Monday 29 October 2012

DEAR BOYS...




A week ago, my friend came over to my place and burst into tears. After twenty minutes of sobbing, blaming and bad-mouthing her boyfriend, she finally told me what happened. “He NEVER listens to me and he can’t complete a goddamn sentence without swearing! ”, were her exact words.

When you meet a guy he puts on his best face and makes you think he is perfect. He is understanding, caring and likes the same things you do. But, as time passes you get to know the real person behind the awesome-looking façade. He lies and cheats and treats you like you're a kid. “You won’t understand”, is the one sentence girls might hear often from a boyfriend. Do guys actually think girls are that dumb??  Just because we don’t comment on everything you say doesn’t mean we don’t understand what you mean. Constantly poking and taunting a girl about some guy who just talks to her is not how you show you are jealous. It is always perceived as over possessiveness. If you are jealous just tell it to your girlfriend instead of irritating her. Believe me, there will come a day when she will prefer talking to the other guy and not you. 

The other thing that girls hate is the feeling that they are competing with another girl for your attention. They hate feeling the need to keep up with someone else just to keep you happy. And boasting about being able to "handle" 10 girls at once is not an achievement. That just shows that you're afraid of commitment. I As our grandparents would probably say, love is a loosely defined word in today’s world. Not many of us mean it when we actually say it to someone else. Why give them hopes of a future together when there is no possibility of it existing?? Why do boys do that? Are they in such a desperate need of someone to say that they care for them

Blaming one person - the girl- for the downfall of a relationship isn’t fair. When two people are together, each one has to put aside their ego at times for the sake of the relationship. A girl sacrifices many things and they always go unnoticed. God forbid, the heavens might crash if a guy makes a sacrifice for the girl. I’m not saying every guy is like that but there are such guys out there who do all this. They lie, they cheat and then come back begging for forgiveness and acting as if nothing happened in the first place. No one is at fault in the deterioration of relationships. We fall in love too easily, think too little, refuse to sacrifice and then fall out of love even sooner. The meaning of ‘true love’ is lost somewhere and unless we put our egos aside we will never be able to find out what it actually means.

-Sincerely, girls.

By a guest writer - Aishwarya


Wednesday 17 October 2012

FACEBOOK CONFESSIONS




Hello friends, this is FaceBook! I know I know you might be wondering Who? How? What? But yeah this Is me, FaceBook! Well Mark told me not to but I just couldn’t take your behaviour on FB anymore and by “your” I mean all the billions of FB users (no offense).  

Being a FB I came across a lot of personalities...so many that I can write a big fat book on it! And let share a secret with you we make every single attempt to fool you and we succeed enormously. Let just say the more time you spend on FB my tenure gets bigger. I get paid for wasting your time! Isn’t that great? I don’t have to do much...fooling you user is a piece of cake!

For instance, FB games...crap man they are total crap!! No extraordinary graphics, nothing innovative but they are addictive. They make you came back again and play them, people are so engrossed that they cannot get their asses out of the seat for hours! Let me tell you four hours in front of computer, playing FB games, reaching level 44 what have you achieved?? I’ll answer it for you and the answer is NOTHING...! There is no significance of you reaching level 44 in real life, Grow up guys even Dave and Mario are better choices!

Now my most exclusive users, the school and college buddies. Guys you don’t have to answer my question “What’s on your mind?” every now and then. Sometimes I see your status and I laugh out loud (FYI lol is short for laugh out loud and it’s Not a word, most people don’t know! And it’s very inappropriate to use in a face to face conversation!). Some people are like, “I missed my train...it was real fun!” ironically 50 likes and 23 pathetic comments! If it’s by a girl then just double the number if it is by a pretty girl then just double the doubled number.

Photography! I have tried to encourage the little photographer in you but apparently I woke up the photographic daemon in you who clicks a pic after every single split of second! Moreover upload them on me (No matter how jackass you)! Some are like uploading photo of a hotel and captioning “had dinr wid ma family at dis hotel ystrdae!” some are like, “this is ma doggie, ma cutie pie!!!”, “this is ma home”, “this is house’s hall”, “...kitchen”, “...bedroom”, “...toilet seat” bullshit!!!
My dear Romeos and Juliets, you know I have matched number of couples more than any matrimonial site! At times love stories used to start like “Once upon a time a girl crashed into a boy their eyes met and they fell in love at first sight!” but years after stories will be told like this, “Once a princess added Prince Charming as a friend on FB...”

I have LOT more to tell...believe me by lot I mean real lot!! I’ll wind up here cause Mark is coming! Bye cya tc and think on it!

- Phate

Tuesday 2 October 2012

MISTAKES BY MAHATMA





“He ruined the nation.”    “He was a nuisance.”     “ It’s a good thing he was assassinated.”

This is 90% of the teens talking about the father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
Why do they hate him so? What did he do to make almost all teens despise him?
I asked my friends and got confused and incomplete answers. He was non violent when it was not necessary. He allowed partition of India and Pakistan.

Mahatma Gandhi was born, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on October 2nd 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat.  His best points were-
  • Compassion for all sentient beings.
  • Vegetarianism.
  • Fasting for self purification.
  • Mutual tolerance among individuals of different faiths.
 We all know Gandhiji as our history textbooks portrayed him to be. A great visionary, leader...a great man. But was he really as great as our textbooks said? Is there something more to him that we were never told about in the books? There is. The mistakes by Gandhiji.

He recruited soldiers for the British army in the world war in expectation that they would be more considerate in granting India freedom. Which- of course- they were not.

He was very strict on his non violent principles, ending many riots simply because they were too violent. It is said many times that he wielded much more power than he could have handle. If he might have encouraged a little violence (as we were at war), we might just had won freedom much earlier.

He chose to let Ali Jinah go ahead with the partition of India and Pakistan, instead of going on a hunger strike to death, which would have surely halted the process.

After the partition, Gandhiji refused to acknowledge Pakistan as an enemy state. He opposed any attacks against Pakistan and went on a hunger strike to force the Indian government to grant 55 crores to them.
At the time of riots, he ordered people to stay where they were, instead of fleeing. He was of the opinion that people should die brave in their motherland, than to live as cowards in a foreign country. He openly criticized these “cowards”.

The main points, the base of all these mistakes (and many more) was a complete lack of realism in the later years of his life. He chose to live in an imaginary world of perfect human beings, instead of facing reality and how humans react to situations.

Gandhiji gave us the greatest weapon the common man could ever have- non violence. But it to be used as a force to oppress unjust practices. Not blackmail the government into acting how one prefers. As he often did.

Non violence won us the freedom. But it was not the only thing that did. Many other factors contributed.
This article is not written to degrade the Mahatma, or his memory. I personally respect him and I know that it’s not easy commanding an entire nation and being in everyone’s good books.

This is just the truth about him, which not everyone knows. And I think, on his birthday, we should acknowledge his good points and his bad points. After all, no one is perfect.   

I apologize for any hurt sentiments.


-K4VI