Sunday, July 17, 2011

My new life and other stories

I'd known this girl back in Dubai, in my bus with a fancy life and everything, who shifted to Noida a few years ago. I caught up with her recently on chat and she told me that life here is amazing. You have much more freedom and it's more fun. I told my friends that and we all wondered how much more freedom she could have. Me? I doubt I would be allowed to go downstairs without two body guards or something. 'Cause my uptight cousin sister - in - law is, well, uptight. So Delhi Metro .. I think there's a long way to go. And I have to agree, I know little about the capital as well, but having traveled to the North a lot, I'm not too bad. FYI, though Noida is in U.P. and Gurgaon in Haryana, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida all come under the National Capital Region (NCR).

My cousin doing IT engineering thought the same. We'd given him an mp3 player two years ago. It lasted three months. He then decided to take it apart, study it and put it back together. Needless to say, it did not happen. 

Aw shucks. Thought it might make life fun. I did it a few months ago to a girl who was my classmate in kindergarten and again in eleventh grade. It was about her brother and only a little creepy. Come to think of it, it was pretty casual. But nothing is as creepy as finding out that your kindergarten classmate, a guy, has been 'searching for you for the past ten years' and has a crush on you. *Shudder*

Actually, I'd just logged in at the time and went to the dashboard for some reason. Thinking you forgot to publish the post after drafting it, I published it. I then realised that you probably did not finish it but since there's no way to unpublish it, other than  deleting it, I just let it be. 

Well, it all started with Rowling; must definitely be the hardest for her. Such a long journey - first all the books and then the movies and of course the immense and uproarious response to all of it. I will be watching the movie today, a little late I know, but halls were booked and my cousin S.I.L.'s brother (a commercial photographer, visit www.shaukin.com) got sick. Which reminds me, I told him that a few friends of mine said that the movie wasn't so amazing, to which he said it didn't matter. I later showed him your status and he said that he really liked Eragon too, so maybe there really is something in what you say. I said yes, this guy is really Uncle - like. (If you do not know about my usage of the terms uncle and aunty, not relation - wise, let me know. I shall explain it to you.)

Let me now tell you about my new school and life. The Heritage School, Gurgaon, is a progressive school, different from mainstream schools like DPS, reason enough for me to attend it. This school is hardly 9 - 10 years old, so students are very few in number. Eleventh and twelfth grade have two sections each. TWO FREAKING SECTIONS! 11 A has both Science and Humanities students, a total of 20 - 25 (we all have individual classes though, except English) and 11 B has about 20 students for Commerce. So my Physics and Chemistry classes have 7-8 students, Computer has 3 (two guys and me o.O). Math has people from Commerce as well, so it's kind of fun. The school has quite a few activities which I am still discovering (they are going for the Harvad MUN in Mumbai next month which has now been tied up with Taj Hotel) and many debates and stuff. School starts at 7:45 AM and is till 3pm. The bus is narrow and nobody fits through. Dumb kids stand in aisle and expect others to pass through. 

Teachers are extremely free with students, especially these few female Bong teachers that we have. They say 'dammit' and 'oh crap'. While we were doing charts to be put up on the bulettin boards, my teacher played songs on her mobile by Simon and Garfunkel, Guns 'N Roses, The Queens, Lenka and Taylor Swift. We also had a small debate on homosexuality in class. Go figure. 

None of the guys in my class talk to me in particular. The one guy who did in fact talk, said 'Good job Priyansha' or something like that. Since there are such few people, everybody knows I'm the new one. Either they know me to be from Dubai, or they struggle with my name. But the guys in the other class I do talk with. And it was real fun. And quite a few of the girls too, though I'm not sure I can relate with many of them. But I'm getting a hang of the place. Except the assemblies. The Friday ones we have sitting in the cricket grounds and the Wednesday ones we have sitting in the auditorium (on the floor, not chairs). 
My two goals to be achieved before leaving this school would be: 1) To improve the sad, pathetic quality of the sad, long, pathetic assemblies  2) To fill the class and corridor bulletin boards with nice stuff on a regular basis, since this school only does it as a formality before surveys and I've spent the last two years of my life doing up my class boards amazingly. 

Also, teachers teach in Hinglish and most people talk that way. I talk to C - Dawg and another friend in Hindi, but the moment I'm in school, it's only English I can talk in. I tell them to talk in Hindi though I will reply in English cause I will be taking a while getting used to that. Dhruv and Arsh therefore made fun of me. And I'm real good at Hindi, by the way. Thanks to the awfully scary, wild guys in my class, I now can swear in Hindi/Punjabi and am adapting to the local language. Like 'Maa ke lode', 'Chut****' and 'Jhand ho gayi'.
Damn. 

I keep getting stupid Aircel calls with lame movie dialogues and annoying messages all the time. I never liked Aircel, never will.

Generally, we don't perform. But I love dancing to slow songs and making them better than they are. And no. We do not pillow fight in underwear, though I'm sure you would think that since you are pro - lesbian and all of that. Dance India Dance. It used to be the bestest, most amazing thing in my life for a while. C - Dawg's and mine, to be precise. Oh, we were so crazy, believe me. I LOVE TERENCE LEWIS. So damn much. And even the other judges. But then the fun factor came down a lot and the judges changed, though the dance quality went up tremendously. And I had to remind myself to try to care about it. I haven't properly watched TV in a while, so I really dunno how Just Dance is. Is it still on?  

Yea, I was reliving those moments of sheer bliss, two years ago. So, this friend has been through the entire blog? Seeing how she knows stuff about me, I might as well find out who she is. She reads VA too? 

Sorry, I forgot about the whole 'lesbianism is so sexy' part. However, bromance, not so much. I did see this picture saying 'Let men hold hands, not guns', which I really like and agree with.   

I shall just appreciate your thought and move on. Do you just ignore anything I might say to you on Facebook? I walled you a link to a documentary my brother and a few friends made. Expected some reply to that atleast unlike the inbox. And I really like the song. 

I wanted to watch Delhi Belly after all that I heard about it but haven't had the right company to go with. I also want to watch Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara but not as badly as Harry Potter of course. Thank you for the explanation, cause I was quite alarmed by the title. I had a good laugh at the last line and am glad to know that despite your great summer, you are taking time out to keep up this whole blog thing. 

Awesome 'N out, as I once used to say. 

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