Celin's Samasya
The one thing ive always dreaded about - Someday my friends deserting me cuz i might not be worth the effort. It is a nightmare ... and the only thing ive never experienced to date.
Given: I am the defination of the word -
PATHETIC@KeepingInTouch.
It has never been my thing, to pick up the phone just to say
Wasssup? And i still dont know the reason, how come it doesnt cross my mind to find out what my friends are upto.
Is it because i have heaps of friends...different kinds ...and different genre's (building, my church, neighbouring churches, cousins, school, junior college,enggr college, MBA college, tutions, classes, GTL, friends' friend, chat friends-who r almost extinct now...BELIEVE ME ...its endless). And they are all GOOD friends ...not temporary ones. With whom i have the privilege of spending the best times of my life.
Or CALLING is just not my thing. It is also funny that...if u call me.. i will not shut up...and its a pain to end the call then.
Ive had friends giving me "ITS MY LAST CALL"warnings...."REMEMBER ME???" taunts...
and for some reason...they are fed up...but havent given up on me.
I realised..that it is necessary to keep in touch... put tht extra effort n time..to meet friends. If not yourself...the other person sure enjoys it.
Recently, i was at the receiving end... where my buddy.. just dropped home unexpectedly..only because he was sick of ME not having the time or making time for my friends. It has left me astounded and elated...
I aint that bad also. Because i dont enquire on a daily basis..it is highly unlikely to miss any party or planned meeting. Celin not being for a bday party, or a lunch, or a night out...is IMPOSSIBLE! Id change any plan...but not miss my meeting my friends.
I dont know if its remotely pacifying.... but im learning n im changing n cleaning up my act.
How HO HO HO turned into HA HA HA
Christmas 2006 came and went ..as usual...like a gust of warm non-wintery wind..... nonetheless ...leaving behind priceless memories.Let me walk you through some of them.
**Christmas for me....has always been the most surrealistic.... with a White Christmas Tree...and a Christmas Crib....preferably Technological Creations (Show off is my middle name :))
so Here is R/Celin's home 2006 -->
**Christmas 2006 has been extra special.... cuz we have a new addition in the family. No No..Dad did not finally deliver...he is still the same.
But my sweetest lil buddy is home... my AMMACHI. She is such a chiller with a killing sense of humour/sarcasm and a contagious laugh. She can talk for HOURS n HOURS non-stop on every topic... or atleast pass a typical mallu comment on unkown subjects. Maaaaaan...and people wonder how i talk so much. Dude... Look whose GENES I got!!!!! Meet the hot subject of discussion:
HOTTEST AMMACHI 2006(since 1919) -->
**Its an unwritten rule ....if possible... Avoid wishing me by Phone,SMS,email. Id always prefer my friends coming home without any special invitation, pigging out on xmassy Rose Cookies, Diamond Cuts n Cakes! I know my friends.... i know they will definately try n come... those who can...do...those who cant ... ill still love them for life and expect them to see them soon. (like i have a choice).
Some of them who cud make it and made my day:
So life is back to routine ...but with a lil more Happiness and a lot more Hope for the coming New Year!
May the Loving Lord Bless Us All :)
I HATE being Patient
Im talking about the Common noun - Patient.....and not the adjective- Patient..which i am.. OF COURSE( my father would soo soo deny this.)...(actually ..my father ....and many more)Its been almost a week , ive been suffering from recurring fever....which is worse than the normal fever. Here, when u think fever is gone ...party time...BAAANG!!!!u feel the body pain and the joint pain creeping in again!! Friends predict..it could be Chicken Pox or Malaria or some high-fundo crap. Frankly ..i dont know any of the symptoms for the above mentioned high-fundo complications. Ive only managed to be a victim of Common Cold ...and Commoner Fever (viral/flu...whts the diiference) for the past 24 years of my existense.I was pretty proud of my Immunity System which allows me to eat any crap anywhere without a 2nd thought. But this recurring fever means...well...its not as efficient as it used to be!! now i have to think before i eat/drink....maaaaaaann...thts sooooo boring!!!! Jeene ke hai 4 din ...DUDE!!But i Guess...A Mans gotta do what a Mans gotta do!! i Prefer lesser tasty food in my mouth ...than the dirty Pills ka taste!!! Gods way of telling moi...slow down lil girl...ur having too much fun!!! Speed Breakers in Life...Inevitable!!!
10 Exams Back to Back = No Back!
(FYI: This post was supposed to be up exactly 10 days ago...but may life screw all who distracted me.)I thought Engineering was the pits.... and MBA would be a breeze....after all ...how much can anybody train you to ...HOW toBLAB away to glory...in STYLE! (i respectfully rephrase...its more than just blab....its corporate blab)
But who knew ... MBA exams are much more shittier than any other!!! 10 exams in a row!!! Without a chutti...crap...is this a test of skills and knowledge ..or just another test of how much u can upload and download in 24 hours!!!But we took it with a pinch of salt...Confronted the situation HEAD-ON!!! Dont enquire about the after-effects...it was bloody and lotsa crap in the paper ...but bygones are bygones!Who am i kiddin...chutti or no...i always manage to put myself in the last moment quandary ... like staying up till 4am...getting up at 6am...rarely good enuff to revise everything before i enter the torture room!!! (Thankfully... all hell breaks lose ...Angelic/Thinking Caps Out ...Devil/Referring Caps In....and the torture room becomes a group discussion room eventually.... which is a different topic altogether.)And in tht two hours of sleep ... (Oxford dictionary wud call that a JOKE)... all possible infamous nightmares come n go... im sure many have had them:1) Studying the wrong subject2) Forget to turn the Alarm from 6pm to 6 am...hence OverSleep.3) Black OUT...dimaag ki batti bhuj gayi.4) If i dont see it 1 more time...im dead sure tht i wont recollect it.So im extra disturbed in tht miniature nap ....and extra attentive ...with my ears like dogs ....sleepingto wake up ! (somebody smiling?) And the worst is... this happens even if i have a chutti for a paper. Do all the possible timepass and So-Called-RnD for the paper...but start studying only 12 hours before the paper begins!!!! And i question myself... WHY...WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF!!! how can i possibly do this to myself....yeh Garmi time pe kyu nahi chadhti????I guess..my answers r simpler to predict... Im the last moment kinda person...i perform my BEST under pressure... i understand faster n clearer the night before the exam....even if ive read the same thing 10times earlier...and its has been bouncer all the 10times!!! do i see many heads nodding in syncro??At the end of every exam...a common resolution echoes... I SHALL BE BETTER PREPARED NEXT TIME...But im hell bent on promoting the hindi adage ...Kutte ki Dumm...Tedhi ki Tedhi rahegi...
He Came, He Saw, He Con...'ed!!!
This post is in loving memory of my beloved Phone...which was flicked on 10th November'2006, 11:15Am....outside my college...from right UNDER MY NOSE!!! The final moments with my phone were as follows: (Watch And Learn)--> I was at the print out waala...to take....well... print-outs (DUH!)--> As usual... i had the phone and my wallet in my hand...and kept it on the keyborad of the comp i was working on.--> A decently dressed young man entered the shop (Mother of Confusion here... the shopkeeper thought he came to see us ..so he let him in. And we thought he works for the shop ..so we let him be)--> He kept a book on the keyboard..and a paper saying " He was dumb and was collecting funds for survival..pls donate and register". We realised he was begging and respectfully declined!--> And he simply walked off... with MY PHONE from under the book.Then all that Jazz... got my buddy(Thank u) to block my number...went to the police station where they interrogated the shop owner and proved that he was an ASS .and the Ass was made to pay me some Moolah ....50% of the market price of my phone (Nokia 6260). Talk about Instant Justice. Supposedly ...NOBODY ever gets instant compensation for LOST property.... which is also partially cuz of my negligence!(craaaapp... im accepting my fault.....i MUST BE DEPRESSED)I dint realise....when my Gujju Friend Rashi ( need i say more) initiated the Compensation Talk...when the Inspector took it from there...and in 15 mins ....LO BEHOLD... easiest 5000 bux EVER!!!!!Now y am i being so Touchy about this phone!!! About a Phone which i have simply under-utulised for the past 1.5 years!!! im feeling bad about losing a phone having the features i have NEVER used???? Why Lord Why!!!My favourite mode..Retrospection!!!! the reason its pricking me so much... is cuz its my Bozo Brothers 1st gift after he got his KICK ASS job... and im DAAAAAAAAAAM touchy about gifts ( yeaa yeaa... im 1 of the people who keep gift wrappers et all..... NOT FOR REUSE....mind it!).Also...the phone was My watch...My Reminder(which Lord knows ... I NEED)...My Alarm....My Calculator....My Notepad ...and all other trivial stuff....which i had got sooo used to... that now i feel handicapped.I frankly miss it... i feel its still ringing at some corner of my house!! i miss how it used to fall off the bed while ringing+vibrating!!!May its Battery Rest in Peace! And May LIGHTNING STRIKE THE BUGGER!!!PS: Which phone should i buy... pls feel free to suggest!!!!!
Exams comin up....and NO XEROX???????
This has almost never happened for the 8 semesters of Engineering!!!! Unless one doesnt xerox and study from kerosene-scented papers ... ur not CONVOCATED as an engineer!!!
im assuming...that the amount ive spent on xerox in those 4 years... i cudve afforded a daaamned black market seat in SP or something!
Dunno about others... but i shudve been called ... ANALYSE-ENGINEER!! i was sooo good at analyzing previous question papers... i could almost predict 80% of my questions!!! and if none of those came... then Ram Bharose!! And all this hitrates...even without having a single library book!!Now in MBA... no xerox ...no notes...no NOTHING!!!! no telling the xerox waala...bhaiiyyaa..200 page iska...500 page uska...and sabka 3 copies!!! Everytime i see my patent xeroxwala... i feel like giving him some money... u know...BAD HABITS DIE HARD!!! and no xerox...so no Raddi!! no raddi...no pocket money!!!!maaan...its a cumalative effect... also called AVALANCHE BREAKDOWN ( dont ask me wht it was... i dont remember it myself)
Exams without study leave and xeroxed notes are like.... Exams ( i guess.... too tired and sleepy to think of Puns)Dunno if ill have the mental balance to blog till this torment is over...so cya around!
tum MICA mat jaiyyo..mat jaiyyo meri jaan....
Starters: (a) MICA= Mudra Institute of Communication and Advertising is located some gazillion kms away from Ahemdabad. it was so far ... i thought they'd ask for a passport to be stamped.
(b) I had the privilege of attending their anuual inter-college fest MICANVAS'06(27/10 - 29/10)
Whteva before Main course:Typical endless bus journey ..nauseating for some...cosy for a couple of couples(paisaaa vasoool maaaaaaan). Life was all fine till i reached Ahemdabad. Got off at Paldi ( i think). It was funny to see green n yellow autos ..as if ...the BuntyNBabli crew forgot to colour them back into normal rickshaw colours!!! and it gets better....the Meter (looks like a clock) is right next to the driver...with a broken glass...big enough for a finger to tamper it.
From Paldi, its around 1 hour in a rick. (TRIVIA TIME: i noticed...only Mumbaikars measure distance with time..for eg: its an hour away..45mins from here etc etc.... i dont ever recollect defining distance in KMS. So spatial measurements have always been a big challenge for me). and VOILA.....MICA's here!!!
Main Course: Trust me...bohot gaali padi MICA ko....to build itself in the middle of nowhere...in a God forsaken place. Here come's the 1st joke....the guard asks us for our college icards... which is mandatory in any college!! But what wud they do if we dint have our icards... SEND US BACK TO EARTH???? dude... i just let my space shuttle go....
We entered the most talked about college's gates.... to find out if all the talk was just gas!! I went, i saw and i died... I religiously took back every word i said against its location.
It did not look like a management college whatsoever. Maybe, i presumed it to be so.
This college looked more like a theatre==>archaic architecture...with brick walls...1 floor high...weird roofs cuz it managed to keep the Ahd'di weather OUT!!!!
Simple from the outside but hi-tech inside!!
This is the open air theatre where they screen 2-3 movies a week (classics from all genres). They have a movie committee who watch every classic from any country, approve the same and screen them for the rest. Food and drinks are non-stop from their 24hr open Chota Canteen.
This is the BEST PART of MICA...their AUDI!!! it doesnt get any basic than this. Steps with mats laid out and cushions for support.PERIOD
And there is much more. The Director(lovingly called PAT) has a pony tail, always in sports wear with a coffee mug minding his own business.Doesnt follow Autocracy and cooler than most of the students there :)
Completely cut-off from the outside populace, Micans are living in the world of their own. Serene and Self- Sufficing. Apparently...they are not missing much!!!
Desserts: I dont know what keeda is there in me.... I JUST COULDNT WAIT TO COME BACK HOME!!! I guess..im not made for Serenity!!! Calmness creates restlessness in me!!! So rushed back home... back to reality....to my people... to my own world...where the clock is faster than the ceiling fan!!!
Freshners: Im gonna say the unthinkable(anti-ekta kapoor).. MICA to MICA hai...but SASURAL ki baat hi kuch aur hai ...
