a very happy christmas to you all. hope you have a lovely year ahead of you. In two more days I am off to India with a few friends of mine for almost a month and will be back only on the 24th of January. I hope to keep you all updated till then, but otherwise, have a fantastic new years too and enjoy yourselves.
1 shot of tequila
play that funky music (wild cherry)
1 more shot of tequila
who's gonna sing? (the prototypes)
1 more shot of tequila
that thing you do (the wonders)
1 shot of saki (??)
kiss (prince)
1 last shot of tequila
place your hands (reef)
a good night
wake up
sleep
wake up
eat
sleep
wake up
yawn
eat
sleep
wake up
panic
yawn
eat
sleep
Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun
Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run
Lets run
Lets run
House upon the hill
Moon is lying still
Shadows of the trees
Witnessing the wild breeze
Cmon baby run with me
Lets run
Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Lets run
The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you wont know a thing till you get inside
Dead presidents corpse in the drivers car
The engine runs on glue and tar
Come on along, not goin very far
To the east to meet the czar
Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Lets run
Whoa!
Some outlaws lived by the side of a lake
The ministers daughters in love with the snake
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl, were almost home
Ya, cmon!
We should see the gates by mornin
We should be inside the evenin
Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
I will get you
Soon!, soon!, soon!
I am the lizard king
I can do anything
1) You can't lick your own elbow (copyright: Sara)
2) There are many other places on your body you can't lick (not that I have tried)
3) If you plug your nose and your mouth and then sneeze, will it come out of your ears or eyes?
4) Most PhD laboratories are in the basement- Why? : We the students form the foundations of research, and we are also at the bottom of the food chain.
5) The notion that teeth dissolve in coke is false. I would be toothless by now.
6) Biscuits with ginger in them are called Ginger bread, but biscuits with chocolate are called chocolate cookies.
7) Are people who are afraid of Santa Claus called 'Claustrophobic'?
8) I don't have a music section in my journal (thank you aarti)
9) Chuck Norris is always on top during sex because Chuck Norris never fucks up.
10) Online encyclopedia wikipedia is available in 250 languages!
Dwight's back. Even if its for a week, its good to have him here. Catching up is good fun sometimes. He got us some really cool gifts too, so it is definitely good to have him back. So, I got a new T-shirt (from Jamiaca) and a big pack of cigs. I shall survive till christmas for sure. Then I should try and quit.
Besides that what happened today. John treated us for a fantastic dinner at the Thai Edge. Thai food is pretty similar to Indian food in terms of spices and hence I totally love it. That was our christmas meal. We had some crackers too to turn on the festive spirit. I got a silly christmas hat and a weird looking animal, which we could not decide on. It was a monkey/sheep/dog thingy. I am not going to save that.
Then I went back to the lab for a while and finally am home. I wanna sleep, am pretty starved of it. Not that sleeping is what I really wanna do. But then you can't always get what you want. Tomorrow is another day.
What did I do?
Friday:
Woke up at 6:30
Boring meeting
Good food
Got pissed
Saturday
Slept
Slept some more
Worked a little
sobered up
good food
got pissed
Sunday
Slept
Slept some more
Went to the city
Didn't buy anything
good food (yet again)
Watch 'the office' till 3 at night
Monday
Woke up at 7
wished i was in bed
Still wishing I was in bed
Moral: when you are pissed, all food tastes good
I know that it's been a long time coming, but here are the pictures finally. It was a crazy trip with lots of unusual and uncanny experiences. But as the pictures will prove, it was really pretty and somehow that makes up for everything. One thing is for sure, being an atmospheric chemist is hard work, but someone's gotta do it.
I have been back from Cape Verde for a week now and finally I have enough time to get around telling you about all the fun I had. (lucky you!) But before I get around to figuring out how to show you the millions of pictures which I took during my three weeks there, there are more important things to talk about.
Firstly, for those of you who knew Rani the dog, she has been buried at the farmhouse in Pune. Mom and dad did this personally and when I get back to India, on the 28th of December, you are more than welcome to join me to the farmhouse. She was a real friend.
Our trip to India is fixed. We are leaving on the 27th from UK and will be reaching India on the 28th during the day. I hope the trip is going to be as much fun as I am dreaming right now. We are planning to go to Goa and sit by the beach for a few days before going down south to Kerela and having a good time down there. Kerela is a part of the country I have never been to and am looking forward to it myself. Goa, that's the place I want to settle down finally. When I am 60 and if I am alive, I might buy myself a small shack there and sell weed to make some money. But otherwise prawns and beer will have to do.
Getting back to the real world where you get arrested if you do try to sell weed, there are so many things that have been happening since I had gone to Cape Verde. First of all, the war in Iraq is still going on. One would have thought that after Vietnam and Afghanistan (not the US debacle, but the USSR one) would serve as a lesson to the leaders of the world. Apparently history lessons are not important if you want to be the president of a country. Shit happens, but shit happens again and again. The past month has seen some of the bloodiest times in Iraqi history. Who is to blame? The entire country is on the brink of civil war. Is this really better than the situation under Saddam? Which is the lesser of two evils? And who are we to judge? People like to believe that they are going to be saviours of the world. That explains that some of the biggest hits in Hollywood have been films showing a bunch of Americans saving the world. But in real life, does it work that way too? Since the US was losing the war in Iraq and things were getting out of hand, bush played his last card. Saddam is to be hanged. What is this doesn't work either? Please read this blog by riverbend if you have some time.
