What all do WE care about?

 This morning I was tweeting very harmlessly (except for the Death threat I sent to the Pro-Telangana person), and my page kept getting updates about one Rebecca Black from the Harry Potter page on twitter, yeah and so, what is the first TWEET I see?





"I'll say it again. I don't hate Rebecca Black and I don't want her dead. Why would I? Yes she sings like a dying Hippogriff but really, now."


Since I am generally I step or two behind most tweeps I know, I type Rebecca Black in the little blue search box in Twitter (Oh! how I love twitter) and lo and behold! I see a million other tweets echoing the same emotion! Well after reading about 10 to 20 tweets I found out the follwing:


1.She is an 8th grader.


2.American ( what else? can she be? ). From California (again?)


3.She can sing say some.


4.She thinks she can sing say some more.


5.There are some who say she can't.


6. She released a song on YOUTUBE (yes yes like that lil blond guy we all know)


7.She called the song FRIDAY.


8.Also she wants to record a single with her 'idol' yes yes none other than Pretty Boy Biebs! ( I can't believe I just said that! )


9. The song is about how a teenager cannot decided whether to sit on the front seat or the back seat of a car. Wow! So cool na? I 'll also write a song about how I cannot decide what to eat? Paneer Makhani or Kadai Paneer! 


10. She is apparently out trended the Japanese Earthquake over the weekend!


The last point actually got me thinking! Wow do more people really care about a teenage girl blaring than about lives lost and property destroyed in Japan? That got me thinking What do we really care about?


On an average day in the world these days there's a political coup, or the aftermath, there's a natural disaster of some magnitude, there's a financial breakthrough, and oh there's also a sporting event and yeah like last week a 'Teenage Sensation" on the internet!  


I decided to poke around a bit and I found out that Rebecca did out trend the earthquake,Gaddafi, the Cricket WC and other more important things. Another shocker this happened not only on Google Trends but also on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks! Really? did the earthquake become boring now, in a little over a week? Are our attention spans that short, and are we that shallow? 


This is just another example of the myriad of things that we willfully choose to ignore in our busy lives! Tho kya? Japan mein earthquake tha, log mare the, India mein bhi tha tsunami, earthquake? I'd rather spend hours reading about this new chick who has biebered her way into my weekend! Let me laugh at her, let me call her the "BLACK PLAGUE", or the latest, let me make a parody out of her song! Yes, I am not lying there was a parody already on YOUTUBE!


Do TV channels and internet sites really dictate what we care about and what we don't? Do we really need them to decide for us what and when to like a thing? They tell us what to like, what to buy, what story is hot, they decided when a story loses importance, they tell us what is the new story! Maybe it is right, maybe its better that way, 'cause if you let everyone decide what they want to care about, yes, we will get more people fulfilling their 'teenage dream's! and that my friends will not be pretty! 


So then that got me thinking what is the one thing near home that I have actually cared about? What? Oh yea! I absolutely hate the fact that my city, my beloved Hyderabad is being destroyed! For what? So that a man's thirst for political power can be quenched? the statues destroyed may not be as famous as the Buddha statues, but to me, they symbolise a childhood spent running around in the green grass around them, of many Sunday evening spent near "Pedda Laala"! It was just sad to see hundreds of people walking on Tankbund, all this for what? For NOTHING! I wish they'd just leave my city alone! Yes, I care about it! 


Maybe Rebecca will record a new single with her idol (good for her!), I would love to record a single with Avril! It's ok if the Earthquake takes second place in google trends as long as efforts are being made to help the sufferers. All that really does not matter as long as people care about all that that has to be cared about! Peace.

A general update on how things are!

Yes. Yes. It's summer here, well almost. Yes, yes it's that time of the year when there's dust, and sand everywhere and you risk getting stuck in the midst of a sandstorm every time you walk back from the library to the Hostel. And yes, I am over reacting!

Firstly here's a big hug to Tangypoison, as it got an awesome review the other day, or was it a compliment? Well remember folks, a few months ago I wrote about Shivam the Rooftop Restaurant, yeah as my really nice floor mate tells me that the owner of that place claimed to know me as I had written that post and he claimed several NLU people had come there after reading it on my blog! Well good good if he thinks his business has risen thanks to my blog, yeah next time I go, I ll introduce myself (Yes, anything in the hope of free food!).

Secondly here's a new embarrassment in the author's life, earlier today while taking attendance in class, JPKJ looks at me and says:

"Are you able to follow in class? Do you understand? How much did you get in the last test?"

Ugh! Never in my 20 years of living did anyone ever say that! Oh by the way I managed a decent 15 out of 20 in that miserable test of his! I ll show him in the next test, yes I will!! Yes, I only ‘look’ confused, sleepy and dumb in class!

 I have noticed a recent spurt in the number of status messages aiming to give a message to other people, yes, I am not denying that they were always there, but all I am saying is that there has been a sudden increase in their number! Well imagine this, you log into your g talk hoping to play catch up with your friends, and you end up seeing status messages like those, and yes, you will feel scared! You'd think twice before pinging them!

Think about it, would you rather ping a person whose status says "Fairy Tales and Chocolate Cookies" or "is trying to go back to where it all began"? This is no offence to anyone, and both the above stated status  messages were your truly's at different points of her life! I am not saying putting statuses's like that is wrong or against the world order or messages like that will ring in the apocalypse or anything, all I am saying is, that well, they tend to scare people who really love you, and care about you. 

You have the freedom to put any status message you want, as long as it does not offend anyone, or ward off any random chat seekers like me! I would still reiterate my point that I really don't mind reading all those messages, you may have written them in absolute fury, but they actually seem quite funny to the people who read them. In-fact the status messages that I write when I am superbly pissed with something\someone make good jokes when I am simply being me.

 I believe it's the growing heat that is messing up people's heads, and making them HOT! Which in turn is manifesting itself in the form of those scary and dangerous status messages!!

On other news Sheelaism is growing, and growing pretty well,I  must say to the utter dismay of the hangover man. Who, by the way, claims I have misquoted him, and I duly apologize. We have named our new Microwave Sheela, and he has taken to calling us blasphemers, yes, I know one day he will wake up to the truth that is Sheela.

So until next time, it's TOODLES!!

SHEELAISM by SAINT BUSHY HAIR!

For most people who know her she is a kind looking ( yes, notice the word LOOKING) girl with a psychedelic choice in phone covers, but for others like me, who know her a little more than most people, she’s a little off the road normally taken. Well, on a cloudy day, after her TOPA moot she decided to embrace ‘Sheelaism”, and become SAINT Bushy Hair. For all the losers who do not know what SHEELA is, it is SHEELA from SHEELA KI JAWANI, from the very sasta movie Tees Maar Khan, but all this is not what this post is about!

This post is devoted entirely to the philosophy that is Sheela. As Bushy says, it is more than a song, Sheela Ki Jawani has a deeper meaning. It is a Bhajan, yes, people she even sings like a bhajan, so, if you catch her singing it, don’t be surprised.

Bushy says, there is Sheela in everybody, yes, that is why the lyrics, WHAT’s MY NAME? WHAT’s MY NAME? and you must find and embrace the Sheela in you. The song is the ultimate expression of feminism. And there is no specific dress code for the religion, or cult (whatever you choose to call it) yes, ladies and gentlemen, this interpretation flows directly from the line “I am too sexy for you” that translates to “I am whatever I am and I have self-respect for myself, and I don’t need you to tell me what I am and what I am not.”

When you are actually writing about a belief, it’s always prudent to give the two sides of the coin. Here’s a warm welcome to our other expert in this matter, “Hangover Man”, he simply disagrees with Bushy. He says, while sitting on the breakfast table, the song is an expression of Carnal Desire. Well, this made a bystander (bysitter?) quip, “Goddess of Carnal Desire”? Well, think about it folks!!

Yes, listen to this song again, find the inner meaning in it. Respect the belief, respect the Sheela in you, and most importantly, RESPECT YOURSELF!! So now its time for me to go wake up Saint Bushy Hair from her sleep so she can indulge in her evening rites. SHEELA!