Ice - Creams and Sunglasses

You finally did it! Yay!

It's nice how you always start every post with a random reference. And if I do the same, it just seems lame. You created a blog for me, I did a post for you. We're good now (though my birthday is only a month away. Get thinking.) I think the list is entirely true though I couldn't come up with better things. Sorry.  :P

Try this next time and let me know what happens. Also, you have a license?! 

I can't exactly say if my year has moved by quickly or not. There are somethings that I remember like yesterday, and there are some I don't even remember happening. But it was an alright year. It's soon to be a year since I moved and though I still get miserable on and off, I think there are some things that I would have never gotten to do had I been there. Like MUNs, speeches every so often cz no one else wants to or can do it and a bunch of other things. Also, I and a few classmates founded the school's Student Council (the Senior Programme is only 4 years old) and I am the Treasurer of the Executive Committee. I have barely anything to do. :P 

The Heritage Student Council. Yay for us.
Our uniforms are Khaki shorts/track pants (winter) and they are sickening. 

I lost track of most shows at the end of last year (my school is CRAZY. We have 11th finals in January and start 12th from Feb to have extra time). But my brother was here for a while so I have been catching up on HIMYM, Parks and Rec, 30 Rock, Happy Endings and New Girl, which I am yet to start. I did watch Vicky Donor yesterday though. And I liked it. 

This is exactly the kind of thing I can't see myself doing even if it makes sense to me and is interesting. Saw the blog - good stuff. (I'm not sure of what else to say except that it was pretty fascinating.)

Avengers was good. It has been a while since I saw any movie, especially one with my brother, 6-7 years I think. Read The Hunger Games though couldn't watch it. Did you?! I've heard of Louis C.K. My brother had downloaded his shows. With that much of money, hard to say what I would do. Donate some, buy things I want, donate/lend some more. How about you?

I'm guessing I would know who these cousins are. I used to stalk you, once upon a time. Yes I've been to Ferrarri World! Teju's (if you remember her) dad had a friend working there who got us two free tickets and two discounted. We went during the Eid holidays and waited in line for 2.5 hours for Formula Rossa. It was ah-mazing. xD Yes, let's hope you have something fun and interesting to blog about then. :)

My summer break is from today to the 18th of June. I have exams from ... the 18th of June.  Maths on 22nd June. -.- So nothing really special to do. I'm am planning to watch a movie everyday though. And read a few books. And write. It's been long since I did that. And I've been reviving my blog. I was planning on coming to Dubai but I have to get my passport renewed and am now being forced to reconsider my plans. I completely dislike being stuck in the place - it sucks. It's better than me staying in a weirder place, but it is terrible. In case you didn't know already, I live in Gurgaon, Haryana, two hours away from Delhi. There are only about 4 people I can bear of which I only really talk to 2. 

Aw. 

You should know, I advertise/publicise U of M when I can, though my friend decided UCLA over it. 

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Dwivedi 

Brace Yourself, Summer is Coming

Yeeeelo!

Game of Thrones reference? Anybody? No? Okay :/

I don't know if I ever thanked you for your previous post. It definitely ranks in the Top 5 in the list of the nicest things people have done for me. This one time I was caught by a cop and almost got a ticket, but he let me slide with a warning. I think that has settled in quite well at #1 on the list. But many thanks! I am glad I could positively influence your life and introduce it to some of my favourite things. Also you flatter me with all those awesome things. One thing...max two...of the list are probably true :)

So how has your year been? Mine seemed to go by a lot quicker than the last. This year saw my social life die a natural death. I mostly hung out with the same few people but I am glad I have them in my life. You chose well past Akshay, you chose well. Apart from Dexter and the Walking Dead I haven't been really been keeping up with "my stories". I think I have more than made up for the lack of tv watching and sleep in the past week and a half that I have spent in UAQ.

I started my first few real hardcore MechEng classes this year and realised I wasn't half bad in them. I also realised how ridiculously bland my resume was. But that wasn't until well into my fourth semester (when I was applying for summer internships). I now know that having a high GPA just isn't going to cut it. I need to find me some good hands on experience. Talking about design and manufacturing experience, last semester I had my first actual MechEng design project based class. We had to make this robot/car thing and compete in this competition. The objective of the game is to collect more balls than your opponents. The balls vary in weight and the heavier they are the harder they are to get to and the more points they are worth. We had to regularly record our progress in the form of blog posts. Of course we forgot about the blog after the first few posts and then went into a frenzy on the last few days and put up a bunch of posts and I coded out the timestamps and inserted fake ones. Yayy for engineering ethics.

(Here is a link to it if you are interested : http://balltowerw12-duderstadtdesigns.blogspot.com/ )

My friends from school are finally coming back into town and I am going meet a few tomorrow. Probably going for Avenger. It grossed a record breaking 207M + in the first few days. Goddayemmm.What would you do with 200M dollars? Have you heard of Louie C. K.? He is a stand up comedian and at this point you should YouTube his bit about what he would do with the amount of money Bill Gates has.

In a couple weeks time my cousins are coming down from Chennai, India. That should be fun. Have you been to Ferrari World? Apparently tickets are 250AED a pop? Gees. I will be heading back to India with them in the first week of June. I will be interning with Volvo for two months. Lets hope the have enough to keep me occupied for that long and preferably something more challenging than making coffee.

Well there you have it. My summer plans. What do you have in store for the next few months?

UAQ is a sad, lonely place.
Ak