I VLOGed FOR THE FIRST TIME!! :)

HELLO!

What a day..Mine was tiring...WHAT ABOUT YOURS?!
and now ...your treat!

THIS

Hope you enjoyed it!
Come back and leave a comment! :D

Take care,

Love,
xoxo
Mitali

p.s. The story behind my screenname...anyone interested? :P
Any other requests or topics to talk about? Let me know!

Truly, Sadly, Pathetic excuse for a blog! :(

Till 12 30 this afternoon, my day was going great.
My teacher expected me to get an A on my term paper, One Republic was following me on Twitter, my best-friend I were finally going to spend get some time together after she got a boyfriend, & there was going to be a new episode of Gossip Girl & One Tree Hill, but apparently fate had something else in mind.
Till then it was drizzling, you know the sort that you sorta like, and don’t mind, but then by the time it was 3 it was pouring.
And I hate it when it pours.
But I love it too.
It all depends on my mood.
And today I was not in an extremely social interaction mood. I mean I would tolerate the people I needed to se, but beyond that. No.
So it sucked that I got assigned another article for the college newspaper, but, BUT the plus point there was that I get paid. $25 per article! ~yayyy~
So right now I’m stuck writing about how the Yankee’s aren’t doing that well and I have no idea what to write since I am not a baseball person. Also I don’t know what to write on it …I mean c’mon 600 words no less on something I don’t even care about is just a drag.. And I hope I can make it by tomorrow. Plus I’m meeting Dr. Maya Angelou tomorrow and that is another event that I will look absolutely unprepared for since I haven’t prepared the slightest bit for it?
So moving on to more important matters, I challenged Jordan to say my name right and find out its meaning. He said he would have to do some research and he did do so and he found it.
HE GOT IT RIGHT!
ON THE FIRST GO!
NO ONE DOES!
EVER!

Well here are his exact tweets .

JayOrDan23@MitaliandMe I am not ready yet to take on that challenge. I must do research, for I'm certain it isn't as easy to say as it looks.3:45 PM Apr 19th from TweetDeck in reply to MitaliandMe

JayOrDan23@MitaliandMe Oh right. Well your name is pronounce Mee-tah-lee Da-way. Mitali means friendship and Dave means.. something to do w/ studying?
about 5 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to MitaliandMe

JayOrDan23@MitaliandMe Like I said, I had to do some research. I'll just leave it at that. CHALLENGE COMPLETE.
about 5 hours ago from web in reply to MitaliandMe

JayOrDan23@MitaliandMe Well it's not much of a secret. I used the INTERNET. Google, to be specific
about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to MitaliandMe

And that is how, he SUCCEEDED in the challenge I issued him, and now I think it will be my turn to take him up on any challenge he throws my way.

That’s it for tonight folks. I have reached my limit. It’s sad. It’s pathetic. I know, I know. But I’m thinking of more exciting things to write my blog on and hopefully I will be able to do that with the event tomorrow. Wish me luck!
Take care

Au revior
Adios
Hasta la vista
Sayonara

Love
Xoxo
Mitali


p.s. DAILY RECOMMENDATION!
The Boyfriend List by E.Lockhart! :)

Impromptu decisions, my Lady (AGAIN), and a Special Surprise! :)

So I made an impromptu decision today. My post would have to be a minimum of 400 words. Random number but I think it’s important to set a goal for me to get into the habit of sitting down and writing for a while at a length.
Also I do want my blog to be featured one day...So this is also an excellent exercise to make sure that happens...SOMEDAY :)

I look at the social networking sites today, (and also the number I am a part of, which is one too many, on the other hand not that many compared to some people I know) and I realized that what a waste of time they are. Some, like Facebook have even been said to do this

So I have unconsciously, uh, well before my conscience decides to butt her cute butt in, Yes I have consciously reduced the amount of time I spend on Facebook. But then I spend just the same amount of time, if not more on Twitter. But then I reduced Yahoo/MSN/Gtalk/AIM and everything else too, but then that was because my mother started using my laptop a lot more and started calling it hers. Now that was really annoying. And then I went and got a Skype account. So now my computer has been slowed down my the multitude of sites mentioned above and many more which I shall not name, but let it be known they are not all for me, the unmentioned ones that is.
I happen to be Indian, it wasn’t my decision, although it could be said that I was conceived somewhere in the middle of the forests of Kenya/Nairobi/Tanzania. Yes I know it is sort of gross to think about it when it comes down to it all, BUT I think that’s where I get my sense of adventure and love of travelling from. Wednesday I had to do a presentation n South Asia for my World Geography class and since India takes up ¾ of the land mass in the realm, I got a chance to talk about my motherland.

I had been planning for this moment for weeks and as I said yesterday I had sort of become a procrastinator lately,uh yes dear conscience we all know your opinion on that one, I left it up to the night before, which unfortunately a very bad decision. My laptop sometimes randomly shuts down and Tuesday happened to be one of those days. My laptop shut down 4 times and by 12 30 I was in full on panic mode because it had already deleted my presentation thrice. SO I decided to go to sleep and wake up at 4 in the morning and do it all over again. This is no mean feat let me tell you. And then the presentation itself will be the topic of tomorrow’s post.


But for today, hmm let’s see I still have to give you the rest of my Lady, and then I have to recommend a book and I have to finish my Boston trip contrast/comparison thing. But I still don’t think that’ll still be quite enough I mean I’ve already surpassed the 400 words self-inflicted requirement by now. So, what next?

Let me talk a little about myself? Uh yeah, I loooooooooooove that topic. I love talking. And reading. Skating.Twittering. And did I already mention READING?
Uh I did. ;)

Yeah basically my life revolves around those two things Reading and Talking. But that’s just for now. There is definitely more than that, but I don’t want to mention them all right now. And I have reached 602 words so I’m going to give my Lady the floor and do my recommendations and take your leave .

There you go my Lady, the floor is all yours!

But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often through the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, went to Camelot;
Or when the Moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed.
"I am half sick of shadows," said
The Lady of Shalott.
A bow-shot from her bower-eaves,
He rode between the barley sheaves,
The sun came dazzling thro' the leaves,
And flamed upon the brazen greaves
Of bold Sir Lancelot.
A red-cross knight for ever kneel'd
To a lady in his shield,
That sparkled on the yellow field,
Beside remote Shalott
The gemmy bridle glitter'd free,
Like to some branch of stars we see
Hung in the golden Galaxy.
The bridle bells rang merrily
As he rode down to Camelot:
And from his blazon'd baldric slung
A mighty silver bugle hung,
And as he rode his armor rung
Beside remote Shalott.

And so ends my post for the day!
I have my meeting with my advisor tomorrow morning regarding my term paper
And I hope he agrees with the angle I want to take on this paper.


Wish me luck!
Take care,
Au revoir
Adios
Sayonara
Hasta La Vista
Goodbye

Love,
xoxo
Mitali

p.s. Today’s recommendation is Avalon high by Meg Cabot
And since I forgot one yesterday.. Its Audrey wait! By Robin Benway
If anyone of you has either books let me know what you think of them!



p.p.s I think the blog looks too drab without a pic..so here goes...
I TOOK THIS ONE!









Yes!That is Ryan Tedder, the lead singer of One Republic!

April 18, 2009 at 11:58pm

BEDA Buddies, possible writer's block and Lady Of Shalott...My savior!

I have been pondering ...[hmm nice choice of word.]
Sorry that was my conscience...she does that sometimes..
Anyways.

I was pondering about what to Blog about today and BEDA buddy Devyn even helped me out...
BUT
heres the thing..
I have rather become the procrastinating type lately..
OH lets be real... (THERE GOES MY CONSCIENCE AGAIN!)
I have always been like that...
Are you happy now? [to my conscience that is ;) ]

I think Im going to stick with my Lady ;) and i have only 7 more minutes left so,.... ARGHHH!!!!
CONSCIENCE ATTACK!

Heres my Lady...

There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.

And moving through a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.
There she sees the highway near
Winding down to Camelot;
There the river eddy whirls,
And there the surly village churls,
And the red cloaks of market girls
Pass onward from Shalott.

Sometimes a troop of damsels glad,
An abbot on an ambling pad,
Sometimes a curly shepherd lad,
Or long-hair'd page in crimson clad
Goes by to tower'd Camelot;
And sometimes through the mirror blue
The knights come riding two and two.
She hath no loyal Knight and true,
The Lady of Shalott.


I like to think that someday I'll find my own Lancelot, or even Arthur for that matter.
But then I wish SOMEDAY would be TODAY
And I happen to know a lot of you young ladies out there think so too..
SO message me and we shall talk more about that..
Yeah right! More is an understatement... Will you ever be able to stop?

Uh, conscience, I think its time for you to go! Good-bye

Shes gone..
and So am I..
Take care guys!

Au revoir
Hasta La Vista
Adios
Sayonara


Love
xoxo
Mitali

p.s. Its 11:57
I MADE IT!!!! Thank God! :)

April 17, 2009 at 9:41pm

Lady Of Shalott, BEDA buddies et all.... :)

So ths past week has sort of been amazing...
Wednesday ...Oh! I could talk about that for hours!
Bust as promised I shall deliver a few more verses of Tennyson's Lady Of Shalott!
And as a special treat for my BEDA buddies...

My BEDA Team:
Devyn (who is stressful)
Meghan (from Philaelphia)
Mitali Dave [ME]
Aubrey (from Peculiar)

..tomorrow I shall attempt to write an actual blog post :P

So here we go,..

Willows whiten, aspens quiver,
Little breezes dusk and shiver
Through the wave that runs for ever
By the island in the river
Flowing down to Camelot.
Four grey walls, and four grey towers,
Overlook a space of flowers,
And the silent isle imbowers
The Lady of Shalott.

By the margin, willow veil'd,
Slide the heavy barges trail'd
By slow horses; and unhail'd
The shallop flitteth silken-sail'd
Skimming down to Camelot:
But who hath seen her wave her hand?
Or at the casement seen her stand?
Or is she known in all the land,
The Lady of Shalott?

Only reapers, reaping early,
In among the bearded barley
Hear a song that echoes cheerly
From the river winding clearly;
Down to tower'd Camelot;
And by the moon the reaper weary,
Piling sheaves in uplands airy,
Listening, whispers, " 'Tis the fairy
The Lady of Shalott."

Aaaahhhhh, the language! I cannot even begin to imagine what I would have been like had there not been poetry like Tennyson's or Blake's or Shelly's
or
SHAKESPEARE....
I would be dead without him!


Please do not forget the word ATTEMPT... as it shall play an extremly important role in the post tomorrow ;)

Thats all folks!
Au revior

Love
Mitali

p.s. NEW FEATURE....DAILY RECOMMENDATION!
Today's recommendation... If I Stay- Gayle Forman
(another story about that on a blog post, deff!)

April 16, 2009 at 8:45pm

Poems....some of my favorites..

SO here is the first verse from one of my favorite poems
Its by Tennyson
Im also writing my paper on it....
SO its sort of a review :D
Here we go...

The Lady of Shalott

(apologize for the modern pic)

On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And through the field the road run by
To many-tower'd Camelot;
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
The island of Shalott.


Also, since Elaine, Lady of Shalott is a character from the Legend of King Arthur, I have always been fascinated by the story and the characters
Thats another reason behind this poem being the specific topic of my term paper! :D


Take care,
Mitali

p.s. I might treat you to a few more tomorrow!

April 15, 2009 at 11:51pm

Long Ass DAy

UGHH
Ive been up since 4 but since I wanted to do this everyday gotta fulfill my promise :P

Im gonna post my favorite poem
and its also Susane Colasanti's fav poem
it was in her book too...
Its by e.e. Cummings

i carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)


Take care
Good night
Love
Mitali