#CluckySays -friendhogger

Hello people.
What is up?
I want to write a nice lil' post today, but my mind keeps bothering me. It keeps reminding me that my whatsap is constantly giving me notifications, that I can sleep, that it's cool and all comfy so I could think of all these and waste as much time as possible.
Fickle minded is what I've become.

So how does that have to do anything with clucky and who on earth is clucky??

Well, I've a really philosophical friend whom I'd like to refer to as clucky because he is always found giving unasked-free-forcedupon advices to people... Some of which get me thinking. Not just him but a lot of things a lot of people say. But I'm not pretty sure as to if my opinion about such stuff is sane or correct or legal or ethical.
And hence I'm going to be discussing those under a common head #clucky says

*clucky says: always maintain relations. With old ,new friends, fallen out friends to best friends, acquaintances and friends of friends- however much you hate them, you never know who would come into your life again*

So clucky is this firm believer of maintaining friendships. For that,he even goes to the extent of faking that he is having a nice time while hanging out with people he just cannot stand.

Well I've a different opinion. On one hand where my opinion does leave me with a handful of friends, but I don't think faking helps. I clearly don't understand the logic behind letting people you resent hang around you, when you probably want to see them hanging from a fannn... Uhm fantastic swing :|.

I pretty much befriend anyone and everyone because I love being nice. But a few interactions met with hostile responses and I stop trying.

I think you get the hang of what I'm trying to say. When there are people you refer to as friends who just dont let you know about any group meet, don't talk to you unless they've some work, joke about you and humiliate you publicly, talk in a sugar coated manner and just bitch the hell about you as you turn away....
Do you think there is a need to play along... Play along as to just prevent them from going overboard and blabbering everywhere

Or do you think we should take a stand for ourselves and just be. Even if we are left  with a few friends.. True ones.

Let me know!
- Appiqué<3
 

Swimming, not by choice...

Crazieeee rainfall!

It has been raining continuously for the past 2 days now in Mumbai. Uttarakhand was hit by another cloud burst today and Mumbai is almost sort of flooded with the traffic that has come to a standstill and all railway tracks being replaced by swimming pools, just filled with mucky water instead of the chlorinated one.

And my college and lectures and test………CANCELLED *happy dance only for this line*

That is the only non-gloomy point evolving out of this gloomy situation. Otherwise there is total chaos here. I almost got into a fit with a few auto rickshaw drivers for not agreeing to go to the station! And they want a hike….

So I get up to the news of a mass bunk and so had to call up and get a practical canned. And now as I was sitting nicely, comfortable and warm in my Easy-chair, I see the news of flood in Mumbai (WATER LOGGING) and all the news reporters going to these places and shooting stuff, I see people desperately trying to get into the camera’s angle and into one of the shots :\. Seriously? I mean, like that’s going to be your shot to fame! “Oh hey look, he’s the man with the polka dot umbrella who was behind that news reporter informing us about….uhm what was the news about…Who cares? There goes our celeb”.  Is that how you see it in your head? Because everyone at home would just be like “look at that clown!”

Anyway I’m happy –at least someone’s making use of the sudden holiday. I think the rest of us are lounging on our divans/sofas/chairs/tables/beds/floor/mats and complaining about the water logging problem or the heavy rain or just procrastinating.

I belong to the last category. I’ve to write an experiment down, study a few things, make an album (photo) but I’m just not doing any of it.

I’m just not happy with how my blog looks. I loved the dynamic template but it would load without the background and that looked really dry. So I had to do away with that.
-Appiqué<3

A test tickle. :-P

Baadddd title right! Stop boo-booing already.
So yeah, college just started and one of our teachers asked us to revise two subjects of the past 2 semesters. And I'm in no mood to..
I'm flipping through the pages, moodlessly and hopelessly wishing and hoping and Secretly praying that this test gets scrapped.
So there is a  tickling sensation in my stomach because of the test and my (unprepared) preparation. Hence I chose a title that was a part of Ryan Higa's recent video.... TeeHee
-Appiqué<3

Random thought

Hello.
It's 2.05am now in India.
And this random thought just struck me.

In Hindi, tomorrow and yesterday , both are referred to as "kal" .
Yesterday, signifying past, which is irreparable.
Tomorrow, signifying future, something that you can never predict. Even if you do your 100% to plan for a secure future, you can never be too sure of anything.

Only,  today is called "Aaj". Which is different from the word kal for yesterday and tomorrow. This points out the difference in the ideas and the basic theory behind dividing time into 3 segments.
You can live now now itself. It is only now that you can experience the present moment and justify its importance by living it to the fullest. It is now or never.

And often somewhere in the middle of our conflict between our utter stubbornness to hold on to the past and our constant desire to make our future better,  we forget what we have in our hand. Time. The present moment. Now.

Your child is growing up, learning to speak. There, you missed his/her first word because you were busy building their future.

You cry over a devastating relation. Cry for hours, days,weeks,months, years ...
Miss out on the fact that you are surrounded by people standing for you with arms wide open.

Live in the moment.
I don't. I'm just like you. By the time we realize what we have lost we would be losing out on that moment too because we would be busy thinking about what we could have done with the past.

Oogway wasn't a crazy turtle afterall. Remember this scene
(( Po: Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles.
Oogway: Quit, don't quit? Noodles, don't noodles? You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present." ))
-Appiqué<3

Bookworm : 3

So passionate about books!
Her, i mean. Give it a shot if you please to. :)

-Appiqué<3

Angry me

Hey you! I'm angry.. I'm mad at you.
Yea you.
Blogger keeps telling me people glance at this blog and yet, you don't leave a comment.
How mean!!

Haha, hey.
My blogger stats keep showing readers from different regions of the world. Whether you are from those places or you're not, I don't care if you live in another country or next to my building, but please , if you read, let me know about my endeavor. This blog.

Criticize it,  am fine. Constructive criticism is helpful.
I haven't yet mustered enough courage to tell my family and friends about it because of 2 reasons.
1. It is like buying yourself some readers,  free of cost,  on the basis of contacts.
2. They would be like " oh it's nice and all" but that wouldn't help me grow as a writer. Or they would outright just say NO when I ask them to give it a shot.

It's not like I'm working on something huge and all but I love writing and I don't wanna bug the hell out of people asking/begging them to read.
So just, if you, stumble upon it and give it a shot, even if you end up feeling like you never want to visit this page again.. Let me know.. :-D

Ps. Don't be too harsh though :-P
-Appiqué<3

When lethargy strikes!- mood monsoon

Hey guys!
What's up?
I am feeling super tired and lazy. Well, as I've been mentioning in the past few posts, my vacation came to an end and college started. With that, my entire routine had to change- no late morning waking up, no staying up late( though insomnia is holding on to me so tight that I can't fall asleep before 2am), no YouTube videos( or rather youtube marathon because I just can not "not watch" a video before going to bed, no whatsaping(too much/ self imposed rule because I'm bored of it), etc.
You get the hang right?
It's monsoon time and it makes me all the more lazy. I don't feel like stepping out. It is so cozy inside and my feet remain dry too! But we have to leave by 7 so that leaves me sleepyeyed by afternoon and I doze of as soon as I reach home!
It's sale season too. Offers Everywhere! I so love this sale period. People say you can't find good stuff.. I believe we can. We just need to look properly. But all this "lazy-ass-ness" has taken out or rather sucked the sale interest out of me!
Being a Mumbaikar and not liking monsoons is the worst. People look down upon you, deride/ridicule you for not loving something that is sooo famous.
I don't get why monsoons are such a big deal here. Rains, of Mumbai or rather any place  are a natural phenomena. Our life depends on it and monsoons make everything around us green and beautiful. This is not something that's restricted strictly to a place but to the entire world, unless it is a cloud burst or floody torrential rain, then it is scary.
I don't like the rains when I'm out travelling. It makes it difficult to fetch an auto, people keep shoving umbrellas in your face or abdomen, wet bodies in a crowded sweaty local transport vehicle, getting mud in your feet, vehicles splashing water all over you... I don't like these...
What I like includes the windy weather, getting drenched when am at home and I go out only to dance in the rain- like that is what I intend to do, hot piping cuppa tea, corn or rather bhutta, beaches.. Yes!
But I don't do these on a general basis so I am kinda biased. I like rain when it works like I want it to... Well who doesn't?
Enjoy/ sulk throughout the monsoons. No don't sulk.. That sucks..
-Appiqué<3

Animation :-D

My vacation is over and senior year has begun.
We had college for just 2 hrs today and our sir just talked to us, made us laugh a little, led us into the subject but that was just a very brief introductory lecture.
That defines exactly how my day went.
Oh I'm forgetting to include what happened in the morning. Our car suffered a small scratch and it kind of indicated a bad start.
That's what they say. Start a day bad and it ends bad. But that isn't true. A very great day can have a really bad ending and vice versa. It's basically our preception of wrong-right,happy-sad.
Alex the lion from Madagascar 3 made my day, on Sunday I mean. I'd seen the movie before but not with great concentration. When you watch animated movies with great concentration,  you notice the details, details that make the movie what it is- awesome! It takes a long time to make animated stuff for a reason.

Like kung fu panda! Man, watching it makes me happy! The expressions, the fight sequences, the idea -wow!

Simpsons- I <3. Because of the puns, sarcasm, the background that makes so much more sense than the scene that's going on! Genius.

Up- is beautiful. Tangled too. I've developed a new found love for lanterns. I want to do that- sit in a boat and watch gliding lanterns.

This picture describes the pain that I was going through when my haircut went wrong! I had gone to get a regular annual trim and he just chopped it off till I was left with that..
For now, adios!
-Appiqué<3

As my Vacation comes to an end

Hello people!
I kinda suck when it comes to blogging and being regular. Proof : this blog.
I'm really sad now because my vacation is about to end. Sunday is the last day and just the thought of it makes me so sad.
I've rested too much, tried out internship, have gone shopping for clothes, have met friends for lunch and movies, have visited my native place, read 2 fantastic books and baked a cake.. but it just feels so incomplete.
Not that I'm complaining and also the things I've stated are things people do on a general basis and forget, but my vacation is about to end and I'm about to reenter that vicious circle of completing journals,assignments, getting them corrected, those horrible vivas and surprise tests, list of defaulters,exams. .. Ahhhh
Once it starts, we start wishing it would end soon. Atleast I do.
And once it does, I'm going to forget about this blog till the time that I suddenly stumble upon a friend's blog and wonder if I should post but just out of the awkwardness of not having posted for a long time, I wouldn't post.
Crazy. Stupid. Pyscho. Yep that's me..
Am gonna miss lazing like a slowpoke..
So for now, enjoy this picture of a cake I baked (yes mum helped) :-P
Goodnight folks.
-Appiqué<3

Feeling thoughtful.

Wassap ya'll!!
(Yea that sounded like some real wannabe rapper.)
But I always wanted  to start a post with it. So deal with it.. :-P sorry.

So firstly, I've to show you something mom got for me. Now yes she's funny and all, but she swears she isn't tryin to imply anything when she bought this for me!

I mean God knows who made this but...

Next thing that I've on my mind. A friend of mine had a girlfriend when he was in high school. So her parents were moving to some other place and he did not come to see her off, making it obvious that he wanted to break up. When he was serious about a girl, she cheated on him. He says it's karma. You get back what you give.
Do you agree? I kept thinking about this. Not this sentence but about all the instances that prove this. So peeps be careful.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Leaving you with that thought , enjoy your Sunday!
-Appiqué<3

A FRIDAY post!

Anyoung Haseyu!

As I am writing this, I am almost 100% sure that no-one in this whole wide world has stumbled upon my blog and blogger , just to be polite , is generating all these stats saying people from Germany, Italy, etc have read this?

You think I'm kidding?

I wouldn't hesitate posting a screenshot of the stats.

So, what is up? 

As far as I am concerned, I've literally become a lazy lazy person. Waking up and going back to sleep has become my routine. I engaged myself in some gift making sessions for my friends. But it got over so soon that I ended up playing games online or chatting or just staring into space.

This week, I'm looking forward to engaging myself in cooking/baking, some pre-college-opening-flat-50% off- sale- SHOPPING... oh yea, I even cleaned my closet. It had clothes dating back to the 1500 A.D.

Mum told me to get rid of some stuff that I don't wear. With all the stuff I've kept aside, you know I could have a really super hit Garage sale, but unfortunately, garage sales don't work in my country :'(.

That is just sad. Man, we could all just exchange clothes (like Barter system) or do a garage sale and utilize our stuff well. But...

OK.Whatever. :-(

Second topic-GRE.

Has any of you given GRE? Well, if the answer is yes, then please…please help me! I keep googling but due to my laziness and my fear about all those tick mark dependent exams, I keep having doubts and apprehensions. Should I? Shouldn't I?

Thirdly, almost everybody is asking me to get into a relationship ASAP. I mean, what the heck? They say you can only be truly happy if you have a partner. Man, I don’t think that’s true. If you aren't happy alone, you definitely won’t be having a blast when you’re in a relationship. Don’t blame your shortcomings on the fact that you are single. That is like self pity- Feeling miserable because you are single and alone. And self pity sucks (sorry for the profanity).

If you've a different view, let me know. I might want to argue, but I definitely would respect you for at least having an opinion.

Thanks for reading.
Annyoung hee kye seyo.
-Appiqué<3

No topic.

Namaste.
Today I feel lazy, so lazy that I'd just rather use my national language greetings than google for some foreign hellos/goodbyes.

This arrived at my house today! 2 books!(look at the picture)
Vacation is the time when I make sure my little side table has atleast 2-3 books that'd help me get through the vacation. Especially these engineering ones. 15-20 days of vacation when most of my college friends go for industrial visit and those who don't,  let's just say we'd rather sleep at home than meet!
So books have become an integral part of my life.
These and also YouTube videos.
If you don't watch vids, you should give it one shot. Such a huge world of vids awaits you all. Some videos are just amazing, while some stupid ones start trends.
More on my favorite vids and books later.
If you watch youtube videos, What channels should I subscribe to? I love shorts and funny stuff. Temme temme!
Goodnight for now.
Shubhratri! Alvida :-P
-Appiqué<3