Happy Birthday To MEEEE...:)

ohh yes...it's my birthday!!!today..

the most awesomest day of the year....

I have been up throughout the night cooking and answering calls...and i realized...

PEOPLE REALLY LOVE MEEE...:)))

and i will tell you..it's an awesomee feeling...

Well you might wonder how today went so Far...

Mum wished me first...

The KID...sand ome of our closest friends and my roomies surprised me at Midnight with a Cake with 12 candles...i guess they too understand that i will never grow up beyond that age...

I got an awesome pair of boots...

Many phone calls from Angry neighbors who heard me screeching from the top of my lungs...:P

And let me tell you the best part...

Why was i cooking...:)))

Coz im going SKIING...on my birthday...

we are going to Bakuriyani....

It's like a Ski resort in Georgia....

And im going there in a train...obviously...but im hyped up...it's a 7 our ride...and i know it's going to be awesomee...

How cool is that right...MY BIRTHDAY is going to be the most awesome one ever...:P

and its my first time skiing and i will tell you...for all those jealous people out there..do not worry...im probably going to spend most of my birthday Face down on the snoww...or tumbling down snowyyy mountains..in front of hundreds of experienced skiers... embarrassing right...:S

BUT STILL

i think it's really cool...

and im really excited...

got to run....

Coz we need to catch the train...

see you in two days....i will be out...of touch...

Be good...

and keep on Loving me like this people...

The feeling is almost like the feeling when you get when the perfect chocolate melts in your mouth...

all sweet and warm...and..yummy...and you know that your simply Happy...

Happy Birthday to mee...AND all the other people who are celebration it with meee..Not forgetting Sir.George Washington...

God Bless you all

Hugss...:)

Aurudu Party..:D

lol..i know that this is like really overdue...But this is one party, that i have to tell you guys about...

As you all know by now we are all trying to celebrate each Birthday/festival together as one family as it is like the only time we get to breath freely and to be ourselves and go crazy....:)

We wanted to celebrate Aurudu on a grand scale...(in our limits..you know..low budget student pocket size..)..Frankly because we were soo jealous of our friends and families who constantly reminded us via Skype and Facebook about how well everything is going back at home ...preparations for the festive season...:(in true Sri Lankan style...

It was also a birthday of one of our friends so with the combination...we decided to celebrate it with real mixed style...The Muslim and Tamil girls got together to make Laddu and i headed off to the B day girls apartment to help with the preparations over there.

Three rice cookers with kilo's and kilo's of rice were washed and plugged to make milk rice...

I helped with the cutting of onions.Another girl and i cut around 4 kilo's of HUGE, SMARTING,RUDE onions that made us cry an amazon...sniff... sniff...

We made 3 Huge plates full of Milk rice. A ton of Lunu Miris and Milk toffee..not to forget cutlets and sandwiches..(very western i know...but we have really limited resources...)and finally the Birthday Cake...nope we didn't make that..wanted to..but the Birthday Girl flatly refused to risk it on us..who were all first time cake bakers...:P

After laboring for 3 hours cooking, burning hands..applying toothpaste..crying over onions, slipping and falling..(can you guess who that was....wink..wink..)aching backs and hands...and many comparisons over enhanced biceps..we were finally ready...:)

Ready with a full table of lovely food...

Milk rice and lunu miris.. cutlets and sandwiches..milk toffee and cake..laddu and samosa..

Now doesn't that sound heavenly...:P

The boys arrived equipped with Laptops and a mini sub-woofer system..(that is what i was told it was..) from God knows where and amazing music...

Let the party Begin...:D

Firstly after a drooling funny slow version of "Happy Birthday"..we all dug into the yummy Cake..which had lovely Red jelly bubbles on top and as you can guess everyone wanted a piece with jelly on it...

And i didn't get one...:(

When i sadly exclaimed this around 10 people offered me bites from theirs and i tell you..lucky me...i'm sure i ate the most amount of jelly...:)))))

The cutting and serving of the Milk rice followed..everyone made a ritual to pose for a picture and then feed everyone present with a piece of milk rice exclaiming "Suba Aluth Auruddak Wewa"..Happy New year...

by the time we were planning on serving individual plates we were all femished...lol...

Laddu was heavenly...Samosa Divine...Milktoffee like nectar and to sum it all...everything was perfect...:D

Well then there was a second cake which the boys have brought and suddenly before we know what was happening..i got a slap of icing across my face...and a remarkable cake fight began..:))))

there were people slapping people.. strangling people.tripping them over... just to apply some icing on their face..lol...

Wasn't it a really messy way to have fun...Just like BOYS...:@..hehehe

After cleaning ourselves and the BIG mess we played a more decent version of "Spin the bottle"...

I being the most responsible and trustworthy..(AHAMMMM)person amongst all..i was fatefully given the responsibility of spinning the bottle.

Mind you i didn't know that Spin the bottle was a very unholy teenage game..:S where you had to go kiss the person who the bottle directed you towards..yuckkkkkkkkkkk..:S when i exclaimed that i have no idea about it..people were like How old are you??12yrs???:S..seriously did you know about it???no right????:)

Then it was play time..who ever got the bottle pointed at them had to to do what the others dared them to do...childish i know...but still it was fun..:) well there followed many embarrassing moments of people imitation each other,licking the floor..eeeeeeewwwww, tickling people into tears..singing of impossibly high pitched songs and i being soo lucky had to give a Georgian kiss to a malli..who went Red in the face starting from the tips of his ears..which was soo sweet yet hilarious..

Then we had music..since my friends place had like a super Huge Hall..we put on loud music..dimmed the lights and put on our dancing shoes..and danced like Mad..:P Many hidden talents were revealed and we all for the first time sweat-ed and was glad and hyper about it...

Door bell rang once..friendly Land lady asking to reduce the volume of the music..We turned it down for like 10 minutes..hehehhe..door bell rings for the second time...asking not to jump on the floor..we were ok with it..Door bell rings for the third time asking to Stop everything...by a very angry landlady..ooopsss..lol..

Then we had ice-cream mind you it was 1am..and we started singing songs...

Halfway through we realized that we have lectures the next day.And none of us were prepared..plus it was so windy at that time that opening a door was even out of the question...:S

So here we were stranded on New years Morning at our friends place...35 of us....soo we decided to keep on singing till it was time to go...

3am...we were still waiting....The wind was making evil noises but looked like it was finally reducing...to us...

Now we were all really tired!!!:(..sleepy with milkrice filled tummies... exhausted with dancing and sooo horse with all the singing and shouting...:(

I had Anatomy credits the next day..:(While the others were chatting i pulled out a friends Grey's Anatomy and started reading it...Not because of anything but because i honestly dont want to fall in to my lectures Bad books...she is scaryyyyyyyyyyyy..:(

Then finally at 5am we decided to risk it all and leave. with many sleepy good byes at the auspicious time of 5.10am ...which was when the New Year Dawned ..we all stepped out into the skin-biting wind to go home ..Call Paradise...and have a long chat with our parents, family and loved ones...

Now that's what i call celebrating New Years in a real cultural style....lol..dont you???;)

God Bless

Happy Smiles..:)

Silent Celebration...:D

ok...i have been away for soooo long..

I missed THIS alooooot...

I missed writing...i missed looking forward to following my favoutite blogs and mostly i missed all of your company...:)

All major exams over..some were tough and some tougher than we expected...But i know that i did just fine..:)..yeppiiiii

1 more exam on monday but i couldn't wait that long to unleash all the things i have stored in my tiny brain and put it on digital medium..lol..

So...i'm writing this seated on the stairway to our apartment...enjoying the calm after the storm of lousy exams...and today is LOVELY..because it is Sunshiney and Warm...:D

Well New Discoveries....

There is a Christened "Bo" tree near our apartment.Well not exacly an actual "Bo" tree, but obviously some lookalike tree which we discovered and renamed ...

I am an awesome cook...hehehehe...i have now advanced from cooking macaroni and cheese to cooking delicious chicken, fish, curries, dhal, cabbage, salads, pork...etc...you name it and i can find a way to make it edible...;)

Made friends with the Ice Cream Uncle. Who is adorable and in-exchange for being sooo sweet to us we have now become sooo adicted to Ice Cream that we buy almost daily..

Made friends with Puri (Bread) Uncle..who very specificaly told ME that if we girls manage to finish 2 pounds of Bread per meal that we are going to be FAT....sniff..sniff...But still we buy more...lol...the problem is why did he tell ME that...am i really putting on weight???:'(..

Strawberries - Freash, Juicey, Yummy, Lovely strawberries...fresh from the orchards..for which i am now officially in Love with...:D

Speaking of Love..i think i now have a super serious crush on Justin Beiber...lol...i know that it's like major cradle-snatching..but still isn't he just Adorable...(drooools)..:P

Found a Channing Tatum lookalike at Uni..when i was studying in the library.Being nerdy sure does have it's advantageous moments..YEAH...!!!!

Made friends with some Indians and also got to know later that they had other interests in me...ooopsss...sorry boys...that chapter in my life is closed for the moment....

Well now as the Icy cold breeze finally numbs my fingers i realise that i have been staring non-stop at a Geogian boy who is playing football with his dog, for like the past 5 minutes and he is giving Me weird looks...:S

I take this as a sign..pick up my shoes..slip them on...button up my jacket...type the final lines to head back into the apartment...but maybe I would go grab myself a Chocochip Ice Cream first...in celebration of being Back!!!

Yummy...

Cheers to all..;)

Sending my love,

Smile People...

God Bless...:D

p.s. the guy with Dog is HOT when you come to think of it...lol...

Ciao..

Just wanted to say/type this...

Ok…so here I am...in the middle of a very busy week and month…I have Mid –terms…yikessss...just to let you know that realized that I’m fortunate and I’m happy being me..

I am determined not to be unhappy or let the sulky mood engulf me and destroy my little happy life….

I am fortunate for having an awesome family and the most caring bunch of cousins...

The craziest and sweetest friends…

And random people who walk in to my life suddenly and love me to death sometimes for no apparent reason…

All these made me realize that I’m a-one-of-a-kind girl...lucky…sooo lucky…to have such wonderful people around me...

Who have the ability to lift me up each time I fall…who are always there to offer their shoulder for me to cry on…who are so concerned about my happiness…who are also willing to watch me stumble fall and then watch patiently while I struggle myself up the crazy hill…and then pat my back and say…see I told you your one strong girl…

I love attention as any girl but the attention that I crave the most is from the people I admire the most and I’m getting enough..But I would love more…:P

I realized that I can love...i can just love and love…and I think it’s great...

I realized that I can give...and give and give...

And that I have heaps of patience...soo much that some of my friends call me crazy…

And I also realized that some people actually find me interesting and sort of important... ;)

All this with the fact that I’m trying my best to be a good girl, loving daughter, and a super friend make me feel that I’m doing pretty fine in life for now…J

Sooo good byeee..Tears…Good Byeee Unhappiness..you were patient teachers who made me learn important lessons in life..may be the hard way..but still you kept me company…helping me grow into a better,stronger,happier and a lovely person…

Big hug to my self…and to all..

Life is life itself..sooo

Smile… :)

God Bless…

It's Party Time!!!

welcome back...

So here i was running back home after church..with around 5 boys carrying mega bottles..two huge cakes...buns and candles....

Halfway through i call home to find out that everyone is ready..

we run faster..i can hear the poor boys cursing away.:)..i dash to our building..i hear the noise and the raket the 50 invitees our making inside our tiny 2 bedroom apartment...Omg..i can hear them scream 3 floors above to almost the entrance..

How am i going to make them shoosh..

and i can see them standing against the windows and sight seeing...lol...They are supposed to act as if they are not at home..

But then again..

50 Boys and Girls cant keep their mouths shut i guess..

I enter the apartment breathless with the boys trailing behind me.

they leave the stuff in the kitchen and go join their friends...

SG, CP and i begin setting up the food table...our catholic mallis come help stick candles on the cakes and then..they sit down comfortably in the kitchen and eat burgers in the name of being helpful...ughhhhhh..BOYS....

Then i shoosh the crowed and call my friend who has been babysitting SL to bring her home....

then i call SL and tell her that we just got home..and that we are too tired to come if she wouldn't mind coming home with our other friends and that they can stay over for dinner at our place...

she agrees...

And then comes the really hard part of making the people quiet..

we dump the boys into the hall..and the girls in to our bedroom so that it wont be crowded...

and i tell them to please keep quiet as the Birthday Girl is on the way..it works for like 10secs..before they fall into loud chatter again..:((((

i leave them alone..send a boy to control them..

then suddenly the whole house goes quiet and i got nervous..went to check on the door to find the boys doing a rehearsal...awwwwwwwww..how sweet right???

then the door bell ring...

OMG..

i quietly open the door with nervous smiles to find another one of our friends at the door step..

hehehehe...you can kill the boy....expect them to give you mild heart attacks..

we resume cooking...

And the noise gets louder..

I walk into the hall ask them to keep it down ...

goes to cook...

still shouting...walks back into the hall..

begs to be quiet..it works...they stay quiet...

but not for long....

i get really MAD...i walk in again..this time armed with a butter knife..(lol..i didn't mean to take it...hehehehe..)threaten the boys..

they freak out....and also feels sorry for me...

then i get a call from my friend saying that they are almost here..

i tell the boys...

move them away from the windows..

switch off the unwanted lights..

and wait patiently...

SG is giggling nervously..

CP is pacing nervously..

Me....hehehehe....lol...was really excited...

then rings the door bell...i look from the peephole...then figure out that everyones coats are hanging on our rack..

and then hurriedly stack them away in a nearby empty cupboard..wow...what a close shave...

I open the door...

invite her in..make small talk about church and all and casually lead her to the hall...and Open the door.........

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SURPRISE!!!yells 53 voices in union...followed by the most loudest version of Happy Birthday to you....

also Followed by the grand entrance of the HUGE double birthday cake..all lit and looking niceeeeeee...

Camera's flash....

People are laughing.....teasing and grabbing at SL...

Meanwhile SL is in a state of shock..and just keeps on smiling in the most maniac manner...lol...

it was simply awesome..all went according to plan...yeppi..we were happy....

Happy in our hearts..happy in our heads..

happy in everything..

Then came the cutting of the cake...with another round of happy birthday..sung at the top of our lungs...

Watching from my corner...i see many things...

I see pure Joy radiating from SL's face as she is about to make a wish before blowing the candles...

I see our friends happy..enjoying each others company....

I see SG and CP holding hands happily savoring the success of our plan...

I see people Happy...Happy as we are meant to be..enjoying simple blessings in life..which we often forget..

The company of our loved ones..the celebration of Human Lives...and the existence of Love in the world..

Then after the cake is cut i get dragged into the live version of life....

Cake has to be cut...and SL goes around the whole room feeding everyone cake...

I take the responsibility of cutting the cake and the others serve it around..

the people start the chatter...

and we all join in the fun..chattering bugging each other...

And guess what...

The food disapeared..60 Hot Dogs and 75 Burgers...!!!!:D

Then the boys wanted to sing..so we decided to take them outside to the adjoining Basketball/Football court for them to shout since it was nearly 10pm...

we sent SL to our neighbors with Birthday Cake and she got a gift from one of them..nice right??

well it was an unmentionable gift..!!!!lol..want to take a gift..SL quickly grabbed it and ran into the room to deposit it safely..and guess who she meets on the way..

A parade of boys..who...since they cannot stand being curious..grabbed it from SL's hand..we went to her rescue..CP got hold of it..and stood on top of it...

Three boys were on the floor tugging at it...SG was tugging at it from another end..and i was tugging the T-shirts of the boys..but alas!!!..the mightier boys won and they happily passed it around...in inspection..and there was SL surrounded by all twisting in embarrassment...LOL..

count on your neighbors to be nice people right..lol..

Then we all locked the door to go to the court and into the chilly nights in our coats...

By the time CP and i joined the gang a baila session was in full swing...

after getting bored of that we opted to play..mind you it's around 11pm...

We agreed on playing Ice and water..awesome game...the teams were Girls Vs. Boys..

Omg WASN'T IT FUN...

We got the chance to take all our revenge on the Boys...we slapped them..hit them...dragged them...Dropped them.. threatened them...fell with them..knocked on them..somersaulted..and ran around the court like mad women,,,,,it was fun..

Yours truly was the first to fall...hehehehe

I was chasing a boy to Ice him(freeze)and another boy came right at me from another direction.. knocked on him..!!!!and i went flying and fell on my back flat on the ground!!lol...hehehehehe.. embarrassing is not the word..especially when the said boy is standing unharmed..and the whole court goes quiet wondering if i'm dead or alive..i get up...cheering goes up..and we run again..

We seemed to take ages to freeze the boys..

but we all get frozen in a matter of minutes...

We knew the secret..THE BOYS CHEATED..

even after we freeze them they run..helllooooooo..cheaters...

hehehehe

Many fell...many boys were complaining that the girls slap hard...

one boy complained saying that a girl hit him so hard that he is sure his sternal bone is cracked..lol..

another boy got all his buttons ripped off the whole shirt by another girl..

I myself was guilty of ripping the sleeve off another boys shirt..oopppssss..well accidents do happen right???

well all in the name of fun right,,,,

and we had an awesome time..

Then we played Kabadi...started off well..then the game got rough when the boys had to go after the girls..so we gave up...

Oooops..Danger..

almost 1am...i guess our noise was too much..there were people near the basketball court..one was talking on a phone...ooops...were we going to get arrested...nnnooooooooo:(

One of the seniors who could speak the language came and told us that the person is calling someone..about some kids who are playing and who he thinks are immigrants...HEELLOOOOO

we are Students...Like University Students!!!

And our senior went up to him..spoke to him..apparently one of our neighbors is the minister of sports..coooool...right he was the one who was speaking on the phone...he was delighted to know that we knew the language and our seniors beautifully handled the situation....they even got to know that the minister was an alumni of our university and guess what..few minutes after chatting with him..

he brings us Footballs...AT 1 AM..and says go ahead enjoy!!!..lol..

This obviously excites the boys...and they opted to play a game of football...while we where happily cheering them on...

Then back to Ice and Water...3AM..oops...time to go home and we are all really beat-up...

then we send off the girls with boys to drop them off...

Then the people who lived nearby our place stayed back later...to sing more slow soft songs in the chilly night under a dusting of stars and a beautiful moon....

It was truly heavenly to just lay back on the dirty ground..with no-care in the world and just sing and sing and sing.....thinking long but wonderful thoughts about...

US...OUR FUTURE..OUR HOMES..and finally OUR UNFULFILLED DREAMS...

it was certainly a day to remember...

a day that was more perfect than we could possibly have hoped for...

so perfect that it would certainly have been one of the days snatched from the time of Eden..

Except that the gala event ended with all of us singing nursery rhymes..from "twinkle twinkle little star"...to "put your right hand in..put your right hand out...and shaking our butts around to the hokey pokey"....lol...

Happy smiles...

dont you just love being Kids...

God Bless..:)