Relationships - now and how !

Some thoughts just beg to be written ... here's one such.

In the 'Health' Supplement of 'Week' magazine , Nov 2007, Jerry Pinto wrote about the way the current generation treats friendship and love - the entire article is hilarious of course , but more important - it holds an unsympathetic mirror to the world we live in now.

Since I cannot type the entire article ( laziness being one of the reasons ) , I'll type out how he concludes - " ... We have turned love into a marketing game. We market ourselves on Orkut. We play who-has-more-friends with Facebook. We judge ourselves by the number of hits on our blogs. We have turned love and friendship into a numbers game. When the numbers don't pan out, there's always a way to doctor the figures. Get a techie to write a programme that will hit your blog once every 15 minutes. Use an old photograph on your web page. Massage the message, manage the image, igonre the disappoint. And when things don't work, there's divorce. What fun everyone's having."

What I read a few months back simply refused to be forgotten ... so to start with, I removed the click-counter on my blog.

Make-over !

Its the age of make-overs ... old buildings are demolished to be replaced by flashy multi-storeys, roads are dug up to make way for fly-overs and underpasses, actresses my mom's age are undergoing plastic surgeries and botoxing themselves to look young , heroes are sweating it out in gyms to show-off their six-packs, old movies are rehashed with special effects ( oopsy, my list is becoming so Bollywoodish! ) ... everything comes with a new look these days ... mostly, old wine in new bottle , but what the heck, some change is anytime better than no change !

So for the new year, I have changed the template of my blog ... no flashy stuff here , just a ' little change' , " kyunki log change maangte hain ! " :)