What are your plans for new year's eve?

I've concluded that this phrase was invented as part of the mockery gig planned by god against me? 
God: "oooh lemme make people around her have twice as much fun as the others so that she feels all the more miserable. *invents new year parties*
Yay! My task is done!"
*sits back and enjoys the show with a can of beer n pizza*
Me: Erm :S
So what am I doing this New year's eve?
Couple of choices... watchin tv programmes at home or watching modern family season 1 back to back in bed while listening to sounds of merry making somewhere not too far is on top of the list as of now. :O
Major FML moments make up what they call 'LIFE'Anyhow, lately I've been observing Notifications on Fb are going unnoticed cuz of some bug.
Been relying on gmail to convey any missed notfications. :O 
FB is gettin over-rated i guess... Too much traffic maybe. Idk. But I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg has more on his mind rather than worry bout this. He is probably thinking which island to buy next... >.>
FML.

Escapism at it's best

Ever give yourself a tag of an escapist?

Until a few days back, I would squint my eyes and show u a middle finger if you told me that I was an one.

And here I am, suddenly, standing at a crossroad in life. I guess a while back, shit had started to hit the ceiling. And someone came along and switched on the fan. And what did i do about it? Well, i picked out a safe corner with a cloak over me waiting for it to settle down so that I could 'evaluate' after the damage was done.

Ever do that? Wait around in a sticky situation till u're unable to move and then regret why you didn't act upon it sooner?

Small talk

Yeah u got it right. Its something we do daily. Well, almost.

And it's funny that after years and years of experience in this field, we are still at a loss of words at the thought of it.What do you say to a stranger sitting next to you in a park?

I once tried 'I hate cats' to someone in a park when I saw an evil kitten clawing at  the leg of the bench near me..No sooner than I had uttered these words, a glare so piercing was directed at me, I think that it burnt a hole right through my head and my sanity level has not been the same ever since. Turns out than flannel pants and granny glasses was not only a cat enthusiast, but also owned more than 6 cats of every shape, size and temperament possible!!

So much so for trying to make friendly conversations!

What is the right thing to say? 'Hi, I'm so-and-so' didn't work too well at one time. No sooner than I uttered my name, obsessed-stalker added me on linked-in, facebook, Myspace and all other social networking sites that I'm probably a member of since i was 15!

Where is the normalcy? In today's world, is it forbidden to exchange a few kind words, maybe phone numbers and in case you click, meet at a cafe to have more 'small talk'? Yessir. Today, you need to ask yourself so many questions before giving out something as simple as your first name that maybe an eternity will pass if you try and answer each of the questions popping into your mind.

Were people simpler in olden days or is that an illusion?

Ironically, we are revealing a tad bit much information in the virtual world by posting pictures, listing relationship details, home phone numbers and work address; and here we are, not even comfortable in saying out your name in real life.

Make no mistake, even though most of our information is 'private' on websites, that very information is present in so many networks that it will take probably half an hour of a dedicated Goggle search for someone to figure out where you live or what you had for breakfast.

Gone are the days when you met new people in your friend circle and actually listened intently to what they do, where they live etc, cuz well, you're gonna find all about them on facebook anyways!! Probably even more than your 1 hour long meeting!
So the next time I sit next to someone is the subway, I doubt I'll start with , 'hi, what's your name?' 'The world might end in 2012' seems a little less inappropriate, don't you think!?

Sure shot ways to become stalk worthy on Facebook

1. Study abroad. It could be to do anything, and anywhere. It doesnt even matter if you are actually going to study. Point is to be there long enough to click atleast 2500 pictures that you can post over an infinitely long period of time

2. Attend/host a lot of parties. it doesn't matter if you don't know too many cool people. Call your friends and ask them to bring their friends and friends of friends. Make sure you have atleast 1 inappropriately dressed person of whom you take a lot of drunk shots. Finally, DO NOT sort out/filter these pictures. Upload them ALL and TAG everyone and make sure the album is open to all.

3. Collect a lot of empty alcohol bottles/leftovers from parties and click yourself with them and put captions like : 'OMG i was so drunk', or, 'OMG what a night!' or ' Im sooo Hungover'
4. Update your status atleast 5 times a day and like every comment that comes your way. tag a lot of people in ur status updates so that they r FORCED to see ur status.
5. Add a lot of random people of different nationalities and like atleast 1000+ pages.
6. Change your profile picture everyday. Sometimes, even 2 times a day and comment on every status update/photo posted by friends.
7. Post embarrassing pictures of yourself and put captions like 'OMG when was this taken? This is so embarassing!'
8. Create album names like 'Hmmmmm', ' I, me and myself', 'Frenzzzz', 'Random' and add self clicked pictures there (shots taken in bathroom mirrors, atleast 1 picture wearing a super hot outfit and too much makeup, a few pictures taken with a blurry cellphone camera and a lot of pictures with ur cute/not-so-cute pet)
9. If you are seeing someone, click pictures everytime you both meet and post them with comments like '<3' , 'My baby and me', 'us', 'Muaaah'
10. Always be offline on chat so that if someone has to talk to you, they post only on ur wall, thus increasing your wall posts.
11. Get a laptop with a webcam and click atleast 200 shots of urself/with a friend, making funny faces or looking bored and upload ALL of them. Infact since there is a limit for the no of pics in an fb album, utilize it to the maximum and upload no less than all 200. 
Tip: You can name the album : 'OMG we are sooo bored lol'

12.  Change your relationshp status atleast once a month.From In a relationship to Its complicated, single to engaged, from Its complicated to single... etc. Way too many combinations to list down here! Keep people guessing!

Virtual bondage

Its the wedding season yet again. But then again. when is it NOT the wedding season out here? All we need is an excuse to buy designer outfits, slap on excessive makeup, drink like its going out of fashion soon and hog like there's no tomorrow.

Wait, is that not what you do? Erm. Arite, I do that. There you go! Obnoxious rituals are what we grew up with, I wont deny it!

Facebook stalking is my favourite pastime. *Hangs head in shame*

And contrary to popular belief, it's very productive. How else will i know who's partying way too much, who's going through a bad breakup phase, who's single and looking, and well, who's getting married.

Yes, weddings are celebrated in a much pompous way on facebook. So you have albums named the following:

- My big day

- Wedding pics

- Finally!

-Single no more...

And so on n so forth....

Which leads me to think... Am i gonna do the same? Will it be plastered over everyone's news feed till they all get nauseous enough to throw up after seeing excessively mushy and soppy pictures? Or will I have one singular couple-profile picture and keep the whole affair a big secret, unless asked about it? Or will I have intimate details listing all the functions and ceremonies with bridal expressions et all untill the Facebook team tells me that I am not allowed to upload any more pictures or posts?

The more I think about it and try to figure it out, the more I start thinking about the adversities of all the options.

Think I spend too much time on Facebook. Oh hang on, what's that? New notification! brb!

Life is one big April Fool's day

Its yet another weekday and apart from being woken up at 6.30am by a phone call, things are, well, mediocre so to say.

I've been researching for the 'perfect' post graduate course that will make my career graph zoom from 

0-|-------100

to

1--------|100

>.>

Yes, I do believe that somewhere out there is a magic potion waiting to be devoured that shall be my stepping stone to awesomeness.

Its true. SO the past 1.5years have been spent researching courses in my own country, abroad, and even Mars. There is a comprehensive list apparently. (In my mind that is). And every year, just when I think I've found the perfect course, well, I've already missed the deadline to apply.

I was talking about passion in my last post. How you gotta find your passion and become one with it, and, that, is the right way to do it. 

So what happens when you have lets say, too many passions? Yeah... exactly my point.

I wonder if Lord is having a good time reading my posts or thoughts every now and then. Jokes!Where else is he getting so much entertainment. oh no wait, I forgot the much talked about sex lives of Tiger Woods, David Beckham, Bill Clinton and the like... There go my 30 seconds of fame!

The Social Network

As much as i am embarrassed to admit it, I finally saw the movie some 2months after it released. And you would think that me, being a Facebook addict, would've probably seen it a million times and started celebrating Mark Zuckerberg's birthday in a bigger way than my own. Wrong. I saw it just day before. So before I share sme musings about it, I would like to mention that this is a very personal opinion, and ypu are most welcome to contradict it. i don't hate/love Mark and have no intention of popularizing/defaming the movie.

My first reaction when I started watching the movie was that I had probably downloaded the wrong movie (yes, I use torrents. Piracy FTW! You all do it, c'mon admit it! In case a cybercop is reading this post: Sir, I'm really sorry I don't make enough money to buy DVD's of every movie that is released. The day I get a well-paying job, I'll stick to Original prints only. Please put in a good word to my boss about it asap.)

Anyways, coming back to the topic. The movie. So it starts in a dark bar with mysterious conversations about Final Clubs. And while I'm still trying to figure out whether it is infact, the movie that i intended to watch, someone says 'Mark'. Hmm. This is it. As the movie progressed, the character of Mark was neatly sketched out for all to judge. And as the story unfolded, I had decided that he was a complete A-hole. Now, the point is, if he's such an A-hole, why is he where he is, after a mere 26yrs in his life? What made him the man we know today. Many of us worship the guy and can't thank him enough for giving us facebook: second life as I might like to believe.

Creating a phenomena at 19, and owning a company worth 35-50billion USD isn't child's play. Yet, he is infamously known as the 'toddler CEO'. 

Intrigued as i was by his character, I couldn't see why a man with his morals deserved what he has today. I chanced upon Mark's interview on 60minutes and it gave me a deeper insight to him. 

There were two things that Mark had. It wasn't money, or resources, or an entrepreneur's mind set. What drove hi was simply passion. Passion and luck. Harvard churns out thousands of brilliant minds every year. Most of them graduate to get extremely well paying jobs, which they begin to like in a while. Some are passionate about them even. But how many of them stick it out and do something that their heart tells them to do? hardly any. And that is what Mark did. What he did was somewhere unethical, but no one knows the truth. If someone else had the idea before him, why did they not work on it for 2 years? Why wait around for 2 years till someone eventually thinks of the same idea anyways? Mark rightly said, 'had you invented the facebook', you would've already made it.'

Its strange, how passion can drive a man to do something that he never thought he would do.
And that's how life is! You gotta do something that you're passionate about and that is the only way you will excel at it. It's never too late to follow your dream. In Mark's case, he realized it soon enough. Maybe some of us are at the edge, waiting for a slight push. Even a nudge. The Social Network is that very nudge. It makes you think 'why not' instead of 'why'. Better than any motivational speaker by far. And you know the best part? It compels you to get motivated without asking you to do so.