This is what I spent time on this weekend.
What is the one saying that your parents said to you that you absolutely hate?
Submitted by victoriassecret.
"Do one thing at a time"
I hated that.
I used to read while eating, doodle while studying, listen to music while coding(during engineering days) and basically multi-task. A pity my parents never quite grasped the concept :)
I am completely in love with Marjana Satrapi's simple black and white drawings in the movie Persepolis, which is premiering in Cannes Film Festival. Unfortunately its all in French and so I cannot understand a word. All I know that it is a semi-autobiographical movie about growing up in Iran for a girl who loves Iron Maiden and Micheal Jackson.
Do check it out and campaign hard for an English translation!
Drew this in a rather boring meeting today. This is my 'project-notebook' and would serve as a good reminder that I should:)
I went to Crosswords yesterday to buy a birthday gift for a friend and ended up checking out the Health section. I picked this book called ‘Count your Calories’ and according to it, i was moderately obese! I then looked at the ideal weight which was apparently 37.7 kgs for my height, which is the perfect weight only if I wanted to be anorexic!
I really should not have coffee. It keeps me up for hours. Like on Saturday, I met up with friends in Barista and had a mild milky cappuccino. But it was enough to keep all nerves fired up and I lay awake till 4 am.
To try and put myself to sleep, I decided to read a book I had borrowed from the library. It had a pink cover and a heart-shaped lock on it. Chick-lit, fluffy, light, and easy to put down. If only I had known.
The book I read was Forever by Judy Blume.
It is the story of a girl, Katherine who falls 'in love' with Micheal. The attraction is strong and they end up having sex. Thats when they decide they will be together 'forever'. However their 'forever' lasts only seven months or so. Katherine seems to follow the principle of 'out of sight, out of mind'. Within a week of being away from Micheal, she gets attracted to another guy and falls in 'love' with him.
I don't know why the book irritated the h*** out of me. I am not against pre-marital sex or pro-virginity or anything of that sort. But all throughout the book, the entire family practically persuades Katherine to have sex. But everyone right from the younger sister to the grandmother is interested in knowing whether Kath has had sex or not. "You went away on a weekend together and you are still a virgin?" Jamie, the younger sister, asks Kath. The grandmother sends a bunch of birth control pamphlets by mail. Kath wonders what her grandmother would feel if she knew Kath had taken an appointment with Planned Parenthood. 'She would be proud' muses Kath.
Why is there such an enormous pressure to 'lose it' before going to college? How is it that the parents encourage the girl to bring her boyfriends home instead of 'sitting in the car'? How is it that Katherine feels comfortable groping with her boyfriend as her parents sleep upstairs?
And finally, what is the point of this entire story? That its ok to be obsessed with sex at the age of 18? That it is essential to have sex and let your entire family know? That its ok to term infatuation as 'love' and move from one guy to another like changing t-shirts?
Reading such books at 3 am in the morning, not good for my mental health...
I am a bad blogger.
I am paranoid about my privacy. When you blog you let go of your inhibitions and just write. I don’t like to write about my personal life. I don’t like to discuss what I had for lunch and what I wore for my date.
Because whenever I post anything on the net, someone is going to be reading it! I might never meet that person but s/he will know all details about my private life.
I had a blog previously and would post quite regularly. I had a blog ring, real friends as well as online ones, several of whom I am still friendly with. But now however the urge to blog is slowly reducing. It was fun while it lasted but somehow I can’t get back to it.
I need a topic to blog about and the topic is not going to be me.
To emphasize, I found this truly creepy video on youtube about teenagers and privacy. Its called 'Think before you post' and its is very evocative.
I recently got a new drawing tablet. Used it last weekend to make this little graphic. Will be using it in some freelance work I have undertaken.
This is I think my third drawing based on flying/being airborne. I seem to be fascinated by it
