Just a Girl Crush baby! ;)

Movie star

Model

Or just another older person you’re acquainted with.

          Throughout our childhood,we girls[or atleast I did and presume for the rest] have phases where we half revere half idolize girls older than us who seem to have it all and are the person we think we want to be.Pretty-always pretty and cool as hell.

All of them coming under the completely platonic term girl crush.

          A few years ago,I’d watch this show called Remix on TV where this character named Tia absolutely epitomized the word floozy wearing itsy bitsy dresses and with her blond behavior. But somehow I liked all of those pretty dresses and dainty mannerisms that everyone else found exasperating. 
*girl crush alert*

           Once when I was 12 and my extended family came to visit, I took an instant liking to one of the girls who was probably 5-7 years older than me. She was thin, pretty and wore glasses like Blair Waldorf[my current girl crush :P] does headbands. That day while going back after lunch when everyone was deciding how best to fit the people in the car on the way back,she suggested that the 2 of us sit together in the front. I went and sat next to her nonchalantly but I was grinning on the inside. To a bookish, rather nerdy 12 year old it meant,"She knows I exist. That is so awesome.Maybe I’m a teensy bit cool on the inside :P". Yes it made me feel awesome. Yes it made my day :D

          I’ve been thinking about this because I’ve noticed that a girl who goes to my dance class has a girl crush on me

• Over 5 years younger than me ✔
• Always smiles at me ✔
• Comes up to say hi to me at the beginning of every class ✔
• Chatters about stuff that’s “cool” ✔
• Says bye to me before leaving,sometimes even ignoring my friends ✔

          My friends tease me incessantly about her having eyes just for me, but I encourage it anyway, perhaps because I remember times when id want my girl crushes to stop and note my existence.

And so the cycle goes on……

*giggleblush*


-Nirmitee Mehta

A Feeling called Serendipity

          The dictionary describes serendipity as an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. What it does not do, however is describe the feeling behind it, the excitement when you’ve made a serendipitical[new word. I made] discovery and the joy it gives to you .How long after its over, you can look back to that golden moment where it seemed like time was standing still just for you, because that’s part of the magic of serendipity, it does not rush. The moment arrives gradually and takes its time leaving you to go to someone else who needs that bit of magic.

          Incidentally how the quill came into being in the blog name and symbol is also a story involving serendipity but I’ll dedicate an entire post to just that another time.

          The idea of doing a blog post about serendipity came to me the other day when I stumbled upon a blog called Green ink that had an interesting book-related quote on the upper right hand corner that got me thinking.[FYI :Book People=Awesome. Always].So then I read a couple of her posts getting completely mesmerized in them.. Then I stopped an started reading from the very first post and stalked the blog for a few days until I was done reading them all :D

          What captivated me was the easy writing style that was clear yet dreamy…the fact that it was so well written and there were so many things written about. I’ve found a blog doppelganger who gets why I love showers anytime of the day and loves hummus as much as I do among so many other things.

          You know how in books or movies, characters find the most amazing places out of the blue? For the die hard “How I met your mother” fans, how Marshall comes across the best burger in NYC shortly after moving to the city? I had a similarly themed experience one afternoon when I was touring Berlin. My friend Sharkanada and I were wandering through the streets, taking more photos than we’d ever want to look through later when we spotted it, the chocolate shop from heaven. Calling it just a shop however would be an understatement and an insult. Hundreds of varieties and forms of chocolates. Huge chocolate monuments-of the Titanic, the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin bear, the Reichstag building sculpted out of the most mouthwatering chocolate[or schockolade as Germans call it] ever!

The first floor held another surprise-one in the form of a chocolate restaurant where we indulged in the best hot chocolate in Berlin and in large portions of chocolate desserts.

Though I returned there twice after that, those visits didn’t have the special feeling the first one did, when we found it inadvertently and spent a perfect afternoon.

          Moments of serendipity, I think are a lot like love, you don’t go looking for them, it is when you stop looking that you find them in the most unexpected places.

-By Nirmitee

One Serendipit(r)ee Hill

Sometimes, things we start doing with no intention of allowing to become an integral part of our lives, end up becoming more important to us than we would’ve imagined at that time. In this article, I write about one such TV series I started watching out of boredom, only to be surprised with what I’d inadvertently discovered.

The show One Tree Hill, conceptualized over two step-brothers, Nathan Scott and Lucas Scott, who come from two different worlds altogether seemed pretty interesting. Nathan hails from the wealthiest family in town, while Lucas, a loner, is the only child of his single working mother. Nathan rules the Tree Hill High School basketball court, while Luke rules the Tree Hill riverside basketball court. As both their worlds clashed, bringing about refreshing and disparate developments along the way, I got sucked into their lives… Mesmerized and yearning to learn more about them.

The reason why OTH is so close to my heart, why I consider it to be so special is inexplicable. OTH's characters, stories, music, spirit... Speak to me. I feel the love between Nathan and Haley as they always stand by each other through good times and bad, I feel the cheerfulness and childishness of Brooke when she wins little competitions like Best Choreographer of her cheerleading squad or when she surpasses all the boundaries to land up at the back of someone's car entirely naked to 'achieve' him, I feel the pain and wrath of Peyton as she deals with her step-mother's death and the sudden revelation of her biological mother dying with cancer just as she encounters her, I feel the despair and confusion of Lucas as he is forced to choose between someone he strongly wanted all his life and someone who wants him strongly with all her life... I feel it all.

OTH is not just about entertaining the viewers with its characters’ experiences; it’s about teaching us through their failures, as well as successes. It’s not about sermonizing or preaching; it’s about learning about life as it comes. With Nathan struggling with the pressure he’s succumbed into by his father, or Lucas attempting to get out of his comfortable space to face his arrogant step-brother, or Haley taking the chance of increasing proximities with an evil person just to protect her best friend…. OTH is not just about high-school drama. OTH is about Life.

What brings out the spirit of the stories more than the impeccable direction is its music. Its music remains fresh, forever. Even after listening to an OTH song five years after having heard it on the show, not only does its rhythm ring in my ears, but it also brings along nostalgia of the story it’s connected to…

I’m still rather skeptical of how to put my feelings across the way I want to. I’m pretty sure OTH may not seem the same if seen through someone else’s eyes. But if you look at it through my eyes, you’ll see so much more than just some TV series that airs on The CWTV every Monday… You’ll see vitality… You’ll see passion… You’ll see sentience.

I sign off with one of my favorite OTH quotes:
If you look close enough to the world around you, you might see someone like you. Someone trying to find their way. Someone trying to find their self. Sometimes it seems like you’re the only one in the world whose struggling, whose frustrated, unsatisfied, barely getting by. But that feeling’s a lie. And if you just hold on, just find the courage to face it all for another day, someone or something will find you and make it all okay. Because we all need a little help sometimes. We need someone to remind us that it won’t always be this way. That someone is out there. And that someone will find you.


So, to all the TV junkies out there, do you have a TV show you're as passionate about? :)

By Chahita Lalchandani