Showing posts with label Let's Socialize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Let's Socialize. Show all posts

Friday, April 11, 2014

My Miscellaneous blog - #LetsSocialize

Hey fellas,

What will I be talking about in here on Let's Socialize ? 
I will talk about the socially active and socially awkward topics.   

I just wanted to tell you fellas about another platform I would like to use to talk about other stuff. I wanted another blog to talk about miscellaneous things happening around me and mostly inside my head.

And wordpress.com seems fresh, don't you think ? I like it.

So, kpsaravan.wordpress.com it is.

#kpsaravan

Me:

My Photo blogs:
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My Blog theme:
http://kpsaravan.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-thing.html

I will appreciate if you fellas leave a comment below. 

Friday, April 4, 2014

Indians think Indians are funny characters - #LetsSocialize

Hey fellas, Let's Socialize,

What will I be talking about in here on Let's Socialize ? 
I will talk about the socially active and socially awkward topics.   

You know what is so ironic and hilarious ? Indians making fun of other Indians. For instance accents, its hilarious when an Indian is trying so hard to hide the accent to make fun of other Indians'.  Non-Indians say, Indians think they don't have the Indian accent, which offends most of us. But they are not wrong. We do have an accent. May be when you improve your english you might not have a thick accent but still we show a hint.
I don't know why it is offensive. I've never seen Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese etc., trying to hide their accent. But some Indians are soooo concerned about having a non-Indian accent. According to me if your english is good or if you can communicate to another human in english (when you are away from home), thats it, there is nothing more to worry about.

Not just the accent even having a different life style and culture bothers some of us some much that we are confused which ones to choose.


So that is what happens inside India. Now, outside India there are two many different types of Indians.
A. Indians who were born and brought up by INDIAN PARENTS in an english speaking country, 
B. Indians who moved there few years back, 
C. Indians who just moved few months back as a student and 
D. Indians who are visiting for a few months of contractual work. 

Some in every category I mentioned above think each other as people from different race and different land. It is very rare that the people from these categories make inter-category friends. It is not rocket science that Indians from these categories have different accents and culture. But speaking for some of us, I think that makes a huge difference doesn't it ?

Now, (A) act confused. Some act as if they have no idea what India is and its just a word they use when someone asks where are you parents from. I am not accusing everyone but if you wanna see some proof, you don't have to go there, just watch some youtube channels and vine videos the (A) type Indians make. They know one type of comedy for sure - MAKING FUN OF INDIANS. I understand the fact that you have a different passport but why offend your own race ? I think its a defense mechanism. Mock before being mocked ?
I don't want to mention the names of the offensive Indian youtube and vine "stars".
Although I want to mention a really positive youtube star Lily AKA Superwoman. Go check her channel out. She is cool. She makes fun of Indians too but you ll see the difference.

(B) are the calm ones. They know they tried to merge into a different part of the world that isn't home. They made a new home they are happy that they succeeded. May be thats why they never try to become something or have the time to judge others. You can actually never find these type of Indians around, cos they are busy reaching the Level 100 of Tourism even though they have been there for years. I find them interesting. They seek adventure in foreign land hahaha !

(C) are hard workers. They try so hard to try to put a camouflage on them so that no one should recognize them as Indians. (Guys there is something called 'sight'). The first thing some of em try to do is create a group of Indians around them so they can try together. They see another Indian on the street, they pretend they will make sure they don't make eye contact or smile for courtesy. "Run forest Run, there is some stranger from your country".
And this is my opinion, these guys are the most racist people you will ever see. But sly though. They "mock" every race including their own.

(D) are always on an adrenaline rush. Most of them don't try to hide their accents (which is good) but they do one thing for sure, judge every one from A, B and C. They find them as bad Indians. My observation and opinion is, they want to get merged with A, B and C but they will never accept the fact that they want to. And most importantly they always want to share their advice to every Indian they meet outside India. By advice I mean "Change yourself, you are from India. Don't act like western person". They think they are the only proud Indians outside India representing Indian culture.

Ok, by now some of you might have thought that I am a hypocrite offending Indians, but no, all I am trying to say is BE THE INDIAN YOU ARE. Don't worry about your accent if you can't change it. Don't change your life style if you don't like it. 

Note the word 'some' I have mentioned everywhere above, meaning I am not generalizing the entire mass.

Case temporarily closed.

#kpsaravan



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Friday, March 28, 2014

Counter ChitChat - #LetsSocialize

Hey fellas, Let's Socialize,


What will I be talking about in here on Let's Socialize ? 
I will talk about the socially active and socially awkward topics. 


Everytime you go to your regulars, like the grocery store, restaurant, hair dresser etc., you have to have certain ChitChat at the counters just to keep those few minutes less awkward. But there are always cashiers and attenders who make it even more awkward BECAUSE of the ChitChat. 

Its easier with cashiers in restaurants to ChitChat with while waiting for take aways and also with hair dressers, because you know it is going to take a while and you can either talk about something either one of us started talking about or just pretend eagerly waiting to leave the place. 

But it is so much harder when you pay for just four items in a grocery store. The time window is too small to have something to talk about or its too rude to just say hi and keep starring at him/her pack the items. Especially when there is no one but you at the counter. 

You have to know how to counter the counter chitchat to escape out of it. 

As a daily routine I go grocery shopping in a place nearby and ofcourse when there are cashiers and attenders of almost your age, you HAVE to make chitchats before paying for what you bought. So here, I have the usual strategy to make the chitchat even shorter. #Tip: Talk about time everytime there is an awkward chitchat situation, so that you can always end the conversation by saying 'You have to go'. Simple. 
Ex: Isn't it pretty early for the traffic to ease off today ? Which reminds me I now finally have time to go to the book store before they close today. Bye !  ---- Tada ! Yeah Yeah I know I am brilliant :) Haha.

But last week one sunday evening it got awkward when the cashier started being too friendly and wanted to talk 'girls'. I had to listen to him complaining about how "uncultured" South Indian girls are before using my Time Card. 
The worst part was I didn't know whether he was too serious about it for me to not smile and nod or he was just kidding about it for me to not have a straight face. Either way I will look like a weirdo. 

All I heard in my head after few minutes was "UNCOMFORTABLE, EXIT BUILDING EXIT BUILDING".

He kept talking about how he admires the "cultured" girls who wear traditional attires and how he hates the "uncultured" girls who wear westernized attires. A small questione popped up my head: "How old and ignorant are you dude ?" But nooooo, that might even trigger him more on the topic. So Shush ! 



It went too uncomfortable when he made some sexist comments about girls telling, its only ok for guys to become westernized no matter where you are from, but if you are a South Indian girl, you have to stick with the conservative culture. Apart from being annoyed, I found a window of opportunity to exit the conversation. I just said, "dude chill, there are always different types of girls for different types of girls. You don't have to worry about it". Which apparently made him think for a moment. Even I didn't know what that statement meant. It just came out. Hahaha. 
I confused the confused. (Deep right ? Hahaha) 

Thats when the best words in the world were uttered, "Take Care, Good night". 

#kpsaravan

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I will appreciate if you fellas leave a comment below. 

Friday, March 21, 2014

#TurkeyBlockedTwitter - #LetsSocialize

Hey fellas, Let's Socialize,

What will I be talking about in here on Let's Socialize ? 
I will talk about the socially active and socially awkward topics.

So, recently Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan passed a law to ban twitter in Turkey and twitter was banned on Thursday at 4:30pm E.T. And the reason given was "to preserve citizens' privacy". I clearly do not understand this. How can any government control the social choices of the citizens ? What is the point here ? 

As we would expect many turkish citizens protested against this via google and ofcourse via Twitter. Hahahaha. Like life will find its way, twitter users will find their way no matter what. And thus started #TurkeyBlockedTwitter hashtag. 

This issue lightened up when the President of Turkey Abdullah Gul went against this decision and expressed his feelings in, YES in Twitter. :D 


This is what he tweeted out which meant,
"A complete shutdown of social media platforms cannot be approved", to which I say, "Cool, Mr.President".

Now, the reason why I wanted to talk about this on Friendly Friday here is, as I expected there are a bunch of people who felt negativity when the people of Turkey protested against this. They think twitter isn't worth protesting and that its just a social media. I totally disagree with them. Its not just about not being able to use twitter, its about the unspoken rights of every citizens. A body that is named as "Government" shouldn't do stuff like this. That is the point. No matter how big or small the issue is. 
And twitter is cool. Don't take something cool away from people. No No No ! 

#kpsaravan


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Friday, March 14, 2014

Those Over-sharing fellas - #LetsSocialize

Hey fellas, Let's Socialize,

What will I be talking about in here on Let's Socialize ? 
I will talk about the socially active and socially awkward topics.

So the widely known categories for social behaviors as we know are the 
  • Socially Active
  • Socially Awkward and 
  • The Over-sharing fellas  
I understand the active ones and the awkward ones (cos I am both sometimes) but I do not understand the over-sharing fellas. I am talking real life and social media life. We have to face it, the social media life is a part of our real lives now. For good and for bad.

Sometimes its really funny when people over-share every single event of their life. No matter how awesome or sad their lives are, it might end up funny. For instance, 'the joke is on you' moment. When someone who understood something wrong, so found it funny and laughs at it by sharing his/her thoughts to the ENTIRE world. Hahahaha ! That never seizes to amuse me.

"Hahaha, my brother thinks Indians are Asians too"
If your brother cared for you, he might delete all your social media accounts. HA HA !

Also when someone shares something that is too personal, I feel really sad for you. I am not kidding. This is not sad unless you have social media connections only with your close friends and family, which I am sure is a big NO. Now, why do you want to share your new curtains in your bathroom ? No one would like to see your bathroom from 10 different angles.

I know what you are thinking, we can keep talking about this with millions of examples.
So, if you guys feel annoyed with some over-sharing friends share some funny posts you've seen in the comments below. Remember to keep it funny. There are over-sensitive fellas among us and we don't want to send them into their rooms and lock themselves up. Be nice.

#kpsaravan

Me:

My Photo blogs:
Instagram - kpsaravan

My Blog theme:
http://kpsaravan.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-thing.html

I will appreciate if you fellas leave a comment below. 

Saturday, March 23, 2013

India - Stererotype ! - #LetsSocialize

Hey fellas, Let's Socialize,

What will I be talking about in here on Let's Socialize ? 
I will talk about the socially active and socially awkward topics.  

I have never taken stereotypes on countries any seriously. In fact I have had fun-talk about stereotypes among friends.
But now I am serious about India's stereotype. Not that its offensive, but it doesnt suite India.
I mean the CALL CENTRE stereotype. Lets face it India sucks in call centres based customer service. You can prove it yourselves.
1. Just call any pizza place or burger joint and ask for a cheaper offer.
2. I dont want to get us all started about the telecom companies' customer service - It has the irony inside the irony - The Telecom companies' telephone based customer service in India, is bad !

I am not saying stop stereotyping - Because none would. All I am saying is make the right stereotype.
Let me give a start - For ex: India could be stereotyped for the people who never take elections seriously, but always complain about politicians.

#kpsaravan