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Posted Jun 22, 2009 | General | 1467 Views   

Random rants

Slightly bored, slightly amused, Dropping in here to rant... This one's random--really, really so--IT IS NOT COMPULSORY for anyone to read. If you don't wanna, just chuck it! (It's INSIGNIFICANT, wouldn't miss out on anything earth shattering!)... Slightly bored, slightly amused, Dropping in here to rant... This one's random--really, really so--IT IS NOT COMPULSORY for anyone to read. If you don't wanna, just chuck it! (It's INSIGNIFICANT, wouldn't miss out on anything earth shattering!) 10.) Men are important, to me they are! At the cost of sounding cheap or nympho, I strongly believe that there's nothing better than spending lose-time with male-friends. They (mostly) never crib about chipped nail paints, they don't cry in public (and if they cry with me it only makes me feel I must be a really special friend), chances of them spreading around your secrets (I believe) are lesser--and if they do, they wouldn't spice up (not as much as a woman can fabricate), they are never "getting late", never have men-problems, never try to find fancy words for--fever, common cold, pinks & purples, lemon water/soda, good and bad. 9.) I love shopping for other people with their money. It's the most guilt-free! For the same reasons I think I should sometime try my hand at fashion/interior designing and my father thinks it is another reason why I should marry quickly! Mostly the things I buy are liked by those I got them for. 8.) I gave my father cash for father's day, yesterday. No, I don't think it is gross. I could've bought him flowers and cards and surprised him with fancy stationary, cigarette case, shirts, trousers and all that, but I do that every year and it somehow felt nauseating this time. Plus, I gave him my hard-earned money , I know that he knows that it means. 7.) Many a times I know someone's fooling me (in some minor ways, like some jokes or pranks or stuff), I play along--it feels nice to be a bimbo ocassionally. Though the "trying to play along" turns out to be darn cumbersom and I think I end up using more brains in those efforts. Plus, mostly people get disappointed at my pretence of being the bimbo (I have a strong feeling that they are prejudiced that I am smarter than them! I am NO!) 6.) I feel terribly lazy these days. Sometimes I give up in the middle of an argument, just because I feel extremely lazy and slow in the head. It's almost like being on dope all the time (not that I have ever done that to try, but of what I have heard and seen). I feel dizzy, not sleepy, and I grasp well but am too vague to execute. I feel even sleeping will take efforts--to turn and put the cushion and lay down--so I just keep sitting/standing/anything else, just they way I am. 5.) Being low has nothing to do with being sad--AND I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS! Haven't you felt what it feels when you win the best student of the year trophy, which you have worked towards through the year, and then when it is in your hands and people are swarming to wish, you just wanna be left alone! It has something to do with the digestion system--Can't digest too much attention, can't digest too much happiness, don't know how to deal with a 'smooth' life! Plain is boring. 4.) Until 10 minutes before now I did not know whether the word is saline or sanile! (The word just came to my mind when I thought I was becoming whatever it means, and I looked it up in the dictionary). On a scale of 1 to 10, I rate my vocabulary 5 and I still aspire to be a writer. I am a straight believer of the word--learning. I really don't think there's any need for being ashamed if I don't know words in English, it's not my mother tongue. Ask me anything in Hindi, I will be more confident anyday. But I constantly work on better-ing (I love verb-ising nouns and pronouns) myself at that language. I don't think its so difficult. And I understand that the RAM of my brain is not sharp enough (special thanks to my numb-headed-ness these days) to retain many words all the time. But what the heck--I shall overcome it. 3.) I want to buy a small appartment of my own, I want to put a board outside the door which names the people who 'can enter' and who 'can't enter'. The list will be updated every day. The house will have at least one BIG window, the day I think I am tired of living, I will jump out of it--though I think that will never happen. 2.) I want a 24X7 personal-assistant for myself. Someone who pulls out clothes for me from a six-door-walk-in-closet and matching shoes from my 700 pairs and matching earrings from the walk-in jewellery closet and matching makeup from the personal make-up studio attached to my room. He/She must cook for me and keep my stuff in shape. Must understand what I want when. I promise I will pamper this person a lot. This person is not going to be a servant, just a help--basically for all that is mentioned in '2.' I need lots and lots of money! I want to be RICH! I want to be RICH, POWERFUL AND FAMOUS--in that order, and I want it SOON! 1.) I think this is the random-est I got in a very very long time. And it really is SO me! Read More
Posted Mar 01, 2009 | General | 807 Views   (Updated Mar 01, 2009 01:34 AM)

The brew... over my last review

Long breaks from MS and then back here, I think every writeron this website has such pendulum-like phases. We all move ahead and come back.There is certainly something about it. The thing that's been pulling me back here over the past few week... Long breaks from MS and then back here, I think every writeron this website has such pendulum-like phases. We all move ahead and come back.There is certainly something about it. The thing that's been pulling me back here over the past few weeks is to checkthe increasing number of comments on my last review (about the Hindi filmGhajini). One review that was hated SO much that I get amazed! After trying hard to explain what my co-writers misunderstood about it all, Ifinally gave up, and stopped replying to the comments. But it's reallydisheartening, this feeling that the space where my reviews have mostly touchedpeople in a good way, something hurt them so bad. I have the option of deleting the review all together, but I chose not to doit. Not because I want to act stubborn or make people believe that I amright... No! I can be wrong, I am very wrong many times... but then, what I door say is a part of me... And what has been done, should not be pulled back...instead I should stand by it and try and make what's been spoiled better. Basically, I wrote it, and I want to keep it... with all the comments and NUsthat I received! :) This experience did make me believe that MS is closest to life... as close asit can get! Just like in real life... one step can make or mar ur image at MS. Just like in reality, you canbe misinterpreted, misunderstood, mistaken... Just like in real life, you canbe proud of ashamed of what you did in the near or the far past. Just like inreal life, you can feel good or bad about the same thing at different times. One more thing... Just like it happens in real life, fame and especially the'*' (denoting you a Star Writer) next to your id, makes you feel like the kingof this planet and this pride often inflates the brains. It happened to me... Isaw it happening to MANY writers here! :) {Confession: I don't just say it, but I really am a down to earth person inreal life. Circumstances have made it such that each time I have achievedsomething, I have lost more. So the whole 'taking victory to head' has neverhappened to me. Those who know me, or have met me in real life, would know thatI am not the sorts to sit in a side with my chin up and bask in being somesuperstar. I am the more friendly and calm type... who more often than notsurrenders in what the majority says.} But this time, yes, I was swayed in having this HUGE inflated ego... SOinflated, that for once I felt tizzy in the head. I read the comments thatpeople wrote there, and kept thinking, they are all mad for reacting likethis... UNTIL when I typed out a nasty reply to someone. But half way through,I realised WTF! Exactly... MS has always been this place where I had so much fun... enjoyed theattention my writing got. The first place where I realised that I couldwrite... and that people could read and understand it... Rather appreciate it! And see what I was doing with all of this! Lol... Useless! Rot! Well, I still maintain... I NEVER meant to hurt anyone in my review... I wrote whateverI did as an audience of cinema of all kinds and just compared one with theother and the tastes of one audience to the other. I did not mean to show onedown or the other better. Why would I do something like that? Trust me, I neverwould! I have full respect for people of all genders, age groups, religion, region,caste, creed, colour, believe and faith! For me, Akisha from Delhiis just as brilliant a person as Reviewer from Bombay,Megs from Delhiwrites just as great as Mags from Chennai, a new star writer or an oldone are both well appreciated... MS still remains a special place! I apologise to all friends and others whom I hurt by what seemed as my'anti-south Indians' comments. No, I am not anti anything... the review wasvery objective. However, I still don't think I was wrong in my idea of what Iwrote... on going back to the review I think, maybe my choice and framing ofwords and sentences, respectively was wrong. I hope my date with MS still goes on... Until we meet again... Cheers! :) P.S. - I hope all those who wrote me LONG, and some of them multiple, M2Ms and comments to criticise the review, read this as well. Read More
Posted Aug 02, 2008 | General | 1017 Views   

Mouthshut's moved...

I have become a journalist finally after an ordeal of over six years. It was a long and seemingly unending battle that I fought to achieve this. Amongst other things, Moutshut.com plays a vital role as well. MS was my first stroke with reco... I have become a journalist finally after an ordeal of over six years. It was a long and seemingly unending battle that I fought to achieve this. Amongst other things, Moutshut.com plays a vital role as well. MS was my first stroke with recognition. Though I knew that I could write, I never knew what others thought of my writing. This is where MS pitched in. Getting a prompt feedback on what you had written and that too from people who don’t know you and wouldn’t be good to you just for being so! It boosted my strength each time my reviews got a 'very useful' or each time when someone left a m2m saying I write well. I saved them all and still have each of them. There was never a better high for my ego when MS made me the Best Debut Writer, within 17 days of my joining this website. It became even better when Jasmine wrote to me, informing me that I was going to be made a Star Writer. The star near my login id is still a matter of great pride for me! Mouthshut.com has given me some great friends, some who have had a significant impact on me... some friends who I proudly call my best friends today. However, MS has changed with time. A change is never good or bad… it's just a movement towards something different. It is in our ability to decide if we want to accept it happily or just crib and nag about it. I am happy for whatever MS has become, though there's nostalgia about what it was two years back. But then I think we needed this, stagnating would have been sadder. MS is more famous now and more lively as well. But then there are certain things that never change… even today there are some good and some not so good ids here. Some pseudo and some jerks… they are all over… and it just goes on to prove that MS is very close to real world! Read More
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Posted Aug 02, 2008 | General | 1050 Views   

Moutshut... then and now

I have become a journalist finally after an ordeal of over six years. It was a long and seemingly unending battle that I fought to achieve this. Amongst other things, Moutshut.com plays a vital role as well. MS was my first stroke with reco... I have become a journalist finally after an ordeal of over six years. It was a long and seemingly unending battle that I fought to achieve this. Amongst other things, Moutshut.com plays a vital role as well. MS was my first stroke with recognition. Though I knew that I could write, I never knew what others thought of my writing. This is where MS pitched in. Getting a prompt feedback on what you had written and that too from people who don’t know you and wouldn’t be good to you just for being so! It boosted my strength each time my reviews got a 'very useful' or each time when someone left a m2m saying I write well. I saved them all and still have each of them. There was never a better high for my ego when MS made me the Best Debut Writer, within 17 days of my joining this website. It became even better when Jasmine wrote to me, informing me that I was going to be made a Star Writer. The star near my login id is still a matter of great pride for me! Mouthshut.com has given me some great friends, some who have had a significant impact on me... some friends who I proudly call my best friends today. However, MS has changed with time. A change is never good or bad… it's just a movement towards something different. It is in our ability to decide if we want to accept it happily or just crib and nag about it. I am happy for whatever MS has become, though there's nostalgia about what it was two years back. But then I think we needed this, stagnating would have been sadder. MS is more famous now and more lively as well. But then there are certain things that never change… even today there are some good and some not so good ids here. Some pseudo and some jerks… they are all over… and it just goes on to prove that MS is very close to real world! Read More
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