THE NORMAL SUNDAY

             I 'm not feeling particularly well today,mentally. I hate it when I 'm like this. It's completely nuts.
             Here's the thing. Despite my wish and poor will, I always wake late on a sunday morning and I hate myself for that because I really wish I could get up early. I have enrolled in this GATE coaching class and the classes are held on sundays. But the lazy me always gets the better of me and I don't go to the classes much.
             I have attended the classes only a handful of times. I despise myself when I think about it. The worst thing is that I paid the fee in full amount last year itself because I hoped that it would motivate me to go to the classes regularly. But that didn't happen. I feel like I just took twenty thousand of my pop's money and flushed it down the drain.
             I 'm not preparing for the gate exams as well. Now that I think about it, I think I just joined GATE classes to make myself feel better, so that I wouldn't feel like I 'm wasting my time when others were preparing for some stuff like MS, CAT, Group 1, etc. I wasn't very clear of my goals.
             It is actually good that I registered for GATE. But me not preparing for it makes me go mad. It's boiling inside me. I was fine before I started typing this. I was keeping myself busy with games and movies that I was able to overlook the guilt. Right now, I 'm super guilty since I started typing this and explaining it. I don't know what would make me calm myself other thatn preparing for the exams,
             I 'm just not able to do that. I 'm feeling very lazy to even think about it. I keep procrastinating. I 'm beginning to think that I may never really prepare for GATE.
             I have just made my decision, I 'm gonna have to make a time table( although I won't do it because I would barely stick to it and hence I waste of time). But tonight, I definitely have to start learning something.
             I think m writing is beginning to be sloppy and also I 'm babbling out a lot. I 'm going to stop this.
             For the rest of the day, I shall be going to the church in the evening and hopefully study in the night. That about sums up my plans for today.
              Just the same normal guilt driven sunday with many decisions that I never follow. 

THE NORMAL GHOST MOVIE

       Today, I went to the movie 'Annabelle' with some friends of mine. I woke up late, very late actually, just ten minutes before the time we had agreed to meet each other.Fortunately, I was the one who had decided the time and I had said everyone to come earlier my half hour so that we could start at the right time. So I got ready at my own leisure when my phone rang just as I washed my face.
        It was my friend. He was going to the rendezvous point when he called to check me up. I told him I woke up late and had to take lunch before joining them. He just told be to hurry and hung up.
        So I had my lunch. I couldn't really eat much as I had eaten a lot the day before at the treat(it was my treat and I have already written a post on it, nothing fancy-just normal). So I met with the others and after some last minute change of plans to accommodate some people and to leave out some people we started late for the movie.
        When we arrived there, the movie had already begun. I wasn't expecting much from the movie as one of the guys with us had actually watched it yesterday and said it was no good.
         The movie was literally normal for a ghost movie. There wasn't much excitement. But I getting really worked up with my friends and the other audience as they cracked jokes about the ghost and the movie. I really hate watching scary movies like that.
         This is what I figured from their jokes. These people are using humor as a mechanism to hide their fears supposedly. Many of the guys had come with girls. So I guess they apprently didn't want to show any fears.
         But, despite a hateful first half, the second half was better. There weren't a lot of jokes being cracked and the movie got better too. There were many scary scenes. But for some reason, there weren't scary enough to make me shout, which I usually do while watching these sort of movies. May be the same theory that I stated above was the reason. I was also excited about the scary scenes that I was smiling during the run-up to the scary scenes. It was excitement laughter. Although I did not smile I had quite a lot jerks. There was also another problem with the first half. One of the scenes were supposed to be wet-your-pants scary. But I had already watched the scene on a video in fb that showed the reactions of audience while watching the movie. On the bright side, I had forgotten all the other scenes from the video and remembered only after watching the scene on the theater.
         It was also a bad idea to have watched the trailer already for the same reason stated above. Well, in the end, second half is what usually matters in movie because you tend to forget the first half in comparison to the second half.
        Due to the better second half, I actually ended up liking the movie and I also liked that how they had connected the movie to the movie 'Conjuring'. Despite the easy climax, it was overall a good movie and I liked it.
        Later after the movie, I went to Elliot's beach with my friends and ate like a ton of food, although I don't like the impression 'ton of food'. I just ate plenty of food in the evening enough to keep me filled for the night and I satisfied myself with a banana milkshake for the night that I had asked a couple of friends to get me take away from a juice shop. I kind of feel like I'm going too much into the unnecessary details. But then, this is blog, so who cares?
        That's about it. Despite the poor first half it was an above normal ghost movie and I like to be scared in a movie like that.

THE NORMAL TREAT

So today(technically yesterday), I took my friends for the treat that was due earlier. The purpose of the treat was dual- for my birthday and also for getting placed. But my buddies were expecting me to give two treats. Like there is any possibility for that. I had also combined the treat with two other guys who had gotten jobs.
        There really weren't any high points about the treat except the above paragraph. As a matter of fact the treat did not go well. No, it was because we had any fight or something. It was because of the food.
        We used to go to the restaurant regularly. Although I was never very happy with the food there, my friends always seemed to like it there. All that changed today.
        We had decided that we will have lot of starters today. We ordered many too(actually not that many, just a tad above the usual). It all started with the Thai fried rice that a pal of mine ordered. I had ordered Thai noodles. Both the dishes were a disaster. I couldn't get my hands on many starters as well since I did not want anybody to have less.
        The fried rice came before my noodles. It tasted horrible. My friend couldn't eat much. He just ate it for the sake of having ordered it. I began to think that my noodles wouldn't be any better either and I was right. In fact, the noodles was worse than the rice. I couldn't eat mush really. Actually I would have eaten only four handfuls(and by handful, I mean a very little amount). I thought about returning the food. But a friend of mine advised against. So, I just left it. We decided that we will take them(thai rice and noodles) back to the hostel for someone else to eat.
        When we thought that only our dishes were a disaster, we were proved wrong. We had ordered for dragon chicken and chicken manchurian after that. I was like, how could a hotel mess up chicken!! I mean they were worse. But the only good thing was that some of the food ordered on the other side of the table was better than ours. I ate some fried rice from my friends'. Finally I had ordered a couple of naans and ate them with a chicken gravy which my friend had actually ordered to be dry dish. But since they did not have it to due to some sort of mix-up,we settled for the gravy. It tasted pretty good with the naan.
        Despite me not being able to eat most of the dishes, I was surprisingly full. I finally ordered strawberry milkshake with ice cream. When I thought things couldn't get any worse, they did. I did not like the milkshake either. May be something was wrong with my tastebuds because one of my friends said it tasted good and another said it was worse like it had rotten or something. Well, I thought it was normal and not to my liking because I had actually expected to be better than normal.
        So that about wraps it up,a normal treat that had gone worse than normal. Oh and one more thing we decided not to tip the waiter. Who would? 

THE NORMAL BIRTHDAY

       That's right!!! Today was my birthday(Actually it was yesterday, but I haven't slept yet. So what the heck?). But I gotta admit. I 've had better birthdays. This was kind of the worst one so far out of the four years of my college(although I don't remember the one I had in my first year).

        Don't worry. It is not as bad as might think. It is not anyone's fault except mine because it has got to be someone's fault. This year, my pals even cut a cake for me at 00:00. Last year, they didn't even cut a cake for me. I'm not whining. It is just that I didn't even think that they might not find the time to buy me a cake. So I was disappointed at that front. Still I kept myself busy last year with the classes and then a visit to my uncle's.

         But this year, everybody was busy with placements and all the classes were cancelled. So I had hang out at the hostel all day. I didn't feel like moving out. So I spent the entire day with my laptop watching movies and series.

         In the evening, I did have a chance to take my friends for dinner but couldn't because I didn't have any money on me. So those plans had to be postponed. They would have had pretty disappointed as they were looking forward to it discussing it for about, I don't know, an hour.

        So, all in all, I had a calm birthday and nothing was extraordinary. Everything was just normal.

NORMAL POST 1

The Normal Post 1
                 Hello there! I 'm just a normal guy who couldn't find a better way to kill time other than the movies, series and the books.
                 Who am I? I 'm not a guy who stands out in the crowd and I say this in neither a good way nor a bad way. I'm literally normal. I 'm not a badass, I 'm not a gang leader or any leader, for that matter, I'm not the guy everyone wants to hang out with, I'm not a geek, I'm not a nerd and I'm not your friendly neighbour Spiderman. I'm just one among the group of people who get no attention,good or bad. People rarely recognize our kind because of the sheer number. We are everywhere. Not even the movies want to portray us much.
                 So, what I'm going to be doing is walk you guys through my activities, not the everyday ones, just the ones that I find interesting from a normal guys perspective. If you are one of the "cool" dudes you may not be a big fan of the things that I post. I don't blame you mostly because I don't care.
                 Having said all that, welcome to the life of a normal guy.