True Love

Yesterday I called up an old friend of mine from college .She was telling me how TV deprived she was. The minute she said that she had just switched on the TV ..I began to rattle on about the new reality shop’Beauty and The Geek ‘and how ridiculously funny it was and how I was thinking including it in my regular TV viewing schedule of Wednesday on probation. Now that she was beginning to enter my world ,I began to asses what she wanted and how best I could help her out(known as the requirement gathering phase in the tech world)…like what time do you come home,what kind of shows do you watch. I was on a high..Exclaiming out…’Oh..Ugly Betty is on that time. It is a show worth catching,you will like it’. I finally felt like a consultant(that’s what a reasonable famous IT company has hired me to be!)And then without waiting for her reaction..without even stopping to breathe I started telling her excitedly about how my Wednesday evenings had become superb because of the shows lined up that evening. I went on to exclaim how Boston Legal was icing on the cake and how she haaas to watch it. Here was a field I knew something.I felt power,dominance,pride.It got me soo fired up.I didn’t want to stop .It was 11:55 and I think she had enough until I said…’oh..u if you wait for 5 minutes you can catch Scrubs!’ .She hung up.
I hung up and postponed my idea of sleeping to watch Scrubs.It was then that it hit me. I was in love … with cable television. You know you are in love with TV when
1. You set reminders on your phone of ure favorite show on your phone lest something unimportant and insignificant like your project’s deadline or picking up your best friend from the airport
2. You lie to your friends who want you to join them for dinner about having a stomach ache so that you can watch the season finale of ‘OC’
3. You postpone/cancel dinner plans so that you can watch E! News every weekday at 830 without any distraction
4. You stare at your watch while you are at work and wait till its 530 so that you can leave and are in time for Simpsons at 6.
5. All your conversations with friends are about reviewing recently premiered shows and convincing them to watch the show including sending reminders to them.
6. Your ego is severely bruised when someone callously makes remarks about your favorite show and you end up slamming the door in their face or hanging up on them and thinking to yourself that she/he is not worth knowing.
7. Everything about a TV show is personal. The characters, the situations, the villains
8. You decide to have a theme song like Ally Mcbeal.If it works for Ally,it should for you.
9. You cry incessantly when McDreamy breaks Meredith heart again and runs back to Addison!
10. When you are reading recaps of episodes of your favorite tv shows on Wikipedia that you have already watched in office.
11. When you begin to weave all your schedules of meeting friends/picking up groceries/paying your bills according to the TV schedule
12. The first thing you do after you move to a new city is to enquire about broadband connections and their speeds to start downloading sitcom episodes asap so that you can free yourself from the dictates of TV schedules and watch on your own time.

I was wondering how I became like this..I did escape the lure and magic of television all through school and college thanks to boarding school and hostels .I was glued to TV during vacations but then again what were vacations for.Even when I was working, thanks to night shifts I rarely saw the light of day let alone television. I think my infatuation began when I began to prepare for CAT in Trivandrum.But Ive realized that even 2 years in the tough rigors of a B-school have not made me forget my love. Actually it just helped it. I discovered the magic of torrents.p2p applications resulting in free downloads of sitcoms into my numb life .Suddenly I discovered a purpose in Bschool.There were many a night when I was up till wee hours of the morning watching episodes that I had just downloaded. My heart skips a beat,my hands start shaking every time a new season of Greys,or DHW starts. I still go weak in the knees and cry during the same scenes when I see a rerun of old favorite..I guess, this is what true love is all about.

the ‘late twenties’

It took a job to revive my blog! Since my last post, I earned an MBA degree, I joined an IT company, moved to Bangalore from Delhi, rented an apartment, became the proud owner of a fridge, and in 2 days moved to Hyderabad, Turned 26, wallowed in self pity because I officially moved to my ‘late twenties’, and well started travelling a lot more than I thought I would.
What is it about the ‘late twenties’ I wonder? Is it because I am no longer part of the attractive 22-24, fair, well educated ‘marriage market’ which leads me to believe that the only segment I now belong to is that of the ‘old maids’! Is it because I can no longer take my time with a prospective eligible bachelor and see how things go because time is running out. Is it because we realize that the idealism we had in our hearts to make a difference dies out as we suddenly become comfortable with our regular, routine jobs .Is it because of the pressures of society telling you that to have a healthy baby, it has to be before 30.Is is because whatever was termed as fun like partying seems boring, inane and sometimes pathetic all of a sudden. Is it because you start worrying about repayment of educational loans, money, investments the future and making a life. Is it because you start feeling a lot more insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.
Does age have to do with everything? Maturity, Intelligence, Marriage, making babies..??
I guess I am just freaking out. But I thought that was part of being a teenager. Am I not supposed to be a calm and composed mature woman in my late 20’s .But I guess something’s never change…and I wonder how much of it can be changed with age