People's Person?

I have always associated the cliche 'people's person' with myself, but over the past seven months I completely forgot what that feels like. I reduced myself to a closed self, or a maximum of one on one with very few close friends. I just didn't remember what groups were like. I didn't remember what I was like in groups. I was fun. Or at least I had fun. A lot of it. Yes, subject to the group having my kind of people. For some strange reason, happens very rarely with me. But in retrospect, I cannot recall any group in my batch in college that was my kind. Lots of nice people, fun people - I had a great set of friends myself - but my kinda mad was never there actually. Anyway.

So I met a group of people today. A very apprehensive step because of the past strings attached to this group, but I was too fed up to not gamble on this one. It paid off. I almost want to say I had the time of life. 'Coz my life has been reduced to... well, nothing... in the recent past. It is Just So Nice to be around people. To laugh your wits off. To talk. And mostly new people here today. I am suddenly looking forward to meeting new people when I move away this summer. But I don't want to raise my expectations there... always end up being let down. And I'd certainly not want this new first year at an institution to be like my first year of college. Painful is the only word for it. And the reason was mostly people. Anyway. We shall see.

Just wanted to note down today as an extraordinary day during this crazy phase that I'm going through. I'd met a couple of people from DFC, the photography group of which I'm a so called member. Not joining them for a shoot tomorrow, but I'm just glad I met them today. :-)

Felt like dancing after ages. Can't believe myself... I've not moved a leg in so many months too!

And oh, I finally got my phone fixed too. It was in a bad state - half broken n all. But now it's all good. Yay! :D

Feel normal today. It's nice. :-)

Phases

It's the first March in my conscious life that I am not fretting about exams.

It was the first Holi where I didn't take a bath, 'coz it was just another holiday and I didn't play at all.

It is the first time in my family's history that mom and dad are interested in MTV. And Roadies at that!

It's the first summer in four years that I am completely jobless.

Recently the thought struck for the first time that a good part of my future travel plans has been fucked because of my back.

Today I finally saw the video that a cousin made last year on another cousin's wedding. I was SO drunk! And only because I was sleepless. If I'm in a crazy enough mood someday, I might just put up some of that footage on the blog. :D

I never thought I could be as egoistic and jealous as I am today. The grey's taking over, I guess.

I hate the guy at Silofer for having permanently fucked up one of my piercings. And thanks to that I'm too scared to get any more. :|

I've been in such a blah mood for so many days now that it's not even funny!

Life's a funny game

Ordinary people, gray minds, dark nights.
Ordinary people, complex relationships, simple smiles.

Life's a funny game. A game where it counts to be a sport, and not to be competitive.

Weekend Story

One mad friend flies down from Hyderabad, and a madder extended weekend follows...

A loooong afternoon in a hair salon, non-stop shopping for two days, weight-conscious diets, completely transformed behaviour in front of a camera, nail paint explosions, talks of the good ol' days, lots of laughter, a little whining, and well, a lot of FUN!

And a midnight chorus...
maine pyaar tum hi se kiya hai
tiridiridan...
maine dil bhi tum hi ko diya hai
tiridiridan...
:P


P.S. I'm soon going to leave home, and even though I know it's the right time to do so, the thought of leaving Delhi is super-scary. :(

Disappointments

Even though I'm kinda judgmental, I like to believe that I am not very judgmental because it is something that I am consciously working upon. But there are times when one comes across things/issues/people where you don't want to be without an opinion. And a strong one at that.

I just saw a couple of pictures clicked by a gentleman who had recently visited Chandni Chowk for the first time. His profile suggests that he is very much Indian, so I want to assume that he knows that the country has certain areas that need to be worked upon - by educated people. The reason why I say this is that his pictures upset me. I do not see a reason why one may want to click bhook, gareebi, pain, garbage, people sleeping on the streets, if the motive is not to do anything about it. The people who are seeing those pictures can only be Indians or non-Indians. I don't believe there is any other category. The Indians must definitely have seen those things, and the non-Indians (a lot of them) must have believed those things about India ever since they first heard about the country. He seems to have a story that he is building with those shots, I would have been happier to see him attempting to de-build that story. And why on earth would you want to post those pictures on a thread where people are showcasing the best that they clicked in that place?!
I am not suggesting that we turn our faces away from the reality, or project ourselves as something that we are not, but won't you rather click the colour present in the lives of the people in this country than the colour you see in a faded coke disposable glass floating in garbage? That's not much to ask if you don't think you can help any of those people who don't have a home. If you're clicking a human, if not ANYthing else, at least you can make him/her happy by showing them the pictures that you're clicking. But could this man show a mother her half-naked crying child's photo and give her the feel-good factor?

I know I am nobody to pass comments, but I want to. And I do not even want to direct any traffic to those pictures.

And then there are those who are appreciating the work.

Ugh!

P.S. Sometimes one is warned that the pictures may be disturbing, but these did not even have any sense of emotion attached to them. Plain disappointing!

I Detest

# White font on black backgrounds. Maybe if you click on that drop-down and click on the lightest gray before white, you'll do me a favour.

# Assholes who jump red lights feeling they're all on Ferraris. I think I would have been staring at a hospital ceiling today. Sadly, my "You S O B" didn't reach him, I think. Bloody SOB!

# People who can't get over "use your right hand for this" shit even in this day and age. And I am excluding those senior citizens here.

# Bargaining and negotiating. This, simply because I suck at it.

# The @#$%% ad by Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy where everybody goes "MIND AND BODY, HEART AND SOUL". I think the jingle was not enough for them, so they made that disgusting video too. What are they selling, by the way?

# The "all of y'all" English! What the hell is it?

# The stench of urine ALL over this city!


Don't worry, I had a nice weekend. I'm fine. :-)