Category: weekly email blast

Samit Sharma

Published September 15, 2017

Morning, mate!       

I think it’s plenty obvious why I said morning. I had another one of those naps that cause temporary memory loss. I write this as I watch Veep, waiting for my coffee to kick in.       

The most important thing this week definitely was the Apple keynote. We got iPhone X, which is one beautiful overpriced slab of glass. Oh and it looks so pretty. We also got the new Apple watch and TV but I don’t care about those. I care about the new iPhone. It’s the best. Did I mention that it’s pretty?       

And in what has become tradition now, Apple was graceful enough to mention me in the keynote.

In other news today I got another project for college. It’s sociology and I’ve to make a documentary about any subculture in India. I’m already bored. Plus I haven’t started with my ECS short film yet so it’s gonna be two creatively hectic weeks for me now.

Tomorrow is my first video editing lecture and I’m excited. Also It was one heck of a movie. 

Cheerio!

‘Tis, mate was Weekly Email Blast, email 130. Happy weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published September 8, 2017

Another week, another email.       

That’s the motto on my side of the internet. It’s very nice here. My side of the internet is full of comics and memes and news. You should visit sometime.         

Last two days I’ve been learning about news. It’s more interesting than it sounds. Eh maybe not. But the lectures are like one giant interesting conversation, which is how all lectures should be.         

On Wednesday morning I was in a clean up drive at Girgaon Chowpatty. It was horrible. It was a CSR activity part of my college BMM fest and it was dreadful.          

Sure, I got to see massive Ganesh idols but the rest was hell. There was so much trash. I found 70 bottles of liquor strewn across the beach. To be honest, I was looking for bottles specifically as they were the easiest to pick up.          

Tomorrow I go for IT, the first horror movie I’ll watch on a big screen. I don’t watch a lot of horror movies. For the simple reason that I scare easy, which is ironic considering I love paranormal stuff.       

~Boo~!

Cheerio! 

‘Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, email 129. Happy Weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published September 1, 2017

Ahoy, mate!       

Never gets old, does it?       

This ahoy is organic, citing that on Tuesday the city was a sea and we were sailors. My lecture on Tuesday was cancelled beforehand so I was home, dry and without any interesting ‘deluge’ story.       

Tuesday was bad for many people, including many of my classmates. But we got a holiday out of it the next day so we’ll call it even. Other than that the week was very meh.       

A meh week gave me time to pick a book, and watch some movies. The Interview is hilarious btw. Also Atomic blonde is very good. The new Taylor Swift song is not that good but stuck in my head nevertheless.          

That’s all I can think of right now.         

Sorry.

Cheerio!       

‘Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, email 128. Happy weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published August 25, 2017

I’m on vacation !       

I’ve never been so excited to be on one. Life itself was very leisurely. But then BMM happened, and with that time for leisure went to hell. Now that I’m busy, a break actually feels like a break.And it feels damn nice.       

I’m at Lavasa for the weekend, it’s pouring here and it’s awesome. The last two weeks I’ve had very little free time, I’ve averaged around 6 hours of sleep a day (without naps). And had very little time for Twitter and TV. I haven’t read or book or gotten any exercise in a month.       

I have been making stuff on adobe illustrator, it’s complicated but when it works it’s like witchcraft. I made stuff for my college economics festival.

Now I have three days to chill. I need to. Too much whatsapp is making me social, and stupid. I’m also looking for ~inspiration~ for my ECS project. I need to make a 5-7 minute short film for my sem 1 internals.       

If you have an idea, lemme know!

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi,       

Cheerio!       

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, email 127. Happy Weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published August 18, 2017

Hola, mate!       

Today was one of those rare days off from college. I didn’t do anything today, it felt like summer. I was very productive this entire week, yesterday in particular. So today felt like an off I deserved.         

Detour is my college BMM fest, which will happen in December, but for which the launch happened yesterday. It is big deal too, people from 30+ colleges turned up for the launch at a swanky pretentious place yesterday. I worked a lot for the design team for a week, but spent yesterday frisking people. It was weird.        

I was moved from on-stage events to security yesterday, because I am ‘tall’ and they ‘really need’ guys for the security team. Which is both height discrimination and sexism if you ask me. I had a position of authority, like a bouncer would.        

Although frisking people wasn’t fun, telling people to sod off kinda was. The best part tho was that after my part was done, we could chill, which we did a lot, which was nice. 

Chill,        

Cheerio.       

Tis, mate was the weekly email blast, email 126. Happy weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published August 11, 2017

Yoo-hoo, mate!         

This is the 125th WEB I don’t know if that adds any special significance. They’re all very significant if you ask me. Also I just woke up from a long nap so I’m a little fazed.         

Taking a long nap in the middle of the day is always a risk because you can’t be sure how long it will last. Waking up after is also weird because the brain reboots the entire day, events of today seem like events of yesterday.          

My relationship with naps has changed multiple times through school and college. Till about 9th grade I never took naps, I believed they were for infants and old ladies. Then suddenly in 9th grade I fell in love with naps and have stood by (slept by) them ever since.         

I couldn’t remember what I was supposed to talk about today because of the nap so I talked about naps instead. Let that be the legacy of WEB 125. 

Yawn.       

Happy Independence Day weekend.        

Cheerio!       

‘Tis, mate, was the Weekly Email Blast, email 125. Happy weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published August 4, 2017

Good evening, mate!       

Introductions seem futile when you do them 124 times over. But an email wouldn’t be an email without an enforced intro, so there.       

This week has been a week of new things and first time experiences. I ~socialized~ at a bar from Tuesday to Wednesday. Quite literally. My classmates thought I’d be more fun when intoxicated. They were wrong. While I did not enjoy the alcohol I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy the evening.         

I do not get what purpose alcohol serves or how people enjoy it. A lot of my classmates do, so I guess I’ll be the designated driver if I choose to do this again (I won’t). Also I realized a couple things about me. I’m very cautious, aware and responsible about things around me all the time. I don’t ever ‘let go’, I’m not ~fun!~ by most millennial standards.         

Other than that, I’ve signed up to work for two college ‘fests’, mostly design, tech and content stuff to keep me busy in ways convenient to me. Also Dunkirk is a very good movie.

Cheerio!         

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, email 124. Happy Weekend!!!

Samit Sharma

Published July 28, 2017

Howdy do, mate?       

I’ll tell you how I do. I do busy. I have never had so much stuff to do. I haven’t had time to read a book or a magazine. But I do have the time to write this email. I always have time for emails.This has been another ~happening~ week for me. The people I saw/met this week include Anil Kapoor, Illeana D’Cruz, Rakesh Bedi and several cinematographers. Rakesh Bedi is a fun person. Two of the cinematographers happened to be on the censor board and they were more than happy to share the dirt about how the CBFC goes about it’s job.          

I really enjoyed meeting and talking to cinematographers. Most media we look at is the end product, it was nice to learn what goes on behind the camera that shoots it all.          

Outside of college, Homecoming and Jagga Jasoos were good movies but I didn’t enjoy homecoming that much for some reason. I haven’t had the time (or the motivation) to return to the training centre. But I’ll try to return tomorrow, I have an early lecture.

[If you think these have gotten boring lately, a) you’re wrong & b) blame college]         Cheerio!          

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, email 123. Happy Weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published July 21, 2017

Hello, mate!       

I’m all out of creative ways to start the email. Maybe next week I’ll cook up a less meh way to begin the email.        

This has been a very busy week for me, college began and thus ended my months long streak of having ~nothing~ to do. I’m in division B, for the sixth year straight. I also have a weird timetable. It’s only one lecture a day, one subject a day. There’s six subjects, which so far I’ve found interesting (except sociology), and brand new classmates.         

Half my classmates are not from Bombay. It’s a ~diverse~ class, students have moved cities for a BMM. From literally all over the country. They’re from Dehradun, Delhi, Bangalore, Lucknow, Varanasi, cities in Rajasthan etc. It was weird to ask people if they’re from Bombay, I’ve never done that. I’ve always assumed everyone is from here, can’t do that anymore.          

Today has also been very eventful, I spent 13 hours at the Polaris college festival. I don’t like fests in general because they’re crowded. Today was crowded hell too. I’m exhausted but I think I had fun today.          

I have more interesting things to talk about but I’m gonna stop now.

Cheerio!       

Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, email 122. Happy Weekend !!!

Samit Sharma

Published July 14, 2017

You’ve got mail !       

A lovely movie that also works as an email greeting. God bless Nora Ephron. She made rom-coms but they were good rom-coms. A director so good, she has a prize named after her; The Nora Ephron prize for outstanding female filmmakers.        

I’m gonna need useless facts like these, I start college on Monday. There will be new classmates, which means there will be socializing. I don’t get along with people right off the bat, I usually don’t make an effort to. But I am better at dealing with people than I was 2 years ago. I was indifferent to people in 11th grade. I got better in 12th grade, made friends (a certain sitcom has ruined that term for me) and it was nice.        

Now I have to do it all over again. My 3 month vacation purgatory is over.       

I didn’t really do a lot of productive things this summer. It was mostly monotonous. I changed that last week. I joined wrestling school! Professional wrestling. Well I’ve been there twice. It was amazing and also brutal.       

I love pro wrestling and the WWE. I had a good run at the gym in June, my entire life has been kayfabe, so I thought I’d learn the ropes. I got my dad on board and joined a training centre. The first day was mostly cardio and endurance training, which was hell and they didn’t let me anywhere near the ring. The next time I went, I ran the ropes and it was brutal. Ring ropes are super hard, I got bruises. Did flat back bumps (falling behind without breaking your fall) which hurt like hell. Just brutal.       

It’s been a week and I still have a bad neck and back. I haven’t been to the gym or the training centre. I won’t have too much time for this once college starts, my parents have been saying I should stop. But I’m not giving up on this without giving it a proper shot. 

Cheerio!         

‘Tis, mate was the Weekly Email Blast, email 121. Happy weekend !!!