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Samit Sharma

Published December 8, 2017

Ho ho, matey!       

It’s still December and the weather’s still wonderful. The weather got weird for a day, yes but solid weather by Bombay standards.       

(I talk about weather when I have nothing else to start the email with)       

This one was a roller coaster week. Prep for my college festival, Detour, went up a notch. I went to 12 colleges to promote Detour. I’m in the PR team for the fest and part of the job is to ensure colleges show up, and that’s what I did.       

Going to the 12 best BMM colleges in Bombay was frustrating with a tinge of fun. All of them had food and stuff ready for us. In BMM fests, sucking up means PR. Colleges suck up to us so they can win Detour. Or boost their chances to at least. It’s weird but there’s food so I don’t mind.         

Detour happens next Friday and according to my seniors I won’t be getting any sleep during the 3 days of the fest. I’m still pretty excited tho. For Detour and for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.         

It rained on Tuesday which gave us a free holiday the next day. It was lovely. Much needed break for all of us. Also made the wind cooler.         

(I clearly have nothing else to talk about)

Cheerio!     

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, Email 142. Happy holidays !!!

Samit Sharma

Published December 2, 2017

Ho, matey!       

It’s December! Arguably the best month of the year. It’s cool and there’s Christmas. Also the year’s about to end, another lovely screaming fast year I can’t wait for to end.       

My semester exams ended on Monday, which was a relief for about 8 hours. Then I was back to my grind. I attended a BMM fest which although fun, drained whatever energy I had remaining. My daily sleep average was 3 hours a night. BMM festivals are insane and electrifying. They make little sense but so do most things.       

Today I began working all guns blazing for my college BMM fest, Detour. It happens in exactly two weeks. Like November, December too will be a packed month for me. But although I like having stuff to do, I do not like having little time to myself.       

I’ve pretty much stopped reading; the only book I finished reading for recreation all November was the new Wimpy kid book. It was fine.

 I am pretty excited to travel after Detour tho, I go to Kutch around Christmas and then Dehradun on January 1. Former with family and latter with college. It’ll be lit.       

Cheerio.       

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, Email 141. Happy weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published November 24, 2017

Hello, mate!

Emphasis on the hell. Why your ask? Great question. I am currently in the second half of Hell week. That’s right. That’s the colloquial running name we’ve given to our Uni exams week.       

It’s a fitting name. We were submitting projects and movies the week before. Lined up smack behind that were our Sem 1 tests. And I took em way to lightly. I picked up the book for every exam the night before. Which was very unlike me. My bed time this week has been 4/5 am. It’s been hell.         

Now granted, I woke up at 11am but that won’t make my point any stronger. It’s just that the exam times have been 3-6, and exams everyday with no holiday in between. So you can’t nap in the middle of the day. Also studying has changed for me, I care less now. Still care a lot compared to most people, but a lot less than before.         

Adding up the consecutive all nighters from last week to my broken sleep schedule this week; I’ve been calling November #NoSleepNovember. Yeah.

Cheerio!       

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, Email 140. Woohoo. Happy weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published November 17, 2017

Aloha, matey!       

I’m not in Hawaii. I’m in purgatory, and denial.        

Purgatory because my Uni sem 1 exams begin Monday, denial because I simply haven’t bothered to study yet and it’s worrying. Really, I’m worried I’m not worried enough about my tests.       

This last week was a an absolute roller coaster. I didn’t sleep Saturday and Sunday nights, I was busy editing. No sleep for over 48 hours. I submitted my movies, slept for a couple days. Then I had my economics presentation yesterday, which went well. I had to create a mock dog salon startup. That’s right, to pitch its economics much like a pitch on Shark Tank. I went all out, it was cool.

Today I went for our school sports’ day. I ran into some batchmates, we were the oldest set of ex students there. We’re aging, mates. But today, my brother won some gold for once, it was great, I was happy.       

I’m linking my college ECS movie here. So far, people have liked it. We still have to fix audio a bit before publishing it; but here you go!

Enjoy, cheerio!       

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, Email 139. Happy weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published November 11, 2017

Click Tap Click, mate!       

That’s what you did to open this email. And that’s what I’ve been doing this entire week. Why you ask? Well, I’ve been editing.       

I have two movie submissions this weekend: ECS tomorrow, for which we made a light less pretentious movie; and socio on Sunday, for which I’ve made a documentary about bodybuilders. Guess who’s editing both.        

Editing is far from easy, there’s so many things you have to take care of, and video editing software were made to be difficult to understand.         

Here I have to give a shout out to my laptops. My 5 year old Dell, even though old handled stuff like a champ. And my new MacBook Pro with the touch bar, the heir apparent and my new workstation.         

The MacBook Pro was my very late 18th birthday gift, I never mentioned that on the WEB. It has the lovely touch bar and is powerful enough to handle 4K video like it was nothing. So shout out to my Dell for always being there for me, and to my parents for getting me a very nice laptop.         

I’m gonna stop here now, I still have to color correct and put subtitles on my ECS movie. Back to click-tap-clicking.

Cheerio!Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, email 138. Happy weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published November 3, 2017

Welcome to the future, matey!        

Think about that sentence for a moment. Think about time. Are we living in the future? Why is time so weird?       

That’s what I feel every November. The second last month of the year rolls around and suddenly it feels like the first 10 months just flew by. My annual end of the year temporal crisis. It’s weird. But it’s the future.         

Speaking of the weird future, iPhone X is here. It’s pretty, has great cameras and solid reviews. And since my phone needs an upgrade, the X just might be it. My trusty iPhone 6 runs just fine but it’s almost three years old (I got it the same week as WEB #1 so, yeah).         

Now for the spooky past. This past Tuesday was Halloween. I went to my first ever Halloween party. The party was meh like most other parties but the costumes made it a little more interesting. Most costumes were bad. Mine was not. I went as the Undertaker. My beard, long hair and poker face helped me nail the part. It was fun.

Cheerio!

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, Email 137. Happy weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published October 27, 2017

You have one new email.         

This message has no content.
         

Haha, gotcha. Or didn’t gotcha. I’m past the most difficult part of my email. Yes, Introductions are the most difficult part of an email.         

This week was very chill, I had economics lectures and the rest of the day I did nothing. Eco in sem 1 of BMM sees the more KTs than any other subject. To prevent more FYs failing, they’ve been extra cautious with our batch.         

I don’t remember most of what else happened this week, it was very uneventful, which was a relief. After weeks of days packed with college stuff and a packed week of Diwali, a chill week was welcome.         

A relatively free week gave me time to read, watch some movies, some YouTube, play some video games (after weeks of no video games). TL;DR, I chilled. I watched the Internship, Friends with benefits and Groundhog Day which are all lovely movies.          

My Diwali break resumes tomorrow, till 9th November. More chill. I’ll be editing two movies and completing a project, but yeah, I’ll be on vacation.

Cheerio!       

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, email 136. Happy holidays !!!

Samit Sharma

Published October 20, 2017

Happy New Year, mate!       

Alleged new year. Regardless, happy Diwali mate, happy holidays. It’s the most wonderful time of the year after Christmas. You get to shop, eat lovely food, get gifts and travel.       

It has been a very active week. Which is transferred epithet. I’ve been very active this week. I had college till Monday, followed by some redecorating to make home a little festive on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday I shot for my ECS movie for 8 hours. Of the hour or so of video we actually shot, about 10 minutes was useful content. Making a movie is insane.       

There’s so many little things you have to take care of, camera angles, ambient noise, lights and shadows, continuity in the story. The script becomes a seemingly tiny part of it. We did have a lot of fun, we got a ton of bloopers. The blooper reel is gonna be a lot better than the actual movie.

I wore a kurta for our movie, before which I went kurta shopping and bought a few. Guess what, I absolutely love kurtas. I’m gonna buy more and make ’em a part of my daily wardrobe soon. They’ll also hide the weight I’m gonna put on from eating all the Diwali mithai.          

Cheerio!         

‘Tis, mate, was the weekly email blast, email 135. Happy Holidays !!!

Samit Sharma

Published October 13, 2017

*Casper voice* “Hello!”         

That greeting may or may not be because today is Friday the thirteenth. Friday the 13th, so spooky, so meh.         

Today was my first day off from college in a month, I did nothing all day. It was lovely. I was supposed to clean my room but I’ll do that on my own terms, not because Ram returns from Lanka after killing Raavan.         

This week had a highlight; I donated blood on Tuesday. They took about half a liter of my blood, it was instant weight loss. I hope they use it save lives and not as a Halloween prop.          

The rest of the week was pretty ok, we had the last of this semester’s lectures, the last one happens tomorrow after which we descend into vacation nothingness. I’m supposed to travel to Turkey in two weeks but my visa interview hasn’t happened yet so fingers crossed.          I’ll spend the remaining bulk of my Diwali break shooting and editing my two movie projects. The topic for my sociology documentary is fanatics, which I guess will be fun to make.

Cheerio!           

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, email 134. Happy Holidays !!!

Samit Sharma

Published October 6, 2017

Hola, matey!       

I’m gonna skip the introduction part now. It’s been 133 weeks, I’m sure you get it.       

This week was great, mostly because I got an extension on both my ECS and socio short movies. That took the stress right off the week. Now we’ll wait till right before the next deadline to make it.         

The bollywood movie I watched this week was Dil Chahta Hai. I hadn’t seen it before, and I have to say, the songs in that movie are lovely.          

I watch movies on the train while going to college. Prime has the best sitcoms, movies but more importantly it now has the great 90s Cartoon Network shows, like Dexter’s Lab, Johnny Bravo, and the Tintin animated show.        

In case you’re wondering, no, this email was not sponsored by Amazon.       

Which reminds me, google’s new phones look like turds.        

Tomorrow I’ve to go to a party. It’s at a club, so it’ll likely be bad. I hate clubs and also hate people who enjoy clubs. You know how I keep saying don’t always say no, that doesn’t apply here. Doesn’t work either.

Cheerio!       

Tis, mate was the weekly email blast, email 133. Happy weekend !!!