the next few days.....

The last few days have been absolutely maddening……especially last night. LSE students organized this welcome party for the summer school students, called CRUSH…and what a party it was!!!!!!! I am generally not a party stuff, neither do I feel comfortable in an ambiance where all you do is booze, fag, get touchy with the opposite sex (the same, in a few exceptional cases), dance like crazy, shout , yell, hoot and scream on hearing your favourite song being played by the DJ, and sweat it out till you are down and out…..or better, high and exhausted!!! Last night was no different in terms of the outline I just sketched- guys and girls going tipsy on over drinking, bouncers trying to prevent some desperate Spanish guys from troubling a few girls (who, to my surprise, were dancing together on the dance floor after a while..*weird*),jam packed disc with blaring music and blinding lights, guys and girls getting so cozy with each other that even air couldn’t pass through…..and to top it all, my wacky friends from college who pulled me inside into the party even though I was happy standing on the side witnessing it all. One thing I will not deny is that I did have fun, maybe because it was the first party of its kind for me (which lasted around half an hour , after which I couldn’t stand the crowd, neither the loud music). But yes, for whatever time I was there , I had fun dancing with all my friends and losing control of myself for a while(trust me it doesn’t hurt once in a while)but I will not be very comfortable attending such parties in the future.*whatever*

One of the other crazy incidents happened when I , and one my friends lost our way to our accommodation from Trafalgar square at 12 midnight. I mean , its not too great to get lost on the London streets so late in the night with none of the maps helping. The deserted streets freaked me out completely and there was no bus which could take us to our destination. After a lot of walking and a lot of consoling job done by me to stop my friend from crying, we did find a bus which would take us to roseberry. After that day, I have so made it a point to return home on time..:)(

Besides, shopping is going on decently well. The oxford street is amazing. That’s because despite the oh-wow stores like Selfridges, debanhams, river island, next, m&s, primark, h&m etc and etc…, THE SALE IS ON!!!!!!!!!!!! And so i can easily shop without thinking too much about the prices! Lol.

My routine has been getting a little too monotonous for the past two or three days- attending lecture from 10 to 1, exploring the lse library from 1 to 4 then again attending class from 4 to 5, back to roseberry, sleep for 3 hours, wake up, study, chat, read etc and then again sleep. Have not been getting enough time to look around the place because my course is getting tougher by the day and I REALY NEED TO COPE UP…….given that almost all students in my class come from a business background and hence, obviously know much more than I do about the course content, I feel scared sometimes about how I am going to be performing in my exam, which is on the coming Wednesday. Shit! I really need to get back to books…..

I think this is pretty much all for now…..

Ttyl bloggy poggy…J

day 2- lse

its been a day and a half since i updated my bloggggyyyy poggyyyy with recent happenings straight from london.

well yesterday was a crazy day...in all sense of the word.

orientation and all.....tour of the LSE campus....!!!!! but CAMPUS???? man, its damn depressing ...the LSE CAMPUS...i mean there hardly IS any campus.......just three weirdly interconnected buildings with a lot of historic looking, monument-ish architecture crafted everywhere. whereas i expected a huge, some 100 acres campus with lush greeen gardens and stuff....but then , as someone rightly said..."what more do u expect in central london???""" true true...

view from my room

but then i must appreciate the multi storeyed library which inspired an awe in me...almost!!

keeping aside awe, it was also a "painful" day yesterday, given that we (me and kash) got lost in this place called High HOlborn when we were looking for a bust stop C, WB or X...we walked in a full circle (which we discovered later on) for around an hour when some kind gentleman helped us to the (most) desired stop. vaise, i HAve to say...london ppl are a little bit ignorant and unaware of their surroundings and have absolutely noo sense of direction when it comes to "rights" and "lefts" on streets and better...they are clueless about map reading...grrrrr....sometimes it seems to me that i am as lost in this city as these londoners are themselves. but the almost one hour hunt for a bus stop did me some good at least....i WALKED!!!! and this says a lot...;););) to say it explicitly, i think i am definitely going to be getting thin given that

a) i have to walk A LOT

b) i get no food to eat

all i had in the whole day yesterday was two slices of bread, a glass of milk, an ice cream cone and an apple pie....*sniffs*

i have been comparitively luckier today in the sense that i happened to bump into this departmental store selling indian buffet, a little costly, but ANYTHING for indian food..lolz

my classes started today, sorry...lectures. three hours straight...and guess what...i didn't fall asleep!!!!! :) it was pretty intersting and we already have "home work" to do!!!!

going to rest for while now....loads of shopping awaits me in the evening!!!!:):):)

LSE Summer School

Ohhhh…kkk….so finally the long awaited destination is reached…..the oh-so-wow dream travel country, the most exciting and happening tourist destination and the heartthrob of many is here before my eyes….splendid, ecstatic, stupefied and dumb-struck was what I was supposed to feel on seeing London, and wasn’t it also meant to be love at first sight with this Kingdom???? Sadly, its none of the above. After less than 24 hours of staying in this place, (90,Roseberry avenue, Central London, the Lse residence hall where I am putting up), and exploring high-end crowded places like Trafalgar street, Leicester square, Northumberland Avenue and some other complexly pronounced streets of whose name I am forgetting right now, I can say(not so safely though, given the amount of time spent) that London disappoints me. L ok, I don’t disagree that its clean, beautiful, noisy but peaceful at the same time, but I also have a weird feeling here. Right from the time my taxi took me out from the Heathrow airport till now, when I am sitting cozily in my bed typing this and its 2.10 am , Greenwich time, I have had a very eerie feeling with respect to London. Maybe its because I came here with a whole bunch of expectations in my head which obviously have been turned down, but in a way have taught me to stop forming pre conceived notions about people and places….Wait ….did I just say “people”???? forming pre conceived notions about “people”????oh yes, I just did. And here is where the root cause of all my disappointment lies..PEOPLE. Right from when I landed, to when I was traveling in the tube, to when I was exploring the Tesco supermarket, to when I was buying French fries and at so many other instances, people of London have disappointed me. Ok, no offence and with utmost respect to the citizens of this country, I have to say that whoever I have come across till now has either been rude, or indifferent, or snob, or cold or mainly…”un” warm. If people are falling all over each other in the tube (that’s the London metro), the person right adjacent to you gives you a strong stare as if trying to make you feel guilty for what you are doing, even though he may be doing exactly what you are doing… which is falling over the person right next to him because it is DAMN CROWDED!!!! And NOT because we like leaning against or falling onto other people. If you try buying a sub from the Subway, which, by the way is the cheapest eating option in London) and by chance, just by mistake you fail to understand the weird british accent in which they are asking you which sauce they should put on your Sub and you happen to reply in a “Sorry?”, they close your sub, don’t bother to repeat what they said and your order gets packed, AND you pay a 1.99 pound for a sub, that too WITHOUT the sauce..wow!!! many like incidents in a very short span of time…have given me a sort of negative feel about the Londoners. But I am hopeful of finding better people to talk to in the next 22 days that I am here and want to believe that the first day’s tete-a-tete with some weird people was a sheer bad luck and that’s all.

P.S. The highlights of the day were :

A full fledged Gay parade at the Leicester square. Honestly, it was one heck of an experience to watch so many bisexuals together at the same time, same place, all walking so proudly with the most colourful of costumes, decorations, dancing and singing their way to glory with loud, blaring music in the background and it seemed as if the whole of London had gathered there to cheer for them. All shouted, hooted and yelled to make it the liveliest parade I have ever come across.

My FIRST tube journey from Embankment station to Angel for which I was officially supposed to be changing one line but ended up changing five(!!!) because due to some technical difficulties the “circle” line had to be changed for the “hammersmith & city” line and later for the ‘district” line….ummmmok forget it,,,,its complex!!!!

My stroll in Roseberry avenue around 11 at night, trying to hunt for food…..Vegetarian food ….and ended up finding all the departmental stores closed, thereby voiding my chance of buying my last hope…bread and butter!!! And had to ultimately settle for French fries…..

These were by far the highlights which I could recall right now while I am feeling damn sleepy, besides that London girls I think are hot, always half dressed, or so I think and guys are hotter, trust me!!!!! J and wait, did I even mention a word about my accommodation!!!???!!! To acquaint you a little, its situated at a fairly silent place from where Marks & Spencer , Body Shop & Burberry are just 15 minutes walking *winx* and people are active mainly at night, whereas during day time, there is hardly any soul to be found. I have my single room at a fairly amazing location from where I can see half the roseberry street. So its all cool, waiting for it to get cooler!!! By the way, cool reminds me……….the temperature is around 15 degrees right now….:) *shivers*