Dancing on ice

Whenever our absence extends longer than two weeks, it's usually because of two reasons. The first being the lazy attitudes that we get possessed by. The second, well we all know what that is, what university students have to go through fairly regularly. The era of melancholia, the learnt helplessness, hopelessness, sleepless in Seattle (well, London) and all that. If you haven't understood by now, its exams. I know that you know the extent of their damage but because this is a blog and you cant hear the tense music queueing in my mind when I mention the E word, I have to present it appropriately. You must have noticed that I didn't mention one reason to be that nothing exciting really happened that is worth talking about. I didn't mention it because that never happened. Seriously that never happens. I mean spending all those insane hours in the library you would think that our mind would turn to mush in the creativity department. But no, we actually managed to find prince William who almost always sat 2 tables away from us every single day. He was the early bird just like us doing his dissertation. He was a business student (I spied on his work ). Before Kate reads this and thinks that William is hiding something from her and his deep dark secret is that he is a business student at a university which isn't St Andrews, I just want to say that this guy has a very close resemblance to Prince William. He was tall, very formal-ish and um, had very prince William-ish hair. No relation to the royal family (or is it? ). You had to be there :)

But that's the thing of the past because we have finished exams for the year and the next big thing is the dissertation. All tomorrow's sorrows :)

As the title suggests (well not literally) I had my very first experience of ice skating. I was persuaded first but then everyone else needed pushing. apparently the visions of the past came rushing over. I just couldn't see the harm. . . until I actually got on the ice. No wait, it was before that, when I had to put these very disgusting shoes on and I had to stop myself from thinking about who wore them before me. OK GETTING BACK TO THE POINT. It was quite something. I never thought I would need to use my evolutionary "fight or flight" instincts in life but that definitely qualified for it. Maybe the worst part was when this little 8 year old said to me " do you want me to move so you can get past" and she whizzed through like an ice princess leaving me behind clinging to the edge. Kathleen was the better one out of us. She was at least able to skate on her on without holding the railings or the penguin. And me, well all I could hope was not to fall and the "let it be" blaring out of the audio speakers definitely gave me courage, the courage to let go for 30 seconds and trusting kathleen with my dear life to lead to the opposite end. Then we made a 3 person chain with kathleen, amanda and I.

If I think about it now as a third person, it seems like an aweful and a very embarracing event where every passing person or car could see me or children younger than me were "dancing on ice" but somehow it wasn't about that. It was about spending time with friends, learning your weaknesses, crossing something off the bucket list and most off all trusting someone enough to lead you on a path where one fall will leave you bruised. And the best thing was I didnt fall and that's saying something considering this was my first time. Hey, maybe I'll figure skate my way to olympics some day. A girl can dream ;)




Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic: Unknown
Seasonal greetings
from
Emily xx

Like L, Like E

I must say that Lalita's last post was the most heart rendering. I was very moved by all that she has said and I believe every word that she had said ( not that I ever not believe her). trust me if she hasn't bought a new shoes let alone shoe, its bad news and she might as well be dead or something ( i don't mean it literally) because if I know her, she can't got a day without buying shoes. this girl has like show for every piece of clothing she has and sometimes she has shoes but no clothes ( I made that part up but it could be true). and i really get what the quote was about, there might as well be no day at all if its going to be without my lakes. And I know we aren't immortal and its all going to end one day but it sure isn't any day soon. I am sure there must be someone in your lives too that is worth being immortal for. because other than that, its not really worth the pain ! Hey, i might as well go to heaven

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. like love It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival"

and here's something to my lakes

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born"
because they mean the world  to me

No that's only 2 more left, they'll come around
Much love
Emily xx

The extremely summarised introduction :)

So this is it every one, here we go on this insane journey of our less-than-perfect lives, but trust me less than perfect completely works for us.. by the way, by me i mean THE 'E' OF THE LAKE, the one that completes every one, THE 'EMILY', ofcourse the secret identity has been disguised because here we will be discussing quite dangerous things (ofcourse no threat to national security, so please refrain from calling the authorities, government or medical).. us the lakes each specialise in a different feild of ...urmm... er.. lifee.. you could say..

The 'L' of LAKE, Lalita, she is equally important as she 'starts' us.. an optimist.. for us.. for herself an extreme passimist. Both end extreme and annoying but we love her. The one who gets her adrenaline boost from submitting work 5 seconds before deadline. Hates the reality of her age (so please never ask that question) even though she is not that much older than us .. but still.. loves shopping, hate work.. who doesnt. Oh yeah, and the most important thing about her is that she shares the same comments on the evil 1 as i do, but she is the nicer one (in this case ofcourse)
LOVES: Shopping

The 'A' of Lake, Amanda or as i call her Mandy. She'll do anything for a fellow lake. She is the computer genius or so they say! she is also my fellow Gleek.. (by that i mean she watches glee), only one she has got a bigger crush on than edward cullen is CG (we call it more like love..) now CG stands for a cute guy that shall remain unnamed in our stories (even though i have asked his name).. she will tell you every thing you need to know, want to know or wished never knew about our CG.
Loves: COFFEE

The 'K' of Lake, Kathleen. the weirdest one of all.. but also my sister more like soul sister since we look nothing alike. even though i am the most sane one , I too cannot hold on to sanity when around her. She has genres of stories no one would have heard before and I come second to her with illegible hand writing.
Loves: not having to walk
Hates (i had to mention): anything with milk, yes including milk shake

And finally me, well it would not be fair to write about my self so i will let one of my fellow lakes to discuss me when they enlighten you with their texts... well one thing i can say because i will not deny is that i always threaten to kill when I am angry..(ofcourse i will never do it because i am the nice one) and i am always ready to kill the evil one.

EDIT :Now lets talk about Emms ... and like she's already said, she is the "E" in Lake.. the one that completes us (oh and this is Mandy) Emms is a goody goody but also the brave one in the group who is slowly and "innocently" influencing us to be more like her .. note the quotes on innocent :P She and Lalita have an unhealthy obsession with the evil one and yes as you have already guessed.. they named her that :P Emms also likes strange and gory things... just imagine you are going for an eye operation, what will be going through your mind "eww, crap my eye.. omg" something along the lines of that.. Emms thinking is "omg do you think they will let me see it while the operation is in progress?!" So that my friends.. is Emms
Loves: Anything scary and gory

now i feel that you should know who the evil one actually is, so i'll ask 'L' to tell you all about it..
until then .. takecaree.. and embrace lifee... we obviously are trying

From the one who completes them
Em xx