The worst of Me and the worst of You.

You walk around Facebook once or twice in the search of new friends, like I did today and you end up finding great little things. It had been a long time since. I am the guy who usually goes in everyday, hangs around and then heads back home because the only reason that he was there was he hoped that he might find something interesting happening… but, umm, he doesn’t.

Well, but today, I was there, really there and I read through many a people’s pages. Its funny, the things that people write in the "about me section." Some really smart people don’t even let their "about me" section be seen by anyone other than their friends. You know playing safe:there are too many leechers and bad people out there and like Obama said, “we have to be careful on facebook.”

Well, I do get the sentiment and maybe hiding somethings from the bad people may be wise, but the “about me” thing, that’s just totally stupid. The person who knows you, knows “about you.” It’s the other guys who need to know. Hmmm….

Anyway, coming to the topic at hand, there are like a million pieces of strange little things that you can find to amuse yourself as you read on about people in each page. The idea of talking about even a few of them would take the amount of recall and patience that I just don’t have. So, I am going to rant about one of the most common things that you see in the about me boxes.

Reality. Oh no, I don’t mean it in some deep philosophical way. I do mean reality. That’s what everybody wants to talk about. Here it goes: “I am real. I say whatever comes to my mind. I am outspoken. I hate those who pretend. Those backstabbers who show you a face and then stab you in the back. I hate fake people totally.”

Now my trouble with all this is the fact that almost everybody who goes on this subject says this and I really can’t find a reason why. Now I, being the great reasonable Sherlock Holmes like thinker that I am, can only find two reasons for this, either the fake people have absolutely no problems with other fake people (which cant happen, because well they are fake and know that hating fake people is a cool thing and to be cool, they would fake hatred for fake people) or the fake people don’t make Facebook profiles (which also can’t happen, because firstly, of the previous argument of coolness and also this is the one place where they can actually interact with people without being too fake (coz being fake online is easier than being face to face (testament: all those teenage sex chats I was cheated on. Assholes!!)))

Oh my God, this getting to be the weirdest post ever. Never ever have I had a triple brackets before, unless like when I was programming or something…. Ooohhhhhhhhh…

Anyway, now that the two arguments have been put down, all we left is the fact that everybody is fake. Which I can really agree to. I am a normal guy, I try to be normal and real (you know, like Superman) but there are times when I have been fake. I really dint gain anything from it, not even a phone number, but maybe we do it because its one of those automatic evolutionary defense mechanism things. You know.. a wolf hunting in a sheep’s clothing gets more food (unless of course, the shepherd gets up in the middle of the night and mistaking him for the sheep kills him.) I just couldn’t let my bracket chance go. Ha.

Again, to the topic, another question that comes up is that if everybody is faking, then why do we hate fake people. Ok, or why do we hate more fake people more than less fake people? Hmmmm… how about this, maybe, we don’t want to be fake. You know like although evolution has given us hands, maybe we prefer wings. Huh? Huh? Ok, there may be some other reason to it too.

Fuck that, I don’t care anymore. I love brackets. They look like half boobies.. hihihihi… ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

You Crazy Bitch, Stop Stalking Me!!!

There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to stand up and say, “This is IT!” I put the exclamation mark at the end to force upon the fact of how strong it comes on.

I am talking about change. The ultimatest of all things. Mark twain said that it was the only thing that was certain (or I think it was him.) Newton said that it was not just humans but even objects who didn’t like the concept of change; whether they are in motion or still. I know that the line has been used for this concept a lot, but that’s cause it’s a classic.

Ok, starting again, there comes a moment in the lives of all men when they have to look in the mirror realize that they have to change and there is no way around it. Of course, it had been there for a long time, nudging and prodding us, whispering to us, waking us up at odd times, bumping into us at the mall or tripping us as we walk into a new day with pride.

Hmm, persistent little sucker isn’t it? But we were stronger, and we avoided it. We looked away, we suffered, we fought, we became ignorant, or humiliated, but we managed. We did what we did for many many reasons. We were comfortable, we did not want to let go of that which were sure of, good or bad, we wanted to be content not happy and finally as it comes down to the facts, because we were scared. Hollywood, time and again in the end-of-moment-life-changing confession scenes has given us this fact and it has been met with acceptance by not many people. But tragically, its true. Sorry guys, but it really is.

Change has to happen and we resist it as much as we can. Period. There is really nothing that we can do cure this problem. We will always resist it. It is human nature. Seriously. I am not writing this to in some self help yogi way to help you solve this thing. I am just telling you that it happens. It’s a part of human life and we have to live with. Go on push ahead and make sure that it doesn’t end up taking you down. Sometimes you change, sometimes you don’t, theres nothing that’s too sure here. The only bad thing is to do nothing.

Why I Loved the season finale of TBBT

I know I am a couple of weeks late, but I have to say this. In fact, this review is the result of the fact that I really dont like any of the other expert reviews and I know too many normal people who would agree with what I have to say.

Firstly, I am taking on the most important point of discussion everywhere: the final scene. Yes I agree, it was not shot as well as it should have been. The whole “morning awkwardness” ritual could have been done in a better way. But it was something that I really wanted. In fact, there was no way that it was a surprise; it was due for a long time. If you are a regular viewer like me, you would know that, despite the mutism, Raj has gone through more girls than any of them during the four years; and the moment Penny walked in on Sheldon and Raj’s dinner, I could feel it was right there. She was insecure, lonely and drunk and so was Raj. And they do make a cute couple.

I say that not only because I think Raj and Penny would “constitute a couple that others might consider cute,” but I say this out of my dislike for Leonard. The character has been completely destroyed. Yes, like all romantic comedies worth their salt, the central character is someone who belongs to both the quirky as well as the normal society, forming a bridge between his nerdy past and the cool people coming in and somebody the viewers relate to. But in all of those, the character is made out to be insecure, kind and highly moral and finally courageous in a special way.
But Leonard seems to opt out of all of this and ends up as irritating. Well, Priya had her own share of bad moments to offer to us this season, but what bothered me more than her was the attitude with which Leonard dealt with it all.

He can stand up to the weird but innocent Sheldon but he bows down to Priya and tell one his best friends that he cant see her again. Bad Leonard!! This brings back to mind the whole Ross-Emily-Rachel thing, but again, even during that we felt sorry for Ross.

As for Leonard, no such feelings arise, because if you look at it carefully, Leonard has been turned into a sad, unfunny, cunning, whiny-even-though-he-has-everything-going-for-him character. And the worst of his acts is how without any kind of guilt he sleeps with his best friend’s sister constantly in his house without so much as a thought as to how Raj feels about that. Case in point: the “10 miles above the earth” inaccurate sex session. And to anybody, who holds me judgmental for the wrong reasons, I am an only child.

I think the writers agree with me on this topic because from the first scene of the episode, they have been pushing Leonard down. Although the only saving grace was Sheldon’s laugh-along with the group, the point is taken in.

But if truth be told, I found the third Howard-Bernadette story of “who is a doctor” more engaging than the other two. They have become loveable characters that make every scene beautiful.

Another good scene was the one with Penny and Sheldon in the laundry room. They have this great chemistry and its sad that, like Penny said, they haven’t been alone more often.

On the whole, one of the best episodes of the season, a great season finale, with a good hang in the story. Whats going to happen next we wonder, will Leonard understand that he had been wronging Raj or will he go after him for sleeping with Penny? What will happen to their friendship? What will happen to Leonard and Penny? Just like the last seasons, not too many, yet tiny little questions for the wait and see.

The Facebook “Like”

Oh its such a great little thing. If Zac Ethenburg or whatever that guy’s name is (fuck, I’ve seen the movie like 3 times) invented it himself, he should be given an award. It’s the greatest invention of the 21st century.

The ultimate new generation communication system that can be used for all the things in the world. I really cant think of anything that can replace the simplicity an magnitude of it. The simplicity because its just a little blue button with a thumbs up sign.

The magnitude, well, thats two parted. Firstly, the “magnitude of the topics” that it can be used for. Books, movies, ads, tv channels, cars, tata docomo, companies that have no relation with you and have never heard about at all and tata docomo (god, that comes up a lot.) Anything, any event, date, trip, photo, person, robot, dog, sexual positions, anything, anything can be treated with the like button.



Now the second part is the “magnitude of emotions” that it expresses. It can mean: “OH MY GOD!!! That was amazing” or that was interesting or I feel you or it made me think or sometimes just that I like it. Sometimes even if you dislike something, you can express it with the like button, you know sarcastically.

It’s the ultimate magical thingy. Catered specifically for those really sweet moments that change our lives and leave us dumbfounded and speechless. Or maybe the times when we really don’t have anything to say, but we do want to tell the world that we acknowledge.

Fuck, even as I write on all these uses of the like button keep popping up in my head. And the only thing that I really don’t understand why nobody else thought of this before. I remember the time before facebook: you know the orkut time. Google owned that crap. How come with all that money and all those genius guys with the weird working habits couldn’t think of the like button? I mean even everybody around the world was unliking orkut. Get it? Wasn’t that funny? Huh?

Anyway I like the like button and thought I’d just talk about. Hmmmm… maybe I should have “liked” the like button. Saved me a hell lotta words. Or maybe I that hasn’t been made as a page, I should make it. I am gonna check it out. Good Day.