Ram Leela

So, I've never known love in my lifetime, well not "true love" if there is such a thing, I have had crushes and right now I'm 'going out' with a girl whose name I will not mention, but never have I felt this thing such as love. Yesterday I was watching a Bollywood film (well I think it's Bollywood) called 'Goliyon ka Rasila Ram Leela' all about love. which I found as a very good film, but sadly it was a complete rip off of 'Romeo and Juliet', but at least they tried to change a few things, and in the end it turned out to be a half decent film. the film was very 'saucy' with a lot of, how do I say, hot? scenes, well never the less, it made me feel several different emotions but generally, I am an emotional person and I admit that several film do bring that out of me.

 The film also had a lot about religion and violence and what I call, 'politics'. The film was very good as it captured all of the aspects of love, the arguments, the love itself, and the fact that they love each other so much that they can not live in a world in which they are not allowed (or able) to live with each other. It really is unfortunate that in the end they decide to kill themselves just when they were to be told that they will no longer be stopped from being in each others company. I have several favorite moments in this film such as in the beginning when they first meet at a great party held by one of their families in which they celebrate the festival of 'Holi'.

Another favorite moment of mine is when they run away because at that moment they are both ashamed and in love, throughout that scene they seem be very confused yet they still find the energy to sing another song (one I find to be a very good song for some reason that is unknown to me). one other favorite moment of mine is the moment they kill themselves because it showed their love for each other, and if you think about, if only they waited a few more seconds, they would have lived happily ever after. but I guess in this film, just like in Romeo and Juliet, their deaths create the biggest turning points in the films, the point at which the rest of the world in which they live, realizes tat the arguing and fighting was of no use, and they all change.

Music (part 2)

j'adore la musique!!

I absolutely love music and as I have said before, music is a big part of my life and I do listen to a wide range of music from several different genres, and in this entry I will show you all the music that I really enjoy at this moment in time, be it happy, calm or depressing, it is the music that makes me feel... feel... feel... good!

15 funny facts!!

1. If the candles are costing more than the cake on your birthdays, you might be getting old. 
2. The 1st time the iconic Liberty Bell was rung it cracked.
3. There are 2 towns named Sandwich, 1 named Chicken and 1 named tea in the U.S.
4. What has a 4.5 foot long nose and a 3 foot wide mouth? The Statue of Liberty.
5. The state of Washington has an official dance, (the square dance). YeeeeeeHaaaaaw!
6. When sick, plants can run a fever.
7. Where is the only place you can stand in 4 states at 1 time in the U.S.? Four Corners Arizona.
8. For a flamingo to eat, it’s head has to be upside down.
9. It was a rule that no living person appear on a U.S postal stamp until September 2011 when the postal service announced that they would take suggestions for living people to be featured.
10. A 10 year old grilled cheese sandwich with what some believe to have an image of the virgin Mary sold on eBay for $28,000.
11. Three women dressed and portraying as nuns each packing 3 kilo’s of cocaine were arrested in Columbia’s Caribbean island in May of 2013.
12. Peculiar walking man busted. A burglar walking with his toes pointing out unusually far breaks into a business and steals $1500. Surveillance video showed a person with the same penguin style walk 4 days earlier whom wrote down his license plate number for the clerk. After pleading guilty to burglary and theft he was ordered time in jail, probation and ordered to pay back the money.
13. A man with 76 previous convictions is in trouble again after requesting a van type taxi to transport his stolen goods.
14. According to an article in a popular financial magazine, starting something stupid can turn your life from mediocre to thrilling and amazing, and put you right on track.
15. In February 2013 a suspect in custody at Detroit’s St John hospital recovering from a gun shot wound sustained after being shot by police tried to escape through the ceiling of the hospitals bathroom but ended up stuck in the wall between the bathroom and the room he was supposed to be recovering in. Needless to say he ended up back in custody.

It's so fluffy!!

Happy

Buddha once said that 'thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared!' and therefore I will try to use this blog entry to make every reader, at least SMILE once.

• President Dubya was awakened one night by an urgent call from the Pentagon. "Mr. President," said the four-star general, barely able to contain himself, "there's good news & bad news." "Oh, no," muttered the President, "Well, let me have the bad news first." "The bad news, sir, is that we've been invaded by creatures from another planet." "Gosh, and the good news?" "The good news, sir, is that they eat reporters and pee oil."

•  A Congressional aide asks the politician: "What are we going to do about the new abortion bill?" The politician's reply: "Shhhhh -- just pay it."

• In an attempt to thwart the spread of bird flu, President George W. Bush has bombed the Canary Islands. Turkey is next.

• A man goes to Spain and attends a bullfight. Afterwards he goes to a nearby restaurant and orders the specialty of the day. The waiter brings him two very big balls on a huge plate, which the tourist eats with relish. The next day he goes to the same restaurant again, once again orders the specialty of the day, and he is brought two very big balls on a huge plate. It tastes even more scrumptious. The third day he does the same and the fourth, but on the fifth day he goes to the restaurant and orders the specialty of the day, and they bring him two very small balls on a big plate. The man asks, "What gives?" And the waiter says, "Senor, the bullfighter doesn't always win!" 

• A young blonde woman is distraught because she fears her husband is having an affair, so she goes to a gun shop and buys a handgun. The next day she comes home to find her husband in bed with a beautiful redhead. She grabs the gun and holds it to her own head. The husband jumps out of bed, begging and pleading with her not to shoot herself. Hysterically the blonde responds to the husband, ''Shut up...you're next!''

• Doc, I can't stop singing the 'Green Green Grass of Home'. He said: 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?'I asked.  'It's not unusual' he replied.

• I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'Have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

• Slept like a log last night........ Woke up in the fireplace.

• Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says "Calm down. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a gun shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says "OK, now what?"

So these are just a few joke out of a whole spectrum of jokes, but some of these made me laugh (and maybe if you can think of a joke, you can write it in the comments!).

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Ellen

Ellen DeGeneres is just such a great person that I thought I should allow a whole blog entry for this one saint of a person. Now, as I guess you have all sussed out by now, I'm only 17 and I really enjoy things that many people would say a normal 17 year old would NOT. I love Ellen, she is a great inspiration, and I believe that if I turn out to be anything like her, then my life will be absolutely incredible (well except for the woman and gay part because I'm a man and straight - awkward).

Ellen made her career from nothing, she gives and gives and never asks for anything in return except for when she is joking or when she wants everyone to stand up and DANCE. I have not been watching her stuff for a very long time, but I have watched a lot of her stuff, and since I don't have daytime TV, it does add a little more difficulty, but I still manage to watch most of her stuff online, mainly on YouTube, as I have subscribed to her YouTube channel.

I find Ellen to be incredibly generous, funny, intelligent, beautiful and just an all round amazing person. (As a clue to how much I think of her, I wrote this blog entry in less then 2 minutes just because I believe that she is just the best)

School

So today was the first day back at school after I had my mock exams study leave thing, I found the day very interesting. It started with a study period in which sadly, I did not do any studying and in fact, was playing monopoly on my friends ipad that he had brought in. I also went to a place called the Handworth association of school in which I had a training thing where they told me and few other students about how to read to children, because we had chose to do an enrichment course in which we would help primary school children learn how to read. I found that part of my day extremely boring, but only because this was the second time I had done it.
In other news, one of the girls at school was cosying up to me and I was getting freaked out, now I don't think that she like me but if she did, it would be very awkward as I have a crush on her best friend and another very good friend of mine (I will not mention any names for the privacy of everyone I am talking about, and also just in case anyone I know reads this blog).

French

j'ai lu un article sur la France va dans la direction opposée de l'Espagne en votant pour se détendre autour de la législation avortement, efficace qui rend plus facile pour une femme de mettre fin à une grossesse. Les députés français ont voté mardi soir à modifier la législation actuelle, qui stipule que la femme doit prouver qu'avoir un bébé serait la mettre "dans une situation de détresse» avant de pouvoir mettre fin à la grossesse. l'article ne dit pas, ce que la nouvelle loi est exactement.

So as I have said before, one of my A-LEVELS that I am doing right now at AS-LEVEL, is french and I have grown to be quite fond of it. I find the language very hard but at the same time very interesting, it is a subject of intellect and the language of beauty. For my french lessons, I have three different teachers, all female teachers, two of them are of french background and one is not, the one whom is not, is a very strict teacher, but is the best teacher out of the three. The other two are not as good but are still great, the only reason the first one is so good, is because she is very strict and has high standards, she expects perfection and nothing else, this put a lot of stress upon me and without this stress, I would not try as hard and would not do as good (even though I am not doing so great right now, but I have improved vastly since when I began this subject).

Music

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination

and life to everything.”

- Plato

Music is a part of my life (as I am sure it is of everyone's) that is very dear, without music my life would be dull, it is something that when sad, makes me happy, when scarred, reassures me, and when happy, makes me feel even better than I already am. Music is something that has been around for, god knows how long, and will be around forever. Music has helped me through the darkest of time and will do in the future as well. 

Throughout all of history, there have been MANY singers/song writers but of course there are some who have made there mark on the music industry such as the legend that is Beethoven all the way to the great Michael Jackson. we have seen many great musicians, Queen, Elvis Presley,
The Beatles, Ravi Shankar, Elton John,
Prince, Bob Marley, Aretha Franklin, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Florence and the Machine and Miley Cyrus just to name a few.

My favorite person from the music industry has to be Will.I.Am, a man who has sold 31 million albums and 58 million singles worldwide, is the founder of The Black Eyed Peas who is also the first recording artist to send a song to Mars in conjunction with NASA’s Curiosity Mars Space Lab. Will.I.Am also founded the S.T.E.M. program that he's raised 4 million dollars for and is trying to get into inner city schools all over the U.S., and now in England. S.T.E.M. stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Will.I.Am. feels that unless these schools really start emphasizing S.T.E.M. courses now, they won't be able to in the future. He particularly feels that girls need to be studying the technologies and math so they can be the future leaders they are built to be.

Grief

"Grief is the price we pay for love"

-Queen Elizabeth II

Grief is the price we pay for love.
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A topic that no one talks about, yet something that everyone feels.

So today I am still on my study leave period, for which I will go back to school on Wednesday, and in this time I have been on the internet looking at several different things and I happened to read a blog which I found out to be written by one of my friends, he has been at this blog writing game much longer than I have by the look of it, and in one of his blogs, he wrote about grief. this friend of mine goes to school with me and is one of my two best friends from school and i know a lot about him. I am not going to mention his name or give a link to his blog, this is for two reasons, one I believe he should be given his privacy, and two because I write this blog so that I can get any ideas I have and anything I have on my chest, out, and he is one of my best mates, and therefore I do not want him to read about what write, knowing that I wrote it.

My friend wrote of when his father passed away, I remember it happening, we were in school, it was break time and we were laughing our heads off when he got a phone call from one of his cousins, but he never told us what had happened. the next day he never came into school, and that was not like him, then the next day, again he never came into school, so at lunch, I called him and that was when he told me, at first I thought he was joking, but then I heard him crying through the mobile. I then did as much as I could to support him, I visited his home, gave him advice (as well as I could), and managed to persuade the students in our school to not mention it as per his request.
Grief, pain, harm, things I (just like many others) try to stay away from. these things make my me feel very 'awkward' (if that makes sense). When these things happen to me, then I try to let them all go in any way I can, but when they happen to other people, I try to avoid them at any cost. but even this task could be hard because if they happen to your loved ones, then you must help them get through it as you would wish that they help you get through it, if these things ever happen to you!

My boring day

SO TIRED!! I guess you can tell from my before comment that I am exhausted after getting home from my party(s) at 3am then getting 6 hours of sleep and then waking up again so that I can head to the temple with my family (a tradition that has been going on my whole life - going to the temple EVERY Sunday). I've also been watching  the old TV program ,'Merlin' online because (as have mentioned before) I absolutely love (the idea of) magic.
It hasn't been the most interesting day today, but at least I got to meet some of my friends, I've known some of these friends my whole life, others only 3 years, yet I am as close to them as I am to the ones I have known my whole life. I absolutely adore my friends even though they torture me all the time, sometimes so much that it actually hurts, but that only happens when someone you love does something like that so when it does happen, and the do make me feel terribly bad, I know that I feel that way because I love them.
Other than that, I do not have much to say for today, so this is going to be a short passage, but I still believe that just from this amount of text, a reader such as you would be able to figure out a lot about me!!

What's happening??

So today is just another day of my life, sitting at home,on my computer, watching 'The great British bake off' and listening to music by this amazing acapella group called 'Pentatonix' who were the winners of an American competition called 'sing off'. Tonight I'm  off to party, well technically it's three parties that my cheap skate family (or uncle to be more precise) have managed to mash up into one. First my cousin had the cutest little baby boy so partying to celebrate that, then it is also that same cousins anniversary party, and then finally, my cousins father (my uncles) birthday the next day so they've thrown that in as well.
I really do love that side of my family though, they are the closest family I have, even though I know that they don't care about me as much I do them. But never the less, I do love them incredibly. But sometimes they do make me feel so bad (and this is only because I care so much about them) like two years ago, when one of my cousins had a child and they had a party which landed on my birthday, and we went there and we celebrated with them (and they are a very big family) yet none of them remembered that it was my birthday until 2am the next day, about half an hour before I left.
But anyway, so I have to go to a party but I guess it should/would/could be good and it's also a chance to meet up with a lot of family that I rarely even talk to outside of family occasions. Well other that that, I have nothing vaguely interesting happening in my life, so I will leave you all at that and say Good Bye.

More about me

It's amazing that I actually wrote another passage, but I thought that maybe it is a good way to be able to let out all of my feelings without having to communicate with people in real life, I mean I am not an anti-social person per say, but that does not mean that I enjoy the company of everyone in the outside world.
So I thought I would write a little more about myself, for example, the kinds of music I like, I enjoy listening to pop, hip-hop, R&B and other Hindi and Punjabi music and even the occasional french song. I love to watch movies and I love watching TV programs, especially ones of magic, a very special thing to me is the thought that there is magic all around us and these shows and films of magic just allow me to escape into a world of magic.
I'm not very religious, but I believe in god and I believe there is no true religion, just many different paths that all lead in different directions, but will one day all connect and meet up in the one true place, the home of god.
Finally, I end on the fact that I believe all life is sacred, I'm a lactose-vegan, which means that I do not eat meat, egg or fish but I do have diary products. This is because I do not believe I have any right to eat meat, and many people would argue that I should not have milk as well, but it is scientifically proven that if a cow is not milked, that milk will build up inside the cow and then bring that cow to a early demise.

So Far

I'm not the brightest of people, nor am I the most beautiful, but I guess you can tell that since I'm sitting at home right now on a Friday night, blogging. I'm 17, just turned 17 only 5 days ago and I get that all the readers, if there are any, must be thinking that I'm quite weird to be spending my time, at what several people have told me is such a young age. Well anyway, I was born here in the Great Britain (or as i call it, Albion), in this 'what I call' city of Birmingham. I'm an Indian boy, a British-Asian, which has been OK, I mean I have never in my life, been attacked by racist comments, or anything of the sort. My family are great, I have a very controlling father that believes he is ALWAYS right, a loving mother, whom I would give my life for, two older brothers, one of which I have loved all my life, who has been a role model for my whole life and another who has tortured me then loved me, and then tortured me even more.
Most of my childhood was amazing, I loved my primary days in which I had the greatest teachers, teachers that made me what I am today, teachers that made me want to grow up and become a teacher myself, grow up and become someone who can make a difference in someones life, just like they did to me. Then, like everyone says, I went through the great transition of primary to secondary school, which my family were very proud of as I was able to pass a test that said I was good enough to be in a grammar school, and only after doing just 3 months of tuition. Secondary school was not that hard I guess, I breezed through most of it and GCSEs were fine (was what I thought at the time), I mean I never failed any of my exams, but the results that I received were not, lets say, satisfactory.
I am now in sixth form, still in the grammar school, but barely. Lately I have not been up to standard (even though I am only doing 3 A-LEVELS), I think it's because I am finding it all very hard, but even I know that I am not putting  as much effort into my work, as I could be. Other that that, my school life is 'amazing', I have the best of friends, great teachers (as teachers, not as people because some of them are really very mean), and I go to a amazing (exaggeration) school.
If you're still reading (god knows why), I guess it is because you might have some remote interest in what I am writing about, well if you are still reading, I hope you enjoyed my passage so far and continue reading in my further posts.