Dinka Chika was my life anthem? lol

What we expect and what we get.
So I met papa yesterday. :D
After SAT we may go see Life of Pi!
So yesterday passed in a sleepy haze and I got up with a packed schedule in mind.
I did laundry (I nearly die whenever the machine is in spin mode. It makes all scary rattling sounds and I make a mental plan of how to escape should the machine decide to blow up.)
And then I started homeward for my passport.
Walked for about 1km and then took an auto.
Went home. Ma was leaving. A relative had died.
Don't ask how, but I ended up with her. So we went to KIMS Hospital.
I've never been to a mortuary before. Uhmm.
I sat aloof for the most part, constructing an essay in my mind while occasionally informing inquisitive people that no, I wasn't in engineering but still in 2nd PU.
So there's this post mortem room and one was being conducted there. Later they all came out. It was kind of sad.
Ajji was there. She doesn't know I stay in a hostel. Hmm.
Yeah then came home and Ma showed me her newly acquired skill of riding a two wheeler.
Then back here.
Point being, half of the day passed in a thoroughly unexpected manner.

Whatever. Sanskrit.
Oh and by the way!
Yesterday, in the bio paper, My answers had a LOT of 'phenomenon's in it.
The phenomenon of attachment of blastocyst, the decrease in rate of photosynthesis, the loss of water through hydathodes, the absorption of water by hydrophilic substances and so on.
And suddenly I stopped for a second and looked at this seemingly innocuous word.
I thought, I should have been a Mallu. You know, not a Nair or even a Tharoor but a nice Menon.
And I should have been christened as 'Pheno' or even 'Feno'.
Cuz then I'd well and truly be a PhenoMenon!
And you won't believe it but I sat grinning into my paper for the next 5 minutes and slowly some semblance manifested itself upon me and I continued scribbling furiously.
Last main was Zoology practical and I chose to draw the digestive system.
But alas, it looked more like a mashup of several deformed organs.
I've got stupid custard apple all over my fav purple bag.
I LOVE NUTELLA! Gosh, Yum. Im going to buy my own dabbi soon. Yumm.
I won't be blogging for a while.
{There, now that I've said that, i should blog after a respectable number of days. Lol}
But wait.
Frankenstein WHAT?! Wow.
And Mary and Percy Shelley. What lives. Lol.
They'd 'fit in' in the 21st century.
Holy Oak.
Mt Holyoke.

So what can I do?

H

So pingi is probably right. Quality over quantity.
Was chatting with Makshi yesterday. Aah well. So I guess I'm normal after all. Lol.
The father has remained elusive. So be it.
Too much aloo in the food.
Morning alu paratha, noon aloo curry and night aloo fry.
No, there are other options as well, but still!
No wonder papa reached aloo pyaaz saturation after KREC. Lol.
I'll leave you with this and GO.

Bob Marley was Rastafarian.

In my city! Who thought PC could sing? Love it :-)
I can't decide which is my current fav. Jee le zara or Jiya Re.
Omg, i love the lyrics of jlz. I just saw it. With ,meaning obviously, how would i understand otherwise?
And.. I loved the What Katy did series by Susan Coolidge! *quaint classics*
And like I was telling Anjali, I believe in such a world.
True, we're past that era but that doesn't stop me from wishful thinking.
But really, there is something captivating about such books. I mean about Clover and Geoff, Jo and Bhaer, Laurie and Amy, Katy and Ned... :-)
Pollyanna was good until the 'glad game' got on my nerves!

Ok so now for pressing matters.
Maths, I'd done a lot of integration so that part went smoothly. Even the complex number part. What doesn't penetrate into my dura mater is Determinants.
After these exams, I'll do them again. :-\ The current term exam could have been better.
Both term exam and NEET.
Bio day after.
I'll go study.

I like my new friends. Harini from Harihar, Mansa from Delhi, Sandhya and all the others. Khana is good. My Hindi is improving. ;-)
Aaj maine roti, aalo curry aur rice (what's rice in Hindi?!) kaya. Grey's Anatomy ko dekkhe bahut sara din ho gaya hai.
I'll stop right here.
So yeah, people are mostly good. ;-)
Only it's a little odd to hear nearly every girl go on about 'her guy'. Aargh.
And they wouldn't believe me when I said I'm not in the club. Lol.

Neways, as usual I'm going ballistic over the fact that people are reading my blog. When they do, i moan and groan And when they don't i lament about that as well.
I don't mind people reading it, as long as they dont... ok i don't know... i don't mind them reading it. That's all.
Jazba- Ladies vs. Ricky Bahl
Diamonds by Rihanna. Tch Tch.

The one that got away. Katy Perry. ♥

Saturday!!

The Independence.

Crossroads in Life.
Exam fortnight in progress.
Sleepless nights, fatigued days and a harried life.
But reading about TOI scholars was refreshing.
SAT on Dec 1.
Brain fog LOL.
I need QUIZZES.
I NEED Badminton.
I NEED MUSIC, BOOKS AND DAD.

So I moved out.
I live in a hostel.
Somebody please suggest a better term.
I don't like pg or hostel.
Its good. It was a mutual decision.
Dad felt sad.
I'm happy because this is helping me better myself.
But I haven't come up with an diplomatic answer to shush people.
But it's only natural they'd want to know, so I'm not complaining.
So long! Physics tomorrow. Did i mention i enjoy Resnick Halliday? :-)

Hmm.

Lingual Lou.

Bonjour!
Mon dernier message a été tapé à la hâte, sans aucun doute. Mère et Divya vont à Chennai pour les vacances. Divya ne peux pas supporter le bruit et l'odeur des pétards. Pinki et je n'ai pas rencontré depuis un certain temps. Qui sera réglé sous peu. Alors qu'Obama est président nouveau. Et il obtient 'One Direction' à la Maison Blanche. Hmm
The same sentences sound different in various languages. Some languages are inherently beautiful.
She stood gazing at the reflection of the setting sun in the pristine waters. The mountains seem to glow with radiance due to the fiery red of the sun. A pleasant breeze mellowed her mood.
Dutch

Ze staarde naar de reflectie van de ondergaande zon in de ongerepte wateren. De bergen lijken te gloeien met glans door de vurige rood van de zon. Een aangenaam briesje milder haar stemming.
German

Sie starrte auf die Reflexion der untergehenden Sonne in den unberührten Gewässern. Die Berge scheinen zu glühen mit dem feurigen roten Schein der Sonne. Eine angenehme Brise gemildert ihre Stimmung.
Hindi:

वह शुद्ध पानी में डूबते सूर्य के प्रतिबिंब पर देखें. पहाड़ों सूरज की आग से लाल चमक के साथ चमक के लिए लग रहे हैं. एक सुखद हवा उसकी मनोदशा नरम.

Vaha śud'dha pānī mēṁ ḍūbatē sūrya kē pratibimba para dēkhēṁ. Pahāṛōṁ sūraja kī āga sē lāla camaka kē sātha camaka kē li'ē laga rahē haiṁ. Ēka sukhada havā usakī manōdaśā narama.
Spanish
Racuvantittu espejo sol son acuático. Cuando la luz roja del sol, la vista del fuego. Viento flojo en el estado de ánimo

Latin
Racuvantittu speculum solem sunt aquatica. Cum rutilo splendore solis, visus montibus ardent. Lumen ventus in mood

Kannada
ಅವರು ಶುದ್ಧ ನೀರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಳುಗುವ ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಪ್ರತಿಫಲನ ರಾಚುವಂತಿತ್ತು. ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಉರಿಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಕೆಂಪು ಗ್ಲೋ ನೊಂದಿಗೆ, ಪರ್ವತಗಳು ಗ್ಲೋ ತೋರುತ್ತದೆ. ಆಹ್ಲಾದಕರ ಗಾಳಿ ತನ್ನ ಚಿತ್ತ
English
Racuvantittu sun mirror are aquatic. When the red light of the sun, the light of the fire. Light wind in the mood
lost in translation.

The Amazon

Mimosa Pudica

How apt. I thought of the name first and then it hit me why.
So I might go out of station. Term exam HELLO?
I've had a painful day. To say the least.
And the urge to swear is overwhelming.
I have/ had Several close friends.
When they're really close to me, I'm there for them.
I do the best i can to help them.
And they don't know the trouble i took just for them.
And to the same people who don't want to even keep in contact:
SCREW YOU ASSHOLES.

I talk. No its wrong.
I don't talk. No something's wrong.
Let me be.

I need music. No wait. It's a distraction. I should be doing diffraction.

Damn this freaking mess. It's shocking how people lie SO BLOODY BLATANTLY.
So I'm learning lessons that will stand in good stead? Why didn't you learn them at my age?
You were studying right?


Bye.
No point continuing this.

Contra-Addition

Dear God.
On the bright side: teeth okay! :-) And... I'm going to college tomorrow. Might play baddie?

Olfacto-Auditory connections.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/sc701N-e5o42uj41C1_S3Xg/view.m?id=15&gid=science/2012/oct/22/sound-and-smell-create-harmony&cat=most-read

A few years ago, on work experience at Oxford University's psychology department, I found myself roped in to participate in an experiment by a research team led by Professor Charles Spence. Sitting in a tiny room in the warren of labs and offices, I was shown a rack of bottles of scent and a simple computer program that let me play the sound of musical instruments at different pitches. My task was to sniff each of the scents, and pick the sound that fitted best with each smell.Puzzled, I inhaled my first sample – sweet and slightly sickly, like bubble gum. Deep blaring brass seemed instinctively wrong, so I tried out higher and purer sounds and eventually settled on a high piano note. An hour later, I left not much the wiser about what was going on. Only later did I find out that the team was covering new ground in a field known as crossmodal perception.

When we think about how our senses work, we imagine them operating individually: you sniff a flower, and the smell is delivered uninterrupted from nose to brain. However, it is more complicated than that. Our senses mingle more often than we realise, collaborating to help us make sense of the world more easily. For example, we call dull thuds "heavy" and associate them with large objects, even though the sound itself has no size or weight. This would have helped our ancestors decide whether to run away from predators based on how big they sounded, without stopping to look them over. Most evidence for crossmodal perception comes from studies into sound and vision, which isn't surprising considering how often we use them together. But research that shows other senses crossing over is emerging all the time, and it seems that even sound and smell sometimes form an unlikely pairing.

Two New York researchers, Daniel Wesson and Donald Wilson, were confronted with this fact when they began investigating an "enigmatic" area of the brain known as the olfactory tubercle. Originally, they only intended to measure how olfactory tubercle cells in mice responded to smell. But during testing, Wesson noticed that every time he clunked his coffee mug down next to the experiment, the mouse cells jumped in activity. In fact, the olfactory tubercle is physiologically well-placed to receive both smell and sound information from the outside world; and so Wesson and Wilson broadened their investigation.They found that among individual cells, most responded to odour but a significant number were also active when a tone was played. Some cells even behaved differently when smell and sound were presented together, by either increasing or suppressing their activity. As Wesson and Wilson point out, there may be some evolutionary sense behind the phenomenon – the sound of movement accompanied by an unfamiliar smell could alert you to the presence of a predator.Of course, mice are not people, and a handful of firing cells don't always add up to a conscious experience. But Charles Spence and Anne-Sylvie Crisinel have been carrying out experiments such as the one in which I participated at Oxford University, which seem to show that sounds and smells cross over in human perception, too. Recently, they delved into the world of wine-tasting, using a kit designed to help novices learn about the basic smells found in wine. Participants in their experiment were asked to sniff different samples, and then match them to an appropriate musical instrument and pitch. There were interesting consistencies in the smells people picked. Piano was often paired with fruity scents and with smells that participants said were less complex.

Musky and unpleasant smells, meanwhile, sounded like brass.Further research found that listening to different sounds can alter your perceptions. Studying taste this time, the team ordered some cinder toffee made by Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck restaurant and put together "soundscapes" corresponding to bitterness and sweetness. Participants tasted identical pieces of toffee while listening to each soundscape, and found the toffee more bitter or sweeter, depending on which soundtrack they were listening to.

Studies like this are helping psychologists redefine our understanding of the senses, and how the brain integrates them to its advantage. And just imagine the possible creative collaborations between musicians and chefs: sound-enhanced wining and dining could be imminent. You might one day be routinely ordering a coffee with a soundtrack to bring out your favourite aromas. Best not to mention all this to Starbucks.

• This article is a winner of the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize2012.