It is a lazy Sunday afternoon. I am lying down after lunch when my mother calls me.
"What are you doing?"
I mumble a soft "Nothing important, Ma. Just lazing around".
A few minutes of gen chit-chat and we put the phones down.
After about 15 minutes, I get up and tie my unmanaged hair into a ponytail.
The laundry bags are full; I soak the exponentially increasing amounts of dirty laundry in warm water.
My almirah needs a bit of tiding up. I carefully fold the big pile of clean laundry one by one. Shirts, trousers, skirts, tops, jeans, t-shirts, undies and socks all go to their respective shelves in the almirah.
In the meanwhile, the dirty clothes have been soaked enough. I lug the WET and HEAVY clothes to the washroom. On the way I notice Archi sleeping late, so I go wake her up. I do the laundry and put it out to dry.
My table is half full with dirty dishes from the mess. I go and return them.
I also remember that I had bought lots of fruits the previous day. I peel the oranges and bananas, cut the apples and guavas, mix them with the grapes, and prepare fruit chat out if it. I am happy with the result and share it with my wingies.
The spiders have been frightening me and Nils since days together, so I decide to clean the cobwebs.
While at it, I realize that my book-rack is untidy. All that is set right in a few minutes.
All the dust on the floor, I must sweep it clean.
By now, I feel exhausted myself so I casually sit on the bed and rest my tired back on the pillow.
Mother calls again and says "You sleep all day. Why not get up and do something?"
I throw a puzzled look... "Huh?!!!!!!!"
Yes, that’s another classic example of how my work goes royally unnoticed every single time. I just sit and sleep all day, you see!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Explaining the absence
Long time since I posted something that’s not "faaltu" (referring to the last post!) and there are several good reasons for it. Election Politics. BOSM. An addictive sitcom. A trip to Jaipur, A four day flu attack. MT fiasco. Diwali. Oasis. A relapse of crushes. Project and Assignment submissions. And lots of treats!
The Big Bang Theory is an extremely addictive, brilliantly made, geeky comedy. Spanning over two seasons, it concerns two young physicists, Leonard and Sheldon, and an attractive blonde waitress, Penny, who lives across the hall. Leonard and Sheldon's geekiness and intellect are in immense contrast with Penny's social skills and common sense and herein lies the comedy. The humor of The Big Bang Theory is all character-based, it begins with derisive laughter at the nerds’ expense, and is furthered with clever turns of phrase, extreme details, scientific interpretation and analysis of everyday things, and Sheldon’s complete lack of understanding of irony, sarcasm and humor; and a complete lack of humility. Throw in two other, equally geeky friends, Howard and Rajesh, and together they create the world’s best and craziest sitcom every produced.
By the time I was done with Season 1, Durga Puja and the Navratris had come up. I was a little busy, but our whole awesome wing decided to go on a two-day trip to Jaipur. So the day after Dandiya Nite, we left early morning for Jaipur. 10 girls- all geared up! Shopping there, in the malls was fun. Later, we had coffee while discussing our shopping, and in the evening, we went to this place called 'Chokhi Dhani'. Its basically an artificial village of sorts, created by the Rajasthan Tourism Board. Covering a large area, the village is very properly decorated, with all the people wearing traditional clothes and performing folk dances, singing songs, etc etc, just like a typical 'gaon ka mela'. We took loads of snaps there, and then returned, exhausted after a long day. Next morning, we went out for street shopping, and after a major row with one us, we all returned to Pilani in the evening.
Next day, most of us were down with fever. After a few calls back home, I was told I'm having flu and that I should rest for a few days. Fine, I thought, maybe it’ll go away. The second evening, I felt so horribly sick and nauseating - After rushing to the medical centre and putting up with an extremely rotten doctor, I was advised bed rest. Mom called up to tell me how irresponsible I was and that I couldn't even take care of myself. Oh ya, right.
After my recovery, I returned to the horrible and grueling schedule of tests and quizzes and mugging loads of xerox material, something I am not very good at. A short period of depression and then came Diwali.
Well, truly speaking, the most interesting incident during Diwali, will obviously be the drunken man episode, but otherwise too, except for the i-wanna-go-back syndrome prevalent in most of us, Diwali celebrations were pretty fine. We even had a mini puja/aarti in our wing, and lit diyas and candles together, before we all left for dinner outside.
Oasis, after all that hype, disappointed us. The only high in the four-day extravaganza was surely the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Prof Show. It was a festival in itself.
Meanwhile I crushed on my previous crushes, again! Seeing them so frequently, always doing something very important (I think!) or intellectual, I was unable to resist. I've been complaining, how all the nice guys (even the half-decent ones) in this world are taken and they don't ever break up either, and how we suddenly live in a terribly super-committed world, but that later. :P
I think I’ve explained all the interesting reasons for not having written anything all this while. Oh ya, and somewhere in between I had started with the Star Wars series and was obsessed with it for long. “It’s not a movie, it’s a legend” and sorts. Uff.
All I can say with confidence now is that I’ve learnt that doing something repetitively makes it look boring. Especially if that something is a card game like Literature.
Also, Kal Ho Naa Ho: life’s too short! (Naah, that just sounds good :P)
The Big Bang Theory is an extremely addictive, brilliantly made, geeky comedy. Spanning over two seasons, it concerns two young physicists, Leonard and Sheldon, and an attractive blonde waitress, Penny, who lives across the hall. Leonard and Sheldon's geekiness and intellect are in immense contrast with Penny's social skills and common sense and herein lies the comedy. The humor of The Big Bang Theory is all character-based, it begins with derisive laughter at the nerds’ expense, and is furthered with clever turns of phrase, extreme details, scientific interpretation and analysis of everyday things, and Sheldon’s complete lack of understanding of irony, sarcasm and humor; and a complete lack of humility. Throw in two other, equally geeky friends, Howard and Rajesh, and together they create the world’s best and craziest sitcom every produced.
By the time I was done with Season 1, Durga Puja and the Navratris had come up. I was a little busy, but our whole awesome wing decided to go on a two-day trip to Jaipur. So the day after Dandiya Nite, we left early morning for Jaipur. 10 girls- all geared up! Shopping there, in the malls was fun. Later, we had coffee while discussing our shopping, and in the evening, we went to this place called 'Chokhi Dhani'. Its basically an artificial village of sorts, created by the Rajasthan Tourism Board. Covering a large area, the village is very properly decorated, with all the people wearing traditional clothes and performing folk dances, singing songs, etc etc, just like a typical 'gaon ka mela'. We took loads of snaps there, and then returned, exhausted after a long day. Next morning, we went out for street shopping, and after a major row with one us, we all returned to Pilani in the evening.
Next day, most of us were down with fever. After a few calls back home, I was told I'm having flu and that I should rest for a few days. Fine, I thought, maybe it’ll go away. The second evening, I felt so horribly sick and nauseating - After rushing to the medical centre and putting up with an extremely rotten doctor, I was advised bed rest. Mom called up to tell me how irresponsible I was and that I couldn't even take care of myself. Oh ya, right.
After my recovery, I returned to the horrible and grueling schedule of tests and quizzes and mugging loads of xerox material, something I am not very good at. A short period of depression and then came Diwali.
Well, truly speaking, the most interesting incident during Diwali, will obviously be the drunken man episode, but otherwise too, except for the i-wanna-go-back syndrome prevalent in most of us, Diwali celebrations were pretty fine. We even had a mini puja/aarti in our wing, and lit diyas and candles together, before we all left for dinner outside.
Oasis, after all that hype, disappointed us. The only high in the four-day extravaganza was surely the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Prof Show. It was a festival in itself.
Meanwhile I crushed on my previous crushes, again! Seeing them so frequently, always doing something very important (I think!) or intellectual, I was unable to resist. I've been complaining, how all the nice guys (even the half-decent ones) in this world are taken and they don't ever break up either, and how we suddenly live in a terribly super-committed world, but that later. :P
I think I’ve explained all the interesting reasons for not having written anything all this while. Oh ya, and somewhere in between I had started with the Star Wars series and was obsessed with it for long. “It’s not a movie, it’s a legend” and sorts. Uff.
All I can say with confidence now is that I’ve learnt that doing something repetitively makes it look boring. Especially if that something is a card game like Literature.
Also, Kal Ho Naa Ho: life’s too short! (Naah, that just sounds good :P)
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