After a long day of being thoroughly jobless, I started the long ride back home.
17 Kms = 1 hour = one way
After being away from Bangalore for a year, I had come back to find discernibly more terrible traffic on Bangalore’s roads. Surprisingly I wasn’t feeling my usual depression looking at the state of Bangalore traffic. I suppose I am beginning to accept it as a way of life. Anyways so I am riding, inching along, rather and there was this car in front of me with a sticker that said:
My wife gives me 100% sound advice
99% sound and 1% advice
It elicited a laugh from me and I thought that those were 2 minutes well spent.
This gave me an idea. Since more and more of our time is being spent on the road, why not start looking at newer ways of being entertained on the road?
Cars could sport stickers that have jokes printed on them.
You can have LCD screens on the rear of the car that is displaying information; News, views, TV, movies. You can play table tennis on car tops, you can learn up entire lyrics of a particular song.
Imagine, you could have cooking recipes behind cars. That way you can read up the recipe while on your way back from work, reach home and cook!
Have you heard of the floating markets in Bangkok?
We could have our very own Traffic markets in Bangalore. They are open topped vehicles selling fruit, veggies etc! And as the traffic situation worsens and we can literally walk faster than drive, you will even have time to pick and choose veggies from this vehicle next to you, ask him to cut out a slice for trial and haggle with him over the prices! You could have such markets selling groceries, clothes.
Just imagine! The possibilities are endless!!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Boredom busters
After having lived the life of an intern for 7 weeks, I have become an expert boredom buster.
So the Devil is is working overtime and you don't know what to do with the time on your hands?
You are reading just the right post! I can tell you how to spend that time "qualitatively"
The first thing I try to do is call up friends and bug them. Just got back from talking to one very dear friend of mine. I always feel happy after talking to him. He's the first and only guy I know who, like me, can laugh his head off at silly jokes. There are jokes that only the two of us find funnny. :)) (yeah..i know what ur thinking;) And we don't even need jokes to laugh!
Next best alternative: "eyesdrop" on people's conversations in Orkut. My project involved research on mobile usage patterns among young people. To develop a user profile, I visited the orkut profiles of lots of teenagers. Trust me theres lot you can gather about a species from their orkut profiles.
Google random people's names :) This is to be done at the height of boredom. I recently googled one particular person's name and stumbled upon this hilarious profile on a matrimonial site!
That brings me to the next point: Read profiles on matrimonial sites. From wanting a "proportionate girl" to wanting someone who can "lof" with the guy, its a range of interesting reads!!
Google: the most useful boredom buster! google up random topics like bipasha basu's dog's name for example and send the link to all your friends with a "did u know...?"
Read latest celebrity gossip: Who broke up with whom, who replaced whom in the movie, its a whole load of useless news.
You are at office and are really bored. Get into the elevator, ride down/up get out, get into the adjoining elevator and ride back. On the way look at people who are in the elevator with you and try n guess what they do, what they are thinking. Come back and compare notes with a jobless colleague.
And when you are mostest bored - read my blog.
So the Devil is is working overtime and you don't know what to do with the time on your hands?
You are reading just the right post! I can tell you how to spend that time "qualitatively"
The first thing I try to do is call up friends and bug them. Just got back from talking to one very dear friend of mine. I always feel happy after talking to him. He's the first and only guy I know who, like me, can laugh his head off at silly jokes. There are jokes that only the two of us find funnny. :)) (yeah..i know what ur thinking;) And we don't even need jokes to laugh!
Next best alternative: "eyesdrop" on people's conversations in Orkut. My project involved research on mobile usage patterns among young people. To develop a user profile, I visited the orkut profiles of lots of teenagers. Trust me theres lot you can gather about a species from their orkut profiles.
Google random people's names :) This is to be done at the height of boredom. I recently googled one particular person's name and stumbled upon this hilarious profile on a matrimonial site!
That brings me to the next point: Read profiles on matrimonial sites. From wanting a "proportionate girl" to wanting someone who can "lof" with the guy, its a range of interesting reads!!
Google: the most useful boredom buster! google up random topics like bipasha basu's dog's name for example and send the link to all your friends with a "did u know...?"
Read latest celebrity gossip: Who broke up with whom, who replaced whom in the movie, its a whole load of useless news.
You are at office and are really bored. Get into the elevator, ride down/up get out, get into the adjoining elevator and ride back. On the way look at people who are in the elevator with you and try n guess what they do, what they are thinking. Come back and compare notes with a jobless colleague.
And when you are mostest bored - read my blog.
Me too
After a long time of reading other people's blogs, I thought that its time for me to become a "me too." So..here I am...and here it is..my very own blog!
So why do people write blogs? and why do people read them? I know why I read them..I like to understand people and their psychology, their thoughts...its almost like falling into Dumbledore's pensieve. :) I think all of us face this question some time or the other in our lives:
Do other people also think like me? Have similar feelings, hopes, aspirations and dreams? If I am going through a rough phase, I get strength from reading the thoughts and feelings of others who have had similar experiences. Because even though at one level we know that everyone has similar thoughts and feelings, you want proof. You want to read someone's else's thoughts and say: " I soo understand that!" or "exactly"
Well, thats reason number one. The other reason is that here I am, doing my summer internship and finding myself jobless, time and again. And an idle mind, as they say, is the devil's workshop. So I thought, why not give the devil an outlet?
So, keep reading the devil's random thoughts :)
So why do people write blogs? and why do people read them? I know why I read them..I like to understand people and their psychology, their thoughts...its almost like falling into Dumbledore's pensieve. :) I think all of us face this question some time or the other in our lives:
Do other people also think like me? Have similar feelings, hopes, aspirations and dreams? If I am going through a rough phase, I get strength from reading the thoughts and feelings of others who have had similar experiences. Because even though at one level we know that everyone has similar thoughts and feelings, you want proof. You want to read someone's else's thoughts and say: " I soo understand that!" or "exactly"
Well, thats reason number one. The other reason is that here I am, doing my summer internship and finding myself jobless, time and again. And an idle mind, as they say, is the devil's workshop. So I thought, why not give the devil an outlet?
So, keep reading the devil's random thoughts :)
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