Why I can’t read maps!!

I can’t drive. Period. Not on these roads anyway. I have travelled to coll these 4 yrs by bus for 2 hours minumum each day. I have never doubted the driving. But I learnt driving barely 6 months back and I have been most scared to travel by bus now, though its the same ppl drivin, same route, same bus, but scary!!

Same issue with my dad. My dad is a super driver. A rash driver. He drives, drinks, smokes, eats and I have seen him changing shirts. ALL WHILE DRIVING!! Have I cared? No!! I trust him. Even when he goes at 100 kms/hr (which is a lot acc to me) I was cool.

Not anymore. I started driving and every turn my dad takes without me realising the decelaration I close my eyes and scream at dad. I started getting paranoid with my bus drivers driving. But I must really appreciate their precision. Two huge buses travelling side by side (that’s coz the drivers are racing against each other) and if I reach out, I can touch the next person’s face. The one that belongs to the gal sitting in the next bus!! One inch off, and at those speeds we’d have been spinning away to death. I do appreciate their ability to control their vehicles with such precision, but all these issues which were so oblivious to me, suddenly seem to completely disconcert me now. This explains why ppl say that IGNORANCE IS BLISS!! It truly is!!

So, why am I talking abt all this now?? I don’t know. I just realised yesterday that there is no way that I can ever drive. Two reasons.

1. The route to my dad’s office, a place to which I have been driven to, a MILLION times now. Do I know it? Do I remember it? NO!!

Do I know if SRMC hospital is in Porur? NO!! Not until my dad told me so last year and I have been passing that place for the past 4 yrs.

Basically I can’t remember routes to save my life.

2. I need discipline on the road, to drive.
When I see three auto guys occupying three diff lanes and all going in the same horizontal line, I just get soo irritated. They are deaf to the honking horns from my car. And there is no way that my car would fit between the two autos. Man!! Frustrating!!

Two wheelers need a completely new post. They, I do agree, have as much rights on the road as I do, but they should realise that the speed of a car and that of a bike are entirely two different things. So if they wish to travel in the middle of the road, the car will have to match to the speed of the two wheeler. Does it occur to them, that it slows down the entire traffic following. NO!! The road belongs to them and they shall travel right in the middle.

So what do I do? Decide not to drive!! Not that my driving is great. But I believe that I don’t intrude anybody, except for the once that I scratched someone’s car with my brilliant driving. Well I have been good since then, so lets not get into the details. My driving is great as long as someone sits beside me and tells me that I have to turn left, right, slow down, overtake now, brake and stuff. Basically I work with the precision of a machine, with absolutely no brains and yes I have a driving license.

Plans and more!!

So much to do and still sitting vetti. Hate myself for doing this. Yet…

Got my I-20 from Rutgers. Been worrying abt that for such a long time that I didn’t bother to do anything abt what needs to be done after I receive it. Now, there seems to be too much of work pending.

* Got to find roomates

* Got to find rooms. On checking the houses available, I thought it was great. The floors were shiny, the rooms looked great, the kitchen was so pretty (but yes, I still don’t know how to use the stuff in the kitchen properly). I was elated, UNTIL… I read the reviews for the same.

Nobody seems to recommend them. Apparently there are a million bed bugs and roaches and they run around all night

* Have to book the visa date for which I have to pay $131 in HDFC

* Have to send $57 along with Intent To Enroll form to Rutgers

* Get my immunisation stuff done.

* Apply for the Bank Loan

* Learn Cooking

* Start Buying Stuff

Just so many things to do but please don’t .. DON’T ask me why on Earth I am blogging abt all this without actually doing any of it. The answer is I don’t know. Every morning I wake up with the thought that I am going to do something in the above listed. But at the end of the day I sit feeling lousy wondering why I am such a sombaeri without doing anything. ( I did pay the SEVIS fee today!! Good ol’ me!!)

I have just started cooking. I did Paneer Butter Masala. It looked good and tasted ok. Here take a LOOK!!

But I am happy all the same. I am glad I did something at all you know. Slowly going to work my way up and get doing so great that ppl are going to love my food than my mom’s.

Oh and another wayward incident worth mentioning. I met this coll senior of mine after a year. She was this real nice TamBram. Spoke Tamil, Long hair, no airs, pretty sweet honestly. I met her today after a year and heck had SUNY-Buffalo done a lot to her. A year in the US and she has TRANSFORMED!! Real Short Hair, Orae the scene, Whattey accent!! Came to me as a rude shock.

I was always under the impression that humans can’t change after they are 21. I mean, you are someone for some many years that you can’t change to someone entirely different just cause you move in to a new location. Man was I wrong. But of course she could have been this way all her life just didn’t get to bring it on or maybe I am just being too judgemental to say these things in a matter of seconds that I met her. Eitherways, I don’t want to give anyone the chance to think that I’d changed. I really hope not!!

Oh and BTW, I am getting real bored to blog. I am sorry ppl (who are unfortunate enough to read my blog) , can’t begin to imagine how boring it would be for you guys to read it!! Sorry Again!!