"we are trendy we can't even escape ourselves" ~ Kurt Cobain
Disclaimer :: in this blog u'll find lotta interesting quotes,it has been plagiarised.Kurt Cobain is so darn good with quotes n i've used his without any inhibition. [:)]
*freeze*
in conversation with a friends sister, Miss Cool Chic (MCC) ,who just jumped from school and landed in the abodes of one the many Catholic colleges in Bengaluru.
Me :: "Hey,howz it going? Enjoyin the new environs?"
MCC (flicking the loose hair on her forehead) :: "Cool maan, i mean the place is awsoome maan,i mean..."
Me (horror-stricken at this incarnation) :: "Nice to hear u having a swell time. You seem to ve
undergone a make over and girl, whats with the accent??"
(i was greedily checking out this 16th something "girl", trendy clothes, voguish hairdo that would ve easily costed her 800 bucks and a american(or was it british!) accent to complement it all.! )
MCC (again flicking the lose hair on her forehead) :: "yeah man,i mean these tops are the in-thing now, i mean everybody sporting it ,i mean.! "
i stood gaping.."wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are" ..Oh wait i ve one more "The worst crime is faking it"
her excitement was palpable and teens these days ve sure grown out of high-rise jeans and stitched shirts. i thought back on my first few months in college,boy i was bowled over by the cool factor so much so that i would try all the tricks in the book just to fit in..! it was about creating a new identity rather than holding on to ur own. Moments of fame are truly short-lived i must say ,slowly i slipped into my normal self : T's+Track pants ,but Hey! it did feel good walking around without a mask.!
i would clock a miserable score in the cool-o-meter of these new age teens . " i'd rather be hated for whom i'm than be loved for who i'm not "*i dont wait for weekends so i can check out the new pub down brigade road.
*i'm a self proclaimed riceaholic and these days u'd rather drop dead then say "where is my rice+sambar.!!"
*i dont own the latest gizmos in town,my 5 year old cell would ve slapped me tight if God-Lord resurrected it.
*i swear by my battered scooty to move from point A to B, and the torn seat doesn't stymie me down, really.
*i still believe in the comfort of my T's and Tracks but god dammit i work in a software company. my wardrobe has a deep aversion to anythin voguish.
*i love to cook but girls these days take great pride in extolling tht they find it difficult to boil even eggs.
*i don't speak polished yenglish..idiomatic expressions like "macha","da","maga" are uttered after every three pauses.! but its stylish when u replace those with "dude" ,"fuck","shit" (ok sometimes i succumb to the cool factor n use it, so dnt pounce!)
cool is definitely a splendid thing to be these blistering days of summer. 4 yrs of college n meeting some truly exceptional ppl i realised you need to be Cool where it really matters,on the inside. So who are the cool dude's anyway ?? Its hard to define but can be spotted. They walk nonchalantly down corridors during internals while the rest of us fret and sunder about that all important derivation and suprisingly they click top honours, they finish BE and then follow unconventional routes to become a chef or a journalist, when exam fever strikes u can spot them catching up on the latest best-seller or watching the latest block-buster , when the rest of the world goes ga-ga over capris they walk around in peasant skirts , they consider themselves bigger than brand like Levi's and Nike... they are the ones who just don't succumb to anything.! hopefully young ones these days will emulate these cool dude's and not the likes of Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan.! so,how cool are you?
"Rather be dead than be cool"..
@shailesh (for the previous post)
ReplyDeleteBwahahahahahahahaahhaaha
I am back. The comment for the blog will come after i read it........
I fell this is like the story of the fox and the grapes and do I hear ann telling "The grapes are sour"?????
ReplyDeletei agree with you on this.. why be someone u r not and gain acceptance.. but ppl cud throw in a debate to it.. that ppl who r not cool use this to take refuge.. whatever it is i like the idea.. and i myslef feel the same way...!!
ReplyDeleteHey Ann, tell me when I am going to meet that Miss Cool Chic (MCC)!! ( men will be men, always)
ReplyDeleteSo fix up a meetin soon... You know what I mean right!! :D
@othala
ReplyDeletefox and the grapes?? wht si the connection dude?
@jobin
thanku..! think we should sit n brainstorm n come up with a book "how to be cool.!"
@shailesh
ha ha ha..! u got me there..well easy route would be to stand in front of a swanky car(needn't be urs just find one n stand in front of it)near the college premises n see the girls drool.!
Nice blog....so what is wrong?? are we not cool enough or is the young generation freezing????
ReplyDeleteanyways nice comparisons with the varying degrees of coolness :)
and the thing about dude...u use it a lot..believe it...u r cooool maaaan !!!!!!
wait a sec..
ReplyDeletedo i see people talking about YOUNG generation?????????
guys when did the transition from YOUNG to OLDIES take place for ya biggies.....
dam feel like need to find some one my age out here now.....
shailesh bro... book a place by the sports car parked next :P
Agree with both Kaushal and Shailesh... Where are the Miss Cool Chickies... Screw their fashion statements.. (And screw them as well..Ok that was downright vulgar)... And as Kaushal mentioned, what do you mean by younger generation? I thought WE are the younger generation... Heck annamma, you aint a sixty year old... Even if you are, I definitely am NOT!
ReplyDelete@shariq
ReplyDelete:)danku..!the young generation is not freezing but they are aping.!
@ kau
well i didn't mention the word "young generation" but "young ones".. by young ones i mean teens and we sure grown outta that phase :)
@bhragav
read the above comment.! and about the cool chics.. hmmm, dnt think their parents can afford the 2 crore dowry!
" i'd rather be hated for whom i'm than be loved for who i'm not "
ReplyDeletewow tats a cool quote!!
cool is abt not caring wat others thi nk is cool and doing ur own thing!
:P