Crap

Couldn’t find a better way to put it, than this (have made minor edits where neccessary, like, adding commas and censoring the protagonists name):

dude says: hey… wats purple leaf?
me: it’s the name of a design firm…
dude says: hmm…uncanny name
me: uncanny?
dude says: wats a PURPLE leaf??
me: haha, yes. well, leaf stands for a lot of pure, new, fresh things. and purple does have a sense of royalty attached to it, na?! now does purple leaf make sense to u?
dude says: ohh…i guess so. so… wat r u doing for purple leaf?
me: well, i’m doing quite a lot for it… too long a list :P
dude says: like? financing it? :P
me: well, for starters…i am.
dude says: eh??
me: also, running it. on a 25% ownership basis :)
dude says: wat? how?
me: alongwith 3 other designers. we’re in the process of starting a small little new firm…just to try out…
dude says: dude, u already have a company?
me: we dont technically have one. registration and all that can happen only after we return to campus…but yes, the fire has been lit :)
dude says: NICE. who are the other three?
me: shamik, jasmeet, and aditya bandi
dude says: sahiii. yaar, wish i had the nerve to do things like u.
me: haha…well, we’re shit scared too…
dude says: :)
me: and frankly, we know that the timing is something people will laugh at us for… but well, we had to take a step, and took it. if we fail or win, only time can tell :) either ways, we’ll end up learning, so who cares! :)
dude says: hmm… true

Sub-note: We’ve completed 2 years out of 4, for our Beachelors’ degree in Design, and actually had only 1 year of Design courses (iit course structures demand for us to spend the first year doing rather-lame engineering courses). Agreeably, we’re novices, but well, that won’t stop us from experimenting with life :) Earning money is not really a priority – we hope to gain some experience, that’s all.

Wish us luck. Or mock us. As you may.

i’m impulsive. no matter how much i try to convince myself otherwise.

and also, as every single person would agree – a jerk.

thirdly, i now realise that i tend to get very impractical at times. i always see the world as i imagine it should be. not as it is. and i make decisions, and do stuff, whilst i imagine the world to function the way i someday want to make it.

yes. i dream. and for me, that’s a good thing.

i completely respect the heirarchy system in engineering institutes. i can not ever deny that seniors deserve precedence over a junior when it comes to delegating tasks, and overlooking the execution [for several reasons, but i don't need to go into that].

however, when i chose to be an active member of the literary society, here, it was for one, simple reason – i perceived that here, people were chosen for debates on the basis of their merit, and not just because they were seniors, and deserved a place in the team for that reason only. and that tallied well with this utopian system i always dreamt of,  wherein people put egos aside, and fought for the college’s prestige, as one.

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originally a sketch i made for an assignment, it took me 8 hours making. was supposed to make a personal logo of sorts, incorporating all the aspects of my character, which each of my class-mates pointed out. They didn’t point out too many, but how many ever they did, i added them all in.

organised. cruel to my laptop [!]. thin. love my bag. and my short pants. writer. sketcher. helpful. speaker. articulate.

in the end, the prof rubbished my assignment, saying that it wasn’t enough of a ‘logo’. hehe…

p.s. yes, i’ve used only pencils to make it. and i also feel that the ‘organised’ aspect, though drawn, isn’t really what i am. dunno why my fellow-designers think so!

wanned to write sommet that deals with the above image. here goes.

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