A Day set aside !

I have never ever come to terms with seting aside a day to celebrate things in your life other than some festivals or your birthday.The word women , to me at-least , means warmth - a mother's , a sister's , a lover's LOVE. Why do you need just a single day to recognize it and celebrate it? - I know the counter-arguments to it - " Like we do celebrate or recognize even if the day is set aside for it ".Still , look around and pass a smile if you can't really go verbal about it.

Happy Women's day .

Are we thinking in 140 Characters?

All of us are drifters. Or just tying to keep up with what’s new (I am no exception). When it comes to adopting or adapting to a new Social networking site , blogging space or whatever ; there are two kinds of people .Some who join in because his friend told him that “ it’s so cool “ that his neighbor yelled at him in his Facebook account for keeping the music loud ( DUH !! ) . And some like my nephews who have kept time apart to understand the lingo of the site they have joined so that they can brag about who “OWND “who in the Crisis “tournie” they had yesterday.

And you felt that the dust has settled on who will be crowned as THE BIG thing? WRONG ! ( Alarm ). Blogspot, Wordpress, Facebook,Myspace,Orkut,Twitter , Yammer – Just to name a few. You see a new site emerging every day with invites spamming your email account. And if that’s nothing , developers are trying to make money out of these popular ones with their own rip-off’s which has multiple accounts linked in one way or another ( Too much of a mess if you ask me ). Gone are the days when some one asked you “ What’s your email account ?“( My mom gives a stare and asks me “ What happened to Whats your name “). No surprises when the contact addresses are changed to twitter.com/nick

All of us want to blog ( or want to be there for the heck of it ). Books were written on Blog-Etiquettes ( Give me a break, I want to be express myself freely somewhere ) and it was almost certain that blogs were the next big thing when Evan Williams dropped out of one of the major players and formed Twitter with a small bird as the logo ( The whale is a big contender if you ask me ;-) ) . With no effort , your followers increase in number and you get a tweet-by-tweet report of what Jack Black did when he was in the backstage of Ozzfest last time .Frenzied media have moved into the space as well with updates with “links” to their news page. The best I know of anyone gaining from twitter is that guy who made a CNN user account even before tweets were making rounds/waves. Heard he was hired or CNN bought the account for huge sum ( Not sure of this.) breaking twitter’s rules.

So , is it for the better or worst ? Have we started thinking in 140 characters these days? Are you an addict ? The tweets thoughts linger.

Morning Blues

Getting too much used to the long weekends.
After effects : The blues have left Mondays for Tuesdays !

ME

Who am I ? Remember a young Jackie Chan running around buildings doing spectacular martial arts asking the same question in a flick by the same name which became a classic ?

Who am I ? I am bewildered young man ( at heart atleast , though the lines on my face say otherwise ) with the same question. Masks ; lying here and there : of a son , a lover , a brother , a friend and so many more . The day will come when I need to be ME . And as I recollect , I can't distinguish that ME from the masks I have been wearing . Or have they outgrown the real ME ?