The Battle of Attributes

Hmm ok so its my 3rd post and I’m already being exceptionally choosy about what I write (see bad blogging!) From a very long time I wanted to take a dig at English and its changing trends, be it SMS language or abnormally excessive use of slang (wazzah yall, got swag eh? Yolo!) But looks like a few (million) people beat me to it.. However I decided to venture into a less significant (and by that I mean you never gave a rat’s a** about it!) trend in English and that is, the slow decline in using superior adjectives to express any kind of emotion (see, I told you it was lame!).

Courtesy the keyboard, a strong emotion of happiness is expressed as say, ‘IIII aaaammm sssooooooo hhhaaapppyyyyyy!!’ now replace that by ‘I am elated’ and it somehow does not give out the same feeling. Now lets replace a biggie like ‘I am flabbergasted!’ by ‘Ooohhh mmyy ffrreeaakiinngg ggooodd!!’ (I bet in your head there’s a shrill voiced lady who is screaming this!) and the latter definitely gets to you. Now thanks to the qwerty phones, our faithful chat friend T9 keypad takes a back seat and the extra letters are tossed in abundance to show someone how you really feel. For a retard like me, who loves to bring inanimate things to life in the head, this situation seems like a battle between the adjectives who can be powerful enough to beat the ‘Extra Lettered Attributes’ (ELA). 

Maybe someday they will just be obsolete and the emotions will be judged on the number of times the letters are repeated! Hmm I wonder what the superior adjectives will do next.. probably bring out a honcho like ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ (yes, that is a real word.. source: Wikipedia) to stand against the menacing ELA! Till then, I sincerely wish them Gggggooooodddd Llluuccckkkkkk!!

Rising Tempers

Have you ever gotten so angry that you completely lost your wits? No wait, let me rephrase my question.. How many times this week, have you gotten so angry that you completely lost your wits? I wont be surprised if you answer the latter, probably with a high number. This is what is happening nowadays.. right from the time you wake up.. (Which is 90% of the time later than what you had planned!) Your patience is tested in so many beautiful ways.. you somehow manage to start on time from home but then the traffic decides to beat you to it.. and so you snake your way through, to get to your workplace feeling like you have conquered the world, but alas! Your team leader awaits you with devilish plans of his own and makes you slog the entire day. Just when you have reached the end point of your endurance, the boss enters and you are forced to put up a flawless facade masking your internal agony.. work is criticised and frowned upon (mostly because you make a gullible vent for the frustrations of your seniors) By now you’re already seeing red, but wait there’s still the ride back home, battling traffic which just got worse.

At the end of the day you feel like a battered soldier and pray heavens to speed up time and jump to the weekend! But if your luck takes a turn for the worse, you will have pending jobs like renewing your passport.. and my oh my over there your tolerance levels are simply tested on a whole new level! Personally having experienced it and rejected twice (Oh the abominable shame!) So yeah, as if the work wasn’t enough for you to conclude that you are cursed, the Indian government and the rain gods decide to pitch in too!

Anyways, coming to the conclusion.. this post is not for you to read and go “Oh that happened to me!!” but to do something about it.. well, more like avoid it. The world on the whole is getting quick tempered and the only way to solve this problem is to take a ‘Chill- Pill’ (can’t help with the cliché) and by simply not giving a damn about it. Its alright to be a little care free sometimes. Meeting up with friends, listening to some music (‘Bad Day’ by Daniel Powter..a great song when you’re having a rotten day!)  or just taking a long walk can do wonders in keeping that temper in check. Life is filled with ups and downs but that doesn’t mean you blow your lid off over it! Always remember the fate of our friendly neighbourhood transformer (not the movie). ‘With great power fluctuations, comes gr.. KABOOM!!’ (total black out)

Have a nice day!!

My Angry Bird Mom! :)

I’m sure a lot of people have thought of their family as a sit-com cast.. Its pretty normal I guess.. we love relating stuff to something on TV. I on the other hand took the unconventional route of looking at my dear mother as an ‘Angry bird’ character (For those of you who do not know about angry birds.. Well, its a highly complex and sophisticated game of catapulting annoyed hens with super powers to kill grunting green pigs! Oh yeah, some classy stuff it is!) So yeah over the time, through my ‘Angry bird’ addiction, I scrutinized her every action, recorded it and compared it to any avian species I could think off! The weirdest thing was that, it stuck on.. until I hypothesized that she keeps a secret catapult for travelling to places, and all her ‘Human’ parts were fake.. mostly bought off the internet and Shivajinagar stalls! The craze even caught on to the other family members, my little sister in particular added on loads of new theories which were hands down hilarious!! I think the best part is that my awesome mom took all this in her stride (I mean wings) and completely agreed with our absurd and random quips about her ‘Heniness’!!

Anyhow guess I'm supposed to end this ludicrous tale of mine with a befitting moral, (Since nowadays everyone's big on achieving good values from every nook and corner!!) So here it goes, no matter what, a mother's role is the greatest of all and only she can play it to utmost perfection.
My first blog, I dedicate to my Mom, who in my case can even sacrifice herself to eradicate all the dirty pigs in my life!! All I can think of, at this moment is that.. I am proud to be her chick! (Literally!)

 I'm not really publicizing this game, but its a great stress buster and a must try!