Sweet sweet sleep...

What bugs me the most? Not getting enough sleep.. This horrible finals week with all of it's tensions is bad enough as it is. And then to top it all, there's no bloody time to sleep it seems. When I was back in school, exams were the time to study and sleep. The highest amount of sleep I got was during exam time. And now, there's so much studying to get done that I have no freaking idea where to incorporate sleep in it.. So yesterday, I finished writing some shit and said, ok I'll lie down for an hour. Next thing I know, I'm up after 8 hours!!!! AArrrgggghhhh.... I have so much to do and NO time to do it now. Holy crap, I just hate feeling this way.. So I decided to relax by procrastinating! Not a good idea, I know but it does help me some..

Home is where the heart is

Since this got put on a site called Dsplaced and I thought I'd have it included here as well. Its a nice site that asks for contributions from people who feel displaced. I thought I'd write something and apparently they thought it was worthy of being posted on the website. Most of you have already read it, but I thought I'd have it here as well..

I thought I’d be miserable out of Bombay, never having been out of the city for more than a month since my birth.I have always wanted to go to America & pursue my dream. So I sit here in my American apartment today and wonder, why is it that after 4 months of coming here and barely having ever felt homesick, am I in so much rage? I realise now that these past 4 months have been full of new experiences, new people, new places, new everything. It’s a nice place, I quite like it here but when I start to think about my life, all I can ever think about is Bombay. I miss travelling in the crowded trains, I miss taking my mom’s dabba to office, I miss walking into St. Xavier’s and feeling at home there. Most of all, today I miss being in Bombay at the time that the city that I love has been attacked. I don’t care which part of the world I live in for the rest of my life, I realise today that at heart I am and will always remain a Bombayite..

Finals Week

So I woke up today morning after having slept for a solid 13 hours, all ready to start work and studies.. Then I looked outta my window and whaddya know? It had snowed last night and it looked just like a postcard outside.. I was very tempted to go out and feel that snow but then I checked the temperature and it said -2 degrees C, so I just sat and enjoyed the view.. Well I woke up at 9 in the morning and its 2:30 in the afternoon now, haven't gotten any studying done.. But eventually I'll get something done, I'm sure of it.. I hope to survive the coming week with my sanity intact.. FINALS!! Truthfully, if I thought grad school was difficult, boy-oh-boy does that finals week feel like a kick in the ass! Oh yeah and I went out to buy a highlighter to highlight the amazing amount of reading I need to get done. And then of course some Chinese food cause well I felt like it. So now that I'm full of Chinese chicken curry and steamed rice, I'll try to not sleep and get some reading done.. May be I'll brew some of that hazelnut coffee.. Damn! I need to focus, there's a lotta studying to get done.. Well, that's that for now.. Bye..