Nostalgia

the other day i chanced upon some stranger's album on face book. what i gathered was this girl studies in JU and had taken 5 or 6 of her classmates for a short trip to shantiniketan. they were staying in one of those beautifully creeper adorned quaint looking cottage type houses in prantik. It even had stained glass windows. i knew nothing about this girl but the shots were lovely. some taken at dusk, some taken while they were walking aimlessly, some at the banks of kovai. the shadows, the landscape, the expressions frozen in time and the fun that these guys were having really touched me somewhere deep. it opened up chambers in my mind which have been closed for quite a while. it was an experience going through that album. soon i was lost in my JU days, remembering our trip to Shantiniketan and our dangerous cycle rides. one could never imagine that cycles could be so unsafe...if u have morons at the helm, accidents happen. Sad bit is i don't have a single photograph to share. But the thing is it wasn't half as fun as it could have been. we wasted so much time mostly in handling emotional turmoils and resolving disputes. Getting drunk and smoking like chimneys. We had fun but we didn't have a huge group. I didn't make so many friends. I still dunno why. Today at this juncture i feel a little bit of regret...a little bit of remorse for perhaps not living it up in my college days. and now I'm physically unfit to even live a normal life. Life is over it seems and so many things still left undone. i don't know which way am headed and what the future holds, but the opportunities i have missed are lost forever in time. :)

ZZZZZZZZZZZZNescafe....

i feel like a blob, sitting at my desk and pretending to work...I've kept my eyes open through sheer will power. I feel energetic at the fag end of the day and i feel sleepy throughout my time in office! Why is my body clock so bizarre? Is it coz i hate office so much that my system shuts down or is it that I'm basically not interested? But how can that be...last time i remember i was a very go-getting creative person.

it's an art i have mastered over past 1 year. Here are some tips in case anyone ever needs to try.

Blame it on the shoes
Make it look like you have to tie your shoes.
Put your head on your desk and with both hands hold your shoe laces.

Cabinet
Choose a cabinet in the office that opens rarely. Move the content of it in one side - on the left or on the right. And creep into your private haven. This is very useful for longer breaks.

Ledgers
Put one big ledger underneath your chin.
Advantage: you can keep your regular working position and stay unobtrusive. Disadvantage: all your colleagues that you share the office with, must be in front of you with their backs to you.

Cool camouflage

Use some make up and draw eyes on your eye-lid.
First use some white colour and after that draw a pupil with an eyeliner and shadow.Fake hairs will simulate an open eye.

Coma in a toilet I
Sit on the toilet with your head on the toilet tank and relax.
Use a role of toilet paper like a holder for your head. Important: you have to hold a set of keys in your hand, which will drop on the floor and wake you up when you fall into a deep sleep.

Coma in a toilet II
Don't put your head back, but move it forward to the toilet door.To prevent making an unpleasant red circle on your forehead, put a role of a toilet paper between your head and the toilet door.

Go underground
If your working place can't be seen directly from the entering door, just lie down and relax under your desk.Before that, put your jacket on the chair to look like you are at the work but at that moment out of the office.

Copy machine
Get nervous in front of everyone because there is no more paper in the copy machine.Open the machine and put your head inside.Caution: carbonate dust causes cancer.

Absolute concentration
A perfect position for a nap: print some important documents and put your hand between your desk and your head, so the papers are in the area of your eyesight. Caution: every five minute turn another page.

And all this talk about sleep reminds me of a famous print ad for nescafe. it had a page full of Z's which towards the end turn to form the N of nescafe...what an idea sir ji!

virtual victories

When you are feeling low what would you generally do? Various people have myriad ways of dealing with depression. Some eat till they burst, comfort food it's called, some get manic about chores around the house, some just walk until they realise they've walked miles without noticing, some cook, some consume alcohol...for me....its leading a virtual life. When i feel everything has begun to fail i become an avid gamer! People play for entertainment, i play to win at least at something!! My life savior, my ipod touch, my world of new possibilities!

From brandishing my sword in 'Heroes of Sparta' i jump on a boat and am off fishing looking for the biggest catch, then conviniently i jump in behind the wheels and race across street in timed challenges. Sometimes at a battle of words, sometimes laying pipes as a plumber in 'toobz', there are so many roles you can play, swap lives, don new identities, create new levels of expertise. But what takes the cake, i guess is Sorority Life on facebook. It's about shopping, bitching, new glam, getting house members, taking up jobs for sustenance and being the most influential person ever! You can clad yourself in a cute short valentine's dress or a classy summer yukata, (without worrying about weight, as your prototype is perfectly in shape to flaunt all sorts of styles) and have the hottest rides, the newest prada accessories and all things your feminine heart craves for without spending a penny!! Change hair colours, cuts and get makeovers within seconds, it's pure indulgence for a woman.

Points and levels, being your claim to fame and brownie points your rewards, you can feel appreciated and wanted. Things that are non-existent in your work place. So here's to gaming which has been taken to new heights in the recent past. And here's to my second love my apple ipod - my portal to a world of excitement and glory. What would i ever do without you?

over the coffee break

blank notepad, alarm bells in the mind 'zero ideas! zero ideas!', have till now scoured every other website! but result nil! hence the occasional fall back option...a good strong cuppa coffee! if the election candidates knew i take their kind of stress everyday would they sympathise!? As my art partner makes armpit fart noises and the rest of the creative joins in, me (the only woman in my department) try to lose myself in my blog and take comfort in the bitter taste of coffee.

just think, had it not been for these coffee breaks where would we, the working class, be? all the gossip, all the grapevine, all the intellectual discussions, all the love, all the office affairs, all the big ideas...stem from a hot cup of coffee! it energizes the dosing inner intellect don't you think?

clinging to the thot 'a lot can happen over coffee' i wait for my ideas to happen over coffee but alas they elude me! with that sense of Deja Brew?(feeling like you've had a similar cup before) it's bottoms up for me and the inauguration of another blog! who knows after few more posts my inner eye might really jerk open!