Its been a while

And a lot happened...

1) I can drive (YAY!)

2) I went to Coorg - one of my favorite places in the world, right alongside the top of the Harbour Bridge, Sydney and A2. A weekend of doing absolutely nothing but reading Steinbeck, eating and sighing at the perfect beauty of my home town.

3)Last Saturday(at Coorg), i suffered from an unnatural(eh?) rush of adrenalin and went absolutely crazy with my sister. We tried the most ridiculous of stunts, the attempts toward which were carefully recorded by my mother and just as carefully encrypted and hidden by me afterward :). While showing off my newly acquired skills at 'handstanding', i tipped over at the very top and landed gracefully on my neck and shoulder. My dad nearly skinned me, after making sure i was alive, for, as he says, 'almost killing myself or atleast crippling myself for life'. Result - ban on adrenalin rushes. meh. im fine now.

4)The power just went off. We have had power for an average of six hours everyday because the beautiful monsoon hasnt hit us hard enough as yet. (we get electricity from hydel power, and no rain = no water = no electricity). But in the meantime, ive weaned myself off technology, learnt to cook some fantastic stuff, reinvented my game in badminton and table tennis and done the craziest stuff with my darling sister - again videos have been shut in a dungeon at the centre of the earth ;P

5)I punched a guy in the face. Not the first. Not the last.

6)Tomorrow i take off to the place where i learnt to dream - Bangalore - the city that is solely responsible for my reaching Stanford. I hate the city - its filthy, commercialised, crowded and the traffic crawls, but it dreams big and a bit of that rubbed off on me. Plus i met my best friend there and that alone is enough for me to like bangalore... a bit. So meeting family and friends there = fantastic food(everyone takes it up as their responsibility to feed me.. and i love it!), shopping for next year and preparing for the rest of my summer.

7) On Wednesday at 11pm, I will be on a flight to Sydney. The day I land there is a huge party, and the day after.. till we, the staff of the 35th International Science School at the University of Sydney are inundated with 140 high school students from 11 different countries. When i went to sydney two years ago, the two weeks i spent there gave me some of the best memories of my life. And this time will only be better! :)
The one huuuge minus - i may not have internet access when im there for nearly four weeks. Im going to try and change that, but id love to talk to you all before i leave... just in case. Lets try and talk monday or tuesday!

8) I swore... finally. But will not offer repeat performances to anyone. All i can say is that It was very well provoked in this situation.

A lot more happened, but im saving it for live re enactments later on those fine evenings at Kimball. For now... goodbye. Tell me what you want from down under and i'll bring you that even if i have to hunt it down.

Alex's video just made me miss you all waaaay too much. You guys should really try and stay out of my head yknow?

Love,

Nruthya

Power back on now. Going to post this while it lasts.