.Singing in the bathroom
18.Movie marathons
19.Hot delicious food when your jus' so hungry
20.Ice creams and Milkshakes
21.Taking hours to finish a chocolate, licking it slowly :p
22.Waiting for the weekends
23.Winning
24.The early morning sunshine that falls inside the room
25.Long talks with my boy friend
26.Family vacations
27.Getting more marks in a subject you least expected
28.Books
29.Books that you cant keep them down before reading it fully
30.Cooking with friends
31.Amusment parks
32.Excursions when in school and deciding on what to bring for the day to eat and play for almost weeks before the event
33.Teasing friends with their crushes
34.Waiting to get aglimpse of your crush during the breaks
35.Carefully choosing the birthday dress to be worn to school
36.Compliments from people you least expected from
37.Feeling great at the end of a performance
38.Happy people
39.Morning tea with the news paper in hand
40.Long hours of blissful sleep
41.Making lists
42.When your hand made gift turns out to be wonderful
43.Getting letters from your loved ones
44.Perfumes/Perfumed candles
45.Roses
46.When you do something for the first time
47.An all girls day out
48.Cycling
49.Watching Travel&Living for hours together.
50.Being remembered

Writing this made me feel jus'so good.If any of you would like to take this topic for your blog your more than welcome to do so..But please drop a message in my comment box, so that I can visit your blogs..

I will come up with Part 2 of this list soon :) Have a great weekend everyone !

My Favourite Poem

My someone special is no one else but you
Why? Just because of all the special things you do
You were the one who opened my eyes
Saw me through all the lies
Each time I was weak, you were there to help me
Show me things that before I couldn't see
All the times I needed you,you came and said you'd never leave
You showed me special things, and taught me to believe
You were there to catch me if I should stumble or fall
The one I could count on to answer all my calls
You were the one to hear me,when no one else would listen
You lit up my life, made it sparkle, made it glisten
You took away my bitter fears
And wiped away all my tears
You told me I could be anything I wanted to be
And that is why you were, you are,and you will always be the special some one to me...

With my parent's wedding anniversary jus' a couple of days away.. I dedicate this poem to them ... Love you mom and dad...