Virtual guilt

"Ok so this is weird. The fact that the video is going so viral."

Hey everyone! How are you? Good? Are you sure? Because you have to be online to read this and going by the fact that you were blown away by that video, that it swept you off your feet and took you to another dimension making you realize how everything you are doing is so wrong and how you are missing out on life, I don't think you are doing that well.

Well I'm talking about the video- " this video will make you speechless- look up generation"

And hold it right there, before you start just skimming past and reaching the comment section to say," you suck. You don't get the video. You hater.. You mean bitch", this isn't a hate post, I don't hate the video. In fact I believe it's really well made and I like the script. I really do. I swear I don't care much if u want to display hatred in the comments section but you should know am not a hater.
Now that I've cleared that up, let me jump straight into it? What part of it did you not know already to be blown away by it?

Did you not notice the awkward moment when you meet your friends that you are only used to chatting with, for the very first time face to face? Did you not know that it is extremely annoying and not to forget down right rude to go clickclacking on your phone when you are out with friends who are trying to initiate a convo? Did you not know that even though you talk  to so many people every single day, you put yourself to sleep wishing you had that one friend to meet every day/night evening just for a walk ot something?

Do you not miss those days when you would get ready and go and stand under your friend's building and shout out his/her name asking if they were going to come down? Don't you miss those days when you would call that friend up- you knew their routine so well... You could almost hear those little sounds the spoons or plates (was going to say cutlery, but sounds so fancy :-P) make so you would be able to tell they are eating and that made you feel all the more special. Come on! Friend over food means  some serious amount of friendship! Do you not miss all the human interaction? Listening to someone laugh at your jokes rather than receiving a lol or roflmao? Or being there for a friend and being able to listen to someone sob? Because if a person cries infront of you they bare their soul out to you, unless they are "awwal darje" ka crybabies.

If you don't, then you are a bot! Don't hack my blog please :'( !
:-P

That or you are a little dead on the inside. You need human interaction. After staying cooped up in a room for days, you will wake up one day suddenly just wanting to meet someone, anyone. You would not be picky about who or what or even where...

What part of it didn't you know? Did you not know you can't feel a virtual hug/kiss? You may feel all warm on the inside when you receive a " I love you." message but you do realize that nothing makes it remotely comparable to the moment when someone looks into your eyes and with every bit of courage he/she has says it to you and then the hug-the warmth of it is unparallel. Or all those little things that occur in the honeymoon phase of a relation- holding hands, looking at each other, resting your head on his/her shoulder, etc...

Did you not know that receiving a " it's over" via whatsapp is stupid and cowardly and that one would always want to look into the eyes of the "dumper" and get their questions answered because it is unbelievably soothing to see guilt on his/her face. Even if their decision is for the best, it kills a little part of you and you have all the right to expect an apology from them for wronging you.

You knew these things. You knew them, you know them now and you will always know it.

Technology has definitely reduced the barrier of distance but created virtual distances. Distances that you can't cross using public transport, it's distancing of the heart from another and also attenuating your self esteem and confidence to approach and initiate convos slowly but steadily.

You knew all of it.

So why were you speechless? When a person - let's say a young educated person smokes or drinks, he/she is aware of its hazards. Now it's upto them to do it in limits or go completely nuts and get super addicted and totally high justifying it with a "YOLO" tag.

Everything in moderation is good. And overdose of anything... Anything is bad,technology being no exception to that saying.

What I resent is that people went crazy over that video and began over sharing it... They tweeted, retweeted, shared on fb, insta, whatsapp and all sorts of social media. I can confidently say that around 30+ of my friends shared it on fb.

You see a video, it leaves you mind boggled and stunned and is like a ray of realization and what do you do? Instead of shutting off your phone and meeting a friend or going and talking to someone or even better going and showing it to them in person to see the priceless reaction on their face, you indulge in more of social media.

Wait.

Let that sink in.

Pat yourself... Now.

Well done. :|

Instead of deciding, you know what I'm going to not carry my phone when I just go down to meet a friend, you take it and you continue your annoying shitty habit of tik tikking during an on-going conversation.

Wait a minute, let me reply to this message having unmatched level of importance at this hour of the day and this very second. Just hold on....
:-/

I'm not saying I am no social media slave. I am.  I'm hella addicted to Facebook and whatsapp. But atleast I am honest and not a hypocrite, sharing the video with a tag " opened my eyes, let's learn from this" only to share it even more on such platforms.

Such a f#-ed up gen we are!

So screwed up.

People literally post shit nowadays... Now don't give me that " to each his own" shit. Nice use of language but no, I don't want your shitty saying. You are going against the very purpose of that video or was that video even made with that purpose?

Your over sharing makes overthinkers over think about the fact that what if it was just a way to induce some guilt in us so we like and share, because let's be honest... A video speaks to you and you share it. Ouch that hurt, let's share. So what if that was the very purpose- instant likes.

Poverty in India- check
Drought in Africa-check
Cruelty on animals- check
Hurt puppy/kitten- check

What shall we do next? Uhmmm let's create the concept of virtual guilt.

Yes I overthink, yes I believe that the video had a good intention but you guys screwed it up for me.

Yes this post is over.

Peace out,
  -Appiqué<3

Poem 2:

Here's another poem.
It may seem lascivious, but I swear I was just intending to capture the magic of a kiss, esp of a couple that has a lot of chemistry.
Don't be too harsh if you don't like it.

(NOTE: The author of this blog has no experience in this domain but has seen and read a fair share of romcoms.)

A sealing kiss

Can you tell your hands from mine
When so tightly, they are intertwined
I can feel your sweet breath on my face
As we lie close enough to occlude any space
A finger of yours slides down my cheek
And it makes me, on my knees, go weak
Your eyes shine with a naughty tint
You finally seem to have picked up all my subtle hints
You brush away those strands on my shoulder
So close we stand, heartbeats audible to one another
You bend down and plant a kiss on my neck
My stomach collapses like a house storm
wrecked
I turn to push you a little away
Your grasp makes it clear, you are not going anywhere
Cup my face and pull me close
My face now rubefacient, glows
In a voice so humble, you ask" May I, Miss?"
I rush in quickly and seal it with a kiss.

Facebook dp abusers- which one are you?

Another category segregation post! Yea I know,  I know... Booooring! But I'm still going to upload it... Oops I already did * evil grin*
Ay what's up, y'all!
Had it worked the way I wanted it to, the world I mean, I would start a YouTube channel and put up videos rather than writing these posts. But neither do I know the ABCs of the video editing world, nor do I think I'm a prospective candidate for a viral YouTuber! So without further ado, I shall begin with types of Facebook picture uploaders!
Type 1. The " beast"

You all know this one person in your friend-list. He is a self proclaimed "beast". These put up pictures of themselves in the gym,  pictures with gym buddies and gym equipment or a selfie -shirtless or purposely lifted to expose their mid riffs and protein filled abs. Frankly the ones that work their way to that kind of a body via working out  deserve appreciation but not the booster buffs. Protein shake stocking isn't standing ovation worthy. These remind me of balloon animals... I sometimes want to put a pin through their skin just for a quick check.
Type 2. The poet-not!

These include people who have a very normal looking or at times, weird looking picture or a beautiful DSLR picture of nature/close up of some object or something with a completely unrelated quote/phrase/fancy poem/song written in the tag line/ description. The description will almost make you gag 99% of the times or cause you to say " no no no" for an infinitely long duration of time. I've seen a lot of girls do this. It makes no sense to me. It's a very pixelated, blurry image with a duck face pose and the quote reads " if a man doesn't love you at your worst, he doesn't deserve you at your best!" . You will inevitably have a " :|" expression upon encountering such pictures.
Type 3. The expressionista!

I love these people. They will have a collage of all the pictures where they have weird expressions, where they go complete nuts. Crazy pictures are sooo awesome! But sometimes, not always. If they discover a stupid expression that makes them look cute/decent they continue to hold that pose for all the pictures that follow. It then becomes a very " meh" thingy.
Type 4. The "control c+ control v"

How? I really need to know how these people are so consistent. They will have the same pose, same smile, same hairstyle in allllll of their pictures. ALL! With descriptions " at the movies" " fun time at the beach" " sad" " overjoyed".... ALL with the same pose.
Type 5. The "plastic surgeon"

Now these are again divided into 2 categories: 1. The natural: a fake pout or purposely accentuating all the wrong portions of your body by using clever posing techniques ! 2. The artist: a photoshop master! Though if you've got a creative eye, you will be able to make out where the brushes have done their job.
Type 6. The free effects

I'm guilty of being a member of this. I use soooo many filters and effects. I love bokeh, soften and b&w way too much. But that does not make it right. We go overboard so many times.  I used to also use stickers. And now when I see kids do that and use the tag " hardcore" " Yolo" , I cry a little at how retarded I was( sometimes- am).
Type 7. The "chumbak/magnet"

Let's just say if they were YouTubers they would be vloggers. These use, uh no abuse the front cam of their phone way too much. They will always have an arm in the pic and they will be sticking to a new person in every other pic, with the person either looking  super uncomfortable or enjoying the supreme body contact.
Type8: the #hashTagAbuser

"Hashtags make it possible to group messages, since one can search for the hashtag and get the set of messages that contain it."-Source:wiki.Twitter sparked it and instagram provided the oxygen to fuel this volcano of hashtags that this person has got to post. A simple picture of a landscape and this person takes it up as a challenge to find out all elements in it (#friends #RoadTrip #trees #sogreen #water #freshair #air #car #farms #yucky #lagaanFeel #ddljkhet #srkBecauseIMentionedDdlj #Dhabha #dhabhaFoodCausesDiarrhoea #natureIsKawaii :| :-/ )
A girl in my FB friend list had a tag #osamFun. How the hell and why would someone search and stumble upon awesome spelled as Osam. She could have just added an "a" at the end to make it funny.
Please let us all look into our friend list, find out this bugger and explain the role of a hashtag or atleast exterminate such humans from the face of "facebook" haha (lame).
Type 9: the "face canvas"

If you haven't yet figured out, these are people who cannot be heard in dps because their make up is sooo loud. They are virtually dead as they are "buried" under 5 layers of bb cream, lotion, compact, eye make up stuff, etc. They literally color their face. Literally. My personal favorites are the ones that use neon stuff. If there is a power cut, you can always rely on their light emitting superpowers! :-D
Type 10: the self proclaimed divas.

Girls mostly, but sometimes guys too cross the line. These are people who will use #ootd way too much. Ootd-outfit of the day!
They find it necessary to mention in the form of hash-tags or proper list type description, what all they are seen wearing in the pic. From the dress to accessories to makeup to perfume... Everything!
Type 11: the ignorant

These will either have a very small extremely blurry image of themselves or they will have a car/bike/actor /actress picture,  not just once but 3-4 copies of the same image in their album. You almost want to say this to them: You had one job, one job -to upload a pic.
Type 12:the Embarrassingpics.pvtltd

These are guys or girls that would update Embarrassing pics of themselves. Like pics when they were totally high, sweaty pics post some extreme DJ dance parties just to tell the world- I am sooo cool! I don't give a damn about my dps when I partay!
If you see statuses including words- drunk, Yolo, party like no tomorrow, swag, hangover, beer, nightlife then you've found a member of this species.
So those were,  according to my reports(which are very impulsively made and never proofread), the top 12 species of the Facebook dp world. If you find yourself in one of those categories, congratulations you are addicted to Facebook. If not, congratulations, you have an exciting life. :-P
And now, I shall take your leave.
  - Appiqué<3

Random thoughts haul 2:

Just a collection of many thoughts I thought were worth penning/qwerty-ing down.

Isn't Facebook screwing up our language?
Facebook gives u an "unlike" option and unlike means dissimilar. :-/
It allows you to " friend " people not befriend. Not saying friend is wrong, but most of the kids haven't heard of the word befriend!

Thought 2. You may have come across the story of the hare and the turtle. The moral was slow and steady wins the race. But what if there was a third wheel, I mean like a third person in that race. He would have won if he could run faster than the turtle. So shouldn't the moral be, " You snooze, you lose." or something of that sort.

So my friend and I were discussing about this movie " 500 days of Summer" .
(I have to give it to him! I would not have seen it this way had we not had that convo.)
So...if you haven't seen it, a heads-up- it is NOT a romantic movie. And it has Zooey Deschannel in it.  (<3)

The movie is sad. It hits you, it walks right up to where you are sitting/standing and slams a hand on your face. Bammm! That hard.

The first time you watch it, you'll be like " that was shit." and then it hits you. The movie and all the sense it makes. It grows slowly taking its time to enlighten small portions of your mind till it's burning with realization.

That movie,  it is....
It's about how a relation goes bad, it's how you sulk in a shit hole for days and days. It's how you wonder if you and your ex could get back together. It's about how ex-es can be jerks at time and give you a teeny-tiny feeling that they might be ready to get back. It's about how something kicks you right in your gut when you see that "hope inducing" ex with their new love interest. It's about how you start comparing each and every detail of the newbie to you and calculating their weakness-es and your strengths and how you are better or worse and drop lower and lower as a human.

You go to the ends of the world stalking their bf/gf,  seeing and checking last seens of the ex and their new partners,  checking the likes on their pictures esp pictures featuring both of them. You lower your worth comparing yourself to people you most often barely know. And even if you do, you are you. The only one of your kind. It's a shame we degrade ourselves like this. And why just these, we do that when we discover our crushes are committed too, don't we?
If you say no, either you are God or you're lying. But then what's the use of lying to yourself.

And in the end, that movie is about how life goes on.  How if it does not feel even 0.0001% right it's not meant to be.
She knows it's the one when she meets her husband. And  any number of fights, arguments, difference of taste and opinion can't make a difference to the feeling of knowing this is that one person. This is something I want to treasure n go to the ends of world for. This is someone I don't want to let go off.

There is a population of 7 billion people on the planet and we've just possibly bumped into 1000-2000 of them. Hope.

There's this movie I was watching,  its name I can't recollect. There's this particular line that caught my attention.
" We know it(love) is special. Hence we do everything possible to hold on to it. Because we believe that something so magical could only happen once. But that's not true. There will be someone who will see how amazing you are. Love will knock again."

Ahh, made you sad/yawn?  Sorry.
Until I stock up enough thoughts to make a post, Take care.  :-)
  - Appiqué <3

Gilli danda induced retardation:

(WARNING: the following post may be toooo boring, but that is how this post is going to be. So DEAL with it)
Hello. Or should I say, WTH is wrong with you? Shame on you. Go drown yourself!...?

What is wrong with the world? Specifically my country today.
Going crazy is one thing, going way past retard is another. Never go full retard, especially when you have a choice.

People have sort of realized that they can do absolutely anything when they put their heart in it or set a goal or something, but brothers, all your energy is directed in the most shittiest direction.

I'm not going to be careful about my choice of words because people here aren't careful of their behavior. If I were internet sensation superwoman , I'd put it like this:" these people are bloody garbage!"

So why am I angry? T20 ended yesterday. And I still don't give a horse's ass about sports. I suck at it, if you don't, I have immense respect for you. But then that's it. Like don't come to me expecting I'd go, "I saw the match and.. Blah blah.." cause I haven't and I won't be.  So this ends yesterday and a cricketer's house is stone pelted because people " suspect" he was into match fixing.
Do you want a chittar to your head?

Now I don't know much about sports or even this match fixing news but even if people do, it doesn't give them the authority to go shake up someone's place. It's disappointing to see how people take law into their hands...esp when it comes to sports and in India, cricket. Cricket is like a religion here. People breathe gilli danda. It's such a let down to see the mob do such things, mob consisting of the people who went on a "fast"-ing spree and organized poojas and havans when the cricketer got diagnosed with cancer. It also makes you realize how fast people judge you- you please them for years, stand up to match each and every expectation of theirs but one fault...and boom! You get royally screwed and your reputation tarnished for the rest of your life.

Here people's mindset is such that they tend to give issues hardly holding worth in their life a much higher priority than the ones that require immediate and abundant attention.Why do they act laid back when issues concerning their life or future are at stake?

There are these so called "elected" " leaders" that we read of in the papers. They are into big time scandals, huge cases, get bailed out of jail every other week and what do we do? We don't give a shit. That's right. You heard me! Zilch. That's how much we care.

Someone gets raped/abused/molested.. You see some kind of injustice happening- domestic violence or gender bias... What do you do? Nothing. That's none of my business. I don't want to get involved in anything that needs me to be a witness and/or give a statement of some sorts. Why huge cases, take mini ones. You see old people getting ill-treated , what do you do."tch tch tch" . This also if you aren't too self absorbed.
Here's what happened at the malls yesterday. My parents were at some mall and there was no space to sit and eat. The food court was full of people just occupying stalls and seats so they could watch the match. And when others started complaining of not having any place to sit and enjoy a meal, the manager told them that the crowd had threatened to break down the mall if they were forced to get up. :|. So all the people with heavy shopping bags, kids, pregnant ladies, senior citizens... All of them were left without seats and with food trays in their hand.  Even langars have better provision man!

Seriously angry mob people, channelize your anger and eenergy better. Contest an election or something. You seem to have a fair "watt/auda/authority" , all your "contacts" seem VIPish and really important. Like please. We'd be glad to have a leader who can bring about some change.

And I really like how you work, " I don't like this. We bash this shit" . I know work's going to get "done" faster when you rise to power.
:-D
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:-|

And as far as sports are concerned, to be good at a sport you need to have talent and loads of practice. So imagine being a part of something so huge like the Indian Cricket team. Sounds tough and intimidating, doesn't it? Some days you play well, sometimes you don't. Just like our favorite actors- some movies fare well, some don't even last for a week. So what? We burn their houses down, stop watching all their future releases?

 Everyone has a slump period. You, office-goer, I'm sure you have missed a deadline once... Let's be honest here, who are we kidding; ten times? Hmm. Now that we are on the same page, does your boss send people to burn your house down? 'Cause if he does that, that'll be way too mature a decision on his part. Seriously that's a great way to deal with things we don't like- destroy it!

Quoting a maxi clad Bandra aunty " Eh, you need to Grow up, men!"
  -Appiqué <3

Random boredom updates

So what do you call a person who walks into a lit room, switches off the light and stands in complete darkness trying to recollect why the hell he walked into that room in the first place? Stupid. NO…..you call the person- me! :\

Hello , hie! 

Of recent I’ve been soooo lost and clueless. I walk into closed doors, bed edges, chairs, people and my recent achievement –dogs!!! I was so engrossed as I walked out of the station that I failed to notice a dog and I tripped over it. You could say it was more of an obstacle race because I jumped over it and then stood there trying to let it sink in, the moment that had just passed and how petrified I was. I literally paused for a good 2 mins, hand clasped over my mouth and all the people passing by looked at me like they expected me to break into a solo gig over there …you know like some entertainer, because the catch was that I was wearing my street play t-shirt.

Today I was trying to lift my bag and picture me trying to do that sitting on a chair. And the chair did a back flip. :/

I mean seriously? What is wrong with me or the objects around me…

What if the objects have signed a pact to make me fall or trip on them because I (unknowingly) hurt a member of their clan?

I also absolutely love the people who are sooo spontaneous at times. I’ve a friend who was so bored that she agreed to jump into the next rickshaw and come to my place! Looove her for that. Things like these are getting me through these retarded days of mine where my furniture is trying to sabotage my day with all the nasty lil’ things like coming in my way, growing a little taller…I don’t know. There is another possibility that I may be as clumsy as shit but let’s stick to the furniture theory as it sounds better.

The funny part (disclaimer: only I may find it funny) is that my mum went to this astrologist when I was 14 and he tried predicting about me; so he said your daughter is really clumsy and keeps injuring herself and as she narrated this to me , I tripped over a pencil like object. And I continue to do so even today. Pretty consistent, eh?

 From the above post, you might have realized I am completely out of topics and also brain cells. But I want to write. Why? Because I love to.

I have also come to the conclusion that you may inspire people and be super nice to them but some people lack decency and courtesy. I used to, am and always will continue to tell people to pursue what they love but it’s people like these who are just ruthless with their words and intonation that piss me off. I hardly express it and bubble inside. I wish I could erupt on them like a volcano .

Probably I should shut up now.

Ok bye!

-Appiqué <3  

Queen - Women's day delight!

Hey there!

I’m going to apologize first because I’m typing under the influence of some heavy duty drugs. Mafi de do!

Today is weird. I have so many topics I could write about in my app, but I just don’t feel like. It’s one of those days when you want to and you can’t because your body isn’t lending any support. Mumbai’s weather is getting weirder by the minute, one moment it is bright and sunny and wonderful and the other minute it is windy, chilly, pull-out-your-sweaters-and go-into-deep-slumber kind. It is soooooo weird.

That and probably food from creepy stalls has led to me falling ill after a looong time!

So you know what body, I’m going to write! (Insert tongue sticking out emoji)

I watched Queen yesterday; bollywood movie- Queen featuring Kangana Ranaut. I think she’s gorgeous but whenever I see her perform at any award show or watch any of her movies, I can absolutely not make out a single word of what she is saying. Ever.

But Queen has got to be the movie where her performance surpasses all her previous performances.

And the cherry on the cake was I was watching it on “women’s day”. It’s such a feel good movie.

The movie revolves around how a woman who gets stood at the altar, in her case- mandap, decides to get on the plane and go for her honeymoon holiday, ALONE; such amazing scenes, splendid performances, great looking cast and a cute lil’ script. It was a fully patakha packed desi movie.

Now I’m no critic (so this might be an opinion that only I have about it) and don’t want to be one because I personally dislike those film critics. You absolutely cannot just make some people sit and decide how a movie is. Everyone has different tastes in movies. Some like the serious type, some like no brainers. Critics just suck the desire out of people when they give a movie a star or two. I mean who lets you decide! It has often happened that they give No-brainer movies with extremely forced comedy 4 stars and 2 to really good ones.

It’s just like food: give a European some Indian food; he’s going to die because of its “Spiciness” which to a normal Indian would be “bhaiya kitna meetha hai”…

It’s ridiculous, this critiquing business.

Anyway so queen ends with some beautiful messages:

1. Nice people are in every nook and corner of the world.

2.  To get past a terrible incident, you’ve got to push it out of your mind. You cannot hold on to it and wait for happiness to come your way. Move on.

3.  Let go of yourself.

4.  You are strong. Never let anybody tell you otherwise.

5.  You don’t need a relationship to be happy in life.

6.  You can find true happiness in anything. Just keep your eyes and arms wide open!

That’s it for today! I can write no more! Thank you for reading.

-Appiqué <3