Thursday, September 27, 2007

Irony

And the Pakistan captain comes to the dias and says..

"I want to thank all the players, the supporters, and the Muslim religion people of the world for their support.."

And then, two minutes later, Irfan Pathan comes to the dias to claim the Man of the Match award for India.

Cricket is such a beautiful game, when you try to mix religion with sport, only funny situations result.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Do we like the same books?

I just noticed something about social networking sites recently.

I've been receiving all these "Shelfari" invitation emails from my acquaintances. The first ones to send the invis were all girls. Now this is new, since it's generally guys who go on to invite and add girls to their lists. Next in line were the people who.. well.. live on the edge. They've been hanging around with girls for so long that they've developed a noticeable femininity of character. Yes you got it.. the Karan Johar types. And finally came the real men. Now I've been trying to guess what kept them from going on their usual invi-spree for this yet another social network.

So finally I came to the conclusion that girls are more eager to build friendship networks, but they do need a solid premise to do that. Discussion on books is one of such premises, and how they've pounced on it! I'm sure if Orkut gave you such a reason, apart from the cliched "Here for: 1) Friends 2)Activity partners 3) Dating men/women/children/blah blah.. ", it'd be a much bigger hit in terms of girls taking the initiative.

Am I right, or am I right?