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. 

'Who do you think you are?'

I'm always complaining about how I don't post often enough. And it makes me feel like a jerk. Cos if I'd really wanted to, I would've posted. But I wonder why that is not the case.

So anywayzz I'd gone down south to Visakhapatnam for a typical south-Indian style shaadi, which have now very conveniently absorbed ceremonies like sangeet and mehndi. Either way, it was fun. And boring. The girl was 20 and the dude was 24. And because I was the oldest girl after her, I got 'treated' to a lot of 'teri shaadi mein' comments. Like, a lot of them. And because my sister's only twenty, it made them all the more real. And I couldn't help but think of marriage. Needless to say, I did not like what I thought. I think it's a terrifying idea to live with some random person. A man, at that. And the fact that you're supposed to share your life(!), as opposed to a room or a bathroom or whatever. I have no idea how people do it.

I also went paragliding, and discovered it was rather overhyped. Well, yeah I was in the sky and just hanging around under a boomerang shaped glider, still, no thrill. Not much, anyway.

We're in a really chill phase at college; not much to do except project presentations, which are for us Law students, a very simple matter of bagchodi. Meanwhile, India has won 2 of three Tests against West Indies, and drew the third one today, very stupidly, on the last ball, because of the ingenuity *rolls eyes* of Ashwin. And Nadal lost to both Federer and Tsonga. Very bad time. Sports wise.

Also, listen to Priscilla Ahn, she's very pretty and has a great voice. Also Sheldon (TBBT?) is becoming more and more normal, and I hate that. Make him un-normal, please. And make him date Penny? 

More on Today

Hello!

One, I've got another blog now - http://thenthperspective.blogspot.com/  devoted specially to photography. Do check  it out.

Two, wait .. let's get back to the non-numbered format ...

So today we started minor packing. Why, you ask. We need to leave this place by the 31st of July, so we'll be moving to a nearby colony soon. Won't matter to me much; I'll be going off to hostel. Waiting for that transition with great impatience.

Oh and what's with MTV's obsession with airing programmes of the by-gone era repeatedly? The spoofs, Roadies 5, everything is 'aged', and old is so not gold with TV shows ...

Also, the FLITE advert. now that's shittiness extreme.

Listening to All the Lovers Live - Kylie Minogue. Its from her recent album - Aphrodite, for which she's reportedly put in a lot of effort into her look. ;P
Watch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n_tn_4QzVQ&feature=topvideos

Okay, I'm going to go now. Good night!