Birthday week and the strings attached with it

For the happy and enthusiastic self, Bryan Adam is no doubt the inspiration. Yes, I’m talking about the famous 18 till I die anthem.

‘I wanna be young the rest of my life…I'm gonna be 18 till I die - 18 till I die’

Much to the contrary, I always wanted to grow old and that too too fast. I always wanted to live on my own, wanted to skip those adolescent years to enjoy my 20’s with fun and fervour. But much to my disappointment, it’s nothing like that. All I want now is to skip the coming years and jump onto the future. Or maybe the nicer idea will be to peek into the future so that I get a fairer idea what’s in store. Or maybe I should drop this idea too as the more uncertain the life is, the better it is for you. Well, such is life.

But it’s not just about the uncertainty that I carry along with me with every passing year, it’s the cluelessness that surrounds me during my b’day week. The cluelessness when every other person asks ‘Oh, it’s your b’day coming. Excited?’ Excited! Really…for the added number to my age or for the extra baggage that it brings along. For once I wish I could find myself at a place I want myself to see during this week that year in future. Until then I hope this video could help me chill!

P.S. Surprisingly while I'm waiting for all the unexpected calls to come, there is this one wish that has totally caught me off guard. And it's from Google. Well, it is kind of a surprise call. Atleast for me. :)

- G

Media Sensationalisation

Or shall I just say YouTube sensationalisation? Well, it is directly and indirectly connected with YouTube only. Isn't it? And, more than that it revolves around the basic human nature of us that loves this phenomenon of sensationalisation. But I’m not going to concentrate here on this very human nature. Instead I’m going to recollect all the sensationalism that happened in the past couple of years, minus the excessive use of this ‘S’ term. ;)

And as I write this piece, I remember this chapter from my English book back in school. The chapter was ‘Cutie Pie’ by Nicolas Frisk and I don’t remember the line word for word but I do remember it talked about how much we love sensationalism and how short-lived a public memory is. And, honestly, I can’t seem to disagree. Neither would you once you finish reading this blog.

So, without browsing much on internet, if I look into the past and recollect all the hullabaloos, the first thing that I can remember is ‘Why this Kolavari-Kolaveri Di’. Remember? It started with Rajinikanth’s SIL, Dhanush in late March 2012 and after that many an amateur singer including Sonu Nigam’s son tried his/her hands on it. The song and versions of it account for more than 50 million of YouTube's total views. And that’s really something.

The next on my list is ‘Oppam Gangnam Style’. And I must confess I was head over heels for this one. The song by South Korean musician PSY was released in July 2012 and it became a rage in no time. ‘Gangnam Style’ became the first YouTube video to reach a billion views. Its signature moves were attempted by many notable political leaders such as the British Prime Minister David Cameron, U.S. President Barack Obama, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who hailed it as a "force for world peace". Long story short and thus PSY became an ‘international sensation’.

Last but not the least, it’s Harlem shake meme that is the ‘in’ thing. A little history: The song ‘Harlem Shake’ by American electronic musician Baauer released in 2012. It didn't gain much popularity until when a group of five teenagers from Australia known as The Sunny Coast Skate uploaded a meme in February, 2013. The video has become viral with many people replicating the same concept on their video. Still too early to give it a YouTube count!

So, these are a few that I can remember. I’m sure there are many that I've skipped but then again they were supposed to be forgotten. Ain't they?

- G

Guess who gotta go to the Zee Café Gossip Girl Night Out!

That’s me. Hell yes! Me and my friend got it, and we had a Gossip Girl night out at Hard Rock Café. And as much as I hate to flaunt it, I love to tell you all that I won Gossip Girl goodies too. Yayay! Ooops…that was a little Blair-ish. Wasn’t it? Anyhow, I gotta go to the party and that was quite a delight.

But I'll start with how we managed to get an invite. Well, I watch this show ‘Gossip Girl’ every night at 10pm on Zee Café. Wait, I don’t need to say it’s my favourite. Or do I!? :D Coming to the invitation story, I saw the advertisement where they were like ‘Tweet, tag your bestie and use #ZeeCafeGirlsNightOut, and win an invite’. I called my friend the very moment and we started tweeting as it was our chance to have a Gossip Girl fun. And, guess what…we won it. But that’s not the end to the story. Well, there was a slight confusion as we tweeted to Zee Café and HRC both. And we thought we lost it. But we didn't. Who wouldn't want to invite the ardent Gossip Girl fans like us!? :/ Te-hee.

Now coming to the main event, I was damn excited but all the excitement turned into disappointment when I realized we were quite late to the party. The party started at 6:30pm and we reached at around 7:45pm. And as soon as we reached, we asked the guy outside if it’s over but to our delight, he answered it’s just started. Whoa! And there started our #ZeeCafeGirlsNightOut. ;)

It was in true sense a Gossip Girl party. Loads of girls modelled themselves on S & B. Some just chose awe-inspiring pins. Some went for the regal look. Some went as fashionable as possible. Some gathered attention and some seemed like minions. The games that were organized were indeed awesome. There was this game where we had to paste a kiss sticker on Chuck’s cheek (poster :()…let’s just say we had to kiss Chuck. J Surprisingly, nobody spotted Dan and Nate. Guess Mother Chucker took away all the attention. And he deserved that. I remember when the show was in its first season Chuck seemed to me like an extra. And now here we are with Chuck …Chuck all around. Lol The other game was Chinese whisper, the Gossip Girl style. We had to whisper Gossip Girl quotes to our team and whosoever did maximum quotes would win. Well, our emcee was indeed a sweetheart to announce both the teams as winners.

But what made it an exclusive Gossip Girl party was the ‘Gossip Girl’ siren. Oh yeah! We were supposed to tweet all the time and whoever tweeted the maximum was the clear winner. And, believe me, that was the most ‘fun’ part. Every now and then we were checking out our phones, tweeting another tweet and doing it all in ‘Gossip Girl’ style. Yes, we were.  Remember when Gossip Girl siren goes off amidst a party. That was that. And I had my moment of Queen B as I won it. Yuhoooo! Besides me, there were two other winners (one of them was my friend). But I was the one who tweeted maximum. Why!? ‘Coz I’m the real Gossip Girl. D'uh!

It was indeed one hell of a party and I loved it to the fullest.

XOXO

G

New artist on the block

I am a 22 year girl. I love all kinds of creative stuff to do. It may be art, craft, handicraft, dance, music or anything. I am inspired with no person, not any personality but by nature, everything created by god. For me life is to give happiness to others.

Here I am sharing my few arts with you:

     It’s a painting to show a lonely girl flying alone with her dreams.

It’s a sketch art piece, drawn when I was sitting and was wondering about my favorite flowers. It was one of my first complete sketch piece.

 It is a poster made to introduce hostel people about hostel day celebration and different competition during my graduation.

 A sketching to depict an old man sitting on his relaxing chair and reading.

Here's another one.

About the 'Guest Blogger': Neha is a 22 year old working girl and a dear friend. She is an artist by passion and is looking forward to making her career in designing and all.

 

Meet Julie & Julia!

Yesterday, it was Women’s Day. Not that I did something special, but I did watch this movie specially telecasted for the occasion on Zee Studio- ‘Julie & Julia’ (specially telecasted for the occasion) and got way too inspired. A good movie is all you need to graduate from a sulken to a happy state. I couldn’t agree more now.

Well, the movie is based on two real life stories. And it inspires you to take inspiration from the living legends and keep moving. Just as the tagline says ‘Passion. Ambition. Butter. Do You Have What It Takes?’ Well, you can replace ‘butter’ with the ingredient that is apt for your life.

The movie is about the chef Julia Child and an author Julie Powell. Both are from different worlds but their lives are intertwined with a common passion… passion for food. Julie takes inspiration from Julia and keep writing her blog, ‘Julie/Julia Project’ (a blog chronicling her attempt to cook Julia’s recipes).

As much as I liked the femme power in the movie, I salute the husbands behind these two powerful ladies who literally inspired them everytime the wives lost hope. They say ‘Behind every successful man, there is a woman’. But you can’t avoid the man behind a successful woman. It takes courage to be that man.

By and large, the movie was about womanhood and was a perfect end to Women’s Day.

Belated Happy Women’s Day!

P.S. Did I mention I loved Meryl Streep in the movie? I'm now. She was a delight to watch and it was she who made Julia's character amazingly superb.

Love,

G