Photoshoots and Sandy.

It's 1:04 am and I have things to do. However, I believe I should dedicate some time to this as well, for abandoning it is not the way to proceed.
I'm still in Clemson, counting down the days to exams and holidays. Still, as the universe has it's cheeky ways, time speeds up and slows down in it's own way. I'm still hanging on, and 'taking it easy'.

The title is pretty straightforward, that is, it has no metaphorical instances stuck on it. I have made a couple of very good friends in the past weeks. Well, I consider them good, I can't say the same about them. For this endeavor of mine, I'll call them Dheershy and Gupteshan. These are two very attractive girls with an attitude quite different from what it seems to strangers. Before one jumps to conclusions, I'm just good friends and nothing more or less. I hadn't made purely female friends in a long time, and this is a nice addition to the list of worthy friends of mine. Yes, I have a list.

The transition from acquaintances to friends to good friends took about two months and a half, but it was worth the time and effort. And it was fun as well, for we bonded over an interest of mine, photography (WrigglyPoo and Faujistan, I still take out time for a bit of fun with the camera).

This blog is called Rants, so there has to be a rant. Brace yourselves, for here comes one.
After the post processing of the photos, I presented the photos in front of a varied audience. If you are a regular reader, you would see how different each individual in the audience was. It ranged from persons like MM and Gupteshan to persons like Sticky and DZain. And obviously the model of the whole show, Dheershy. I get a lot of reviews, from constructive ones to the ones I really don't give a flying rat's ass about. But there were reviews from one audience member that made me write this post, and I want the person to realize how wrong she was. She remarked that the photos were not good, for they were not what they were looking for. She remarked that the photos were 'pretty bad' and 'bekaar'. You might think these should obviously be the reviews I shouldn't care about as they lacked conviction and back stories, but it's not quite the case. I might not have shown my displeasure but the comments clearly lacked sensitivity regarding the hard work and patience I had worked with for the same. Yes, you don't like them, fair enough, but do refrain from using phrases that most definitely would affect the person's faith in his/her own efforts. And these words of discouragement were truly unfair as the 'well-varied' group had opinions completely opposite to the hers. If you are reading this, I do not need an apology for it wouldn't be fair on either of us. You have your views, I have mine.
I would not be sharing the photos even though I have full creative discretion on them.

On a separate note, a prayer out to those who have been or are likely to get affected by Hurricane Sandy. This will pass.

Sidebar:
-I went to play Miniature Golf and Laser Tag with a few friends yesterday, ABSOLUTE-JOY-FILLED-TIMES!

-EPL/BPL refereeing has been pathetic. Ferguson's Association, please stop being unfair.

-I nearly froze while waiting for the bus today.
-The One is infatuated yet again.
-I have had tons of Indian food in the last few days. Tummy is happy.
-Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, spooky scary. Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves.

Loathe.

Here I am, sitting in front of the laptop screen on a Friday night. Sitting here at the onset of the Fall break. How sad can one's life get?
How did this manage to get so screwed up? One might wonder what 'this' refers to. This refers to the plan I had for the holidays. Let us see how the week prior to the holidays went past.

Sunday: Onset of Monday blues.
Monday: Looking forward to Friday.
Tuesday: Looking forward to Friday.
Wednesday: Did my assignments, reports et all. Looking forward to Friday.
Thursday: Cobra Startship Free Show. Looking forward to the next day.
Friday: Classes over. Looking forward to the next two hours.
Six hours before: Bombshell.

The bombshell: Six hours ago was something that defined where I currently stand (sit). All pumped up, I was raring to go, when someone made me realize of something I should have realized so to avoid the realization I realized (heh). Right after the vacations, I have an important quiz. Like a real important quiz. What's so important? It's of a course that's my least favorite and for which I really have to study. Okay, so study during the later days of the break. Problem solved. However, if it were that simple, it would have been simple for Liverpool to win their games.

Why wasn't it simple? The answer to this question will finally make sense of everything I wrote before. The 'plan' I referred to earlier was a road trip to a a city called Charleston, wherein I would go to different beaches and lakes and have the time of my life. Do you see it now? If you don't, I advise you to read again. For those you've got it should sympathize with me for this shouldn't happen to anyone.

Here comes the title of this post: loathe. I simply loathe myself for not keeping track of these events. I haven't just let myself down, but have let down a few others.
However, this feeling doesn't stop here. Oh no, it doesn't. This emotion creeps out of me and radiates out to another person. This happens simply because he took this misery of mine too fucking seriously like it was his problem and I'm at fault. The fact that all of this that I mentioned doesn't deter him from going on this trip is what amazes me. The One laughed this head off when he read what the person sent me on electronic media, simply because a) He doesn't realize what he writes, that is, he doesn't express himself properly; and b) He uses all the terms/phrases in an incorrect way. I could have belittled him by posting the conversation here, but I'm better than that. I write this blog to vent out frustrations in a healthy way. Though, I still kind of loathe him for this. Also, what saddens me to no end was the insensitivity my friends showed towards my case. Neither did I stop anyone from going on this trip nor it is so that without me they can't have a good time. In fact, without me, they should try having twice the amount of fun to compensate for my absence. Well, it's expecting to much from people, for most creatures carry out tasks for their own satisfaction, and nothing they do is unconditional. We are both victims and perpetrators of this mess.

In other news, I should seriously take my hobby as a photographer to the next level. It has saturated to quite a bit now.

It's .gif time!

I'm very fascinated by this photo format: .gif.

One can have so much fun with it, and indeed provides us with a lot of laughs.

A few of them I have created (a website has created) to share with you all.

Can you guess the characters in them?

1)'Family'.

2)Well...

3)One of the funniest!

4)Let's dance!

5) What what?

5)RAJNIII!

6)The many moods.

7)The posers.

8) The funniest!

Don't guess 5, 7 and 8. They aren't characters. Yet.
The One says hey.

PS: Move your cursors over the image if they don't work.