Saturday 21 December 2013

Of Love,Sex,Commitment,Morality and all that Voodoo...

Boy meets girl.
  Boy falls for girl.(yea poor creatures,are always expected to do all the falling)
  Boy performs some cliche antiques to catch her eye.
  Girl winks,the boy is on seventh heaven!
  They date.
  Girl wants commitment,Boy wants sex.
  Girl gets her way,boy talks to her parents.
  After some pre-marital drama,the happy couple say the vows.
  They grow old,pot-bellied and angry,together!
   That has pretty much been the typical Indian story of a 'lou' marriage,albeit with a few juicy tadka's changing with the landscape and characters!But boyy!The times are sure changing nowadays.One can hear it in the frequent complaints of Indian teens that there was no proper "dating scene" in the country!True that,where will the poor kids go mating if there are no proms or bars to hang around?Even in the big cities,the scene is taking too long to change.There is a genuine shortage of understanding,mature individuals!If you sleep with a girl it's a shameful sin;if you get caught,even worse,as you find yourself stuck with her for a lifetime..!(or seven!)If you are a girl,its doomsday for you if it gets out!If you sleep with a guy,boy you might as well be a criminal here!This,is the reason why your "aaj-kal ke bacche" feel so enticed by the West!This very lack of freedom,to live life as we want it,drives us away,to settle down in faraway States and Kingdoms!
  Times are changing though!Not advocating the western culture or anything,but here's an observation:I
read "Safe Haven" by nicholas sparks and "The Namesake" by jhoompa lahiri earlier this week.Sparks never dissapoints,and the love overwhelmed me as all of his other books did:") (I am allowed smileys) The Namesake was a good read.In the end,what struck me most was the differences.Katie,the female protagonist in Sparks work,abstains,because she is still legally married to her abusive,psychotic husband;and God forbids fornication! On the other hand,Mo,an ABCD(american born confused desi-thats what the author said),cheats on her well-mannered husband,with a man almost her father's age,just for the attraction and sheer pleasure of it!
  Mo(ushumi) smokes,does drugs and drinks like a fish.Katie loves kids,is the perfect image of the ideal "mother" and isnt an alcoholic!Agreed that these are Indians born in the states and one could say that they dont know Indian culture;but does that make katie "Indian" because she fits this good lady image?Take a look closer home,aren't things almost the same?Aren't "desi" teens doing the same "cool" things?
  Ofcourse I know I am getting so worked up in mere characters in works of fiction,but nowadays you can hear chachas and chachis blaming the "western,modern way of living" for anything ranging from their kids running away with their driver's sons to rapes and other huge crimes!Thinking of it,are the disgusting,drug addict,charas-intoxicated,daaru-guzzling goons even aware of the english language,to be INFLUENCED by it?!
  So heading into 2014,isnt a change of mentality the need of the day?Instead of blaming others we might as well try to be good to ourselves and our people!
P.s-Ranted because one of my relatives didnt let me watch the latest episode of HIMYM after listening to barney talk for a minute.-.-

 

Thursday 3 October 2013

Expressions

Expressions...my blog title says "expressions"!!!so dear reader you sure are going to come across a whole lot of exclamation marks and smileys ...crazy,i know,but people like crazy...!(Here it comes,the fourth one;))
   Writing a blog is not a difficult job they say...yea its not if one has this awesome topic they could rant about and time on their hands to rant away as much as they want to...unlesss,they blabber XD..and i clearly am not the "focused-on-onething-&becameageek"type and hence the talks.. Psst i do have "this-awesome-topic-i-could-rant-about..."-My life <3 (couldnt help putting the heart sorry;)) .
    The blog is thus gonna be my virtual diary..so read along as i rollercoaster through life(or wade through it when it turns shitty)
   Comments are always welcome..and thanks for reading xoxoxo
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Thursday 22 August 2013

Entrepreneurship- the easy way

Ember is the entrepreneurship cell in our college..i.e atharva college of engineering ,mumbai..today is my first post on this blog so it maynt be entertainin or as interesting...but thanks earthlings for bearing with me n actually reading this...i am forever grateful#goofysmiles# so..back to the topic as i said ember is the ecell from our collg n it had organized a seminar by some farrhad acidwala...offcourse in the beginning we jus went to skip physics lectures...(sittin in phy is a verry daunting task) so there we were...sittin in this huge hall not many of us bt a considerable number...and all of a sudden this cute kid comes out...we being first year students dont offcourse know the whos who of college committees thought it wud b some core person checking out the systems.'!
     Now the mic wasnt workin and people were excited to bunk classes so there was pandemonium in the hall...and this kid just clears his voice and starts talking about FAILURE!!!offcourse we werent there for the gyaan(till that point of time atleast) but come on...this one was new....people blabbber a lot about
Success and entrepreneurship and grit and spirit n capital and what not in such seminars...this was a unique start which definitely caught my attention..and after a few minutes of chit chat, the ember president walked upon the dias and introduced the kid," friends ,here is our speaker for the day,farhad sir!"
     Woahhhh....the dudes just 19 and hes an ENTREPRENUER and a succesful one at that!!!he started an aviation website at 13 ...sold it up at 15 ..and is currently running an advertising and pr company named rockstah...guys made a million in almost five years..with just 25000 as capital...hats off to you dude,...and he himself says hes not all that brilliant or talented...you just need to go out there and give the world ur best...n the world gives you back in loads and wagonsfull!!!:)
So todays post is just a round of applause to mr.farrhad acidvala for inspiring us:) #forever grateful!! And thats all for now coz evn if i managed to bunk one lecture;the next teachers here...and engineers are supposed to PAY ATTENTION with there phones shut awaY safely..even if the lectures BORING;(!!
     Signing off,from under the bench,
                           Loads of love,
                                                 $@g@;)
Experience is what you gain when you dont get what you really wanted!!