The Long Night

Many of us waited for this long night to unfold. Naturally, all fans went berserk seeing this episode. I am sure none of us predicted it to go down like that, beat for beat.

If anyone ever imagined how the end would look like, it would be either the Dragon queen or Jon or someone else but Arya. But, it was her! All her training with the many-faced god makes sense now. Also, the words of the Melisandre (Red woman) were to the point. The epic third episode of Game of Thrones ‘eighth season saw Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen and the rest of our still-living heroes face off with the Night King and his army of dead in the Battle of Winterfell. It was one hell of a fight in the cold night.

But the end, The end, um, I am kind of still trying to come to terms of it. His army of the dead was guarding him, right? I am sure they are really good at whatever they do. How the hell Arya emerged in the thick of the night right before the Night King got a chance to kill Bran? You know, Arya just jumped in with a Valyrian dagger in her hand to defend her brother, Bran, who was apparently waiting for this moment to come. Duh! For a moment, it felt to me that, this is it. Arya will kill him, but on the very next moment, before she could realize anything, the blue-eyed monster caught Arya by the throat in midair. All hope seems to be lost at that very moment. But, next, badass Arya just dropped the dagger from her hand and caught it from the other hand, plunged the pointy end forward into the Night King's gut. No points in guessing, what it would have done to the monster!! We all know that by now.

Is the night king really dead now? I mean I know she killed him with a Valyrian steel but if Jon can come back to life again, can he too? And someone please explain to me what and how Arya did what she did?


Valar Morghulis! All men must die. Also, what is dead may never die, but as it turned out in the climactic final moments of the episode, what is undead may very much die. But wait, wasn’t it something like dead's thing to...rise from the undead??

Spring is coming

Clear Blue sky

           So this is a late afternoon Sunday post. I am as usual in my office. Yesterday was bad. The start was so bad. I woke up in a shock that my compiler wasn't linked and felt as if I have missed some important meeting. I slept at around 2ish on Friday night. Therefore, planned to sleep at least for 8 hours so as to not wake up before 10 am. But this shock was too bad. It took me 5-7 seconds to realize that relax, its Saturday and you don't have a meeting to attend. I literally thought at that time, my life sucks. Who wakes up like that. I couldn't sleep again. Definitely, the day wasn't productive. I felt so low in confidence and a worse feeling. I didn't want to talk to anyone. I remember calling home (it's mandatory to call my folks at least twice a day) and not have anything to talk to. They kept asking me why are you silent and if everything's okay. I did not have an answer. Because as such there was no reason for that. I felt bad and tried to think for some topics to talk about: like how's Puchu doing? and what these guys made for dinner (my fav topic though). At 3 pm, I decided to go out of my room. I do not like to be in my room, I feel bored. So, I went to my dept. Worked for an hour on something and planned to watch a movie all by myself that evening. 

After Samosa and Chole Bhature face :P

                 Watching a movie all by myself has always been on my Wishlist! It was Tomb Raider, so I planned a 7 pm show. Excited! But before that, I had to go to the gym. So I finished my work and moved to the gym. To my surprise of the day, working out in the gym really uplifted my mood and spirits. I must have run straight for 45 minutes on the treadmill, sometimes crossing 7 mph. I felt so good. Later I did my routines on the cross runner and other things. It was going to be 7. So I wrapped everything and walked for 5 minutes to the Cinemark Theatre. I was carrying my laptop bag and sadly when I went to buy the tickets they showed me some stupid Bag Policy (recently introduced) meaning I can not watch the movie with the bag. (I don't know why they did that because I have seen movies there previously while carrying the bag). I was really disappointed. But then I had already reached there 10 minutes past 7 and If I planned to drop my bag at home or university, I wouldn't be back before at least 7:30. So I decided to chuck that show and went ahead, did some grocery shopping and finally reached home by 8-ish. Mind you, this is early according to my daily routine which is around 10ish. So, I made myself a fruit salad. I planned to watch the 10 pm show since I wanted to do that but by 9:30 I felt lazy. Also, by then my friends made a plan to go for lunch the following day so I thought I 'll watch a movie on the evening of Sunday.

Gazar ka halwa (not bad it was)

Here I am, after the awesome lunch buffet at The Ekta, back in the office and the plan is still on (minus the bag ) :)

Today is a good day. I had Gazar ka Halwa after guess 2 years. :)

Green Tea-ed!

That's my 40th Cup

Can't believe I have finished some 50-odd packets of Green Tea in almost 2 months.

I used to hate Green Tea flavor, but if you really want to do something, you do that no matter what.

It also works if you're planning on losing weight :P I have lost significantly, not telling you how much.

Wait, I can't say for sure there is a correlation between the two, cuz there were many more things which I did alongside having green tea.

Nevertheless, it works.

Ok, Bye Bye. 

Food. Period!

Dieting and me? Never going to be possible. I don't know how people can resist food. and Here it's me, who is only thinking about food ALL the time.
My Mornings (also afternoons, evenings and every damn time) are filled with all sorts of planning for the food:

1. What to eat in the breakfast, 
2. What if I go hungry between breakfast and lunch-lemme pack some food for in-between the times
3. Lunch-has to be good-yeah, prepares and pack the night before
4. Post-lunch cravings-umm..have to go to the gym, so lemme eat and finish at least before 2 hours- lets pack some fruits, crunchies etc.
5. The coffee time around 5-ish. How can I have coffee just alone-time to bite some snacks. Feels good. Great
6. Post-Gym thoughts: I deserve good food. Yeah!
7. Dinner-makes awesome delicacies
8. Dessert
9. Bedtime: Umm, what I m gonna have for breakfast tomorrow...

zzzzzz

Repeat :-|

P.S: I don't know if its normal? Does everybody think about food often? 

One of those evenings

Literally, feel like banging my head right now against the computer screen. I am stuck on this simulation which is just not working, and I'm hungry as hell (in fact I am hungry since the morning: for the records- I had a proper breakfast, lunch, fruits (4 no.) and snacks, coffee, green tea), feel like just going to the terrace of a tallest building ever (and of course not jump), lie down, watch the stars while this song plays in the background:

Last few days of 2017

My First SnowFall in Philly. Dec 09, 2017

This year is on the verge of ending soon with promises, wishes, and dreams full for another year. Unlike all other years, I am not going to make any resolutions this year, because :

1. My resolutions pertaining to doing exercise and lose weight have always gone in vain. Hence, no futile attempts, anymore.
2. Plans of becoming sane, mature n all that. I think I am now that, already.
3. Plans for studying harder this year (the stupid ritual of mine, studying 5 mins before and after midnight of every 31st Dec). Please, not this time. Already, I am going to earn my doctorate soon.
4. Rather, I just plan to celebrate my New Year like I never did before.

Although I am not the person who likes to share his/her plan ahead of time (yeah, I 'm a little old school and believe sharing plans beforehand generally spoils it), let me share this time and see what happens. This New Year Eve, I am planning to celebrate in New York with my bunch of other Fulbright friends. It's actually gonna start from the evening of 25th on Christmas and continue until the 2nd of January. I am looking forward to that. Meanwhile, I will finish my pending stuff from this year and update you with a general overview of this year. I think this will be a good exercise, I would love to look back at it after, maybe, several years and Laugh!. 

Friends like family

Somewhere in Chicago

The connection and love you feel with your friends from the past are boundless. It's kind of an overwhelming feeling. Doesn't matter, whether it was your best friend, at some point in life or just your batch mate, whom you had few exchanges in a day, limiting to a Hi, Bye or How ya'doin? I just feel as if I have shared a beautiful phase of my life with him/her and you feel connected. Ya'll will never harm each other. Can't really explain what I wanna convey. Tch!

My school, UPenn :)

      All I know is that I am making tad too many promises while I am here in the U.S to meet and go out with my people from the past. I really hope I am able to fulfill them. I wanna go back as an improved person who is more organized, punctual, sober and logical. I hope I'll be able to do that. Maybe living on your own and this far from your peeps makes you realize the importance of people, relationships and in general, life.
As of now, I am just trying to work everything out as I had planned and enjoy as much of my experience here as I can  (and the rest will make for good stories, right?)

Currently, #HighOnLife :)