It's funny

It is funny to write using my iPod. Yes, yes, I have an iPod. It is an Apple iPod. Okay... I'll stop bragging now and tell you a reason why on earth had I disappeared. School work, of course! Last term, I had received the lowest marks imaginable. I was horrified to see those marks. For my Math test, I got the worst number. I literally cried when I saw the number. Afterwards, I worked out a TimeTable to study and I am very proud to boast that the TT is
working!!!!!!
I know no one's really going to see my posts, but it is a free world and a kid's words are not going to start World War Three
Right?

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Freaky Friday Review

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Yeah, so I saw Freaky Friday starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis yesterday.
Don't give me such weird stares (Which I know you're giving once you read the first sentence). The movie was released when I was, what, a six-year-old kid.
So now, I begin with the review.  ~~~~
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On Finally Going To Deutschland

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Pehli baar ek hi baar aata hai! (The 'first time' experience comes only once in your life) - Amitabh Bachchan in English Vinglish The first thing that would come to your mind is: 
Why is Archie (who's been a very tardy blogger lately) beginning this blog post with a very oh-so-filmy quote? 
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Which is also why I haven't been a very regular updater of this blog. 
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Never mind that. 
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Fear of dying.
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Would my family be crying for me? Would my friends stop playing at all? 
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Today's one of those days, When you've forgotten everything, That you'd memorized all night long,
You're worried that everything would go wrong; 
Today's one of those days,
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With a poisonous, ominous snake,  Than stand in front of dozens on a stage;
Around you, are people lounging about,
As cool as cucumbers,
And here you are - Crippled with fear, struggling to remember; 
A shaky breath you take,
Pursue your lips, toss you hair,
Trying so hard to fake,
That you're an undaunted winner;
But all that false bravado falls,
When you see the first contender,
Enters the podium,
Clears his throat and stands tall; 
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Like a poisonous python,
Wrapping around you,
Making your insides go slack;
You see the first contender talk,
With flamboyant gestures, incredible voice modulation;
Seeing the audience,
It's sure he's won the adulation; 
And then, here you are,
Still trying to calm down,
Your thoughts running like a…
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The Importance Of Empowering Young Girls

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Coming from a patriarchal country like India, one would expect that I was also raised with the ingrained belief that the female gender is worthless for everything except nurturing the family. 
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My role models weren’t the stereotypical bahus in the Indian soap operas, who would be perpetually wearing ten coatings of makeup, heavy clothes and jazzy jewellery and still managed to devote their entire day to the kitchen in a palatial house that ideally should have dozens of maids. 
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