The topic looks similar na? I am sure all of us would have used this topic to write an essay in our primary schools.Those who didn't would have atleast read an essay on this topic to prepare for your English exam. And we all used to start somewhat the same..I have many hobbies but my favourite one is.... Let me guess most of us wrote reading? collecting stamps? And then we grew up we had this section in our CVs and interview papers and we wrote big words like Interacting with people bla bla.... I know we have to write such things. :-)
I always wrote the essay on Reading. it was one of my hobbies. Rather its the third best thing that i feel like doing in my life. But with time i realised reading is not my favourite hobby. Its EATING.. Alright, i know i am not fat but still its my favourite pass time :-). I just love to eat.
One incident which would prove this. I reached my station 15 minutes earlier than normal time. ( its on one of those rarest of rare occasions when i om before time). I could have done a lot of things to pass time like reading newspapers, watching people ( do not read it as 'girls' cause its Kurla station which is devoid of good looking females ) etc etc. But i chose to eat. I went on to the station canteen and asked him about the dish most of the people eat. I ordered it and started hogging. Striked a conversation with the canteen vendor while eating and he offered me a complimentary Lime soda. Cool na!! Freebies are always so nice. Anyways back to the point. I chose eating over anything else.
Now this hobby of mine has taken me to places. I have eaten ( i won't use the word Dine) in places which no normal person would think. From roadside stalls which would offer you the least hygiene to the most expensive restaurant in town. I would have eaten in almost 80 % of the well known restaurants in the city. Since i stayed in Navi Mumbai, almost every restaurant from Vashi to Panvel comes under my area and is covered. Credit also goes to a few friends who forced me into some restaurants and made me travel places for it. I remember travelling all the way to Bandra to eat in the KFC opened there. ( For people who do not know me well, travelling from my place to Bandra is quite an achievement. My friends even taunted me by saying that i would need a visa to travel there).
My habit or hobby of hogging is now well known. My colleagues keep offering me food that they get and i love them so much for doing it. My mom and close friends know that the best thing to use to curb my anger is Food.I wonder will i ever start using this hobby in my CV as well. i can very explain to my interviewer on why eating is my favourite hobby and leans to my weakness at times.The only reason, i find is justified to spend money on, is food. I would prefer a bus over a rickshaw and use the money to hog on a Vada Pav.
The love to eat is boundless.i have tasted animals ranging from ducks to kangaroos. OH i love duck the most. Anyway to wrap it up, that's my favourite hobby. i hope i have more such people with weird hobbies.
PS: the part where the canteen vendor offers me a free lime soda is fiction.lol. I am just practicing fiction to develop my writing skills :-). There are no free lunches. I paid for it
Cheers !! Keep eating!!!
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Monday, 31 May 2010
A Guy's Silence
So much is said about a girl's silence. When she is silent she means this, when she says this she means that and it goes on and on an on.... We spend so much time analyzing silence. I guess it's time someone spoke about a guy's silence as well.
Normally it is considered that when a guy is silent he just accepts his mistake. This is the biggest mistake in understanding guys or understanding Silence in general. There are many reasons why a guy chooses to be silent.
For starters, most of the times in an argument the guy is silent cause he is not bothered :-). Jokes apart, this may be one of the reason but is mostly not. We also prefer to be silent when we realize that the argument would not lead to an understanding. We realize that if the person is adamant enough to not understand, we should quit trying to make him understand.We are silent when we feel this is not the right time to argue. Yes we have emotions and we value for them. We know when the truth would be understood and when it would not be. In the latter case, we chose to be silent.
We are silent cause we wish to finish it off. No it doesn't mean we are accepting mistakes but its just cause we know this would be the only thing leading to peace. We are silent when we do not wish to create a scene. We are silent when we are in deeper thoughts of the subject. We are silent as we are searching for a solution.
Its time the feminist realize that one should not consider men defeated when they chose to be silent. They may also chose to be silent to strike back on a better time. And Last but the most important, we are also silent cause we are designed by GOD to speak less :-)
We are silent cause we love, we care and we value.
Cheers!
Normally it is considered that when a guy is silent he just accepts his mistake. This is the biggest mistake in understanding guys or understanding Silence in general. There are many reasons why a guy chooses to be silent.
For starters, most of the times in an argument the guy is silent cause he is not bothered :-). Jokes apart, this may be one of the reason but is mostly not. We also prefer to be silent when we realize that the argument would not lead to an understanding. We realize that if the person is adamant enough to not understand, we should quit trying to make him understand.We are silent when we feel this is not the right time to argue. Yes we have emotions and we value for them. We know when the truth would be understood and when it would not be. In the latter case, we chose to be silent.
We are silent cause we wish to finish it off. No it doesn't mean we are accepting mistakes but its just cause we know this would be the only thing leading to peace. We are silent when we do not wish to create a scene. We are silent when we are in deeper thoughts of the subject. We are silent as we are searching for a solution.
Its time the feminist realize that one should not consider men defeated when they chose to be silent. They may also chose to be silent to strike back on a better time. And Last but the most important, we are also silent cause we are designed by GOD to speak less :-)
We are silent cause we love, we care and we value.
Cheers!
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Knowing ' too' much....
I always wondered on the saying 'Ignorance is bliss'.Never quite agreed to it but off late have given it a few thoughts and have started to view the positive side of ignorance or maybe the negatives of knowing too much.Not that i plan to implement it in my life soon but it did deserve enough for me to pen it down.
One of my friend told me this a few weeks ago, 'Kapil,you would never be able to do a love marriage as you know people too much'.I am still undecided on whether its good or bad. Yes,i agree i read people like books as its one of my passion and i love to do so.But lets not concentrate on the marriage part of the comment as that's a different topic but on the 'knowing too much' part.And yes at times knowing too much about anything (people included) does get the fun part out of it and gets negative.
Even in the simpler facts of life it affects.Now we all get happy when we see the government constructing roads in the month of march, we feel its to make the roads ready for monsoon. Knowing too much is when we know they are doing it to show some expenses on the budget as the financial year is closing.We are pleased when we see so much money spent on commonwealth games for the development of sports that they now require loan waivers.Knowing too much is when we know that this money has gone to corrupt officials and the wavier by government will come as the money would go from us- the taxpayers. Just 2 small examples and we are not pleased anymore.Its the same about people.
May be that is the reason why we are told humans should not be analysed or judged.i agree on the judgement part but not on the analysis part. As most of us do not know more than what we think we should and so the judgement goes wrong. But common guys analysing is not bad. And why should we not analyse humans on their behaviour and emotions when we constantly do so on their looks and body.And both genders do it on equal terms its just that the analysis is on different parts and types.
Coming back on the topic, Knowing too much has thus started to affect me in the negative sense. Its taking the fun out of everything. And the more you know about people the worse it gets. No wonder the so called 'practical' people are happy not only cause they do not bother but also cause they do not know or do not wish to know.
And please for people who would come up with suggestion that so please do not know too much about people or bother too much as it only makes matter worse, I do not think i or anybody like me should plan to change. We know too much and so our expectations from people normally turn out to be true. And this is the way we are, why should we change. Who knows the way people management skills are rated so high, there would be a time when we would be in demand and would be the domain experts in it.Someday it would help our finances too :-)
See, there is positivity and money in everything :-)
Cheers!
One of my friend told me this a few weeks ago, 'Kapil,you would never be able to do a love marriage as you know people too much'.I am still undecided on whether its good or bad. Yes,i agree i read people like books as its one of my passion and i love to do so.But lets not concentrate on the marriage part of the comment as that's a different topic but on the 'knowing too much' part.And yes at times knowing too much about anything (people included) does get the fun part out of it and gets negative.
Even in the simpler facts of life it affects.Now we all get happy when we see the government constructing roads in the month of march, we feel its to make the roads ready for monsoon. Knowing too much is when we know they are doing it to show some expenses on the budget as the financial year is closing.We are pleased when we see so much money spent on commonwealth games for the development of sports that they now require loan waivers.Knowing too much is when we know that this money has gone to corrupt officials and the wavier by government will come as the money would go from us- the taxpayers. Just 2 small examples and we are not pleased anymore.Its the same about people.
May be that is the reason why we are told humans should not be analysed or judged.i agree on the judgement part but not on the analysis part. As most of us do not know more than what we think we should and so the judgement goes wrong. But common guys analysing is not bad. And why should we not analyse humans on their behaviour and emotions when we constantly do so on their looks and body.And both genders do it on equal terms its just that the analysis is on different parts and types.
Coming back on the topic, Knowing too much has thus started to affect me in the negative sense. Its taking the fun out of everything. And the more you know about people the worse it gets. No wonder the so called 'practical' people are happy not only cause they do not bother but also cause they do not know or do not wish to know.
And please for people who would come up with suggestion that so please do not know too much about people or bother too much as it only makes matter worse, I do not think i or anybody like me should plan to change. We know too much and so our expectations from people normally turn out to be true. And this is the way we are, why should we change. Who knows the way people management skills are rated so high, there would be a time when we would be in demand and would be the domain experts in it.Someday it would help our finances too :-)
See, there is positivity and money in everything :-)
Cheers!
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