The Shadow Proves The Sunshine

It's kinda quiet around here. Finally.

(1) Could it be true?

Could life be new?

It's been loud and frenzied for the last couple of weeks with college and then Kscope and while I love loud and frenzied, quiet is good. I'm grateful for quiet.

(2) All that's in my head,

Is in your hands.

I'm in the middle of exams. Two down, four more to go. The first two were pretty OK. Next one's not till Thursday so I'm relaxing a little and enjoying the stillness because it's going to get loud again from Thursday. The rest of the exams and then after the exams we have a bunch of looming deadlines with projects to meet so – madness!

(3) I'm finding that you,

And you alone can break my fall.

I'm listening to music and writing (like mad!) and reading (Pride & Prejudice, finally!) in between the studying. The studying is kind of a pain-in-me-arse but you know, if we didn't sometimes have to do things that we don't particularly like doing, everything else would also be kind of meaningless. I mean, I love listening to music more because for those moments I can NOT think about studying and that makes it sweeter.

(4) You push until you're shoving,

You bend until you break.

I think this is why I don't like being addicted to anything. Addictions always let you down and it's kind of boring. Diversity is sweet. Do things that you don't always do. Break the patterns.

(5) Let me know that you love me,

Let that be enough.

Hmm, this is turning out to be a post of random rambling/ not making much sense. That's not really new, is it? :P I did have a point, though. I wanted to say something...

(6) There's so much more than empty conversations

Filled with empty words.

Oh yes, last night (or the night before, I forget) I was thinking about how I haven't made one of those “I am thankful for...” lists on my blog for a while. And man, I am thankful for a lot of things. Anyway, so I began writing stuff down in my journal and I realised I can't just make lists because once I write down a point I feel like elaborating on the things about that thing or person that I am most thankful about. Lol. So I didn't get very far but the point is that I realised that when I think of things that I am most thankful about, they're all people.

So I want to tell you that I am thankful for you, dear blogreader. Silent or not-so-silent as you may be. Thank you for reading!

(7) Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell.

Where can you run to escape from yourself?

I started this blog about 3 years ago and got a lot more from it than I ever bargained for! I don't even completely remember what the motive for starting this blog was initially but now, now I hope that when you come to read this blog you wouldn't see me. You would see something that is much much bigger than me :)

(8) In the currency of grace;

Is where my song begins.

Have a joyful week!

And if you're wondering what's with the little numbered quotes. I'm listening to Switchfoot (and falling in love with them all over again!) and the lines may or may not have anything to do with the rest of the post :P And I've numbered them for any of you fellow Switchfoot fans who might want to take a dig at guessing the songs from which I've picked up the lines! (For the record, I would not be able to do it myself. So go ahead, impress me! :D)

Rewind?

The coolest thing I did all weekend was walk down a very high wall :)

No kidding.

One of the teams on K'scope is Workshops who organises well, short workshops of all kinds during Kaleidoscope. There were some awesome ones this year, including a Jazz-funk dance workshop which was so much fun! Participating colleges get points for taking part in these workshops and people from the workforce can also take part when they're free. Yesterday, they had this group organise rappeling down one of the buildings in college so I went! I have done this before while I was in school at this awesome campsite called 'Avalanche' but it was still pretty scary! So glad I did it though!

Concrete jungle.

This is by far the scariest part! When you're standing right on the edge and have to take a step off.

That's Madhuri!

Eshana! She was so awesome. She has a fear of heights and yet she did it! :)

And that's yours truly! :)

Eshana, Tina and Madhuri

It's been the BEST weekend ever. Last night, there were lots of tears at the closing ceremony (none from my eyes, strangely. I'm usually very good at turning on the water works. Maybe it'll hit me in a couple of days). K'scope is Sophia College's baby. Seriously, it's the most awesome event every year. Months of preparation and then 6 days just buzzing with activity on campus. At the closing ceremony last night, I was just thinking how fabulous it is that this whole thing is executed from start to finish by such awesome WOMEN! Go girl power! :P We can do so much and I'm so grateful that our college gives us this opportunity and that the participating colleges take part SO enthusiastically! It wouldn't be half as fun without them. (Jai Hind college won this year!)

I would love to upload a whole lot more pictures from the last two days of Kscope but unfortunately we have "exams" starting in two days. They're just internals and not important in the great scheme of things but I still can't NOT study for it or NOT give them at all. The timing is so horrid though. I mean, it takes at least 3 days to recover from K'scope and three days is all we got before the exams. Okay lets just call them TESTS. That has a better ring to it, non? :P I just spent the last hour emailing photos to the PR team so they can send them to our sponsor so the blog will have to wait.

I have so much more to say, but alas, I must go bury my head in a book.

I wish life had a "rewind" button sometimes :P

Kscope 2009: Day Black!

This awesome dance group conducted a Jazz-funk dance workshop yesterday. I learnt a little bit, so much fun! :)

Dance baby dance!

Crazy boys!

People waiting for the gates to open for the concert.

My absolute favourite picture and I didn't even take it! :)

Aamina - amazing photographer.

'Evergreen - the rock band that performed at After8 last night

Kscope 2009: Do the red!

Yesterday, the main event was Electrocuted - a band event. Ummm, fun but the bands were much better last year!

Do the red!

Anuroopa doing the announcements.

Workshops registration.

The line for pass distribution.

Love this picture.

"Oh look a Reflection!"

Slam Dunk

Sharmeen on the basketball court (a.ka. informals court)

Tamara wanted to take a picture and I gladly let her :P

The Despatch-ers.

Oh look, there's a picture, and I'm in it!

"Poutaughter" - A melange of pout and laughter (Okay, this caption is from Jo. Ask her!)

The photography team! (minus one who had to go off to Delhi to attend a wedding!)

A techie! :)

Shania backstage.

Backstage madness.

She was brilliant.

K'scope 2009: The day we all wore green.

Day two was lots of fun! Everyday the workforce has to wear a specific colour so that we can distinguish ourselves from all the people on campus. Yesterday was green (except for some people who get to wear sponsor t-shirts) and today will be red!

Last night there were a couple of dance events which I enjoyed so very much! Especially this one group who were not really participating at the festival but came on stage and showed us some very groovy breakdance steps. They just looked so HAPPY being up there just doing their thing and I loved this whole encouragement thing they had going on. Like each member of the group would come forward and show us some trick and they were pretty tough ones so the rest of the group would be at the back just cheering them on and clapping and everything! It's kind of hard to describe - just see the pictures! :)

Okay, so see here. This guy comes forward and does his cool thing...

... and his buddies are all behind him, cheering him on. So awesome!

A finished piece from a coffee-painting workshop that was held yesterday.

Sonu and Jo - looking super cool in my favourite pair of shoes! Converse! :)

This was from the other dance event called 'Jambo Bwana' - African Jazz event.

Another one from 'Jambo Bwana'

Being resourceful :)

Oh yeah, this was at the beginning of the afternoon. Sharan and I went a little crazy over some stamping work! We were trying to have a competition. Not sure who won :P

Spotlight.

A participant writing at an LA event.

Two very good looking judges at 'Mr. and Miss. K'scope'

I think this one was called 'Once upon a rhyme'

This guy sang a song mimicking about 10 different singers like Bon Jovi, Britney Spears, Shakira, etc. So clever.

Oh! My other favourite part of last night. This bunch of guys from one of the participating colleges randomly came up on stage and did a spontaneous dance to a Michael Jackson number. It was so hilarious, I couldn't stop laughing long enough to take a decent picture! What sports! :)

The EC-coord meeting at the end of the day! Every night, after all the events are over, the workforce meets to talk about the day and things that went wrong and things that went right and ahem... other things :)

Our train at Grant Rd. station!

Heading home after another fabulous day.

Come day 3, come! :)