Career wise (Just a fun assessment, nothing serious!)

You guys can take it here The Quick and Dirty Career Test Mine says : Your Career Personality: Independent, Flexible, and Ingenious

Your Ideal Careers: Astronaut Entrepreneur Lawyer Nightclub owner Photographer Private investigator Real estate developer Stand up comic Venture capitalist Video game developer

Hmmm...Ok lets see...

Astronaut - yeah , used to think it would be cool to become one when i was a kid ..the interest vanished as soon as i was old enough to realise the amount of effort required to get there!

Entrepreneur - this one i am sure , i can never become .Just don't have that sly(oops i meant smart...sorry all those entrepreneurs out there) streak! .Ok first mistake by this great test....lets not be too harsh here and take away the accuracy credits form the test just for this!

Lawyer - Now this test is talking my language. Have always been fascinated with the law...always wanted to become a lawyer , still do! Damn this Indian mentality of making your children either doctors or engineers (At least i belong to that era!) . But hey , who knows.....someday , maybe!

Nightclub owner - Now this sounds interesting . Though cant picture myself easily as one but nonetheless interesting. Let me try to imagine ...hmmm....Dimly lit , nice music (No loud music .. yea yea i know , nightclub & no loud music ...Damn it! its my nightclub) surrounded by beautiful people all having a good time.....seems good . Ok this sounds just too good to be true. Lets take a reality check here. Shall we? the stench of Beer ,broken bottles & glasses on the floor , half wit semi naked youngsters , pot bellied frustrated middle aged men , one scarce glimpse of a pretty girl here and there getting lost in all this chaos.....and NO single eligible men. Well.... I would have to pass this as a career option.

Photographer - Yea, like that. Had even taken the first step of buying a camera , but never really got around to doing more than that , till now. But i will start someday , i promise myself , i will. Whenever that is , i am sure it would be more of a hobby than a career. So yeah nice but no thankyou (as a career option) .Ok lets be a little more honest here , I also think i would suck big time in that if i were to ever do it professionally (no body judges you , when the pursuit is a hobby and not a profession)

Private investigator - This one sounds cool. But too much and too frequent appearance change required , I guess . Pass!

Real estate developer - Hmmm.... lot of money with the current booming trend in the industry , my graduation degree in a related field ...should appeal to me , right? But it doesn't , just doesn't!

Stand up comic - That my friends (and yeah almost all of them!) say i already am . Stand up , Sitting Backwards , Lying down , whatever!

Venture capitalist - OK i loved "financial management" (a credit course in my post graduation) and scored well too . However that's my only claim to any interest in this field . Maybe its just that the foreign author who wrote that book on the subject, which i read from cover to cover with much interest unlike any other text book i remember , was a great writer. I don't know. Lets just say , i don't think i would be motivated enough in that field in spite of the fact that i love numbers.

Video game developer - Yeah , this one seems like a great idea. I shall try it ...definitely! By the way , would somebody please tell me if you need any special skills like formal programming /coding training for this one ???

And the irony is - So many suggestions for a career ...and none of them even slightly hints / relates to what i do currently . And i always thought that i am not too "off the mark" in choosing this line of work (But i didnt CHOOSE my current field any which way ...it was more like default than by design ...so Maybe it was just a rationalistaion at the end of the day).

One more thing which i hate to bring to even my attention here is - Writing isnt one of these options . **sigh** ....But I am still not giving up !~ (I am sure this foolhardy optimism is going to kill me someday and that day isnt far either)

Mood Ring...dont ask me whats that!

Your Mood Ring is Light Purple

Clever Witty Sharp

Google referrals : What fun!!

In my pursuit of passing time in office (while waiting for the cab) got curious to check where the hits (on my blog , of course!!) were coming from .....

So apart form enewss which has just declared my "girly possessions" the top outgoing link , even google is helping me build the readership ... but whats more interesting is how do these people get here...I am sure all bloggers gets hits like this , from everywhere , from all varied unrelated google queries...But me being relatuvely new in thsi blogspace , couldnt resist the tempation to share my amusement with silent [..uh, not so silent now , readers :]

So here are the first 15 referals (google queries )...rest later ...

1. Sex Cures Migraine
   
2. Post Sex Migraine
   
3. What to do when u make someone angry
   
4. How to make a woman obsess about you
   
5. Happy at 30 being single
   
6. Alpha Female
   
7. You Are Pretty Happy Being Single
   
8. Man wants me as an option
   
9. How do u spell bachelor?
   
10. "as real as it gets" blogspot
    
11. O FUCK U BITCH I DONT NEED THIS THIS SHIT (this one takes the cake! ROFL)
    
12. You don’t need one, you want one
    
13. Happy being single
    
14. Married ex wants me back
    
15. Being single and happy
    

Its funny , yes but it gives me immense pleasure to notice that Happy & Single appears quite often in these queries.

I really need to hear that (Approaching 30 , rem??)

More about Soft Addictions

I seriously feel that i am guilty of indulging in one - "surfing net for hours together" .

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Do you have a soft addiction?

By Judith Wright

After a tough day, do you come home and flop in your easy chair, grab a bag of chips and zone out in front of the television? Or maybe you compulsively check your e-mail, spend hours surfing the Net or stay up late chatting with strangers in chatrooms. Whether you get lost in cyberspace, over shop, watch too much TV, gossip, bite your nails, daydream excessively, procrastinate or over-exercise, you may be caught in what Judith Wright calls a “soft addiction”.

Soft Addictions are seemingly harmless habits that rob us of our time, zap our energy, numb us from our feelings, mute our consciousness and keep us from living the satisfying, meaningful lives we desire.

Soft Addictions can be activities, moods or ways of being, avoidances, and things-edible and consumable. Many soft addictions involve necessary behaviors like eating, reading, and sleeping. They become soft addictions when we overdo them and when they are used for more than their intended purpose.

Are you involved in a regular activity, avoidance, mood or thing that is a soft addiction?

Take this quiz and find out.

How many “yes” answers indicate that you have a soft addiction? Even a single “yes” answer might qualify!

Soft Addiction Quiz

1. Would you be unlikely to go on national television and say, “You, too, should do this,” about your behavior?

2. When asked why you do this thing, do your reasons sound like an excuse or a rationalization?

3. Do you do an activity or retreat to a mood compulsively or habitually?

4. Is there a particular routine that you follow, almost like a ritual, for this behavior?

5. Do you have difficulty imagining life without it (or even with less of it)?

6. Do you want to change this behavior, resolve to do so, but then find yourself unable to keep your resolution?

7. Do you feel scared or stubborn when someone suggests you stop or reduce this behavior?

8. Has the time you spend doing the activity or being in the mood increased without providing the same level of satisfaction it once did?

9. Have you been teased, mocked, or criticized because of how you’re wasting a great deal of your time on trivial pursuits?

10. Has someone close to you become annoyed or angry with you about the amount of time, money, and/or energy you devote to a given activity?

11. Have you cancelled or turned down positive opportunities in order to indulge an activity, substance, or mood?

12. Has your particular activity, mood, or avoidance caused you to get in trouble on the job?

13. Is this something that you would be embarrassed about if others were to learn of it? Does it feel like a secret you’re ashamed of?

If you are still unsure or would like to see how much of an issue your soft addictions are for you, there are three key questions you can always ask yourself: How much time do I spend? What is my motivation? How does it make me feel? If the activity or behavior creates MORE for you - more energy, more learning and growing, more time, more of a sense of aliveness - then it's probably not a soft addiction. But if the behavior or activity leaves you feeling drained, numbed, buzzed, distracted or feeling less, then chances are it is a soft addiction. Remember, everybody has soft addictions. If you can recognize them, then you're well on your way to overcoming them.

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My Virtual Hug....as real as it gets!

This is how i feel about my blog.My unconditional confidante!!

Mini Celebrity on a Matrimonial site

One of many strange personal ads on a matrimonial sites ....(yeah , i have been there for 5 years now...I guess they should publish their unsuccessful stories too , at least i would get a chance to get published) . So i received a mail from this bachelor around last month , went and checked out his profile...laughed alone ...and thought that was the end of it (Never responded to the mail though! , read on ...you will know why). So when i got another mail from this guy asking for my number last week, i had totally erased him out of memory. Had to go back to his profile again to remind myself of who he was ...yeah , and as soon as i read the first 2 lines , i remembered.

Couldn't help posting his ad here ... even on the 2nd reading , it had the same effect on me. So whatever its worth , here's to a good laugh and some wide eyed amusement. Enjoy!

My comments in blue
[P.S. - My apologies to the bachelor :)....]

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MINI CELEBRITY

I am very outgoing and dynamic by nature. A true Indian techie and has earned name worldwide (So , ok till here u think its just another bachelor selling himself , but wait it gets better and funnier!). I work for a very big MNC (Mind it people , VERY BIG). Watching movies or going on a long drive or taking a walk along the sea line are few of my favorite passtime.(For somebody in a big MNC , you would think he would spell "favourite" right to say the least , also would use plural "passtimes" for a list of activities) I balance my lifestyle in a different manner at different places. Always value my parents and my relatives.

My Job: I work for a very big MNC (fortune 100 company) (VERY BIG , believe him people , VERY BIG ...)as a team lead. For my peers and people who are working in my field, I am a mini-celebrity to them (This cracked me up....i couldn't stop laughing for two minutes straight...no exaggeration here!). In other words, I am pretty much well known in my industry and I do have lot of fans like any other industrial celebrity (Fans?? oh my god!!...Industrial Celebrity ??.. I was about to faint). Besides this, I have been invited by several education institutions as a speaker or guest.. (Well..i am actually surprised that he ended it here, but then again, maybe he must have been getting late while writing this to go to some institution as a speaker!)

Looking for: I am looking for someone who is very beautiful in all sense i. e. by looks, by nature and by personality (Great sentence formation for a mini celebrity ref- beautiful in all "sense"). The one after seeing whome (cant even use spell check on the word editor , Mr. Celebrity in the IT field?) I will never feel like looking at any other girl.(Trust me man , you would still look) She should be a perfect blend of beauty + nature + intelligence. She should always keep the family values on high priority and devote herself completely towards it. It will be always ensured that she will stay like a queen of my heart and will be liked by all the family members..... There are still more to be written but for the time being I have to stop here :) ("There ARE still more to be written"...Man , I tell you sometimes i feel so frustrated with such language butchering )

My Family: Both my dad and mom are the most wonderful people in this planet. They treat everyone same and love to help people. They do a lot of social service and for people they are like GOD. (Oh , so not only him but his parents also ! And no less than nothing else but GOD!!)
I have only one sister. (And she is worth one line only! ...She must not be either a celebrity or GOD)

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What do you say to that?

Dont need a man , but want one!

See...I was right!

You Don't Need a Man, but You Want One!

You like having a guy in your life, and overall, you prefer not to be single. You won't go out with a guy out of desperation.. you rather be alone. However, when you're single, you do tend to obsess a little over dating. Because no matter how good your single life is, it's better with a great guy around.

Pretty Happy being single

And now...... its official!
I am Happy being single.....(Hey all the men out there , dont stop trying though! "Happier" is a better state to be in than "Happy" , right?)

You Are Pretty Happy Being Single

You have a full, fun life. And you definitely don't need love to be content. Of course, being single can get you down a little. Especially when you've been single for a while. But you know how to be patient and wait for the right person. You're life is too good to settle for anything!

Are You Happy Being Single?