Good Feeling…

I wouldn’t consider myself to be a fan of Flo Rida but I do enjoy his music sometimes. I found this track to be a ear-worm! I just couldn’t stop hitting the replay button all the time. The track is called “Good Feeling” by Flo Rida. Don’t miss the iPad in the video

Snap Shot …

My Life, My Thoughts…

We tend to challenge life every way possible. We like to live our lives in the most comfortable manner irrespective of the fact if we can afford it or not. These are some random thoughts that are just on my mind and I am going to post it here. Warning: This post might not make any sense but if you can link between the random thoughts, congrats! You’ve successfully understood my post.


I normally choose topics which are easy to blog about. For eg: Sports, Social Media, Picture posts. These are simple topics with facts readily available on the Internet. So I sat down in front of my laptop and wondered “what if I just post something filled with my random thoughts and who cares if it makes sense or not” so here I am sitting and doing exactly that. Call me crazy but this is who I am.

For starters, let me pick on myself. Yeah the way I bully myself. So I am an Indian. You know being born born in a small town (way back in 1980’s) called Puttur located in some corner of Karnataka which is a state of India, and all.. I was pulled out by an Indian doctor by my legs and my cute butt is slapped right in front of all those cute nurses. Now that’s seriously embarrassing! I really wonder how the doctor would feel if someone had held him like that and spanked him!   I am then wrapped up like a small chocolate and handed over to my mother who then takes me to a foreign country called ‘Muscat’. My childhood is just plain memories and thoughts of a few friends who I really wonder if I would get a chance to meet again and chat over a coffee. Would love to do that and reminisce those good old days. Oh wait, I don’t even remember my school teachers except for Mr. Burns (History & Class Teacher). Life has been a challenge from the day stepped out of Muscat and moved to India. From an easy-going life to a struggle was not easy but then there were times when I would just say ‘Enough, I can’t live this life any further’ and NO! I would never think about taking the easy way out (which is actually, come to think of it, a not so easy way out). It’s no fun! I would just open a bottle of cold beer and drown the miserable feeling in some fermented barley and yeast . Yeah, that’s better.  


I am still living my life after all the challenges. We tend to revolve only around one fact and that’s money. We work for money, if we’re not spending the money we’re thinking of ways to spend the money. It’s like without money the human race would never exist. Why is that? Well, It’s our fault and nobody else is to blame (oh come on, are you going to blame your dog?). I am sure party life never existed decades ago and pubs that would wait to suck your money out were just a ‘thought’. Our needs have created so many solutions that each solution just needs more money which we have earned after struggling for hours. Yes, I have my needs and I do depend on these solutions but let’s ask ourselves one thing, do we actually need to spend so much or just spend as much as our requirement is?
I am really not sure if anything I said made any sense but these are just random thoughts that came in to my mind and I thought I should just write them down so that on a later stage in life I could just sit back and read it to wonder what a fool I was. Yeah, I still have to work on my grammar but for starters I am happy with this.

The Reign of Social Networking…

Little less than a decade ago, in the world of Internet, when bored teenagers surfed websites and entered into chat rooms for kicks, there came in to existence a site which changed everything. Orkut, a social site which allowed teens and people of different ages to create an account and meet strangers as an excuse to kill boredom. From being socially active in the real world, a virtual world took over and people were glued to their laptops/desktops to surf pictures and check on what others were upto.

When the reign of Orkut was on and people were finally reaching saturation, there came Facebook a.k.a FB. Well, this was different compared to Orkut. Facebook only allowed you to add people you knew and had strict privacy policies through which random people were not allowed to see anything on the profile other than just the picture and gender. This social site spread like wild-fire, thanks to its creator Mark Zuckerberg! Well, he even funded a movie on himself which released in the year 2010. Now Facebook has a fan / user base of approximately 750 million users out of which 50% of the users log on almost every day. That’s a lot of Social Networking in a day! That’s not all. The movie (The Social Network) ended up raking a whooping $50 million within the first 2 weeks. That’s just an estimated amount published through the box office. The publishing house expected The Social Network to hit $100 million, which I am sure by now it probably already has.

So this is to show how powerful a social networking site has gotten over the past few years. Currently Facebook stands as the Champion among Social Network Sites. But, there are signs of a competitor and believe me, this is just the beginning of the fun.

Google sat back and watched Facebook soar up the ladder of Social Networking and knew they had to do something about since they are the Internet giants especially with their power search engine and email applications. Finally, 2011 marked a new era and challenge in the Social Networking world. Welcome to Google+ or typed as GooglePlus in search. This is a beta social network version launched by Google to take on Facebook head on! Currently this website is on invites only and yes if you do have a Gmail id, your friend using Google+ can send you an invite. This site has a calm home screen and with a few hours of surfing, let me assure you that it will give you a very nice feeling with no hassles at all. You can share video’s, post on the main screen wall just like Facebook and currently Google+ already has reached the 1million user mark even though its on the beta page at the moment. This is a strong growth and could clearly spell trouble for Facebook.

So where is our good ol Twitter page in all this fight? Well, Twitter is enjoying a nice relaxed time watching all these social network sites fight while it has calmly hidden 5,72,000 new accounts which were created March 12, 2011. So we are looking at a huge number of twitter users. Especially 177 million Tweets sent on March 11, 2011 is huge and looks like Twitter will have its own empire. Anyone ready to challenge this little birdie?

Now, my final verdict. I am still a not-so-active user of Facebook and an ametur user of Google+ since I have a lot more to learn from it. My advice, never get addicted to a Social network. Get out of your house and enjoy a good time with your friends over a cup of coffee or just pick up your phone and speak to them to enjoy real friendship rather than a virtual one!

The Reign of Social Networking…

Little less than a decade ago, in the world of Internet, when bored teenagers surfed websites and entered into chat rooms for kicks, there came in to existence a site which changed everything. Orkut, a social site which allowed teens and people of different ages to create an account and meet strangers as an excuse to kill boredom. From being socially active in the real world, a virtual world took over and people were glued to their laptops/desktops to surf pictures and check on what others were upto.

When the reign of Orkut was on and people were finally reaching saturation, there came Facebook a.k.a FB. Well, this was different compared to Orkut. Facebook only allowed you to add people you knew and had strict privacy policies through which random people were not allowed to see anything on the profile other than just the picture and gender. This social site spread like wild-fire, thanks to its creator Mark Zuckerberg! Well, he even funded a movie on himself which released in the year 2010. Now Facebook has a fan / user base of approximately 750 million users out of which 50% of the users log on almost every day. That’s a lot of Social Networking in a day! That’s not all. The movie (The Social Network) ended up raking a whooping $50 million within the first 2 weeks. That’s just an estimated amount published through the box office. The publishing house expected The Social Network to hit $100 million, which I am sure by now it probably already has.

So this is to show how powerful a social networking site has gotten over the past few years. Currently Facebook stands as the Champion among Social Network Sites. But, there are signs of a competitor and believe me, this is just the beginning of the fun.

Google sat back and watched Facebook soar up the ladder of Social Networking and knew they had to do something about since they are the Internet giants especially with their power search engine and email applications. Finally, 2011 marked a new era and challenge in the Social Networking world. Welcome to Google+ or typed as GooglePlus in search. This is a beta social network version launched by Google to take on Facebook head on! Currently this website is on invites only and yes if you do have a Gmail id, your friend using Google+ can send you an invite. This site has a calm home screen and with a few hours of surfing, let me assure you that it will give you a very nice feeling with no hassles at all. You can share video’s, post on the main screen wall just like Facebook and currently Google+ already has reached the 1million user mark even though its on the beta page at the moment. This is a strong growth and could clearly spell trouble for Facebook.

So where is our good ol Twitter page in all this fight? Well, Twitter is enjoying a nice relaxed time watching all these social network sites fight while it has calmly hidden 5,72,000 new accounts which were created March 12, 2011. So we are looking at a huge number of twitter users. Especially 177 million Tweets sent on March 11, 2011 is huge and looks like Twitter will have its own empire. Anyone ready to challenge this little birdie?

Now, my final verdict. I am still a not-so-active user of Facebook and an ametur user of Google+ since I have a lot more to learn from it. My advice, never get addicted to a Social network. Get out of your house and enjoy a good time with your friends over a cup of coffee or just pick up your phone and speak to them to enjoy real friendship rather than a virtual one!

Picture time

Picture time

India Wins the Cricket World Cup–02.04.2011

An event that will go down in history. Something that is going to be the talk of generations to come. Has India’s favourite sport hit the top? It’s cricket. Yesterday it was just the pressure of the match, but from today it is going to be the fame, lime light and the crazed cricket mobs that in all probability will start choking the players. I just hope they will be able to handle the media pressure from now.

I enjoyed watching the finals with some close friends but the funny part was, everybody was silent during the whole match! I mean, nobody had anything to say or any views to share regarding anything that was happening in the game being played. Faint clapping and light cheering following the runs or wickets scored by India were the only sounds that were heard. Was it a sign of extreme suspense or, that of a match being too predictable? I am not sure. I always had this feeling that the whole tournament would turn out to be way too predictable once India got through the Quarter-Finals. A few points to be raised:

1. Finals held at Mumbai – Hometown of Sachin Tendulkar. Coincidental? Especially when the whole team was suddenly dedicating the winning to him.

2. Dhoni finishes the match with a massive 6 run shot – After the match was over, Dhoni took the backstage and was not seen much during the march around the ground or the champions picture. Everyone was talking about Sachin. What about Dhoni’s masterpiece Captaincy during the whole tournament? How could one forget about that?

3.  Home Ground Win – No team in the history of World Cup Cricket has won the finals on home ground. India did it. Doesn’t that sound too easy?

I am a fan of Cricket and I do cheer for the Indian Team but sometimes things just create so many doubts in one’s mind that you have to share it to know the truth or reality. While I do respect the sport, Hockey is the National Sport of India but Cricket gets all the limelight. This one little fact creates massive doubts in a persons mind to compelling one to hunt for answers.

On that note, Congratulations to the Indian Cricket team and here wishing the best for them in their future cricket events against England and Australia.

Cheers!

India Wins the Cricket World Cup–02.04.2011

An event that will go down in history. Something that is going to be the talk of generations to come. Has India’s favourite sport hit the top? It’s cricket. Yesterday it was just the pressure of the match, but from today it is going to be the fame, lime light and the crazed cricket mobs that in all probability will start choking the players. I just hope they will be able to handle the media pressure from now.

I enjoyed watching the finals with some close friends but the funny part was, everybody was silent during the whole match! I mean, nobody had anything to say or any views to share regarding anything that was happening in the game being played. Faint clapping and light cheering following the runs or wickets scored by India were the only sounds that were heard. Was it a sign of extreme suspense or, that of a match being too predictable? I am not sure. I always had this feeling that the whole tournament would turn out to be way too predictable once India got through the Quarter-Finals. A few points to be raised:

1. Finals held at Mumbai – Hometown of Sachin Tendulkar. Coincidental? Especially when the whole team was suddenly dedicating the winning to him.

2. Dhoni finishes the match with a massive 6 run shot – After the match was over, Dhoni took the backstage and was not seen much during the march around the ground or the champions picture. Everyone was talking about Sachin. What about Dhoni’s masterpiece Captaincy during the whole tournament? How could one forget about that?

3.  Home Ground Win – No team in the history of World Cup Cricket has won the finals on home ground. India did it. Doesn’t that sound too easy?

I am a fan of Cricket and I do cheer for the Indian Team but sometimes things just create so many doubts in one’s mind that you have to share it to know the truth or reality. While I do respect the sport, Hockey is the National Sport of India but Cricket gets all the limelight. This one little fact creates massive doubts in a persons mind to compelling one to hunt for answers.

On that note, Congratulations to the Indian Cricket team and here wishing the best for them in their future cricket events against England and Australia.

Cheers!

Social Networks …

Sipping on a cup of coffee and surfing around, i suddenly realized i had a blog page of my own! Wow, it’s been 6months since my last post and all those comments on my old posts did bring a smile on my face when i was just reading through. Was more like a memory refresh on an early sunday morning. Has anyone ever wondered why we tend to blog less these days? Let me give you a good clue.
Social netoworks. Yes, Social Network sites like Facebook and Twitter have become so popular that people have diverted their attention and thoughts to ‘Status Updates’ and ‘Tweets’. Have a thought and just go on there and post it. Look at your blog page and your blank on what to type since you’ve already proclaimed your personal thoughts to the whole world and all you do is sit back and wait for ‘Likes’ ‘Pokes’ and comments. I really wonder what thrill does it bring to one while you can write your whole thought on a blog and share it with people who actually understand it and agree with you or share their views. I feel social networks damage your personal social life to a great extent. People tend to sit inside the four walls of their home and never bother to walk out, breathe some fresh air and actually socialize with people in real! Trust me, its much better to make and meet friends in real than watching some bunch of fake pictures clicked during their ‘good days’. On the other hand you have your weird ‘tweets’. I have always wondered, can a person ever guess if a particular tweet is sarcastic or good?

Food for thought. Signing off for now but more to come and will make sure its not a long 6months break. Cheers!