7000??? REALLY??? *SHRIEKS*

Hey there pretty people!!  :D
We've just hit 7000 page views today and Im pumping fists in the air n throwing around a lot of "YEAHHHH's"   :P   We just wanted to thank all those who take time off and go through our blog  <3  You make us happy  :)  Just knowing that people read what we've got to say means a LOT!!! :D
Thank you once again!!
Hoping we can continue dragging the craziness from the nooks and crannies of our mind to put up here for you guys  :D  :D
Love n hugs,
xxxx

The present day 'Tree'

The Internet is fun.


She secretly made an account on a social networking site at the age of 10, made a new friend who she agreed to meet alone. She never returned home.


The Internet is awesome fun.


His girlfriend dumped him for another guy. He couldn't think straight. He went online and 'Googled' ways to poison people without getting caught. A few days later, the girlfriend was found dead in her apartment. They said cause of death was a 'Heart attack'.


Yes, the Internet is fun.


He went through compromising pictures of young girls on the Internet, and paused for a few minutes to admire one particular masked girl. Little did he know he was drooling over the picture of his own daughter.


Still fun, right?


They made a group on a social networking site defaming an unpopular girl who they would routinely rag and claiming she was involved in shady activities. The page got over a thousand views. They never got to see her reaction to all this. She was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room the next morning.


Starting to sound less fun?


He copied and pasted his entire final year project from the Internet, just to make things easy for him. He was at a loss when he was asked questions about his project for the final exams. Needless to say, he cleared the same exam only 6 months later.


Fun, fun, fun...


He started playing Internet games at a young age. He is now 28, a high school dropout, living with his widowed mother. He has no job. He still plays Internet games... all the time.


The internet is fun.
It really is.
It is the present day 'Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil'. And just like the story goes, we are given everything we need, with a warning about the 'Tree'.
We need to make the right decisions when using the 'Web of Lies', else we'll end up like our ancestors, cast out of paradise and in a situation we really cannot handle.


Stay safe while on the World Wide Web. It only takes a second for things to go horribly wrong.


She sits in front of her unusually pink laptop, typing a warning out to the world. She has entered a contest and is sure she is going to loose for twisting the topic. She is, however, satisfied that she did her part and voiced her opinion. For her, the Internet is Pandora's box, full of surprises. It has given her a say in this world. She smiles to herself.


Yes, the Internet is fun.

Hey there  :)

I know its been a while and we haven't really posted. We were caught up a bit with exams and clinical training and stuff  :o

Just found this on http://chibird.tumblr.com/ and thought I'd share it with you all  :)   

It really makes a heap of sense  <3  

A 'Bandh' to 'Bandhs'

Those of you living in the state of Goa, India may have witnessed the bandh held yesterday, June 6th, 2011.

For those of you who are not aware what a 'bandh' is, it means 'closed' in Hindi. It is basically a strike or a protest brought on by political activists wherein the general public are forced to stay in their homes, shopkeepers are not allowed to open their shops and modes of public transport are stopped. 

These bandhs are called on by certain parties to get their way by invoking fear in the hearts of the common people. You may wonder how and I'm planning on telling you just that.

3 years ago, when we first arrived in Goa, we were in the dark on such matters, life just seemed fun. But as time went by, the glamor of living in Goa gave way to horror and realization of how things really worked here. 

Back to our topic, some days ago, it was announced in the papers that there would be a 'bandh' on the 6th. The reason for this is as follows:

In Goa, there are 2 types of schools- The local schools and the high class schools ( Thats what I had gathered from those who've lived here). The high class schools are horribly expensive and the rich and some medium class people send their children here. The fees charged are somewhere around Rs. 28,000 per year! The local schools ( Village schools) are attended by people who can't afford the luxury of the other schools. The fees here are around Rs. 800 per year. Now the high class schools have English as the medium of instruction whereas local schools have 'Konkani' as their medium ( Konkani is the native language of the Goan people). Sometime ago, it was suggested that with modernization and evolution of the new era, the children who didn't have English as the main medium, faced problems later in life ( College, work opportunities, etc.)

People went about demanding equality for all, an opportunity for English medium for the fortunate and those not so fortunate. It became a topic of discussion everywhere till finally, the Government agreed that Goa did need a change for the better and English won.

Now, a few days back, some political parties came up with a new twist- If English was taught in schools, people wouldn't make much of an effort to learn it at home and eventually, in say 15 years or so, Konkani would die out!

The bandh was held as scheduled to prove their point and we spent the whole of yesterday cooped up in our home, not that we were complaining though  : P   We enjoy holidays  : D

However, after hearing what happened, it became a bigger issue. 

Politicians disagree on points and force their opinion on the public without giving them a choice! They say India is a democracy, they say people are free here and have a right to choose what they want out of life. I've come from a country in the Middle East where freedom is not a word commonly heard. How is India different from these countries?? They claim to let people's voice's be heard and some other nonsense I really dont want to go into. So how are they better than the Middle East in terms of freedom?

These parties force people to live in constant fear of being stoned or beaten up. They give no thought to anything, there are no factors, they stone everyone, children, women, old people, the sick, injured, EVERYONE!!!

These people claimed that the bandh held yesterday was a success cos people stayed in, most schools were closed, etc. My question is which mother would allow her child to take the public bus on a day when she knows that crazy people are waiting out there to stone her precious child? No matter how against the bandh people are, no human being values anything more than their life and so, nobody moved out of their houses! 

These LUNATICS stoned buses with innocent children in them. I mean, how can have the heart to do something like that? Where is your sense of humanity people???? You'll are so concerned about the future of your language that you'll have lost all concern for the future of the state ( The children).

I personally feel Goa needs to implement English into the schools. I've heard college students struggle to find words to string together to make proper sentences! And these people are the future doctors and engineers of our state, these useless idiots who cant understand text books and who have no idea what is said to them till it is explained in their local language!

English is a universal language, wherever you go, you need it! It is important for communication with the outside world. If you cant speak proper English, how in the world are you living????

Im not against Konkani or anything, I respect the language though I know very little of it, it is a beautiful language and should be kept alive as long as Goans exist. I just feel like Goa needs this to move forward. India has been a developing country for far too long! Indians are smart people and can do wonders but if they cant speak, what good are their brains? I doubt companies want translators along with their employees to translate the Konkani that flows out wonderfully from our mouths!  : P

I think the Shiv Sena or whatever other parties taking part in this should sit and really think about the future of Goa. Soon the beaches will stink and the price of alcohol will rise and then what good will Goa or the Goans be??

We need to take a stand here, we need to fight against these people who terrorize us and force us to become hand puppets in their climb to power!! They cant force their opinions on us!

I love Goa, I want to see it prosper. But if people cant even understand what you say to them half the time, I doubt the future holds anything great for us...

Stand up for what you believe in, only then will life be worth living.

Something to call my Own :D

Its FINALLY done!!!! After hours and hours of nonsense, I've FINALLY managed to make our very own header  : D  : )  : )

We had downloaded the previous header from an online site ( Very generous of them, we owe them loads for giving us something to start with) but somewhere at the back of my head was that nagging thought that somewhere around the globe, someone or 'someones' shared the same header under a different blog name   : o

So after much thought and surfing through the net on 'How to's', this is what I've come up with  : )  Its pretty simple, I know, but its our own and I'm proud of it   : )

Hope you guys like it  : )

My Signature

Ok, I FINALLY got my own signature thingie to add at the end of e-mails and stuff  :D  :D

I got it done at www.mylivesignature.com, its got instructions on how to add them to blogs, emails, etc.  :)

Come on! Give it a go!

xoxo

"You don't need to be on the same wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other's waves." - Toni Sciarra Poynter

For my BFF N,

For always being there for me even though you are millions of miles away <3

I wanted to click a picture for you and your gorgeous fiance K ever since you told me about the wedding. Never really had a clear idea ie until i went to this beach (Candolim beach). Did a really quick job and not sooo happy with the pictures :( but i hope you'll love them anyway <3

Daily Bread

Coconut cake

Daily Bread had always been a place to visit on our list. So when we got the opportunity, Esther and I along with our cousins decided to go there!

Daily Bread is pretty close to the Panjim bus stand, just a 5 minute walk from it  :)   We entered the place and really didnt know what to choose  :P

There's a variety of stuff to choose from, from salads to cookies, gorgeous looking pastries and my absolute favorite- Gelato  : P   The Gelato comes in soooo many amazing flavors  x ) 

Just a bit of advice- The Triple Chocolate cake is NOT to be eaten alone  :D  :D  That is, if u happen to be a poor eater  :P

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Esther's take - as Elaine said, trying out different food places was definitely on our TO DO list this summer. We had heard A LOT about this place from people we knew so we decided to give it a try. So one saturday morning, we went over to try some breakfast.

One thing i found cool (and soo did the nice people we met there say) was that it was an amazing place to hang out (unlike the upper floor in Mongini's Borda :|).

We decided to have the all chocolate pastry - they melt the top layer of chocolate so it tastes like HEAVEN. Unfortunately even tho i have the biggest appetite EVER, i couldnt finish it. The pineapple fruit cake was good (nothing sooo special about it though).

I would wanna try out the sandwich bar next time i go

XO

'Mango of Goa' cake

Croissants  <3

Bread  :P

Oooohh!!! Totally LOVE these cookies  :D

YUMMYYYYYYYYY!!!!

Gelatoooooo!!!!

Inside Daily Bread

The chocolate cake we had! Chocolaty delight   :D

Amy's Pineapple cake which she totally loved!

We do love clicking pictures of ourselves, don't we?  :P

Shit filled packages of Love

So what connection do Banana's have with roses?

Nothing actually :P its the Banana peels that we are interested in :) And thats why in March - along with my friends Siraj and Ayesha, i started my *POTASSIUM* filled compost project.

 Everyone knows how delicate roses are. They need plently of sunshine, water, weed uprooting and airing of the soil. Add to that a lot of love and you get beautiful roses. I recently found out that roses also love Potassium a lot and what has more thrown away potassium than anything else? Banana peels :D

so thats when the 3 of us started the whole, Banana a day habit. I would dispose off the banana peels in an unoccupied pot in the garden so that nature would work its magic on it. a month later with 93 banana's, i stopped adding to my little pile of dried banana peels (I did add a shovelful of rose fertilizer to provide good bacteria to the mix).

It didnt take me long to forget about the pot of composting peels - my entire april was full of exams. Now with holidays in May, i finally remembered it. to my surprise the peels were completely dried. I just added water to it, smashed it a bit and put it in a plastic bag to transport :P

The Potassium compost :D

The transportation part was the scariest :P It didn't stink AT ALL on the first day. Sadly, the 2nd day when i was supposed to travel to Panjim to put it for my roses there, i opened the bag and smelled what could only be described as the public toilets (*with a hint of the soil after rain smell :) ). I put it in 2 bags just in case. The entire bus journey i kept wondering if the people on the bus would notice that i had SHIT in my bag. Thankfully no-one did :P (*if they did they would probably throw me off the bus thinking i was some sort of weird stinky kid who didn't have a shower for weeks or worse still - that i shat (is that a word?) in my pants :| )

We reached Panjim in one piece and rushed home to mix the compost in the soil my roses were already growing in :) (*if they could speak Im sure they would have yelped in joy ^_^)

NOTE - since my hands were full of mud, i decided to give the task of clicking the gardening pics to my younger brother Benjamin. Sadly, in most of the photo's (which didn't turn out blurry -.-) all you can see is my hand and some mud -.- He sucks at following my expert (*yea right) opinion :P

anyway, this brings me to the point. If you have plants - treat them like kids. Take a little trouble to help them grow.Cause who wouldn't wanna wake up to a garden full of beautiful plants? :)

Cracking the Friday market in an hour

Friday market is what the Goans call the Mapusa market (*why though i have no idea? maybe becoz u get better deals on friday?). My neighbor told me that Friday is the day when most of the sellers from all over Goa come to Mapusa.

Anyway lemme tell u, an hour is NOT ENOUGH time to spend here. Our plan was to actually go to panjim, water our rose plants, hang out for a bit and then rush home to pick up our younger brother from school. Plans changed within 5 mins and we ended up going to Mapusa with our grandmom.

*Note - please carry an umbrella/hat. u dont wanna die of heat stroke in this :P

U cant live in Goa and not have a pretty bag/jhola :D 

All the pretty pretty spices to make those *Masala's we love 

I know quite a few people who would've died looking at this. your personal favorite tea?

Summer season = fabulous fruit season

U can actually get good tees and stuff here - clicked this line of night dresses coz they seemed pretty ^_^

I wasnt actually allowed to click pics in this guys stall becoz he was selling rare antiques. Still happened to grab a pic of these Antiques roller skates :D Imagine skating in these #FTW

It is a personal dream of mine to get these for my cupboard door handles someday

I did mention that you could get anything you wanted here right? right? :P

cant think of anything smart to say here -.-

Ok, so while we were messing about with all the fruits, Maria decided to pose with the melons and i went along to lift the jackfruits. Sadly all the white juice *DHEEKH* came on my hands. apparently it ruins your clothes and spreads fast. thankfully they put some oil on my hands and wiped it off with tissue. it was weird because so many old ladies came up to me and started trying to help :) #awww

should i add one of these to my collection of 6 suitcases? pretty no?

If i had the money (*read Rs 17,000) i would definitely buy this ENORMOUS clock (*im thinking it would be bigger than one of our TATA Sumo tires :O). Tres antique and tres unique. And yes, this orange pair of wooden antique macau fish (*i wasnt allowed pics of that). I should really win a lottery or something :C

Did i tell u that elephants are really lucky? sleeping on this would bring a lot of luck and good dreams according to many legends

If you arent drooling when you see this picture, you arent normal! Goan pork sausages *yummmmmmmy

I had miniature baskets like these when i was a kid ^_^

And this is not it! infact there were soo many more things which i didnt click photo's of becoz we were running out of time like the lovely material you could use as wraps on the beaches or these cute wooden carved stamps i saw (*the stamps were really adorable btw - especially the monkey ones) and i regret so much for not buying it coz what imagine the stuff u can do with the wooden monkey stamp (*starts thinking of decorating gift wrapping paper, or tees or napkins for parties etc).

and just a hint - dress normally when you go there. The sellers there are pretty observant about small small things like clothing and accents and stuff - you definitely dont want them quoting tourist prices to you (*even if you are a tourist) 

30 more days for college to start again so im sure the chance of having it is high :D :D and yes! also thinking of going to the chor bazaar soon (*just for the heck of it - sounds dangerous no? :P)

Until then, 

xoxo

30-3-2011 Esther's ATM

1. Twitter has forced me into the habit of microblogging. I can never blog again, that is considering the fact that i used to blog. scratch that out. Im a microblogger. I was a notebook writer before. I sat and looked at my right hands index finger very carefully and realise that i have this HOLE in my skin. a DENT. Infact it almost looks like a crater. Thanks a lot education, because of u my perfect fingerprint will now be ruined forever.

2. My Nikon D80's current use is to click high resolution quality pictures of my forensic notes -.- I dont think im gonna talk further on the subject. Pray that nothing happens to my laptop until the exams are over.

3. My exams are starting in 11 days and i've just spent the last 1 hour painting my left hand nails with the tricolors and my toes with the color of the cricket team uniform - blue. I've also remembered that when im going to examine the patients they will see this. It could end up 2 ways. Either they become patriotic and think about the match and forget about their illness OR thinking about the match, they might wish they were at home watching it instead of being here. This could make them even more depressed leading to the worsening of their condition. Oh well :P GO INDIAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ermmm yeaa i have weird fingers

Until the next 3ATM, Bon nuit :D

Feathers

Bonjour Beautiful people :D

Its been almost a month since I actually wrote something sensible (*cough) here... So Im gonna spare you all the made up excuses about being too busy to even breathe (which is partially true btw)

Not that I forgot about the blog, infact everytime we did something cool and interesting, all I wanted to do was turn on my laptop and write down a retarded 3 page article (*thankfully I didn't :P)

Anyway, meet Tiki, Tiko, Peri and Peru!!!   :D

LUNCH TIME :D

Tiki and Tiko are 2 hillarious guinea fowl my grandmother bought from a research farm in Chandor.

About 2 years ago, there was a HUGE snake problem in the area we live- cobras, grass snakes and all sorts of weird village snakes started appearing out of nowhere ( or maybe they were always there but just never had the courage to get out in the open). It freaked out a lot of people- grandma being one of them.

Everyone suggested buying a mongoose (which would be a retarded option- I mean, who in the world has a mongoose as a pet?) or a guinea fowl. Thankfully she resorted to buying a cute pair of the most beautiful looking birds ever.

Tiki - the male guinea fowl

Milkybar and Bluebell

Milkybar was a pearly white and Bluebell was a lovely shade of royal blue. They were AWESOME! Infact, Bluebell was such a cartoon, he used to kill snakes and place them on our neighbors doorstep (which used to freak them out really badly :P)

Unfortunately wolves ate them  :(

Anyway, back to the point- Tiki and Toko are the Guinea fowl ( the ones which are smaller and more white) AND Peri and Peru are the Turkeys ( a little bigger and more brown)    :P

The turkeys :D :D my retarded babies :D

(NOTE - these pics are over 3 weeks old, thats when we first bought the little critters. They are 

much bigger now and even have a professional home :P)

Peri/ Peru (hard to tell when they were babies -.-)

The turkeys were better models I felt - Score 9/10 right? :P

I clicked a bunch of pics of them today (which I'll be posting maybe sometime this week)

and if you'll have any views on the photographs ( constructive criticism I may add), I'd LOVE to hear about it!   :D

Until next time,

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