no, it is not another one of my overtly cheerful "Short Stories.." because, somehow, i am just not upto writing wonderfully chirpy tales about myself at the moment.
remember all that stuff i wrote about how i prefer to keep stuff below the surface and all? (this is assuming that you read my blog on a somewhat regular basis. if u don't, well then i can't help it can i?) well i had almost changed my mind about that but, surprise, turns out that i was right!
it is sooo much better to not have things spelled out concretely. you at least have less stuff to piss u off later on. stuff which should never have bothered u in the first place. but nooo, all your cards SHOULD be on the goddamn table.
well u guys should know that if things had been left to themselves, you would be reading yet another funny story instead of my crap.
and yeah, since everybody seemed to be highly intrigued about all the love that was budding in my last entry, well let me inform everyone that it has absolutely NOTHING to do with me. was referring to my friends, all of whom seem to have wonderfully happy love lives. and if not wonderfully happy, they at least have love lives. i do not even have a semblance of a love life. it is Non-Existent. so there.
anyway, have a Very Happy New Year everyone. mine will simply be great. and the fact that i have exams from the 8th of jan only adds to my already overflowing happiness.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Sunday, December 10, 2006
the fest and more
i know i know i have been seriously neglecting my poor blog. but i had some extremely valid reasons for doing so. the week before last i had 3 tests back to back. and since i had to start studying from scratch, i could hardly have blogged. and last week, i had my fest(which was brilliant, for the record. u shall soon see how)so again.....
fest got over yesterday. so my holidays have officially begun from today. u know what's funny? when we had our autumn break, i was so extremely glad. not that i hated college or anything, but, well, given a choice i would have chosen to not go to college. this time, i'm gonna miss college. which surprises me, because for some reason i had assumed that i would never really LIKE like college u know. but for the past few months i've actually started to really enjoy college. which makes me quite happy, because spending three years in a place you're just okay with isn't too good.
okay enough introspection. i didn't want this one to be a serious entry. oh right, about the fest. well first the bare facts. srcc's fest, 'crossroads', was from the 20th to the 23rd of december. 20th was kinda random, 21st was pop night, 22nd was 'war of the Djs' night and 23rd was rock night.
i am terrible terribly ashamed to say that....mika(sob) came for the pop night. pragati sums up my emotions best with this hypothetical conversation she made up.
tania: oh hey want a pass for my fest? SRCC!
XYZ: ofcourse! thanks! who's performin anyway?
tania: errrmm...uhhh...now doesnt matter really does it? the purpose is to meet up and have fun right?
XYZ: umm...yea, but still, whos comin?
tania: *thinks of another clever line to move away from the bloody ques but fails*....mika....*whisper*
XYZ: WHAT!!!!!! oh i mean, great *choke*. actually, im outta town...
but okay, we didn't attend mika. went to hindu and attended euphoria's concert. i'm not a big fan of indipop(or any kind of pop for that matter) but heck, anything is better than MIKA. heard some really funny stuff happened. and awfully surprising. people actually(i swear to god) broke barricades and had semi-fights to watch the man in action. and(i swear i'm not kidding) a couple of guys climbed up on stage and kissed him! eeeyuckk. fine, you're very very drunk, you're high and quite possibly you're extremely desperate, but kissing mika??!!
slight digression. venky has a terrific crowd and all, but what the hell happened on the 20th??? am talking specifically about mr. and miss nexus.
right, coming back to my fest. 22nd night was brilliant. it was straight out of some typical hindi movie. let me paint a picture for u. nighttime. very crowded place. drunk guys. baseball bats. wooden sticks. bikes. jeeps. 10 guys in each jeep. people running helter-skelter(haha i love that phrase). girls screaming. blood. police. lathi charge.
can u possible get more filmy than that?
we had a brilliant time. though i felt kinda sorry for the poor DJs, who could spin their whatever-they-spin for about an hour only. also felt sorry for the girls from the other colleges, who had come dressed in their flashiest(and tiniest, in that kind of weather. christ). poor girls were traumatised. *hahahahaha*. we heard a lot of filmy conversations too. along the lines of "oh my god, yeh sab kya ho raha hai?"
the guys(of my college that is) deserve a special mention. they were damn sweet. all very protective and are-u-guys-okay and u-guys-should-leave-now and u-should-go-stand-over-there. thanks u guys, for the concern!
after it all got over, and we got tired of the screechy girls, we went to nirula's for hot chocolate fudge. by the time the guy got our sundae, it was ten. arpita and i had to catch the metro till central secretariat, from where my driver was supposed to pick us up. i realized that the last metro leaves at 10:12. next thing, me and arpita are running towards the metro station(for some weird reason there were no rickshaws that night, only drunk guys driving around). well we did manage to catch that metro(thanks to a guy, whose story will be told in the next blog) and then found out that the last metro leaves at eleven. oh well, a run always does u good.
the only part of the night which miffed me was that we had to throw away a lot of the sundae. i sort of tried to sneak the thing into the metro, but the highly idiotic guard saw me. moron.
anyway, because of all that, security was really really tight yesterday. which didn't do much good to prithvi's and taaq's self-esteem i'm sure. because it was so much emptier than the day before. and highly empty according to ANY standards. i felt awfuly bad for them, especially because they were playing nice stuff.
well with that i end the story of my fest. it had all the makings of a movie; drama, violence, emotion, budding love(am not gonna elucidate because of obvious reasons), comedy(there was a hilarous thing called 'stupid cupid: mystery date' happening), horror(the columbus which went vertical on the last day...damn..i had 7 near-heart attacks) and a whole lot of fun.
do watch out for my next blog, because 'Collected Short Stories..' is coming back!! until then, Merry Christmas!
fest got over yesterday. so my holidays have officially begun from today. u know what's funny? when we had our autumn break, i was so extremely glad. not that i hated college or anything, but, well, given a choice i would have chosen to not go to college. this time, i'm gonna miss college. which surprises me, because for some reason i had assumed that i would never really LIKE like college u know. but for the past few months i've actually started to really enjoy college. which makes me quite happy, because spending three years in a place you're just okay with isn't too good.
okay enough introspection. i didn't want this one to be a serious entry. oh right, about the fest. well first the bare facts. srcc's fest, 'crossroads', was from the 20th to the 23rd of december. 20th was kinda random, 21st was pop night, 22nd was 'war of the Djs' night and 23rd was rock night.
i am terrible terribly ashamed to say that....mika(sob) came for the pop night. pragati sums up my emotions best with this hypothetical conversation she made up.
tania: oh hey want a pass for my fest? SRCC!
XYZ: ofcourse! thanks! who's performin anyway?
tania: errrmm...uhhh...now doesnt matter really does it? the purpose is to meet up and have fun right?
XYZ: umm...yea, but still, whos comin?
tania: *thinks of another clever line to move away from the bloody ques but fails*....mika....*whisper*
XYZ: WHAT!!!!!! oh i mean, great *choke*. actually, im outta town...
but okay, we didn't attend mika. went to hindu and attended euphoria's concert. i'm not a big fan of indipop(or any kind of pop for that matter) but heck, anything is better than MIKA. heard some really funny stuff happened. and awfully surprising. people actually(i swear to god) broke barricades and had semi-fights to watch the man in action. and(i swear i'm not kidding) a couple of guys climbed up on stage and kissed him! eeeyuckk. fine, you're very very drunk, you're high and quite possibly you're extremely desperate, but kissing mika??!!
slight digression. venky has a terrific crowd and all, but what the hell happened on the 20th??? am talking specifically about mr. and miss nexus.
right, coming back to my fest. 22nd night was brilliant. it was straight out of some typical hindi movie. let me paint a picture for u. nighttime. very crowded place. drunk guys. baseball bats. wooden sticks. bikes. jeeps. 10 guys in each jeep. people running helter-skelter(haha i love that phrase). girls screaming. blood. police. lathi charge.
can u possible get more filmy than that?
we had a brilliant time. though i felt kinda sorry for the poor DJs, who could spin their whatever-they-spin for about an hour only. also felt sorry for the girls from the other colleges, who had come dressed in their flashiest(and tiniest, in that kind of weather. christ). poor girls were traumatised. *hahahahaha*. we heard a lot of filmy conversations too. along the lines of "oh my god, yeh sab kya ho raha hai?"
the guys(of my college that is) deserve a special mention. they were damn sweet. all very protective and are-u-guys-okay and u-guys-should-leave-now and u-should-go-stand-over-there. thanks u guys, for the concern!
after it all got over, and we got tired of the screechy girls, we went to nirula's for hot chocolate fudge. by the time the guy got our sundae, it was ten. arpita and i had to catch the metro till central secretariat, from where my driver was supposed to pick us up. i realized that the last metro leaves at 10:12. next thing, me and arpita are running towards the metro station(for some weird reason there were no rickshaws that night, only drunk guys driving around). well we did manage to catch that metro(thanks to a guy, whose story will be told in the next blog) and then found out that the last metro leaves at eleven. oh well, a run always does u good.
the only part of the night which miffed me was that we had to throw away a lot of the sundae. i sort of tried to sneak the thing into the metro, but the highly idiotic guard saw me. moron.
anyway, because of all that, security was really really tight yesterday. which didn't do much good to prithvi's and taaq's self-esteem i'm sure. because it was so much emptier than the day before. and highly empty according to ANY standards. i felt awfuly bad for them, especially because they were playing nice stuff.
well with that i end the story of my fest. it had all the makings of a movie; drama, violence, emotion, budding love(am not gonna elucidate because of obvious reasons), comedy(there was a hilarous thing called 'stupid cupid: mystery date' happening), horror(the columbus which went vertical on the last day...damn..i had 7 near-heart attacks) and a whole lot of fun.
do watch out for my next blog, because 'Collected Short Stories..' is coming back!! until then, Merry Christmas!
Saturday, December 02, 2006
25 things i want to do before i die
i've been putting this off for a very very long time, but finally i decided to get down to it. aditya, finally i "do" the tag, or whatever u call it.
this is in random order, not in order of preference AT ALL. i'm putting them down in the order they're striking me.
1) backpack across europe.
2) visit the louvre.
3) go bungee-jumping.
4) visit australia. have been there once but i want to go again. totally loved the place.
5) visit kashmir.
6) go to pakistan; lahore in particular.
7) attend a concert in hyde park.
8) this is sort of a sub-part of 7 but not exactly. watch the rolling stones, roger waters(i would have said pink floyd but alas), u2, aerosmith, gnr and dire straits perform live.
9) meet nitin, lead singer of parikrama!
10) make a hell lot of money. seriously.
11) go to see the taj mahal at night(they don't allow that anymore, but hey the list is of things that i WANT, not things that i want AND things that are possible).
12) MEET SHAHRUKH KHAN.
13) holiday in goa with friends.
14) WRITE A BOOK.
15) do something completely spontaenous, on the spur of the moment. and wild.
16) shop like there's no tomorrow, and no credit limit. :-p
17) go to outer space(refer to 11 for explaination).
18) take part in the delhi half-marathon(i plan to do that every year but something or the other comes up).
19) read catch-22. it is the only book which i haven't managed to complete after starting it.
20) do something brilliantly intelligent. something which will go down in history(here i go again....wishful thinking).
21) learn to fly a plane.
22) watch all the seasons of friends in one go(i might never recover from that but what the heck)
23) lose my cynicism.
24) die listening to floyd.
25) thank aditya for tagging me. and for making me dream......
okay, now i get to tag people!
i tag
siddharth
anupriya
arnab
kanika
note to arnab - u HAVE to do it! no two ways about it.
aditya deserves a special mention for telling me how to put up links. thanks!
this is in random order, not in order of preference AT ALL. i'm putting them down in the order they're striking me.
1) backpack across europe.
2) visit the louvre.
3) go bungee-jumping.
4) visit australia. have been there once but i want to go again. totally loved the place.
5) visit kashmir.
6) go to pakistan; lahore in particular.
7) attend a concert in hyde park.
8) this is sort of a sub-part of 7 but not exactly. watch the rolling stones, roger waters(i would have said pink floyd but alas), u2, aerosmith, gnr and dire straits perform live.
9) meet nitin, lead singer of parikrama!
10) make a hell lot of money. seriously.
11) go to see the taj mahal at night(they don't allow that anymore, but hey the list is of things that i WANT, not things that i want AND things that are possible).
12) MEET SHAHRUKH KHAN.
13) holiday in goa with friends.
14) WRITE A BOOK.
15) do something completely spontaenous, on the spur of the moment. and wild.
16) shop like there's no tomorrow, and no credit limit. :-p
17) go to outer space(refer to 11 for explaination).
18) take part in the delhi half-marathon(i plan to do that every year but something or the other comes up).
19) read catch-22. it is the only book which i haven't managed to complete after starting it.
20) do something brilliantly intelligent. something which will go down in history(here i go again....wishful thinking).
21) learn to fly a plane.
22) watch all the seasons of friends in one go(i might never recover from that but what the heck)
23) lose my cynicism.
24) die listening to floyd.
25) thank aditya for tagging me. and for making me dream......
okay, now i get to tag people!
i tag
siddharth
anupriya
arnab
kanika
note to arnab - u HAVE to do it! no two ways about it.
aditya deserves a special mention for telling me how to put up links. thanks!
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