Just another post

Aloha !!!

Past few days have been quite uneventful for me, thus there was nothing to write about. This post is an attempt to capture the nothingness over the last few days. Reader discretion is advised

Work : This is perhaps the only thing in this world that I am not interested to do, yet I have to do it. Well there has been some changes at work, work schedule has changed from 2×2 shifts to 4×4 shifts, so now I get to work for 4 days and do nothing for the next 4 days. Well most people would raise an eyebrow with the thought of ” 4 days off “, but believe me thats what is causing the emptiness. The sudden silence after 4 days of hectic work, is like braking your life from 100 – 0 in 3 secs. Just to kill time I am planning for an Agra tour sometime this month.

Home : Well there isn’t any for the “unmarried” kind, anyways there has been no change to the lair except for a routine clean-up session.

Food : Aha this is the best part of life since the last few days. It’s always a treat for the taste buds during Ramzan in HYD, coz its Haleem time then. On a quest to find the best haleem in HYD, till now Pista house rocks !!!

Read : Started off with a fiction “The girl with the Dragon tattoo – by Stieg Larsson ”, a day later “Above average – by Amitabha Bagchi” joined in. Both reads are good can’t comment much on the books as I have just started them.

Movies : Have been watching a lot of movies since a few days, liked some, “Perfume, the story of a murderer” , ” Offside” and “Divided we fall” are some of them.

World around me : On cloud 9 to see Mayawati pushed to the corner by SC for the statue farce, woohoo !!! Don’t know whats the problem with indian media if Shashi Tharoor wants to stay in a 5 star hotel, or if Congress wants it MPs to cut down on costs, all they want is a topic for debate at 9 PM. RIP YSR. Did you notice Indian media has forgotten the BJP episode, since a few days, guess its all well with BJP now

Time to go now, hope the next few days will be a lot more happening — Amen

Friendship day, is it a scam ?? Who cares …

01:00 am, got a tweet  that says “I so hate this #friendship_day crap btw. Its a scam IMO. “ OMG its friendship’s day today!!!  Hmmm, there I go into the flashback, back when I was in school, me and couple of guys get a bunch of friendship bands and come in early this day, no points for guessing where these bands went ofcourse to all those pretty gals

Ok let me get back to the tweet, it sounded interesting, what is the history/origin of Friendship Day ? Took some googling but found some interesting answers here are some of them:

Theory 1 : International Friendship Day celebrations takes place on the first Sunday of August every year. The tradition of dedicating a day in honor of friends began in US in 1935. In 1935 American Govt had killed a person on 1st Saturday of Aug. The next day his friend committed suicide in his memory. Since then American Govt declared 1st Sunday of Aug as friendship day. Gradually the festival gained popularity and today Friendship Day is celebrated in large number of countries.

Theory 2 : With the devastating effects of the First World War still showing and increasing hostilities, mistrust and hatred between countries, provided the perfect conditions for another imminent battle, there was a greater need for friendship and camaraderie not only among nations but also among individuals. Hence, the US Congress decided to designate the first Sunday of the month of August as Friendship Day and with a formal proclamation in 1935, officially declared the occasion a holiday dedicated in the honour of friends and friendship.

Theory 3: Just after the the first world war, when the economy slowing down, people spent their money on basics, the gifts and card industry was badly hit. Friendship Day was then created by wealthy business-men, as another merchandising opportunity to make up for the slow period between the previous splurge and the next splurge.

There are some other boring theories which date back to the Bible and even Mahabharat ages, but I found them to be kinda boring and pointless.

Ohhh I got one more tweet “Aug 2nd is apparently Friendship Day! I hate such commemorative days. As if you need a day to remember your friends. I do that *everyday* “

Come on guys why do you wanna spoil the friendship spirit, take this day as one more day to celebrate friendship, are we going to crib the same way 3 days later when tying rakhi’s to our sisters, why do we need a special day for sisters, we love them everyday !!!

Winnie the pooh- World's Ambassador of Friendship

Anyways wishing you all HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY !!!