On a Spree!

First things first! This cake is for Dr. Venkatesh! Happppyyy bdayyyyy to u! I hope u don't mind the portion of the cake i ate. It was too tempting! :D


Helllloooo peps!!! Hope you guys had an awesome week. My week was pretty decent. For the past 2 days, I have been really tensed about my viva. Finally, this morning, I had my viva and after 2 hours, the spur of questions came to an end. In comparison to the viva we gave in our previous semester on electric fish, I felt that my group did a pretty decent job. OMG! Previous semester was a nightmare-come-true. The mentors were shooting all sorts of unimaginable questions in physics, to us, bio majors. We felt like some caged birds being quizzed on a fresh water fish’s habitat. Clueless and lost. Well, after what seemed like hours of incessant rebuttal, we walked out, tired and hungry. A wave of relief swept the three of us. Too drained to speak, we smiled at each another and all of a sudden, we burst out laughing in unison. Each one of us knew what the other was thinking. It was over! Yesssss!! At last, it was over!!!


While on our way to the canteen, we were mocking at how each one of us were tensed during the whole session. We drew pictures in air describing the horns, swords, long nails and protruding teeth that we gave our mentors, as they were mercilessly shooting questions at us! After a really long time, we were laughing our heads off. For a month now, its been more of ‘serious’ job, working in the lab for late hours, fearing to meet the Prof, playing hide-and-seek with our supervisor when we didn’t show up in lab for one week during mid-sem exams and worst of all, we had lots of last minute editing to do in our report. Looking back, all this seems like an adventure.


Even though we were literally gobbling down our food, we didn’t stop jabbering. We went on to recollect the good old first few days of the semester. The lectures, the lecturers (:D), hours of gossip in the canteen, the CCA’s, last minute work on submissions, lab and yeah, not to miss out, the faculty bazaar. The faculty bazaar is one thing that can turn on girls, more so, if the girl is committed. The bazaar has some awesome earrings, chains, t-shirts, skirts, bangles, crystals, soft toys, icecream stalls (!) and lots more. Sometimes, I have got so engrossed with the stuff there, that I have walked in late for lectures! Don’t ask me if I have a heavy purse. No. I simply look around, try on the chains and earrings, admire myself in the mirror for sometime, then ask them silently for the price, give them a flabbergasted look, say “Oh!” and silently slip away. When I am with my other friends, its much more fun. We walk along each stall, browsing through all the stuff they have, gape at the prices, mock at how they are trying to sell a Rs.10 earring that we could get in Pondy bazaar, at $5, pity ourselves for being single, or pour words of jealousy to those friends who are attached. We go around teasing each other of their taste and finally, when we see the vendor giving us a nasty look, we realize that we are back to stall one after one full round!


Shopping has always been fun, especially, if we are hunting for tiny-weeny stuff like earrings, hairbands, clips and bhindis. I just can’t forget those days when I used to go shopping in Pondy bazaar with appa and amma. Mom and me invariably have difference of opinion about such stuff and dad would barge in the middle and tell amma to let me have my choice. Haha! What pleasure that would give me. It was like a battle won. However, feeling sorry for my mom, I would add her choice of earrings into the cart too and promise her that I would help her with dinner that night. Mummy flattered! :P If not for the prime location of these roadside shops, such that aircon blows from the showroom nearby, I would have felt like being burnt in a furnace because of the hot puffs of smoke from mom’s ear. :D Finally, when it comes to payment, I am out of the scene. Its dad’s smartness to bargain and get me all the stuff that I have piled up in the basket! One kind word that I have saved one rasgulla for him in the fridge for tonite’s desert is enough to melt his heart. Cute daddy! Yeah, it does seem sweetly mean. But these are those small joys in life that make life so exciting. I am sure that I am going to be doing such stuff when I get back home for vacation. (*hope my parents got the hint*):D


Can’t wait for exams to get over and rush back home. Got to catch up with lots of friends and relatives. Btw, I have a presentation to give on the snake venom project this Monday! Hope it goes well. I shall see you guys soon. Till then, take care. Huggggzzzzzzz!!! Ciao! :)