Blog entry #24
Xerox | Xtrovertism | XXIV | X marks the spot
During school days, the "Xerox" shop was the most frequented. Once you’re in college, no one needs physical copies - it’s all digitised. Being the grammar Nazi that I was and still am, once I learnt in grade five that Xerox is the company whereas photocopy was the correct verb, I started acting "kewl", so to speak. If my friend said "Hey I need to Xerox these pages", I’d eagerly jump in with: "Oh you want to take a photocopy? Let’s go." (It’s now a universally accepted verb)
Xtrovertism
If you knew me well before my first year at BITS Hyderabad and then met me after that, you’d ask me who I was. School days were something like this: talk to no one, read your own novels, have only a couple of friends, be a studious geek, go to school and come back home and nowhere else, don’t socialise with others. Post my first year, even my parents were shocked to hear things from my new friends like: "Oh she stops and talks to everyone on campus. We have to drag her away else we’d be standing simply for 15 minutes!", or "Oh she’s part of this club, that department, and those associations, no wonder she knows so many people."
Introvertism —> Xtrovertism: loving the transformation.
XXIV
That’s 24 in Roman. Once I moved to Chennai, I had quite a few important events that took place on the 24th. Akhilesh’s birthday, the date I bought my car, and the date I rejoined Amazon as an employee. I’m not superstitious about numbers, but I sure do have favourite ones: 7, 10, and 13 being a few of them other than 24.
X marks the spot
Most times I travel by Uber or Ola auto or cab, I end up walking a bit from the destination I’ve entered on my map. This is probably because Bangalore is so congested that when you give a particular place on the map, it’s unable to pinpoint the exact area. Moreover, there are small shops, which don’t feature on Google Maps, located near bigger landmarks, which do show up on the map. So when you want to visit the small shop, you end up walking a little, which is actually a good thing.
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