Days
Everyday is painted with different themes.
Sweat, sexuality and violence
food+tv+food+tv+food+tv
Work & buzz & work & a Phew when it gets over just before the deadline
Blogging mindlessly the whole day. Editing. Writing. Pulling out my thoughts and words the way a conjurer pulls out an endless hankerchief from his breast-pocket.
Walking on the streets all day since the Earth cannot be covered in one day and there is always an endless road. Walking among new shops, new conversation to eavesdrop on, new temperatures, new winds, new moods, new skies, new streetlamps, new fashion n clothes, new priorities, new contents in the basket. I am not just thinking of words to put after new. Do you know that skies are really different everywhere. In Lucknow they are pink and orange at dusk, in Gautam Nagar in Delhi, the sky is always a strip criss-crossed with electric wires overhead, in Toronto its wide, really wide since the buildings are far apart, in Kashmir the sky is exactly like the Dal lake so that there seems to be no horizon, you are just living in a sphere of sky..or lake.
Or a day with nothing new, just a cozy corner in a lounge or pub with very old, comfortable, predictable friends I love.
She said..
You know, I was talkin to this Dilli babe once.. she was talkin about her new bf.
She said "Humne ek doosre ko party mein dekha aur ab hum 'go around' kar rahe hain.."
Each Day
It starts with filling myself with tea till i feel blackened enough inside. And a blast of rock music till I am spirited enough for work. And no..I am NOT a decadent, dark person. Not much.
And then I sleep at night with HUGE levels of pride at keeping insomnia at bay. So thats 'about me'. In the middle lots happens which is DOING stuff, not WRITING stuff.
My dad wakes up fresh n new. Reads paper, drinks 1 cuppa tea. Is ready and at work before I am outta bed (in another country). He loves his work, enjoys his Amitabh Bachhan movies with adarsh-usool-sidhhant on the weekends and likes efficientifying systems. And he sleeps nice every night with no problem
My sister begins her day IF she wakes up. lol. She will kill me for this. And I will say "Cmon..Wot happened to your sense of hoomer?"
Skylight
Ahh.. i remember now the word i was looking for in today’s exam - Skylight - not the same thing as ventilator or air vent.
Skylight - a patch of yellow indoor light if seen from outside.
Seen from inside its a skyfull of stars - that skylight.
Hang a paper boat or my plastic helicopter in that skylight. A boat or helicopter that doesn’t know if its in darkness with stars or in a mellow yellow small safe patch. Out there or docked? Hanging unknowingly.
NIFT Placements
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NIFT Placements
A question that many candidates for NIFT ask me is - Where do NIFT students finally work ?
Well here is a list of placements that NIFT arranges or students arrange on their own. Please understand that this info has been collected from NIFT students and alumni all over India. I am not accountable for its correctness, in case somebody decided to give me wrong info. But let me assure you, everyone I asked had a decent level of sanity and as far as I know, the information is authentic and true.
Thank you to everyone who contributed! All the stuff I have written further is quoted from others.
PG placements
Hey, I'm working in United Colors of Benetton as a retail merchandiser for South east asia, enjoying my job to the fullest.
All the others are either working with brand or are in retail... doing good i believe. Companies where PG students got placed are -
GI, Shahi Exports, NIKE, Tommy, GAP, Li and Fung, Carrefour.
Gymmie
I am in Toronto and have been away from friends and family for quite long. It feels good - all this alone-ness and the anonymity. I now realize which people stick inside my brain and have a lasting value across distance. Apart from immediate family, of course, there is my x-boyfriend, my Gym instructor and a friend who makes me laugh all the time.
Anyway, the Gym instructor. Lets call him Gymmie, as I do. I am letting out secrets. Wow. There has been so much of sweating, lifting weights, holding ankles for crunches and counting exercise bicycle miles with him, how can I forget him?
Jobs for Fashion Communication, NIFT students
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Workout Curiosity
What do you need to workout ? Answer as 1 or 2 or 3 as a comment.
1 Time
2 Competitive Sport like football, not gym.
3 At home gym equipment with TV
4 Affordable, near home Gym membership.
5 Motivation
6 Gym trainer who motivates and pushes
7 Somebody to put the correct food in front of me on a plate.
8 Interesting workout. I get bored easily.
9 Gym buddies, friends to do it with.
10 Self-esteem. I get embarassed in a gym with my body and low stamina.
11 I really dont care, not interested in working out.