fazebuk and kutkut

Long time since I bothered logging into my orkut account!! wondering...why is it even there? I deleted it once in 2006 and decided to add only people I knew/real friends onto my list of friends. And...ho..I'm again trapped...some 200 odd people on my list!!!

People were switching on to FB...Facebook. Somebody even asked me.."you don't know facebook"? And I felt I was doing a big crime by not being searchable on the most popular networking arena.And today..I have some 200 odd friends there too...

And twitter...don't even ask!! I hate twitter....I don't tweet. .."so sweet...what the ( beep)".

Initially..I thought the idea of social networking was limited to catching up with old pals and dear ones. Now it has come to the level of almost knowing what colour of undy one is wearing or at what time and mood does one intend to shit??!!! Take it in whatever sense you want...but I just get so annoyed at the tinniest of details being put up by people...as if they are doing a great favour by letting the world know.."whats on their mind".

Yes, sharing pics...and bringing up something different and interesting to share is definitely good. No I don't mean FB should become a news desk with latest happenings as informative stickers. But again..someone's tagged in a photograph!! yippee...( feels nice that you are a part of the group being shared with). The option of commenting on pics...hmm..not bad. Most often our folks comment on everything else, but the pic!! what a pity...> I mean there's a seperate space for asking the whereabouts, hows and why's to the person putting up things....Puhleeeeze not here on the tag!!

I sound like a lady from the Gen Y...detesting the so 'in' forms of communicating with people. I don't mind being labelled so! Yes...honestly...rather...my confession....I use FB to just get gossip updates....> though I hate myself for being so...my daily sense of curiosity to check what bullshit people write has reached the level of addiction.

For example...tommorow is Indian Independence day..!! ( As if the world doesn't know). But yeah...I will have hoards of my friends expressing their patriotism online...Wanna bet on their stupidity?

The usual...

Farmville, fishville....harvest/not to harvest....pheww!!! I tried it myself for a week....that was it!

" oh...your neighbour needs help...can you fertilise her crops?"....What the Fish...........

EVENTS...I have had exactly 3-4 genuine, decent invites to events. The rest..crap!! Spam....

But I can't blame it on all people. The co. has also created some dumb applications to keep the dumb so engrossed. And ...I too feel so dumb at times!!!

Someone then asked me...."you blog. Isn't that also telling the world 'whats on your mind'? But I guess...by now even you know the difference between the two.

P:S: Those who love FB , orkut, twitter....please continue loving it...express yourself very well. spare me!!!

I am just expressing my love for these networking sites. I sometimes think about email and the phone as the best ways of keeping in touch. At least...you are not giving out info to those who don't really matter much to you! And knowing the kind of impulsive person that I am..you never know..I may be out soon:)

Few questions I have asked recently..

Since the past three weeks I have been in the city of chandigarh...giving myself one more chance to either love it or hate, explore it beyond the bare basics of rock gardens and museums, devour the golgappas, kulchas and Rajmahhhh, try and interpret the 'koi gal nahis' to weighing ( literally) the amount of yapping....and further..

Something ( maybe a lot of things) make/s me wonder why I hated it earlier or was it just a CHANGE of place? Anyway...I have asked these a few couple of times here..

1. Why is this place so confusing with circles and sectors everywhere? All look the same..
2. So many gardens...all so neat, lawns well mowed..so much of ( visible) greenery. How do they manage?
3. Do people here not eat pan? I have not seen them spit..nor have I seen what was spat!!
4. Why are there no potholes in any of the roads that I have travelled for easily 1 hr in a day?..thats good coverage.
5. Why do all buildings/apartments have separate overhead tanks for each flat unlike one common in Mumbai?
6. Why do all houses/bungalows and apartments have huge balconies here? so typical of their architecture..
7. why do all houses have atleast 7-8 doors? And why do all have a mesh/net door first and then the wooden one?
8. why do people here prefer eating rice first and then the rotis?
9. why is this place called that of the rich ones...when infact everything here costs half of what it does in central suburb of Mumbai? say even a mehendi...or a designer suit..
10. why are there so less motor rickshaws and strikingly high numbers of cycle ricks ( poor guy fate...if a fat arse takes the ride)
11. Do people here not read much? I mean, atleast on the net I didn't find any franchise of crossword, odyssey, landmark or any other popular book store located here.

These are some curiosities as of now. I am sure some more will pop up during my stay here for the next 2 weeks.

By the way, today I had lunch at sundarams, I guess the only authetic Southindian food joint. And the food was awesome...better then what I have had at cafe mysore or anand Bhavan at Matunga in Mumbai.

I wouldn't say I love the place in its entirety. Rather I'd say...I love it being a tourist here!