(Un)eventful days?

It looks like things are in a state of total monotony these days. And when I mean monotony, I mean  Boring. (As you can see, spelt with a capital 'b'). There is a difference between the two. 
It's not as if I have absolutely nothing to do these days; in fact, there are a lot of things which keep me occupied everyday, every hour- even if not every minute.
Reading books (I still have two AMs to complete), helping mom (yes, I sometimes do do that), going out and enjoying what is left of the holidays this time. And what is left is really short- especially now that June has set in and my coaching classes have started.
I still have a lot of "incomplete" work to do. I haven't bought any of the books, for starters. And neither have I looked into all my stationary and school bags and other things I would probably need by the time the month is over.
Apart from all this, I've also been attending many functions. Just yesterday was my cousin's Aanduneravu (first birthday).
Functions such as these take up more than half a day; they are a good way to pass time- I get to meet people who I haven't seen in years and talk to them (and they'll eventually get to the part where they say, "You know how you looked like when you were a really kutti baby.....?").
Today, for instance, was jam-packed. I spent the whole morning cleaning the house (well, sort of); the afternoon went in reading books and enjoying the peace inside the house (which disrupted after some two hours), and the evening at school.
Attending IIT classes after more than a month actually turned out to be quite fun and interesting; but that might be because the teacher ignored the fact that all of us had failed to complete the 50-odd sums she had given as homework in chemistry alone! (About which I only remembered yesterday... I took one look at the wad of papers and promptly kept it back inside the file and fastened it.)
My only cause for concern right now is hoping that I don't spend all of my time being bored; it's nearing 11pm and all I can think of right now is how bored I was!
Do you know something? In my quest for fitting Bored pictures, I actually found out that people google 'I am bored' with more than 120,000,000 matches!

PS: Google has a lot of great "Bored" pictures..
I especially liked this one!

I did this when I was bored...

Now this is the symbol we should have on Transformers!

Any need for justification?

Well, I managed to surprise (and maybe shock) quite a few people today...
At school, the immediate question every student is assaulted with by student, parent and teacher alike is this:
What are you taking next year?
"IP," I say.

The immediate reaction from everyone to whom I told this to was exactly the same.
"You're taking IP?!!"
Well, the reaction was the same, but the tones were quite different. A surprised one from Shruti, a sorrowfull one from Siva (relax, we'll be in the same class!), an excited one from Aprajita (adding,  "Yay! I won't be the only girl!") and totally disbelieving ones from the others.
Well, I wanted to ask some of them, Why not? Why did they have to sound like as if I was taking a subject that was somehow... beneath me, or not fitting for me?

Believe me when I say that if I had known that I would choose IP two months back, I would have retorted with a strong "No Way!". I was hell-bent on choosing C++. Programming was my forte.
But of course, I had no idea what was actually taught in IP. I knew that a bit of VB was, but then, after reading the same topic for 3 years, I'd had enough of it- in the sense that I wanted to learn something new. I had also heard a lot of comments from seniors that C++ was "damn tough", "mokkai" and "a killer subject" and all that, but I felt fairly confident that I would be able to manage it.

Me not taking the subject is definitely not due to lack of confidence. It was mainly because of my dad. A few weeks before the results actually came out, this topic came up and dad told me that IP would be better. I had always had the idea that whatever I took, my parents would be okay with it. Mom was a bit miffed in the beginning because I wasn't planning to take up Biology (she's a Natural Science fan) but then gave in because I wouldn't budge one bit, while Dad really didn't say anything at all. So naturally, this came as a surprise.
Then the confusion started. I had wanted to take C++ (I really hadn't considered any other option) but my dad knew better than me; so he must have had a reason for saying this.

I started asking around. Looked at the syllabus PDF from the official site; asked for a few more opinions. What I got when I asked my classmates was "IP? That's Java right?"
Well, one thing was for certain: if they were teaching JAVA, then I was in. But the Java part was not yet confirmed; and I still didn't know as much about the subject as I would have liked to.

On my Application form, all I specified was Computer Science- mentally, the decision wasn't made until yesterday night.
Today, I was sure of my choice; and when I saw the enormous crowd in front of the office- candidates vying for a seat in the C++ category- I felt just a bit better about it.

I still can't recollect what my thoughts/feelings were (apart from relief) when I accepted the signed Admission form from the Vicey with her best wishes, but I really don't think that there was any confusion.
The funny thing is, my dad let out his reasons why I should take the subject only after all this was over, when we were returning home.
He said a lot of things, some which I can still remember, many which I can't recollect now; but I did get the gist:

a. Databases are really, really important. And so is database programming
b. C++ is back-end programming. In IP we'll be learning more about front-end
c. GUI programming and Web designing are extremely important
d. ...and so is Java

Now that I've passed the road named admission, the next worry is right over that bend. IIT classes. The next, right ahead that traffic signal. 11th standard. Well, it won't be a boring year for sure, but we will just have to wait and see, right?

My Top Secret Mission

To those who have been worrying about what's happened to me and the blog... Don't.
I've not gone anywhere all this time (uh, not the whole time; I managed to squeeze in a few trips here and there) and well, as you can see, the blog's URL hasn't changed either.
Well, it's been a while since I've last updated this so I guess it's high time I wrote something, even if I don't really have much to write.
And honestly, I haven't been doing much at all these days. So much so that some of the texts and chat lines that I got during my "long absence" from the virtual word have actually made me laugh... and wonder.
Yes, I know what you're thinking right now: Huh? But, wait... I'll explain. With an example.

XYZ: So what did you do the whole holidays other than reading books? You seem really busy all the time.
Me:    No, not really. But right now I am.
XYZ: Poh. Doing all top secret things only...
Me:    Hey...! What top secret things will I do?
XYZ: Oh I don't know. Maybe you decided to slog 11th portions completely and be secret about it and come back to school being all genius.

Now multiply this kind of a conversation by 2.. or 3... or 4. You get the idea? So maybe it's time I took a break from being... net-free.
Well, not that I am going to remain non-net free for long. After school reopens, I am going to have a pretty tight schedule ahead of me. All work, no play. What fun!

To tell you all frankly, I find myself spending more and more time killing mosquitoes. (Yes, I really did write that). I have no idea why and how, but somehow, these parasites seem to multiply like bacteria -especially in the past few days. Living in the ground floor doesn't help at all. And after seven years in the same house, yesterday was the day when the first Mosquito bat and Odomos tube made its way inside, and they're being used to the maximum.

But the uppermost thoughts in my mind these days have been about the results and admission. The former worry is over now, but the other... well, we'll see. Part of me (a very tiny part) is excited about school this year while another is absolutely dreading it. The third part wants to pack my laptop, jump into the time travelling machine and go to the 11th century or something, where people surely didn't have to worry about CCE, global warming and terrorists - though I'm not sure what our ancestors will think of webcams and pop music, and I'm really, really not sure of what I'll think of chamber pots.


I think I can go on and on about this without getting anywhere- but I have to stop right now. Tomorrow is kind of a "big day" and I have to set the alarm clock before I forget about it while trying not to worry too hard.
Wish me luck!

Signing off (with fingers crossed),

Charu