Connection Error

I love staying "connected" to things around me, people, memories and call myself a pretty emotional person. So when I get invites, emails, more follow-up emails to connect, orkut, tweet, google wave, facebook ex-colleagues, acquaintances and random junta I just ask one question to myself - do I want to stay connected? The answer doesn't take more than a minute and I hit the decline or accept button with no regrets!

I have no personal grudge against these people and in fact I appreciate them getting in touch with me and taking the effort. The problem lies with the memories, situations which they bring with them and I don't want to be associated them now. And, now being friends with them on the social networking sites I don't feel the connection at all.
I was friends with them in a different situation, mindset and now don't feel it anymore. Is that mean thing to say? It could be but it is a fact! People whom I really want to be in touch are already connected to me so can I just put a "stop" sign on my profile?

Flirting.. a big no!

So I was talking to an old friend from India and was quite surprised to hear when he casually mentioned that how flirting is so common in his work place. He called it as "harmless flirting".. I thought about it for some time and said " flirting is flirting, there is no difference between harmful or harmless". I strongly believe in none and would like my partner to follow the same.

I mean every person has its own definitions and limitations for flirting but what ever I know from my experience is that if you are dating anyone, married or just engaged; you have no right to flirt around with anyone. It is just not cool...

I am strongly against flirting esp. when you are committed someone because it is not so easy as it sounds. Casual flirting or a serious one is the same thing, you are definitely attracted to the other person and you hold no inhibitions in saying whats on your mind. I think people find it more fun, as it is definitely very subtle, gives you a hormonal rush and becomes part of your unconscious mind!

Somebody is watching me..

I like the privacy here in USA. People mind their own business and don't care much unless they are being pulled into the matter. I remember my train ride in Mumbai and always got the feeling that somebody is watching me. Don't get me wrong but I used to be in a train car full of women and always had one of them watching me. I wonder why. Don't even ask me what used to happen if I chose to sit in a General train car (both for men and women). I would call that leching - horrible experience for any woman.
But, here I travel around cities in trains, bus or planes and nobody even gives me a second look.
The other day I did see a guy starting towards me and that made me question myself - why? do i have a mark on my face? is anything wrong? I guess I am just not used to it.

I am scared of inventions

New inventions are done to make life simpler, easier and sometimes fun. I remember the time when we used floppies to save our files. Apart from keeping it safe I had to always take extra precautions to save the files. Sometimes I would email them to myself to just to extra careful. And do you remember the memory size ~1.4 MB? Now, we have the beautiful, sleek flash memory drives storing huge data. I wonder what happened to companies who manufacture floppies - did they stick around or started working on new innovations.
I have the latest nano ipod and I am still nervous of the next Apple invention. I am so proud of my nano right now but once the new music player hits the market my ipod will become obsolete. So will I be proud to flaunt my ipod then or will be a little shy to take it out in front of anyone?

I feel bad for the money i have spent on these gadgets and now nobody looks at them all because of these inventions.

My cellphone and I

Though I have dedicated this headline to my cellphone but I dont really like it a lot. But, right now if I get to know that my cellphone is lost, crushed by a monster, not workable, flushed down the toilet, I will be sad. But I like its concept, the fact that I can get in touch with people when I am lost in a big mall, theater or in case of an emergency. Other than that, I dont see any features in it. Some one could argue - why the hell would marketers spend so many $$ selling and researching about this gadget? I am sure I m the kinds marketers hate and would not like to talk but there are millions of others who breathe, eat, sleep their cellphones.

I think I am a utitlity person so give me any gadget , my first question would what is it use. If it is just a fancy thing with little or no utility then thats not for me.

I am baby blogger

I have always been fascinated by people who write well and have a vast vocabulary. Actually, my dad is great with words and writes well. Sadly, I couldn't pick up that skill from him. Sitting thousand miles away from him, I sometimes feel that I could have learnt a lot from him. He's an interesting man who is quite talented, never really talked about it openly. For example, he has never received any formal music training but can play flute, harmonica, guitar, harmonium, synthesiser. I guess he just one of those people who have the knack of picking up things easily and don't really need any guidance. But this story is not about my dad, its about me.

And this is just the begining. I want to write more and say more...