Friday, July 30, 2010

Dot of Happiness

I love my blog. I love me. I love the world. I love travelling. I love my blog.
I love my past. I love (I know I will) the future. I love music. I love dancing. I love my blog.
I love photography. I love winters. I love beaches. I love colours. I love my blog.

I love obsessing. I love my blog.

:D :D :D

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Jobless

This blog is 3.5 years old and I have 1360 Fuchsia comments archived in my Gmail.
Whereas my old blog, which did not even live 1.5 years, has 1479 archived comments.
Now I do remember that I used to blog like a maniac back then, but this is not possible.

Ah! Got it. In 2005-06, Google did not club comments posted on one day into one chain mail, like it does now. Maybe because Blogger was not a Google product back then. Or was it? I will check that later. For now I know that 1360 is not the number of comments, but a count of total Fuchsia-related mails. And don't worry, even though I am jobless, I will not get down to counting the total comments. :P


Edited later
Blogger was bought out in 2003. Ok, then it is just a technological sophistication we are talking about. :P

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Randomised

In these days of bearing a dead mind, I recently spared a thought for the zillions thoughts I have expressed on this blog. How with each passing year they have probably matured. At least in my head they did. And how with each passing year, the devils started sticking closer to me and my mind.
I think it was the initial days of grad college when I pondered over the seven sins and thought to myself that I do not indulge in any of them. No, I was not arrogant back then. Today, what, 5-6 years down the line, I have experienced them all. To top it, I am cynical too. But what is troubling me tonight is the constant conflict that the mind has to fight because of the situations life throws at you. Here's a petty one for instance. Earlier I was more open about expressing myself here. Even the not-so-happy thoughts made it here. Some people say it isn't good to register unpleasant thoughts because not only does it invite unwanted sympathy, it also gives you the opportunity to go back to those thoughts on a later date when you don't need them. But my take on doing so in a public space is that while you do pen those thoughts, you word them carefully enough to even look at them positively on that later date that people are concerned about. My private blog is a good comparative study for me, personally. It is so dark that sometimes I dread re-reading any of the stuff there. At the same time, there are probably five times more depressing events/thoughts that I have written about here, and they are so much easier to handle today. Only because I have maintained enough caution to know that I am penning history publicly here. :)

However, from being a naive and trusting, silly girl, I have grown to be a cynical woman with twisted thoughts that I have no control over. These thoughts also let me be indifferent towards a lot of unbelievable crap that people often get me involved in. Involved in a way that they do not even care to realise. Or explain. And if not indifference, at least I do not let me lose my mind over people who should not matter. I used to say, 'it's all about people'. Maybe it is not. Told you, cynical.

These days I do not listen to music, I do not click pictures, I do not call friends, I don't really meet any of them either. Maybe it is because of employment blues. Or an overlap of those blues with a phase that begun the day I left Pune. I am yet to find out. Even whether that is a phase or a turn that goes one-way.

I feel I am more at peace today than I was in the past one year. Certainly doing better than the blunt knife of this past February. But I am worried this peace could be silence that is killing things inside me.

The knee! I saw a different doctor and the problem finally got diagnosed. Now the wait for it to heal begins. I don't know why they just don't put a cast instead of asking me to not use it 'much'. Pff!
Anyway. I need to go for physiotherapy tomorrow morning, so I shall wrap this here and go to sleep. I don't know if this post will make sense to me tomorrow, but what the heck, the point was to not refrain from writing this time. :-)

Good night.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

New Post

This is one of those posts which are published only because I think the previous post has enjoyed more than enough glory. Close to four weeks in this case. In this time too many thoughts died before maturing. I wanted to write about our nation's current state too, but I am just not in that opinion-sharing mode right now. Other thoughts have been way too personal to make it here. So what follows is just another rumble-ramble of words.

# My skin has still not completely recovered from May's sunburns. I don't know what is the matter with it.

# My knee has not recovered from the unregistered injury from I-don't-know-when either. More tests next week.

# God might not have given me a job yet, but He did give me a painless root canal procedure. I am thankful.

# I got a new, hot-looking hairdo but the bloody humidity is killing it.

# I was hoping Netherlands would win.

# Some people do way too bastardly things all the time.

# My brother let me drive his sedan the other night.

# Retail therapy does have temporary positive effects.

# I watched A-Team and wondered yet again why the standard of these flicks has gone down so much.

# I tried Jiggs Kalra's Legends of India at CP. The ambience sucked and the food was ordinary. Worst was that they had closed down their first floor and expected customers to climb two floors of ill-designed stairs for a 'luxurious' dining experience.

# Met Ranjan after about three months which felt like much longer.

# I also watched Tere Bin Laden and I must say it is a rather nicely done project. Enjoyed it thoroughly!

# Someone who called me 'backbone-less' a few months ago sent me a friend request on FB. Whatever is this fixation with raising the number from 851 to 852!

# On the job front, I think I have seen it all in the context of wanting a certain kind of a job. From no openings to unsolicited career advice to openings that got closed the day I approached a company to processes on hold for over two months to a near-promise which suddenly became 'position on hold', I have really seen it all.
It so fuckin' sucks to be patient and hopeful. Today, it feels nothing different from being patient and hopeful about relationships with assholic men. I just hope things don't end up being like those relationships.

# My body piercings have come down from nine to six. :-/

# My laptop is ageing too much too soon.

A distance MSc. from London School of Economics costs close to INR 3.5 lakh. I think this is the end of the world.