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April 02 2008

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Life is anything but LOL right now for me.
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April 01 2008

jaredm:

I just realized that today is a big personal health milestone for me:

Six months without a cigarette!

All true, no fooling. Yay me :)

Congratulations! You deserve a re-blog.

But what does following a lot of people say?

  1. You’re trying to learn more.
  2. You’re trying to meet more people.
  3. You’re trying to be a better listener.
  4. You’re communicating to the world that you’d like to be listened to (golden rule: treat people how you’d like to be treated).
  5. You’re trying to find out about more stuff. More events. More stories.

Now, who would you rather hang out with? A person who only talks and doesn’t listen? Or a person who listens to as many people as he can?

Now, I really don’t care about people who unfollow me anymore. Go ahead. Doesn’t make me feel bad. But the more people I follow, the smarter I get, the more connected I get, the better the experiences I have in life (see previous post). So, that’s my new story. The secret to Twitter is how many people are you listening to, not how many people are listening to you.

Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger Scoble, you still manage to spam everyone who’s in your network with your silly tweets. Obviously, quantity over quality of “networking” is your way of getting popular. We all know about your “friends” on Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Flickr, Friendfeed and many other social networking sites.

Indian footie captain refuses to carry Olympic torch

obiterdicta:

Bhaichung Bhutia, a buddhist from the north-eastern Indian state of Sikkim, and captain of the Indian football team, refused to carry the Olympic Torch to show his support for the Tibetans and their struggle.

India has notably disallowed protests from Tibetans. So much for democracy and free speech!

I was thinking about this same thing yesterday. I admire Bhaichung Bhutia for taking this stand. And on the other hand, we have Aamir Khan- THE badshah…who seems to be doing anything for publicity. His video, where he talks about his decision of being the torch bearer reeks with boredom and illiteracy. He uses sentences, such as “It’s a great sport! Such an amazing sporting event, that is world’s best sporting event!”…and “This year’s theme is based on Environment preservation. We need to preserve it. I do a lot for it. I’m careful about the quantity of water that I use. You need to be careful. You need to be very aware..” and so on and so forth. And the interviewer says that he’s a true “social activist”.

oh, gmail. you're hilarious.

amyyy:

april fool’s day gmail style.

this is pretty funny.

I remember their last April Fool’s Day Joke- Order print outs of all your emails for FREE! Grandmas and grandpas can finally have fun!

Flirting by Text Messages

A short passage from NY Times Article, that explores the prominent flirting style in India : Flirting by Text Messages. Each text message only costs around 4-5 cents and Indian cell phones companies don’t charge you for incoming text messages (why should we pay if someone wants to tell something to ME? That person should pay! Makes sense). So, it is very economical and gives the average, shy Indian guy the perfect weapon to find “girlfriends”:

“Dating of any kind is minimal in the countryside, where two-thirds of Indians live. In big cities like this one, posh bars and clubs attract a relatively small Westernized elite who date as if in Paris or New York. But for middle-class men like Mr. Chettri, much persuasion is required even to induce a woman to have coffee with you, and that may be as far as it goes.

If a text suitor makes it to the next step, say an invitation to the movies, new challenges arise.

“She will come, but she will come with two, three friends,” said Vaibhav Shingre, 25, a co-worker of Mr. Chettri’s and his wingman of sorts. “You have to specify, ‘Please come alone.’

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Young Indians, girls especially, are taught not to show any interest in the opposite sex. The prohibition extends to such behaviors as giggling at a man’s jokes. “Jo hansi, voh phansi,” goes one old Hindi staying. (If a woman laughs, she is already in the net.)

Most young, middle-class Indians live with their parents, leaving few opportunities for trips back to “my place.” They often share rooms with siblings into their late 20s, making it hard even to speak privately by telephone. And should they canoodle in public, they risk being found out by ubiquitous uncles and aunts and family friends, who are likely to snitch on them.

Farther east, in Jamshedpur, a steel company town, the desire to text became so fervent at one all-women’s college that students began renting burqas from Muslim shopkeepers, according to a local news report. From under the folds, the women typed amorously to boyfriends and arranged secret trysts off campus.

Dr. Prakash Kothari, India’s best-known sexologist, said some clients had begun approaching him with problems about texting. “They say, ‘Hey, Doc, I’m receiving these SMS’s day in and day out. How should I respond?’ ” he said.

An American woman’s body had became attached to her boyfriend’s toilet after she sat on it for two years, police in Kansas said.

Mr McFarren told investigators that he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.

And her reply would be, ‘Maybe tomorrow’, Mr Whipple said. According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom.

Woman stuck after two years on toilet - Telegraph

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking, according to a research. Cell phones have been linked to certain types of tumors and their effect will become clearer in the next decade or so. Time to stop buying those iPhones, no?

I have never been a fan of cell phones. Thank God.

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vasta:

Hope your April 1st goes better than this guy’s day.

March 31 2008

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I get really pissed off when people don’t return calls!

  1. Previous landlord- Have been trying to find out what’s happening with my lease
  2. Car insurance guy- Some administrative garble again
  3. Current housing company- Wanted to ask how to pay my rent online

So…since the past one week, I’ve been calling up #1 and #2 everyday, and I’m sick of people saying, “Ma’m, I’ll be happy to assist you. We will return your call asap”. And of course, nobody returns the calls! The customer is the servant.

I’m highly annoyed and distracted because of all this crap administrative work. It takes all day and is completely fruitless.

Things I want to learn

I want to make these things on my own-

  1. Liquid Hand Soap with essential oils
  2. Fragrant container candles
  3. Open a shop of hand shop and candles
  4. I know I won’t end up doing it.

March 30 2008

aimeedoiron:

Looking for a new webhost… I feel like I’m in a too-big supermarket: Too many choices that none stand out to me. Need to step back. Help!

You can give A Small Orange a try. They are very reasonable and their Customer Service is amazing! Also, a full money back guarantee if you don’t like their service.

Sex is the woman’s right, not the man’s. A man has a duty to give his wife sex regularly and to ensure that sex is pleasurable for her. He is also obligated to watch for signs that his wife wants sex, and to offer it to her without her asking for it…it is one of a wife’s three basic rights (the others are food and clothing), which a husband may not reduce.
Judaism 101: Kosher Sex

March 29 2008

At Terminal 5 everything has been streamlined and designed to make your journey through the terminal calm and relaxed. And this morning we saw all the planning fall into place.
— BA, on the opening of Terminal 5.
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Classic piece of comic strip! Energy revolution- come, sweep me over and take me for a ride of my life.
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