When things get happening .

I couldn’t wait  to get my computer and type this post. Do you have any of those crazy cravings in life that you badly want to do? I mean something very insignificant and small but there’s an itch to do that . I am assuming that many of us have courtesy a few facebook pages. I have a lot of those small goals I want to achieve apart my bigger not so insignificant goals. Thanks to Panjab government I got to accomplish a lot of stuff today.

Before I get on that there is another thing I am dying to spill out here. We have our freshers this weekend and for the first time I am doing theatre , not acting obviously , my plate was so full that I thought of opting out of it. Errr Okay …. the truth is  the director that is uncle V dint take me. This is like the “ghar ka play” Vanya is the director , me the script writer and AYG , AV , Swats , SS and SM cast in major roles. There are a few juniors as well but for smaller stuff .

The story of the play is a spoof of “Auditioning of a ghost ” , you can find it on Google. I will post the script in next post to get a feedback from you all. So this weekend the  eight idiosyncratic girls ( we are group of eight people who hang out in college , incase I haven’t mentioned that before) will present their first ever play on stage. Hope it goes well.

As if the play and dancing part ( Swats is also choreographing a dance ) were not enough for a day that we were stuck up in a never ending jam owing to the protesters on the highway.The bus drivers told us the buses would not go beyond that point .We were still a good 15-20 kilometers away from our destination. It was pure co-incidence today that I was with a few AIESECers in the bus . We had to get to this meeting urgently.So we like everybody got down from the bus and start walking the highway. Now this is where came my first small insignificant goal number one  . Walking on a highway . I always wanted to walk on a highway for a considerable distance. Do I sound insane? I don’t care anyway. We walked in  the middle of the highway with no worry of being hit by a speeding car

Just check out the pictures .

This is where the protesters were , check point one , a toll tax barrier just approximately 10 kilometers from Chandigarh.

We somehow managed to make our way out of this massive crowd , it was a ocean of human beings .  The second goal might sound even more weird , do not judge me on that . It was walking on a long over bridge . I told you Do Not Judge me. Walking on the bridge was absolutely epic , we made a hilarious video , where we were laughed at by strangers just because we were having fun . People! Can’t never stop talking . And you should check out the picture below. The sunset looks amazing .

The Sunset

After a stretch of over 4-5 kilometers we thought of getting a lift .It kind of seemed impossible. There were hardly any vehicles and those that passed did not stop for us. And just when we had given up all hope and almost touched chandiland , a open tempo came and agreed us take us  . That’s where the goal numbers 3 and 4 came . Getting a lift on the highway and travelling in a open tempo standing with my friends. It is so amazing with the wind . I think I should ask my mom to get me an open jeep. Unfortunately I don’t have pictures of the tempo.

We reached fortunately enough on time (not exactly on time ) to attend the meeting I was so looking forward to  after the little glorious adventure of ours. Accomplishing those few goals makes me feel happy , I have lot of such small things I want to do , living on the riverside in a tent is one more thing on the list . I don’t even know if qualify to be called goals. An already crazy day was made even more crazier , that is when the things got happening. It’s really weird that everything happens all at once . I was cribbing three days back that everything is getting boring and now it all started happening together. Strange but i still love it .

Now  I look forward to hear from you , what is that small thing in life you want to do , just to make yourself happy.

Cheers!

The Twisted Me

There are a few things about me that bother me to a great extent. The  two great f’s in my life family and friends are always very prompt in pointing out how clumsy and casual I am in everything I do but I can’t help it . I never do it intentionally. The objects I have in my hand jump out on their own like my hands have some repulsive magnets , I fall on flat surfaces making it look like there is no friction between my feet and the ground. The falling can be quite embarrassing I once fell on the stage while going to collect my certificate last semester .

Then I never remember what I had to do until I write it down , which I usually don’t , this includes completion of assignments , sending urgent mails and then the worst sometimes even i forget phone conversations , important ones at that . It is pathetic. I get ideas on writing stuff and then when i actually start writing then I suddenly run out of ideas. I have atleast  ten half finished drafts right now. Can’t thing of anything to add to those.

Another thing that disturbs me is  I keep losing things , yesterday only I left my car keys on the CCD table and din’t realize that for a horribly long time , fortunately AYG had seen them and she picked them . I have lost two books in the last two months and one was found unclaimed in the lab . It was Deception Point and certainly could not be left half read , I had left it in the lab and when the entire world knew  I had misplaced it I found it where I was last reading it fortunately enough.

Once I even left my laptop charger in the same lab and blamed my dad to have picked it from my room . Uncle V was also called for the same reason . I claimed with no doubt at all that I had kept it  in my bag and my dad had taken it from there. My Bro who was in Delhi at that time was immediately called and asked to get a new one from Nehru market because they are comparatively cheaper there . He spent his entire pocket money on that charger and has been asking me to return that money since then but I wont . It was only the next day I found out the charger was with AV another friend who found it in lab and recognized it . God bless her for recognizing my charger and then not telling me to teach me a lesson.  And now I have two chargers just in case I lose one again.

I now try to be aware  and vigilant about things around me , hopefully I am cured of this weird problem soon.

Mausam: A story with far too many seasons

I have had the misfortune of watching the most bland and baseless movies for the past three months Shaitaan , Bad teacher , Murder 2 , Friends withe benefits , Harry potter and the Deathly hallows part 2  to name a few . They were the ones I had high expectations from except Murder 2 . Both Bollywood and Hollywood have nothing refreshing to offer , it’s all the old cliched and predictable stuff we have seen a million times already.

But the biggest disappointment  came from Mausam starring Shahid Kapoor a Punjabi guy effected by the operation blue star and Sonam Kapoor a Kashimri Pandit fleeing from militancy  . The entire movie is about the two meeting to depart again. It was hard to figure out what exactly was the theme of the movie – The love story or all the tragic events that have taken place in the past 19 years , beginning from 1992 Babri Majisd demolition  , 1993 Mumbai Blasts , Kargil , WTC attacks and the Godhra riots the protagonists went through all painstakingly.

The entire story line seemed drab and absurd , the first half was still tolerable with the backdrop being a punjab village and a few good punchlines thrown here and there but the second was somehow unconvincing and erratic.

It is overly stretched for no reason at all , the lovers departed in 1992 and then meet again in the far     flung Scotland to separate yet again and this goes till 2002 Godhra riots when they are finally united. The movie starts getting on your nerves after some time . In the age of instant email and easily transported cellphones, the lovers leave no forwarding addresses or contact numbers. They rely instead on the goodness of neighbours and the willingness of relatives.

A vague attempt by debut director Pankaj Kapoor and surely shows Sonam Kapoor has a long way to go as an actor. Shahid is good at a few points but not at his best. Nothing to really spend your three hours on.

Phone-li-ness

I recently gave up my phone, it has been  almost a week or maybe a little more than that, I have been phone-less. I did it for a multiple reasons. The first being I detested the phone I was using. It was such a bad decision to buy it, in just six months it had issues with the display which went bad two days after every two days. The trackball stopped functioning and a few keys would sometimes stop working, forcing me to wreck my brains to look for an alternate word while texting. The second reason was I was kind of addicted to the phone. I suffered from the pseudo vibration syndrome.

I could feel the vibration even when it never vibrated. And would jump like a monkey and blankly look at the screen for the text that was never received or the call that I never got. That was it once the phone was out I would start playing some random game or check my mail or login to facebook to poke back people , forgetting the world around me.

Now it is such a relief that I don’t have to answer people on missing their call or sometimes replying to messages, although I always made a point to reply messages I don’t get disturbed when I am in the middle of something. I don’t wake up in the middle of night to see if I have missed some call or received a text that needs to be replied. I want to see for how long I can do without the phone.  Hopefully long enough, life is much easier without it.

I anyways have my landline to call people or get calls from them. So no issues there.

Guess have to buy it before my car breaks down again. That’s the only time when it helps , when I can call for some help.

Signing off

The phone-less Phoenix