Why it is not a good idea to get me married

This is the age when the entire world looks at you with the eyes which say "I wonder if you will be suitable for the son of my husband's uncle's wife's brother's boss' neighbor's son?". The following are the reasons why I say no to such looks.
1. I have too much carelessness to exhibit in life.
2. I shudder at the thought of a permanent room mate forever.
3. I like money. To spend. On myself. Without a check-post for every card swipe.
4. I hog the bed and the blanket.
5. I am an only child. Sharing isn't my nature.
6. I have a set of friends who are as crazy as I am. Together we are super crazy with no remedy in sight.
7. I love music and I sing out loud. People haven't appreciated that till now.
8. There are many hot guys I haven't checked out yet.
In my favor, I love food!

Why terrorists don't attack IT companies?

All of us working in the IT sector must have wondered why all the hype about security. It all of that seems to be moot since the offices pose any threat by the terrorists. And here are a few points why:
1. No one really cares if the IT professionals are killed, there are so many others anyway.

2. They are already so sad in life that killing them is not justified.

3. It is so easy that there is no thrill in planning and executing.

4. There is no harm to the economy, as politicians are not involved in this sector.

5. What will anyone do with such protected networks. Terrorists have more advanced technology to work with.

6. If they do get their hands on all the code which makes lives of the employees miserable, it will only serve to give them a good laugh.

7. In all fairness, it is not the code which adds misery to lives. It is the employees at higher level. They are terrorists in a sophisticated way themselves. What’s the point in additional terrorism.

8. They have better ways to create a stir. They bomb the mega structures in the country itself.

9. All the offices of IT companies are so far away from the main city that the conspirators get tired reaching them.

10. The offices are so far away that even press won’t be able to get a proper coverage.

a letter to Tamilian girl from Delhi girl

I was going through a quite famous blog entry written by a Tamilian girl who was in Delhi was a while. The entry is about her experience (relationship) with the Northie boy. You can find it here http://raagshahana.blogspot.com/2011/09/open-letter-to-delhi-boy.html?spref=fb. This is my letter to the author.
I am from Delhi and have been living in Tamil Nadu for 4 and half years now. Being in a university that boasts an international standard and now working in an MNC, I have had quite many experiences with different people.
Since you talked so strongly about female empowerment, I think that is required as the eaves-teasers (read perverts) here are galore. They are so desperate that they can line-maro on a guy with long hair. Even a slight rub of arms while sitting in an auto sends their libido into a frenzy. I think it’s that reaction that prevents the ladies of the South to venture out of their state and sometimes even city. Even though the guys from Delhi are megalomaniacs, I believe and you will agree, it’s any day better than nymphomaniacs.
So Delhi boys like to show-off their body and flex their muscles. What do you say about the South Indian men who like to show off their hairy legs by folding their lungi every change they get? Do you think it’s sexy?
Not everyone in our country is fortunate enough to have a good education and develop a good command over a foreign language. In the North saying “mom-dad” is cool. Have you not come across the term “super” used to describe all the possible adjectives and superlatives?
Taking the examples of a few well-renowned universities of Chennai this time. What sort of liberalism is it, when the girls and boys in a university aren’t allowed to sit together even while travelling in the bus? I am very sad to report that Southies reputation of being very intelligent and smart which precedes them, is infact very misleading. Homosexuality is frowned upon, opposite sex is not supposed to interact, how do families get made there?
Where do I begin with the bias here against the Northies? If we call everyone a Madraasi, isn’t everyone from North a Delhite for you all? I am sure you know of the cut off percentage there is in Delhi University. May I add that many from South also aim to get admission in the colleges there? Some do that to escape the stifling atmosphere.
Forgive me here, I don’t know too many long words and have problems with intellectual sentence formation, so I will state some facts crisply here. Tamil Nadu has the largest porn industry in the country. Also, a huge level of alcohol consumption. I don’t know the statistics but it’s definitely more than Delhi’s.
You just have to let the other person know that you can’t speak Tamil, then watch their face contort into a mix between malice and spite. Immediately, the person is transformed from being a human being asking for help, to someone out there to be looted.
After everything that I have stated above, I have respect for the state. Being prejudiced and categorising people in general is never fair to anyone. I have mostly Telugu and Tamilian friends and yes they do not ostracize me because of my native land. Due to the vast difference in culture, there will be things which go beyond imagination but that doesn’t mean they are bad. They are just different. You judged a huge chunk of India’s population by just one person you had the misfortune to meet. I am sorry for you. But look around, we Northies aren’t too different than you. We respect our elders, touch their feet, and pray to God. Our first salary is still for parents. We might celebrate different festivals but we celebrate them same as you do yours. If Infosys was started by a South Indian then Hotmail was by a Punjabi. You have M.S. Subhalakshami, we have Lata Mangeshkar. You have Jayalalitha, we have Mayawati.
Next time, when you think that a certain someone is a Delhite, stop and think, is that all a person is? Is eating butter chicken that much different from eating chicken Chettinad?
Yours sincerely,
Girl from Delhi living in Chennai

A Feeble Attempt

She is the first face he sees in the morning,
The last in the night
The one in all his prayers,
The one he loves with all his might.
She is the one thinks about during the day,
And worries if she is late at night.
She is the queen of his home,
Light of his life.
And she runs to him happy or sad,
Has there ever been a love known, like daughter and dad?

Trust Quotient

This note has been inspired by one of the blogs that I follow. It’s a conversation between two girls.
Girl 1 (crying): I am breaking-up.
Girl 2 (shocked): what??? You were like the perfect couple! You were so in love with him! What happened?
Girl 1 (still crying): I think he was cheating on me.
Girl 2: you think! You left him because of some crazy notion that he was cheating on you?!
Girl 1: no, I am positive he was cheating on me. There is this girl from his office, a colleague he says, and he is spending an awful lot of time with her.
Girl 2: so what? That no reason to leave someone. I thought you were above the jealous type.
Girl 1: apparently, they were working on a project. So they spent whole day in office together. When he was with me, he was either on phone with her or texting her.
Girl 2: it might be work related. You never know
Girl 1: you are right I didn’t know then. That project ended a month ago.
Girl 2: maybe they became friends over time. You have male colleague friends.
Girl 1: yes, and he knows all of them and they know him. You know how I know the girl’s name? Through his caller-id.
Girl 2: give him some benefit of doubt. You’ve been with him for more than 2 years now.
Girl1: I have asked about her lightly a lot many times and he just shrugged it off, saying there is no one. But then the talks turned into fights and we were always yelling at each other. At last he came clean. He has been out with this girl a few times. She doesn’t know about me. You remember our anniversary last month, how he was “late” for our dinner and didn’t get time to wish me until 10.30? He was out with her.
Girl 2: what does he say about you guys? The relationship, I mean?
Girl 1: he says he is sorry and will never repeat a thing like this. He says that he loves me. It was just a casual thing with that girl, nothing serious. He is going to tell her that he is committed to me.
Girl 2: then why are you still breaking-up? He is ready to make amends.
Girl 1: our relation is beyond repair now. I don’t trust him anymore. I don’t think I can ever trust him again. If he has done this once, then who can say that he won’t repeat it? He doesn’t know what he wants but whatever it is, it isn’t me.

How far can such actions of our “bitter” halves be justified? Was the girl right in leaving him or should she have stuck-out, given him another chance? Isn’t love about forgiving and forgetting? Or is it more about trust which broken once, is one times too many? What about the guy’s side of the story? What is cheating in the first place?

Hypothetical travelling experiences

As I am sure most would people agree that the worst thing to happen while travelling is to have an infant somewhere nearby our seat or berth because of their super-human vocal cords which have made their parents lose their hearing ability. Here are some of the hypothetical situations a person might find him/herself while in a train.
• Having a person listen to your conversations with friends of the opposite gender, which are about other people, private lives and “girl secrets”, and then advising them on how-to-wrench-secrets-out-of-a-girl.
• A couple of good friends travelling in the same compartment as yours and playing the really heart-wrenching sad ballads from the early 90’s movies. You know the ones in which the heart of the heroine is compared to thorns and all.
• A girl sitting beside you talking on phone with her fiancé and threatening him to break of the relationship because his family isn’t considerate enough of her troubles with the travelling. Also, that she will be better off with “Titu” as he understands her (till date I wonder how the hell was I able to control my laughter).
• A lady who thinks that her younger cousin might be on the same wavelength/frequency as yours and takes your number to give to him. Who, by the way, comes up with the most ridiculous start-up line for the conversation and ends up making you his sister (something highly unappreciated by the said sister) when he realizes you are elder to him (he is totally not your type. Hallelujah!)
• While waiting for the means of transportation to arrive, you spot a hottie who can be in the vicinity of where you are meant to sit. You monitor his body language to gauge how interesting the journey is going to be, only to find that he was waiting for another route on the same mode of transportation.
• Some people are very fond of food (so am I) and they carry everything in their kitchen with them short of the cooking stove and you are famished. Help in form of pantry cannot be seen anywhere in the near future.
• Remember Altaf Raja of “tum to thehare pardesi” fame? Well it turns out that some people are his fans and determined to make others notice his talent by playing songs full-blast on various media devices that China has to offer.
Disclaimer: all the incidents and characters in this hypothesis are inspired from real life. Resemblance to anyone dead or alive is to be expected.

To Americans, from India

from what i have seen through the movies and series that u make concerning India, its clear that you have no idea what this country is all about.
for starters, all Indians are not beggers or hard-up for money. living on the streets or in homes with plaster peeling is not an accepted life style. we can be hired for cheap labour because we know the value and respect work and money. our food might be spicy and not agree with your digestion but it is to do with you and not us. our country has been blessed with an assortment of spices and we make the best of that.
we are conservative if by conservative you mean that we wont sleep every/any person who comes our way. we treat intimacy the way it should be: privately. we are just not obsessed with relationships or the opposite sex. probably these are the reasons why we have lesser number of marriages per person and lesser divorce rate too.
about the streets. there are cows and slow moving traffic you say but there is a high chance that you wont be run over because the other guy cares more about human lives than he does about the bad tasting morning coffee.
you must have noticed that Indian males swoon over American females and its not for the reasons you think. its because the American girls are easy and its not good even in ur culture.
we speak with an accent? and some how that makes us have a low mental capability? well, we speak an entirely different language than yours and still we have a better hold on grammar than you do. slangs are something that you make when you dont have a good word to express yourself. also, in our opinion, you have an accent too.
if you are so perfect then why do you have yoga classes, meditation and Indian spiritual gurus? we do have faults and we accept that but so do you. why is it so necessary for you to have fun on the expense of others? if we can learn things from you then so can you without demeaning us. it wont hurt your pride and ego as much as you think.