Aparna’s Blog

Last week, my cousin had her engineering admission counselling and I went with her. Though I don’t remember much about my counselling (Thinking about the fact that it happened six long years back makes me feel old. ), all I can tell you is it was well-organized. This year too, it was very well-organized. In fact, I would say that in the recent times, I don’t remember seeing anything that was as well-organized as this.
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Having had a disturbed sleep yesterday night, seeing how nice the weather was, I thought I will catch up with the much-needed sleep during the bus journey to work today. I got into the bus with the hope of finding a comfy seat only to see that the bus was full and there were no empty seats at all! Imagine my plight when I realized that I had to keep standing during the entire 35-40 minute journey! Poor me! See naan evLo kashtapattu officeku varaen!

Ask my parents, sister and cousins and they will all tell you that the one word that I have been constantly using ever since childhood is bored! But I have been down with real boredom only during the last few months. These days, I often get so very bored, like how I am right now! There are a dozen things to do yet I don’t feel like doing any of those. I want to do something new and really interesting so that boredom is driven away. Any suggestions?

After that, it’s really a good change to chat with a friend after quite sometime and when both of you have lots to talk about like good old times and the chat ends, you are left wishing that the chat could go on for some more time!

The number of people with whom you are chatting with doesn’t matter. What matters is whether the conversation goes beyond the same old questions like How are you?, Howz life?, What’s up?, What’s new? or not!

No this post is not about this month but about the song ‘July Maadham‘, which I am listening to on repeat mode now.
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Writing the previous post made me sit back and think about what made me develop such strong feelings for the national flag, national anthem, etc. I can never tolerate seeing people sitting and listening to National Anthem. Mind you, I am not saying that those people are not patriotic or anything like that. It’s just that I can never sit when I listen to National Anthem. That’s all.
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