Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Give me William and Middleton!


So yes everybody knows about the Royal couple....but what I just saw on BBC's news website(yes at 5 in the morning!) is that The Royal Canadian Mint has unveiled collectors' coins to mark the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
A 20 Canadian dollar ($20.86; £12.78) silver coin has a sapphire-coloured crystal inlay, meant to symbolise the ring the Prince gave Ms Middleton. (The photograph on the right)
And a 25-cent coin features a colour portrait of the couple.(The photo on the left)
Mint chief executive Ian Bennett called the wedding later this month "a priceless opportunity to celebrate Canada's pride in royal tradition".
The coins "will give Canadians, royal watchers and collectors everywhere exceptional keepsakes by which to remember this historic event", he said in a statement.
The coins will be sold at Mint shops in Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver, online, and elsewhere.
The couple are to marry on 29 April and plan to travel to Canada two months later, on their first official overseas trip as a married couple.
They will visit Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and the capital, Ottawa.

The best part is that I am going to be in London the day Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot....I can't wait to see London all "dressed up" for the occassion....it's going to be so pretty!!! And if possible I may buy one of these coins as a souvenir!!! A good memory that will be to have.....

Anyway...nice to start the day with such a happy news!!!
And guess what, another great news....there is a serial killer on the roam in the streets of New York now-a-days...just thought I'd mention it as an addition to my previous blog! This is so going to help me sleep at night now..especially when I have my exams coming up in 2 days...
Bugger.

Sunday, 3 April 2011

my nightmare...

Everybody has nightmares right...?? Not always...but sometimes....
I have one that has been haunting me since last 3 years...yeah I know...that long.....
Even when I am dreaming about a nice thing like lets say cupcakes or vineyards or Matt Damon...this image that I have in my mind about my nightmare, just comes in the nice dream for like a second and then goes away...but it always comes....and sometimes the entire dream is about the image-which makes it into a nightmare.....
I am talking about the Zodiac Serial Killer. He operated in North California,USA, in the late 1960's and early 1970's. 
A movie was made on a book written about him. The movie's name is Zodiac. And since the time I have seen this film, I can't stop thinking of what would happen if I someday run into the ZODIAC!!!!
It scares the shit out of me! As amazingly stupid as I am, I went online and searched as much as I could about this man after seeing the film.....It didn't  scare me then, it's just, later, that he just got fixed in my mind....and started haunting me!
I usually dream about 2 of his murders that I call my "favourites" ....
1.Modesto attack
On the night of March 22, 1970, Kathleen Johns was driving from San Bernardino to Petaluma to visit her mother. She was seven months pregnant and had her 10-month-old daughter beside her.While heading west on Highway 132 near Modesto, a car behind her began honking and flashing its lights. She pulled off the road and stopped. The man in the car parked behind her and stated that her right rear tire was wobbling, and offered to tighten the lugs. After finishing his work, the man drove off; yet when Johns pulled forward to reenter the highway the wheel almost immediately came off of the car. The man returned, offering to drive her to the nearest gas station for help. She and her daughter climbed into his car. During the ride the car passed several service stations but the man did not stop. For about 90 minutes he drove back and forth around the backroads near Tracy. When Johns asked why he was not stopping, he would change the subject. When the driver finally stopped at an intersection, the man told Johns that he was going to kill her and then throw the baby out after her.Johns jumped out with her daughter and hid in a field. The driver then closed the car door and drove off. Johns hitched a ride to the police station in Patterson.

When you see this scene in the movie, you will literally be shaking inside your blanket....that's how I was....
2.Lake Herman Road attackThe first murders widely attributed to the Zodiac Killer were the shootings of high school students Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on December 20, 1968, on Lake Herman Road, just inside Benecia city limits.
The couple was on their first date and planned to attend a Christmas concert at Hogan High about three blocks from Jensen's home. The couple, instead, visited a friend before stopping at a local restaurant, and then driving out on Lake Herman Road. At about 10:15 p.m., Faraday parked his mother's Rambler in a gravel turnout, which was a well-known lover's lane.
Shortly after 11:00 p.m., their bodies were found by Stella Borges, who lived nearby. The Solano County Sheriff's Department investigated the crime but no leads developed.
Utilizing available forensic data, Robert Graysmith postulated that another car pulled into the turnout, just prior to 11:00 and parked beside the couple. The killer apparently exited the second car and walked toward the Rambler, possibly ordering the couple out of the Rambler. Jensen appeared to have exited the car first, yet when Faraday was halfway out, the killer apparently shot Faraday in the head. Fleeing from the killer, Jensen was gunned down twenty-eight feet from the car with five shots through her back. The killer then drove off.
These 2 incidents haunt me a lot.....
The image that I was earlier talking about is the image of the zodiac that I saw on the internet....I at times imagine myself as the above mentioned victims....and it's those scenes that I play in my mind that scare me...!!!
Deep huh?? 
anyway...thought I'd mention him 'cause it's been haunting me again since last few days..!..haha...
ciao! and sleepwell!!!




Tuesday, 29 March 2011

A broken heart or a broken head???

 SCENE 1:
 I had a breakthrough yesterday....A guy friend of mine told a close girl-friend of mine that he liked her and wanted to go out with her....okay he was a little drunk but he knew what he was talking about and he knew that she already had a boyfriend and is pretty stuck on him...but even then he had the guts to tell her that he liked her even though he knew nothing would happen.....I have never interacted much with this guy-friend of mine...but only in the last few days he has been going through certain personal problems and I am just a person trying to help him out....we are becoming good friends now....
Anyway, the girl obviously said that its very gut-full and brave of him to come up and say this to her..but she can't do anything about it because she already likes somebody else.....
a broken heart.. but the guy gracefully backed out and now him and the girl are back on good terms friendship wise....a fight broke out between him and another guy after a few minutes on a different issue...but it was only an argument and finished soon...
SCENE 2:
Another broken heart roams around the streets of Aurangabad-drunk....A 1st year student of our college..a boy who apparently broke up with a 3rd year student came back drunk to the hostel today...got into an argument with his seniors in the hostel...the argument turned into an ugly fight...and now the boy is fighting for his life in the ICU in a nearby hospital...the seniors apparently hit him with wood sticks on his head and bashed him up completely...these seniors were the 2nd year boys...and when the 1st yr boys saw the 2nd yrs hitting a 1st yr boy, they all got angry and attacked the 2nd yrs with chairs, chains and their functioning body parts.....
The boys hostel was shaking ....screams, roars, cries, curses ...all flying around and we girls in our hostels could see some of it as the boys hostel is just next to us....
For 3 whole hours we didn't know what to do and what to say...we started calling our friends in the boys hostel...they started calling us...news started to spread ..about that drunk guy...the seniors...the wooden sticks...and all we could do was stare outside the windows from our washrooms and pantry's...I in particular was sitting on a sink and seeing out through a small semi-broken window and saw when the principal came in the hostel in his car and when he left and what other faculty was present in the boys hostel etc etc.....
All my friends were thankfully not hurt...they all fought initially but later locked themselves in their rooms....and kept looking out from the windows itself....the situation refused to simmer down....
Its 4:30 in the morning now and I am still awake....the situation now has thankfully calmed down...the 2nd yrs have been shifted from the hostel and the principal is still speaking to the first yrs...thanks to the guy mentioned in scene 1 that I know all this....
I can barely open my eyes...I have a practical class at 9:30 in the morning...but I can't stop wondering about the 2 situations...both the guys were little drunk..in both the cases a fight broke out....look what happened in situation 1 and look what happened in situation 2....
The drunk guy who got beat up in scene 2 has apparently hurt himself badly above his left eye and nose...he is in the ICU and his mom has been called to Aurangabad from the first flight tomorrow.....
I pity him...why did he have to answer back the 2nd yr senior in the first place...why did the senior have to hit him that badly knowing that he is drunk....questions better left unanswered I think......