Dare you to Move

I'm in LOVE with this song by Switchfoot called Dare You to Move. Everytime I listen to it, I have this vision of flying over valley and I have no clue why...:P

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next?
What happens next?

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself, to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before

This is Switchfoot, my favourite band this week^^.

Peace

Maya

I miss Kuwait....and I miss my friends...:(
How am I gonna survive for the next TWO months?....:/
Maya

I'm reading Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, and it's an amazing book, not only because of the fact that Japanese culture fascinates me, but also due to the kind of visual pictures it paints.
I can see very clearly the kimono that he describes, the way the makeup is put on and so many other scenes.

Maybe it's because I've already watched the movie, but I feel it's because it's REALLY well-written.
In usual cases, movies based on books are barely half as good as the book is... However, this certain book is an exception. The movie is SIMPLY AMAZING.
The Japanese landscape is simply breathtaking, and I often wish I had a little moss garden or brook with a red bridge in my balcony. And I admire the fact that though they are so modern, and developed, the Japanese are still so traditional and have managed to hold on to the age-old practices of their ancestors....
It almost makes me jealous...
Having grown up in the Gulf, I can't read or write my mother tongue and can barely speak it as well...I am only Indian in my looks (and not even completely...Around 8 people have told me that I look south-east asian...Not that that's a bad thing or anything, but STILL...). I often wish I'd grown up in India instead. My mom says that maybe if I had, I wouldn't be such an ignorant little brat :/....
*sigh* Geez...
Later
Maya

Ahhh...it feels simply AMAZING to be home^^....
Okay, maybe not home as such, but in my home country atleast.
So anyhoo, here I am in Chennai. It's so HUMID here....I mean, I can handle heat, no problem, but HUMIDITY is just...IRRITATING. But my hair looked so cute on the plane...and I stepped out of the Chennai airport and BAM!
Instant frizz...-.-
I went from Pantene Pro-V to Electrocuted in like 2 seconds....-.-
Yeah, so I'm gonna be attending coaching classes for college here for the next 2 months or something, which basically means 4 hours of art classes a day. I'm not complaining ^^...I LIVE for art^^. I'm probably going to be taking up architecture...but if that doesn't work out, then I'm considering linguistic studies.
But you know, when I look at it, there are a lot of downsides to me living in chennai....for starters, the weather is atrocious, I can't read, write or speak Tamil (which basically makes me illiterate here), I have no clue about where I live, and don't know my way at ALL...etc. etc.
Despite ALL that (and more), I still feel strangely at home in Chennai, even though I have spent a total of less than one month here. And the bookshops are TO DIE for!
We went bookshopping today^^.... and bought like, 14 books. My mom wasn't for buying the 7th part of Maximum Ride, since it was expensive and all, but my sis bought it for me in the end^^. I LOVE you, Sonu ^^!
Oh and another thing I love is cold Orange tang, Seriously, I would KILL for a glass right now....but it's so hot and the power's gone(Ahhh, India...-.-) and I'm just too lazy to walk ALL the way to the kitchen to get it...
Maybe if I make gasping noises, someone will feel sorry and offer to bring me some?
.........
Yeeeeah,maybe not.
*groan*
Heat, heat go away....don't come back another day....XP
Peace
(A hot, sweaty, tired and grumpy)Maya

*SHRIEK*!!!

The biggest exams of my LIFE are over....and I feel so happy it almost seems illegal. Seriously.
This last year has been so crazy...
I mean, it hasn't been 'STUDY STUDY STUDY!!!' right from the beginning... the pressure rose towards the end, actually. Sorta like a tsunami...we barely saw it on the horizon at the beginning of the year, and we didn't realise it was practically on top of us until a week before the boards started. Then it crashed down on our heads, almost drowning us and we struggled to breathe, and prayed we'd survive....

And now it's over.... (^^).... and we're drying off.
Kinda weird analogy, but it's how I saw the boards. And I'm a weird person, i guess ^^".

And I'm going to go CRAZY this next week doing AAAAAAAALL the things I was not allowed to do in the last whole year....I even made a list ^^(I'm a very 'make-lists' kinda person.... owing mainly to my HORRIBLE memory. I mean, my sister thinks I have early Alzheimers, for crying out loud!).

And the next thing on my list is to have a tub bath (accompanied by good book and box of chocolates), till I'm as shrivelled as a raisin ^^.

Ahhh, I've never been happier ^^. Life is lookin' up, baby!

Peace :*

Maya

I am so SICK of always Always ALWAYS having to study. It's driving me up the wall. YES, I KNOW the most important exam of my life is coming up in two weeks but that does not mean I have magically transformed into a mindless robot who can study 24/7 and has no other needs at all. I NEED to be allowed to breathe peacefully occasionally, allowed to do what I want during my breaks, and allowed to do what I want without having to fear yet another lecture on Time Consciousness and Board Exams. I mean, Seriously? Lay OFF, people!!!
I have a splitting headache after four frickin days of continuous physics. My physics guide could be used as an assault weapon. Seriously. I don't get the POINT of having to study all this crap. What if I choose to open a nail salon? Would I need to know what the formula for impedance of an LCR circuit is?
No. No, I wouldn't...-.-
I am so incredibly pissed at the moment.
Maya

I am incredibly upset.
It was my birthday a few days ago, on the 9th of Feb, to be precise. And so I guess I'm now (finally) seventeen ....just a year to go before I can kiss being a teenager goodbye:P. I wonder why they call eighteen adult when both eighteen AND nineteen end with 'teen' ....doesn't that mean we're in our teens tll we turn twenty?
Okay, sorry, I got a little sidetracked there...i
So as I was saying, I am incredibly upset. I make it a point to always get my friends something for their birthdays. ALWAYS. Mainly to the people I'm really close to. I've given away a bunch of stuff this year, for birthdays, Christmas, and for no reason whatsoever. But I was very disappointed on MY birthday, when I didn't get a SINGLE gift. I mean, SERIOUSLY...
I know I've been in this school less than 9 months... and I may not know my classmates and new friends very well, but no gifts at all? Now THAT'S depressing....
Which would explain why I've been in such a foul mood lately. Okay so my parents gave me 17 bucks and my aunt and uncle another 10 which brings my Birthday gift grand total to 27 bucks, 5 of which I spent buying birthday gifts for a couple of friends who are also having their birthdays this month.
Now, I'm wondering if that was a good idea. You know, not getting ANYTHING from your friends for you're seventeenth birthday kinda makes you have second thoughts about being selfless and generous with YOUR birthday cash.... Lucy, a friend of mine, actually got an iPhone. AN IPHONE, for crying out loud?! I"d be happy to get something a lot... less cooler than that :(. Cue incredible jealousy -.-.
And this feeling will not be going anywhere for a while....-.-
But then a friend DID get me a pair of headphones which was something I needed and wanted^^ ... so a BIG 'THANK YOU' to George, who is currently my new favourite human being (albeit one I'm always threatening and plotting to kill :. Our mindless banter is fun^^) for being the ONLY person who got me a birthday gift. Thanks,man^^!!
Later!
Maya