A cut calling

Posted on January 28, 2009 by neerjakothari — Leave a comment

Getting a hair cut appointment now a day is like a Herculean task in its self!

So first you have to decide on the hairdresser and then when you call is the day she/he will be super booked! You try to get squeezed in but with no luck… Besides as a friend pointed out that was the worst thing to do! Coz well u get squeezed in that then thrown out with a bad hair do! So I shall refrain from begging for a hair cut… but then I need one desperately! With the months of working on applications and doing nothing else I need some time off. The only way to feel happy and distressed is a hair cut. I shall overcome the booked diaries and get myself an appointment too and it has to be today! I have had like bottles of oil dumped on my head with the only concession that I will not have to shampoo it away myself! I can hear my strands of hair crying out for some pampering… (Is that y it looks like a near cousin of the mighty Grizzzly bear!)

So here I am off to make yet another phone call … maybe I won’t be turned down this time! The brave shall prevail or maybe the persistent… ha-ha

 

Things to do this week:

HAIRCUT

Watch slumdog millionaire

Get down to scholarship hunting

work on the painting

Andddddd well try and to the former fourrr

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Posted in january 09

Things that go WRONG

Posted on January 11, 2009 by neerjakothari — Leave a comment

The things that could go WRONG…when you have to fly off your applications….

Well firstly the college doesn’t reply to you! You send emails they don’t care… you call they don’t care… (Oh wait the solution was not caring but replying)…Hmm that too… n then you leave voice messages … they still don’t care! So three days before your deadline you stop caring too… I have cancelled out that particular college from my list. I shall not apply there any more… which means I’ll look for another college … anyways on to other things… so here you are trying to (I cannot emphasis enuff on the LAST MINUTE bit) to print out your materials…and the printer starts eating up the paper… the ink dries off… for the life of me I cant understand y its printing words which are flying off the sheet… the staple pins are not working.. I hand it to my mom they work… I take it back…they don’t! Moms have magical powers! Then the prices of veggies go up … (that doesn’t affect me) but the price of veggies went up coz the trucks that get them into the city were plying in lesser numbers… I still don’t care about the trucks… but then that happened coz there was a petrol strike…. Or they were out of petrol or watever, how does that affect me you ask??? ( il pretend some of you are asking) so I came to the conclusion … there are two things happening.. Either all the petrol stocks get over… or there is a strike on… Which ever… but what If the DHl ppl (who send my courier to the universities)… their vans run out of petrol!!! Even worse what if planes stop flyingggggg…. The what ifss are really really tiring me out… so I rush to the DHL guy and courier my stuff till they have some petrol left in their vans… the DHL place was another story all together… them trying hard to deal with a French guy who wanted to send stones and miniatures and other kinds of weird things to his daughter… the entire conversation was hilarious between the courier guy and this other guy. I wish I had a tape of it… Anyways what I really have to now figure out is what the scientific name of buffalo…is!!!! (That was a question that the courier guy was once asked by customs)!!!!!!!!! Who calls a buffalo by any other name than a buffalo!

 Yeah so I and exclamation marks… I had to remove all of them from my essay … my wise friends and family thought it was way too dramatic!

 PS:: I love ms word… it lets me write all I want and then corrects for me… it still lets me keep the 15 exclamations together only if the spacing between the brackets is correct. Awesome!

 Ok now back to listening to Aye Bachchu…brilliant song…I don’t understand most of the words but the music is great… and then I’ll pretend I’m in a car and listening to Teri ore from singh is king…when im on the road…every day I hear this song on the radio like 10 times! I kind of feel incomplete now if I don’t listen to it once… !!!!

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its 4

Posted on January 4, 2009 by neerjakothari — 1 Comment

From writing one to the other; just done with an initial draft of the SOP and well I know what finally helped! May it be- enya, streets of Philadelphia – springsteen and hallelujah- jeff buckley…they completely rock!! Even though this music was not of the usual rocking variety! At 4 in the morning I still love exclamation marks!!!!! Come to think of it… an artists statement which ran to some 800 odd words and not one exclamation mark! Not possible..hehehe…so I sneaked one in! it instantly livened up my essay. When in doubt use exclamation marks!

On to some other important stuff – I came across a pencil which has a furry texture to it! Now I can’t in the life of me get myself to sharpen n use that amazingly textured pencil. So another thing added to my already overstuffed drawer of things I collect! PS: I collect everything.

It’s been a happy new year for all of 3 n 1/4th days and our dear Mamaata Bangopadhyay couldn’t sit still. So to save us from further distress lets send her to Bermuda triangle to de-stress. That ways even if she doesn’t cool down…well she will be lost and won’t be able to find her way back. Isn’t that brilliant! Masi n I came up with that all in a minute…talk about quick grey matter generation.

With that I shud go hit the sack… my very personal alarm system (PS my mom!) goes off at 10 :30 every morning…which leaves me with 6 ½ hours of sleep onlieeeeee…yikessssss! Lights off…eyes shut…dreams on! : D gnite

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haffieeenewwyear

Posted on January 1, 2009 by neerjakothari — 2 Comments

 

Iv haddd a lot of diet cokeee anddddd now I wanna talk like thisssssssssssssssssss…….

Its 12: 30 am of the new new year …that’s 20009 oopssssssss its 2000999 ..ohhh well im sure you know what it is coz I wanna still talk like thissss or writeee like thissss and the years just gonna have be a gazillion years older than what it actually is! Hmm actuallllyy… ok!! Hang on ! im havinggg a slight problemmmm MS WORDDD is corrrrectinggg my spellingsss…yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Okk so now itsss given up and I have red scibbliess all over… hmm where was iii… oh yeahh the math of the gazillionnnnnn yearrr … hmm ok no I don’t wanna do that nowwwww… haffffffieeeeeeee newwwwwww yearrrrrrrrrrr…booom…boooom…banngggg… that’s the fireworksssss ughh n words irritating meeee I should look for anotherrr notepaddd….. anywaysss so how much of chocolate and coke is enuff…. i kinda lost count : D

I loveee these little emoticonsss not all but some : D :0 :o) hehhehehe

Oh!!!!!!!!!! I just remembered….that line where I was writing “its 12: 30 am of the new year…..20009999 well I had to complete thatttttt …so yeah where was I …hey! I need to close those qquotess….hmm ok! Consider it closed!

Yaa soo it was 12:30 some 10 minutes back and well all I was saying was im half an hour behinddddd the madness of the midnight hourrrrrrrr……that’s it…… I go crazzzzyyy at 12 : 30 or 12 : 32 and not at 00: 00 …ummm  im not working anymore, so I think il sit n wait for chitty chitty bang bang to start of tv…which is at 3 : 30! So that’s a long waitttt….i thinkkk gappinggg at the screen willl bring it on soonerrrrrr…..?? will it work???? I loveee that song that goess ummm somethinggggggg chitty chitty bang bang … so I haveeeee to listen to it… I managed 312 on the word count… !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wonder iff they count the dotss and exclaimation marks and smileysss and and and the andssssssssss : o) …. Okk noww iv haddd it withhh wordddd I shalllll go and ummm yeah I wonder what il do nowwwwwwwww…. Wat was it ?????????????wat was it that I was gonnnaa do??? I cant stop writing till I know cozz then il havee nothing to do and thissss is a good thing to dooo to extenddddd letterrrrrrrrrssssssss ……..imagineee reading thisss loud….. I knowwwwwwwwww theresss moreee cakeee and coke!!!

(that was cokeeeeeeeeeee till u knoww ..worddd…happened to it!)

Tooodlessssssss…… hhhhhhhafiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeenewwwwwwwwwwwwwyearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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no words

Posted on December 30, 2008 by neerjakothari — 1 Comment

So here I am trying to write a statement of purpose… and well a week down I still don’t have anything …nothing…nada…zilch…

So I’ve tried a lot of things… I’ve tried listening to my inner voice and I’ve tried listening to the outer voice… I have thought n thought… I’ve shut out all kinds of sounds and tried listening real hard to the voice from inside (they say we all have one an inner voice … I think mine is of my parents saying “No” to everything… coz I usually always mess up things) so that’s not really helping me much. I tried listening to some inspiration music so Whitney sang “One moment in time”. I tried listening to soft sad low key music so “hallelujah “: that just got down right depressive… so I switched to instrumental stuff… Kenny G came and played Havana and it was way tooo peppy! I could hear my thoughts jingling. So I switched to the soundtrack from Amelie…Very niceee… but still no words…

So then what else! I slept for two days!

But the problem with that was… things were fantastic when I was asleep, but now I am awake and I don’t have more than a few wish wash ideas and a start up line which was also taken from something I wrote a few weeks back…

The long breaks from the breaks taken to think about my purpose are very taxing on my weight… Coz each break means I run to the refrigerator and come back to my room loaded with a big chunk of marble cake.

No words yet

I tried watching a movie coz I’m a hug movie buff and I thought that will relax me and then I can go back to writing a bit. Well let me say the movie didn’t help…I don’t even remember what I saw anymore. I actually probably saw 5 movies put together. A bit from each channel!

Meditating didn’t help much either… it made be very peacefully and calmly feel more sleepy.

So I thought I had a very heavy head with all the thinking of thinking of thoughts. I went n oiled my head. Grandma says oiling my head will help me relax and cool down (though I am pretty cooled down … since its cold being winter n all). Anyways that was some three hours ago, after which iv seen an hour of CSI investigations and played two rounds of online scrabble…and now I have all this written up but this cannot go to colleges as an artists statement.

So was oiling the hair that great an idea?? Maybe not…never mind…there’s always that tomorrow which comes tomorrow and well then I’ll get to shampoo my hair! And then maybe just maybe I will be able to write something worthwhile

I shall write a bit more later on whether I was able to write anything or not… right now its time to watch an episode of sex and the city and if after the Carrie- isms I get down to some work …then… yippee … if not ..Well there’s that tomorrow after the shampoo.

Ps:: I think I need a haircut and soooon !!! Maybe it’s all that bad hair which is not letting the thoughts filter through. Hmmm yeah that’s it.

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OMG~!!!!IE stalker

Posted on November 25, 2008 by neerjakothari — Leave a comment

yes ! you heard/read right IE stalker… so as usual i come back home (thats not the usual part) and put on my comp and open firefox(that is the usual part) and yikes!@!!! all my tabs shut down and a silly green ominous looking error box type of thing pops up ! and says ! “” use IE you dope”” !!!@#@@@!!!

me dope not! hmpf

and who the hell gets off telling me what to use… and im just spooked at the moment and anyone else came across this??? i dunno .. i know i have a overdoes of caffeine adn tea etc but i cant be imagining this itnernet devil..sooo it happened… my friend seems to think its very funny .. me not so… but aha! its not like if i cant use firefox i will go to IE.. I will not! i shall go to chrome adn then sumwhere else .. hah! take that you pro IE stalker hacker watever!!

hmmm ,. so now that doen with ..wow!! i havnt written anything here for a while..no the big bang experiment did not wipe us out neither did the crowds pull me away.. i jus was soo busy didnt have any thoughts pouring out at all… with well uhh jus a lot going on .. soo thats abt it

latest update or the frst update well just having a lot of fun …all week engrossed with art .. makign art adn learnign about art history…and yeah art history helps..it tells you about all the other crazy people in the world who had some really werided out ideas and well they got accepted after they died! so i have hope.. haaha

more later soonnn… im busy bumping ideas right now… oh yeah! so “bumping ideas” my new coined term.. it basically means well im not actively brainstorming but ideas are just coming in/out (off the mind u know)and there are just so many ideas comign from nowhere (or was it the brain!!!!) that well they just seem to be bumping against each other! and well yeah i cant make them stop so im jus letting them have fun!

adios!

  omg! i havnt written anything in more than a month yikessssss!!! i shall make up soon and you can read more if anyone is reading : D

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Crowd me not

Posted on September 21, 2008 by neerjakothari — Leave a comment

ugh!

I’ll never to go the movie hall again! I promise! …

That’s what I end up saying every time I go to a theatre…its just the perfect place for me to test my patience with crowds and believe me I have none. Zero. Zilch.

I just plain and simple hate crowds… (I do love these three little dots … and the! mark) I know it’s all of us who make a crowd… But naah keep me aside from the sum total of many people (are they really people?? or the term aliens is more suited) collectively called a crowd… none for me thank you!

It was a long time back that I realized my general dislike for crowds…since then… its been a no to stadium shows…cricket matches…in general any place with too much of a  “crowd”. It graduated to no malls on Saturdays or Sundays or even evenings, to at a phase even food places on a weekend! Why do all these people have to merge down to the one place I want to go to given the time and day …hmpf! It’s beyond me

And so to get back to my oath of not going back to the movie halls…well that’s one thing I can’t manage to do! I hate the crowd but but I love the movies! (Kindly note that that doesn’t prevent the fact that half the stuff we end up watching on the big screen is utter crap) but movies still have that magical pull which sends me running to the theatre.

Movies and plays… I guess are the places that I have to and must suffer the huge mass flow of people. What brought on this assault on the race in general? Last night I went to watch a movie… there were complete idiots sitting next to me…who probably dished out the ticket money so they could sit and talk. Now pray tell me! If you want to talk… why choose a movie theatre…with hundreds of people around, the Dolby sounds blasting away and babies crying! (Yeah they get small babies to the halls tooo! So they can get scared of the darkness and the loud {it’s Dolby!} sounds and cry away to glory… as if there aren’t enough background noises in the movie itself! )

Crowd …the word itself is claustrophobic…OMG!! I think I have crowd issues! Crowdophobia! Ewwwhh sounds creepy… Demophobia or Enochiophobia or simply Fear of Crowds is what it’s called officially… hmmm ok I don’t think I want to have anything that sounds that complicated…but I’m doomed! I shall still face my fears and dislikes and tolerate the crowd…all for the love of movies.

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Posted in september 08

Big Bang Boom

Posted on September 10, 2008 by neerjakothari — 2 Comments

There is a big experiment starting today at an experimental facility near Geneva… well yeah experiments are carried out at experimental facilities otherwise what would be the use for such facilities… but I must say it all sounds very interesting and dramatic.. an underground tunnel, years n years of construction, shiploads of money, support of thousands of computers blah blah n blah… its called the big bang experiment and the scientists are trying to create the moment right after the big bang happened…and then we were created… heh .. or rather I’m sure there were a few other steps in between…..Hawkings bets a 100 dollars that it wont work or rather they will not be able to find what they term as god’s particle… just a 100 dollars?? makes me think they will probably find what ever they want to find…anyways as cool as it all sounds… I’m sorry I hated physics and never understood a word that was talked about it…confession time::  I did try and learn a bit of it in school and then there was this honest but failed effort to read Hawkings… but but but the whole process sure is exciting…so yayy!!!!

One big bang happened and then the universe happened and then earth happened and then we happened to it! With a experiment like this I don’t know what we are seeking…some say it’ll be the end of the world…if only the end of the world came every time someone predicted it or speculated …we sure seem to have a life span of 10 cats… andddddd they say the test could cause giant black holes and we would get sucked into it… I’ll be looking for such unusual gravity pulls for sure… : )

Can another mini universe start off in that big little tunnel ????  Check out pictures and their site at   http://lhc2008.web.cern.ch/lhc2008/

some of it looks like an abstract dab at art to me : )

Whatever maybe the outcome of this experiment… good luck! And way to go! if we are that much closer to understanding what happened when it all began (pretty intriguing!) and then hey maybe it could all begin all over again somewhere else and well when we are done with this world we could travel to another… and leave poor little wall-e to take care of earth01.. heh naah i think we will take wall-e along too!

ps::anybody who has not seen Wall-e please go and do so … its a movieee by pixar duhh!

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I am sorry

Posted on September 5, 2008 by neerjakothari — 5 Comments

Today for Jainism is the day to be forgiving n forgetting…

“Khamat khamna” as the phrase goes… Says I am sorry for whatever I have done and seek your forgiveness and in doing so I also forgive you and forget anything that you may have done.

Aint that sweet! It’s a day for new beginnings and to wipe the slate clean… never mind that the slate will be doodled on even before the day is over for some; but it’s a thought.Maybe everyone irrespective of their religion and political view should give it a try. At the forefront can be Mamta, Budhadeb, Bush and Osama etc etc.  I’m sure the list can be endless.

The first two names obviously mean a lot more living in Bengal and hearing about the Singur issue amidst all the bandhs and chaaka jams we face every other day. I recently got a facebook invite to a group which states: I hate Mamta Banerjee.

Hate I think is a very strong emotion to harbor. So do I really hate Mamta? I don’t know…I know that I don’t particularly like her… I do hate the fact that she is practically holding the state at ransom. You can’t be a political leader for the people and stand at the very entrance of any reform door and lock it up and say I will not budge. That’s not going to help anyone. On the other hand I guess the Left is now facing what it was doing before they opened their minds to industries. Hopefully there is a solution in store for the farmers and the project. This is mere politics and nothing else. Even if she has sympathy for the farmers I don’t see her doing much to solve the issue. May better senses prevail… heh is that asking for a bit too much???

Ps:: my thought process got stamped on … I need to make a no disturbance zone in the house! Though I think right now I shall go talk to the interior decorator regarding the colour selection for my walls in the room. Any suggestions?

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rock on!

Posted on September 3, 2008 by neerjakothari — 2 Comments

“Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a, shoebox of photographs
With sepia tone loving
Love is the answer,
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it’s so hard?
It’s not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I’ll tell you one thing it’s always better when we’re together”

Rock on ; a simple not so complicated and yet intense movie made a lot of us think and talk about things .. how things are .. how you would ideally want them to be .. some felt redeemed.. some talked about their dreams to become musicians which is still a distant dream… others about their passions and what they would ideally want to do (didn’t have to be a stock broker going back to music ). A lot of us talked about the perfect monotoned house !!! I personally loved the layout but I don’t think I can live there! It would bore me to death in five minutes flat. I did totally love Farhan Akhtar…his efforts in trying out various things reminds me of all the old time directors and actors who did everything like directing the movie, scripting it, acting in it, singing, everything .. even serving tea( the MTV ticker told me that on Farhan) and Arjun Rampal looked the complete rock star and Prachi Desai looked very colour co-ordinated to her house!

What was refreshing about the movie was not the movie but the fact that a movie made way for so many conversations .. even as I write this there are some 4 people online talking about the movie.. so the line of conversation starts from

Them  – ” the movie was awesome”

Mee- Yeah

Them – So was the music!!!!!
Mee- definitely !!!
Them  – which is you favourite one??

Mee- I love Sinbad the Sailor the most (and right after the most I like the whole album apart from the snake song)

Them – didn’t you just love the dandia spoof

Mee- oh yes I did .. I still cant remember the song though .. hmm thing to look out for when I watch it again

Them – hmm so the movie makes you think .. my life’s a lot like that.. or I used to like doing this . .. or I let go of my passion for.. I have responsibilities… life is so serious…

And so it continues : )

The introspection Is great.. it gets us to use more of our grey cells and also look a bit inwards that we often don’t…. I know that there are those who are doing things coz they have to and not because they want to .. and it might be scary but well there are some of us who are doing the things we really want to and believe me even that’s scary. It’s a happy bit scary place to be in. Coz if this doesn’t work out well we’d be lost. A lot of friends have declared ambitions of living jobs and going back to things they were passionate about, and some will do things alongside stuff they have to do. All the best!

The above lines from a song came to mind when I was later thinking about the movie. It gets better for the four friends when they are all back together , dusting off the layers of time from the abandoned photographs and friendships  and making incredible music, which I have had an overdose of .. I have been listening to the songs non stop past week.. It instantly maked your head bob!! Which is kinda cool

So anyways.. awesome movie.. a must watch or rather a 5 time watch atleast..even better if you know the songs beforehand.. which would make the last 20 mins completely and truly rock !

and while at it get back to dreaming.. our dreams are what makes us.. heh sounds like that should have been on my previous post!
Rock on! Live your dream

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