Thursday, November 12, 2009

Social Networking Fritters

Which are the popular social networking sites in India? Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, Hi5 & so many more. I receive invitations of a new SN site every other day. You wanna squander your precious time just login and the timer starts. The purpose behind the SN sites is to catch up with long lost friends, dating, hacking, communities etc. Though people use it to overcome their mental and phsycological situations too. This actually helps to show off and create interest to know what the other person is doing. Testimonials with long love stories. Why does one want to publicize love?
Fake userids of popular figures. What not? Anything you name and you can find it there. Think of ambiguity and the next name will be of FB. FB is one SN site filled with enough confusion to let people go mad. And still they love it. It takes a hell to understand whats happenning where until you get a hand on it. Thousands of updates in the form of comments, publishing new activities, playing games, variety of quizzes among also these are the banner ads which are clicked by mistake not knowing whether it was an ad or some new application of facebook. FB has lots of addictive virtual games buy, sell, hit, run etc and the toppers in the favorites list are Farmville, Mafia Wars, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Cafeworld, YoVille etc. I think zynga games have known the secret to make their players glued to the games. I still play farmville realizing I am spending so much time just to harvest my crops, plow, seed etc. I don't know whether in reality I would do something like that. Keep muttering to myself if you want to waste time start playing games on FB. I realized there are so many other things to deluge in life its better not to doodle on the PC Screen for hours going around a social networking site.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

After 9 months!

I know you guys might think what after nine months? No its not what just propped up in your mind.;) I am talking about the 9 months I was a housewife. For the first time I could imagine how my mom feels staying all day alone at home doing the insistent household chores, waiting for her husband and kids.
I remember Dec,1st was the first day of my role as a home maker. Cooked food, cleaned the house and rest of the day was spent watching the Idiot Box, surfing net etc. This started to be my routine stuff. Slowly boredom started creeping in. A temporary solution was joining the 3D Animation class. Besides, I also started looking out for a new job. Like sprinkling salt over the burnt, every offer that I received required me to relocate to a different city.
This phase made me realize the importance of being employed. It's not just about getting monthly income but there are many strings attached to it like financial independence, exposure, personality development etc.
A must say, this period was a good enough time for me to accustom to the new life. Learn t a good deal of palakkad iyer cooking. Got a chance to visit Singapore without wasting my leaves.
Today I have a wonderful and exciting job, but I have made sacrifices for the same.
There are legitimate pros and cons in being a home maker and/or being employed. I feel as on today that every woman should be at least financially independent and smart enough to live life on her own if a situation ever arises.(No Offense To Anyone):) And I think at least every house wife will support me in this.