useless one

So do u rememeber any of these?

Ye sunne se pehle mere kaan kyon nahin fat gaye?
Mein tumhare bache ki maa banne vali hun
Chup kar chudail
Kahan muh kaala karke aaye hain
MA ke haaath ka gajar ka halwa
Ek ladka aur ladki kabhi dost nahi ban sakte ( this one's my fav.- from maine pyar kiya)
mere des ki mitti ka swad
kya tum mujhe kabhi maaf nahi karoge?
Is ladki ne hame kahin ka nahi choda

(strangely enough they are all about the same thing)

hahah... u guys have already started making wierd faces at this stupid post huh? well thts wht it was meant to be...

just to signify a lazy satruday morning when u wake up at 1130 n dont have to think abt anything!!!

What FUN!!!

Yipppppeeee.....

Time for fun!!!!

My semester ends .. so today was my final design review...went alrite.
one yr of masters wnt by so fast!!!

So what did i do on the last day of winter semester... notihing very special but ill write it: would like to read it few months from now n look back!!! after the review our prof. took us for a drink(S) to Zanzibar. its a nice place... but for some reason had soooo many old people. was kinda strange for a bar!!!

n then got back in the evening n me "the sleep deprived soul" slept off... to wake up at 11 in the night n go to one of my favorite places in ann arbor... bubble island. i really like those bubble teas... they r colourful flavoured teas with coloured bubbles in them...thats a really incomplete defintion but i am suddenly dozing off as i write this..cos its 3 am n i have not slept in days!!! :)

U can ignore this one

Its 2:15 am.. N its what they call the "final push" or the "last lap" of the semester for design studio... its my 6th year experiencing the same feeling before a design final submission..when all you wanna do is shut ofF the damn comp or throw those pencils away n go to sleep.

In my undergrad days the night before the final submission meant an assurance that I am gonna see the sunrise today... aaah.. thought i was done with those days when i gave my final yr thesis...

Suddenly my mind is racing with the number of things I have to get done before monday N THATS NOT HELPING AT ALL...

well this is a useless post written by a soul craving for some sleep... with the word craving... why do i suddenly feel like eating some strawberry cheese cake... yum!!!

i dont undersand

why is change the only constant?
why do we feel?
why cant things just not matter?
why cant things just remain the same?
why cant we always get what we want?
why is there the want to have more?
why is that we r not able to understand everything that exists?
why do we think at all?
why do we expect?
why do we want?
why does desire exist at all?
why is the world an intangible place after all?

What just happened?

this morning as i woke up and looked out of the window I was shocked to see a white blanket once again all over the place... so the weather is turning its tables completely n my posts r becoming redundant writing abt the weather everyday- but i just cant help it.this place amazes me with every new stroke of daylight...

Beginning with the rain a couple of days ago today there was a dense snow storm covering the whole place up with 2-4 inches of snow

n how frustrating is that?

extremely.... just couldnt get myself to go to school...

The lush greens and colorful flowers are all comepletely covered in this white spectacle...

and the weather has succeeded in gettin to me too... my mood swings seem to be at their best and this time around I jsut dont understand whats the matter! : (

u turn ?

so much for all that jazz about spring n warm weather n getting rid of winter wear...since yest the weather has turned its tables on us... its been chilly wet and today its actually snowing... it was so painful to get tht winter jacket out again... thought i was done with it for this year...n now i cant believe am lookin out of the studio window n its snowing...

u know it actually feels like the first time it snowed in november last yr...i veery well rem tht was the day when thanksgivin break happened n we were gonna leave for boston in the evening.

but anyway yest the weather was like being in mahableshwar n all of us had "kanda bhajji/ potato bhajji n ginger chai"

hopefully its only the weekend n get to see some sunshine before i leave

time to part is round the corner

Sometimes you never realise when something becomes an integral part of your life!

So niki left for India today... in the excitement and the fact tht will meet her in India in a couple of weeks didnt realise that we both wont be together all of summer till september... n then jsut for four more months.

8 months is a long time and almost feels like family.

Spring Fest

Today was the spring fest in the north campus diag… luckily for me I could go have fun without the guilt of work on my head cos I got done with one more final presentation…so now I am officially two courses down for this semester with two more to go… One paper due on the 26th and then design presentation on the 28th….

So what was spring fest?

Well I think it was way lesser than what I expected it to be …but then what the hell...when u r with ur friends and the weather is closest to perfect its SO MUCH FUN… so there was the sun…shining at its best ever that I have seen in Ann Arbor…there was some free food n Thai ice tea(its this really yum orange colored drink which I really like)…some Hawaiian garlands… some games…some lazing around on the grass… n a great bunch of friends!!! Harry has clicked some pics…

(I think the winter fest n arch socials in the archi. building are richer in their content… but that’s just my personal opinion and I am sure most people who read this blog will surely disagree or chose to by default) a simple example: so i am in the middle of my history class right now n we have this thing of serving food in the middle of the class.. nwhats the menu today? wine n cheese, cookies, pita n dip n carrots... the food that was served at the 'spring fest'? - hotdogs ...well i ain't complaining... we r just lucky that the architecture school is one of the few schools on campus(i dunno if the only one) where alcohol is served all the time.. works for me!!!

that was about a couple of hours of fun after which all of us got back to our respective schedules n to work!!!

One more thing… I just discovered today after 9 months ( the number is purely coincidental) here in the North Campus that there is a lovely water body in the music school just across the road from the architecture building!!!
Guess the weather never let me wander ever!

sem end crisis

its that time of the year when whether weekend or not doesnt matter. it surely doesnt feel like a sunday evening. a charachteristic sunday evening would mean the glooomiest feeling when u know u have to begin a new week tomorrow. but when final exams and reviews and presentations are sitting on your head...

what i feel bad though is that the weather is beautiful outside... and would love to just spend a day roaming around the cozy little town of aa....

u can tell fro mmy post tht nothing exciting is realy happening in my life right now... can it get more non- specific than this one?

In the middle of drawing a perspective for my pre- final studio review tomorrow thought should just pen down a few useless words.

one more thing... namu i didnt forget ur birthday this time... happy birthday!!!

Gluttony

wht did i eat for lunch today?

medu wada
idli
some fried chilli
uttappa
lemon rice
bissibelli bhaat
rasam
hakka noodles
chilli idli
dahi bhaat
paneer makhanwala
chole
mushroom something exotic
bhindi masala
sambar
payassam
some sweet shira
chicken something yummy
chilly chicken
lamb curry
fish fry... dunno wht fish
blackforest cake
n kulfi

n now i am back in studio to work on my project... ya rite!!!

essentially my group mates n i set out early (12 noon) on sat morning to work on our site planning project... after a couple of hours of work we stuck to our pledge on venturing into different cuisines on our saturday meetings...this being the last one for the term cos the project is due on tuesday...so this time indian was the call... n most rightly so madras masala stuffedddddd our tummies up ... got back to work..but my eyes are closing....

or and now the point being... i have realised that the last time i went to india in dec my folks were like ... "poor girl she has lost so much weight" but this time... no such bhaav... i am sure.. cos i have once again put on so much weight ...sob sob.. time to get to a diet till the sem ends i believe....

dont worry g u ll see a 'not so fat' komal... hopefully !!!!

random

so what is it that i wanna write about? nothing really.... the week just went by in a rush...completing my exam some submissions ..thou it began well with shopping.. n there is nothing else in the near viscnity to look forward to... the week ahead beginning tomorrow itself promises to keep me busy with loads of work and reviews coming up...sem ends just end up being choking times...

...well these times will soon end n then come may n i shall get ready for "the wedding"... chari's wedding is just around the corner n i am missing home like never before... any suggestions on outfits to wear for the wedding?

... see u soon guys...

Frustrated

Have u ever felt like hating yourself?
Have u ever felt like you just don’t do anything right?
Have u ever felt like not wanting to rationalize anything?
Have u ever felt like wanting to just sleep and do nothing?
Have u ever felt like things go wrong only cos of ur actions n no one is to blame?
Have u ever felt that crying would be the only thing that would help?
Have u ever felt like throwing a tantrum would be the best thing in the world?
Have u ever felt frustrated?

i love gifts

Isnt gettin a gift from your favorite people in the world the most wondrful feeling?

so the first two days of the week were just tht.... esp one when u least expect it...and gettin exactly wht u want... n in turn makes both happy!!!

thanks a lot!!!

k

H o L i in Ann Arbor

The last year in March when i went to play Holi with Abhay, Sonu n Gav I was pretty sure that this is one thing i surely wont do after going to the US...

so i was totally wrong... i actually went out to play holi ...its kinda late but who cares... with colour water n mud.... eeks!!! but i had a blast!!! i know gav u r gonna be shocked ... but i was thrown into "chikhal" n no! i didnt have anyone to crib to it and throw a tantrum to abt itlike i did to u all these years!!! :(

loaded with tons of work thou i just wanted to go see how it is to play holi in a playground here in ann arbor with all the people around you wondering whts goin on....

now for the best part... the one thing i was looking forward to was the ride back home in the "blue bus" n that was so much fun... 4 of us(chinar, jammy, sandy n i) standing at the stop wondering whether the bus driver is gonna let us in... n after hoppin into the bus (confidently...cos we saw a bunch of "dirty souls" like us already in there)... n those glares from all sides in a crowded bus...kids wondering as to who the hell are these people... was fun guys !!!!

more later!!!

k

movie time: this weekend was realy frworthwhile not in terms of any work gettin done but i watched two really good movies...after a long long time.. n i am feeling realy happy.

Movie 1: Sin City: guys if u liked pulp fiction n kill bill... i bet u would LOVE this one... a movie by Frank miller based on three of his graphic novels: "Sin City", "The Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard". Placed in a morbid town absolutely drowned in crime, cops,sex, adultery, blood, the movie revolves around three stories which are woven together by a singular plot...the treatement: it cant get better than this... a comic strip brought to life... with the entire movie projected in a "reel" life version of the daily comic strip... splash of reds, blues and green intersperced just in the right places to complete the art work... u have to watch the movie.. this prob goes to my jj friends... jude some how i got reminded of doniv when i saw the movie.. u know he ll love it.!!!

Movie 2: Shwaas: An absolute contrast from the one above...India's entry to the oscars...This one i thought seems like a huge step in Marathi cinema... a story abt little boy and his grandfather... the darkest reality of their life and how they come in terms with it- i liked this one cos a complex thought here is put forth in an extremely simple and rich manner... surely worth it!!!

so much from me as I get back to my studio work!!!

k' speaks : )

Lookin back at the week that went by it somehow seemed much longer than any of the other weeks.. i wonder why...

Have been wanting to blog since the past few days but just didnt seem to have anything worthwhile to write about...and at this moment too am sitting here at my studio desk scratching my brains as to what was so exciting that i missed recording ...

so nothing really..ill just keep this random!!!

this moring i woke up at 10 am.after a long 9 hour sleep.feels like heaven. the reason : hadnt slept the prev day cos of an exam.so the sem is coming to an end n there is loads of work to be done before it actually ends. n from today its exactly 20 days to my final review.

oh yes there is something worthwhile i did this week besides studying, i bought three books:

1. Guys i bought the 10 x 10. i am soooooooooooo happy!!!
2. Supermodernism by Hans Beilings...a ncie concise lil book. i love books that size!!!
3. Architectural theory ...since 1968.by Michael Hays.its has a great collection of essays by some really good people.

so thats was from k for the week.the coming week also has an exam and a review lined up ...goin to himani's over the weekend.

did i forget. the weather is sooooo lovely here now!!!!

it was 1.59am... n now its 3am

i was gettin bored working on my design n wanted to blog but just looking back at the couple of days didnt have much to blog about... so closed the window... n suddenly saw the clock in my laptop... till 5 min ago it was 1.55 am n now its 3 am...

so daylight saving begins today n our clocks are an hour fast..that sucks... suddenly it feels so late n the night... my mind set still works on 2am being a good time n when its 3 i start feelin restless cos it ll be 4 am soon thts mornign .. n why am i up so late?

so much from me... on a sat night while i sit n work on my studio work.