Of moving & other stuff…
Ok, so I’ve moved. I’m nowhere near that
riverside anymore. But I’m alot closer to the city now, so all’s well. Moving is always such a hassle-packing, then transporting, then unpacking..sigh. Anyway. I’m done with it all for now. I wanted to move monday, but I ended up moving tuesday.Night.Or wednesday morning- whatever you wanna call it. I started packing on monday, did half the job. Tuesday night, I got home around 8 (after Uni & work). Did the rest of the packing. Mate M was supposed to come to my place after 9pm (he had a 6-9 pm at Uni).Well, around 10pm he calls me up to tell me he has to run home to cook for the housemates. & I’d made up my mind that I just HAVE to move that night. (have enough to keep me busy throughout the next week or so-& yes, I’m blogging). So I call up A, who was waiting for some dude who’d get home late, coz he had to discuss his own moving plans. So he wouldn’t be free until 11 pm. Khair. So M got to my place at 11:30, & A came around midnight. So we started getting my stuff outta the flat. Loaded 2 shopping trolleys, & a third trolley with my dismantled study table (thank God I didn’t own the bed & chair). So we lug my stuff to the train station (13-15 minutes brisk walk-my fast pace), only to findout that the next train’s at 3:37 am-& it was alittle before 1am then. So we fool around. I even took a pic of my stuff outside the station, but the station people said I shouldn’t take any pics of their infrastructure (I might post the pic later,anyway). My pals had told me that a cab at that time would set be back by around 100-120$! But after a while, I gave in (those pals were so wrong), & loaded my stuff in a cab (station wagon-even other wagons wouldn’t load my stuff!). I reached the new place around 3 am. New housemates waited ,& waited, & fell asleep-lol!Oh, did I mention that around midnight, new flatmate called me up to tell me that I can come by cab, & that they’d foot the tab?!(yes, I was so ashamed/embarrassed/sharmindah). So I got to sleep around 4 am. While M & A got to their respective homes around 4:30 am. During the task, I thought to myself, that these buddys (buddies?) gave up on their sleep to help me move,on a winter night- I should be proud (then in the same breath)-& grateful! (can one be proud & grateful together?!).
& now on to the stuff I really want to blog about. Which is why I cut down on the moving story…(yes, that is an abridged version above).
Lastnight, a pal from skool, R, added me on his msn-he’d got my id from N, another pal from skool (she’d mailed me last week after a 5 year period of no contact,& in her numerous mails since, addresses me as sweety/sweatheart/darling-just thot I’d let u know). Getting back in touch with old pals whom you’d lost contact with (which is no fun-losing contact,that is) is so totally awesome!(yes, its my tween alter at it again).
Our short msn convo made me realise how much R had changed-he just wasn’t the R I used to know. Back in skool, R was one of the guys who’d keep saying/doing funny stuff & would keep everyone entertained with his antics. He was your average teen perve-next door. Wasn’t a top scorer, but I knew he had it in him-just didn’t put it to use. Waisay, I believe everyone’s smart-at something or the other-I don’t write off anyone if they don’t get straight A’s (& I don’t get those elusive A’s myself-lately).I say this coz back in the 3 years that I went to skool in India (after Kuwait & before Uae), there were guys in my class who were repeating the class-they’d failed-but were smart enough (taiz), to be able to (ok, this is a hindi/urdu adage, literally translated) sell you off & consume (the revenue) (-baich ke kha jaye). Point of going off on that tangent- I never doubted R.
But our convo lastnight left me gobsmacked- he was now totally the kind of person you’d want one to be. Sophisticated-enough sounding job title (while I’m just a…nah-forget it), hi-flying (literally) workplace, looks like an insaan(human) even, actually blogs too (though not as regularly, but its surprising coz I’ve tried convincing coupla friends to blog but they just don’t-or maybe I’m not convincing enough), & even talks about mature, deep stuff! What a change! & although I may sound/seem alittle jealous, I’m not- I’m not jealous of any of my friends- its the rest of the world that makes me green.
I’m so happy for him! I wanted to ask him how he managed to bring this about- or was it that the planets shifted/ the lunar cycle/ some fairy-god mother/ goblin/ being in love…etc?? So totally not what one would remember him as- while I’m still the same as I was in skool-mentally as well as phisically, sadly. (yes, I still wish I was alittle taller)
R- Way to go, dude!!!
& now I shall get back to working on that presentation I have in alittle over 2 hours…Damn-where’s my freakin groupmate?!
Moving tales are always interesting to hear, and hectic to experience. But well, all’s well that ends well.
As for your buddy R, yep I can understand. People change so much that one can’t even recognise them. By the way, why did you ‘just think’ that you’d let us know what N addresses you as?
Comment by Saadat — August 25, 2005 @ 1:12 pm
u mean to say ur supposed to keep STUFF in trolleys? when we see a trolley we jump in it and go weeeeeeeeee as someone pushes us around. ok, i dont do that, but i do have friends who do.
its rather embarassing. but, uhhmmmm… lol.
RRRRRRRRR… school is so wrong. u know how teachers always write off kidz who dont score A’s? They forget eveneinstein was a drop out. Right, so some poeple just ARE stupid. lol. ok i dont mean it in that sense u know. But then most of them, just arent at ease with the school environment, all the military rules. I’m one of those renegades who refused to be given orders. lol. I was SUCH a lunatic that at times RULES would piss me off so bad, that i woudlnt hand in my finished assignments. Assignments which were don eway before the due date and were eligible for bonus grade points. I just wouldnt give them in. And i’d go down by a few letter grades. I’d revel in it. lol. My teachers thought i was a nut case. I was sent to the school counsellors. they try to figure if somethign was wrong at home, if i was having a unstable “love” life and what not.I had a good time playing around with them too. they never figured.
In one of our natural law classes, we were doing the enneagram, and our instructor, who was also the counsellor, and a psychologist, said that she just coudlnt tell which personality type (number) i was. She said i was prolly in some form of transition, but she just couldnt figure me out. Im not surprised, i coudlnt figure my ownself out
I was just angry tht all those kids with not so good grades were hurled insults by teachers and students alike in class. there parents were ashamed of them. it was such a piss off. how dare they call someone USELESS. I guess it was just an unconcious way of getting even. At pissing off all those people who revelled in my good grades. I made them squirm. I knew i had enuf brains to bounce back, but i just so made them hate me.
:S
damn, i was trying to compete with ur post size, but i guess i lose hands down
please dont temme im gonna get an F for this comment 
Comment by BaptizedLucifer — August 25, 2005 @ 4:19 pm
hope ur presentation went well
Comment by hibah — August 25, 2005 @ 11:34 pm
Saadat : umm, well, mebbe coz I just cant seem to get over it?!lol!
BL : U get an A+ for that comment-it just has to be the longest i’ve ever got-thanx!lol!& yes, even i hate those ppl who write off others (i’ve been written off too…).
Hibah : t’was good-i did most of the stuff…sigh…
Comment by Saeed — August 26, 2005 @ 1:24 am
I wonder if it was the getting back in touch with old friends or the you being called sweety/darling/sweetheart by N that was so awesome!=P
I read your blog every now and then but i think this is the first time im commenting. Nice Blog:)
Comment by Samar — August 26, 2005 @ 7:32 am
u should be glad that this thing is working now or u wouldnt have been here for u next post. new appartment or not hahah
Comment by ush — August 26, 2005 @ 10:57 am
Congrats on ur move!!!
hope, this place turns out to be better than the last!
Comment by NJ — August 26, 2005 @ 11:18 am
hey hope ur move is going well, and ur settling into the new place!
Comment by khizz — August 26, 2005 @ 7:51 pm
Samar : Ahlan wa sahlan! Thanx! & umm, that N part was just for laughs…
Ushi : lol!
NJ : Insha Allah!I hope the same…
Khizz : yup, settling in…thanx!
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