oh yes, and since he will never check his email- Happy belated birthday vikram, I hope it was memorable.

I find incredible, more so than man's ability to forgive, man's ability to forget.
I have forgotten a lot in my 21 years: appointments, events, names, faces...punctuation. But today I add one more to the list- Pain. I looked at a bag of tea leaves earlier today- in the Duty free shop at the Mumbai international Airport- and someone came to mind. I think of that person enough, and quite fondly infact, to where it wasn't the thought of them that was remarkable, but my reaction to it. That bag of tea leaves brought back so many memories- good ones, long ones, sweet ones. But for some reason, no painful ones. I suppose you're wondering what the hell i'm talking about, or who the hell i'm talking about- well stop it, just read. Today I realized that I am caring by nature. There are those who can stop caring, stop feeling simply because they want to- attribute it to a cold heart, will power or plain ambivalence...whatever it may be, I can't do it- I simply am not capable, nor do I want to be. I think i'd be much lonlier if I were.
I didn't buy those tea leaves today, but I did take away something nice from that little shop with outrageously high prices. Perhaps something priceless.

FIRST off, happy belated birthday ED and GOUji :) hope they were wonderful!

We arrived in india safe and sound :) all is well!
tomorrow we leave for bombay, so that will be fun, i'll update you all when i get back ...in about a weeks time.


4 AM thought for the day:

one of my favorite things about india- the food
one of my least favorite things- going to the bathroom

...unfortunately, they seem to go hand in hand :(

oh ya- latoya london was voted off american idol? i'm inclined to side with simon cowell on this one- the american audience is utterly tone deaf. SIGH.

Seacrest, OUT!

arrived yesterday in singapore,safe and sound :)

my family here is AWESOME, so much fun! vibha and i are still trying to get over jet lag, it may take longer than the one day we expected it to take. singapore is incrediblhy beautiful- very VERY clean. we're going site seeing tomorrow and tuesday, today we're hanging out with family. We're staying with my grandmother's cousin (kala auntie)...who's like my mother's age. her husband (pramoud uncle) and their kids prathim and sujan- who are SO incredibly nice and very funny. Prathim and his friend Ishan have a cricket game today, sujan went to go watch- we're going to hang out with another aunt we have here, Usha- i always remembered her as being one of my prettiest aunts- can't wait to see her again! will update later~ let me know how all of you are doing...i cleared my email account to write me!

finals are upon us again- for those of you who are no longer in school, don't worry, they still suck...nothing's changed.
I have 6 finals this semester, meaning I'm probably going to be a brat and general biznatch- appologies to all of you in advance. 7 days till I go to india! i'll probably be better at keeping all this updated from there~ so when you're missing me terribly ;)...look to the blog. Okie, I have a chem quiz due at midnight~ gotta jump on that :(

On a happier note, a few words from one of my favorite songs:

Through all of my life
Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall of my life
All I ever will recall of my life
Is all of my life with you



dream sweetly dear ones.