Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts

Monday, May 6, 2013

It's Just What I Imagined

Hello all!

I say hello towards the end of my semester. Which means that I'm a little more than one month away from having only two years left to graduate. This fact is like a permanently hovering bubble around me right now since my seniors had their farewell a couple of days ago. Looking at their pictures from their first year and seeing how much they've grown is making me oddly anxious about my own time to leave. And I'm considering the possibility that maybe, just maybe, two years isn't as long as it sounds like, and that perhaps I may feel as emotional as everybody around about leaving this place. I'm considering the possibility that there may be some truth to the idea that living in hostel, at a time when we're all moving towards real adulthood (not the "I'm 16!! I know all about life" - kind) makes strong bonds. 

But until that time comes, I'm not going to know, am I? So let's not worry about it. 

So yesterday when I was out, I saw this little girl sitting behind her father on a scooter and I remembered the times in my childhood when I used to sit on the scooter behind ma or pa. I used to sit backwards, which meant that I could look at the vehicles coming towards us, veering to one direction or another, and I could even look into the cars behind us and the people inside talking or eating or whatever. And I used to find it most entertaining. Obviously, I used to hate traveling in cars because you were in this cooped-up, little metal box; there's no ease of movement, no wind, less visibility of the fun things on the road. I think that's when I decided that I would buy a motorbike when I started working. I hope that when I actually do get a job, I still have the courage to go ahead and spend that much money on a vehicle that is considered unsafe, doesn't provide safety from the weather and has this whole 'risky driving' tag associated with it. 

Anyway, listen to Lost In My Bedroom by Sky Ferreira.

So happy here 

Everything's fine 

It's crystal clear 
It's just what I imagined 


Saturday, June 23, 2012

Rise - Eddie Vedder

Hello
This is the phase of holidays that is <I hate this phrase, but> "used constructively". I've been going to the office of my photographer/film-maker neighbour. Just to chill. Not like an intern or anything. And it's great fun! I have already written a (lame-ass) script, thought of concepts for advertising, and even seen a photo shoot. With like a model. Booyah. And I also witnessed an unexpected incident of female-female bonding, when an intern offered to give me the phone numbers of a couple of cute model dudes. That was a first.


So I watching Indian Idol yesterday and it had these auditions going on, and I was looking at the ticker that shows up at the bottom of the screen that gives you details about the contestants, when I noticed that most people were now younger than me. I mean initially they used to all be older! And now I am older! I don't know why that's a little unsettling, but it is. So I don't have the comfort of thinking that I'll be able to sing like them in a couple of years. Not that I have any singing ambitions. But still. It's nice to think you're going to grow and be able to do more things. And conversely not nice to know you're probably never going to be smarter, fitter, more flexible or as quick to learn as now. So maybe that's the issue that people have with aging. As opposed to the looks part, which they highlight; especially with women.  


Now I've to go be a weirdo and watch the Indian version of Dancing with the Stars. You're right, holidays do not help in developing my tastes. 

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Walking down the boulevard ...

These are the entries on my calendar last year while in college. No editing. :P

August 2010

New college
Hostel
Excessive PMS-ing
Strange food
Late-nights
Academics (!!!)
New people

September 2010

Month II
Let's see.

October 2010

Holidays
Vizag

November 2010

Fun
Food
Cinema
Projects.Are.Depressing.As.Is.Life

December 2010

Exam time
Sem's going to end
Shocking!
Will intern soon ...

Saturday, April 17, 2010

reminisce

Another poem so soon, wow! Its proved therefore that writing does make your thoughts flow easily and fluently. (!)


I stand by the window
Hearing the diapason of memories
Somewhat dispassionately
Nursery, prep, ..... ...........
....., tenth, eleventh, ......

Somewhere it stops
A cuckoo breaks my reverie
What is this I'm doing? - I think
What is this time? - the calm before the storm?

Shifting fog defines this phase
Is this some legerdemain of life?

I stand by the window
I now look out, not in
Moving cars - red, black, one pink
I'm going to buy a bike, I
think, when I work.

The music has now fully stopped
Now a gone moment
Blessed oh Lord is the capacity to forget!