Dear Reader,
I know this post comes rather late, but exams and a rather long day has kept me from posting earlier!
The conversation i seemed to be having with practically everyone was about the days gone by.
And it all started with watching DDLJ, the movie you fall in love with... and listening to the songs we were crazy about in high school.
From Words by boyzone, to backstreet boys to addicted by Enrique... Quite a playlist.
Getting back to the conversation, what really was amazing was how in those days we would so easily fall for the simplest of lyrics, the cheesy mills and boons kind of lyrics even though we would shun the books themselves.
Its amazing how life could be so simple and straight forward then! You wouldn't look for depth, hidden meaning, complications, anti climaxes in absolutely everything!
And whats more is, you remember every single movie and song, with fond memories of your friends, as you dance to the tune, hum to the song or rave on about a movie with the friends who grew up with! If we were as simple minded now... we would be called superficial! Oh, how things change!
I also enjoyed the most amazing nostalgic like the old days conversation with one of my best friends, discussing life, future, careers, our luck at having everything and being where we were today... the very things that we used to discuss when we started of preparing for the JEE together... some things don't change after all!
Some change, some don't, but there aint nothing that can induce senti like the days gone by!
Looking back,
N
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
23/11/09: The Ultimate Gift
So today I was chatting about gifts...
the special ones that you take the efforts to make... the ones that are personalised to the receiver of the same.
There are some basic requirements for it
1. you must know the person.. special characteristics, moods, likes etc
2. it must be someone close you are doin this for... else it loses all the meaning it was meant to have!
3. you have got to be ready to invest time
4. be creative!
just to cite a couple of examples, some of the gifts that we had made so far was a marketing brochure, ppt, proposal for a close friend who was managing marketing in an institute body, with of course messages from friends instead of write ups and photos from her past!
Another special gift that comes to mind is a collage of photos that i was given, with messages from each and every friend of mine, now here is the crux.. it was a silhouette of me! and had my pics since i was a small girl!
A calendar, where every month had pictures of that friend with every close friend whose birthday is in that month...
well you get the picture.. the list goes on (yeah.. i promise i will blog about it.. even upload pics of the end result...)
Getting to the point of the conversation...
Why would anyone do anything of this sort?
It all started with a gang on teenage girls in school, bored of exams with the only exciting thing coming up was a special friend's birthday, and planning to surprise her...
the end result was an unbelievably happy friend, tears of joy, memories forever and a way to express to her how much she meant for us... with of course, something she will always look at and remember us for!
What it meant for us, meeting and talking for quite some time with each other. Investing that time to pick out the things we knew our friend would like best... putting them together... having a vision in the beginning.. and piecing it together from various different ends and bringing about something that not only did we enjoy building up but also something we are sure our friend would like (either use, appreciate, build upon, keep as a memory)
The feeling is unparalleled.. to see the complete birthday gift.. the perfect birthday gift!
Now that I have elaborated my point with so many words.. here was the question I was given..
what if, hypothetically, the friend in question is completely immaterialistic.. does not care or think about any sort of gifts... insists that it would probably make them happy and would appreciate your gesture, but would not induce that tear of joy, or element of surprise or utter pleasure!
What if it wouldn't change how special the person felt, (s)he already knew what you felt, and how special the person was. Din't need gifts to prove so. Din't want you to put in effort towards the same...
Should you still work on it?
Who is the gift for after all?!
More later!
N
the special ones that you take the efforts to make... the ones that are personalised to the receiver of the same.
There are some basic requirements for it
1. you must know the person.. special characteristics, moods, likes etc
2. it must be someone close you are doin this for... else it loses all the meaning it was meant to have!
3. you have got to be ready to invest time
4. be creative!
just to cite a couple of examples, some of the gifts that we had made so far was a marketing brochure, ppt, proposal for a close friend who was managing marketing in an institute body, with of course messages from friends instead of write ups and photos from her past!
Another special gift that comes to mind is a collage of photos that i was given, with messages from each and every friend of mine, now here is the crux.. it was a silhouette of me! and had my pics since i was a small girl!
A calendar, where every month had pictures of that friend with every close friend whose birthday is in that month...
well you get the picture.. the list goes on (yeah.. i promise i will blog about it.. even upload pics of the end result...)
Getting to the point of the conversation...
Why would anyone do anything of this sort?
It all started with a gang on teenage girls in school, bored of exams with the only exciting thing coming up was a special friend's birthday, and planning to surprise her...
the end result was an unbelievably happy friend, tears of joy, memories forever and a way to express to her how much she meant for us... with of course, something she will always look at and remember us for!
What it meant for us, meeting and talking for quite some time with each other. Investing that time to pick out the things we knew our friend would like best... putting them together... having a vision in the beginning.. and piecing it together from various different ends and bringing about something that not only did we enjoy building up but also something we are sure our friend would like (either use, appreciate, build upon, keep as a memory)
The feeling is unparalleled.. to see the complete birthday gift.. the perfect birthday gift!
Now that I have elaborated my point with so many words.. here was the question I was given..
what if, hypothetically, the friend in question is completely immaterialistic.. does not care or think about any sort of gifts... insists that it would probably make them happy and would appreciate your gesture, but would not induce that tear of joy, or element of surprise or utter pleasure!
What if it wouldn't change how special the person felt, (s)he already knew what you felt, and how special the person was. Din't need gifts to prove so. Din't want you to put in effort towards the same...
Should you still work on it?
Who is the gift for after all?!
More later!
N
Chips of Conversation
Dear reader,
I am a chatoholic! I must must confess, I love talking to people, I love words!
I love playing with words.
Absolutely everyday, I have some chat or the other that I really like..
Could be for its simplicity, for what it meant, for the brilliance of its words, for what i understood from it, for its impact.. etc etc... for the way it makes me feel :)
Not always am I going to divulge the identity of the chatee (me being the chatter of course)
but ull get all the sugar and spice you need even without!! Happy reading!
Feeling like Carrie Bradshaw,
N
I am a chatoholic! I must must confess, I love talking to people, I love words!
I love playing with words.
Absolutely everyday, I have some chat or the other that I really like..
Could be for its simplicity, for what it meant, for the brilliance of its words, for what i understood from it, for its impact.. etc etc... for the way it makes me feel :)
Not always am I going to divulge the identity of the chatee (me being the chatter of course)
but ull get all the sugar and spice you need even without!! Happy reading!
Feeling like Carrie Bradshaw,
N
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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