We the Mutes!!!

H.O.D: There is a CNN IBN debate with Ms. Kanimozhi Karunanidhi today at your college premises....Who are all interested, ma?

As always, my hand, Asha's hand a few other not-so-usual hands went up

H.O.D: Is that all, ma?

WE: (Silence)

H.O.D: It is at 4 today evening so please stay back...(Lookin at me) Come here ma, take this number down and get in touch with her ( a reporter from the bureau, who was also our super senior) abt the proceedings.

ME: Okay, ma'am.

After takin down the number, I go to the department room to return the envelope on which she had so hastily scrawled down the number...and ended up with work even on my LASTTTTTTTTT day in college, thus:

H.O.D: Please ask if anyone is interested from your first and second year classes too ma! (Looking all suitably smug) Im thinking of using this to bargain and land them internships...

ME: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

H.O.D: Yes ma..? You have any questions abt the integrity of your HOD and her commitment towards her students?

ME: No, Ma'am!!!!!

About turn: exit room

With none of the juniors falling prey for her silly internship bait...a bunch of us from class landed up in college at 4....for the all important DEBATE. Excited at seeing the crew and Mr. Veeraraghav (Bureau Chief) all already there, we ran to the canteen...we had already decided on our questions...(Me and Vipasha even had a small jig planned ;p)

Looking into the grimy canteen mirror I adjusted my greasy greasy hair....called dad and sister to tell them the all important news (smirk smirk :|) It was finally time to leave...and join the crowd of youngsters from other colleges who had been invited over to our college for the same debate...Ms. Kanimozhi was also there....

That was when it happened: We had been misinformed by Vaiju a.k.a. HOD abt the debate topic...and it was actually on Reservation Politics, when we had been told it ws to be on general politics in Tamil Nadu!!!!!!!!!!!

With all our pre-prepared questions gone with the wind, and our jig forgotten, we rearranged ourselves several times and finally settled down...the show began...

Though there were several times when we had valid points to make, we were never given a chance, thanks to all the mic hogging by the Loyola guys and of course, Vicky nonchalantly ignoring our perenially raised hands (purposely?) And there were other times when Vcky would just beat us in making the very same point one of us had in mind...:|

And tada, the show came to an end too!!! And, we hadnt spoken a word...Pat on the bak, I say. :|

After the shooting was over, Vicky n his usual couldnt care less attitude and tone, told us he was "Sorry that we hadnt gotten a chance to talk". DUH.

ME: Oh, that's so completely okay...we had such fun being your mute spectators. :|||

Pseudo-nerd is miffed by the indiffernce :|

Muah!!! To meeself!!! :)

Am i feeling sssooooooo creative today????
I ve written two...yeah, TWO posts today!!!!!!!!!!!!! back to back!!!!!!
Yipppeeeee :))))

Pseudo-nerd feels happy and accomplished!!! :P :D

1408: It's an evil, evil room!!

While flipping thru the channels I came across this movie called 1408 on Star Movies
The best thing abt TATAsky is that it offers u that i button...u can read a synopsis of the movie and decide if u want to watch it...
The synopsis read (in short): Horror flick
I was immediately intersted!!!

The movie is abt this famous author who writes abt his experiences after staying in fabled, haunted places...and according to him, he has never SEEN a ghost...
Meaning: Despite his using a lot of high-tech instruments or detectors, he has till date not come across anything paranormal...

In one of his fan mail, comes a post card:
It is from the Dolphin Hotel, Lexington Avenue, New York.
It reads: Dont enter 1408

Interests aroused, he calls the hotel to make a reservation for that room...it is claimed to be unavailable all round the year. Further interested, he finds that according to some section in the American law, you cant deny a person a room that hasnt been officially removed from the hotel's booking list.

So, after a long conversation with the Hotel Manager Mr.Ollin, during which he shows the author, Mr. Enslin, documentary evidence of the various deaths, both unnatural and natural, that have occurred in the room, he still decides to check in...

What follows is way beyond scary...
Everything is normal in the begining, and he is recording as usual, into his portable recorder what he sees around him. His telephone starts making scary calls...and the bedside clock starts ticking away that one hour, beyond which MR. Ollin warned no one has ever stayed...and soon enuf things start goin haywire...where he starts hallucinating abt his father, his dead daughter....he sees spectres walking around in the room, attacking him and all other scary stuff...

Nothing electronic works in the room...so he decides to use his laptop and gets into a video call with his ex- wife...he tells her he is in room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel and that she should call the police and send them there immediately... the line is lost with her lookin confused and in the middle of a lot of work....he looses hope...

In some time she s callin bak...he tells her to call the police...she says they re already there and that the room is empty!!! He tells her that he s gonna die there...line ends there...

Soon it starts raining in the room and its flooded and he becomes part of a painting on the room....of a sinking ship...he starts drowning and kicks upwards... this scene is linked to a previous scene where he falls off his surf board in the sea and gets washed ashore...he s back there on the shore lying semi-concious and we see the same coast gaurd running upto him asking if he s okay...

Its all a dream and he wakes up in a hospital room...with his ex-wife, whom he left after their daugher s death, is sitting next to him...he tells her his dream...takes her out for dinner, where he thinks he sees one of the women he saw inside the hotel room, but no..he was jus seeing things again...life continues...he pens down this really scary and weird dream...goes to the post office to send it to his editor....

The post office guy tells him they re closed for the day...a close-up shot of the guy...its the same guy he saw at the Hotel reception! All around him the other guys in the office start breaking the walls and peeling away the floors...and his head starts spinning....when it does stop...he s back in the same room!!!!!!!!!! So it was all jus an illusion the room had created making him believe it was jus a wierd scary dream...

It's now dilapidated...and he sees his dead daughter...she s asking him to help her...she s cold...
he tells her to go away...she s not real...but in the end he s overcome by emotion...he picks her up...
"Daddy, can mom you and I be togther like before?"
"We can we can we can...I ve got you now...Im never gonna let you go again"
His recorder is (supposedly) on, though they never showed it...

He starts a fire and this sets off the building s fire alarm and he is saved by the firemen...and Mr. Ollin is shown in his room saying:
"Not bad...not bad..." (or something like that...:p)
The next scene...and this is how the movie ends:
He has probably moved bak in with his ex and they re setting up a new home or watever...she wants to throw away all his old stuff...he retains that recorder alone...he plays it:
Some static before:
"Daddy, can mom you and I be togther like before?"
"We can we can we can...I ve got you now...Im never gonna let you go again"

He looks at her with a glum, "didnt I tell u?" expression. THE END.

The movie was kickass...maybe i ve not done full justice to it in the way i ve put it down here...but trust me it was sooo freaking scary that after the movie I went to the loo and my dad (who was till then asleep) knocked down something on his way to the loo (too!!) I jumped so badly and started screaming inside, that he jumped so badly and started screaming outside!!!!

And when finally all the screaming had ceased and I'd come out...he started screaming once again...but this time at me!!! For scaring the shit out of him...(he no longer wanted to pee apparently!!!! :P)

Pseudo-nerd was sooo jumpy that entire nite...couldnt sleep!!! :D

Tryst with Chennai Global Chat Room

Chat rooms...they are a scary place to be in...
Today wen i switched on my lap, my Yahoo messenger automatically opened up like usual...
I generally dont log in...but today I did...none of my frends were online...I decided to log in to some chat room...just fr d heck of it...been years since I did that...
The procedure hadnt changed one bit and I logged into the Chennai Global Chat room...
The minute I was in it...5 pvt conversation boxes pounced on me from the screen...whoa...
I decided to reply to this person called Jackroc...
turned out to be a weird conversation, where he would temme nothing abt himself but kept asking me stuff...in the end he was like:
"I want enjoi watch tv"
"Ok enjoi watch tv" I said and closed the window...
He came bak with
"Bye loose"
I put the IGNORE USER button on him....:|

Okay next: ABgan17
He: Hi
Me: Hey...
Me: Are u 17?
He: Yes!!! How did u guess???? U must be a genius...
Me: Are u mockin me or are u reely that dumb?
He: Am not mocking u...but wat is d meaning of mocking?
Me: Okay kid, find someone ur age to chat up with...Im 20...way out of ur league...
He: Hmmmm..ok
Me: (Relieved) Bye! (smiley)

I closed the window. Pop. He came bak:
He: But why?
Me: But why wat?
He: Why arent u talkin to me? Am i not haaawwt enuf fr u???
Me: No. so?
He: Call me...u ll no...
Me: (smirk smirk) Not interested. Go away before i ignore u...

Now he called me!!!!
I actually got a lil scared coz my speakers started makin like a lot of static noise...wen I hadnt even answered any call!!!!!!!!!
So out i came off there....logged off my messenger...vowed never to go bak in there...

These rooms are filled with weirdos...perverts nd maybe some normal ppl too...but they are hard to come by...
On the public chat thing...where anyone in the room can send a public msg to everyone or anyone in the room:
Couple3438: Any body (note: not anybody) interested in couple swap?

After sometime:
Couple3438: Please....someone response...we need to swap wit couple....
Couple3438: Waiting for you both...come to ussss....we shw u heaven in hell...(!!!!!!)

Didnt follow that line after this coz I was busy running out of that weird weird place....
It used to be better than this a few years bak...and I ve two brilliant, normal like u and me, frends till date from the same room...

Now cant reely imagine finding anybody who is not a pervert or a terrorist or wat not here in these rooms...thts why they re scary...:|

Pesudo-nerd chides herself for havin been there! :|

Well...well...well...wat do I write abt???

Today is International Women's Day...wat abt the local women??? Duh...:|
Why celebrate days like these...? Really...in a world where true love and respect for women exists mostly only on movies and books...where does a woman really get placed? Are days such as this, which are only marketing gimmicks of yet another male brainwave, some sort of consolation prize for the bruising female ego?

Movies on the TV, "celebrating the spirit of the Woman", make me want to laugh...wat a joke it's starting to become!!! If I, living a comparatively peaceful and free life can feel that way...what about women from say, rural India, all over the Muslim world, and elsewhere with parallel conditions? I only get mental images of women in those more "conservative" societies, rolling on the floor with laughter, if that's ALLOWED, per say.

And no, Im not discounting the fact that men have come a long way in respecting women, since wat early men times, but hey! A lot more of the road needs to be travelled down that path...and that too without reminders such as an International day for Women!

In conclusion to this rather random post...I would as a woman, only ask one thing from the men in my life...

learn to expect only as much as you give!

If this can be done...you will keep me happy at most of the times :P
Pseudo-nerd is straight-faced...not this way or that way...:|

P.S. I dont thnk Im being feminist here...if you do, well that'll jus add to the other myths abt mee! ;D

Even i want to do the 25 things abt me thingy...:)

After smirking and scoffing at all the people who completed this list o 25 things....here I go!!!!
P.S.: Im still not doing it on FACEBOOK!!!! :D

I hope you dont know these things abt me...if you do, go jump!!! :P :D
0. I am petrified of lizards they can make me cry; I have observed them soooo much I know their behavioural characteristics!!!!!!!! I KNOW them soooooooo well!!!!!!!! :|

1. I cant stand my first name...I hate the sound o it!!

2. I couldnt read a newspaper and prevent myself from falling asleep till a few months back :p

3. I am compatible with only the following sun signs: Aries, Aquarius, Gemini and Capricorn (only gurls)

4. I am fascinated beyond words by scorpio males...I actually behave weirder than usual arnd them...!!

5. I havent met my nephew in the 5 months since his birth :(

6. I am very gullible...I tend to trust tooo soon...

7. I have changed 5 mobile phones in the past 3 years!!

8. I find the least funny o jokes the MOST hilarious!!!!!!!! I dont get the actually funny ones :D

9. I cry at the movies...no shame :)

10. I can no longer sing...but I can bray amazingly if anyone's interested...:(

11. I am tooo self concious...I drive my friends up d wall wit it!!! :D

12. If I manage to come on time one day I can keep it that way for a long time. The catch is: If I come late...the jinx still holds good!!! I can try all I want to, but i WILL NOT reach on time!!!!

13. There's another funny thng too: If I go to a particular place following a particular route, it jus happens that I will travel via the same route the same day again or the next day!!!! I'm NOT kidding or exaggerating here!!!! IT'S TRUE!!!!!!!

14. I can trust my instincts like hell!!!! They ve never ever failed me!!!!!!!!!!!

15. I love the Bakvaas Bandh Kar clips on 9XM; I love the Doctorrrrrrrrrr strip on Radio One; I love mokka comedy sooooo much!!!!!!!!!! :D

16. I have a hate-love relationship with my own sister...I hate her soooo much but at times, Im jus at other times soooo much in awe o her....and maybe thts one o the reasons I hate her...its a viscious circle I say!!! :| But I love her all the same!!! More than anyone in this world too, :)

17. I can come up with the most believable lies in a fraction of a second...I am sooooo convinving in my act!!!

18. I no longer lie at home...I ve tried very hard...but seem to have forgotten how to!!!

19. I ve sneaked outta home in the middle of the nite several times...not to party...chill out!!! :D

20. I am tooo ambitious that sometimes I sit and think what Ill tell ppl wen i ve fallen flat on ma face!!!! Dont want to be there...never!!!!!!!!

21. I can write reely well...ahem...I meant my handwriting s simply beautiful!!!!

22. I don't like people who make others laugh at the expense of another person...especially a heavy person...I WANT TO YELL AT AND KICK SUCH PEOPLE!!!! I hate such condescension!!!! :| :| :| I FIND THEM SICK!!!!!

23. I once qualified for the finals in a college quiz after clearing d prilims by gettin all d answers on sms from this reelly brainy frend o mine who found d answers on d net!!!!!!!!!! When I got selected for the finals i sent an sms to him saying "SHIT! We re selected! SHIT we re screwed!!!! :D

24. I almost got debarred in my 11th common exam for trying to help a girl with the objectives section...she was crying...i felt paavam for her...my foot!!! :D

25. My friends think I can whine and smile at the same time...talent u seee :p

HEYYYYYYYYYYYYY Im doneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :DDDD

Pseudo-nerd's happy happy after a horrible day!!! :)

To the two of you!!!

These are just some of the things, I can't isolate from you both:
III Journalism's most famous 3 musketeers :P PowerPuff gurls!! HAHA!!! :D
All three o us are ARIES!!!! Temme how many ppl will have this kinda celestial connections??? Conference calls, failed conferences on messenger...
Group assignments, running to the printers...taking pictures with and of our creations!!!
Earlier, HOD's most wanted; now, HOD's d most taunted!!!!! :D
Cant get bored of each other...differences become indifferent wen together!!!!! Spendthrifts with a conscience!!
Endless gossip, the way the face lights up at the mention of a "STORY"!!! :D "Temme some story, Iyer!!!" :D
Motivation, consultation, delegation and condemnation...all for free and there to take!!!
"U better go to the gym, from today...REGULARLY!!!!!"
"Can i have an egg frankie?"
"NO" "Why???"
"Its more fattening" ":(" ":|" ":|"
Shopping, eating out...muruku sandwich, baristaaahhhh!!!!
Pani puri (YUCK!!), canteen tea!!!
Night overs, foto sessions that get crazily funny!!!!
Introspection from another's point o view...suggestions, discussions, conversations...and guess the secret....Asha always wins!!! :|
Respect of mutual space, calling each other names!!!!
Chutkoo, meanie and iyer...the best o F.R.I.E.N.D.S :)
Relationships that go down the drain...crazy confessions, spirited retaliations; my favourite agony aunts!!!! cant do without the 2 o you!!!!!
Cant fit myself or the two o you with anyone else!!! We are a perfect 3, that was meant to be!!
Facebook fotos, ugly fotos, sleeping "beauties", OMG yawns!!!
"Do i look fat? No, fatter than usual?," I keep asking....
the most patient of replies....the most tolerant of my scandalous behaviours!!!!!
I can call them up at any time;
Cry, laugh, cry and laugh...
say am not feelin sleepy...say am feeling sleepy...yawn...
or, do combined studies over the fone...with meanie dozin off at one side o the line and me ranting out subject lines at the speed of 2000km/sec....
toleration of my exaggerations, my prejudices, my opinions, my anger, my loose tongue....my whines, my swearing...
it couldnt get better...but it did!!!!
Bday surprises, morning breakfasts, new years' eve celebrations, shopping sprees, walking on the platforms...taking a share auto and a bus between 5 streets!!!!!!

Getting together wit the juniors...lunches and dinners...frankies and subs...beaches and the funny sand etchings....fotos and more fotos...
the order in which we sit and in which we get into an auto!!!!
The haggling with auto guys...the lesbian incident on the bus!!!!
Goin to movies on impulse; making a fool o ourselves at our first intercolegiate culturals in 3 years!!!! :D :D
Council gossip...heavy frustrations...studyin together and on the trains...going to assignments together...
sundays spent at office... coming up with "creative" headlines and intro lines to other people's stories....editing horribly written copies..
HOD bashings...MOP bashings...most funny!!!
How can i forget that Bangalore trip we took....jus to shop, shop, shop and shop some more!!!! :D The number o times I embarass u guys by wanting loo breaks :D :D The woodlands hotel in Bangalore...the ATM machines...my uncontrollable chappal and bags shopping...the pain on my ass...the crying...the operation...the days after that...cant forget any o it!!!!!!
The preparations for the culturals...the screaming wen u both came on stage...I was sooo proud...and wen we won...wen we created history...i was soo happy u guys were in ur third year and I was in the council...we can call this our victory...our give back to the department without which the 3 o us wud ve never happened!!!!

Can i tell u guys how much u mean to me???? No i actually dont have to...:) Do u guys have to temme hw much i mean to u?? Not really....!! U guys are the best thing that has happenend to me among all the worst things that I ve been thru and put you guys thru!!!! This post is dedicated to you both, without whom am incomplete... love u guys sooo much that even i dont have a clue!!!! Iyer's happy happy to be jus with the 2 o u doesnt really want to think abt wen we will no longer be together in the same class... the same bench, the same auto or the same car... Pseudo-nerd feels heavy with love for her 2 best frends!!!!