"College Sucks"!!

Please dont be misled by the title of this post. This happens to be the profile pic of my college community I am part of in Orkut. As a matter of fact, there are several communities of my college and this is one of them, which has been created & moderated by "kids" I dont know personally. Though I am not an active member (speaking of which I am not one of any of them!), I do like visiting this particular one as I get to know all updates of whats happening in my college, the curriculum, the placement (whoa! this one just amazes me), the staff, the happenings, everything. I guess thats one good thing about these kiddos. They seem to update each and every thing in here, just opposite to whats happening with my batch's one, which has not seen a vote/ comment posted in years! :D
Now I am not saying that I luuuvvvvddd my college when I was studying there. But this profile pic really did hurt me! :( I felt its ok to have discussions/ forums/ comments in the community against the college, cos c'mon, "its after all a place to discuss your feelings". But putting a pic like this! Man, I was depressed :( I felt like removing myself from it, but then I saw that so many of my batch mates were there and again, I didn want to miss all the discussions & the up-to-date news there. Of course I can still read them without being a part of it, but then whats the point! If I am interested in whats happening there, I should have the courtesy to come out in the light and admit it!
I have posted a comment there asking if the profile pic is really needed. Now lets see whats going to happen with that! I dont really know the kids these days, mabbe they will think I am just an ol woman accusing them ;) But my question is, after all that you are going to be benefited from from being in the college and the simple fact that you whole heartedly joined the college in the first place, is this really needed?

Water water everywhere!!!

Miami beaches, phew! We got 2 days to spend here, thanks to Florida having nothing more to offer for a 7-day tour. And we never regretted it :) First day there, we spend our entire day in the cool, clear water. And it led to some important discoveries I never knew about myself. I am afraid of going too deep into the water :( :( :( I grew up with the Shangumukham beach in Trivandrum to my expense when ever I needed it and as far as I can remember, my pa & I were always in the water when ever we got to the beach! Even the southern-most tip of India - Kanyakumari , was not so far and we enjoyed it so very much there as well. And suddenly now, when I went to the North and South Miami beaches, I couldn force myself to got too deep into the water or to remain in the water for too long, even after hubby's persuasion and coaxing and what not! And I couldn bring myself to believe in that, and kept on trying to calm myself saying stupid things like "mabbe its just cos u dont know the Atlantic Ocean"!!! Have you ever experienced such a sudden change in ur interests/ aptitudes/ fears??
Anyways, coming back to what I started off... So, one day was full of beaching (of course bird-watching included ;) ) and getting ourselves "tanned"! The second day was spend roaming around the beautiful avenues and sitting on the sand, building moulds on my legs!
Here, I HAVE to mention the Collins Avenue, the center of attraction with almost all the designer labels I know of (and much more I have never heard ;)), the too crowded pathways with the hot-hotter-hottest gals & guys, the scooters with the coolest chicks vrooming around shouting in their highest shrilling voices and the hip restaurants, which of course we couldn go, thanks to the aroma of the seafood floating all across the streets.
And as they say, the beaches here are celebrity shooting spots :) And we did get a chance to see a photo-shoot, with the bare chested six-pack hunk in his faded jeans torn too very badly at his knees and his all the more handsome photographer. The hunk giving all sorts of poses, sitting-standing-lying down-rolling on the sand, and what not!!! And as soon as he left, I also did a photo shoot with my ___ pack hubby darling as my object of photography :D
In all, the experience I had there, phew!! Cant compare it with anything I have seen/ heard so far in my life!!! A must-go place for everyone who love water and for everyone who want to have some real fun & want to party real hard :)

Opa!!! Opa!!!

On our week long trip to Florida, we drove for about 1600 miles (yes! My hubby is a voracious driver, I drove only the 10MPH-less than a mile drive thru the Daytona Beach). One signboard we passed quite a few no of times was the direction to "Opa Locka". And that became our catch phrase for the entire trip, it sounds really good wen u say it the "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" style..."Opa!!!"
At the time we saw the movie, we kept on wondering what the word meant, as they went on repeating the word in a really amusing way al thru the movie... And finally when I searched it in the all-powerful Google, it said... "no specific meaning"!!! :D (of course if u dig deeper u can find that there r several meanings to it, but this is the one fairly said almost everywhere...)
Another one I found was the Malay/ Chinese word lah.
Now I was wondering what words are there in our dear Malayalam that has "no specific meaning". Cant say adipoli/ kidu-kidilam belongs to that category as we all have assigned meanings to it! As they say, words in themselves have no meaning, they evolve!
For some of the new-gen words, u can see t-h-i-s (the author of this page says "these words bring out the Mallu in u!!! I wonder how I can call my mommy & pops Mallus now ;)). No I dont know why I am advertising it, but he has got a pretty good collection in there ;)
So guys, till we see again, Opa!!!