Introduction
Speak not, lie hidden, and conceal
the way you dream, the things you feel.
Deep in your spirit let them rise
akin to stars in crystal skies
that set before the night is blurred:
delight in them and speak no word.
How can a heart expression find?
How should another know your mind?
Will he discern what quickens you?
A thought once uttered is untrue.
Dimmed is the fountainhead when stirred:
drink at the source and speak no word.
Live in your inner self alone
within your soul a world has grown,
the magic of veiled thoughts that might
be blinded by the outer light,
drowned in the noise of day, unheard...
take in their song and speak no word.
Me
I am
-Madhu-
Age of
-89-
Loves
-Ancient history, anthropology, dinosaurs, cryptozoology, serial killers, neurofibromatosis, LOST!, Bones, How I met Your Mother, The Nanny, Monk etc-
Hates
-Not having a job and being a slob-
Dreams
-No space to put them all in-
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
I slept so early and woke up so late and it's a lethal combination. Trust me, after having troubled/ minimal sleep for so long it feels good to have pampered myself. In fact, I should have slept immediately after coming home instead of watching Bones.
ISLE camp was incredible! I have never had this much fun in a camp before, except for maybe in dance camp last year. I think it's because camps always have tiring activities like station games and intensive activities that your energy is too drained out for you to truly enjoy the process. For both these camps, the time allotted for each activity was way too long and we ended up with WAY too much time in our hands.
Things I thought I would never do in a camp
1) Chopping a million onions without tearing even once while everyone AROUND you in crying (All these years of cooking maggi had reaped its benefits!)
2) Visiting the art gallery in RJC (the works are really cool, if you haven't gone, it's high time to go soon)
3) Watching CSI
4) Sleeping with pillows (AWESOMENESS!)
5) Eating chestnuts after talking to the Chestnut-selling uncle (in CHINESE!)
6) Discussing The Nanny, Mean Girls, House Bunny, Top Chef, Ellen, Oprah etc with Sara, Alaric, the Bryans (Chia and Cai) and other various people!
7) Enjoying group dicussions (how did that ever happen?)
8) Missing ISLE!
As you can see, the camp was a great experience and made me question my purpose in this world. I mean, I sometimes feel that we go about living in this world with such a narrow view, restricted by our own perception, environment and shortcomings, without really looking at the big picture. There's so much to be done and so many ways in which they can be done. I want to be the person who can look back 20 years later and say that despite all the failures and problems, I did what I wanted to do and enjoyed the process!
I am now really considering working in an NGO doing relief work. I still love archaeology and anthropology. Studying human behaviour both in the past and present is extremely fascinating because you can see how history in the thousands of years in the making has only changed us on the surface. What we are, how we work and our purpose in this world largely remain the same. Going for this camp, I feel that I now understand how purposeful my life can possibly be! Suddenly, I feel like I am open to so many possibilities! Okay, I shall stop repeating myself.
Going to this camp made me understand that there's so much about myself that even I don't know about. The things that happened after the camp made me further realise how complex the people around me are. More than anything, I want to know more about some people specifically because they confuse me and in what they say and do. Enough said, watching Jeans now and laughing at Aishwarya Rai who was hapless enough to get my name in the film. :D
The End
12:36 pm
