Life in the times of FB

i am from a generation of youngistan who grew up (or atleast thght we did) with a heady dose of Orkut !!! thats right... u remember that right !!? orkut... those were the easy days... just befriend people u know... send them 'scraps' !!

Then something weird happened... orkut began being overtaken by voyeurs ... it became a haven for sick basterds to harass the living scrapbooks out of innocent orkuters !! ( atleast thats how i think it went ). So people who were really interested in the social networking side of the whole thing shifted base... they (we) migrated to FB !!

Suddenly the once dull and overcrowded UE of FB didnt matter anymore... it became simple sleek and effective !! applications were interesting ... comments and 'likes' even better !! it was a wonderful world again !!

Nowadays FB is everywhere ... everybody who is anybody has a FB profile. Even me :P

Suddenly social farming is the 'in' thing to do !!! the passion with which ppl play the mafia wars wud put Columbians to shame !! people are taking quizzes as if their social life depends on it !! joining 'important causes' to show their social awareness.. becoming fans of things that are soo absurd .. it not even funny any more ...take this for example ...

not sure who you are, but im drunk, so ill talk to you like your my friend

really ?? is this something u think about more than once ? best of luck with the rest of your life buddy....

Frankly .. i think this is getting a bit much... some status updates are so lame ... its hilarious.. they are just there for getting comments and 'likes' from people... some of them are not even original and the plagiarism is bordering on childish... people are actually copying status updates from others and putting it up as their own !!

so basically i dont like wat is happening to FB ... somehow it is becoming a place for ppl to live their alternate lives.. lives in which they are cool.. they are 'hep' .. they are 'liked' ... but none of it is real...

newazz... this is how i feel.. may be i am wrong.. i shudnt judge how othr ppl live their social lives shud i ... probably.. but .. this is my blog and i write wat i want !! so stuff it..

Treadmill

Phew... even beginning this blog seems to be a tiresome exercise... being as it is that i havent posted anything since last July !!! man that was long ago .. shitt..

Anyways.... better get to the point of my blog quickly...
Treadmill !!

Currently i have become obsessed with exercising... gymming .. cardios.. runs.. walkss... u name it.. i am doing it every week... but this is not abt that... its abt my life which seems to be like walking on a treadmill.. i am working hard... i am huffing and puffing.... i am sweaty and messed up.. but i aint getting anywhere !!!!

So let me explain the predicament that is my life... professionally (if you can even call , a year of working a job , that...) i am going nowhere.... i aint getting no big raise... i aint getting no big promotion... not that i expect it... since i am still the lowermost rung in the hierarchy... shitt....

personally... there is just nothin... zero .. zilch... i just get up... go to the gym.. come back.. go to the office.. come back... go to sleep.... very very happening na !! i know..... shitt...


future wise.. i am in a complete mess... i know i shud be taking further education.. but i just missed the bus this year... i didnt even show up at the bus-stop actually... but now that i think abt it.. its really scary... i dont really have a plan... shitt...


come to think of it... i am not doing much besides my work actually.... but how come i dont find time for anything else... i dont find time to play.. i dont find time to talk to friends.. i dont find time to laugh.... i dont find time to Live.... maybe its becos....


i really dont know why actually....

Junoon !!!

Wat do u think makes great men great !!! wat makes them 'tick ' !! wat is it that keeps Sachin Tendulkar going after 18 painstaking years of international professional sport ?!! wat made warren buffet and bill gates donate their life and their life's earnings to Humanitarian causes ?!! wat makes Ratan Tata look at a family of four struggling on a scooter and decide to take the boldest business idea of recent times ahead to its conclusion ?!!!! ( read Nano !!! )

the answer to all the questions above is... Passion... ( u c , i hav to spell it out to some of those induviduals we talked abt !! so.. P-A-S-S-I-O-N ...) passion.. dats wat it is... i think it is the single most important thing in any man's or woman's life... it is the Spark !!! everything else is gravy.. as they say...

so... wat shud one be passionate abt !!! donn ask me... ( i am as clueless as the next guy.. notice how i hav told u this at the end of my post !!! ) be passionate abt life !!! be passionate abt the tiniest little things u njoi doing in ur life !!! and once u discover dat passion... i guarantee u.. ur life will never be the same... the 'hardwork' , 'sincerity' , 'dedication' , the gravy bits.. will come naturally... and u life will be resounding Success !!!

Theory !!

Disclaimer - watever u r about to read is a proprietary (hope i hav got the spelling rite on dat one !! not dat n one of u Induhviduals will notice ) material. It is purely fictional at this point and any resemblance to any reality is purely due to my genius and not at all regretted !!

btw , disclaimers seem to be in fashion nowadays !! the broke-back couple of the year , dats the Nawaab and the Badshah , making it so the ' in ' thing to do !!!

Now back to my pathbreaking theory !!

this theory presents an alternate view of the existence of beings on this planet and the existence of god !! just think about this... for a very tiny creature like an ant or even a bird .. wat wud we humans be looking like !?!! how do u suppose they comprehend our existence ?!! we are perhaps the greatest force of change affecting their existence !! and they cant even control it , can they ?! i mean .. sure.. one of those tiger creatures tries to extract revenge by eating some of us .. but still its not enough of a fight back , is it !!! wat i am trying to say is.. to those creatures we are some uncontrollable force and creatures that they don't understand !! read that line again if u want , i ll wait !!

now , wat if this world is arranged as a maze of boxes one over the other !! these boxes aren't just ordinary boxes .. they are made of a sort of one way glass .. ones in which the people outside can see thru the glass but the people inside it dont see a thing.. nows the gud part !!!

imagine this , all creatures are arranged in this box structure.... ants worms and the like are in the innermost box. .. they cant see all dat well outside of their box... they cant comprehend wat a tiger is or wat a human is.. for them... the world is dat box and a small slit thru which they hav a very narrow vision of the 'outside ' box.... creatures like mice snakes etc are in a box encovering the smaller box and so on... u get the overall picture rite...

now.. u must think we humans are in the outermost box , and dat there exists no other box on top of us rite ?!! , no uncontrollable force , nothin dat we cant comprehend , which ironically is wat we humans think of as GOD !!! so..... consider this .. there are a number of god like creatures which live in a box enclosing our own !! they have tremendous powers to influence lives of creatures inside the inner boxes , which is common even to us humans , how many times have u thought of the ant dat killed , the cockroach that u flattened , with pleasure too , i am sure ... so , my point being , this doesnt seem to far fetched , does it ?!! its just dat god is someone who we cant comprehend , we cant understand as it is outside of our Box !!!

think about it ...

My Brilliant Brain !!

No.. this is not a blog abt how brilliant i am .... ( do i really hav to say it anyways ?! ).. This is , though , a blog about my fascination for the working of the human mind....

yesterday i saw a very interesting show on the National Geographic (yes yes.. donn be surprised... i watch info progs as well.... from time to time... wen i accidentally stumble upon them while surfing thru soapy dramas !!!) .... the show was abt how scientists are workin on unearthing the true mysteries of the working of some really genius minds... case in point being an autistic man from america who posess the ability to tell u exactly the day of the week for any.. and i mean any date in history !!! he does this from an early age witout takin any trainin in any methodical way to do this genius task !!! MRI mappin of his brain suggests dat his brain is just hardwired completely differently.. its like his circuitery is completely different !!! scientists believe dat supressing the left logical side of the brain can often free the rite which is responsible for the artistic creative side of an individual !!!

at this point ..... u must be wondering whr i am goin wit all this crap.... to tell u a secret.. i am havin the same doubts myself !!!

well... wat i want to say is.. sometimes it is gud to let logic take a hike u know.... be a little more artistic.... be a little more carefree !!! let ur creative juices flow !!

Let the Genius in u shine !!!!

Chak , De !!!

no... this is not a blog abt the new movie... it is not abt Shahrukh Khan !! it is not abt me waitin in anticipation of the movie !!! it is abt a simple thght...

Play to win !!

i honestly believe , if u dont win , u wr just there to make up the numbers !! u never win a silver , u lose the gold... winning is everythin... a sore loser will always return bttr prepared to WIN the next time bcos losing just hurts so much more !! failure is not a steppin stone to success, it is an escalator movin in the wrong direction... if u dont improve pretty soon u are doomed !!!

u may think dat i m being totally unreasonable... we hav to learn to lose.. we hav to take failure in our stride... do we ?? why ?? wat can be gained from losing ?? wat if we hate losing so much dat we never lose... we improve ourselves so damn much dat we never lose !! i honestly think dat one of the solution to perenial under achievin is to hate losing... be there just to win.... dont ever think abt losing...

Play to win... if u cant.... try something else !!!

the Idol generation

Who do u idolise ?? who is ur inspiration ?? whom do u admire ?? who wud u like to be like ??
think
think
think
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wat if i told u , it doesnt matter !! wat if i told u all this idol stuff is b@@# s@#t !!!
i seriously believe dat such idolisation is killin the generation !! why try to be someone else.... why even try to be 'like ' someone else !!?? be who u are... be the best 'you' that u can be. Njoy who u are bcos u are the Best damn u anyone can be !!! u hav had so much practise , havnt u ?!

so let go of all the constraints !! break free !! lose all the idols u hav !! dont let anybody clog ur soul !!! hav fun. and after u hav gotten used to this new philosophy (i always think watever i say is 'philosophy' !! ) ask urself this question :- "is it fun being me !!??"

It's fun being me !! isnt it all there is to it !!??