The Life of an Ambivert

Okay so the title says 'Down with the Corporations', and I had an awesome topic to talk about but I forgot what that was so this is just some filler that I have wanted to talk about for some time now. Literally everyone asks me why I started a blog and I guess this will tell you why. I always thought the reason I started blogging was because I wanted to find ways to de-stress myself. Reading is a passion. I find it pleasurable, to put bluntly. I would literally find ways to apply morals from those books into my life. So I thought, why not put a spin on that method and start writing. I was at a wedding at the time, so with nothing to do, I sought to blogging. During those days, I remember and I can't believe I am saying, but the main idea behind blogging came from...........*dissappointing drumroll*.........                  DIARY OF THE WIMPY KID                        ...

I am officially back for good now. That last blog seemed kind of dramatic since nothing followed after writing that one sentence, but I have a good excuse for it, I guess. It's just that I have been watching a lot of South Park lately, and it's an amazing show. Before I start with the blog though, tell me, how have YOU been, all of my american viewers according to last month at least. You're good? That's great. Oh me.... I have been better. This extended vacation has started to take a toll on me. We decided that I should take what is essentially a gap year. We didn't start any application preparations last year so we lost some time this year. I have just been living like a hermit now for the past five months, coming out of my shelter to feed and work out. Recently I began my driving classes, stick-shift. I got pretty good at it, considering that the first time on the road had me stalling the car engine a hundred times over. It was the parking test where I showed my...

You ever wonder what your old self would be like?The future you. I guess we have anticipated this question throughout various times in our life. I thought of this question for the first time today. Like, really 'pondered' on it for a long time. I had to go for a get-together at a distant relative of ours. It was a death anniversary for an elderly in their family, and so he was mourned in the proper manner as is in our culture. We had a ritual, and simple food deemed as offerings to the gods. When I entered their house the first time, I heard a soft wail. I am in good terms with that group of relatives, and know their children well enough. There are two brothers who are very close to each other.  The young one is probably a year younger to me, so it figures that they might be playing and having fun. So, to give myself something to do, I walked into that room expecting to see two guys brawling it out. What I actually saw scared me a bit. The elder brother was helping up his gran...

Okay so I joined a gym a few days back. I only have a couple of days here more and nothing to do. Seriously, I made some new friends from my coaching classes and none of them can come with a plan. And they have lived here supposedly for more than 5 years. Every time there is an inkling of a plan in formation, everyone just wusses out. I try to help, but not too much because then I don't want to seem petty, like this one guy on the chat group, he's just so........ naggy (is that a word? No? You get what I mean.) Anyways, I joined the gym. Now I didn't have to pay a fee of service or anything, not because I was using it for less than a week, but because I had ''CONTACTS''. Well my grand-dad's a trustee at the club and he's got connections. Its the same thing. It was unreal how he coolly stepped into the fricking CEO's office and just got permission. That's power. At this gym, every member has a personal trainer. So when I got into the place...

I wanted to wait till today for this next blog, since I had the exam finally today and also as I had no choice. My laptop's been acting funny. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I never shut it down..... Yeah, I don't think so. As I said, the wretched exam ended. It took 36 days for me to prepare for those three hours of misery. I can't decide if it was worth it. I guess it was. It was quite the experience. Not the entire month, just today's. These national examinations are very strict as far as I know. Or at least the one I wrote. Where should I start. My examination center was an institute 25 kms away to a military place (no specifics). Every candidate had to wear trousers and light-weight shirts. On the way, I saw multiple locations where there were streams of students pouring into each buildings. The same thing happened at my location. The crowd wasn't the problem though. It was the regulations that struck as odd. Now in India, we have a big pr...

I think the best and worst thing that's happened to me in these past two days is that I mistook an expired soda bottle for my bottle of water and took a mighty gulp, ultimately resulting in the worst thirty minutes that I have ever spent on the toilet. I am just waiting for that wretched exam to get over, so hopefully I can 'kick back and relax'. Its just a week away now and there is so much pressure being built up. Everyday closer to 6th of May seems like a bomb about to explode. I am pretty sure many are oblivious to it though, considering that the two guys I sit between are playing PUBG-mobile every chem class. God, there's just something about that class or the teacher that really drops the mood for everyone or rather sets everyone up for a rebellion. It's the only class when people go on coordinated restroom breaks like it's a rule. Or that many just bunk class and sit in other rooms, although it hasn't been at all successful for anyone (fun story fo...

Before I start this blog I just want to put this out here. I hit a 1500 views today morning on my page and I would like to thank you for getting me there. I didn't really think I could get back to where I was after I stopped in October but you came through for me. Thank you. I was actually pretty surprised myself. Really woke me up from my afternoon lecture slumber. That's not exactly the best thing to put on this blog considering the fact that, as of this moment, my mom, dad and/or sister are reading this (hey guys!!). Right, so organic chemistry was being a drag, naturally I dozed off only to be woken up by my buddy sitting next to me. He had just started to read my blogs, and I thought why not show off just a tiny bit. I open up my account for the statistics on the blog and voila! 1504 views in all time history. That just did it for me. I was so pumped I didn't doze off at all the entire day. I am pumped right now in fact. I guess something got me going when I saw t...

It's been a month since I came to stay in India and I can gladly say that I enjoyed it. I used to hate living here when I was younger, mostly out of whims and my longing for the Xbox. I genuinely like staying here now. Well, I would rather stay in Dubai, when I think of it. As of the last two hours, I have decided to never come back here, especially to this house. Where am I staying exactly?                                                 Grandparents I know what you're thinking. Grandparents? They are supposed to be loving and caring and whatnot, sure they are loving and caring. I have just never experienced that. All of it just floats into multiple other directions. How am I supposed to explain to my g-mother the intricacies of the internet and a computer when like a virus she has an thought stuck in her head that all boys of my age are always misusing t...

So, I realized that I have been using 'so' usually every time that I start a sentence, I will try my best to control myself. So, I have gone back to prison now, essentially. My father left for Dubai today, I think. Now I am back to sleeping without a fan over my head because ''I might get ill'', or get my ear chewed out for not eating much, then get my other ear chewed out for not working out. The same every morning speech starting with ''Why don't you get up early, didn't your parents teach you any manners....'' to ''Learn from your cousin, he is so well behaved and wakes up early everyday''. I guess she's a hardened veteran now for these type of things. And also, I can't really say anything since I have to save up on any reputation I have left in my family. I can't tell her that my cousin spends his nights talking to girls, or that he destroys everything he touches, or that he gives no meaning to his sur...

Hello again! I have decided to keep my promise about everyday blogging. Well, frequently, if not one every 24 hours. So, today I am going to talk about opportunity. Okay, no. I wanted to talk about opportunity the day before, but now I will blatantly change the subject to something else entirely. Raise your hands those of you who have protective parents. Good. Now those who have conservative parents. Okay. Now those who have (a) parent(s) that is/are over-protective, conservative, frequently irrational, but broadminded goal-specific. Also Indian. I see two hands, that's nice. Oh wait those are mine. Sometimes I wonder how others parents function. Taking my friends' examples, its hard to understand why they are so carefree and (I guess) easy-going. My parents have those qualities too, but when it comes to boundaries and limits, there are so many restraints that I just gets to my head quite frequently. Honestly, I enjoy the restraints. I know that when I grow up and God fo...

Right, so it has been about 4 months since I put anything up. And I can't remember why. Granted, I don't get the best response from any of the readers, but that never stopped me before. Was it a lack of ideas, or general laziness that deterred me. Since most of my blogs aren't exactly topic-based, I would say its the latter. Okay, I actually have a topic in mind. So, its that time of the year for every Indian 12th grade pass-out. That crucial two month period after the final exams is pretty wild in it's own sense. From my perspective, at the very least, I never expected it to be this way. I used to honour a tradition that I have been keeping ever since I got an Xbox that i would play for 4 hours straight after every semester examination. I don't recall playing on the 27th. Yeah, it was more of packing and shifting things around. We left for India the next day. It wasn't a complete waste. I met up with a friend of mine for a quality time of one hour. Right, ...