This thing called Procrastination

In order to beat the monster sitting on my head for days (I call him Procrastinating Peter) I've put myself on a tumblr-pinterest-twitter-facebook ban today.

Cue Gossip Girl reruns and Illustrator-ing the whole day away!

Sometimes I love what I do.

How's your day?

Love,
Kanika

Trial

Yo, anyone up for *insertadjectivehere* August? Lemme know in the comments! QUICK!

Also, if you say yes, please be a nice helpful person and email inspiration (photographs, quotes, youtube links, whatever you fancy - but please also send in the source/artist so I can credit them) to me at kanika.kaul22@gmail.com.

Also, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, click on this.

Please let me know as soon as possible so I can begin gearing up! I really need something to focus on other than work and sniffing into a handkerchief for days.

Love love,
Kanika 

SAD FACE

Hello chaos!

So I'm a horrible person because I have 2 blog awards (one from MARCH) and I have only managed to move out of my procrastination drive to accept them today.

*cue awkward cricket sounds*

FINALLY, a giant thank you to Anjali and Diwita who for some reason think my blog is worth their time and award-bestowing. :) Both awards require some question-answering, so here we go.

THANK U DIWITA!

THANK U ANJALI!

Diwita's first, since she's been super nice and not asked me why I've been terrible and not acknowledged this award for months *hides face behind wall of shame*

1. Why did you start blogging?

     I always had a love for writing, and for years I wanted to start a blog but just never got around to it. The idea seemed amazing but I wasn't confident enough. But college helped me feel more sure about myself, and in my second year of college, Sensitive Chaos was born.

2. Who is your favourite superhero?

     Batman. He is just the coolest, no competition.

3. Describe the most embarrassing moment of your life :P

    Really, on the internet? 

    Well, for this one course I had in college we made a flickr account for the entire class to upload photos from a field trip. I was made in charge of the account, and I informed everyone about the upload limit on non-pro accounts, making sure they upload only good photographs. Going through the photostream one day, I saw some random photos of chappals and such, and began yelling at everybody about the shitty photos they were uploading, until my teacher quietly said, "Well I uploaded those, but if they suck so much I'll take them down." How's that for embarrassing.

4. Which sport do you enjoy(if you do at all)?

     Badminton!

5. Do you have a tattoo?

     No! But as soon as I can think of a nice enough design, it shall be inked on my wrist.

6. A word for my blog :)

     Lovely!

And now for Anjali's questions.

1. Is your blog an integral part of your life? 

     It is! Though I feel like I let it down sometimes by not posting enough.

2. Do you regret having posted anything in your blog?

     Not really. It's my blog, and if anyone has a problem with what I've posted they can just not read it.

3. Do you get embarrassed reading your initial posts?

     Not gonna lie, I do, a little bit. But I like seeing the change in my posts over the years.

4. Crayons or paints? (because I felt like .. :P)

     Paints :)

5. Which is your favourite book character?

     Hermione Granger.

6. If you were a musical instrument, which one would you be? And why?

     I'd be a ukelele. Because it lives in the shadow of a guitar, but still holds its own.

7. Your favorite day-dream?

     Walking through a forest in autumn with this British youtube boy I have a crush on.

8. Which is that one song that has been stuck in your head of late?

     Ed Sheeran's 'Kiss Me'

9. A stupid movie you watched recently?

     Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

10. Which one of these inspire you to write - beaches or mountains? Why?

      Mountains. For some reason the silence and the tall trees put me into an abyss of inspiration. :)

11. Name a song that would have suited the most poignant moment of your life so far.

      "Tum Se Hi"from Jab We Met. It's cheesy, but there is a person I credit my maturity to, and this song fits that.

YAY ALL DONE.

And now the best part, giving the awards to my favouritest bloggers :)

The Voice In My Head

Muse-Ment

Translucid Graffiti

Yeah Whatever...

Ice Maiden

Here are the questions for you, lovelies!

1. What’s your favourite book?

2. What’s your favourite dessert?

3. If you could visit any place in the world, where would it be?

4. Who’s your celebrity crush?

5. What’s your biggest phobia?

7. If you could have any super power, what would it be?

8. What’s one gadget you wished you owned?

Also, please let me know what you think of the new header! I'm a little too much in love with it.

Love,

Kanika

The Beach Calls!

Here are some pictures of my ultra cool and cozy room, which I'll be away from for another 4 days because, I AM GOING TO GOA!

*CUE GIRLISH HIGH-PITCHED SHRIEKING*

Last night all my housemates and I had such a blast trying on each other's clothes and exchanging them for the duration of our mid-semester break! Full on girly sleepover.

I made all those giant posters! ^:)

So guys, miss me for another 4 days, and then I'll be back with pictures of me in decent clothes :)

Love in much excitement,

Kanika

!

*roommate leaves*
*cue dramatic singing into hairbrush in front of mirror*

"Now that she's back in the atmosphere

With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey, hey

She acts like summer and walks like rain

Reminds me that there's time to change, hey, hey

Since the return from her stay on the moon

She listens like spring and she talks like June, hey, hey 

Tell me did you sail across the sun

Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded

And that heaven is overrated 

Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star

One without a permanent scar

And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?"

Wait, are you telling me you DON'T think all songs with meaningful lyrics are written for your life, and your life alone? That's sad. :P

I need the perfect playlist every morning to bring me out of my daily morning grump and put me into crazy work mode, and I thought I'll drop in here to say hi before I disappear into a mound of design-student-woes today. So hi :)

Also, in case anyone's interested in what I've been listening to, here.

And since I haven't been talking to you guys much, I thought I'll try much much harder. It's possible you're going to be reading too much of me!

Love,

Kanika

Good Child

I've been:

• working,
• sitting properly and upright so that my aching back heals,
• nursing aching wrists from too much laptop love,
• watching Brit sit-coms and laughing really hard,
• drinking lots of hot nice tea,
• wistfully checking out the flipkart book section (BTW, Priyanka (here's her blog) had gifted me a flipkart e-voucher for making her header, and the book I ordered with that is here :) The Fault in Our Stars.)
• staying in the quiet of my room
• putting up posters
• drawing and smiling.

How've you been?

Love,

Kanika

Unbearable

Somedays it's an explicable spring in my step, some nights an imponderable gloom, and an almost constant will to express but no strength to articulate my brain.

It's been a struggle to not care about the shitty things that happen in a day (because everyone tells you not to care) but I care anyway. It's easier than trying not to. And I feel better about not denying anything that goes on in my head.

I am slowly beginning to realise the things that make me happy. A clean table, a plant on my desk, a good cup of tea, laughing with friends, a cozy nap in the afternoon, people who lend books, a lovable bulldog puppy who plonks his butt into your lap and demands attention, my new-and-improved fairy lights (photos soon!), sharing a cigarette in the dark in the balcony, logo design books, and I could go on and list things that seem so tiny but add up to really really fulfilling days.

All of this, and Fantabulous February is up soon! I almost cannot contain the joy right now :D

So for people who don't know what FF is (where have you been?!) let me take you through.

Fantabulous February is an exercise I cooked up to keep myself engaged in writing, because I began to feel at this time last year that I was losing my love for the written word. It goes like this: every day for the month of February, I'll be posting an image or quote or basically anything which is even half-inspiring, and by the end of the day, I'd have used that inspiration to write a post of my own. It's like forcing yourself into creativity. And the best part, anyone who wants to take part can do so, all you need to do is write a post on your blog, post the image/quote/etc. there too, and once you're done send me a link to that post, because I like including them here :)

This is the FF label, so you can see the crazy prose we came up with last time :) HERE.

YAY FOR BLOGGING AND BLOGGERS AND FEBRUARY AND LOVE AND EVERYTHING.

Love in ecstatic restlessness,
Kanika

:)

Happy birthday to me!

"Take your broke ass home!"

Aim: To make sure you're not too sick to fly back to college tomorrow.

Apparatus: One flu-ridden twenty year old, a Macbook Pro with some decent speakers, 8 cups of tea with excess sugar.

Procedure:

1. Wake up with a blocked nose, breathing through your mouth. Make sure you sound like an old, crabby man and cough periodically to prove the same.
2. Croak a desire for a cup of tea. While it's being made, brush your teeth and wash your face in a lame attempt to bring your spirits up.
3. Feel like your sinuses are going to kill you.
4. Take a sip of the hot, freshly prepared, adhrak(ginger) wala chai. Let the heat go right down to your toes and force you to take off your grandmother's sweater that you put on because you nicely did not get any of your sweaters from college.
5. Turn on your laptop. Wince at the opening music of the Macbook's awakening, turn down the brightness of the screen because it makes you want to go blind. Another cup of tea.
6. iTunes bounces on your dock as you click. Go to the playlist you've been listening to on repeat on your brisk walks in the evenings. It's pretty pumped up.
7. Third cup of tea. Gwen Stefani will inform you of her wish to be a 'rich girl'. Gwyneth Paltrow will want to 'forget you'. Fergie will tell you to be 'g-l-a-m-o-r-o-u-s." Soon you will be singing as loudly as your croaky voice will allow.
8. Your mother will walk into the room, expecting you to be in bed with a pained expression and a runny nose. You are actually singing into a hairbrush.

Love,

Kanika