My sister's holidaying in California where my aunt and cousin live and yesterday she went hiking and saw HORSES. She's so lucky.

Oh she saw deer and rattlesnakes and rabbits and vultures too.

Happy 18th birthday, dhevy and dev. =]
Dhevy- Sowmya asks me to wish you on her behalf. Ok it's time i sent you another of your birthday message series. See, sms and technology in general doesn't always make greetings seem boring compared to letters and notes. I just looked at a calendar from 1990 and you were born on a Friday! "Friday's child is loving and giving."
I can't think of a title for the post. But you never needed things to be so proper anyway.



"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,... "
- Robert Browning

Auld Lang Syne

Finally visited shylu and shal at the their new house (3 storeys plus a jacuzzi on top WHOA like a hotel plus they're gonna set up an intercom) to wish shylu belated happy birthday before she flies off back to australia. Shylu, shalini, my sister and I have been really close friends since i was in P1 and it was great to meet up again after ages and catch up on our various stories. We were scaring each other with ghost stories. Pity we couldnt stay over like the old times, but it's a school day today.

Racial Harmony Day today was a bit of a let-down. Many people forgot all about it cos we were only told last friday and most of the school was in uniform. Except the majority of ICS =D

I've got to go off now and finish stats 5 tutorial and radioactivity tutorial and read The Plough and the Stars again and get more work done for IS. Can't wait for december. And i must finish raymay's letter and sms a couple of people and lots of other stuff. Have a good week ahead! =]

Sisterhood

Mia this is for you. =]

What does it mean to have a sister?

Bursting out into hearty laughter at the smallest things.

Saying the same things at the same time, and pretending to be irritated by it though we secretly love it.

Secret smiles and glances for things no one else notices or understands.

Speaking using secret codenames.

Telepathy.

Buying matching things. I can never understand why people don't like wearing the same kinda thing as another person. My sister and I have worn things in pairs often, since we were young, often coincidentally.

Reading each others' minds.

Just "knowing".

SMSing/MSNing each other cos we have to keep talking even when we're not together.

Hilarious conversations.

Serious conversations.

Normal conversations.

Weird conversations.

Fights that have record times. And by that i mean extremely short fights. 3 seconds is our record. And 10 minutes is probably the longest time we can resist not talking to each other.

Forgetting all arguments in a second if something funny happens. Like a song we both laugh at being played. [remember that one mia? that was gonna be a hard one to ignore =P ]

Teaching me the ways of life. My sister taught me that all living things have to die someday. And she was only 6 or 7 at the time.

Pulling me back to ground when my head's in the clouds. She says i'm an idealist.

Running across roads, she grabs hold of my hand. Cos she doesnt want me to hesitate.

Giving me a million nicknames, none of which are suitable to mention here. I never gave her a nickname of my own accord. Nothing sums up who she is more than her own name.

Surprise gifts. Especially when one of us goes overseas- we spend a lot on the other.

The perfect running partner, cos we have the same stride and stamina.

Being similar in thought but so so different in the way we look.

Singing together. Our voices match, and we always know what phrase the other is gonna sing. And we always forget the same lines of a song, and remember them at the same time too.

Playing badminton at the rear void deck. Or goodminton, as we used to joke when we were young. We have our own terminologies for different speeds, etc, and we always try to keep the shuttlecock airborne for as long as possible, which is why we enjoy it so much. We play FOR each other, not against.

Soulmates. =]

I'm not done with this yet. But then again, it's never possible to finish. Language is limited. The essence of sisterhood can't be put down into words.

sowmya:
how come you're online?
shreya:
cos i'm home. i have research work
sowmya:
oh ok..
sowmya:
MUNCHIE
sowmya:
oops sorry for caps
shreya:
donut?
shreya:
isnt that munchy
sowmya:
how do u read my mind man
sowmya:
i mean, how do you know i feel like eating sth
sowmya:
someone else might have said 'what munchie'
shreya:
i'm your sister, you idiot
sowmya:
ya but still
sowmya:
gosh my future husband should be like this man
shreya:
sth's wrong with you. i think you're on a high
shreya:
but anw yea mine too
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for those of you who understand tamil:



shreya:
at the end of the post
sowmya:
o ok...
sowmya:
haha OOPS
shreya:
caught? =P
sowmya:
well some of them have already seen me msning anw
shreya:
tsk
shreya:
and an intern at that
sowmya:
lolo
shreya:
lolo-nnu alaiyama ozhunga velaiye paaru
sowmya:
................
shreya:
actually you came up with that. when we were talking to goki online
sowmya:
IS IT???
sowmya:
haha stop it man... i was grinning away as one of the senior auditors walked past
shreya:
HAHAHA

Why I can't blog.

Blogging was never meant for people like me. I never was a very public person. Most of the time, I forget that I'm blogging for someone to read. Once in a while I keep it in mind, and end up with a post that doesn't sound like it was written by me. Or since I'm aware someone's reading, it sounds too covered up, too secretive. And makes me feel slightly embarrassed when I read it. Or sounds extremely forced. With short sentences. And lots of stops. Like this one.

I'm not surprised when people say they don't understand my posts. They probably aren't meant to be easily understood anyway. Sometimes I myself don't understand what I mean. But I like the way I post and I don't think it'll change.

I love poetry. Out of all I've written, I personally feel 'Lovers and Leaves' is the nicest.

Oh well I really don't know what else to talk about here. I can't even think of something to put as my personal message on msn. It's been blank for ages cos I just can't think of anything.

SPAIN!! =]