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...world's a mess anyway!

Absurd Judgment

I saw this girl in lounge day before yesterday. She looked very pretty to me. Wearing a lovely sweater, jeans with high heels, beautiful straight black hair let down, amazing complexion and skin. She did not look hot but yes, graceful. She studied in the lounge for more than 24 hours. Well, partial studies I guess because most of the time she was staring at her computer screen – laughing – and then typing something for a long time; either she had some problem or she feels hungry quite often because in every two minutes she would go out of the lounge and come back in 10.

In the morning, from my pantry, I saw her walk out of the new canteen wearing the same clothes and carrying her stuff (which means she was in lounge till morning).

Next day, again, while coming back from Nanyang Super Market, I saw her munching onto a bar of KitKat Chunky and cat-walking her way to the lounge. This time, she did not look graceful to me; though she was wearing another nice sweater, another pair of heels and her hair looked as gorgeous as they did the first time I saw her. This time she looked dumb.

Why? I don’t know.

Helpless Anger

They are giving the pups away and I can’t do anything about it; I can’t do anything for Mishti (and the pups) besides thinking of them all the time (which is not going to benefit anyone in anyway). It’s tough for parents as well but in one month it will be all over (pups would start to behave themselves) and then they would have more than a dog that they can keep carefree-ly and who will serve as guards!

Sigh! Then again, guess parents know best (of course, parents don’t seem to think Mishti is a parent yet).

News (yet again)

It landed as no bombshell upon me when I read about P. Selvakumar marrying a dog near Tamil Nadu, in the News today. Such beliefs have been around for hundreds of generations now. Number of incidents reported of course has been cut down in number but they still prevail.

Why do such human and non human marriages occur? Superstition? Well, in P. Selvakumar case, yes. His marrying a dog is an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death 15 years ago - an act he believes cursed him (His limbs paralyzed and hearing in one ear was impaired). After all the medicines and treatments proved ineffective, he decided to go through with the wedding which was suggested by an astrologer. There was feast after the wedding; the dog was treated a bun!

His is one of the many such cases in the world. People in rural India get their baby daughters married to dogs and baby sons married to cats to ward off a bad omen.

Superstition is not only the only reason. Some people marry animals because they ‘fall in love’ with them. Dogs and cats are not the only targets; horse, dolphins, cows, snakes also are choices for a human’s spouse.

I can’t decide whether it’s more unfair to the human getting married or more dreadful to the non human, animals they are getting their knot tied to. It’s rather sad, that not only uneducated but also knowledgeable people sometimes agree to such act. Though no government in any country has yet recognized such marriage as legal, but there’s no law against it as well. Neither have I ever read about animal rights activists protesting such a horrendous deed (I hope that’s not true though).

Something to notice: No feedback, from the family of the person getting married to an animal or the person himself/herself, about the curse being faded or bad omen been ward off has been received.

It’s merely insane!

Money matter/s

Woke up at 1 in the afternoon today (of course 5 hours after I was suppose to wake up!). Studied for an hour and that was it, I felt as if I had finished the quota for today. Now, after 7 hours of wasting time and having fun, I feel the desire to gain more knowledge about the subject (guilt conscious).

It is not time to study yet though. I have a major task at hand. Get dinner. Oh yeah? For all those who think this is not a major task, try fishing for food with no cash on you or any of your friends (from whom you can borrow without feeling ashamed that is). Life has become a joke. It’s like we all are characters in a play and we know that after the play is over we get on with our old usual lives; though this play seems to go on for eternity. Never before has money been the issue for any of us. It’s like being poor, literally! We do things only that are free, for example, go to college (hardly, agreed); roam around the university; watch movies on our laptops; etc.

To come to think of it, the situation around is just making us tougher (yes guys, it DOES have a brighter side). Money management and realizing and accepting the fact that everything you desire and demand for cant always be in your hands a moment later are merely two of the several advantages of our flat broke account condition. Well now we have stories to tell to our next generation (to which they are just going to roll their eyes and say “yeah yeah” or “whateva!”).

Don’t feel down guys (okay probably you are not, but u should understand that I am writing as a third person to myself too, so if u think it doesn’t concern you, it at least bothers me once in a while). Life’s about more than just money (ummm…ummm…). Okay, let me just argue with the ‘third person’ in me. Life revolves around money! Money is like hinges of a door, like wheels of a car, like lady of the family, like meat in a burger (ooh! I miss Mc Donalds now, after 3 years of despising it!). (Some might want to replace the word ‘money’ with ‘love’ in the above sentence =p) But money would come and go (rather go and come!) but what stays are these memories, we are gonna look back to these days after 5 years, 20 years, 50 years and laugh at how we skipped meals to collect money for a shirt, shoes, skirt or how we gave up the best looking dress in the world to have a carl’s jr meal =)

Totally Random

Lot of things been happening and happening unanticipatedly while the time flies. Every morning I wake up with high goals and spirit, sky-scraping, but by the time the basic needs for survival are fulfilled the motivational force in me tapers and I end the rest of the day fidgeting around, with books (worse, laptop) open in front of me.

It’s not as bad as it sounds; I mean of course that fidgeting around is much more fun than actually gathering all the energy in your body and directing them in the mind so you can focus only on one thing, studies. Besides, agitation has not proved unconstructive this time round.

Another example of my mind getting distracted form the aim is the total wastage of my gym membership. One day I am all determined to lose weight and reduce this swollen tummy to a sexy worked out one and for the next one week, no activity because I am content with the exercise on the first day!

Yet another example of my mind getting distracted; my friends. Yes, I know they are suppose to help me seek the right path along with them, instead all I get from them is “Oh! Saw PB?”; (as soon as I sit to study) “wanna go al-ameen?”; (after returning from al-ameen) “let’s watch a movie, been a long time, then we’ll study, pukka!”; “Let’s drink tonight”; “let’s play cards”. I mean how can anyone manage to study with friends like these! (But thank you guys! You are real life savers! =p)

I realize from a few days, I have become rude. (No Chandrakant not to you; you deserve it! =p.) I think I should start eating non vegetarian again. Perhaps that is the sole reason for all the wander-ness of my mind.

Oh, Mishti’s puppies are so cute! They are such adorable darlings. It’s kind of difficult to imagine Mishti as a mother though, I mean it feels weird calling her ‘mera bacha’ now; she’s a mother after all! I miss her so much. Given a chance I would lay life of any my friends for her =p

I feel beautiful today. I think this is the first time, I’m writing this on my blog. Congratulations blog! You’ve been chosen to rise to a higher level on the list of ‘who knows Shifali’s secrets’, though I hardly think this one is an arcane. *Beauty cannot be hidden*

Okay enough of crap and random stuff. You know why am I writing this post, no not because I want to lighten my heart by letting out all the things in it, but to waste a little time before I can go party the whole night. Can anyone be more idiotic? Yes! Those who do neither; and I know quite a few who don’t. lol. (you know I’m referring to you!)