100 Truths..

1. Last drink: Water.. BAD, BAD summer.. :)
2. Last phone call : Ahh.. Anshu.. My oldest friend.. :P :)
3. Last text message:  Radhika..from my class, telling me that internship is compulsary for BFIA - 1 years!! :| :(
4. Last song you listened to: Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden

5. Last time you cried:  Two- Three days ago..!

Have You Ever...

6. Dated someone twice: NO! Thank gosh!

7.Been cheated on? Yea..
8. Kissed someone & regretted it? Nopes!!
9. Lost someone special? umm, Hell Yea.
10. Been depressed? WELL.. Yes.
11. Been drunk and threw up? No, but I wanna TRY once. I wanna get tipsy and do crazy stuff. Not Throw Up. :P

Four Favourite Colors...
12. Green
13. Blue - ANY shade, I am crazy!
14. Purple
15. Black - The eternal Classic.

Firsts...
16. Made new friends: Of course. How else would I have survived? haha!
17. Fallen out of love: Nopes..
18.Laughed until you cried: Everytime I laugh, aisa hi hota hai. I get CRAMPS in my stomach!! :P
19. Met someone who changed you: Yes, and changed for the good. Real Good. Met two people like that. One has made me stronger than ever, one has taught me the meaning of trust.
20. Found out who your true friends were: Yes. The Hard Way. But I am glad I did.

21. Found out someone was talking about you: HAHAHA! Loadsa times..mostly about how moofat I am!

Have You...

22. Kissed anyone on your friend's list: Umm..Hmm.. ;) 
23. How many people on your friends list do you know in real life:On Blogger? Hardly.
24. How many kids do you want to have: How the hell am I supposed to know?
25. Do you have any pets: NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! :(( Atyachar! Total! I so badly want a DOG! *MOM! Are you listening?!*
26. Do you want to change your name: No.. :) , but I want people to get this clear in their head that it is spelt with a 'U' not a double 'OO'. :|
27. What did you do for your last birthday: Had a blast! :) For more detalis refer - Happy Birthday To Me!
28.What time did you wake up today: 6:40 A.M.
29. What were you doing at midnight last night: Sleeping!! I am not an owl to wake up..haha!
30. Name something you CANNOT wait for: TO GET A DOG!!!!!!!! aaja khud hi!! :P
31. Last time you saw your father: In the morning, 8:30 A.M.
32. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life:Nothing..it's bearable :)
33. Most visited web page: Blogger, Google, and FB. :P

What's Your...
34. Name: Apurva

35. Nicknames: Appu, Appu Bhai, Baby, Tanu, Crazy Freak, Puchi, and loads more :P

36. Zodiac sign: Aquarius :)
37. Male or female or transgender: Female
38. Elementary: Somerville School , Noida
39. School: Somerville School , Noida
40. Colleges: Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Delhi University.
41.Hair color: Black, with three white strands. :P
42. Long or short: What? Hair? or Me? hair - a bit more than shoulder length.. Me? see neeche.. :P
43. Height: 5 feet 5 inches
44. Do you have a crush on someone? Does John Abraham count?
45. Ever been in love? Dunno.. Dunno if it is love or not..!
46. Piercings? Two , on either ear. Want to get more, but .. :P
47. Tattoos? None till date... want to get one, definitely.
48. Righty or lefty: Righty
49. First surgery: None..
50. First piercing: Arre, bataya toh!
51. First best friend: hmmmmm.. let's leave it.
52. First sport you loved: Cricket, ofc. I am an Indian :P
53. First pet: :((
54. First vacation: Vaishno Devi, maybe.
55. First concert: Umm.. Dunno if it counts.. Went to Hindu fest, where Parikrama performed. :P
56. First crush: Won't tell.. :P

Right Now...
57. Eating: Nothing, surprisingly. :P
58. Drinking: Nothing..
59. I'm about to: study, ROFL!
60. Listening to: Hannah Montana, on the T.v. , my sis is watching it :P
61. Waiting for: This tag to get OVER.

Your Future...
62. Want kids? Yes
63. Want to get married? Yep.
64. Careers in mind? Pata ni, but whatever I do, I wanna do something for my country. :)

Which is better with the opposite sex...??
65. Lips or eyes: Eyes.
66. Hugs or kisses: Hugs.
67. Shorter or taller: Taller.
68. Older or Younger: My Age :P
69. Romantic or spontaneous: Both.. 
70. Nice stomach or nice arms: Definitely , the latter.
71. Sensitive or loud: Umm.. Both :P
72. Hook-up or relationship: Relationship
73. Trouble maker or hesitant: Trouble maker, with me :)) 

Have you ever...??
73. Kissed a stranger: ABBBBBBBE! NO! lol
74. Lost glasses/contacts: not lost, but broken, hell yes!

75. Sex on first Date: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! lol.
76. Broken someone's heart: Not that I know of! :P I have so many fans..so I dunno..*snobbish smile* haha!
77. Had your own heart broken: Yes, No. :P
78. Been arrested: Not till date. :P
79. Turned someone down: As in? Ask out wala? Yes.
80. Cried when someone died:Yes. When Sirius Died. :'(
81. Liked a friend that is a girl? Haaan! , but as a friend ofc.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN...
82. Yourself: Dunno..
83. Miracles:  Yes.
84. God: Umm..
85. Love at first sight: Yes.
86. Heaven: Yea,..
87. Santa Claus: YO!!!! :P
88. Kiss on the first date?  NO
89. Angels: Yep.
90. Devils: if there are angels, obviously there will be devils! How will things spice up!? ;)
ANSWER TRUTHFULLY...
91. Is there one person you want to be with right now?... Yea, every second of my life.
92. Had more than one boyfriend/girlfriend at one time? NO!
93. Wanted to kill someone ever?  Loads of times ;)
94. Among you blog mates, whom would you like to kiss? : No :P

95. Committed a blunder and regretted later? : Not really..
96. Wanted to steal your friend's boyfriend / girlfriend? : Naaah!

ASSOCIATE WITH SOMETHING YOU WEAR...
97. White:  My chic white top
98. Black: Tee-shirt, from Tantra
99. Red: My Converse High tops oooh lalala!
100. Pink: my reverse colours chappals..

Posting this as 100 Truths? Naah, I was very vella to cook up 100 lies! OFC! I mean! DUH!

I tag Everyone :) :)

All The Best!

This is just another way of wishing the most special someone in my life, a BIG All The Best, for the biggest exam of his life, right now, that's the IIT-JEE on Sunday, the 12th of April 2009. 

I know you will do well, your efforts WILL not go in the drain. Just believe in yourself, cuz I do. I know. And remember, whatever happens, will happen for the good, and there's nothing to worry about, as we cannot, ever control the future, might as well live in the present, with happiness and no worries! 

Be calm, and Chill. Whatever you have studied for the past three years, will be enough! And you know that. :)

That's a four leaf clover, which I believe is a good luck charm. I know you have your own personal charm , but this is a virtual one. :)

Cya, Don't fret!

Muaah! 

Do well baby! 

I believe in you! And that's all that matters..

Au Revoir..

6 January 1996

It's 5:59 A.M. , Tanu, a five year old girl is sleeping peacefully, snuggled with her favourite blanket. It's a blue and white printed one, with a delicate, dainty deer prancing in the thick foliage. She is contently dreaming of a word, a universe she is the princess of! ( She never wanted to be the queen, as it was..so..umm..BIG people types. As is queens are like MOMS! Naah!) It's so cold, (the Delhi winters are.) that she keeps wading deeper into her blanket. (No, she hates calling it blankie, that's so kiddish.) Thanks to somebody who switched on the tubelight, white blinding light is now flooding her room and she wakes up. Groggily. It's 6:00 A.M. , her dad tells her, (she doesn't know how to see the time.) and it's dark, creepily very dark outside. The cute girl now reluctantly gets off the bed, peeps outside the huge glass window and asks her dad, with her big brown eyes wide open with fear, "Dad..Why have you woken me up in the middle of the night?"

Her dad smiles and says, "Sweety, it's the first day of your NEW school today! You have a new bottle, new bag, new tiffin, new books...." and she is already wondering , "What a weird place, they go to school in the night?!"

She wanders into the kitchen , looks at her new tiffin box, it's a pink one with disney princess' sticker on it. "EEEEEWW, I hate these girly stuff!" she says to herself and walks away.

Tanu's family had shifted from their house , in South Delhi to East Delhi. It was a proud moment for her parents as this was their first OWN house! They'd spent 6 years of their married life crammed in a rented flat in South Delhi and were now happy to finally have different rooms for their daughters and grandma.

So Tanu was uprooted from her cute, flowery nursery school and admitted to a reputed school near her house. What's the big deal you ask? Well, she was in K.G. or U.K.G. , and did not even complete it and was directly admitted to Grade 1, which was DAMN scary.

She dressed up, went to the bus stop with her dad, got introduced to so many bhaiyyas and didis, who had no brains and were just "oohing" and "aahing" over how cute she was! She remembered one particular sweet didi though , who was wearing a pretty frock, as it was her birthday. :)

she got into the bus amidst all the commotion and sat there, shit scared. Not that she had never travelled in a bus, it was just that there was a sea of god knows how many new faces! The bus, after many twists, turns, crossings, stops, finally stopped in front of a huge grey building with kids swarming in and out of it. Everyone started getting out of the bus, so did little Tanu. She was bewildered and astonished by the sheer magnitude of the place. She slowly walks inside and STOPS.

BANG! She does not know where her class is! She searches frantically for the nice, kind didi from the bus stop, and finds her, only to realise that she is miles , miles away. She is then spotted by a helpful bhaiyya who leads her to I-B , her new classroom. She enters , trembling, asks for the class teacher, as her dad had instructed her. She walks a bit more inside and asks a little boy of her age, perhaps, for a certain Mrs. Egbert, and the boy says, there's no Mrs. Egbert, and the class teacher is Shirley Ma'am.

Tanu was devastated! Where will she go now? What will she do!? Fortunately The Class Teacher came, and she was Mrs. Egbert and Tanu was relieved. She introduced herself, by saying that she is Mrs. Shirley Egbert. So, it was all clear.

After the initial introduction of the class, as she was a new girl, the studies started. It was the maths class, and these kids were doing 2 digit addition! She had only been taught single digit! What was this? The teacher wasn't explaining anything, as she did not know that Tanu was promoted from a lower class to Class 1. But, she did not lose hope, she went to the teacher, asked her how to do all that addition, and did not understand of course. She came back to her seat, sat there silently crying and prayed hard for the day to end so that she could go back to her mom and dad. The day gradually ended, with many more sad events, as everything written is a higher level than what she studied in her nice school back in South Delhi. She hated the school! She had decided that she will tell her dad to put her back into the nice school and not in this BIG, BAD school. Even when she was wondering, she did not realise that she did not know which bus route was she in! There were so many buses, so many children, so much of everything! She finally found the birthday didi and stuck onto her and reached home in the Bus (route no 13 she finally got to know) tired and heart - broken. This was it. She was changing the school. She had to tell her dad about it.

Her dad comes in the evening, Tanu tells all the mishaps to him and cries again. Her dad pacifies her and tells her that everything will be okay and she will love her new school! They do all the maths problems and clear all her doubts but Tanu still hates the big , grey school. It's 9 by the time all of her homework is done, and soon her mom puts her to sleep and she is again drifting away into her cozy dreams.

30th January, 2008

it's 8:oo A.M. , Class 12th children are streaming out of the school buses, swarming like bees! Chattering to her best friend of 11 years , Tanu also gets down from the Bus route no. 13, her fun place for the past 12 years. She goes inside her school, yes the big grey building and glances around, with misty eyes. Her School. Her second home for the past 12 years. She is so ashamed of herself for hating the place on her first day! She slowly walks inside, painfully aware that this is the last time that she is going inside, as a student of this place, in her school uniform. She goes to the auditorium, where the farewell is being held.. She is given a school mug with the school motto on it, (which is her most prized possession till date), a candle, and her class picture. She stands in her class line, for the last assembly she's ever gonna attend.. The assembly, which she loathed the whole of her school life! She wants it to go on and on, and never end, as that will ensure that she is still a school kid, and not grown up! The school song now starts playing in the background, and Tanu and her friends join in with much enthusiasm (as if it's the last time she's getting to sing in her whole life!) ! The farewell ends, it's time for refreshments, and everyone now starts scrambling out for the McD Burger..and fries! Tanu slowly drags herself, out of the Auditorium, looking longingly at her school, with tears in eyes. She looks at the endless rows of corridors, the place for uncountable mischiefs, the immaculately manicured gardens, from where she used to steal the dog flowers when she was a kid, the library, her temple, her refuge, the huge playground, where she had to run like a maniac , if she was punished.., the basketball courts, without which she would still be a "thiggu"..the swings..the teachers..who scolded her for god knows what all..and bursts out. She cannot take the pain of leaving the School..Her home..

She does not eat the burger, as she is still choking with tears..and slowly, very slowly, with baby steps, steps put of her protective shield, her school to face the big, damn world outside..

She glances back, for the last time, bids goodbye, Au Revoir School, My Alma Mater. My Surrogate Mother.

Tanu is me, it's my pet name which is never used. :P

And the School here is My school, Somerville School , Noida, which made me everything I am today. I don't know how to repay the debt, this is my small way of expressing what I never did, never realised , in my 12 years in the prestigious, wonderful, amazing school. I can go on and on, about everything, but I am gonna stop..I love you School! Thank You for everything you did for me, a stupid girl, who hated you on her first day!

Unwritten Destiny..

13 Days Apart,

Same Hospital,

Me, a month premature,

Just to be out, early,

Is it a mere coincidence?

Or maybe some hidden meaning?

Living 16 years apart,

You and me, aloof,

We meet when we are 15-Going on 16,

But not at all amused..

I wonder how you need calligraphy classes,

You observe how oily my skin is,

I steal a glance, see your name,

Your perked up ears hear mine..

And again, that's all that happens..

We forget and be happy,

But keep wondering,

Why don't we find our special someone,

I cry,

You sigh,

But we both believe,

That somewhere, somebody out there,

Is made for us..

After another 365 days,

We stumble again,

and find each other,

You, by a Virus from my mail,

I, by cleaning my friend's e-mail..

I add you,

Send you a friend request,

from my orkut account,

still surprised that you remember me,

then on my gtalk,

I talk, We chat,

That's how our friendship begins..

We are best of buds,

I feel you have a crush on my friend,

Whereas your feelings had already developed,

in the directions of 'US'!

Once, while chatting,

You ask me out,

Out of the blue,

I obviously say NO,

And you say, "Just Kiddin' "!

I am shocked,

Strangely happy,

I was unaware my true feelings,

But now I realise..

Blimey, I like you too!

It's June,

Summertime,

You tell me, You are going for a vacation,

I am sad,

Pretty unhappy,

O-M-G!,

How am I ever gonna talk to you?

I am worried,

And very tensed,

How am I ever going to tell you?

That I am gonna miss you like hell!?

It's 14th of the summery month,

You are saying goodbyes,

Dunno why, I think this is my last chance,

I say, 'Umm, I like you too!'

You say, 'So?'

I am like "I LIKE YOU!'

Slowly it sinks in..

You do a whoopie dance..

and there 'OUR' story begins..

It is weird,

It is funny,

You and Me!

Can we ever be?

You are chalk,

I am cheese,

We are as different as,

Two humans can ever be..

But maybe,

This is what's Destiny,

When two souls are,

Tailor made for each other,

Nothing can come in between!

That's not one of the conventional poems or something, it was penned for my boyfriend, within 15 minutes of us fighting ,to tell him that it's a special bond that we share, that we are meant to be together and no petty fights is worth us parting our ways.