Cursed....!?!

Big Fish was a nice movie.The protagonist in the movie is known for telling tall tales which finally turn out to be true.Nice movie.Somewhat related to what I have in mind...

Ive come to realise that I tend to exaggerate when I speak.Sometimes I tend to stretch stories a bit just to make things interesting. I guess most of my friends know that (if they don't , sheesh). And the thing is, most of the times I think its involuntary. And thus my rather well-thought-out conclusion : Its a family curse.

My family sure does exaggerate a lot. "Once so-and-so got a cold and ate something and he remained afflicted for 5 years " or "So-and-so eats 20 chappatis daily" or "X never wastes any time because he has to study; he is even fed food so that he doesnt waste time eating "...and so on.(The last one is debatably true. X is an obivous family member ;) ).

I actually dont mind stretching the truth so as to spice things up. As long as nothing ill comes out of it. It can be fun. But its the fact that I do it without realising it (and regretting doing it later) is what pains me.

Anyways back to reality.Life has been hectic last week (or so I tell myself). One of my worst movie experiences in Satyam (Shubham actually) when I went to see Aviator with Praveen and Priyankar. Probably a monkey was operating , a drunk monkey maybe, because there was utter confusion. There were times when the audio and video decided to appear only without the other; there were times when the screen was cut in two with the lower half on top and the upper half below.Leonardo was funny with his hair below his neck...X-(. And the interval sign was shown and just as people got up to refresh themselves, the drunk monkey operator decided to continue the movie. A good 5-10 minutes later he stopped for an ad-hoc interval and when the movie resumed we were treated to some repeated scenes. #$@$@%#!@#@%. Even seeing Incredibles in OAT for the third time was more enjoyable.

Then there was fete. Let us pass that-which-we-do-not-want-to-talk-much-about and just say that it was fun. Fruitless yet fun. Overall fete was decent. The highlight of fete was probably a fight between LED and the Harami gumbal ( ? I think).At one point , we wanted to join in (a la Fight Club) but it was resolved by then. And as fete finished, I realised I had to do an assignment which I successfully did by 4 am only to be told by the prof next day that the deadline was extended to friday.How great thou are Brother Murphy...

Then a flurry of assignments, a midsem and a quiz later, here I am. Alas a rare breed of IITians whose quizzes are over (yes it started and ended today) (and yes we Comp Sc studs are indeed the most jobless guys irrespective of what others may say).

Yesterdy the power was out for some time and most of us landed up on top of the mess and it was awesome.Cloudless , regrettable, though the stars illuminating the sky was overwhelming.Enough said about it already.

"There is so much beauty in this world" - American Beauty.

There is indeed so much beauty in our campus ... the sky, the trees, the deer, (anything nonhuman :D), BSB, ESB...
But then I exaggerate too much.