International Symbol of Marriage

International Symbol of Marriage. :)

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Strange-Relatives

One of the things I like about living outside my home town is that I don't have to meet anybody I don't want to meet. No neighbours dropping by unannounced. No visiting long lost relatives, Almost (unless my parents compel me to visit some distant relative in the same town (And the best explanation that they can give, if you ask them the reason of visiting them - Beta, it's always good to have acquaintance with your relatives, in a unknown place, they can be of use in your rainy days, Actually speaking, Its only, YOU (yourself), your family (directly related to you) and close friends (Close means really close. (Hey, Please don't take me otherwise ;-)) are the ones, who will standby you in your rainy days and not the relatives and so called friends). I can never understand their logic, but to make them happy, I visited many of them strange-relatives (SR, now onwards).

Now if you visit them they generally pretend that they are happy to see you, but if they ask you how we are related (SR and U), you actually need a white board (black board is LS), to make your family tree, and with many missing branches you will try to figure out, how you are close enough (In a family tree you will definitely not find any branch hanging out virtually (scientifically, no law can justify this), but this is how you can explain the relationship between you and SR (Its Modern science, as modern art, which needs no real explanation). We are apparently related. It is one of those relationships that needs a whiteboard and other visual aids to explain.

From the above excerpts you can easily judge that I am averse to people. But, actually I am not. Any ways..

What I am more averse to is the games one is often forced to play in such visits. Take, for example, the popular game called “Superficial Supremacy". It's easy to play. You go to somebody's house and start explaining to them how yours or your son's life is better than theirs. The goal of the game is to try to be as obnoxious as you can.
I had many fortunate moments of meeting the finest player of this game. And you will be surprised to know that, most of them are my relatives.

And there are many interesting incidence. To quote few, please read below (If you are interested :)

1st Incidence :) Greatest Player (Strange Relative, SR-1)

He started the game masterfully as soon as he entered.
SR-1: Where are you working?
Me: In a telecom company (it's a MNC, just to add flavour in the game).

SR-1: What is the name of the company?
Me to Myself: I would have told you this in the very first question itself, but I am pretty sure he must have no clue, whether this company exists or not. And why he is interested in that I am not very sure off. But this is the start of the game (Warming Up).

SR-1: How long this company exists in India?
Me: Around 5 years (Added 2 more years from my pocket).

SR-1: Strange, we have never heard of it.
Me to Myself: As if he is human encyclopaedia.
Me: (Mumbling) Oo (Not, actually bothered to give any kind of explanation).

Then he compared with his sons company.

SR-1: You know my Son is working with xyz company. Its one of the best in web designing (before I could, say I have not heard of this company as well).

This is one time I wished I worked for a well-known company like Wal-Mart (I am not sure, whether he is aware of this name too) or Nokia (Seems to be a better option as I have seen the mobile phone (of the same brand) in his hand). Working for a gun company like Colt is a sign of a loser. (I don't work for a gun making company but something similar).

Now the best question (Actually, this is the only question he want to ask for his General Knowledge but, the other questions were just the boundary of the main building).

SR-1: What is your Salary?
Me: Good enough for my livelihood (See, you could have quoted an package from you pocket, but his Son's package would be always greater than the amount you have quoted).

Me to Myself: He has not heard the line "You should never ask - girl's age, a man's salary and a child's marks".

SR-1: But, then also? (As if, he is thirsty and looking for a drop of water).
Me: Its ok for city life (Now, I can also play a nice shot in the game).
SR-1: O.K. (Saying some good strong 'sloka' for me (obviously in his mind)).

When met with silence, he continued to interrogate me.

SR-1: Do you stay in a company provided house or some rented accommodation?
Me: In a rented house.

SR-1: Oh, it must be expensive there? (2 thoughts in his mind this time, 1st : My company is not rich enough to give accommodation to their employees and 2nd: Sarcastic comment on my salary).

Me: It's a 1 BHK (1xBed, 1xHall & 1 Kitchen)?

SR-1: Then it must be ok, 3 BHK must be too expensive for a bachelor, but it is comfortable if you are married (He meant, 3 BHK is too expensive for you to afford. Ultimately it boils down to the same thing, my salary).

Me to Myself: Come on man, why are you bothered about my comfort, I am happy the way I am staying and it's quite comfortable.

SR-1: You know my son is staying in a 3 BHK flat in Mumbai (He bulged his eyes for added impact).

Me to Myself: As if 3 BHK means 3xBed Room, 3xHall and 3xKitchen, and as if taking a flat on rent in Mumbai is like you need to me a billionaire.

How ever much I tried, I couldn't get myself to give a damn about his sons 2BHK flat, in Mumbai. He was perplexed by my lack of enthusiasm. He reiterated the greatness of locality and the size of the 2BHK Flat. What does he expect me to do? Fall on my knees and proclaim, "Ya, this is like your son is staying in house next to Ambani's, have mercy on me"?

He is advertising about his son like anything. What he wanted to listen ... If I were a woman, I would've married him.

The questionnaire continued intermittently through the duration of the visit. I didn't do all that bad because at the end of the interview, she seemed reasonably convinced that we are fit be called humans. He even showed a hint of respect. But wait… there is more.

Just before i left, how do you commute?
Me: Bike or public transport.
SR-1: My son has a car (He didn't tell any thing about the make, so I was quite sure that it must be a 2nd hand car, just to keep it and being utilized in his Dad conversation).

Me to Myself: But, why he is trying to create a good impression on me about his son? I am not interested in marrying him (And I am perfectly normal :).

With that triumphant victory, he gave me his blessings and left with a content smile, leaving us to contemplate on our miserable lives.

I think almost all of us had the misfortune of meeting these great players of the game off and on.

Why it’s great being in relationship

Great Reasons: Why it’s great being in relationship

1) You get free couple entry everywhere!

2) It takes you three hour 3 hours just to finish a cup of Tea/Coffee (when both the sex sits nearby) and it takes just two minutes to finish the same Tea/Coffee (Same means equally hot and tasty) when either of you are alone.

3) For some strange reason you start brushing your teeth.

4) For some even strange reason you actually start using a deodorant!

5) All the girls on the earth are like your sister/brother now (At least in front of the person you are involved with).

6) You don’t sit near the TV for 10 hours a day.

7) The economic condition of the people around you starts improving, (Thanks to You). And your pocket money or your income seems to be less than the early days.

8) You don’t discuss the latest item no. or hottie with other friends.

9) You end up making yourself more sophisticated

10) You stopped watching all the movies which you started watching when you were 15 years old.

11) You no longer waste your time writing senseless stuff the way I do!

"You know when you need” to loose weight.

"You know when you need” to loose weight.

1) The car makes a “oooff” when you get into it. Or the body of the car, started feeling greater "Gravitational Force" suddenly, and the bumper of the car started touching the small bumps on the road.

2) Your girlfriend/boyfriend starts calling you “Motki/Motka”, when cuddling you. And close friends also start calling you by that name, and you keep on thinking that they are just joking with you.

3) Your best friend who used to call you “noodle”, now doesn’t even remember the meaning of that word.

4) You can’t crawl out of your window anymore when you want to go out of your house, especially at night.5) You want to join the Gym/Aerobics (Not to make muscles, or make yourself fit), just to avoid the extra fat that’s developed slightly above where u used to tie your belt.

6) The cute belt given by your friend is not fitting at the place where it used to fit very smoothly.

7) You start looking up the Ad’s of VLCC in News Paper and in the TV’s shopping ad’s, where you never looked up before.

8) You start choosing your meal’s with great caution (which among them contains less fat at all that).

9) You start looking back to the place, from where you just got up. (Whether you have not, strained the chair too much).

10) You sit down and write something like this.

Stay in touch with your friends (If you want, too.)

Stay in touch with your friends (If you want, too.)

In the world of Internet & Telecomm, you don't have to try hard to be connected with you friends and family.

Here are some of the better ways to stay in touch with your friends.

1) E-mails :)
Adv:
(a) Not that costly (I’m desperately not using the word “Cheap”, because the word itself is cheap). You must be having internet connection at you home. If not don’t worry, you will get internet café, almost every where.

(b) You will get a change to show your friend, how good your English/Angragi is.

(c) You can send lots of stupid forwards to those friends also, whom you don’t want to keep in touch really then also for courtesy sake. (Having use of the beautiful tools like bcc (Blind Carbon Copy)). Try to make an impression on your friend that this mail is specially meant for you.

Dis Adv:
(a) You need to read all that stupid forwards (supposing that at least one of them will contain the stuff you are looking for).
(b) Waste you valuable time and money, by reading (so that you can forwar it to your friends again) & deleting (Simply a crab) these forwards.
(c) Disastrous is your family knows the user name and password, after all everyone must be receiving lots of personal mails.

2) SMS :)

Adv: Cheep too, even more difficult to decipher the abbreviation
Dis Adv: Same as above.

3) MMS :) (Bit dangerous now a days & bit costly too, but its really cool.)

4) Messenger :) If you are having lots of time and free internet connection then this is the best way to kill you time (In my words, “Samay Barbad”).
NB:
Conscious to be in “Invisible Mode” if you don’t want to make conversation with not so close friends and then also added them in your friends list
(Yahoo, Rediff, there are many just type the word in your search engine.)

5) Blogs :) (Ex: http://www.blogspot.com/; http://www.xanga/ , there are many, just you need to type in your search engine, blog+sites and you will get, if not thousands, but hundreds of blog sites.) and the nice thing about blogs, is you are free to comment anything (anything means anything :) as anonymous, nobody will come to know this even.

6) Phone calls :) It’s been a long time since Mr. Bell created the Telephone, yet it is still the better way to stay in touch. (More reliable and secure than the internet, but the darker side of conversation through phone is, if yours and any of your family vocal chords matches then it may be disastrous for you. (Now Phones are replaced with Mobiles, Mann.. almost everyone is having one). Even Rikshawalas....

7) Podcast :) New thing naa, If you are too tired to actually read the happenings in your friends life then, you can hear them. This is possible through a new innovation known as podcasting you can listen to their “intellectual” voices J on *.mp3 file format (Seems something technical), instead of having to read the long text mails with lots of Short codes, which will really be difficult for anybody to decipher (Half of your time gets wasted in comprehending the he abbreviated code). Though you are taking up the pain of reading this fantastic text J, (You know I am kidding).

8) If all else fails, don’t loose hope. How long they can avoid a barrage of emails, blog posts, MMS and phone calls. You banging outside there door!
(Adv: If you catch them there, then you will have a chance to touch them.(Oh sorry, you can always be in touch).

Hare Rama Hare Krishna, Temple, Mumbai

Why Reference Frame

Reference Frame :

The BEST part of using technical word is that, Even if your English is bad, then also you can use these kinds of technical words in your Blogs and make an impression on your NON-Technical friend that your Angragi is good enough. But the WORST part is that almost all of my Friends are from Technical background.

Coming to the topic of discussion(Why Reference Frame). My perception about Life is that there are lot of Reference Frame(s) in it. At each particular frame, some particular kind of thinking is in your mind which may not have occurred to you in the previous frame and vice versa .

When we were studying for our graduation, we would have thought that we will study a lot from the next sem onwards. This type of Feeling comes just after the announcement of the results. I am not claiming that it happens with all of us. But most am sure would have experienced it. You would not have thought about it in the days when you were having fun, days when you were supposed to have actually worked for your results.That particular frame was different.

Nothing is Static in Life.Everything is Dynamic, changes every moment. And, where you are standing in this Dynamic world is your Reference Frame. If You look at the same situation, that had happened in your life, from a different time frame then your whole perspective, about the same situation will be different.

When you are thinking about something and if you have a strong feeling about it then it means that you have a good intuition about it. But anyway, if you see the same situation from some other frame you may think of a much better option.

To be continued.....