Monday, April 23, 2012

unrelated tangents

It does not bother me when people say I have extremist views when it comes to women's rights. Neither does it bother me when I am called a  feminist. I prefer to have an opinion, albeit a strong one, than having no opinion at all. I'd rather feel strongly about something and have be loud and opinionated than shut up and have no opinion about it.
I belong to the female gender and therefore am more concerned about gender violence against females. There are more males than females in the world and therefore, enough of the male gender to care about their rights. Some men should stop making this about them. It has nothing to do with their rights, it just has to do with women's rights. And hey, if you have such a big problem with how women are fighting for their rights, why don't you just give them what they want? That's what you think women need anyway, give them what they want and they'll shut up.
It makes me really mad when I read in the papers that girls, not even women, get raped left right and center. And the society says he girl asked for it. The day these women snap, you will be left with absolutely no words in your mouth. Speechlessness will take on a new meaning. If men shut the dirty parts of their brains, perhaps they might not think every girl is asking for it. How are you asking to get raped if you're wearing a salwar kameez? What do you want the society to do? Wear a sack? Oh wait, the society will figure out a problem with that one too. After all, we are a patriarchal society, where men make rules for women for the benefit of other men.
I am fully appreciative of the numerous exceptions that exist in the male gender. However, that does not right the wrong done.




Favorite picture? Yes please. If I could, I would say this to so many people. You'd be surprised at how many people I have on that list. I love verbally dueling people.
And I've been discovering online comics left right and center. I practically went through one entire site right now. It is hilarious. and Indian. And just couldn't resist. After all, you get a laptop to class to multi-task, right? I discover these comic-strip sites online so randomly sometimes I don't even remember how I got there. For lack of a better word, or the right word, I call them comic-strip sites. Which does not decrease their awesomeness in anyway.
I go off on completely unrelated tangents sometimes. That's exactly what happens when I leave a blog post unfinished and come back to it when I procrastinate. Today was Procrastination level 400. One of my friends thought I wished there was a class like that. I told him I do enough of it on my own to want a class.
Ending on a cold and miserable note, I wish the weather would cheer up. Not that I am a fan of sunny weather. I am the most un-sunniest person you'll come across, but but but, rain wind and cold in April is just not right. But you gotta do what you gotta do, and go to class wearing a jacket you thought you could finally pack away because it was summer. Sure. 

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

That's just messed up

I don't really have an opinion about defense mechanisms. Or maybe I do. They work, most of the times? Maybe sometimes. Sometimes its the wrong people you use them against, and you're like oops, that wall shouldn't have been there. And then, those people force you to put them up for all the wrong reasons? I wouldn't really know. And I think they don't even realize. And I don't think its their fault either. That's just the way some people become, experts at putting up defense mechanisms.
There's the first set of defense mechanisms. The you let people get through them. And then they're in way too much to not force you to put up another set of defense mechanisms in place, only so you don't have to deal with stuff. That's just really messed up.
That and over thinking things. I over think. Way too much for my own good. And then I'm like, wtf am I doing, and go back to over thinking things. That's even more messed up. And really scary, because over thinking is like  a concentric circle. You just go round and round and round and round. Rather a downward concentric spiral. It's mad difficult to shut your brain and get back to real life. But then how isn't overt thinking not real life? You're just examining things and possibilities that could happen. So over thinking sounds just about right.
So then, defense mechanisms and over thinking are so typically human. You just don't realize it. But now you do, because I told you. People should listen to me. I should write a self- help book. oh ha ha. That would be so much fun. I could mess people and get paid for it. Wait, couldn't you do that by counseling people too?
I was forcefully made to hear Niki Minaj's song, You're a stupid hoe. The only question I asked was, why am I still alive? Not that I am a music major or anything, but man that song is ridiculous. What is she? The next Lady Gaga or something. I thought on was enough for this world. And I know my music, I might listen to a lot of bollywood stuff, but when I listen to angrezi stuff, it's pretty much the right thing. Wait, why again do people like Niki Minaj?


Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Growing up, with sarcasm, and fandoms

As you grow up,  the stakes for everything you do, become higher. When you were in school, a missed assignment could still get you full points, because you could go talk to the teacher who's known you since kindergarten, and offer to do it after school. College is a different ballgame. A missed assignment is a missed assignment. Rarely will you be able to do what you did in school. That missed assignment is the difference between a B+ and an A. Which could be the difference between a gpa of 3.94 and  a 4.0, which in turn is the difference between making it to the dean's list or not, which in turn is the difference between getting a prestigious internship, or not. See how the stakes increase tenfold?
As you grow up, your actions take on a different meaning. There's a difference between bunking school to go to a movie and sneaking out of the hostel at night to hangout with friends. Think back, hasn't life itself taken a different meaning than it did before?

As one grows up, same things take different meanings. Same things different meanings. Pocket money as a kid is oh-that's-just pocket money. Go to college, and see what money means. Start working and see what money means. Die, and see what money means, in your will and especially to those not in your will. ha ha.
Growing up, do you not expect more from yourself? Do you not realize that as things around you change, so do you. That you cannot be the same person you were last year, or last month, or last week, or even yesterday. If you do not, I sincerely hope someone pulls you out of your tiny little comfortable cocoon into real life.

It annoys me when people, especially my age, don't get sarcasm. I just rationalize to myself that they're just stupid. And have absolutely no intellectual understanding of the world. And stupid. Because, everyone should get sarcasm. Thereby, making their life easier.

Dear girl beside me, you should probably stop looking at yourself in the webcam and pay more attention to what the professor is saying. Or do something productive, like write a blog. Now I can maximize my window because I'm done writing about her.

Watching the hunger games this weekend. Can't Wait!! The Hunger Games trilogy is epic, and I keep saying this over and over again, and to everyone I come across, that The Hunger Games is going to be the next biggest fandom after Harry Potter. Fandom wars? Already begun. Also, my two favorite pictures of all time right now portray a merging of the fandoms, which I LOVE!


"My heart's a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every note
Make me your radio
Turn me up when you feel low"

-Gym Class Heroes
Catchy tune. But, why would a human being be a radio. No, really, why? How do you turn up the volume on a human being? Oh wait, let me just twist your ear in this direction so that I can increase your volume. Duh. 



Since this thing refuses to align properly after pasting the pictures, I conclude the post out of frustration.



Very intelligent, the person who thought of this.


Harry potter + Hunger Games + Sherlock + LOTR + Dr.Who