Saturday, June 06, 2009

Of Writing, Speaking and Reading...

All the MU engineering guys (who seem to be the only ones with active blogs) have exams. I don't. What I also don't have is something to write about.
I have been told I should be more careful what I write about. 'Cause you never know who's going to read your blog and reject your MS App cause you bitched. This is, quite clearly, a case of stiffling the author's inner spirit, an out-and-out violation of my right to free expression. Sadly, all these rights had this little asterisk mark next to them with "Conditions Apply" in fine print. You have the right to express yourself. It does not follow that no one should take exception to what you express. Sigh. This is a very tiring sort of thought process =D

Anywyas, where I'm interning, there about a zillion IIT-ians too. (Please note: they get paid a bomb cause it happened through the institute. I get paid zilch cause i didn't "demand" it, it seems) All the IIT-ians, regardless of which IIT they're from, share pretty much the same jargon. My question is - HOW??? How do students sitting in 7 different, self-contained corners of the world develop a similar language???
I'm sure you've all heard of "ulti" and "libe" and "muggu". But "gen". Apparently, its too much trouble saying "general" or "generally". So just use gen in either case. "Peace marna" is quite self evident. Rather, its very "ob" (thats obvious btw). And if you're standing around doing nothing, then you are "farting". What they call it if someone really farts, i wonder.

What I am going to do is find beautiful thoguths to expand on during my 2 hour journeys to and fro and then write about them. What fun. =P
I have an excuse though. I am reading my Allistair McLean books for the 29th time and its sapping my brains. Its as if the guy made a factory (much like Ram Gopal Varma) Its a very simple thing:

The Parameters:

World War II or not World War II
Land or Water (sometimes an oil rig - what an idea sirjee!)
Very hot or Very Cold
One hero or many heroes
Everyone dies o no one dies
Female married to hero or about to be married to hero
Kidnap of said female. Or not.
Female's father villian, or rich stupid man
Psycho type villians or brute-force type villians
Hero 35 or 45 yrs of age
Hero with gun or without gun (gun may appear later)
Type of problem - a Transceiver, a Dangerous virus, a Saboteur, Drugs or Ransom

After you've picked a suitable combination of the above comes the actual writing. After the first 3 books, just copy paste a third of each book to get the fourth one etc etc. And finally, give it a cool-sounding title. :
The Satan Bug, Where Eagles Dare, Puppet on a Chain, Ice Station Zebra and so forth.

The end product - rubbish spy fiction which a certain Sukanya DOshi will keep reading cause she has nothing better to do.

Anyways. I shall go rest my weary eyes which awake each morning with the break of dawn (which is approximately at 6.45 am if you didn;t know =D )

Toodles.

P.S. Do watch the Movie Guns of Navaronne. Its old and it has people in it called Gregory Peck. (peck???) but watch it anyways. And if you're into Audrey Hepburn watch Wait Until Dark.

3 comments:

pratap said...

hehe nice nice ,iit guys and all ha :).Good finally vjti people update and considering the fact that you'll are free for 4 months of the year thats the least we "mu guys" can expect out of you'll :P
so interning at where?
And believe it or not guns or navarone was the first english movie i saw...this goes back almost 14-15 years, saw it with my dad on dd metro or dd 1, 9 o clock movies every sunday night or something, and amongst other movies i had seen that time were to sir with love and some other sidney poitier movie which i dont really remember, but these two hold special place in my memory :)
update more often!
cheers

sukanya said...

hey i'm at l%n%t =D

ooh also watch Lawrence of Arabia then. It was good too!

ameya said...

lol..nice take on ally maclean. all these angrezi thriller writers are boring after a while. did someone say colin forbes?