The Daily Grind of Your Average 12 Year Old......

For this post, I've decided to take you all into the daily life of none other than yours truly! Considering how boring my life normally is, I’ll try to add a little drama. So, brace yourselves. It’s going to be a long (and possibly traumatizing) ride.

Every morning, after somehow managing to drag myself out of bed, I get ready, fork down my breakfast, attempt to plait my hair, fail and then make my mom do it for me (yes, my mom still plaits my hair. Deal with it). I then walk to the bus stop and, if I haven’t already missed my bus, get on and hopefully find an unoccupied window seat. If I don’t find such a seat, I bribe one of the gullible little children with a few biscuits.

When we finally reach school, I walk to my classroom and join my friends. As almost all of them don’t know the singers, youtubers and other stuff that I'm into, I just sit there as they talk about some Bollywood actor’s latest movie or song or something. Eventually, we start our classes. Seriously speaking, I don’t mind most of them. You could even say that I like sitting there and filling my brain with information, even if I may not really be using said information in the future. There are just two parts I don’t particularly find fun-

1: Hindi and Konkani. I’m just not really a second language person. Unless that second language is Korean, then I’d be the first person to sign up.

2: I never get the chance to answer questions. It’s always, “Rhea, put your hand down. Give the other kids a chance” or “Who can answer this question? No Rhea. Just no.”

But, anyway, if I manage to survive all that, I get in the bus and try to ignore the 3^rd grade kids who keep shouting not very friendly Konkani words at me. After I get home, I attempt to get into my jeans that I just bought but don’t fit into anymore because I may have had a little too much Häagen-Dazs on the night before. 

Then I head out for my Konkani tutions, get back, stuff my face, watch some Sherlock or Castle, Cycle a bit, Look at some stuff on the net, stuff my face again and eventually go to bed where I fall asleep as I  look back on the day and think about how I’m going to improve on so many things on the next day, wake up in the morning and be all like, “Meh.”

And then repeat it all again.

Unless it’s Sunday. Because Sunday is nutella day. 

Book Review-Mockingjay

The final book in the hunger games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

The end is finally here, the end of my pre-teen stage (yes, I’m finally turning 13!) and the end of an epic series. So, let’s get on with the reviewing, shall we? After the WICKED suspense at the end of catching fire (the previous book, duh), it was really nice to finally start reading the last installment....OK, you called my bluff, I had all the books with me so I actually didn't have to wait to get my hands on the next book, however those few seconds that I took to open said book was suspense enough. I’m going to catch you up with what happened at the end of the last book.

Katniss and Peeta are put back into the arena along with the other victors for the 75^th annual hunger games as it is the quarter quell. They devise a master plan along with Beetee, Finnick and a few other victors, however suddenly, something explodes...its chaos and suddenly Katniss wakes up on some sort of hospital bed, alone, she gets up, walks around and finds a few of her compadres. In the end she realizes that everyone has been in on a plan to keep Katniss alive. Why? Because the districts are rebelling, and Katniss is the face of this rebellion that she herself did not know of until recently.

Yes, THE DISTRICTS ARE REBELLING!!!!!! I don’t know if you’re as excited as me, but all I know is you darn well should be. Katniss is safe, Gale is safe, Mrs. Everdeen and Prim are safe........Peeta is not. He’s been taken captive by the Capitol. There is no district 12 anymore. District 13, however, is still alive and Katniss is the rebels’ mockingjay. I shall say no more about the content of this book after this one little thing. !!SPOILER ALERT!! Alas, Katniss does not end up with whom I hoped. This isn't very shocking considering the fact that when most people hoped she'd choose Gale or Peeta, I was rooting for Cinna. Yes, Cinna. ENOUGH ABOUT THAT.

Suzanne Collins has won many an award in the 51 years she’s spent here on the surface of the earth. She’s been awarded the 2011 California Young Reader medal, the 2010 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers and has also just this second been awarded with the much sought after title of being one my favourite authors. BRAVO MRS. COLLINS!

But, on a more serious note, I am obsessed with her work and I hope she comes out with another amazing series, good enough to even outshine the hunger games. I shall miss reviewing you hunger games, but fear not! There are other books out there! Unless........ Unless you don’t want me too, in which case ;-;

Book Review-The Hunger Games

The first book in the bestselling trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Imagine you’re a teen in the post apocalyptic world, and you’re little sister is being taken away from you to her certain death. What do you do? Wait, I’ve gotten ahead of myself.........

The Hunger Games a gripping tale of the post apocalyptic land of Panem, which is divided into 11 districts and the Capitol. Each year 2 tributes from each district are reaped from a pool of children aging from 12 to 18 and are put into an arena where only one survives to be crowned as victor, all for the entertainment of most of the public and to remind the citizens of the Capitols power. One such year Primrose Everdeen is selected to represent district 12 along with Peeta Mallark. Primrose’s elder sister, Katniss, volunteers to take her place. And, quite obviously, the book follows them as they prepare for, enter and compete in the 74^th annual hunger games.

However, the movie, even with all its awesomeness, has missed out a few very important parts from the book that are key. I’m not going into that right now as most of you wouldn’t understand what I’m talking about since the reason you’re reading this is probably because you’re deliberating on whether you should in fact read the book or not. Which reminds me, GO READ THE BOOK BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME!!

Suzanne Collins, the brain behind the whole series, has done an amazing job and is now in fact one of my favourite authors. At the age of 51, she has written other books such as working towards independence, fire proof, year of the jungle, when Charlie McButton lost power and the underworld chronicles (which comprises of 6 books). Though the hunger games is what really plunged her into the limelight.

To conclude- The book is awesome, read it now if you haven’t, if you have.....then read the rest of the series, if you have......then prepare with me for the release of the last two movie instalments (mockingjay part 1 and 2).

Bye now!

And to paraphrase Grace Helbig..... Don’t forget to follow me you gorgeous Popsicle!! >:o

My Life Is Being Taken Over

Flappy Bird....... If you don’t know what this is, then I envy you. But if the very mention of this name both infuriates and slightly excites you, then- you, god sir/ma’am, are not alone. For I too have fallen prey to this game/devil. It has, fortunately, been deleted from the app store so that more people won’t get sucked into its {severely deformed} beak. The developer of this game has very humbly removed it from the app store even though it has been a major gold mine for said developer. I feel bad for him, in a way. He made a game that he didn't predict would go big – which it didn't, until PewDiePie featured it in one of his videos - and then received death threats for making a game. MAKING A GAME!!

But, as relived as I am that you innocent people won’t have to deal with this game, I’m equally traumatized because all the plans I concocted of forcing my friends to download this game as revenge for eating all the nutella have gone to waste.

BUT FEAR NOT!!!!!!!

Many game developers have inevitably released duplicate version of Flappy Bird. The most infuriating of them all being Iron Pants and the best, considering the fact that I love Fall Out Boy, is Fall Out Bird. It allows you to play as members of the band and also plays FOB songs in the background in contrast to the silence of Flappy Bird. Another version- Tappy Nyan – which I am currently installing, is basically a Nyan cat version of Flappy Bird. If you want me to justify installing it, IT’S NYAN CAT!! HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY RESIST NYAN CAT!?!?!?!?

The Cardboard Box - An Introduction !

A’ight, before we start off, I would like to point out that I, as a person, tend to contemplate (well, to an extent that I get stressed out) about things that most people wouldn’t think twice about. For example, Normal person- Hey look! A banana! *nom nom*       Me- OHMAIGAWSH! A banana! Should I eat it? No, I might upset the universal balance of people and fruits. Is Pluto edible? Is there a cosmic owl? VOLCANOES! We’re all going to DIE!!!!!!

Soooo..... Yeah

Welcome to the cardboard box! Where everything’s possible! You can be a unicorn here, no questions asked!

Most of my posts are just going to be random rants, raves and ramblings from my seriously messed up brain. Some may be diary entries, some may be reviews ... The possibilities are endless! So, grab a bowl of popcorn (real or imaginary), evacuate your bowels and DIG IN!

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Ok, maybe I do need television..... A lot. But, you get my drift.

Lemme introduce myself-

My name is Rhea (....or is it?), I’m 12 and I live in the mystical fairyland you all call India. Yes, we do have wifi in India. We also have cows.............

Lots of cows 

*sigh*                                                                                                                   

Though I just happen to sing like a dying whale, I still love putting on my headphones so that my ears don’t bleed and singing in order to torture everyone around me! :D I cannot bring myself to stick to just one genre of music. My favourite singers/bands/djs are WAY too many to list, but it DOES include Fall Out Boy, Skrillex, Of mice & men, Paramore, Lorde, Bastille, Imagine Dragons, Porter Robinson, AND MANY MORE. I also have an addiction to Korean pop music. Yes, this obsession has lead to many an intervention but I’m long gone. SARANGHAE  K-POP!!!!!!

As far as future endeavours go, I’m most probably going to get into arts, design and literature. And, hopefully, become a youtuber like Lilly Singh (IIsuperwomanII), Shane Dawson, PewDiePie and all those other awesomesauce people, though the chances of that are pretty low. Journalism or anything else that has to do with writing would also be a great, however, as long as I get paid enough to buy nutella, I’d be a happy elf.

I love nutella.