The movie making business (Part I)

We have this assignment for our Media and Advertising course. We are supposed to make a movie on any topic we choose, but the topic has to be related to university. Our defined space is our university.
It's a completely new thing that we are doing. I have never used a handi cam, as far as I remember, and even if I had I have never used to make a professional movie. And that's what we are supposed to do now..... make a professional movie.
We took up this opportunity to let everyone know how many issues we face in university. After all we have been forced to make a movie on university then why not use it to make ourselves feel better by finally letting out all the agony we have to go through each day. Almost everyone has chosen a topic that would delineate the many problems we face every day with just a tinge of positive aspects of the university.
We shooted for the movie this week and the week before. Our topic is "Final Year Project". The first thing was to write a script for the movie, things we'll be including, things we won't be including, for the things which will be included how would they be shown, this and that. We decided to act out the whole thing.
Hey wait, the first thing was to get our topic approved by the teacher, and his reply was "Okay, you can do it if you want to but is it just your groups' problem or is it general."
Our answer was "General"
Then he scared us by saying that "Okay, but it would be difficult. Would you be able to convince the teachers to act"
It was at that point that it occurred to us that we might need to do that. The problem with us is we don't normally think, we just act. For the question we replied "Well, we can try, but can we switch to a different topic if we fail"
And he said "Of course"

So then, came the thing of deciding what to do and what not to do.
I was convinced that everyone I asked would agree to act.
Well, I didn't know how wrong I was.

I'll continue with the story later on.

The time called exams.

Every time I have my papers starting in a few days, I start making plans of how I'll study, what I'll do, what I won't do. I do this just to make myself feel better by planning for the very near future, but not actually doing anything in the present.
I would go to sleep early every night saying that I would not sleep much during the papers and so I must get my sleep now. Like sleeping is a storable phenomenon. You can sleep for two days straight and you won't need to sleep for the next week. Ahh, wish that was possible.
But even if it was, it won't make much difference in my life, as it's not about the need to sleep but the urge to sleep that governs my daily routine. It's just that I want to sleep so that I won't have to do anything else. It's just this little teeny weeny want that I am not able to control. :P

And then the exams start without affecting much of my sleeping schedule. And during papers instead of thinking about how to study, making a timetable, trying to cover everything that needs to be studies, I think about what I'll do after the papers finish.
Like the movies I'll watch, the books I'll read, or sometimes even how I'll study in the future. Absurd na. Inane and stupid, right? Yes it is. You are absolutely right. I totally agree with you.
But agreeing doesn't mean that I'll be able to change my life long habits....

One of those days....

I started my previous post with the confession that I wasn't in the mood of working on my FYP on Monday. As it turned out I wasn't in the mood of working on Tuesday either and not today.... that's I am writing the second post of the day.
I have at this moment a research paper open on my computer, I have successfully gone through the first page out of the 16 pages I really need to read. But instead of even looking at the second page, I am chatting with my friend....
I thought that it was just one of those days when you don't feel like working, all you want to do is waste your time in sleeping or just roaming around, talking... anything but actually working.
But as it turns out this one of those days has converted into one of those weeks....

BINGO!!!

It was I guess Monday, when I didn't feel like working on the FYP. Nothing seems to be working anyways, so why waste time on making it work when there is only a thin chance that any of your ideas would work. So.... as I wasn't in the mood of working, instead of getting up and pushing my friends to accompany me to the FYP lab, we all sat together and talked, like we had nothing better to do. My group members didn't insist on working either (guess they were in the same mood I was).
So there we were sitting together, discussing the most incongruous and inane topics ever.
And then somehow, we started playing Bingo.
The game, in which each player makes a 5 by 5 matrix, and fills it with numbers between 1 and 25 (inclusive), and writes the letters B, I, N, G, O besides the matrix. The players are not allowed to see each other's matrix by rule, but it doesn't make much of a difference (that's what we keep telling our friend). :)
Each player calls out a number and cancels that number from his/her matrix, when a player is able to cut numbers that fall in the same line (whether straight, diagonal, vertical, hotrizontal) the player is supposed to cut off the letters (B, I, N, G, O). The player who cuts off all the letters first is declared the winner.
Seems like in easy enough game na?
It is I guess, you don't have to put much mind into it.
But it's so much fun.
And as usual I wasn't winning the game, in spite of enjoying it to the core.
I told everyone that we won't be leaving for the points before I win...... and so I did win.. finally.

Before we all knew about BINGO, we had this plan that before any of our mid term papers, right before the paper, the time when you are supposed to study for the exam, we'll all sit together and play "Name, Place, Animal, Thing". Now we have switched to Bingo.
See when that day would come. :)

Dhund - The Fog

Today there was so much fog in the morning, it was amazing.
The thing that made me most happy was... we couldn't see our university through this much fog, and I don't know why but it made me feel good..... :) :D

Our Last, First Mid Term Exams

It seems like ever since we have started our bachelors we have been waiting for it to end. Okay not from the very start but let's say soon after that.
We have been waiting for these four years to end, always wishing for that time to come soon.
And now it has.
It really really has.
Our juniors now ask us the question: "How does it feel? You are in your last semester, how does it feel?"
For they, like us, are waiting for it to end.

And last saturday, while I was lying on my bed in the morning, thinking or urging myself to get up, and leave the bed.... I was hit with this sudden realization: "This would be my last, first mid term in this uni".
And no it wasn't that good a feeling. (Please, don't kill me for that)
It's not that I want to spend another 4 years here, no way, no way at all.
But still, leaving all of this gets you to feel something you don't really understand.
Who misses giving exams anyways?
But it's the things that you do before and after the paper and sometimes during the paper that you miss.
With the books open in front of us, and all of us sitting together, be sure that it's not studying that we are doing. :P
This is the time, when the most un-funniest joke of the universe would make us laugh hysterically, like this is the most funniest thing we have ever heard.
People sitting near us would leave the room fearing that our Laughing Virus would hit them too.

So this was my Last First Mid-term.
And it wasn't a good feeling.
Because it makes me feel that it will all end soon. Again, not that I want to prolong it either.
See I told you this is a complex feeling.
I myself don't understand it.
But I still thought that it was worth writing a post on.


And before the first paper of my Last First mid-term, my friend and I were discussing how it was our last first mid term (instead of studying for a paper that was about to start in 15 or so minutes).
And we were sitting at a little distance from each other, and naturally our innate discussion was disturbing others.
We started with

"Yaar this is our Last First mid term. And this is the first paper of our last first mid term"

and then my friend said

"Unless we go ahead and do masters too, then to correct it this is our first paper of our last first mid term of Bachelors"

and then this other friend of mine said:

"Yaar, I have already given my first paper..."

And then we started off with: "So, this is your second paper of your last first mid term of Bachelors"
And we got confused ourselves with what we are saying and then tried to restate again and again correcting ourselves.
We were put to a stop by a comment from behind:

"Last ho ke first ho, parh to lo yaar.
Kya tum loog zada parh ke aa gaye ho?"

So this was the story my Last First Mid term of Bachelors.
:)