Yay! I finally got a haircut! But don't be disappointed ye who wanted me to keep it long, and those who wanted it short again, can stop celebrating because Its not too short. It'll grow back soon enough! Now I can finally go and get a new photo ID. But that's not until I get done with my boring typography class.
I had another weird dream last night. I dreamt that I was touring some 'water body' on a boat. Logically speaking, its got to be niagra falls because that's so close to here. But the dream didn't specify anything. So, I took about two trips, and saw 4 different spots or falls. Then I went back home. Home in India, sonu monu didi's house. The old ancestral house in akola where my grandfather and uncle lived. That house has been demolished as of ....a couple of years ago. But still, in my dream, there I was, and sonu didi and monu didi (my cousins) still lived there. (they're happily married and living with their husbands in reality) I still remember how much I loved spending time there. So it wasn't a big surprise I went back there to hang with them.
We were talking about my trip, I told them all about the places I've been to, and stuff... They showed me around the house. A lot has and was changing, they were renovating the place. Getting all fancy stuff and making the place look newer. Then I go to have a bath. This, in the jacuzzi which was never present in that house! The jacuzzi was the one which they have in their new house. Funny how the brain mixes reality with fantasy. If you don't get it, allow me to elaborate with this: Last night, I had a haircut for real, ok? But as I'm sitting in the jacuzzi in dreamland, I can see small hair floating around. Which makes the dream seem all the more real, because its connected to the reality which is that I'll see small hair when I shampoo/shower after I have had a haircut.
I think I'm getting a kind of sixth sense. Even last night, I was half asleep, when I thought I heard vironica standing beside my bed and saying "hey yash", trying to wake me up. And I suddenly wake up and hear the front door open up, and I realize, she's just got back home! It seemed totally supernatural to me! At the rate I'm going, I wouldn't be surprised if I can predict the future someday. Anyone want a free reading?
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Substitute
Hey guys, sorry, no yash for you tonight. As yash hasn't been feeling quite upto the task these days, I have decided to intervene and write this blog on his behalf tonight. I'm just trying to make him feel threatened, so that he'd return to the blogosphere to defend his honor and territory.
Lets start right after his last blog post. Monday was the first day of the extra life drawing session, and his tutor/mentor Danny a.k.a. Dio, asked him to show up there by 5:30 pm. He was reluctant at first because he wasn't sure if he'd be able to make it there that early. But after dio suggested that he'd save his spot, there was no doubt yash was going to show up! Oh yeah, now that oliver was an intern too, they could go in and draw together and yash is pretty happy about that. So him and his buddy go get some food, and go over to yash's house, to pick up his stuff, but what that idiot realized just too late, is that he doesn't have a fresh pad of newsprint. Guess some things never change. So in life drawing, he's drawing over his gestures from the workshop, and drawing two to three poses on one sheet. He thinks he's had a kind of breakthrough or something, but he's still nowhere near a good portfolio piece! One would think that he would improving by the time portfolio's are due, but yash is pretty nervous about the whole thing.
After the extra life, he goes over to oliver's room to hang for a bit, he has a couple things to show oliver, and he needs to use the internet again. But oliver seems to be okay with that, even though he usually sleeps by 10:30 and he also has homework to do. Oliver made some tea, (tisane, technically) and asks yash to try it. (Oh boy! I can tell this is going to be fun! *wringing hands*) Damn! He didn't puke! Oh anyways, he left for home pretty late, hope oliver got enough sleep.
The next day, today actually, OK, let me specify, just in case, TUESDAY! On tuesday, yash actually slept in, and after waking up, he tried doing a few pushups (press ups) but found his muscles were still too worn out from yesterday. On the brighter side, his tongue finally felt better, now he can eat anything and everything he wants! So things were looking up, but they're not gonna stay the same for long; while in college, he just lost it! He was getting too much "negative vibe" from people around him so he went into a sad and isolated state of mind. Sat alone quietly through all of communication skills class. But by the end of it, he was looking full of energy! Probably because he finally realized why he was put into the basic communication skills class instead of the essential communication skills.(his essay was in first and second person instead of the third person that all academic essays conform to) And even though the course is mostly the things he's been told countless times in school, he's learning a few new things.
So he quickly runs back to his house, to get some food, and comes back JUST in time for life drawing again. Lets see what he gets done today. Now he's probably gonna be really tired and exhausted by the end, but all that matters is that he's satisfied with himself and what he did with his time today.There!
He's lived through one more day of his puny life and learnt numerous new things but has he learnt enough to survive the next one? Only time will tell!
Lets start right after his last blog post. Monday was the first day of the extra life drawing session, and his tutor/mentor Danny a.k.a. Dio, asked him to show up there by 5:30 pm. He was reluctant at first because he wasn't sure if he'd be able to make it there that early. But after dio suggested that he'd save his spot, there was no doubt yash was going to show up! Oh yeah, now that oliver was an intern too, they could go in and draw together and yash is pretty happy about that. So him and his buddy go get some food, and go over to yash's house, to pick up his stuff, but what that idiot realized just too late, is that he doesn't have a fresh pad of newsprint. Guess some things never change. So in life drawing, he's drawing over his gestures from the workshop, and drawing two to three poses on one sheet. He thinks he's had a kind of breakthrough or something, but he's still nowhere near a good portfolio piece! One would think that he would improving by the time portfolio's are due, but yash is pretty nervous about the whole thing.
After the extra life, he goes over to oliver's room to hang for a bit, he has a couple things to show oliver, and he needs to use the internet again. But oliver seems to be okay with that, even though he usually sleeps by 10:30 and he also has homework to do. Oliver made some tea, (tisane, technically) and asks yash to try it. (Oh boy! I can tell this is going to be fun! *wringing hands*) Damn! He didn't puke! Oh anyways, he left for home pretty late, hope oliver got enough sleep.
The next day, today actually, OK, let me specify, just in case, TUESDAY! On tuesday, yash actually slept in, and after waking up, he tried doing a few pushups (press ups) but found his muscles were still too worn out from yesterday. On the brighter side, his tongue finally felt better, now he can eat anything and everything he wants! So things were looking up, but they're not gonna stay the same for long; while in college, he just lost it! He was getting too much "negative vibe" from people around him so he went into a sad and isolated state of mind. Sat alone quietly through all of communication skills class. But by the end of it, he was looking full of energy! Probably because he finally realized why he was put into the basic communication skills class instead of the essential communication skills.(his essay was in first and second person instead of the third person that all academic essays conform to) And even though the course is mostly the things he's been told countless times in school, he's learning a few new things.
So he quickly runs back to his house, to get some food, and comes back JUST in time for life drawing again. Lets see what he gets done today. Now he's probably gonna be really tired and exhausted by the end, but all that matters is that he's satisfied with himself and what he did with his time today.There!
He's lived through one more day of his puny life and learnt numerous new things but has he learnt enough to survive the next one? Only time will tell!
Monday, September 10, 2007
NOOOOOOOO!
So sorry to disappoint you regular readers for not being able to blog the last few days, Actually, I had a few quality control issues to take care of. You see, on 7th (friday itself) Sujata tells me, she enjoys reading my blog just as much as she enjoys reading some chetan bhagat guy! What?! How dare she compare me to some noobie writer who's only written two bestseller books? I had to get my act together if I am to separate myself from him! And so, I have been contemplating more than I have been writing. I had even typed up another blog entry on my cellphone, which is at my house at the moment, so I can't post that. But I will quickly whip up another one just for you special people!
Lets see... I watched pulp fiction on friday, and next day was a really exciting day of the workshop after such a long break. And by the time I was back, deep had finally started living here, and vironica was having her family over for dinner. I also went and picked up my rakhi, blah blah blah...
Sorry, I just can't do this. I'm just not feeling very strongly about anything. So to make you guys go through a long winding boring story about 'nothing' would be a crime. Just would like to let you guys know the internet at my house has been disconnected, so I can't be online most of the times. Gotta get a new connection asap!
Lets see... I watched pulp fiction on friday, and next day was a really exciting day of the workshop after such a long break. And by the time I was back, deep had finally started living here, and vironica was having her family over for dinner. I also went and picked up my rakhi, blah blah blah...
Sorry, I just can't do this. I'm just not feeling very strongly about anything. So to make you guys go through a long winding boring story about 'nothing' would be a crime. Just would like to let you guys know the internet at my house has been disconnected, so I can't be online most of the times. Gotta get a new connection asap!
Thursday, September 06, 2007
The big explosion
Oh boy, its that time of the year again! I get to blog about my experience of the first week/day/class. I remember the entry titled A107 that I posted on 11th which was like one of my first blogs about my classes here. I really look back and wish I had done a post about my first day in the creative I college, I regret not having given it much importance or not having thought about it much. Well, I guess its not too late, I still remember that day, so I will do it one of these days. Now lets overview what we did today
I was sitting at the second place from the door and I introduced myself to the other people around me, and got to know their names too. I already knew who the instructor was, so I wasn't too excited about that, and I also let others know he sucks! Actually, they would have figured that out themselves within two minutes of him being in the class. He spends a REALLY long time writing down his name and his email address on the board and C'est Moi!!!! in huge letters next to it. I guess he expected us to be excited about that(judging by the 4 exclamation marks) but that's not happening. Then, he gave us these cloth pins on which we had to do a self portrait, so that when its hung in front of the hallway, with 600 or so others, people can recognize us by the 'artwork'. Hmmmm...Interesting...
I was under the impression we had to do it in class.. so I decided to use the design of my 'shanti' t-shirt to denote me. And as I went on doing it, I wasn't particularly happy with the result... Maybe I'll do something OVER it... lets see... But this was reminiscent of the post it note thing he did in our class last semester... so I thought he wasn't doing that one this time, but he did ask us to write something down on a stupid post it note. Oh well... Then he gave that boring 'I don't have a humorous bone in my body' speech. God I want to kill somebody! I even had a bomb with me! Yes, a REAL bomb.
But it was just a stupid lil 'flashlight' cracker... someone left it in the class on the table. I was itching to burst it... I asked cory for his lighter, and was going to light it and throw it right there when sitting in the class, but I decided to wait till we stepped out for our break. And in the break, I just lit it and threw it in the hallway in the pit. Cory was really close to it, he was scared for sure. He was like "jeez gimme a warning before u do that!" And a lot of other kids in the pit were startled too. I also heard some swearing but it was pretty funny. I would definitely do that again!
Now I'm too tired to go on, I got to go back to sleep. so I'll update you on more stuff tomorrow then.
I was sitting at the second place from the door and I introduced myself to the other people around me, and got to know their names too. I already knew who the instructor was, so I wasn't too excited about that, and I also let others know he sucks! Actually, they would have figured that out themselves within two minutes of him being in the class. He spends a REALLY long time writing down his name and his email address on the board and C'est Moi!!!! in huge letters next to it. I guess he expected us to be excited about that(judging by the 4 exclamation marks) but that's not happening. Then, he gave us these cloth pins on which we had to do a self portrait, so that when its hung in front of the hallway, with 600 or so others, people can recognize us by the 'artwork'. Hmmmm...Interesting...
I was under the impression we had to do it in class.. so I decided to use the design of my 'shanti' t-shirt to denote me. And as I went on doing it, I wasn't particularly happy with the result... Maybe I'll do something OVER it... lets see... But this was reminiscent of the post it note thing he did in our class last semester... so I thought he wasn't doing that one this time, but he did ask us to write something down on a stupid post it note. Oh well... Then he gave that boring 'I don't have a humorous bone in my body' speech. God I want to kill somebody! I even had a bomb with me! Yes, a REAL bomb.
But it was just a stupid lil 'flashlight' cracker... someone left it in the class on the table. I was itching to burst it... I asked cory for his lighter, and was going to light it and throw it right there when sitting in the class, but I decided to wait till we stepped out for our break. And in the break, I just lit it and threw it in the hallway in the pit. Cory was really close to it, he was scared for sure. He was like "jeez gimme a warning before u do that!" And a lot of other kids in the pit were startled too. I also heard some swearing but it was pretty funny. I would definitely do that again!
Now I'm too tired to go on, I got to go back to sleep. so I'll update you on more stuff tomorrow then.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
My Timelapse video
Remember Oliver from my post about caterpillars and butterflies? Well, if not, go and read it, there's a lil mention of him there, I also revealed the fact that he loves Indian food. Yeah, so he's a really awesome fun guy and I'm really glad we're friends. And he had been up to organizing lil fun events ever since the orientation! He said that he would make waffles at his room in res, and invited everybody for kind of a get together, but that plan had to be canceled due to unforeseen circumstances (how's drunk guys on the floor sound?) His roommate was having a party and people were getting hammered big time! And since we hadn't gotten an affirmative answer from a lot of guests, it was canceled (thanks spell checker, stupid me keeps typing cancelled over and over again!) for good!
So the next day, on the 2nd September, I felt I could invite ppl over for an Indian meal. I hadn't really thought the whole thing through, but because oliver was SO excited by the idea, we decided to invite people for dinner and see how many were ready. In the mean time, I realized I had better not screw this up or else I'd be in a really funny situation tonight when everyone's puking on the horrible food! I asked oliver what I should make, but he didn't give me anything specific, so I decided to read through the recipes on Quick Indian cooking blog and see what was the easiest, to make and I had most of the ingredients for. I picked paneer butter masala, because I would only need to buy coriander powder and kasoori methi. Then I called my mom on skype and asked if she could give me something else that was a really easy recipe and some pointers and help on this particular one.
One of my specific questions was whether she knew what exactly is Greek yogurt and how can I not screw up my recipe while using regular yogurt from the store. I had googled Greek yogurt, and found a page that explained how greek yogurt is a thicker and creamier yogurt as compared to regular yogurt, and that recipes that call for greek yogurt will fail miserably if u use regular yogurt. I had also read the comments on Mallika's blog post about straining the regular yogurt in a cheese cloth, and suggestion of whipping it up nicely, but this particular page had really scared me. So my mom started explaining how I could make good yogurt from scratch, and I had to stop and tell her I don't have that kind of time! After we put that aside, I asked her what her recipe was, and she went on and on about how she makes it. And I now start to admire and appreciate, for the first time, the time and effort she puts into these preparations. I write down the most of it, but I decide I want to mix and match the recipes and do what's convenient for me.
We (or rather she) also talked about making jeera rice, umm... that's Rice with Cumin seeds for you guys who don't speak Hindi. Even though I wasn't really sure I also wanted to make rice for tonight, it would really depend on the number of people that show up. We had serious issues here, because her method was for cooking in a pressure cooker, and I didn't have one, and couldn't really see how this was going to apply to the 'steamer' I had. So she said, you can just make the rice first, then throw it in a frying pan with some oil and cumin seeds. That sounds like something I can do! And I also wanted to ask her about making wadas, because I have some wada mix and sambar mix. I want to have that for breakfast some day. And what she told me was really helpful but that's for another day!
Oliver told me only rob was the one who's gonna come tonight and that he'd go pick him up right now and be at my place soon, which meant I had to get ready! So, right when I was in the middle of getting directions to the grocery store and writing down the method I'd use to cook paneer butter masala, Oliver showed up, so I just grabbed the print-out from Google maps and ran. Unfortunately, pooja grocers was closed! I didn't even have the name or directions of the other Indian grocery store that was around that place. I asked the lady who worked at subway about it, but she didn't know. I remembered that there was Organic Garden next to the Indian store, so I asked her about that. She pointed us in a direction, but it wasn't really clear. But I remembered that I had read kerr street on the forum where I found out about it, and on Google maps. So I asked oliver to just drive back down, till we see kerr street again. And as soon as we saw the big O sign of organic garden, we knew we WERE gonna have Indian food tonight!
After I got back, I first heated up the oven to reheat the samosas that we got, and after we were done munching on the samosas, I started cooking which can be seen in this timelapse video that I made.
Did I mention I'd never done this before? Not the timelapse, I have made a bunch of them, but I had never cooked any Indian food from scratch, all by myself before. Well, technically, I didn't do it all by myself, I had oliver helping out, but this time, I was not the one BEING supervised. I was the head chef! Everything was under my command. And the pressure was intense.
But thankfully both of them liked the food. Infact, even I thought it was pretty good! Vironica came home and even she tasted it, she liked it a lot too! I felt like it was all worth it. I hope I can say the same about this blog post, I noticed its gotten really long, and I haven't even touched the part AFTER the dinner which was just as great! Maybe some other time!
So the next day, on the 2nd September, I felt I could invite ppl over for an Indian meal. I hadn't really thought the whole thing through, but because oliver was SO excited by the idea, we decided to invite people for dinner and see how many were ready. In the mean time, I realized I had better not screw this up or else I'd be in a really funny situation tonight when everyone's puking on the horrible food! I asked oliver what I should make, but he didn't give me anything specific, so I decided to read through the recipes on Quick Indian cooking blog and see what was the easiest, to make and I had most of the ingredients for. I picked paneer butter masala, because I would only need to buy coriander powder and kasoori methi. Then I called my mom on skype and asked if she could give me something else that was a really easy recipe and some pointers and help on this particular one.
One of my specific questions was whether she knew what exactly is Greek yogurt and how can I not screw up my recipe while using regular yogurt from the store. I had googled Greek yogurt, and found a page that explained how greek yogurt is a thicker and creamier yogurt as compared to regular yogurt, and that recipes that call for greek yogurt will fail miserably if u use regular yogurt. I had also read the comments on Mallika's blog post about straining the regular yogurt in a cheese cloth, and suggestion of whipping it up nicely, but this particular page had really scared me. So my mom started explaining how I could make good yogurt from scratch, and I had to stop and tell her I don't have that kind of time! After we put that aside, I asked her what her recipe was, and she went on and on about how she makes it. And I now start to admire and appreciate, for the first time, the time and effort she puts into these preparations. I write down the most of it, but I decide I want to mix and match the recipes and do what's convenient for me.
We (or rather she) also talked about making jeera rice, umm... that's Rice with Cumin seeds for you guys who don't speak Hindi. Even though I wasn't really sure I also wanted to make rice for tonight, it would really depend on the number of people that show up. We had serious issues here, because her method was for cooking in a pressure cooker, and I didn't have one, and couldn't really see how this was going to apply to the 'steamer' I had. So she said, you can just make the rice first, then throw it in a frying pan with some oil and cumin seeds. That sounds like something I can do! And I also wanted to ask her about making wadas, because I have some wada mix and sambar mix. I want to have that for breakfast some day. And what she told me was really helpful but that's for another day!
Oliver told me only rob was the one who's gonna come tonight and that he'd go pick him up right now and be at my place soon, which meant I had to get ready! So, right when I was in the middle of getting directions to the grocery store and writing down the method I'd use to cook paneer butter masala, Oliver showed up, so I just grabbed the print-out from Google maps and ran. Unfortunately, pooja grocers was closed! I didn't even have the name or directions of the other Indian grocery store that was around that place. I asked the lady who worked at subway about it, but she didn't know. I remembered that there was Organic Garden next to the Indian store, so I asked her about that. She pointed us in a direction, but it wasn't really clear. But I remembered that I had read kerr street on the forum where I found out about it, and on Google maps. So I asked oliver to just drive back down, till we see kerr street again. And as soon as we saw the big O sign of organic garden, we knew we WERE gonna have Indian food tonight!
After I got back, I first heated up the oven to reheat the samosas that we got, and after we were done munching on the samosas, I started cooking which can be seen in this timelapse video that I made.
Did I mention I'd never done this before? Not the timelapse, I have made a bunch of them, but I had never cooked any Indian food from scratch, all by myself before. Well, technically, I didn't do it all by myself, I had oliver helping out, but this time, I was not the one BEING supervised. I was the head chef! Everything was under my command. And the pressure was intense.
But thankfully both of them liked the food. Infact, even I thought it was pretty good! Vironica came home and even she tasted it, she liked it a lot too! I felt like it was all worth it. I hope I can say the same about this blog post, I noticed its gotten really long, and I haven't even touched the part AFTER the dinner which was just as great! Maybe some other time!
Yeah, Big happy birthday to my sister Divya! She turned 18 today!
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
The goat stole it!
Yes! Finally another 'dream' post. I was starting to get worried, because its been a while since I've had some dreams I remember when I wake up. I like dreaming and then being able to talk about it to others. And last night, my wish was finally granted. Now I know I've GOT to eat the pani puri now. This thing was the breaking point of my patience!
I dreamt that I was at some event/festival with my cousins, and my little sister divya. We little ones were sitting in a hall, and there was something going on at the stage, I think it would have been like a play or magic show or something. but it was really boring for us... So I decided to walk out, see what the grown ups were doing. I walked around, found my cousins, I think I remember ruchi didi and nitin bhaiya, and they wanted some privacy, LOL, I mean away from ME, so they shooed me off. Disappointed, I came back in the hall, and sat there for a little more time, then I couldn't take it any longer.
I think I kinda signaled divya and my cousins or they just decided to walk out after me, and we decided to go eat pani puri together! (now that I say why didn't I think of that earlier?) And while we were standing there, it started raining. Ah! Love rain! And now we were all happy and entertained and everything, and suddenly a goat or some other animal, caught 'dupatta' or scarf of one of them and ran away, and we chased it..... We probably did end up making a big fool of ourselves before we finally caught it, but I didn't dream that part, or atleast I don't remember. Maybe I just woke up then. And started typing.
And that my friend was another adventure of my subconscious mind.
I dreamt that I was at some event/festival with my cousins, and my little sister divya. We little ones were sitting in a hall, and there was something going on at the stage, I think it would have been like a play or magic show or something. but it was really boring for us... So I decided to walk out, see what the grown ups were doing. I walked around, found my cousins, I think I remember ruchi didi and nitin bhaiya, and they wanted some privacy, LOL, I mean away from ME, so they shooed me off. Disappointed, I came back in the hall, and sat there for a little more time, then I couldn't take it any longer.
I think I kinda signaled divya and my cousins or they just decided to walk out after me, and we decided to go eat pani puri together! (now that I say why didn't I think of that earlier?) And while we were standing there, it started raining. Ah! Love rain! And now we were all happy and entertained and everything, and suddenly a goat or some other animal, caught 'dupatta' or scarf of one of them and ran away, and we chased it..... We probably did end up making a big fool of ourselves before we finally caught it, but I didn't dream that part, or atleast I don't remember. Maybe I just woke up then. And started typing.
And that my friend was another adventure of my subconscious mind.
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Be the butterfly! ;)
This morning, Sujata surprises me by saying that she read my blog, and actually liked it. She said she was really happy I was giving my life the fullest and she wished the best for my days to come. I rarely have such stuff happen to me, and let's be honest, who doesn't like to be congratulated and complimented? So I assured HER I was gonna do the follow up of the 'pre-orientation' post. And here it is!
I was having this conversation with abhinav yesterday when he was telling me about how he felt when he talked to pranav. I have been always telling him to go and approach him, don't be so shy and quiet, go to a movie together or something. But he only, if at all, approached Pranav for telling him something I wanted to convey to him and even then, kept it really short and simple! But this time, when he actually talked to him, he said it was really nice and he'd like to hang out with him. I do have a doubt whether this was just a backlash of another bad experience he'd had, and if so, he needs to think about it harder. I mean everyone is different. Just because I'm good friends with pranav and abhinav doesn't mean both of them should get along well. (Yeah, I've learnt that from experience) And he needs to think about whether HE really likes him as a friend.
But at the time, those words of his actually stirred a different thought process in my mind... I was encouraging Abhinav to keep doing that more. I was telling him about what I'd just been through... and I must warn you, it DOES sound extremely cheesy. I told him that after the college ended, I was really lonely at home. (Untill mickey came over, then I couldn't get any personal space and 'ME' time! ) But no, I really wanted to go back to college and meet the people from my class. Even though I might not necessarily speak much, I enjoyed listening to their conversation and they were a very funny bunch. Made me laugh a lot. But now, I was in a cocoon for so long, isolated from the rest of the people. Then, when I realized the orientation is upon us, I was really excited to go out and meet new people and make more friends! So after the motivation and encouragement from yash himself, I was like a butterfly (for lack of a more cheesier sounding word) on the 30th. I got to the orientation, greeted everyone I faced, I sat down boldly (yeah that was like the boldest move for me in a LONG TIME!) in front of two other girls, Taruna-from bangalore, India and sisiry(or something I can't spell) from singapore; Introduced myself, started talking to them, believe it or not, I actually had a CONVERSATION!
I was not subdued and reserved, I made my presense felt. Spoke up loudly, answered questions, made a funny comment or two. And since this was not a class, no one would see me as trying to be a "teacher's pet" by trying to get all the right answers. I was not looking like an attention hog either, as there were soon speakers who were simply addressing the kids and not quizzing. And after the address was done, we were walking away to a different room, and I still stuck around, rather they still stuck around me, and didn't go "Now's the chance let's give him the slip!" And then as we were walking out, along came oliver and said
"so, you're from India eh?" -
I was noticed!-I'm not invisible!-This day couldn't possibly get any better!
- "I love Indian food!"
Then its like a blur... but we got talking about where he's from, what program he's in and stuff.... oh yeah, I also introduced him to the girls too... or did I?
"Anyways, so the moral of the story is, Abhinav, that you need to be a 'butterfly'...."
Yeah, yeah, Laugh it up!
I was having this conversation with abhinav yesterday when he was telling me about how he felt when he talked to pranav. I have been always telling him to go and approach him, don't be so shy and quiet, go to a movie together or something. But he only, if at all, approached Pranav for telling him something I wanted to convey to him and even then, kept it really short and simple! But this time, when he actually talked to him, he said it was really nice and he'd like to hang out with him. I do have a doubt whether this was just a backlash of another bad experience he'd had, and if so, he needs to think about it harder. I mean everyone is different. Just because I'm good friends with pranav and abhinav doesn't mean both of them should get along well. (Yeah, I've learnt that from experience) And he needs to think about whether HE really likes him as a friend.
But at the time, those words of his actually stirred a different thought process in my mind... I was encouraging Abhinav to keep doing that more. I was telling him about what I'd just been through... and I must warn you, it DOES sound extremely cheesy. I told him that after the college ended, I was really lonely at home. (Untill mickey came over, then I couldn't get any personal space and 'ME' time! ) But no, I really wanted to go back to college and meet the people from my class. Even though I might not necessarily speak much, I enjoyed listening to their conversation and they were a very funny bunch. Made me laugh a lot. But now, I was in a cocoon for so long, isolated from the rest of the people. Then, when I realized the orientation is upon us, I was really excited to go out and meet new people and make more friends! So after the motivation and encouragement from yash himself, I was like a butterfly (for lack of a more cheesier sounding word) on the 30th. I got to the orientation, greeted everyone I faced, I sat down boldly (yeah that was like the boldest move for me in a LONG TIME!) in front of two other girls, Taruna-from bangalore, India and sisiry(or something I can't spell) from singapore; Introduced myself, started talking to them, believe it or not, I actually had a CONVERSATION!
I was not subdued and reserved, I made my presense felt. Spoke up loudly, answered questions, made a funny comment or two. And since this was not a class, no one would see me as trying to be a "teacher's pet" by trying to get all the right answers. I was not looking like an attention hog either, as there were soon speakers who were simply addressing the kids and not quizzing. And after the address was done, we were walking away to a different room, and I still stuck around, rather they still stuck around me, and didn't go "Now's the chance let's give him the slip!" And then as we were walking out, along came oliver and said
"so, you're from India eh?" -
I was noticed!-I'm not invisible!-This day couldn't possibly get any better!
- "I love Indian food!"
Then its like a blur... but we got talking about where he's from, what program he's in and stuff.... oh yeah, I also introduced him to the girls too... or did I?
"Anyways, so the moral of the story is, Abhinav, that you need to be a 'butterfly'...."
Yeah, yeah, Laugh it up!
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