Of night and light and the half light

What is it i like so much about friends?


Is it the midnight confidences?

The sitting in groups and talking about everything [and nothing at all]?

The confessions over msn?

The catching up on the latest news [not plain gossip]?

The playing together on stage, not caring how it sounds?

The fooling around, playing library catching and getting caught [by the librarian]?

The way i take out my phone to call you, just as you call me?

The way you tell me not to wait but to go home first, when i'm about to say i'll wait for your bus?

The way you know i'll be online?

The way you sms me, asking me if i'm leaving school, just as i walk up to meet and walk out with you?

The teasing of every other person with a weird accent, or who thinks St James is a kindergarden?

The predictions we make over the EPL?

The guessing of what on earth the food we've been given is?

The complaints about our workload?

The discussion of tactics, whether it's better to study [if at all we do] for the lecture test or mock SPA?

The creation of an empire in class?

The way we train our arm muscles in the hope we can do 2 chin-ups before we leave the school?

The way i ask you to draw me a picture, and the way you do it in a matter of minutes?


Is it a combination of everything, or is it the way these come in little bits, each so different?


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shanti: lincon and i are planning for it to be after the A-levels, or if too many people are overseas, start of next year. LOL yea i know. you and reuban share the same birthday!

simran: princess of the elves?? oh please. you can take princess of the dwarves, if u want =D haha just kidding. and by the way, elves aren't hip and happening, they're classy and a cut above mortals like us haha!

shanti: haha, feel short more like it. unless you're talking about the enid blyton kinda elves =]

raghav: yea man!! haha. especially our comments during the play! lolololol =D pity acad day won't be the same.



"Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W B Yeats.

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Style?

Last week was too fast. This week is too busy. Next week's gonna be too packed.



I'd alarm mself and everyone who reads this by counting off the days we have left before the promos, but that isn't my style of writing and who needs to be reminded about those again anyway.



National day celebrations were pretty okay. Except for the heat. Amoudtha's henna was an instant success and Mrs Jay, who volunteered to help, was awesome too. Thanks to everyone who helped!



I'll be glad when october's here. No more exams [except PW, urgh], and as much time as i want with the cricket girls! and there's the cricket camp to plan for =D and the ICS chalet =] and class chalet, if we have one!

I want time to imagine. Imagine if i would survive in isolaton, imagine myself as a character in a book or movie, imagine the smell of honeysuckle [i've heard it's bittersweet, but what kinda smell is that??].

Quite my style, isn't it?

It's a pity that all i'm allowed to think about now is whether i should go study for the chem skill B mock SPA tomorrow, or forget about it and study for the lecture test.

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Pushpa: Afzal and Sharrvesh listened to us one evening, and were telling us how it sounded and stuff. =]



Simran: hahaha i can just imagine you marching up to the organisers and demanding that they speak in english =] thanks, simmie.



Shanti: haha this year's YOUR year! aww so sweet, shanti it's okay don't go against your school lol. thanks loads! spam away, spam away! i don't mind in the least =D



Raghav: haha i will. and congratulations =]



Sneha: hahahaha. well i didnt do it alone. and seriously, it would have been a waste if you'd come this year, cos supporters arent allowed into the preliminary round room. and since we didnt get to the stage, you wouldnt have heard us at all. haha yea weird =]



Sometimes, things people in movies say just stick and get you thinking. Like in Pirates of the Carribean-The Curse of the Black Pearl, some of the convicts are talking about the Black Pearl, and how there are many horrible stories about how those who run into the ship never escape alive. Sparrow cuts in at this point and asks- "If there never are any survivors, how do the stories get out, i wonder."

And in The Lord of The Rings (i think i've mentioned this before)-
Gimli: "I never thought i'd die fighting side-by-side with an elf."
Legolas:"How about side-by-side with a friend?"

And in Troy-
Priam: "I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest."
Hector(to Agamemnon): "I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed."

That's why i enjoy watching movies much more than other shows on TV. In fact, apart from movies, i hardly watch anything else.

"We'll sit under an apple tree, you and I,
Talking so deeply time passes us by.
I'll suggest climbing up to see the view,
You'll propose sitting under with an apple or two.

We'll end up doing both, as is always the case,
But we'll never stop our chat, face-to-face.
You'll try climbing up, just to please me,
And I'll sit for an eternity under the tree,

Just for you."

"I sing the blues and swallow them too."

We're not history yet.
We'll make it next year.

Don't you worry, girl.

Owe many thanks to Sneha, Amoudtha, Pushpa, Saranya, Sharrvesh, Sundar, Dev, Sakthish, Rama, Anushiya and Afzal for your help. Thanks for supporting and advising us all the way through.

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Sneha: haha thanks, okay i will =]
Pushpa: wassup man? =D
Shanti: "intellectual comments"?? who me? you've gotta be kidding, lol. but i miss you too!
Raghav: oh yes you are!! =D haha. you can be, at least. mostly you're just extremely high, lol.

Sirius Black has always been my favourite character. After the fifth book, i refused to believe he'd died, cos he was only Stunned when he fell through the veil, bellatrix didn't use Avada Kedavra on him. [i wonder how Rowling thought of all those names.] Actually, it's a bad idea to discuss Harry Potter here.

Incidentally, have you noticed the similarities between the harry potter series and the lord of the rings? there aren't many though, and i'm not trying to say anything against Rowling =] like a giant spider, for example. how many novels have you read with a giant spider in them? i picked up other similarities, but i can't really remember them now.

I have a small question: how did james potter become head boy when he was never made a prefect? in the first book, hagrid says james was head boy and lily was head girl. but in the fifth book, harry's immensely relieved when he hears that his dad wasn't made a prefect either. weird. maybe you don't have to be a prefect to become the Head. interesting.

i've got a mix of Fall Out Boy songs in my head and on windows media player =D thanks for all those many many songs, Raghav!

You'll know i'm talking about you.

I look out of the corner of my eye,
Someone's approaching.
I can just tell who you are, from the walk, the gait, the way you hold your hands,
And the way you make a beeline towards my bench.

I ask you to sit, but you tell me you can't, cos you've skipped a lecture, and can't be seen by the teacher who's just come out to talk to a student.

I knew you'd say that. Wonder if you know how well i know your timetable.

I like it when you skip your lectures to sit with me in mine, though i should be forcing you to attend your own lectures.

I like the way you call my name.

Remember our very rare but very long phone conversations? We really should start talking as much on the phone as we do face to face.

I'll save the rest for your birthday poem, the one i couldn't resist telling you about. =]

You'll give a fleeting look,
Then look away before i catch your eye.

I'll give a cursory glance when you walk by,
Bu i won't meet your eye.

Strange, isn't it? We're trying to ignore each other in the most indiscreet way.

for that one moment

i always find it weird that people can completely hate someone.
i think it's impossible to sincerely and completely hate someone, especially if you calm down and think for a little while.
we could all do with a little less hate around, don't you think?


Mia's enjoying herself in London. This lucky girl gets to see horses, and she doesn't even like horses as much as i do. And she gets to explore the house and backyard and look for foxes and watch the sun set at 10.30pm and be at the heart of the Harry Potter action and tend the garden and buy hot donuts from friendly shopkeepers and play lawn cricket and skip PA back here. =D if you're reading this, don't forget to write your article for the ridge. =] hey Mia, have you caught your glorious sunrise yet?

i wonder what it feels like to be in the eye of a hurricane.
if a hurricane should strike, perhaps that's the safest place to be.

Do pardon the incoherence of this post. i'm just typing what comes outta my head without any structure.

It's past 12am now and i'm on the com cos i miss my music.

"and if all the world were perfect i would only ever wanna see your scars."
Darren Hayes-So Beautiful

Good day to you.

It's just goodnight and not goodbye.

That sounds like the end to the post doesn't it? I guess i don't feel like going off yet though.

I'd told them both i'd write them a story. I told them i'd write them a story about themselves. They're very different people, but their stories are the same. Maybe we're all connected by the same story, except that it won't be just a story, it will be an epic, with every character affecting everyone else. Maybe we're just part of a big plot. After all, we're each looking at the same sunset, you from your window and i from the shore.

Things aren't as complicated as they seem sometimes.

Look at it my way.

Why living close to school isn't as advantageous as it seems:

1. If you wake up late, there's no faster way of getting to school so you're bound to be late.

2. If you're like me, and care about what your house looks like when there are visitors, you need to keep your house/room clean and neat all the time cos people like popping by and doing projects at your house.

3. You don't have a good excuse for not being home on time.

4. People keep cursing you for living so near.

5. Your house is the temporary holding room for things that are too inconvenient for others to take back to their homes.

Haha those are the top 5 reasons i can think of right now. So don't be too hasty in deciding how lucky i am =D