DISCO

A DISCO PENCIL, I would really like to find the person who came up with this name. Carrying a disco pencil was my first taste of popularity, those gleaming, lustrous plastic with 10 changeable nibs inside it. Using the first nib was always nerve wrecking, trying not to break the tip would always break my sweats. Waiting patiently for the nib to wear out to pull it out and like every old worn out things, its position would be at the back so a new one could be pushed forward to have its own moment. carrying one was a popular stuff during my days, collecting every color of it would sky rocket your chances of getting more friends. Mind you it was 10 ngultrum a piece which was a lot during those days. Not everyone had the luxury of owning that pencil.

As shiny as it was it had the power to make your day somber. Nobody ever explained to me that it came with 'losing those tiny nibs' offer attached to it. I would always throw 'guilt' out the nearest window to steal the nibs from one of my nearest seat mates. Or maybe volunteer to "SwEep The CLasS" because mind you I wasn't the only kid who was losing their nibs. I would go trough all that just to save myself from the trouble of chewing the paper to shove it in those tiny hole to keep my pencil from working. chewed up paper doesn't feel the same as stolen or "found" nibs.

ahh good old days I wonder how its hype died down. maybe kids these days are still using it?  Or do they carry any road to popularity items?

picture courtesy:  https://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/21/02/44210286afdcadb1bfb2e093a1b7c60e.jpg 

it took me hours to search for these images. just realized it isn't called DISCO pencils.

fun fact: just found out these are called pop up pencils, because it pop ups if we don't lose the nibs or use chewed up papers as it's replacement 😞

crimson RED

 In the last week I have cried 2 times. These days my tear glands are tickled so easily. Then I realized I was just days away from my period. I had seriously cried to the song "the story " by Conan gray and some profoundly somber "hurting underneath the scars from being pulled" kind of  a somber documentary. (search for JUnko FUruta).  I wanted to know what caused our mood swings during our period but ended up searching for some amazing facts about our "crimson wave". lo and behold ladies we have a Disney movie made on our bodily function and it  also mentioned that its the first movie to ever mention the word "Vagina". As interesting as these facts were, the title is acutely straight to the point "the story of mensuration"(1946) no brainer. Come to think of it we  came a long way from the word vagina making its RED carpet premier in 1946 to every students getting sexual education.  

Then I started getting angry, talk about whiplash, Right? Girls do you remember how our boys damned us for their reason for sleeping in the classes was us being in our time of the month? Lifting the accountability from themselves and mind you! making it a very valid reasons. And for some reason in the dumb head of mine I used to believe in those shits. Being born in a religious family didn't help your case either. But you didn't have to get up at the crack of dawn to offer your prayers to god. Girls we cannot step foot near his home. We are practically invisible to god for 3-5 days of the month. Sin all you want. From the money you wanted to steal from your brother to talking back to your parents. By golly, our period can only save us from God not the whips from moms' famous Boiler TAAR! So there's that to look out for.

Then it got me thinking the advantages we have over men, for instance "men don't be offended on what I wrote in the  paragraph above, you know how women's mood swings are when they are on their period". See ladies we can get away with almost anything. If we are late for work or oversleep? its because we are on  our period. Cancelling plans that we weren't interested in the first place because it is that time of the month. who would notice? Throw in couple of periods in a month and we can surf in the crimson red through any problems.

And my fellow readers sorry I deleted the last two articles and came up with this dire piece because I am in that time of the month.

stay at home, stay safe

Until next time