Thursday, October 18, 2007

lets plan...or more like...lets explore time managemnt for the first time.....

yup
its high time
jury approaches..
lemme first tell you abt jury---

we in NID(national insti o design 4 u..) are foundation students, as in we're first yrs with no idea o wat the hell is design..so we're learnin the basics...we have 2 systems..1.)assesmnt by the faculty and grades given by them..2.)the jury where random faculty members(from 1-4 yr) sit n ask you questions or simply ask you to tell them wat you understood.......or this is wat i've heard....

both the systems are important...and one can save you if othr screws u up...ive been a consistently above average student as o now..not way too good, not way too bad..i guess tht wud suffice for most, NOT FOR ME...but wateva, thtsyet to b seen......

first semester ends..jury is on 24/25/26 oct '07.....dunno wat day i get, doesnt even matter.....

jury is like our saviour right now, coz all o us (xcpt the A+ grade ones o course..) feel tht we've been taken for a ride by the faculty..we dnt deserve these grades, but well, nthin can b done abt them either....so we tend to keep jury in high regards........

unfortunately, ive got 6 days left n LOADS to complete.....and jury doesnt listen to excuses..AND u better not make any anyways......

ya so tht was the rough idea abt how maniacal we are abt jury....lets see wat all stuff i gotta complete...you might not get any/all o them but ah well, u will get the gist o my suffering soon enuf.......

FREE HAND DRAWING: landscape , study o plant , spirals , 2-pt perspective

HUMAN DRAWING: faces , fill up 2 sketch books(abt 150-200 sketches)

SCIENCE AND LIBERAL ARTS: the 'amar chitra katha' project

ANALYTICAL DRAWING: grids , lock defiguration , another object(2)

MATERIALS: wood!!!!!!!!! , linear exploration-knots , metal-joinery
NOTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

COMBINATION: start from scratch.....

GEOMETRIC CONSTRUCTIONS: 8 tesselations , 4 grid , 3 constructions

COLOUR N FORM: sarkhej field assignmnt , grey scale , grey interaction , color interaction-I , color interaction-II , color journal , remount color wheel , cover with gateway sheet

COMPOSITION: Plaster o Paris(POP) model , 3 planes , 4 dots , 2 lines , 2 colored planes , 3 Q-compositions , 5 animation-strip-transformation compostn , sketches for POP

well, apart from tht,
1.)wash clothes
2.)get medicines
3.)do wood explorations
4.)meet local guardians
5.)some effing 'cleaning drive'
6.)SLEEP????????

ah well, tht got me all wound up i guess......

number of hours (from 6pm,18 oct '07 to 9am,24th oct '07) = 135 hrs
number of hours for sleeping (3 hrs per day) = 18 hrs
number of hours for eating (1 hr each meal) = 16 hrs
number of hours for WORKING = 101 hours
number of assignmnts (roughly) = 73
time for each assignmnt = 1.4 hrs..................................................








shit......









im screwed..........................


bye bye world...

love
surabhi

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

the FABULOUS trip to bbay..........

well, hello ppl........i KNOW i didnt blog for a LONG LONG while.........takes time to get in control of time in the coll n hostel life(yeah at least for ME!! i knw worse cases.......G for example...;-D).....well, newaz....movin on.........

ya so recently, i acted on YET anthr whim n plannd to go to Bombay......well, lookin for tikts 4 days in advance in the INDIAN railway system at least always is a BIT o a trick..but well, as all peaceful ppl in india, who sleep until lightnin strikes, i DIDNT get the reservation(unless o course i waited with baited breath, LITERALLY, with a hundred or so 2nd class wishfuls....NOT HAPPENIN...)...ya so for a student who already has HELLUVA loads o pressure on her, i still decided to try my luk with the BUSES(note tht i didnt have prior experience..VERY imp!!) hmm..the railway tikts wudve cost me abt 500/-, with return.........the Volvo guy cost me 750/- ONE way, but the ac sleeper bus cost me 500/- (AGAIN one way..)...hrmpf! bttr at least........'fine' i said...at least i get to LEAVE(yes, i STILL dnt like NID..)....hmm....settled.

my reservation: friday evenin 7pm.......leave at 6:45pm.....said goodbye to several friends....decided to spend some quality time with parents only n no hangin arnd too much(YEAH RIGHT!!).. reached the bloody bus stand after crossing a HUGE road junction(death trap for pedestrians in Ahmedabad if u ask me!)..alive...GLAD!

7:05pm.......bus:nowhere to be seen.......oh here it comes!!(7:25pm)..doesnt look to good.......mayb bttr from inside.....newaz,talkin to Joshi on cell.....doesnt matter.......we'll see....life will b better.....
..NOT.

entered the bus abt 15mins later, coz o scanty females arnd the bus...didnt seem safe(ah well.....thts a lil setbak o bein female..gotta b careful, right?!!)..nehow........got into the HOT bus..ya ud think it was AC!!!!...well, thought mayb theyll put it on later..went on talkin to my pal.....slept off....kept wakin up in between....never saw the ac or to the fact tht it was never ON!! well, as long as im sleepin i dnt have much o a problem..so dozed off.......hoped for them to stop for food(mayb they did.....oki, hoped for them to TELL me wen they stoppd for food..)..wen they didnt, had my pak o biscuits..filling if u ask me, but dad would ve been furious had he seen me thr eatin THT!!hahaha..........NOT funny!
went up to my sleeper bed.........someones 'namkeen' was all over the place........bloody gujjus!!argh!!!gross....opened the window a bit..went off to sleep...woke a lil later........arnd 11:30pm....askd the assistant-like guy wen Bombay would come..he said 7am....i was glad.....i slept peacefully....thr will b enuf time to get home n give a surprise to dad n mum who would b sipping tea together, unaware o the lurkin daughter....heehee...*wiked grin*.....zzzzzzzzz..................

sngpfmfgpf.....woke up at 7:30am.........saw gujarathi writtn all over the place(outside o the window o course..), wondered for a while....ah mayb were not in Bombay yet, but even in Maharashtra,thr's plenty gujarathis....oki, we'll wait........zzzzzzzzzzzzz.....................

9am.......askd the guy.....OH LORD WE'RE STILL IN GUJJU-LAND!!!crapp!!!!!!!!!!!!! okay........calm down.......so you obv cant surprise dad n mum...ah well.....well at least surprise mum.......sleep off for now...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz........(ya i sleep a LOT!)

11am........the bus guy tells the Pune travellers to get into anthr bus..OBV i didtn get onto tht.....came down...sat comfortably into the seat....waited for the bus to take me to Nerul(my suburb).....well....asked the guy again....apparently he was born to perturb me.......he says i shudve got onto the Pune bus coz this one here has a different route........so i gotta get down at Dharavi or Dadar(oki, i had NOT wanted to travel by local train this time!!!) n get home from there.....FINE! got down at Dadar n took the local home.......got home.....FINALLY.....at 3:30pm.........ya mum was surprised n all....didnt matter by now...i was bak at home.......BUT my enthu hadnt dwindled abt surprising dad....i threw him off his suspicions tht i was probably cmin home...made him belive tht i was actually wrking in the studio on my color wheel alone.......while i was actually in my room playing with my sis........heehee.....he was pleasantly surprised wen he came........'well', i said 'i threw him off at least didnt i?'..mission accomplished!!!!

PS: (to myself) DONT EVER TRAVEL BY BUS!!!!!!!

heehee

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

well, i didnt know this happens too...created a loooooooooooonnnggggggg post........posted it.......sumthin happnd.........it went zero...missd friends in meantime.........missd da rain too....n now freakin world wud not know abt my life at NID till i decide to have enuf patience for anothr attempt........grrrrrrrrrrrrr..........................

HAVE FUN !!

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

there's something about me...................

This is a relief from alllllll the stopid profiles, intros, "about me"s etc crap tht we see on orkut, interviews etc.......which matters as little as it conveys...........so here's an analysis of ME, well, BY me..........

first of all, i'm an introvert...so well, few ppl know me...but no wait, its a concious effort....see, i make few friends but i intend to keep them for life( "wateva" u'd saybut really i do....) thts coz they go thru a long process of analysis...which we all do, but i'm more rigorous...............ya i'm soundin borin but wat the heck, its MY blog!!! so well, few but everlastin pals....

'stubborn' is wat thay'll soon christen me coz i'm well, stubborn to the osteocytes of my body(those are the bone cells btw)!!!!

stupidly stuck up in my affairs(love or othrwise...), i'm just a 'stuck'-up girl('pin-up' doesnt suit me)....with toooooooooooo deeeeeeeeepppppp mental processes tht take psychology PhDs by storm, gales, tornadoes...........

oki-doki lookin, i seem to have potential to b a goodlukin gal, but OBVIOUSLY, i wud go for the weirdo-turnin-mod-hopefully-in-future look...hahhahahaaa......no way!!! i'm too 'myself' for tht........newaz, movin on...........

well, i dont analyse much, but if i have more to say, i'll tell u...mind u, i talk a lot to my dear ones so dont mind

urs only,

surabhi

days right now at NID

yes ppl, i'm an NIDian..n for those dumbasses who dont know wat the hell tht is, its the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabd, India...............well, we're a different type of elite considering thr's tremendous demand for designers..........but all the same, i've just joind n its soooooooo not my cuppa to b here...........

see, firstof all comes absolute unfamiliarity....they took away all my friends (wen they'r havin fun rite now)...put me in ahemdabd (ya u can take gal outta mumbai, cant take mumbai outta gal!! Especially b4 rains!!!!)...got me to stay in a shitty hostel(better than normal stndrds mayb, but shitty still).........and gave a curriculum tht i couldnt have dreamt of in my entire life.....

here's the deal...u'll say thts awesome isnt it? wat the hell are u whinin for???

well, nuthin familiar isnt fun at all, not even tolerabl

my friends, though few o them know it, are my LIFE, my everythin, my relief from everythin....well, taken away!!!

Take this down on paper, mumbai CANNOT b replaced by ANY damn city...no sir!!! ya u mumbaiites will crib but wait till ur doomed sumwhr else....just wait n watch..........i'm here missin the freakin rains for cryin out loud!!!!

and of course the parents, those tht we take for granted just short of sayin gudmrnin....well, turns out tht after all said and done, noone can take better care of you...yes hen*,u can gloat, but u'll see..........missin u mum,dad,sis

and finally the stoooopid curriculum....see, the problem is, i can very well get into a good engg college, but i CHOSE this....here, i feel i would rather study phys, fluid dynamics n stuff.........n since g* isnt here too, i dunno who to talk to abt this...dammit!!!!

all said n done, i alsohad a gud chance with NIFT whr i wud have the option of stayin in my city....but no, i took NID........well, but as dad says, i have to go out newayz sumday(not the marriage crap ppl, PG courses n jobs!!)...so might as well start now.........

but would ne1 listen to MEEEEEE??????????????

i dont want to be here, i want g, sharan*, hen,etc* (nt necessarily in tht order)...
i want to live with my parents so i can take them , SOME1 for granted....i want to go to sleep in MY bed, in MY room,in MY house, eat my mom's food
i want to go to mumbai netime i like, go to center1 after makin plans with my pals(most of whom get to stay in mumbai...), i want to helpout mom when its rainin outside n she finds difficulty in takin down clothes high up(ya i'm tall n all)
i want to b able to go to sharan's plc wenevr i want, i want to meet dag*'s dogs as n wen i like
i want to go to cbd wen it rains n play tht awesome song by Blue n sit with kaki talkin to her endlessly thr in the rain...
i want to go explorin in the city...i wanna talk to hen for the longest hours,
i want all tht i had earlier tht i never realised i got so hooked onto....i want my LIFE bak!!!!

now tht sounds like a cry baby doesnt it?? well insight ppl, i am stubborn !!!!!!!!!!

but life could be worse u know...thts wat i tell myself...worse hostel, dumb students,hardcore ragging, so-so college, thousands of miles away frm home...
at least i have guardians tht care a lot, mumbai is an overnight journey away, soon my grandparents will b in surat, which is 4hrs away...ahemdabad is a cool city,nt sum village(yes dag, u wanna visit?)...awesom library, tv, few ppl arnd to mess up my mind...goodlukin guys(just eyecandy ppl!!)n most importantly, my few but very caring friends...i'm never ever losin touch with all o u who call me up on 1 missd cal...luv ya all....
but still................................

i'm MISERABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can sum1 help me?

nope

only i can

n i'm doin a lame job...........

but hopefully i will come outta this, hope................

hope..........

thts all i have..........
wish me luck n brains!!


*my school pals in mumbai