Play it like its Angry Birds

Angry Birds, the two words which brings in the chill and the urge to relapse to the most addictive game invented for the phone after snakes. The fact that a theme park was opened up last year based on the concept indicates how viral it went and what impact it had on the general masses all round the world. The money just keep rolling in and the addicts keep growing even now and we live in a world where the trends pass over faster than you could say twitter. So what is it about the game that has got people so hooked in, it is nothing but a game which uses violence and is a "me" against "them" theme where me are the birds (who are pretty angry) and them are the pigs (who probably are just pigs) and you just need to smash 'em pigs by launching yourself into them like kamikaze pilots. So what is it about the kamikaze birds and the evil grinning pigs that has made people into zombies playing on it day and night, draining their batteries quicker than the electric companies can say coal? Well its simple really, people like the whole me against them and smashing things. If we had the opportunity to do that in the real world with actual people (without serious consequences) I bet it would be money spinner. I mean just imagine launching yourself and head butting that annoying fella talking to the girl you like or launching yourself and kicking that girl who's been trying to come on to your boyfriend or smashing the person who thinks they know everything and annoy you with information you would not want to know even if your life depended on it coz it was boring as shit or those uninvited guest who not only show up but overstay their visit yet would not help you in anything and complain that they are not being looked after. Yeah, tell me you have never got the urge to smash someone in a situation like that with no repercussion and I shall anoint you the next Gandhi or something to that effect, if someone doesn't smash you for being that annoying that is. Let's face it, with the ever growing stress and the ever decreasing patience nowadays, we need to let off some steam and the game gives us that outlet, boxing would be a better option but you would actually have to get your backside off the couch/chair and go to a gym for that and that requires energy which you don't have and can't waste so you stick with the game. There may be several reasons to keep playing the game but as long as it keep you happy that's what counts and also it keeps you away from punching people in real life and getting arrested for assault so that makes it a win-win situation. So play away, stay happy and keep smiling! :)

Lynx Angels are a myth - FACT!

Its been sometime since I have regularly used the train, and I have to say I certainly don't miss it at all. Public transport has in the recent years become a nightmare, its never on time, its always crowded, its dirty and it stinks....no I mean it really stinks like literally! No where else do you actually feel the need for fresh air and reprieve from the foul smell than being stuck in a train carriage probably pushed up against other people (something similar to a pack of sardines along with the smell), which could be a bit awkward if you were short as you might be stuck with your nose in someone's arm pits, some of which might be causing this so called arson attack. So when the whole war on the weapon of mass destruction started no wonder we didn't find anything because it was well hidden in amongst the very people looking for it! So where did it all go wrong is the question? Well the answer lies in that bottle of Deodorant...or there lack of. Yes, somehow some people forget that all that douching and no applying the deodorant makes you a bit of a douche and smell like.....real stank! Although to be fair to the some of the smelly douche bags it may also have to do with some real cheap no effect deodorant which pretty much evaporates the second it comes in contact with air, and yeah all that Axe/Lynx effect....only happens in the ad and would never happen and I repeat never ever happen in real life, even if you empty the whole bottle on you although it might just kill you. In my last post I had a bit of a rant about how people are turning to magazines to learn about how to live their lives, well who would have thunk that I would be chewing those words and saying this out but fellas - go through the grooming section and take a tip or two and well ladies if you don't smell like sugar and spice and real real nice sorry but I'll pass. Till the next time, stay fresh, smell good and keep smiling! :)

The Random String of Thoughts aka Life's a Pie 2012

So I am back again, yes it has just been a little over 24 hours since my last post but then there is still a bit going on in the head which I need to exhale out and as this happens to be my playground where my rules, my method and last but not least my insanity runs amok I can do whatever I please (that x on the top right side, left if you are a Mac user, has a purpose you know). Hold on hold on, am just messing with your heads, no need to get all upset and wander else where to find your dose of madness mayhem as no one makes it up much like me and you know it. :) Anyhow so after my entry yesterday, I was sent a link by a friend of mine (you know who you are!) which went on to list how making resolutions was not such a bad idea and how it tested our mettle and commitment (a word which apparently I can't relate to as put by a few people who shall also not be named) and yaadaa yaaadaaa gobble smack. Now, I really did highlight what all opportunity it presents and all that jazz and I still stick to what I wrote, however, what I do have to bring to notice is how all of a sudden we have taken all these Magazines dishing out advises as our Holy Grail (if I ever own a BBQ I shall name thy the Holy Grill and make sure the voice I useth not be shrill, ok enough of the madness back to the point) and slowly started to rely on them to how to live our lives. There was once a time where we relied on experience and our mistakes to learn about things, played with the new gadgets to learn how it worked (although that does get expensive at times, go read about it before you buy), took the plunge to ask out someone and feel the rejection or the over the top happiness depending how it went, went through the whole process of breaking up and heartbreak to find out the pain of it and not just read about things and make up our minds if its a good thing or not. What makes that person you can't see or know the best person to talk/comment/advice you about any of these things, whatever happened to the whole seeing in believing and feeling can be dangerous to your health....just kidding. Anyhow, if you are new to my blog, this is my space to rant on about things I probably just half care about, which leads me to another interesting bit which surprises me and amuses me all at the same time. A few people, who have come to know about me writing a blog have commented how they would like to read it so they can find out the real me, something which makes me wonder if what I write about or more importantly how I write things is leading people to create an impression of me which I may not be in actual existence? Is my virtual realm encroaching on the real life personality and making me something which changes from one person's view to the other? Should I have an entry where I explain who I think I am and if that even makes sense to all but me? Ah well that would be for another time I guess. Welcome to the random string of thoughts which may or may not make sense to you, welcome to life's a pie in 2012 for this year these string of thoughts are going to run wild and hopefully make for a nice bit of reading just of the random kind. Keep Smiling :)

Happy New Year and Happy New Challenges

And so we are well into 2012 with a week gone by and all the excitement of the changes that comes and goes, has passed over and its back to the grind with the holiday season well and truly over. So while some of us were busy writing down/up those resolutions on what we want to achieve in this year (more likely what we think we would like to achieve but given up on it some years ago) and some of us reflecting on what the year gone past and what we achieved in it (because by then it becomes a bit of task going through and checking your Facebook status updates and sorting out the achievements which actually were not a figment of your imagination but happened in real life). The rest of us, yours truly included, just move enjoying what becomes a long holiday and an excellent excuse to sleep in, laze around reading a book, watching a movie and still wishing that food would appear magically with a spell or two. Whilst not an avid fan of making new year's resolutions, and the fact that hardly anyone sticks to it past the month of January if not past a week in the month of January, it really does bring in the opportunity to realise the things you have fallen short of in your list of things to do while you are still moving condition. It also gives you an insight of your weaknesses which unfortunately you can't use (or probably should not use) in your interview question of "What do you think are your weaknesses?" as, replying "Well I have been trying to lose weight for the last 5 years but really have done the opposite and gained more weight" just makes you seem like a bit of a loser (not of the weight though). The one thing that you could do instead of making a huge list is come up with three to four things and put it up as a challenge, invite your friends to participate with you and beat their sorry asses to it (for more convincing ideas to stick to your resolutions, I recommend reading a friend's blog entry on the very topic which can be found on my blog list called "Lessons in Three"). So what am I doing this year, given that I don't "maketh" any of them resolutions yet still "talketh" about them, well nothing in particular but the usual as I have been doing for the last couple of years, I pick up one random challenge every 3-4 months and try to complete that and then move on to the next one, some of them are short term ones, some just a bit of a change to the lifestyle and some that can go for some time to achieve fully. The key to completing whatever you pick is to give yourself time to think and plan before you jump into it. So bring on 2012 and bring on the challenges and lets make a meal out of it (weight loss is something that is not on my non-existent list again this year). I wish you all the best this year and remember the two key things for this year - Be Happy and Keep Smiling! :) P.S: I have also signed up for the fiftyfifty.me challenge where you need to read fifty books and watch fifty movies in the year 2012. If you think you are up for it, lets bring it on! :)

Last of the Mayan Years?

So, if the Mayans got this whole end of the world mapped out correctly we exactly have one year left to party it out. If you have no clue what I am talking about, and are reading this, let me firstly congratulate you on coming out of that cave after your long hiatus, and yes the world has indeed changed a lot from what you might have left it. Apart from the carnage mother nature has been dishing out (seems more like a tantrum throwing attention seeking teenager rather than what we have been calling her all along really) and the recession after round one still wants to play peek-a-boo with all of us all while taking most of the European countries in one go and threatening to conquer the whole world which makes me wonder why no one in the White House has not included it in the official Axis of Evil club. There have been a lot of deaths and a lot of anonymous people would have apparently hit it big with the prize money for assisting in fighting the aforementioned Axis of Evil candidates who not surprising went away in a very unglamorous without a whimper of a fight unlike what we had seen in Hollywood flicks with Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger (surprisingly the spell check actually has that surname in-built, at least becoming a governor sort of helped in a way didn't it?) and Sly Stallone. Yeah, would have to say you did not miss much on that front except the Russians would be returning as the bad guys in the movies which might not be all that bad if you think about it. The last but not the least and this would probably make you return to the cave again, I know I have been tempted to take that step, is that some magazine conducted a survey or more aptly lets call it a poll of the 100 Hottest women of all time, yes that did read "100 Hottest Women of All Time" and in a bizarre anti-climax, trust shattering, sad tear inducing way the result was that Jennifer Aniston ( you might know her from her screen name - Rachel) beat everyone, including super models, pop stars, heck even porn stars and even Marilyn Monroe! Yes, humankind has lost its mind and when you can't even get the hottest woman in the world of all time right, what point is there to continue this existence just for the heck of it? The Aliens probably have scouted us out and looked at our thinking and functioning and probably decided its best not to waste the time, energy or resources valuable or otherwise on a set of species who apart from having bad tastes in women, are going broke by the second and would probably start killing themselves if the internet went down for a month (Please note that this a very hypothetical statement and I am not to be held responsible for this...ever...should this situation ever arise).
So cave-man now that you know what's going on, the little information that was going on before we did this recap was that according to the Mayans the world would surely finish on the 21st of December 2012 and hardly anyone would have given it an extra thought for who reads history anyway until someone in Hollywood decided to make a movie on it and since then its all been about 2012. So, you have 12 months to enjoy this new chapter for if the world does go kaboom, you shouldn't be just left with memories of the cave and the bats and their droppings around you.

The Random Voices in the Head

So there are times when I just ramble on about nothings......and I don't mean the sweet nothings, no these are purely and utterly just a concatenation of words which fall in place and for some miracle actually are comprehensible, well to some if not everyone. The fact is there needs to be the random factor in everyone else everything falls into the pattern of predictability and normalcy prevails which although is nice and sweet if you live in a shell but then what's the point of living is the wringer. Now, if we all become a bit honest to ones self and sometimes that is a hard task as we all like to live in this self constructed illusion of a world where we label things right and wrong based on how the people around us would judge us rather than live like the way we wanted without hiding our little harmless quirks (if they are not harmless, then there is something wrong and its time to visit your local shrink.....just a reminder!) which add to our character rather than hamper it. So what if the little voice in your head says you should go ahead and do something out of the ordinary, like for example buy an electric flosser (nifty little device I tell you)  just because you got curious as to how it would work or got on a flight to a new place just because it seemed right at the moment or you could do what that heartbroken 60 year old did and went out to buy a $35,000 cake....yeah you read that right and no I didn't add those zeroes in by mistake......he really did spend that much money on a cake, which might seem totally ridiculous to us all but apparently it helped him get over the "love of his life" (going by his age, might not have been the first one, but then if he was rich and she still left him, that tells a lot but who am I to judge.....except being the guy who jots this down).

Now some of us freak out when the whole "voices in your head" thing pops up (excuse the pun...totally unintentional) and act as if they have never ever experienced it, which is as honest as saying Santa Claus does not actually exist and that Rudolf does not have an acute sinusitis problem. Its like denying the fact that the middle earth was the most boring part of the earth.....errr.......okay that was actually the truth but you get the gist, there does exist that voice in your head which makes you do things and in some cases eases you in the "not guilty" stance too but let us leave that to a totally different topic. 

So the next time you hear some rumblings in your head (make sure its not from the stomach which does have a distinct growl when it needs that thing called....FOOD!), do yourself a favour and at least hear it out as the only help that medicine is going to do for you is make your senses numb (this fact has not been researched extensively and in some people may only cause nausea but that again maybe the dodgy food you had from that takeaway joint.).

Flash Mobs - A Bollywood Initiation?

So I have to admit it, I love flash mobs - the one where a group of people starting dancing at random places all of a random that is....what were you thinking?? There's something about flash mobs that fascinates me.......its all planned but its very abrupt and if there is anything it's worth, it would be the whole good feel factor. I mean imagine a meeting place in your city, there's chaos with people just bustling around with their heads down and a mean stride and all of a sudden there is music and dancing....and the crowd just stops, the moment holds on and there's chaos but not like before and behold, the best of it has not come as yet, no, the best part is when the smile on your face appears from nowhere, at the least expected moment and your legs start moving more by instinct than your will. If you ever look at any of the videos, and there are many posted on YouTube, the one thing you would notice is that everyone seems to be having a good time whether or not they are dancing. There is a vibe so strong you can't help but feel it even while sitting in your living room watching the clip. A friend of mine after watching a clip I recently shared commented that flash mobs must have surely originated in India looking as how in every movie whenever someone starts to sing a crowd appears out of nowhere and all of sudden there's a massive group of people singing and dancing. When I read it, I could only smile as having been raised on Bollywood movies (not that my parent's didn't provide me food, one look at me would make that misconception go away!) I can surely relate to the whole experience and I have to admit sometimes while walking down a street with my music playing on the iPod, I do wonder that if I bust into a song would the people around me suddenly stop and start dancing, would they know all the dance moves I do, which might a be pretty easy ask as I couldn't really dance myself. So the next time, while walking down a street you suddenly see someone rush past you and break into a gig, grab the opportunity....shake a leg, move those hips, throw your arms but most importantly enjoy and relish the experience with a big smile! :)

 P.S: I do NOT plan on suddenly dancing while walking down the street however curious I get about others following, so that is one laugh you are surely going to lose out on, but I will make it up in other ways....I always do.