Let's meet the co-blogger :D

Okay, If you read my first post I told you why I am doing this,if you missed it read it here. I mentioned these two friends I pitched the blog idea to, one of them has finally woken up and written something. IT is dead funny, I think his sense of humor is the only reason I am friends with him, hehe. Okay while we are at it, I wanted to tell you guys, that the idea of #100thingsIlearnt came a little while ago, September I think, so we picked up 10-11 things and just stopped, that is why you will find us blabbering about the things, then dont point at me and say, heyyyy. I thought we were in this together? WHY DID YOU LEARN THINGS WITHOUT ME. ( I know no one is really going to say that, but you know if I were my audience I would most definitely feel that, hence.) Anyway, we will still take you step by step to how we learnt something new and creative, and constantly pinch your brain to learn with us :D.
So that is that. Introducing to you the most charming friend I have. All yours,mate!

Hi there.

I’m the new guy here. And in the next , god knows how long, I along with vindhya are going to take you along a magical journey on how to make pretty cool DIY projects (I feel like a tour guide to some  cheap, fake Hogwarts),primarily. But you know we are all about learning new things, So you will end up seeing a lot of things you can pick up, even if you are the whole, UGH, I am too cool for this DIY crap.

Cause I have no idea what my first post should be about, and Vindhya has been riding me pretty hard (not the way you’re thinking, all you dirty minded people!) to come up with an article soon, I’m going to use this post to give you guys a brief description about myself.

So. My name is Eapen (Stephen) Ittiyera. Yes, my name is a bit of a tongue twister. Don’t worry you’ll get used to it. And in case you’re wondering, yes, that parenthesis is a part of my name. My parents couldn’t decide on whether they should call me Eapen or Stephen, so they just kept both. Its like I was born to be a confused child. The confusion called, ‘my life’ still continues. The only difference is now I’m a confused man-child. Anyway, for those who think Stephen is too mainstream, and want to be all hipster like, and are wondering how do you pronounce that other shit, its pronounced as E-pen. Don’t worry, you’re not the first one to pronounce it wrong.

If you’re trying to pronounce Ittiyera, you can just about forget it. Not happening, bro!

Damn. I can’t believe I wrote an entire para on just my name. And that ladies and gentlemen is how I bullshit in all my answer papers. Don’t worry, we’ll cover the art of bullshitting in one of the posts of this blog too. It is a very vital skill you’ll require in life.

Anyway, coming to who I am and what I do, I’m a super cool, daredevil, rockstar engineer who’s living the life and partying with prettiest chicks in Bangalore city! Woot Woot! Okay, no I was kidding. My life SUCKS! I study in a college situated a little after this remote village called Kanmanike (you can just give up trying to pronounce all these south indian names, no one’s gonna judge you ) which is far from the outskirts of Bangalore. I do live in the city, and hence I spend most of my time travelling to college and back. If you’re wondering, ‘Hey! Why doesn’t this guy just bunk college and have a good time?’ It’s because my college is situated in the middle of NOWHERE! Courage the cowardly dog is my neighbour. There is nothing outside my college! And my college has this rule of maintaining 85% attendance. So yeah, bunking is out of the question. But I do play the guitar and I’m not too bad if I do say so myself. And as far as the dare-devilry is concerned, I got suspended from college for a week this one time for bringing a pack of cards to college. Apparently I was promoting gambling (yes, I know, watchout! We have a badass over here!)

As far as the girls go, I’m a hopeless romantic. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and so here’s a couple of things Vindhya and I made for my ex-girlfriend.

Made this using a some of the letters she wrote me. Yes, we actually wrote each other.

Made this using blowpaint. Don’t worry, we’ll teach you how to do all these things, amongst other things, in our blog.

The one last thing you probably need to know about me is that I have the attention span of that a monkey playing cymbals. I tend to digress from the topic at hand a lot. If you were to take a CAT scan of brain, this is probably what it would look like

So that’s just about who I am and if you’re still not clear on what my motivation was for getting into this blog,  I have no life and feel like a complete waste of space, and hence this project so that I feel more productive. Also cause this is a refreshing break from my otherwise hectic, monotonous life.  So hopefully this blog inspires you in some way to do something or make something and be productive in some way.