Sunday, August 31, 2008
Once upon a time.....
I was really tall
Diamonds are forever
Ofcourse 'Diamonds are forever'. Pure diamond is the hardest known natural mineral substance and will scratch any other natural material. Now I am not getting into the nomenclature of Carbon, you can visit Wikipedia for it.
The $600.00 dollars that was in my bank account before I bought my engagement ring is gone, the engagement for which the ring was for is gone, the marriage for which the engagement was for is gone (landed in divorce) - do you think the diamond is gone? Of course not, it is either increasing the asset portfolio, or lying in a pawn shop or may it landed in the fingers of another woman. Do you think it lost its value?
Diamond companies and merchants across the world have successfully planted the statement 'Love (diamonds) are forever' and its the very carat that increases the value of the diamond determines your undying devotion and commitment to your better half.
"Diamond is made up of repeating units of carbon atoms joined to four other carbon atoms via the strongest chemical linkage, covalent bonds." Well I don't know much about covalent bonds but there exists a strong bond between - diamond and $$$$$ and for that matter love.
Next time you are about to pick that $1000.00 ring for your girlfriend, think about it, with the swipe of your credit card you started the life cycle of another piece of diamond. You and me will pass away but that piece of diamond will be there - in its beauty and grace and a value attached to it, and its not your love its the $$$$.
Serial Dating
Just like serial killers, I don't think there is much glory in serial dating - serial daters don't hate me that's my humble opinion. That day I saw this funny picture and I spent some time chewing over the thought and I realized, to a great extent it is true. Now, if -
V - potential difference between dating girls and doing something productive
I - Current of love
R - Resistance to the flow
then if the resistance start to increase you are stuck because V = IR (people with electronics background know this as Ohms Law). Now since there is only one path through all relationships, you will spend majority of your energy on the relationship with greatest resistance. If you are having a rusty or messed up circuit board you run into a risk of electrocuting anyone who touches it.
When you are multitasking, how often it happened that you wrote a message "last night was wild and fun" and then you realized it was meant for Marie and not Mary, and you spend 5 minutes frantically typing and building a story around that statement. Now that was the superficial part, it is found often women and even men, who are just fresh out of bad or abusive relationship will serial date in order to avoid the pain and anxiety. Your confidence meter gradually slides down with every relationship that turn sour, unless you know the work arounds.
Serial dating often lead to many other self esteem, and even physical issues and in the worst case you realize you are magnet for attracting the losers. I personally know a woman, I have lost count of the number of men she had been with. This is not how it started - she was in a stable marriage with kids when all heaven broke loose.
What do you think about serial dating, let us know ?
Celebrity Spotlight - David Duchovny
Friday, August 29, 2008
Now this is irony - an actor who plays a sex-mad writer on the hit TV show 'Californication' is now seeking treatment for sex addiction.
David William Duchovny, born on August 7, 1960, is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning American television and film actor, best known for his roles as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.
Duchovny appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987, in 1993, Duchovny began starring in the sci-fi series The X-Files as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, a conspiracy theorist who believed his sister was abducted by aliens.
The following is Duchovny's dating tree -
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Dating- "Is it that important?"
In almost every page on the Internet you will find an Ad promoting a dating site; while you are looking for a job, a car, a house, or any other information, you will see this ads on any one of the sides of that page. Even before we reached our “teenager years”, we already feel the pressure of finding that special someone and keeping up with everyone else. We have being "programmed" to believe that dating it's one of the most important priorities in our lives. While I am sure not against the dating practice, I am not fond of the idea that dating should be a top priority for everyone. Of course, there are exclusions to every rule out there!
It is my utmost believe that most of us have gotten the wrong impression of what dating is all about and for that matter, we don’t know when it’s our time to go dating.
Not everyone needs to date or have a special someone to be happy. Many of the most important people in the world were actually single. For example: Jesus, The Pope, Maria Theresa of Calcutta, the 15Th president of the United States among many others.
Someone very dear to me has never gotten married and, having many female friends, he has never given more than a friendship to any one of them. I remember asking him once, “How do you do that? Don’t you feel lonely?” He replied, “If you don’t know how to be single, you will never know how to be a couple. You cannot look for a date just because you feel lonely or because the rest of the world wants you to. If you date for the wrong reasons you might end up depending on the other person in order to be happy, and for that matter not being happy at all. Once you are content and complete all by yourself, then you’ll be ready to date.” - L.A.
What's your opinion? Do you think most people start dating for the right reasons? and if so, What is the "right reason" to start dating?
Bluetooth Dating
Thursday, August 28, 2008
What are the odds of your significant other knowing how to use a mobile phone or for that matter how to configure a bluetooth? Well you know the answer.
But what is wrong with us? Why can't we walk to the girl standing next to us and tell her - "Hi, I find you pretty, I am so and so... I want to ask you out for coffee"? Instead, we have to use our cellphone that will tell us - "There is a girl right next to you. Do you want to talk?" - Then we will click on TALK and we start the digital conversation, with the girl, standing right next to us.
That is a funny way of looking at it. In reality, speed dating is very much in. There is a market for people who don't want to browse through websites or answer questionnaire such as - "Will you donate your underwear to charity?" - Which eventually will determine their physiological profile. They want a system where as they are crossing the road, the phone buzzes and a face appears on the phone of a person who could be at a distance of 15 feet. They meet, get married and live happily ever after. Well, that was fast! Even at the standards of speed dating, But you got the idea.
Proxidating is one such company providing this service. You download a software in your phone; define your preference, and the phone displays your soulmate when there is a match.
For your note: Japanese people already had these services for a few years now.
Can you really rely on a computer for matching human emotions?
Let us know what you think about it!
Green Dating
Green is the buzzword today. These days when the gas is hitting the $4.00 mark, being 'not-green' is so old fashion.
There is a serious consensus that using the word 'eco' in nick names like eco_treehugger, eco_virgin22 help you get laid or get a date. Well we are familiar with - green cars, green computer, green clothes, green electricity but how about 'Green Dating'.
Ever heard of a non-profit company called ZeroFootPrint or for that matter the concept of Carbon Footprint? The first time someone asked me my carbon footprint, I replied- "Eight". Thinking he was asking my shoe size.
Well Carbon related to cars, heating, food etc. is understood but dating? How on earth can a kiss cause carbon emission? May be there is an answer to that question, I don't know. But the point is, where are we going with this? What's next? Green marriage, green kids? Websites like GreenSingles.com, GreenPassions.com are becoming the safe haven for singles who eat and drink 'Global Warming'. But can we use the same criteria to choose our mates as we use to choose our bathroom cleaners? Someone said, "If you form a Cult, they will follow".
A quick visit to one of the popular green dating sites and I came across nick names like - lambfeathers, ecomaster, gopolar. It was rejuvenating to find sexual orientation as eco-sexual instead of hetero or bi. I was relieved to find that the gender option still had 2 choices.
One profile wrote - "Naturist, bi, eco-friendly seeking love; must love dogs". I wonder how do I kill the ozone layer by writing "Looking for girl, like minded, friendly, blah blah..."? This beyond my intelligence!
I am green in my way and I do that by - Car pooling, Recycling paper and avoiding plastic bags. But the thought of riding to work, going on a date wearing only body hair or looking for a Eco-sexual date on a green dating site is depressing and so unromantic.
What is your idea of green dating and do you know your carbon footprint? Let us know.
Celebrity Spotlight - Brad Pitt
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Brad Pitt finally won the best actor award he won from the Venice Film Festival in 2007 for "The Assassination Of Jesse James".
The movie was slow but I really liked his performance. Among all the movies of Brad Pitt, "The Legends of the fall" is my personal favorite.
William Bradley Pitt popularly known as Brad Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a high school counselor, and William Alvin Pitt, a truck company owner. He attended Kickapoo High School, where he was involved in sports, debating, student government, and acting. He attended the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
Pitt was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history. Pitt has also twice been named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. In 2007, Pitt was listed among artists and entertainers as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World.
The following is Brad's dating tree -
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Online Dating Scams
Every single day 10 minutes of my morning time is spent, sipping a hot cup of coffee and deleting spam mails.
You know the funny part, I read them... I am very curious to find the story that the person on the other side is writing. I have read all kinds of stories, you name it - "my cancer stricken wife counting her last days... Microsoft Online Lottery Lucky Draw (Imagine Microsoft Lottery)... A millionaire couple dead on a plane crash who left behind money for me...FBI watch list has verified I have legit money..." the list is endless.
Anyway the point is this is not funny, this is serious business. There are people earning money either by scamming or by stealing your identity. And surprisingly 90% of the mails I receive are from African countries, how I know? Well from the addresses written in the mails. I have no prejudice against people from those regions but ironically I came to know of two incidents in my close circle, which happen to involve people from Nigeria.
There was a breaking story today from New Zealand.
"A Porirua woman lost $10,000 to a scammer who told her that he was a widower, and employed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in Lagos.
In one scam he emailed her a business letter showing US$200,000 ($290,740) he had deposited in a United States bank account.
Police believe the same scammer was responsible for extorting almost $70,000 from an Auckland woman - using a similar story."
I don't make that money burning 40 hours a week.
For more on the story, read the article published in New Zealand Herald.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10529343
Social Networking Overload
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Xing... well if you are not following where I am going you probably still own a rotary phone.
2 years back, the first thing I did when I logged into my computer is check my hotmail and yahoo, the first thing I do today is check my facebook and twitter.
Everyday there is a new social networking site popping up and with all these choices comes a digital daze. Well you can't be in all the clubs, remember there is only 24 hours in a day, you have to eat and for that you have to work.
So how can you avoid the social networking stress disorder? Well if you don't have any social networking presence trust me you haven't missed anything, there is plenty of light in your tunnel. Remember the match.com slogan "Its OK to look" so you can start your social networking shopping - register with a couple of popular websites and see how you like your experience but the mostly important thing - see how you are networking with your friends. Please remember you are not an outlaw. You are shopping because you want to network with your friends not the service provider.
Once you have tasted the blood now you can define a strategy for your hunting. Apart from choosing one main, general networking site you should also choose one that target your profession and industry. It is very likely that you work and also a possibility you might loose your work, so professional networking comes handy.
I personally use Facebook as my main, LinkedIn for my professional networking, twitter for messaging and that's it.... that's it.
Once you have defined all these, you will see its not bad as it looks... you still might get the side effects which include -
"social amnesia, social anxiety, carpal tunnel and of course social networking stress disorder"
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Celebrity Spotlight - Tom Cruise
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Nearly a dozen extras who worked on Valkyrie, a world war II era film, have filed a $11 million lawsuit against Tom Cruise and his production company United Artists, over injuries allegedly sustained while filming.
The actors reportedly suffered several broken bones, cuts and bruises during the incident, when the side panel of their German Army truck burst open as the vehicle turned a corner.
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV better known as Tom Cruise, was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Mary Lee, a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer.
Cruise has said that he suffered from abuse as a child. This was partially due to his dyslexia. He stated that when something went wrong, his father came down hard on him. Cruise started acting after being sidelined from his high school's wrestling team due to a knee injury. While injured, he successfully auditioned for a lead role in his high school's production of Guys and Dolls and decided to become an actor after his success in the role.
Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards.
The following is Tom's dating tree -
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