It’s 2am and I just met a deadline. It was a race against time. It still is. I have to wake up at 6 to beat the crowd at the common loos in hostel! Then there are string of things to do at office starting early in the morning and I have house-hunting to do.
I am sleep deprived and bitten by 10 mosquitoes at once!
There were good things too.. Yummy Chinese for lunch, good bargain on a bag, fun chats with friends and one day closer to my last month at SMIS…
I’ve heard this life is overrated,
But I hope that it gets better as we go…
#1 Slumdog wins 9 Oscars!
Yeah, so? I didn’t think there was anything remarkable about the movie. The fact that it flopped in India, means something. So the Western World is fascinated with the kids, esp the one that jumped into the shit! And who was that idiot doubling for Abby Baby? I think it was a fairly average movie. Dev Patel screams “Latika!!” and then Latika screams some more. That ain’t acting! Danny just made my blood Boyle for featuring yet another Bhooka-Nanga India! So please stop applauding!
#2 Dress to please the guy!
What shit? I am not the one to sport a ganjee or a noodle strap. I have my reasons. If a guy can’t take a girl clad in jeans, before or after marriage, I am not getting married to him! What’s that you say? He doesn’t mind, his parents will? I just shake my head at the family that wouldn’t allow its daughters to dress in denims in today’s day and age. Give me a break!
#3 Corporate Life is Fun. Look at all the money!
Money is not something you can stare at all your life and be happy. I don’t deny that it can buy a lot of things. But Corporate Life is just as sucky or good as any other walk of life. So, please don’t envy the ones in it!
#4 HR does only recruitment and it is free at most times.
These days I happen to meet people who crack such “jokes” and I really don’t take them too well. May be I am stressed out! May be I am overreacting. May be the people who make such jokes empty vessels. Yes, I don’t deny that there are a good number of HR folk who while away their time and hence these jokes can be justified. But that’s just true of any disengaged person no matter what department he/she works for. If you are not interested, you wont work. Even if you are the CEO. And HR is not ADMIN for God’s sake! I mean, really… which underground city were you hibernating in? If you don’t understand how we function, too bad! You don’t have to be scared of us or even act servile in order to get on our right side.
#5 You need to have company
No. I am not a sociopath. I like hanging out with friends and I am always game for social events. I don’t think I’ve ever been told that I am averse to people. But that doesn’t have to be the norm. There are times when I crave for blissful solitude. Times when you need your space. Times when you just want to walk through the hallways of the Taj and feel the years of enchanting beauty just pervade around you. Watch the sun go down, look at the full moon glow, feel the sea breeze, soak into a bubble bath, listen to that haunting melody, read that funny book, see that silly movie. All by yourself. I know of people who cannot bear to be alone. I know I don’t like to sleep in a room alone at night. But live a few moments like you own the planet. Its magical!
My nerves have been tested to the brink over the last few days. Some completely unreasonable people who wield power can have some honest people in some pretty tight corners. I hate that! A situation such as this arose and I hated it that in spite of not being wrong, I was being penalized. Red Tape! Argh!
But then there was the festival this evening! SMIS knows how to party. There was awesome music and food for all the fun-loving people out here. Yes, the placements are worse than we thought. But tonight was a night to forget all and let your hair down. I happen to hang out with the most happening Sardarnis and Punjabis(yes, they are different, I have learnt) who know how to shake a leg, Punjabi style!
Yay! I am totally de-stressed at least for now..And though my feet hurt… loved every minute! 
It’s a bloody group assignment,
Why can’t I choose my group, I lament.
I did the whole damn work last time,
With help from one out of the nine!
Then there is a letter I need,
But admin pays little heed.
I wont have a roof above my head,
Alas, they wouldn’t care even if I was dead!
Let’s not talk of death and dying,
But how about Truth itself lying?
Satyam falls like a pack of cards,
Think the auditors were also retards!
Our neighbour has finally come around,
Kasab is one of their own, they have found.
We’ve being crying hoarse that it’s the ISI,
But Uncle Sam has just turned a blind eye!
Now let’s get back to dear old me…
Tired of living alone now, you see.
So I decided to sign-up for some e-matrimony,
The Shaadi, Bharatmatrimony and e-harmony.
This has been quite an entertaining engagement,
Some guys are really nice, yet some need improvement.
Chatting with a few to test if they are what they tout,
Can be gruelling, hence for a week, it’s Timeout!
(Please let me know what you think of this rhyme,
Just a line, emoticon or even a word, is fine.
No real inspiration, no real perspiration.
More of a general mental ventilation!)
“Cute guy alert! Cute guy alert!” A rare sighting in Pune. Hunk on bike! Woah..
The girls of SMIS are deprived. Yes, we are a pretty unfortunate bunch. Half our population is of guys but ask any girl from my batch, “Who’s the Dude in your batch?” and they will look lost. Some might give you their SMIS BF’s name, some might name a crush. But most will shake their heads in despair. Few may even breakdown and cry.
“Bhagwaan ne ache ladke banane band kardiye, T” said D.
Then there are guys like Hugh Jackman, Milind Soman, etc who just seem to be getting hotter with age! So we girls just sit in our rooms wondering about such Heavenly Bodies! (move over, John… Your yellow trunks slipping was disgustingly desperate!)
Okay, partial credit will be given to some cool guys. Some really intelligent ones, some real charmers too. They are all here. But sadly, as I leave SMIS, there isn’t a face of a man I will remember.
(Seeking Kind Burger, eh Aman? 
)
1. Drag-race on prime roads of B’lore in the wee hours of the morning.
2. Run into Police barricade and not get the hint.
3. Try running away from cops to seem even more fishy.
4. Choose Brigadier’s Home to escape from cops where there are guys trained to shoot miscreants dead.
5. Go to roof and be visible to cops.
6. Run for the road again when told to surrender.
7. Try to scale the wall in plain sight of army men with loaded guns.
8. Be the father of the above mentioned InDUHvidual and claim that the Indian Army (fresh from 26/11) is running a jungle raaj!
9. Try to save American Prez with bare hands from a missile (read: shoe, ok 2 of them!)
10. Try to save Bush!
Shoo Shoo!11. Use the Youth Power in your nation to destroy(at least try) your neighbouring country instead of giving them jobs to help your drowning economy!
12. Refute every conclusive evidence that the Youth Power was yours in the first place. Just keep saying “I didn’t do it.” because Uncle Sam still believes you.
(Chorus:)
Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness, hello loneliness
I think I’m-a gonna cry-y
Bye bye love, bye bye sweet caress, hello emptiness
I feel like I could di-ie
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
There goes my baby with-a someone new
She sure looks happy, I sure am blue
She was my baby till he stepped in
Goodbye to romance that might have been
(Chorus)
I’m-a through with romance, I’m a-through with love
I’m through with a’countin’ the stars above
And here’s the reason that I’m so free
My lovin’ baby is through with me
(Chorus)
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
One song that invariably starts playing in my head when I leave home. I am going this time not knowing when I will return. Met most of my friends this time. It was good fun. But there are those who weren’t able to make it and they will be sorely missed. I am not distraught. Feeling sad, yes. I do want to focus on the good side of things to keep myself going.
Moving on to something new. Something truly challenging. Something out of a dream. Scary. I will do my best. I’ve thought of what I imagine could be the worst-case-scenario. It will be devastating. But I know I can emerge from that as well. There is more to life. More than one can ever imagine. I might run through a zillion possible situations in my head, and tell myself, “I’ve thought of everything!” Then, as they say, Life happens! Life has always managed to surprise me. Sometimes pleasantly and sometimes it’s been a rude shock. May be a reminder that we are only Human.
I think it is time for a new song…
They are the rivals of SMIS. I am just smiling away. Too sleepy to blog… More tomorrow…Err today… oh.. ciao!
There is something bugging me. I knew I’ve seen him before. I loved him the first time I saw him. He was hilarious! I saw him on TV the other day and just knew I had to watch it again.
Hail Google! A few wiki pages and some youtube videos later. I found it!
Dieter Hallervorden’s Nonstop Nonsens or Didi’s Comedy Show! The guy is a genius!
I remember being in splits everytime I saw his show on Doordarshan. Now that I am learning German, I could understand say 10 words of the German dialogue and I am so kicked about it
I am still trying to get my hands on the English transalation, of which, sadly, there isn’t even one episode on youtube!
Little joys…
