Monday, June 29, 2015

I Know What To Do With This

I'm going to make this blog all about the conversations I have with my friends/people because what better way to capture myself in this moment in time better than copy-pasting actual Facebook conversations I have with them?
They're all honest and I promise not to change anything in it (not even spelling errors).
I doesn't even have to make sense or be about anything in particular. They're just going to be small excerpts of the conversations and messages I exchange over the internet.
What an awesome art-sy project this is. I bet this would be in an actual art exhibition one day. It capture everything my 21 year old self is.
Lovely.

I just want to say that this idea struck me when I was talking about my movie-watching experience with a friend, and I've been toying with it ever since because I've found that I have really weird/interesting exchanges with people that I may actually forget about soon. I want to remember every single thing, though. Every thought, every fear, every feeling.

So yes.
'Exchanges' has now been born.

Friday, June 12, 2015

Things I Believe In

Things I value, and what to be more aware of, in no particular order:

1. Feminism.
2. Human rights.
3. EDUCATION.
4. Animal conservation.
5. Books that make you think.
6. ANYone doing great things who's of Indian origin because #IndiaProud.
7. Hinduism and exploring spirituality.

I thought this list was needed to make me kind of assess what kind of person I am, and what kind of person I want to be.
This list is going to be constantly changing, of course, but at this point of time, these are things that I like reading about.

Finding My Place in The World

You know what, forget about the whole story-line story idea. YES I WILL DO IT ONE DAY, this summer in fact! But I want to just vent a little bit about how I'm 21 now and I'm having an early-onset of a quarter-life crisis because I feel like I'm at the edge of doing really cool stuff and all I can think about besides Finance and CFA and work is YouTube and vlogging and podcasts, and just being involved in local theater programs and just... I need a creative outlet, I really do, and I have no idea why my heart/head is steering in this direction NOW, but can you imagine just coming up with funny scripts with your friends and making silly YT videos for the fun of it? Because I can! And I want to! I feel like I've always wanted to do this, but I never realized that this is what I wanted to do.
I have all these plans and ideas, but by God, how am I going to make these come to fruition if all of this depends on other people? Because more than wanting to do this myself, I need others who would want to do it just as much as me!
This blog is DEFINITELY just a product of my quarter-life crisis, and I CANNOT guarantee that this will last but maybe it will, okay >.>

Okay JUST to be clear, I want to do this for FUN and as a creative outlet, but I DO want to take this seriously. I guess the word I'm looking for is... hobby.

--Vanu

P.S. And you know what, knowing hat I'd be married in the next 5 years or so is NOT helping this crisis because it's like, "WHAT HAVE I ACHIEVED??? I'M NOT READY FOR MARRIAGE!!! I HAVE MY WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF ME!!! I CAN'T BE ROOMMATES FOR LIFE WITH SOMEONE YET!!!"
And since marriage usually equates to little kids, the follow up thoughts are always, "I CAN'T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANOTHER HUMAN!!!! I CAN'T EVEN COOK YET!! I CAN'T BE A PARENT!!!! I CAN'T EVEN CLEAN UP AFTER MYSELF!!!!????"

Inroduction

I haven't really decided what direction I want to take with this blog yet, but I'm sure of one thing: I want it to be a summer writing project. I'm not sure if these are going to be one-shots or f it's going to be a series of chapters chronicling the same story line yet, but you know what?
I have a folder on my laptop that says 'Writing Ideas' and it has all these story-lines that I've penned down and they have not plot or anything, but I want to change that. I want to make these one-page summaries that I wrote down once upon a time into short-stories AT LEAST.

So mayybbee this will be better updated than the other projects/blogs that I took up?

--Vanu

P.S. I just want to get it out there that I had/still have a whole new blog entitled 'Vanu Watches Doctor Who' which has no new posts as of now because I ALWAYS watch the show after the finale has been aired. That's not a decision I made out of choice; I just don't have the time to watch a lot of shows these days! Ah uni, I still love you though.