The Sassy Girl

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

The Sassy Girl-II


I had ended the First part of the blog with a memo that including more of those peculiarities would make the Blog a Biographical one. But then, excluding them would not do equity to this composition either. For a character, who’s every alternate deed has something very typical about her persona and something that would'nt basset as a normal reaction to particular action/stimuli, it’s not an arduous job at all to jolt a few down into a write-up. Besides, the movie “My Sassy Girl” was based on about 12000 stories in the Internet based upon the Girl. So, I guess, it wouldn’t be inapt to write a second Blog upon a Girl, who’s much sassier than some chimerical lass featuring in a movie.

So, here are a few more of those typical features that I have come up with after a few little introspective peeks into her obscure character.

  1. In a company of boys, it doesn’t take much of an effort for a Girl to make her presence felt, unless she has looks like some ignorant Village-housewife featuring in some Family Planning add whom everyone tries to ignore. But this convention doesn’t make sense to the Sassy Girl, who keeps pretentiously making efforts to lure everyone’s attention, very much like Kids who keep belaboring some alien language words to intervene in adult’s conversation. And, here again, the sad part is that she’s always ends up successfully getting attention and bending the route the conversation towards the way she wants to, where she can spill out some awesome witty propositions and impress everyone.
  2. Imperative sentences, the ones which don’t include any ‘Please’ or ‘Request’, always generate a negative answer from the Girl blatantly declining to do what she’s supposed to do. But then, a reminder of the same incident (and the corresponding behavior) will make sure that she won’t behave the same way ever again. And very typically, she won’t mention about this change ever, not in the form of any Gratitude, Anger or any other sentiment. So, she can be discourteous and disrespectful but can be way nicer without even mentioning “Thanks for reminding me”. A Sassy Girl indeed.
  3. The Girl has good taste in movies and songs. Apart from a few choices here and there like ‘Mr. ya Miss’, she’s likes movies that are generally liked by many. But then, who in the world would sing songs from “No Entry” and that too with utmost passion showing the same level of cheap seducing cacophony like a B-Grade movie Ghost would show while she seduces her new prey.
  4. The Girl has a lot of self-respect like every independent educated Girl should have. She despises being regulated by someone and does things exactly the way she wants to. Now the bad part here, again, is that most of the people around her are exceedingly nice to her and they don’t just vituperate when she says/does something that is considered wrong, that too in the “Obvious” category. The Girl knows this too and as a result she gets a great liberty not only in expressing and emoting but also acting exactly and only that way she wants to. It’s difficult to understand how a few Girls get that luxury of not being vilified for any wrong statement uttered and it’s even more difficult to understand when you’re one of those who provide the luxury.
  5. She’s an out and out extrovert and, apart from a few instances when she’s pissed off, tired or bored when she prefers remaining quite, she keeps talking about her life, her opinions and her ideas. In a conversation, you get a feeling that she’d tell you frankly about any aspect of her life. But, she very wisely cuts the long causerie short or bends it to some other area, right when she feels that it’s already enough material for you to know. Though she knows people well, she very well knows exactly how expressive she should be about them. That’s unlike most frank childish people who don’t know how to keep even a few things only to themselves.
  6. Being Self-Centric generally implies that one’s only concerned about oneself and one’s benefits. But the Girl, despite being self-centric, can help you, a few times without a request too. She can also quietly convince people to offer you help. As I did mention in the previous Blog, she can also edulcorate her speech just to keep someone’s heart.

There are a few more peculiarities like,

~Despite living outside her motherland in a much better place, she tends to go back there some day. At least her stupid Blog, in which she writes a few weird hindi poems, says that

~Despite being a Girl, she detests acting like a typical one and also those who act that way.

~She does dislike a few people but can manage pretty convivially with them without making them realize that they suck.

I had begun writing this Blog with an intended pun but in the end, it does seem that I am ending it with quite a bit of praise in it. That’s something that inexorably happens when you write something on Sassy Girls.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

The Sassy Girl



For those who hate browsing the soft-copy of a dictionary, Sassy is an adjective used to describe a subject as a Rude and Disrespectful yet adorable, Lively Spirited, Jaunty, Stylish person who’d show impudence with almost every demand he/she makes. After seeing the movie “My Sassy Girl”, a Korean movie supposedly based on a true story, I genuinely believed that such Sassy Girls could never exist and the script was based on nothing but mundane fiction. But now I’d reiterate my thought in a slightly different way because now I’ve met a girl, or rather a Sassy girl, who defies all myths and illusions to strongly corroborate that an Indian Girl can be sassier than some Korean-Fiction-Movie-Chick.

When you talk of peculiarities in a person, you generally allure that there are only a few of those in the person. But when I talk of the Girl, who’s the subject of the Blog, the peculiarities become more prominent and pleonastic than the normal attributes that a “normal” girl would have. However somehow even with a plethora of these peculiarities, the Girl manages to remain pretty normal, convivial and extremely garrulous. With very limited interaction with the girl I am sure I haven’t explored every nook and corner of the versatile persona she has but I would like to list a few facets of her personality that would qualify as really interesting peculiarities in her.

1. She hates being called a “Ladki”. Of course she is always a bully and condescends all the people around her with her very typical “BHAI” like attitude but COM ‘on she’s a Girl after all. What’s wrong in being called a Girl when you're a proud member of the sorority community of the very planet. Her “Tomboyish” or rather “Boyish” attitude surely makes her very jovial and congruous to the group she’s with but the interesting part is that when she seldom behaves in an effeminate manner, she becomes a lot more adorable or rather tolerable.
2. In terms of Intellect, Wit and Wisdom too, she has two contrasting sides. She can understand people well, tactfully solve banausic problems and wisely plan intricate things to a decent level of efficacy. And contrarily, she can also act very childish getting excited for things which wouldn’t even pump an extra drop of blood from a 5 year old kid's heart. She can exclaim delightfully saying “SAHI HAI” after seeing things as simple and clumsy as a ‘flexuous road’, ‘a triangular shape object’, ‘University number-plate on a car’ and ‘Uncooked- Colorful Vegetables’.
3. She has a habit of making horrible jokes and reciting anecdotes from her daily and past life which she thinks make a funny and interesting causerie. The sad part is that the stories and jokes are horrible but the Interesting part is that she’s better off uttering non-sense like those rather than staying calm and quite, which eventually makes the ambience lively and jovial somehow. Besides no matter how much of criticism you chastise on her, she’ll come up with an even worse Joke.
4. Physically she’s not a strong Girl. It wouldn’t take a lot of horsepower from a storm to blow her off the ground. But that doesn’t limit her audacity which is exhibited in her Driving (several hours in a stretch with/without hiatuses in between), Hiking(wearing slippers and blatantly declining any help from anyone), Biking(clicking photos simultaneously) and leading an independent life(of course taking help every now and then).
5. She can be a harsh critic at times remorselessly blasting someone off right at the face without caring if it’d hurt him/her. But then, she also can do favors and edulcorate her speech just to keep someone’s heart and not even mention it.
6. She remembers lots of stuff about people ranging from complex Family Histories to simple current happenings in his/her life. But then, she’s never inquisitive about knowing about someone’s life. She keeps most of her conversation one-way reciting her anecdotes, her stories and her jokes making her the freakiest boring person to ever step on this hallowed planet.

There a lot of other things which I hate skipping because the inclusion would make this Blog a Biographical one. A more elaborated description would obfuscate a person about her character very much like a child in a topless bar. However to give a nutshell ‘The Sassy Girl’ is someone you’d prefer not being with but still feel her absence when she’s not around.