26.7.10

My Own FYJC Emotional Atyachaar story

Ahh so I have decided to finally blog of this little complicated emotional atyachaar that happened to me & my friend waaaaaaay back during our first year in college (that's a year and a half ago!)
So before I start this story I have to explain the entire setting to you guys.
The first year of college is weird. Especially if you're an introvert (like me) who is not too quick to make friends. By the middle of the year I had just started talking to two girls, let's call them A & B. And by the end of the year A,B & me had become very close friends and a lot of people were already jealous (why can't they just be happy for one another?)
So anyway now let's revisit the day before PGate as I'd like to call this incident (it's obviously a jab at watergate but I call it that for more reasons & you'll find out soon!)
So anyway I ended up at college the day before & find that both A & B aren't there! Soon I find out from another person (let's call her P) that the reason A & B haven't told me about them bunking is because they were up to some *ahem ahem* less-than-desirable activities & they knew I wouldn't approve. (As wild as I seem, I am the 'sensible' & 'level-header' member of the group! No jokes there...
So there I was, distressed over the potential bad decisions my two friends were making, when P decides to swoop in literally fill me hear with all sorts of tales about how 'cheap' and 'spoiled' B is. And I just sat there completely dumbstruck wondering who the hell I'm friends with & why hasn't she told me all this yet? I didn't know it then but that was the first part of the emotional atyachaar that was gonna be inflicted in PGate. It was inflicted on me by P.
Next day (i.e. D Day, that is day of PGate) the two absconders  A & B got back to college. I though I would try to forget all that P had told me, but the nature of the matter she had told me was so disturbing that I needed to know if it was true. As luck would have it, P was conveniently absent that day.
So I confronted B. And I got to know that about 90% of the stuff P told me were complete lies, 8% was highly exaggerated truths & 2% was the truth. And P had bitched about me to her too! By now I knew what type of a person P was, & was angry but I didn't let it bother me too much. Immediately after that we had an English oral exam so we couldn't bunk. And we were forced to sit apart according to our groups. By this time B was very very angry (did I mention that when she's angry she goes a little crazy?)
So B was bursting with anger & just wanted to blast P (just imagine the amount of emotional atyachaar inflicted on her!) She sent me the same angry text twice or thrice during the lecture just because I didn't receive it as soon as she sent it.
After that lecture it was recess time! B said she wanted to go & confront P right that moment (P happened to live just 5 minutes away and it was time to inflict some emotional atyachaar on her too!)
And then it happened- B turned & charged. And A & Me followed trying to stop her. She was walking fast. We were jogging/running. Yet we couldn't keep up. Then we got out the college gates. And saw crazy kung fu guy. Read this little comic strip (drawn by me!)
Done my me in Photoshop (Be nice, it's the first time I've drawn on a computer!)
I really should have added a fourth panel with the kung fu guy lying flat on his back saying, "f@#*, man!"
So for those of you that didn't figure it out, we saw a dude who was eager to showoff to his friends a kick he learned. So he kicked straight ahead with one leg and all his might. He jumped when he kicked, so his other leg flew and this ended like  a really bad drop kick because he feel flat on his back.
B missed the whole thing because she was so busy charging (like a bull, you know).
Well I know this has been long, we're almost at the end.
We landed up at P's place & asked her to step out cause we didn't want this going doing in front of her mom as she doesn't keep too well. Of course P not only sensed something was amiss but was afraid for her life & refused to leave her house. She lived on the second floor, so we had to confront her from her balcony & there were a lot of heated words & abuses exchanged. Then we got thrown out of her building by the watchman for making too much noise (hence the name PGate, her windows were very close to the gate!)
And we left, satisfied that we, too, had inflicted emotional atyachaar on her.
And that the end of my little story. I don't think any of us involved will forget it for our entire lives. And I don't think this little post was able to do PGate any justice. Still, I tried.

Yours,

Magali

23.7.10

A is for Arts... and absent mindedness

It does!
This post is part of ABC Wednesday. It's for Arts, the stream that I chose in college. I didn't have a single doubt that it's what I wanted to do and I'm so glad I chose it! So this is a little doodle my friends did on our SYJC classroom wall in pencil (we're evil, I know). And today's post is also about absent mindedness. Why?
I am probably the most absent-minded person in the world. Ever since I've known of the ABC Wednesday challenge, I've wanted to take it. So I was waiting for the next round to start... and it did. This Wednesday. I was so upset when I realized I'd missed it. But I still wanted to be a part of the challenge. So I'm doing this post on a Friday. And I hope I'm allowed. And I hope I can complete the challenge! Wish me luck.

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22.7.10

The TV show tag

In the desperate, frantic wait for my mail order goodies I have decided to take a TV show tag to pass the time here.
Rules:
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Bold all of the following TV shows which you’ve ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
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Italicize a show if you’re positive you’ve seen every episode of it.


24

7th Heaven
ALF
Alias
American Gothic

America’s Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5

Batman: The Animated Series
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys &
Xena: Warrior Princess in one picture!
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beverly Hills 90210 (original)
Bewitched
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Brothers And Sisters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Californication
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed (saw 4 or 5 seasons!)
Cheers
Chuck
Clarissa Explains it All
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
DaVinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dexter
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Farscape
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Freaks & Geeks
Friends
Fringe
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls
Gossip Girl
Grey’s Anatomy
Grange Hill
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
How I Met your mother
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Invasion
Hell’s Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
Kim Possible
Knight Rider
Kyle XY
Knight Rider: 2008
Kung Fu
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
La Femme Nikita
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Law and Order
Law and Order: SVU
Law and Order: CI
Leverage
Legend of The Seeker
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
MASH
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married… With Children
McLeods Daughters
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Mod Squad
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life As A Dog
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Mythbusters
NCIS
Ned Bigby’s Declassified School Survival Guide
Nip/Tuck
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Power Rangers
Press Gang
Prison Break
Private Practice
Privileged
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
Pushing Daisies
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Sanctuary
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seaquest DSV
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Skins
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South of Nowhere
South Park
Spongebob Squarepants
St. Elsewhere
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Teen Titans
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Amazing Race
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Big Bang Theory
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flinstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Magnificent Seven
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Office (US)
The Office (UK)
The Powerpuff Girls
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Vampire Diaries
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three’s Company
Torchwood
True Blood
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Unfabulous
Ugly Betty
Veronica Mars
Weeds
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Xena: Warrior Princess


So out of all these shows, I've watched 5 completely. Not bad, eh?
So what about you? Feel free to take this tag if you wish!


<3,

21.7.10

Shopping with my money...

So, you guys must be wondering what I'm up to, with the absence from here (I can't stay away for too long, I get blog-sick!)
Most of you guys already know that I took up a short term part time job. Well here's the funny part: I've just got one month's salary, & I've spent two month's salary (and some!) on awesome camera shiz that's coming my way all the way from SF, USA! Yes it's all photography related! *grins from ear to ear*
Cannot wait for my awesome Photojojo package to arrive! (:

xo


14.7.10

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk [Book Review]

I first mentioned Snuff the book here. I've wanted it ever since I've read Chuck's short story guts, which I would have linked to but decided against cause I don't think all my readers can handle it. If you really wanna read it, just google it.
Anyway I finally got the time to read the book. So here's what I think about it-

I am still  not sure exactly why I picked up this book. But it was mostly because I had researched Palahniuk a lot & I found myself intrigued by him, without even reading a single book of his. So I went to my local bookstore & picked up the first book I saw written by him. And this is what I got.
Snuff is a complex book to review-The main plot is of a Porn Princess Cassie Wright who is past her prime & wants to cap her career with a Gang-bang for the Guinness-Her & 600 Men. The story if then told from four perspectives- Mr 72, Mr 137, Mr 600 & the 'talent wrangler' Sheila. That's not all; the story contains quite a lot of subplots. It's very risqué, but definitely not erotic. It can be rather disgusting at times (read: rather often). It's fairly fast paced, I finished it in one sitting. I guess you could say the book exposes the 'dark underbelly' of the porn industry. Did you think it was sexy? Think again. Other than the plots, the book is peppered with a lot of trivia related to the entertainment industry (mostly old actors). Did you know that Marilyn Monroe sprayed her tits & ass with hairspray so her bikini would stay exactly where she wanted it to? Or that Richard Burton was in a bizarre accident that almost electrocuted him on the sets of a film? There are even tips on how to make a bikini wax less painful! Yes, the trivia may be meaningless to you & me, but it sure as hell is entertaining. The narrative is gritty without being overtly dark. It does have a few pretty good plot twists too.
I would have to state that this book is definitely not for everybody, my guess is that it would shock the hell out of most. Still a good read, though.

My Rating My Rating- 3 and a half stars ★★★ 1/2 (out of 5)
My Verdict- I recommend it; but as I said, not to everyone.


<3,


Credit Cards are Good for you!

I'm not joking.
illustrative purposes only
Well I have been pestering my parents to get me a credit card ever since I turned eighteen. But they has been apprehensive as I can be a somewhat impulsive buyer and an overall big spender and I love shopping and have sometimes spent obscene amounts on unlikely things in just a few hours minutes. And obviously the results would obviously be pretty disastrous. *shudder*
Anyway it's a real pity we don't have credit ratings here. I mean, I know that my mom's would be impeccable. But Mine? I'm not so sure. Anyway, I found this one website on the internet that offers credit cards to rebuild credit. I didn't know they could do that. And you thought credit cards only lead to bad credit ratings! (they're good for credit rebuilding too! I'd like to call them 'rebuild credit cards!') Think again (Obviously for that you have to use the credit card wisely too.) There's very little paperwork, & so it's pretty easy to get one of these babies & re-establish your credit rating. And there are a lot of different credit cards with ridiculously low or no annual fees. I must say that I think the concept is completely awesome. Credit cards = good for you. I want to sign up right this instant. And I am not exaggerating.

<3,


12.7.10

A long absense

Okay okay so I know I'm writing a post after a long time- so I'll start with the reasons (read: excuses)
My main reason of absence from here is that I'm enjoying tumblr so much...
And thanks so much for your comments on my previous posts, I've read them all but I haven't replied to some! :(
And I haven't been regular with commenting on your blogs too, though I've read almost all of your posts.
But obviously I don't want to neglect this blog, but I'm a little too busy at the moment. So I'm just going to have to post some pictures & some books reviews written over the Summer Vacations. Until then do check out my Project 365 blog (If you haven't already) because I'm posting a picture daily there!

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