Sunday, May 28, 2006

Nothing in Particluar

I don't really know what to write about now, but I figured that a) given my propensity to not blog and this being a rare instance when I am actually in the flow and b) given that if I leave now, I only pay 5 bucks less than if I leave 17 minutes later, I might as well ramble on in the hopes of coming up with something at least remotely interesting.

Well, I guess I could write about my two orkut encounters of the third kind - the first being on orkut and the second on chat. Yes, I finally met two of my orkut buddies - Chennai seems to be so much better that way, or maybe it's just that I spend less time on the computer, but whatever the reason, I met up with two, two weeks in a row. It was quite interesting - for someone like me who always needs a social context (same school, workplace, whatever) to talk to people, orkut seems to have solved the problem by providing an ominpresent social context. Now I don't even have to meet people on orkut - just tell me you are on orkut, and I'll favour you with my attention. Or at least, so I think I will. I haven't actually had the chance to try that out yet. Come to think of it, if I don't talk to you outside of a social context, I guess I wouldn't get to know you are on orkut anyway. So, nah, I guess that one's not gonna work.

Well, that's enough rambling I suppose. I still have 6 minutes to preview and revise this post - maybe even delete it - as well as allow my hand to recover from the effects of using this malevolent, malfunctioning keyboard.

But hey, at 15 bucks an hour what more can I expect! :(

Btw, Google's adsense seems almost supernatural - after publishing my last post with the sad smiley, it immediately came up with the following ad:

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Now that's what I call an ad with sense.

Money Matters

Well, materialistic as that may sound, it's what has been dominating my mind for the last couple of weeks - money matters. I guess that's what happens when you are on your own and broke. Luckily for me, I am Indian, and so is my dad, so while it's not what I like to do, I have no issues asking him for backup, and he has none giving it... luckily he's also not that Indian in outlook, and will happily take back whatever I borrow from him...

Anyway, while I am tempted to go into more detail, I'll try and get back to what I had in mind... namely, money matters - and this time I mean that money does matter. I used to be very idealistic and say that money is of no importance to me... I suppose that only holds until you start paying all the bills!

One good has however come out of all this - I have finally thought of a banner text for my cell phone:

Money Matters

:(