Ambitions

Ambitions..............
What you want to be when you grow up.......
How many times do people ask you the same question???? And how many times do you answer the same thing? A doctor. A teacher. A pilot?
I don't think it's about what you actually become when you grow up. I think what grown ups really want to know is how you're going to achieve it. How will you become a doctor? How will you get a job as a teacher? So how do you answer? Do yuo go through the tecnicalities? Sometimes that's best with a very serious person. Tell them something like- "Oh, I want to be a doctor. I think they make a big difference to this world. Without doctors where will we be? I'm going to achieve it by concentrating on science until I get to college. I'll work really hard to get good grades and understand things about science. I'll try out for olympiads and maybe I can get into a good college." If it's somebody who's not that serious about it you can go "Im only 12"
Ambitions..........how to handle them?

Chopped

This is a joke I read somewhere and it still makes me laugh.
Once upon a time, the Christians wanted to get the Jews out of Rome.
But the Jews didn't want to leave their home.(who would?)
So the Pope decided that if any Jew could beat him in a debate, the Jews could stay in Rome. Most Jews were scared to participate. Who could win when the participant and the judge were both the Pope? Finally a janitor decided to give it a try. The big authority Jews were worried about sending a janitor for such a big task but they decided...it was the janitor or nobody.
The big day arrived. The Pope opened the debate with a gesture that looked like as if he was indicating something around the room. The janitor replied by pointing his finger straight to the ground. The Pope then pointed one finger at the janitor. The janitor replied by pointing three fingers at the Pope. The Pope then reached into his bag and pulled out a piece of flat bread. After which, the janitor pulled out an apple from his pocket.
The Pope then announced that the Janitor had won the debate.
Later, the Pope's friends asked him to explain how the debate had worked. The Pope said" First, I made an indicating gesture as if to say the whole world belongs to God. He pointed down to show that the Devil ruled over Hell. Then, I pointed one finger at him to show God is one. He pointed three fingers at me to show God is displayed by the Holy Trinity. Then I removed a piece of flat bread from my bag to show that according to the bible, the world was flat. He took out an apple to show that according to new fangled ideas, the world was round. The janitor had great skill which is why he won."
The janitor's friends asked him how the debate had gone. He said" It was all rubbish. First he made this gesture to show that the jews had to leave. So I pointed downwards to show we're not going anywhere. Then he pointed one finger at me like to say don't be fresh with me. So I pointed three fingers at him to show he was being thrice as fresh making us leave. Then I see him taking out his lunch. So I take out mine."
He just got chopped.

Blogs

Do you keep a blog?
If you don't then make one right now!!!!
It feels amazing to have people read your feelings like when I'm mad at Sam, or when Choco's sick or when I got a C on my math test.(and Mom, if you just read that, I did not get a C on a test, it's just an example).
Where was I?
Oh yeah, it's amazingly amazingly awesome. It's like having an online diary where you can be as sarcastic or corny or weird as you like and nobody cares at all.
And yes, people do read my friend Nini's blog- free2daydream.blogspot.com
Believe me when I say it is good.

Global Warming

BAM I light the cigarette.
BAM smoke goes up.
BAM a hole in the ozone layer.
BAM end of the planet?
So yeah, you're probably guessing what I'm talking about. And you've probably attended talk shows or maybe listened to lectures or read the paper so you probably have a pretty good idea about what global warming is. And if you do...then what are you doing to stop it????
These are a few people who are actually working on something-
*Major authorities of the world are meeting at a place called Copenhagen, to find a way to reduce the earth's temperature by a few degrees. But they are also getting into an arguement on whethear all the devoloped countries should do more or whethear all the countries should do the exact same.
*So, you know my friend Nitya? She's my pen pal, lives in Hyderabad. Sanghamithra and I once visited her if you remember and I got all mad at the litter. She wrote to me about some kids in her school who are started this thing called Transportation Week. They convinced alot of kids who come to school in their own cars to carpool with friends. Less cars coming to school means less problems in the air. They handed out flyers with corny but witty slogans like "DON'T BE A FOOL, CARPOOL TO SCHOOL!" or "Green's Great, Grey's Grim"
*My friends and I did our own little STOP DON'T START campaign. We dropped coins and dollar bills on the sidewalk, waiting for people to pick them up. Attached to the money there were notes quoting from Micheal Jackson's songs or newspaper articles about the Copenhagen issue with it written under in big letters LET'S BE MORE LIKE OUR LEADER'S. We also left messages on people's doorsteps chock full of information about global warming and our problems if it gets much worse.
Do you realise that Antartica's big glaciers are melting? Give it a few years and that continent will be like a giant swimming pool. And what about Arizona? It's gonna be an oven over there!
We want our world. We wanna live. So why don't we start to do something about the dying planet around us?

Wishing a very happy bday

Wishing a very happy birthday to Raji Dani who lives in Hyderabad and is one of the few people who reads my blog.

Fanta

Fizz! Orange! Fizz! Fizz! Orange!
Heaven!

Bright Basketball Game

Me love basketball. But in the evening they have these classes, and after that its too dark. And getting up to play in the morning requires getting up early which me does NOT like. So I play in the Ariaona blistering heat, noontime. But recently, my space got invaded by some baseball playing dudes. And me was absolutely not gonna take that lying down. Yeah, I was all set to fight this major battle with them but NO! As soon as they saw me, the boys did something amazing. Seems they only needed the padding on the foot of the hoop for their batting. And instead of making me move, they moved the whole padding themselves! Me was amazed. How often do you find people who have a problem, and instead of occupying the whole solution, they took parts of the solution along with them?
So me was playing, and shooting. If you play basketball, you know it's thirsty work. And the only solution to thirst is water. So I was walking to the gym to find myself some and I found the gym locked. Nothing like a locked door to spoil your bball game. Walking out of the clubhouse, I saw this glass of water beside a tank on the sushi stall.(sushi at noontime???) I asked this security guard if I could take water from the tank and then I went to get some. And....the tank was empty. The guard, seeing my dismay actually got up, actually unlocked the gym for me, and actually let me get water.(and it was cold!!) Again, me felt like crying.
It's people like this that take a country form undevoloped to devoped, take a world form falling apart to glory. Normal people doing normally jobs. Kids who think totally out of the box. Guards who help a thirsty girl. They don't get publicity, no press reports, no photographs on the front page. They're just people who do things that make the world a better place.
People like that+Trees and Grass and all the other Nature+A couple of buildings= A happy world