… in middle of something, shit load of work on head before I head to Delhi in 12 days and out of no where I have something distracting me to the extreme. A thought on the lines of what I have been debating with myself over the past few years.
Orkut: Youth Icon?
Original Posted on OnlyGizmos in June 2007
Orkut has been nominated against ‘Abhishek Bacchan, Multimedia Cell Phone, Rang De Basanti and You’ in the MTV and Pepsi Youth Icon 2007. Orkut has 6.6 Million (66 lakh) Indian subscribers. This consists huge amount of youngsters.
There are more than a million communities on Orkut on absolutely everything from pizza to pasta from Film star to superstar, from your pet to your teacher. People freely express their opinions and views here. Internet has always been a medium carrying free information and thats exactly where the trouble starts for Orkut.
So what is attitude problem?
I keep hearing this and I have decided to diagnose what really this Attitude Problem is. I took a small quiz to find out what my problem is (Yeah the google query I made was :what is attitude problem:):
Here is the result…
Now this didn’t really help me; though blogging nonstop for almost 2 years now has some effect on me. So I went up to the BIG G again to get some more answers…
What is Creativity??
Its unusual for me to write about something so soon without a long thought, but just today I got into a silly debate defining Creativity… So what is Creativity?
Ankur’s Friend Matrix!
So how many friends do you have? I keep asking myself whenever I reshuffle my Friend Matrix. No its not a box where I keep my friends, it’s a passive mental note of who stands where in my life.
So let’s understand this Friend Matrix? While each friend is special and have their own place in my heart, for illustration purpose I shall roughly categorize them in 4 sections (again, just for illustration) – See the images.
What you see above is a simple box with the 4 categories. A / B /C / D. Each of them signify something:
World without Friction?
While covering Taqneeq the fest for OG, I participated in a Contemporary Writing competition. We had to write a short 60 word reply for “Innovative usage of Lie Detector machine” and a long one on “How would the world be if there was no friction, show your creative angle … ?”
For the lie detector I suggested using it to testify people filling their Tax Returns, and for My opinion of World Without Friction here we go:
No friction? It’s hard to imaging the world as if they were slipping on a gigantic piece of Ice. Though Ice-Skating isn’t my hobby, things would have moved really fast without friction. This brings me to the utility aspect of this scenario. If we could channelize and productively utilize this speed, we could create wonders. Traveling and logistics would have been a breeze (Wow, that would have meant no traffic in Mumbai!).
Even sports events would have been visualized with a completely different vision. Gravity would have ruled the sports-In my opinion. Much like the games I play on my gravity sensing iPhone (hmm, seems like Steve Jobs had a dream of world without friction a few years back).
And on a lighter note, how about education? Wouldn’t it be great if all our notes slip into our brains without any friction :D. Even businessmen would love transacting their receivables without any friction.
All said, what would you do about the friction that stops you from thinking??
Do what you love? (Want to be good at?)
We live in a very difficult society. The moment a kid passes out of college you will see all aunties, uncles and any other tom dick and harry asking him and his parents – So what are you doing? What plans? Job? Mba? Marriage :P? What?
hmmm … If you cannot relate to what I am saying, all this creates a sudden environment of pressure. Its a rat race, actually a DOG race. So is it necessary for one to start planning so deeply as soon as he graduates? Not really! IMO
How to be unforgiving! – (golden words)
Its difficult to forgive; And I only preach easy things :P. So here is how to be Unforgiving …
- Never tell the other person what wrong he/she did
- Don’t show your anger in words; maintain a distance from the person
- Arrogance will come naturally. Let it be there. Dont speak about it (though it will be obvious)!
- You hurt yourself when you are unforgiving; its natural, dont worry.
- After a while what might make it easy for you is the ignorance you’ll face from the other person
There are different stages and ways of being Unforgiving; depending on what you want. More often then not If you follow the rules I mentioned you will sucessfully be able to break ties forever (become truly unforgiving)!
If you default on these rules; you might end up with a compromise – BEWARE 😀
Introducing: Ariginals – My Writings / My Views
Ariginals are Annkur Originals; these are my writings, my views, my thoughts … May not be perfect or world class … Am no great philosopher – But I like to write. So presenting the first few Ariginals:
1) Life is a ‘tug of war’ between truth and facts. Your Fact is your truth and my fact is my truth Now when facts differ. truth differs and that’s where the mother of all problems arises !! But what prevails is the actual Truth and Fact (that everyone sees in a different light )…
