Hillary's exit speech

I watched Hillary's exit speech...she extended her full support to obama now that she is conceding...hmmmm...she urgedt her voters extend their support to him...for some reason..I was moved by her exit speech..though perhaps she rehearsed much the prior evening or perhaps she meant it all to be deliberately mushy..but perhaps she was sincere too...I shed a single tear for some reason.>I am not usually this sillly person who get emotional with no logical backing towards feeling a certain emotion...but , well..she is not in the race
Obama is...for one...I instinctively feel that all he is good at is participating in debates and speaking sweet speeches...
The presidential election process must be less of a DEBATING OR PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION AND MORE OF ACTUAL DATA ANALYSIS IN TERMS OF PUTTING THE WORDS INTO ACTUALLY ACTIONS...unfortunately ..it is all about money laundering and public acting competitions ...Who cares...This is the country that reelected bush ...and yet keeps blaming him for everything...come on...suck it up...every single person in this country has had a role in the economic recession..dropping out of high school and getting pregnant, reading gossip magazines about the lives of entertainers who are high school drop outs themselves and who are also pregnant themselves..if everyone passes on doing something really science related..the country is going to end up a third world country..the people need to change their priorities in life..Have some respect for education and science and technology and pitch in too..seriously !

Nicholas Cage, Elvis presley and me ,Face patterns and choices

Hmmmm..I first watched Nicholas Cage in Moon struck and the laid back tone of the movie by itself really appealled to me and therefore i kinda fell in a crush with Nicholas Cage.
Later i discovered Elvis' music and fell in love with everything about it .Incidentally i purchased an Elvis Audio cassette just coz it had his face on him and his face at that time totally resembled someone that i was considering dating on a long term basis(which i didn't though due to other reasons) .So, then i realized that Nicholas Cage kinda constantly reminded me of Elvis which made me like him even more.
The funny thing is, Nicholas incidentally got married to Elvis' daughter for a short period of time and it is rumored that they seperated coz his daugther found out that Nicholas cage was more into Elvis himself than her and adored Elvis so much that he thought that marrying his daughter would be the next best thing.Needless to say the marriage ended.PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THIS PIECE OF NEWS IS ONLY A RUMORED NEWS(MAY NOT EVEN BE TRUE) ...
So yeah, Just incase it is true.well, we have something to think about .The thing that sometimes when we like people instantly just by taking a single look at them, we perhaps are making a far more compatible choice instintively for ourselves than we are after deciding on someone after spending ages with them interacting with them.I am not sure.But somewhere , animals instinctively know what is right for them or not just by taking a look >Can that be true?
I heard or read somewhere that humans choose people when they are shown a series of pictures , the humans that most likely are also going to instintively choose them back too if shown a series of pictures too.(this excludes pictures of stereotyped so callled pretty entertainer pictures because those people don't count coz those faces are far too familiar to be included in a series of pictures of unknown people)
Anyways, I need to stop rambling

Being a vegetarian guest at meat parties !

I am a vegetarian..
But, you see, I am such a nice person, people can't help trying to make friends with me (giggles uneasily !)..

I get invited to dinner parties, barbeque parties and what not ..yeah, the birthday parties.

I have to reiterate, I am not an antisocial person.

But, but, i don't eat meat, and i don't drink and i hate smoking.hmmmmm..
I hate looking at wasted people making a fool of themselves, and i don't want to be part of a dinner where someone already bled and killed and slaughtered an animal and is eating it with relish...

 What do i do?

Each time i get invited, i end up making an excuse as to why i can't come or how i won't be able to make it...hmmmmm..
.now...i don't want to mention the actual reason why i don't want to dine with them" the reason that i am a vegetarian teetotaller "
because
 i don't care to involve in arguments about the food chain and carnivores and other such stuff..
seriously..I don't care..

For some reason, Non vegetarians , once they know you are a vegetarian, automatically are inclined to want to start an argument with you even if you are not one of those PETA type of people.
I wonder why !

Some kind of guilt mechanism..

I am not sure.I am only telling myself, " I am making decisions for my life.Why is my decision making you want to start an argument with me?"

anyways...Each time, someone is on the verge of inviting me somewhere, I am cringing..and telling myself,"oh no...not one more invitation, again !"

I am starting to think that i must start saying this perhaps, "0h , but i am a vegetarian,!" and then perhaps they might just out of courtesy(cursing themselves for having invited me in the first place, go ahead and offer to cook something vegetarian especially for me.

Ofcourse, then, just coz they were taking that extra trouble for me, i accept the invitation and then i go .

Ofcourse, I am treated like an alien, all coz i decided not to slaughter an animal for my dinner.Hmmmm.

Then ofcourse , they start discussing me behind my back , as to how much of a trouble guest i am and how they are needing to accomodate for me..(yeah right, kill the animals.. yeah kill them,look who is accomodating, The animal kingdom.Yeah , like they have a choice !)

Hmmmmm.,,,A long pause and then finally i decide that the next time , i get invited , i have to politely refuse..

Can fellow vegetarians give me politically correct refusal statements..please?
So yeah,what do i do?

Real conviction moves me !

What moves me the most?
Real conviction that makes one do something about it .Truly with all their heart.
I automatically have so much respect for people who actually act upon their conviction in the real sense .There are a lot of people who want someone else to do the dirty and difficult job, All they want to do is open up another blog site to collect money or some celebrity who will perform for some charity or someone who goes and pays a cursory visit to a cancer patient and they almost think that just their divine presence is the greatest gift they could give to that child suffering from cancer( a god complex i suppose)..well..that is not true conviction.Real conviction is about getting down and dirty about it..REally doing it..REally going down there and really participating and really doing stuff out there ... ya know !
Like going there and actually helping built a house for the katrina victims...Actually go there and act at the grassroot level... I don't like people using the excuse of time..Everyone can make time for things they think are important.

You just need one other person like you to feel at home!

I was watching the guy on whom the movie "the insider" is based on , and they ask him if he is lonely and for a moment he muses over it and says "No ! NO, I am not lonely "
Hmmm..He is man , who tried to take up on a corrupt, money greedy,Tobacco industry and hmmmm..Suddenly a thought flashed my mind ,"Sometimes, when one is a person with a deep conviction of what is right and what is wrong, where most people won't live up to our ideals, All we need is one other person who thinks and acts like us and we will never feel alone" and feeling alone is such a bad thing.hmmm

My comment about women being patronized at work!

I left a comment for peggy on her blog "Women in Science" On one of her blog entries where she relates this story of a smart female programming geek who automatically  got ignored for the longest time because all the men there assumed that she probably was someone who accompanied a male geek to that gathering.
I myself have experienced similar things at work and therefore,I left a comment there .

Here goes a copy of the comment i left for her there(comment slightly paraphrased down below)
Believe it or not, I have experienced so many such similar situations.Male colleagues start off with talking to me in a patronizing manner and start trying to explain to me how to do MY job.Sometimes it gets irritating when they give me tips and those tips basically suck and they have this demeanour where they present the tips to me as in they are only trying to help the "poor me" out.
Why would they assume that I won't know how to do my job is what I find very sad .It takes extra effort to get over that initial snub and let them know that I know better and can and will and have performed better than them even in most work situations.
Gender has nothing to do with competence.
People, IRRESPECTIVE of their gender, are either COMPETENT  or INCOMPETENT,dedicated to their job OR not!

These PATRONIZING MEN have been socially conditioned to look down upon women in general .
Sometimes Ironically,These are also the same men who have been socially conditioned to OPEN DOORS for women, and PULL OUT CHAIRS for women and TAKE CARE of the women in their lives.
WTF !!
Don't these women have hands? Can't they open their own doors, pull out their own chairs and look after themselves? I would rather have a man who just respects my intelligence and is there for me emotionally and someone who shares all chores , and let me open my own door..I have hands, I can and will open my own doors.

These PATRONIZING men were also AUTOMATICALLY CONDITIONED ,perhaps mostly due to the kind of women they have been used to being around at home during their childhood and all through their formative years.Constantly being exposed to submissive,financial dependant women during formative years allows them to presume that all women are dependant victims.First impressions are such lasting impressions on the mind.

This includes the SUBMISSIVE FINANCIALLY DEPENDANT MOTHER they probably had, or other such adult female figures with submissive qualities  that they came across all through their formative years.These women must have treated the men in their lives like superiors or some such and that EXPECTATION to be treated and talked to like a superior has STUCK in their minds.

As a woman in a society that assumes that "women and children" need to be "protected"(protected from whom and what and how?), I end up needing to go out of MY way to make sure these men respect me rather than just patronize me .

I have to,at times , needed to say out loud ,"Hey, I have the same educational degree as you and I am sure I would know how to do that  job just as much(if not better)than you would know how to do it!" and yet, it is still tough sometimes,needing to defend my talents like that .

But then, let me tell you, such "patronizing reactions" have often happened to me only AT THE BEGINNING of me entering a new place .Once people get to know me, they also end up understanding how talented and smart I am and I have then had Male colleagues often ask for my second opinion in all of their tough cases.Feels good, that, to be respected for what I am worth.

Coming back to SOCIAL CONDITIONING .It paves way for what men think they can or should assume a female colleague can or cannot accomplish,irrespective of what she can ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH.

As more and more smart women give birth to children and as these children of such smart independent women grow up watching strong smart mothers at their homes, maybe the gender dynamics will change.Both female and male children,when they grow up watching financial dependant smart tough women, they grow up knowing that women can do things on their own.

How long does it take to understand someone?

How long does it take to truly understand that you have understood what needs to be understood to truly understand another person?
A year?
A lifetime?
Is it possible ever?

I don't want Jay Leno to retire !

I am not sure if this is authentic news, but the news seems to be floating around that Jay leno would retire by 2009..
Hmmmmm.I mean, come on ! He has a few more years in him if not more.Why must he retire?
Though ofcourse i was more of a fan of the late show and the late late shows than his in the beginning when i started watching his shows...coz they seemed more sarcastic and less of soft comedy..But, over the past couple of years, the Jay leno show has managed to become my fav.It allows me to sleep earlier after a good laugh unlike before when it used to be too late into the night before i got my daily dose of chuckles prior to sleeping.
He is accused of NOT being hard on the people he interviews..But you know what? He is just right.He doesn't need to be abrasive to prove himself as a good talk show host.
BTW,His "jay walk of shame" kinda brings out to lightthe ever increasing ignorance of the average american .Each time i see both men and women with not an idea of our present political or economic or any other situation and they stand there giggling and giving very very very pathetic answers to simple questions which i would assume even a six year old would be able to answer if he or she would take the time to read a real newspaper .Somehow these very people are able to identify yet another hollywood entertainer(i refuse to use the term celebrity coz that term just doesn't make any sense)..Gosh !!
Anyways, coming back to Jay leno... He was also accused of writing his own material while all the writer's were on strike a while ago in hollywood..Wow..That made me respect him more..well..If he is the only that is capable of writing his own material and still capable of running a show even when the writer's are on strike..that means..well..he is the only one that deserves to keep his show..really !
Why exactly is he retiring?
Awwww, i need those chuckles before going to sleep each night.. come on..what am i doing to do after 2009?

Using a credit card means buying things with borrowed money

I am really against using a credit card and then not making a full payment at the end of each month.
That would essentially mean that you are spending money that is not yours.You are spending beyond your means.That means you are incurring debt.
By spending money that is borrowed and not making a full payment what you are essentially are doing is eventually not only spending that exact amount that you initially spent on what you were buying , but also end up paying interest .That interest money could very well end up being a lot by itself if you go on not making full payments each month and keep paying the minimum possible amount.Essentially, you are paying more for the same thing you could have bought for less had you used cash or a good debit card.Get my point?If in a year you spend 800 dollars in just interest..would that be good?
You could very well have bought something with that interest money.
Credit card by itself is all about 'Credit' and to me, CREDIT , is a nasty word..A word that involves living in indignity ..The indignity of spending more than you can really afford and of mismanagement of one's own finances and of an attempt to live a lifestyle that is quite unnecessary if you are not in a position to make a payment at the end of the day.
Hmmmm..
What is the solution?
Have a savings bank account.Have a debit card associated with it.That way you can only spend what you have..That way you don't end up in debt.
Also, please manage your finances before they get the better of you and take over your life and make it an impending hell.
More advice coming up in future blogs.
Feel free to leave comments

Microsoft and the unsolicited bid and bid withdrawal

First off, NO one invited a quote from microsoft to yahoo..
I mean ,'officially atleast .
Or atleast 'allegedly officially' atleast !...

Yahoo alleges that this offer was unsolicted in the first place.
Secondly , microsoft goes ahead and underquotes...
Come on..Yahoo is a big deal and will continue to remain a big deal.
So,well!.You don't try and play dirty politics please.
Microsoft is constantly reaffirming the general accusations that it is a market shark and uses shark tactics to undermine potential competitors...

Hmmmmm...Now,, I am happy that the deal never went through !!
Absolutely ecstatic.

The microsoft people now go ahead and withdraw too ...What do they do next?Go play some more dirty politics..Pay up some media who can then overspeculate about how Yahoo's market share value fell after microsoft withdrew...Bull shite..Come on...

Yahoo is a great company..Innovative and all...If it didn't have some value you wouldn''t propose to buy it in the first place,Would you ?

Just coz you couldn''t buy them, it is not fair to do some mudslinging now .IT WAS AN UNSOLICITED UNDERQUOTED BID...GET OVER THE DIRTY SHARK TACTICS PLEASE.
Microsoft,, have some integrity ! Please ?One can only hope ,Ya know !

Creativity can be such a healer

Creativity can be such a healer , isn't it?
There are so many broken lives with past happennings that can never be erased (unless the concept of the timemachine going into the past is really a feasible option).There are a thousand things that cannot be denied..the fact that they happenned to us and the fact that that very fact can never be erased...That truth and that knowledge of that fact, It hurts..It pains..It gnaws at you constantly.
Sometimes, a conscious effort to try and forget or mask it or bury it deep in our heads just in an effort to moven on, doesn't help.
But, Yet..we all need to do it..We need to bury those past mishaps and move on.
Just when each of us is struggling to do it..This act of putting it all behind and making a new beginning...It is amazing, How a simple act of creativity just erases the pain..It is a miracle.
It is amazing how you forget it all, as you get immersed in the song that you are singing or how in that moment of dancing around , it feels all light.
Just like that , creativity makes life livable again

Obama talks but won't deliver

The presidential primaries ...Hmmmmm
I don't understand why it is being made into this contest of -black nominee and woman nominee..It should rather be just about who can deliver the goods at the end of the day irrespective of the color of their skin and irrespective of their gender.
It disheartens me very much that , Obama pretty much is perhaps the projected nominee...and I am not liking it at all
My gut instinct tells me that he won't deliver the goods
He is a sweet talker and it angers me each time when he just TALKS AT debates, thinking answering questions in debates is about saying the right thing or what he seemingly thinks is the right thing and all he talks is non technical and non specific sweet talk.
He is highly inexperienced and inequipped to acutally deal with and solve problems when it comes to it.
I feel sorry for this country, which is not even equipped enough to know the difference between yapping and actually providing technically sound non romantic solutions to the various problems plaguing the country.
Obama seems to know that by smiling around and saying some silly but pleasant sounding stuff, he can manouver his way to becoming the nominee and even a president...
But ,i mean..If a guy is not even determined enough to be able to give up smoking -an addicitive habit which even in his own words ,"smoking is a deal breaker" with his wife and still resorts to nicotine gum...I mean.It is so easy to yap , isn't it..But when it actually comes around to doing what you promised, you already know and don't care that you won't really deliver.
He is a bull shiter .
It distresses me that people care less for real actions or a real resume and all they care is a smile and some silly ass romantic sounding babble which might not be logically or technically sound but just is nice to hear to .. It makes me sad..The country is digging it's own grave.He will just make tall promises and i assure you that he will fall short in every single one of them.
IF EVERYONE IS OF THE OPINION THAT EMPTY PROMISES NEVER HURT ANYONE..WELL.THIS TIME..THESE EMPTY PROMISES ARE GOING TO HURT A WHOLE COUNTRY

About this blog

This a ramble blog.
I am inclined to resort to rambling every now and then , if not , always.
Hence, this ramble blog
I can't promise to be consistent in my blogging habits.
I tend to go into pupa and cocoon mode every now and then and hence, the ramble blog, though is intended to be a daily ramble blog , might occasionally turn into a not-so-daily ramble blog
This blog is going to be mostly about my funny observations.
I can be quite funny if i decide that you deserve my funniness..LOL
This blog is also going to be the dump blog and will include all the blogs that won't fit in any of my other blogs.
Enjoy !