Wednesday, August 6, 2008

The City that never Sleeps

One of the most beautiful cities on earth, NYC is exceptionally diverse with people from all over the world, speaking over a 100 different languages.
Walking on the roads of NYC(Manhattan)in broad daylight, I fell in love! The sophisticated people, tall buildings, Macy's clothes store, Banana Republic, Dolce&Gabbana, NBC studios, HBO, Grand Central Station, Central Park, Rockefeller Centre, Empire State Building, Limos, cute yellow taxis that charge exorbitant amount just to go from one avenue to the next, Park avenue, restaurants, bars, coffee pubs, ten of each in every lane! Can you believe that!?
I fell in love with it all! And that was just during the day! People told me the avenues and streets would confuse me and I would get lost, but I was surprised that didn't happen to me!
I roamed the streets like I was living there!

The Crossroads of the World- Times Square, where the theatres, buildings colorful lights that attracted people! One can't help but stand in one spot and gape, drinking in the beauty all around, especially during the nights! It's like you stepped into an exclusive club consisting of only the rich and the famous! The bright lights on bridges and buildings, catches your eye and makes you gasp with awe and happiness!!!

My friends ask me what I love most about NYC? I say everything!
But this is what I enjoy doing most:
Listening to music in the train & subway to n fro Manhattan...
Walking along the streets, drinking coffee n feeling like a New Yorker...
Sitting on the docks by the Hudson River at night overlooking NJ & Brooklyn bridge& looking at people passing me by...
Walking in Park Avenue & dreaming of owning an apartment there...
Driving from Long Island to Manhattan n singing to the songs on Z100 on saturdays with my aunt n uncle...

Monday, July 28, 2008

Picture This... I'd rather not!!!


Is there any another movie that is as meaningless, dull and superficial as Picture This? I think not! And I thought chic flicks are superficial! Ok, I've heard of parents having trust issues with their children and malicious high school girls slandering others, but this is ridiculous! And to think I was dying to watching the movie! What was I thinking?! A dad that always keeps tabs on his daughter! Talk about insecurities! Seems more like stalking to me! And a girl who does anything to get her "dream man" to notice her! And I mean she does virtually anything! What is happening to the world of cinema?What happened to classic arts, the time-honored oldies that all of us cherish and watch repeatedly? There was absolutely zilch chemistry between Drew Patterson and Mandie Gilbert.
And like a tiny slit in her dress is going to make much of a difference at the much awaited party, when Lisa Cross wore the same dress but without a slit! A big whoopie for the creative style! Ashley Tisdale ought to just concentrate on her candy girl character in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody,where she was more appreciated and lay off producing her own movies! What was she trying to prove? I don't get the picture, no pun intended.

Monday, July 14, 2008

The Web Bot Project - Doomsday(dec. 12, 2012)

The Web Bot Project created by Microsoft was designed in the 90s to make predictions on their stock market value.
Most of you must have heard of Web Bot Project(WBP) and it's ability to predict the future. The WBP has this spider like system that crawls the Internet to search words, exactly like a Search Engine. The bot takes the words before and after the word entered, the texts selected are sent to the main location to get the exact meaning. The concept of the bot is to roam the universe(of course through the internet!) and it's secret holes and hiding places, the past and present and even the future! One of the approaches used was to send a lot of web bots out to look at thousands of lines of detail on the web every day, then send back the results. This process is so complicated that even search engines like Excel cannot compete.
But in 2001, the bot programmers started to notice "coincidental occurrences" apart from the daily stock market predictions and decided to explore it further.
One of the most famous and most accurate predictions of the WBP was in june 2001, the bot predicted that something life-altering that would change the face of the earth and it mankind would occur within 60-90days. Scary isn't it?! And guess what was that life-altering event?
Yup, the destruction of the World Trade Centers a.k.a the Twin Towers in NYC on september 11, 2001!
How can something so scientific as the internet get caught up in something as unrealistic as astronomy or astrology? Well, it has. The mixture of realism and delusion has finally occurred, to the distress of the realists.
Get this, the bot also predicted the ending of the world on December 12, 2012. Not just the bot, but even the Mayans(pre-Columbian Americans often considered to be clairvoyants) predicted that mankind will end in the year 2012 AD. BUT! This end MAY represent a symbolic end, than a literal end. Even more intriguing is the fact that there is scientific evidence that points to a very rare astrological occurrence taking place in 2012. For centuries, the Mayans believed in the existence of a dark rift(the black hole) in the center of the Milky Way and considered it fact. Only recently did scientists discover that it actually does exist.

Hopefully this "symbolic end" is what the talk is all about.

Monday, June 23, 2008

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.. boy, do we love them like crazy!

Oh my goodness!!! It is so hard to believe that the F.R.I.E.N.D.S sitcom is actually over!!!
One question: Whyyyyyyy????????? 10yrs of entertaining, riotous, incredible, sidesplitting, remarkable and poignant episodes make us mull over questions like : "Are there friends like those in the sitcom, in the world?", " Will my friends and myself have the exact friendship like them?" so on and so forth. But the unfortunate truth is:(drum-roll please...) Nope...
there can never be another 'gang of friends' like them. Ok, maybe in another time in another planet in another age there 'could' be. You never know, life is wierd. And their coffee shop- Central Perk. Wish there was actually a place like that in the real world!

Ssssssiiiiiiiiiiggghhhhhh!!!!





But seriously, you feel you can totally relate to them and after 10yrs of constant viewing of F.R.I.E.N.D.S, you feel that you're a part of their exclusive group. Funny, isn't it? yeah it sure is. I mean it's like you relate yourself to one these characters or crush on one of them and consider him/her as your "ideal person", you start to visualize your "spouse" to be like one of them. Ha ha! There is not a single character that we don't like or hate... Everyone of them have their style, their attitude, their individuality and their followers.I love Ross and Phoebe. Ross with his boldness and brashness, his reponsibility towards his baby sister, whom he doesn't need to protect at all, his ever-lasting love for Rachael that would never fade no matter whom he marries and how many kids he has. Phoebe being kinky and an airhead is totally adorable and with Joey, makes an awesome couple, sadly they never fall in love. But Mike seems to be an awesome match for her. Her fairy-tale snowy winter wedding makes her the most beautiful Snow White ever, with her ultra cute Prince Charming.(Plus, I remind one of my friends of Phoebe, I wonder how?!)Approximately 99.6% of the world mourned over the closure of the never ending sitcom.I used to dislike F.R.I.E.N.D.S but after watching the 10th season first, I fell completely in love with the sitcom and oooo yeah I was sad that this is it... this is the end... no more F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Talk about heart break. I'm sure when the sitcom ended, most F.R.I.E.N.D.S fanatics felt an enormous part of them die inside, felt a feeling of incompletion and emptiness overtake them. And I'm sure the feeling will constantly arise when thinking of F.R.I.E.N.D.S or when the word "F.R.I.E.N.D.S" is mentioned or when watching reruns...Yeah, I'm sure most of the F.R.I.E.N.D.S "worshippers" would intently watch reruns and memorize every single word of every character.... Talk about fanaticism. i don't think any other sitcoms has ever had this kind of response,ever.Sadly, there are people who actualy HATE F.R.I.E.N.D.S. I know, I know, it is pretty difficult to digest this information, but they are entitled to their own individualistic opinions. But those of you, who haven't watched F.R.I.E.N.D.S, are seriously missing out on something great. Maybe one day, when we are old and gray, F.R.I.E.N.D.S might become "the all American sitcom" or part of the American culture. Who knows? Maybe we will get over the obsession, maybe we won't. Weirder things have happened.Hmmmm... so which character do you like/love/dream about or relate yourself to and why?

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The hard fact of human nature...

Why are people two-faced??? I mean they behave one way in front of you and another behind you... I've seen maannnnyyy like that.. In my own class... You ought to look at how "friends" b***h behind each others' back... and the most funniest part is, I look at all this, and laugh.. wondering... what is the reason to back bite??? One comes and tells me one thing about one person and that person tells me another thing about someone else, I laugh.. Yes, at one point of time, when I was in school I used to enjoy doing things like this.. but now.. I find it completely immature and moronic... But it hurts when the people whom you consider friends do that and in front consider you their best friend, but naturally you tend to ignore that you know what they said and you too behave normally...
I'm sure you must be thinking that I'm talking about girls.... well actually I'm taling about guys too.. ooooo yeah, they are waaaayyyy worse than girls... believe me they are way worse when it comes to talking behind backs... experience speaks... yup... beware of guys more than girls...
Yeah yeah... how can guys do things like that? believe it, it happens... Not everyone, because they have better work to do, but yeah the rest of them?! Crappy!!! They are more attracted to girls who ignore them and treat them like crap than to girls who treat them like human friends....
Mean right...? well thats the way most people are... SSSSSSIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
I'm talking about most guys not all..........................

Saturday, June 14, 2008

To believe guys when they say "I love you... "or not?

How do I know if the guy is true when he tells me he likes me? How do I know that he's not playing...? What if he's true in the starting but towards the end lands up playing with my heart?
What if he really does love me? too many questions but there is just one answer: take a chance.
There's this girl I know A, who completely loves this guy B, B says he loves A sooo much and all is fine in the starting of their relationship, but things start going downhill for them and A starts becoming too nagging and B starts looking at other gals and having "wierd" thoughts about other girls and crushes as well... A comes to know and.. naturally gets heartbroken... They break up for about a month and B returns to A pleading her to give him another chance.. Now I told A to chuck B outta your life because no guy in this world can ever change... They can only be changed when they are in their diapers, for 4-5 months B chases A and does things to get her trust back and finally A goes back to him, she says she loves him and feels he has changed.. During the time of their break-up , B's friends all go against him and bad mouth him to A... why?? He considered them friends... but they betrayed him. Since A loved B so much, she decided to stick by him. 2months have passed but A keeps having doubts that B cannot be trusted though she has started trusting him, adding fuel to fire, another of B's friend bad mouths him to her and they have a huge fight... B swears nothing's happened but A is very confused...
What I think is that A should either give B up completely and move on or learn to trust him in spite of everything they have gone through in the past...
What do you think both of them should do???
Which brings me back to my main question :Is he serious about her or not...???
Guys!!!!! Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Back breaking... sigh...!!!

My first job here in NJ... sigh... talk about tiring... talk about aches and pains... talk about messing up orders... oooh yeah I successfully passed them all... but atleast now I know how strict and orderly the Americans are... oh yeah and how completely and unhibitedly hygenic...
Now that's nice for a change, hygene I mean... the way the people wanted their eggs just right, or their bagels and sandwiches just right... and one tiny mishape and omg! the food has to be redone!!! I kept looking at the clock on the wall, time on my wrist watch and wondering how slow time goes... gosh!!! When you want time to go fast, boy does it go slow.. and when you want it to go slow, it literally runs the Olympics race!!! But it was a major relief to finish up and relax at home...
Just looking at the arrays of bagels and meats and sauces, sandwiches and salads made my mouth water... and of course I just had to try that out... a garlic bagel with tuna salad and crisp bacon, with salami on the top and lots of onions and mayonnaise, mustard and ketchup... mmmm and what does it spell? D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!! My co-worker looked at me like I had lost my head !!! But I didn't care I had to try it out ( I don't think my boss will allow me to eat like that again.. hehehehe!!! Like I care!) This was just the second best part of the job...
The first best part came at the end before I left..... Yup! My pay....!!! Just looking at those dollars made my day and made the slogging worth it(to some extent!)...
Feels good to earn your own cash, doesn't it???