Busy-ness...

I know that isn't a word but that's the closest I can get to describing my life over the past two weeks. First, college started. Which in itself was a huge step up from the previous utterly jobless week. And, the Bangalore Open (oops... I can almost hear my sister correcting me - "Sony Ericsson International 2007, Bangalore") came to town again. Missed it last year on account of board exams the next day, and wasn't going to do that again! Thanks to free passes, I think I attended the tourney every day (including qualifiers!) except on the Wednesday, and I enjoyed the whole thing thoroughly. [In case you haven't heard me showing off already, my sister was a ball girl at the open!] I learnt a lot of things at the tournament, actually. I saw the entire stadium get a complete facelift. I saw foodstalls being set up. I learnt that the 55 rupee tickets actually gave a much better view of the match than the 165 rupee tickets. (Of course, the 275 rupee tickets gave the awesomest views!) But the most ... I dunno, surprising? Shocking? Interesting? ... thing I learnt is that Sania Mirza is highly unpopular. Not only with the officials, linespeople and ball kids (here, unpopular is an understatement!) but with the general public as well. And it's realy no wonder. Because besides her overrated game, she's got a terrible attitude. All the ball kids at the open were called for a tennis clinic with the players. Apparently, the Uberoi sisters were extremely extremely sweet to the kids (to the extent that they actually asked to be called by their nicknames, and kept giving high-fives to the ones that played well!). Basically, all the players that were there (Santangelo, Kostanic-Tosic, Obziler, the whole enchilada) were really sweet to the kids, except Sania. [My sister reminds me to say she was really sweet whenever the cameras were rolling.] She even showed the finger to one kid during a match! Lol... Sania or not, all of us loved that week!
And then, back to college in full swing. Before I realised it, tests are just around the corner! (12th of March - almost the ides of March!!!) So before you grumble about how infrequently I update my blog, do remember all that I've been doing!