Just living it(life)

"Sometimes I get so weird
I even freak myself out
I laugh myself to sleep
It's my lullaby

To walk within the lines
Would make my life so boring
I want to know that I
Have been to the extreme

Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please.
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please."

These avril lavigne lyrics echo my being-ordinary-phobia.Infact I am so being-ordinary-phobic that I fear that I am being ordinary in being being-ordinary-phobic.
and.....OK.I'll just cut the crap and go on with whats happening in my life.(which also fits in the definition of crap,but still..)
I am on a movie watching spree right now.The list goes on like this(in the last 24 hours):The Transformers,War of the worlds,Harry Potter and the Sorcerers stone,Good Will Hunting.
This is how I described Transformers to one of my friends:
"it was cool
except the actress
who was 'hot' "
As for Harry potter,watching this movie for ,maybe 6th time ,gave me the the usual Harry Potter series-is-so-wonderful feeling.I personally feel myself to be very lucky to be alive and in my teens during the release of these 7 books.I first heard of these books in my class 7 BQC elementary quiz --"Who writes the Harry Potter series of books"? and a few months after that I had a sudden realisation(after the movie realease) that these books are very very popular and I was a fool not to have heard of them.From then on,I have grown alongwith Harry Potter.When I first read the first book,I was 13(bday 26 july)-and harry was 11 (bday 31 july).Then harry caught up with me in the next two books,which I read while I was 13.In the 4th book,he turned elder.Curiously though,the next two books were released during late June-early July,and I got them as presents for my birthdays.So he equalled my age in 5th,6th and 7th books.
Its a weird feeling that there arent going to be any new harry potter books,the one I cant describe with my limited vocabulary,but its like Shit-I-am-not-going-to-have-that-same-feeling-while-reading-a-new-released-HP book.

Cartoons-I love them!

Sitting in front of the desktop in a pleasant winter afternoon, sipping my favourite tea(nothing can match the tea made my mom),while listening to my favourite songs---can it get cozier than that?
Right now I finished watching 6 back to back episodes of Fox Television's Spiderman. It was one of the first cartoons I watched back in fifth grade (thats when dad decided he had enough of DD1 and it was time for cable tv). I still remember a morning about 8 years ago when I first watched this cartoon.It was 8am-9am saturday show,and I was getting late for school.My memory fails when I try to remember which episode it was,but I get a feeling it was "attack of the spider slayer".
It was cool,fifth grade.Besides Spiderman,there were many others which still remain permanently etched in my memory---Tintin,for example.I first watched it at 7 am in the morning(Flight 714).Then there was Robocop, Swatkats ,Captain Planet,Johnny Quest,Dinosaucers, and ScoobyDoo! I used to wake up at 5 am every morning to watch The new Scooby Doo movies(1 hour)-- and when my mom used to scold me,dad would say that she should respect how religious I am,thoroughly devoted to my cartoon.
and then there was Hiedi.Simply Amazing.I used to hurry back from school on saturdays to watch this one(1pm-2pm).Even my dad and sister liked it.

After I had watched each episode of Spiderman about 4 times,Fox Kids decided to air new cartoons during 6th grade----Ironman,Dungeons and Dragons,Batman,Silver Surfer,Fantastic Four,X-Men,and some others. The Silver Surfer story really used to touch me(it still does).Just imagine an 11 year old boy getting emotional because of the sacrifice Silver Surfer made for his planet! Though I liked the concept and story line of X-Men,it got pretty confusing because the episodes were not shown in continuity.and it was irritating watching D&D because those guys always got very close to getting out of that world.(Those familiar with the story would understand).It was the same feeling which restrained me from watching Silvestre and Tweety,and why I still not like Tom and Jerry.I mean,come on! Let the cat eat its food for once.I used to watch a few episodes,firmly on the cat's side,but then switch off my TV in anger and disgust.
and how ironic it was that my friends named me "pussy cat" back then.(though it was for an entirely different reason-a corruption of piyush to push to pushy to pussy). and how ironic is it that my current nickname is puppy or dog!
Then there was the advent of a totally new genre of cartoons in 7th-anime-when the CT went through a changeover. G.I.JOE,Speed Racer and the awesome Toonami animes-Cardcaptors and Dragon Ball Z.gosh! Dragon Ball Z was too great to be a human creation.( not an overstatement) The concept,storyline,characters . I used to wake up till late midnight for the 12 am - 1 am back to back episodes.When the first saga was over(I dint know there were more),I thought shit,the story is over-it was amazing.But then the next saga started,and whoa ,it was even more gripping.It was more than disappointing when the CT stopped the show in the middle of the storyline.
There were many good shows after that,a new improved version of XMen, Justice League,another Spiderman(though not even close to the Fox Kids one),and Jackie Chan adventures.
After the CT went berserk and stopped all these shows,I turned to Disney.
Now,after 2 years of TVlessness during 11th and 12th,I have turned back to reliving those moments of 5th and 6th on the internet.It feels great.I digged out new episodes of Spiderman,and believe me or not,Dragon Ball Z was the one who helped me get over 'She who must not be named'.(Laugh out loud)
Meanwhile,I am desperately searching for English episodes of Heidi.

Back Home

Its been a long long one and a half month.Rendezvous, Socials, Informals, Minors, all those quizzes, Football matches, Minor 2 etc etc.
Sunday was our last exam. and it marked the end of something which I truly enjoy-night-outs.
Studying, dicusssing stuff like god, aliens, other dimensions , making fun of other batchmates ,those visits to nescafe ,hanging out in the institute during the supposedly odd hours -- all this culminates into an experience found nowhere else. and when the exam gets over,your friends come to you smiling and seemingly very happy say "Aaj to phut gayee yaar".
As for my exams,they went normal,below average I would say.But I have learnt how to "not worry" about the results,and just enjoy life.
Meanwhile, tarasha has become the latest of my friends to "try" to make me active on some social networking site
pretty.tash:
what happened to the old piyush?
cut the crap and be active on facebook and orkut
and be a normal human once again

whoa!
anyways,for now, I am just relieved to be back home.

An Inspiring story

20 years back on September 6,1986 when five terrorists hijacked the US bound Pan Am Flight-73 flight at Karachi airport, and took control of the aircraft. One of the worst hijacks in aviation history it claimed 20 lives; this was the largest toll in a hijack until 9/11. The remaining 375 passengers and crewmembers would not have survived, if the airhostess Neerja Bhanot, was not there.

Neerja Bhanot identified herself as one of the airhostess, who was held at gunpoint and announced that the place had been hijacked. Unfortunately, the three-member cockpit crew of pilot, co-pilot and the flight engineer abandoned the aircraft, leaving 400 passengers and a 13-member cabin crew in the hands of brutal, thoughtless terrorists. Since Neerja was the cabin crew leader, she took over command. Neerja requested the passengers to be calm and obey the hijackers. She served coffee and sandwiches and her charming smile eased the tide of fear that had swept across their faces.

The leaders of the hijack identified himself as Mustaga. He ordered Neerja to collect the passports of all the passengers. Later she realized that the Americans were the main target of the terrorists and in a brilliant move she discreetly collected all the American passports and hid them. There couldn’t have been a better way to confuse the terrorists. By 9.pm when the auxiliary power unit failed entirely and the aircraft was plunged into darkness. Fearing an imminent raid by commandos, the hijackers shouted now is the holy war!! They fired their AK47, till they exhausted the bullets. By then Neerja had opened an emergency exit and a pan Am mechanic opened another. She used all her strength to guide and push people down the chute and while shielding three children; she absorbed the onslaught of bullets into her own body.

She would have escaped by the emergency exit first, but the angelic women gave up her life to save the innocents like a mother. After spent the bullets, and try to escape, the Mustafa and others captured by commandos and sentenced to life by a UA court. Neerja was brave in life, brave in death. The only stewardess, to have commanded an aircraft and held the hijackers at bay, was an Indian.

Neerja Bhanot was born on September 7, 1963, in Chandigarh. She did her early schooling at the local Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School. When the family moved to Bombay, she continued her studies at Bombay Scottish and then graduated from St. Xavier’s College. Neerja made a wonderful model as well as an airhostess. For her brave act India awarded her the Ashoka Chakra (Neerja is the first and only woman recipient of the this India’s highest civilian award for bravery). She was also awarded the "Tagme-e-Insaniyat" (Pakistan), the flight Safety Foundation Award and the Medal of Heroism of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (U.S.A.). Neerja's family put her insurance money in a trust, 'Neerja Bhanot Pan Am Trust’, to which Pan Am also contributed an equal amount. Every year, this trust honors airline crew that act beyond the call of duty and Indian women who show exemplary courage as well as compassion for their fellow humans. Neerja died at the age of 22 just 2 days shy of her 23rd birthday.