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3 Days 8 Hours 20 Min. Oh Gawd. Seriously????
*calms down* So almost all my packing is done, and thankfully their combined weight is not more than mine (but very close. Very.)
Also, My Journal AND my Thoughts section both have 63 views. That isn't weird, right?
2 Days 16 Hours 10 Min. I'm just ASDFGHJKLing!! It's probably cray but I AM!
27 Hours 30 Min. to Takeoff Random Rambling including How much I love GR friends
The quote of the day in GR aka
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
Is Totally for me :D :D.
Anyway, almost all my packing is DONE (except chargers, laptop, tissues, that kinda stuff) and Oh My God I Can't Wait!! Of course more than half of my friends don't even know about me going abroad, but then again they ALL scattered to different places like they don't give an eff.
That's actually the part of the reason I love coming to GR- Friends that I can meet anytime and anywhere! And that for meaningful purposes like discussing books and characters and their impact in our lives, fangirling, roleplays, etc. just by sitting in front of our laptop/ipad/phone! And not just 'I-don't-give-an-eff' friends but Awesomesauce-cutie-pie friends that I just LOVE SO MUCH! You're all soo Koo-chi-Koo-chi-Koo :D
*ahem* Soo I don't know whether I'll get time to update more in here, so maybe, Maybe, the next post of mine will be from Canada, when I'll be living under my Uncle's house roof, with completely different but familiar family in a 'supposedly' Awesomesauce country. Now now, don't get this wrong. How the heck can I compliment Canada without even seeing it with my own two eyeballs?? SO Stay tooned for my next posts as they can be quite interesting.
And from quite interesting, I mean OF COURSE I'm gonna tell ya guys about my First time three-flight experience!!!
Over and Out!
My First and the probably the WORST experience in Airport Should I give you the bad news now or later?? That has been going through my mind for the past 2 hours. I mean, it'll definitely be a shocking news but since it's my journal I have to post it and as sincere friends you have the right to know it.
So..I'm gonna just cut to the chase ok?
MY FLIGHT TICKET GOT SUSPENDED AND I DIDN'T TAKE THE FLIGHT!!!
*sigh* So much has happened since then..but lemme explain what happened on 10th August.
At 10:30 I said goodbye to every inch of my house and started travelling to Delhi. (I could never even imagine what would happen to me right after 12 hours.)
In evening we reached there, and had dinner in my aunt's house and also celebrated Raksha Bandhan (an Indian Festival I'm in no mood to explain right now).
Right in 10:15 PM we reached the airport and MY GOODNESS IT WAS BIG! I was so freaking excited!!!
So...RIGHT AT THE CHECK IN COUNTER...when I gave them my ticket information and such..THEY PULLED ME OUT OF LINE..and asked me some infos about why I'm going, and THEN informed me that my ticket is SUSPENDED!!!! I asked why, and they said either give us the credit card from which the ticket has been paid 'physically' or you'll have to buy the new one.
And I was like 'but we got the tickets by Travel Agent and she used her credit card and she's in Ludhiana right now (more far away than my hometown) then they were like 'I'm sorry we're bound because your Toronto flight is with AIR CANADA (I was in Swiss International Counter) and THEY have done your ticket suspension because your Credit Card is NOT CONFIRMED.
I want to explain more but I'll probably end up writing a book SOO after 2 hours of trolling (and talking SEVERAL times with the Agent) I had no choice but to get out of the Airport and Cancel my flight.
And I can assure you that I was quite calm and calculating type at that time (gotta book the next flight ASAP-thinking like that all time) and I tried every possibility for booking inside the Airport but due to Festival and Sunday most of the flights are OverBooked! But..yeah...I wasn't crying at all and I was thinking of several possibilities and I was calm at that time. BUT!! The moment I got outside the airport, and saw my mom and dad and relatives FREAKING OUT like heck I seriously started Sweating. Note that I had already told my problem through phone when I was inside the Airport.
I told them the same story 30 times as my parents freaked out and cursed the travel agent and demanded her to pay back their money and what not...while I was standing on one side...becoming sadder as each second of the Countdown went. Of course, I broke down once I got in the bed of my Aunt's house (thinking that I could be on that plane and instead I'm in India.)
Gosh that was a bad night. We all sat in the living room (while they insisted me to take a nap I came back again and again after 10 minutes because HELL HOW COULD I SLEEP!). Then we booked a ticket for next day (technically night).
Of course the tickets are hella costly but this time ALL three of them are of Lufthansa. I have 4 and a half hour stop in Vienna, Austria and about 3 hours in Toronto..which is what I really needed because in my last ticket I had one and a half hour which was probably not enough time to change flights. Another good news is this time I got my Boarding Passes online so there's no way there could be another problem. Also, dad got his money back just a few hours ago.
Thing is, during All that process between Airport and booking new flight and Even now...NONE..I say NONE of my relatives, including my parents, were calm or cool about it. They kept discussing it for hours, trying to find the fault, only to get the actual fault about 15 hours AFTER they started their discussion and hundreds of phone calls- The Airlines needed a photocopy of the credit card with the owner's sign on it to confirm that they paid money for me and not some other troll.
Of course I'm glad that I got the ticket so soon, but maybe, just maybe, *sigh* I don't know. I feel like it's all my fault. My mom said once in the discussion that we can book a flight after a week and I shouted NO immediately, because returning hometown, my house, after I said it Goodbye, Even thinking about that made me think of myself such a failure in life. I couldn't even get through the counter- What kind of Loser! And I thought I could fly three flights in a go!!
Of course, many of my hours went by silent crying, depression and a lot of stress, even though it was not my fault. The travel agent should've known that this was coming. Hopefully there will be no mistakes this time, but this experience has truly demoralized me, no matter what others say.
Over and Out!
P.S.- NOW my flight is almost about 8 hours from now. And I don't wanna discuss about it because no matter what you say, I'll always feel like that was one of the major fails of mine.
P.P.S- Sorry for my bad grammar, in no mood to correct it.
Oh My God GR loves me so much! Just checked the Quote of the Day“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
DAM! I can't even tell how much this explain the house I'm inside right now!
I have SOO SO SO SO SO SO much to report. About my flight, about my new house (well, new for ME), about how I got my first job and how it is going, about how my lifestyle got changed, about the food, people, Pastas, how I read Percy Jackson Greek Gods, how I got four movie tickets free through a new credit card, how is my new room, what is my daily schedule, how is the University, did I made some new friends, how I'm learning road rules, how my cousin is going to Kingston and how am I gonna have a road trip this weekBUT FOLKS...I'm ONLY AND ONLY posting here, JUST to tell ya guys that I'm Crying Tears of Happiness because I FINALLY got the Revenge of Seven online ebook ONE DAY BEFORE ITS RELEASE BECAUSE ITS IN FREAKING UK EDITION! I Can't even...I seriously can't. I waited for this for approximately A WHOLE YEAR! I don't even know how I survived that long just to know how the story proceeds RIGHT FROM WHERE IT ENDED WITH A FREAKING CLIFFHANGAR. I have the ebook in my computer RIGHT NOW but I'm so so so freaking afraid to open it because AAAAAAHHHHHHH another YEAR LONG WAIT FOR NEXT AND THE LAST BOOK How the heck am I even gonna survive.
Someone just shoot me please or tie me with a rope and leave me to Alaska, just keep me away from this book BECAUSE I'M BARELY RESTRAINING MYSELF INTO OPENING THE EBOOK OH MY GOD WHAT KIND OF TORTURE IS THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know I'm over reacting but THAT'S WHAT FREAKING HAPPENS when a new book for your One of most favorite series comes out and you've been waiting for a year and suddenly it's in your hands. I think I'm gonna explode any minute...
Over and Out.
Whoops, hehe, I got pretty sentimental last night. But ugghhhh, the wait was so worth it. I haven't read the whole book of course, just the first 5 chapters, and then I slept :P
I was right.. I was COMPLETELY right to freak out. Because this book was so full of awesome stuff. But that's not it. I just finished it half an hour ago and the thing's that eating me away Right now is the ENDING. Why do authors even...what is this life....what the Hades...the schist....the ending...THAT ending...all the new information....it's too much.
It was soo worth it, waiting for a year for THIS, but maybe not, because now there's another freaking long year to know what happens EXACTLY after THAT ENDING!! It's SO not fair!!!
But still..I don't think I can grasp much information that I already have...maybe I can wait till a year..no,, you know what? I'm more and more looking forward to the novella that's gonna release in December...ohhhhhh. DAM! It's sooo far away! OH MY GOSH WHAT IS LIFE!!!!
But maybe...maybe I can wait till since Blood of Olympus...OH MY GOSH MY BRAIN IS GOING TO EXPLAODE!!! The Blood of Freaking Olympus this year in October Oh My Gosh!!! And then, OMG there are so many novels I have yet to read...oh man, that's the advantage of having so many books, your life does not depend on one book. But still, it's one of my favorite series, and I don't think I can function right now...
P.S- The Whole above ranting wasn't me. That was my brain rambling all these facts. ALL OF THEM. I guess you know how a brain works, without a stop. I'm feeling so numb, honestly! Dunno what to do with my life right now...OK OK I'm going!!
Over and Out! (This last line was me :P)
New journal coming up soon..Just here to inform here that I attended my first University today and it's 11:25 pm right now and I'm listening to my current favorite song in headphones in Loud Volume!
OH MY GOD SWEET MUSIC IN MY EARS!!!!!! THIS SONG IS MY LIFE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!! I CANNOT EVEN!!!!!!!!!11
Ugh...I'm totally sucking at this.New idea: Gonna post here everyday...kind of like my vlogs...but on Goodreads..OMG! That sounds cooleo
Of course this idea credit goes to my one and only Girl Crush Superwoman!
I soo feel like a bitchy person right now...I didn't even apologize for being so late posting here :P.Did I still say sorry? Nooope.
BTW peeps here's the link to comment on my journal(and virtually slap me whenever I'm late).https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
How much I love writing.. Is that even a thing to be asked?? I'm crazy. I'm literally crazy about writing. And the most embarrassing part is, I'm not even good at it!
Today, on this holiday, something about being excited for Blood of Olympus and reading my favorite author's tweets and reading some of my favorite quotes from the books I love and reading multiple reviews of books I like and Finally reading my old fanfics made me realise....how much I am into reading and writing stuff. And I SO WANNA DO MORE!
Like, seriously, I would just love to be a writer. But you can't become a writer like that!!! Plus, I don't even have half the abilities a writer should have..starting from Grammatical mistakes.
Passionate about writing...then using second form of verb with 'did' *facepalm*. Oh Neha..
And then I think, dude you're not even studying about writing. It's not even my first career choice, although it should be!!!!! It's not even possible, given my family and all...Gods, they don't even know half the books I've read :P.
But from inside, I have this unbelievable plan that after I get a good job and earn money and basically get a good rep in my family...I'm gonna write stuffs like crazy. And it's a good time for me to start practicing.
I don't think I can write fanfics anymore...not yet. But my plan for start my own blog next year, yep that plan is still in my mind. It can really improve my writing skills. In addition to that, I gotta be more active on GoodReads and update my journals.
Also, part of the Environmental management studies does include professional writing as a skill. Ohhhhh I'm SO gonna rock at that one! It's basically helping students to write formal reports and resumes and what not, which is Also important for a Writer.
Gosh I'm so crazy. This whole idea seems insane! But I'm feeling so pumped for it. Maybe because I just woke up from a nap. Oh yeah, now you guys know why I'm acting insane. Oh go ahead just slap me to sleep.
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Tiring Sunday Meh...
Got up, got ready, and then got REALLY lazy. Thanks to Superwoman.
Oh of course not. It's not her fault that she's so awesome and so addictive to watch! So after breakfast, I couldn't concentrate on anything BUT watching her vids. Maybe for 2 hours. (Whooops)
But then my uncle saw me, and did I tell you he's even stricter than my mom? Well, he doesn't actually yell or anything, but when he's serious he has got that 'serious' tone which means that you better listen to him or things would go mojo bad. Of course, his kids (my cousins) are used to it, so they can easily defend themselves and escape. Me, not so much. Anyway he told me not to use internet too much bla bla bla and concentrate on your studies. I was like, okay, whatevs. But then he reminded me that we're having guests today at our house for lunch. TODAY!! ON HOLIDAY!!
So I had to get ready in the next half an hour and then help my aunt and my uncle arranging delicious dishes. By the way, the guests arrived ONE HOUR LATE.
They talked a lot and basically there was no guest of my age. My cousin sis was at some other city this weekend so not only I was super-bored, but got super tired too serving the guests. We had a starter course, a mid meal, and THEN a proper lunch, along with deserts in the end. Technically the guests should have left at 2:30, but they arrived an hour late and then two of our guests had to go for some busy work, and Both of them took Both of the cars on which the guests had come in.
You know when they left?? 5:30 pm!!! The nerve! And these guests weren't even the 'proper' guests, so no wonder they left a LOT of dirty dishes and a Whole lot of mess for us. Uncle aunt and me all had to work till 7:30 just to arrange everything back. The good news is, the guests were pretty happy, and that's always sort of a satisfaction coming out of an Indian family because Atithi Devo Bhava (Guests are like God/should be served like God). Yep, That's what our tradition says!
Anyways, we went out at 8:15 to pick up my cousin from airport, then came back half an hour later. It doesn't seem much of a work, but I feel tired, which I shouldn't feel before Monday! Washed my hair half an hour ago which was pretty relaxing, and I have everything prepared for tomorrow. By the way, my wake up time is 6:15 am. Seriously, that's the time on my alarm clock!! I still have 7 hours and 20 min. so I guess I'll get some good sleep.
Unfortunately I haven't prepared much for my Tuesday Test. There's this big test in which I gotta identify 30 species of Conifer plants, the results of which will add 10% in the finals!! So pumped for it. If my plan goes right, I'll get a Lot of time tomorrow to prepare for it.
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Random Deep Thought of the Day Wondering if my dreams will ever change...because they have definitely changed since the past two years...
Alright, back to study, I HAVE A TEST TOMORROW!
Working Like A BOSS Sooo today was the day of TWO Midterm tests. And yesterday was the release of the book none other than THE BLOOD OF OLYMPUS . No contest right?
Did I buy the book??? Umm..NO!!!! Do I want to? REALLY FREAKING BADLY!
Of course, I got the online sites to read it online as soon as it officially got released, but gosh I don't know what to do. Well, okay I've got this assignment to write and submit on Friday so gotta write my butt off tonight and tomorrow. Gosh, the assignments are just not stopping to come. Like GAWD STAHP can you give me a break???
But you know what? I really like it (that's no sarcasm folks). As much as I hate to work too much, I know it's best for me. There are so many different tasks to do, it keeps me busy and that's exactly what I want to happen for me. I knew this was gonna happen anyway. So many projects and assignments ahead, and just 2 Months!! It just seems pretty short time to me, given the work I have to do.
And then there is THE book on the other side. If I had a choice, I would read it on the HARDCOVER using my pencil for favoriting quotes and writing my opinions on EACH Chapter somewhere on the Internet. But I CANT! I really wanna read this. So I just have to do this in my classic way, the way I've read most of the PJO/HoO books, ONLINE.
I know I know, it's the last book and Hardcover is soo much better and stuff. I do get it. BUT you also know that it doesn't matter in whichever way you read it, you're just gonna love it. Plus I got so much work and I can't afford money yet and I wanna know the ending Badly, I'm probably gonna finish off this weekend. Or maybe upto middle of next week depending on how many chapters I'm gonna read each night.
Hmm..what else? Midterms still going on, got the date of final exams for December, got assignment to submit for Friday, Plant Mounting to do in weekend (with labels), learn plant identifications for Tuesday Test....make note of Geography...umm...Summer Job Applications to look (because the some applications are closing at Oct 17 and some at Oct 31)...uhh...mmmmm.......Let's just say It's NEVER ENDING!
I'm definitely NOT complaining for this by the way. It's just my daily life right now, and I'm totally contented with it EXCEPT for the fact that I can't buy my Blood Of Olympus book yet and have to read it online. But you know what, RIGHT HERE, I swear when I'm gonna second read the book, I'm gonna read it from the hardcover. PROMISE!!!!!
Alright, lots of random stuffs for now. Sorry if my writing confused you. I hope I won't write like this for my assignment. That would be an epic fail :P
Wanna comment? Go right here- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Gosh darn it 5th page isn't ending man!
Loneliness... Throughout the day, I have been feeling homesickness and getting nauseated, along with feeling of loneliness. Maybe its a part of moving abroad or something, but today I was REALLY feeling lonely. Like, VERY VERY Lonely. Even when I was doing my breakfast among my relatives, making grilled chicken with my cousin, doing my assignment, whatever I was doing, it was like my Feels and my brain was getting hit by thoughts of loneliness again and again and again. Is this a part of depression, I don't know.
It could also be because its weekend and I STILL can't go anywhere. Because:
1. I can't drive.
2. The bus isn't coming our way becaues of construction.
3. My cousin's home from another city so everyone was at home today.
4. I Do have friends but maybe not close enough to hangout on weekend :/. Some of them don't even respond to my text. I guess that helped a lot in my depression.
But this pang of loneliness HAS happened to me many times, when I used to be alone at home or when I had too much load of studies. Everytime it used to happen, I knew it was time to read a new book. But this time, I can't afford to do that. Not just because of money, but I have lots of study work to complete, and this time I can't Chose any other way. This is pretty serious, but it makes me feel like a loser sometimes. Like sometimes when I talk to some of my friends I really don't have any other topic besides STUDY. And I HATE that, because I want to be friends. I want to find some common ground, not through books. I really wish I knew how to do that...
At least I have one book-friend now. I texted her and thankfully she replied to me. We're probably going to see The Maze Runner movie next weekend, even though she hasn't read the book and I have. If you have read my previous journals you would know how the ending of this trilogy is the most disliked thing ever by me!!! I don't know about the movie though, and neither does she so why not check out??
Also, this will seem really weird for you guys but this will be my ACTUAL FIRST BOOK-ADAPTED MOVIE that I will WATCH IN THEATER instead of TV and Internet. Yo, we indians aren't that much fans of Hollywood, so there's hardly any Hollywood movies in India.
*sigh* That's my rant for today. I won't say I'm feeling a lot better by writing this, because I don't think anyone even reads my journal anymore. Why would you anyway? It's my fault I don't update this thing daily.
But still if you wanna comment on my journal do it right here-- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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HOLD ON!!!!!!!Did I say I have read The Blood Of Olympus????? I'll write my review on it tomorrow :D :D. Gosh, so excited to share my feelings on it, and I DONT wanna know what negatives people think because for me it was 110% PERFECTO!
I haven't write my review...that's the reason why I still have The Blood of Olympus on Current reading, lol.
This Page No. 5 is REALLY nagging me now :P.So much work.......I hope I survive my next two weeks....otherwise I'm dead.
MOCKINGJAY!!!!!!!!!!! (Part 1) Pre-Movie Review!!
YES! MY FIRST ENGLISH MOVIE AT THE OPENING DAY!! SLAY FOLKS!!!
I hope I don't have to tell you guys how The Hunger Games series is my most favorite series of all. If you visit my profile, you might have noticed that already :).
So..I'm about to see this movie in exactly one and a half hour, I also gotta get ready (and my money ready). So I'm just gonna quickly list up the things I'm excited about in the movie!!
1. KATNISS- I saw Catching Fire movie yesterday night, and I'm really curious to see how she transforms into Mockingjay just like she did in the book. *three-finger salute*
2. PEETA- Alright, call me a monster, but I DO wanna see Peeta's transformation, really badly. Because that part of him is really crucial. Like it actually makes his character develop (in a bad way of course!). I have already seen the TV spots and OH MY JOSH Peeta already looks so broken and all. I know I'm gonna cry.
3. GALE- Hmm...what I wanna see for Gale?? Oh, first of all, I don't wanna see Galeniss and all that, but oh man I'll have to. I actually don't wanna see how he fights back and all, because that's what we hate about him right? But, like, this is also a personality trait of him which he shows prominenetly in Mockingjay...so yeah..
4. FINNICK- FINNICK IN UNDERWEAR. PERIOD!
5. NEW SCENES- As the director promised, we're gonna have some cooleo new plots in the movie, which I'm really really excited about, in a good way! I mean, come on! It's almost like a fanfiction, but like, Professional Fanfiction, since it has been approoved by AUTHOR herself. I totally don't see any problem with that!
6. EFFIE- It related to Point #5, because Effie almost not in the book. She's certainly a pretty strong character, in her own way, and I really would like to know her struggles with the effin-boring District 13 rules :D. And you know what else I wanna see?? Of course you know! HAYFFIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7. District 13- You know why..
8. The ENDING- AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH ASDFGHJKL! I'm soo not ready for that.
Thanks for reading that rant (IF you have read it). Notice that I wrote that all in approximately 7 minutes, so...GOTTA RUN!
Over and Out and MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR!
Post Movie Review (Spoilers are in spoiler brackets so take a chill pill.)The movie tortured me till the end. And I love it!
It's so hard to move my fingers right now, and even my brain. Because my eyes are still there, my brain is still stuck at the moment the movie ended. It's still there, I swear!
Soo emotionally drained out. Guys, you can NEVER be ready to watch this movie. This was effin emotional rollercoaster, except that it only went down, a bit up, then down to the chasm! There. end. The death. The Void. Nothing. Emptiness.
That's my emotions right now. In Freaking Denial!
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MOVIE SPOILERS!
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Mixed accents Today, as I had lots of written work to do, in which not much of my actual brain was needed and it was pretty exhausting, I was listening to the Red Pyramid Audiobook on Youtube. By the way, one of my friends recently called me a Youtube Fanatic. Honestly, I have no regrets. Of course it's my favorite social site!
So, whenever Carter's POV came up, this dude was talking in American accent. No Problemo. Then this dudette started speaking in British accent. I was like 'Ohh that's interesting.' and I liked it because it means they wanted to stay true to the book.
But then, Carter and Sadie both imitates Amos voice in their POVs, and they ALSO imitate each other's voices during their POVs, as that's what happened in the book. This started making my head spin a bit. Now that they both are trying to imitate Bast's voice, which is a pretty annoying imitation by the way, I just had to stop.
It's totally not their mistake, since they are just trying to stay true to the book. But I was thinking, since its all making my head spin, isn't it possible to make every person's voice different. I think that would be really convenient, because Amos voice and Bast voice in both the accents is really puzzling me. But since in the book, both of them are actually speaking in the microphone, I would have to assume this is the way they would have recorded that.
But there's no square bracket in between, which is even more puzzling. Also, the 'meow' and 'grr' and 'agh agh' parts are absolutely hilarious!
Gosh, I don't know what to do. Maybe check out another audio version of the same book, because now I don't wanna leave it in between :P. But these guys aren't so bad, so maybe I should stick to it? Idk...
Lets just concentrate on my work more rather than the accents. Hope that helps.
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Ok. that the last one was very interesting. I liked it!
it's personal
Books mentioned in this topic
Fairest (other topics)The Blood of Olympus (other topics)
Scarlet (other topics)
The Death Cure (other topics)
Cinder (other topics)
Can't believe I'll be in completely different place next Tuesday (or Monday night..in there)