I doubt anyone has noticed my absence, but here I am.. ready to conquer the world! Or the tiny space I have staked my name on, at least.
Shah Rukh is as busy as ever. You know how he always says he's 2 days late? Well, I feel as if I'm always 7 days behind him. By the time I get to watch on youtube the programs he's participated in, he's already moved on to something else. And he's very good at putting the past firmly where it needs to be. THE PAST.
Anyway, I may be back... but I doubt I can be as bubbly and babbling as before. Real life intrudes and this time in a major way, which was the reason why I closed the blog down sometime ago. Not that anyone realised it *cough*
It's a surreal place with Shah Rukh tweeting directly into my twittbox almost everyday. If you haven't become his 'follower' (man, I hate that word. I feel like I'm in some kinda cult..or something) you'd better start now. And with that, I'm off for the week! See you guys in the wonderful world of twitter!
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
On the subject of perfection...
Just musing aloud..
Shah Rukh tweeted on Jan 18th:
"perfection is so boring. jagged..raw..unfinished..tainted...so much more to complete for the beholder with his/her imagination."
..and of course the Indian media picked that up as an 'attack' against Aamir Khan. Since I'm not one of the thousands of people who believe that Aamir Khan is Mr. Perfection.. and I seriously don't understand how Salman got sucked into this equation too (maybe the 'boring' part?).. I find the media's take on the subject at worst laughable..and at best, highly amusing.
I'm not a sociology scholar who can discuss on the concept of perfection, but I've found a nice article on it. I like what he says about it:
"The ideal is impossible. According to the photo chart, all of the women at the top still fall short of the ideal. Yet when the ideal, the normative definition of perfection, is achieved, it looks weird and is unappealing. The ideal is, well, not ideal (take that Baudrillard). Transhumanists are acutely aware of the unreality of perfection."
I dunno what a transhumanist is, but the guy talks sense.. yaar. The post was on a study of trying to combine 40 ideal women to get the most definitively beautiful woman in the world.. In his next post, he put up a file emphasizing his argument.
Anyway, I doubt our idea of perfection is the same as Shah Rukh's idea of perfection. Take his accomplishments, for example. As an obsessed fan of Shah Rukh, and a student, I think I understand what he means when he says he's not as intelligence/good at business/etc. as people think he is.
His brilliance is obviously at a level higher than average people.. and what you or me think can be called satisfactory, for him it's probably just below average. When he says he's not good with numbers and names, he probably means he can't memorize more than 500 digits in pi or more than 10,000 contacts stored in his digital archive (have you watched this interview? What kind of crazy memory is that?? Well, I dunno about anyone else, but I'm fuzzy about what I did last week..never mind 20 years ago). When he talks about being good in business, he'll compare himself to the billionaires, multi-millionaires, or anyone much above his income bracket. When he talks about being smart, he'd look towards those personalities who've won Noble Prizes/international recognitions/etc. But he'd also be overjoyed when he can solve his children's schoolwork.
He's humble, and yet he's not. But that's how most things usually go with Shah Rukh. He's like a coin, or that puzzle cube in K-20.. all his faces/facets/personas can rush out and embrace you like a storm. And I don't think any of us would want to have it any other way
Shah Rukh tweeted on Jan 18th:
"perfection is so boring. jagged..raw..unfinished..tainted...so much more to complete for the beholder with his/her imagination."
..and of course the Indian media picked that up as an 'attack' against Aamir Khan. Since I'm not one of the thousands of people who believe that Aamir Khan is Mr. Perfection.. and I seriously don't understand how Salman got sucked into this equation too (maybe the 'boring' part?).. I find the media's take on the subject at worst laughable..and at best, highly amusing.
I'm not a sociology scholar who can discuss on the concept of perfection, but I've found a nice article on it. I like what he says about it:
"The ideal is impossible. According to the photo chart, all of the women at the top still fall short of the ideal. Yet when the ideal, the normative definition of perfection, is achieved, it looks weird and is unappealing. The ideal is, well, not ideal (take that Baudrillard). Transhumanists are acutely aware of the unreality of perfection."
I dunno what a transhumanist is, but the guy talks sense.. yaar. The post was on a study of trying to combine 40 ideal women to get the most definitively beautiful woman in the world.. In his next post, he put up a file emphasizing his argument.
Anyway, I doubt our idea of perfection is the same as Shah Rukh's idea of perfection. Take his accomplishments, for example. As an obsessed fan of Shah Rukh, and a student, I think I understand what he means when he says he's not as intelligence/good at business/etc. as people think he is.
His brilliance is obviously at a level higher than average people.. and what you or me think can be called satisfactory, for him it's probably just below average. When he says he's not good with numbers and names, he probably means he can't memorize more than 500 digits in pi or more than 10,000 contacts stored in his digital archive (have you watched this interview? What kind of crazy memory is that?? Well, I dunno about anyone else, but I'm fuzzy about what I did last week..never mind 20 years ago). When he talks about being good in business, he'll compare himself to the billionaires, multi-millionaires, or anyone much above his income bracket. When he talks about being smart, he'd look towards those personalities who've won Noble Prizes/international recognitions/etc. But he'd also be overjoyed when he can solve his children's schoolwork.
He's humble, and yet he's not. But that's how most things usually go with Shah Rukh. He's like a coin, or that puzzle cube in K-20.. all his faces/facets/personas can rush out and embrace you like a storm. And I don't think any of us would want to have it any other way
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
It's raining Khan!
..ok, maybe not raining coz I only have 2 pictures to share, if you haven't seen them already that is ^^;
(courtesy of @putlu1 & @kjohar25) Even though I'm not a Khan, I still want this t-shirt! Does it come in black background?
It's an old picture but what the heck.. I love it~ (esp the gold tie)
...and yes, I'm posting from work. Have to go b4 somebody catch me loitering on the net.. bye! *runs*
Need a change..
Must be coz I'm getting old. The tiny letters of that blog format are starting to get on my nerves, so I dumped it for a new one. Now it's very minimal, coz I dunno know how to edit html, and stretches on to forever (or at least up to the limit of your monitor). Can't believe how much everything is emphasized when there's a white background as support.
Shah Rukh promised us some pictures yesterday but he couldn't give them this morning.. so the pictures (picture?) have to wait until tomorrow. The fail whale appeared several times during the course of the chat.. haha. The 'airwave' must be jammed due to our humongous tweeting activity. It's a GIANT CHAT ROOM!! Now the rate has increased to more than 60 tweets/sec. Cool..
I've abandoned the disheartening feeling of never having Shah Rukh read anything I write and just tweet for all its worth. Just do it!! I think the only time he has to actually sit and read whateva's in his twittbox is during these live sessions, so I'll be positive about it. I hope y'all be positive about it too and stop asking him to reply to you every 2 seconds or babbling about how he's never gonna read your tweets..yada yada yada (yes, I have the twitter search page turned on 24-7 and laid side-by-side to his). Don't waste your time with that kinda garbage when it's your (only?) opportunity to communicate with him...ON (almost) A DAILY BASIS.
(I love how he ordered Karan Johar around on twitter :P *ish amused*)
Have to go to school now.. my carriage awaits! (and 'the driver' has been poking me every 2 seconds to get ready ^^;;)
Shah Rukh promised us some pictures yesterday but he couldn't give them this morning.. so the pictures (picture?) have to wait until tomorrow. The fail whale appeared several times during the course of the chat.. haha. The 'airwave' must be jammed due to our humongous tweeting activity. It's a GIANT CHAT ROOM!! Now the rate has increased to more than 60 tweets/sec. Cool..
I've abandoned the disheartening feeling of never having Shah Rukh read anything I write and just tweet for all its worth. Just do it!! I think the only time he has to actually sit and read whateva's in his twittbox is during these live sessions, so I'll be positive about it. I hope y'all be positive about it too and stop asking him to reply to you every 2 seconds or babbling about how he's never gonna read your tweets..yada yada yada (yes, I have the twitter search page turned on 24-7 and laid side-by-side to his). Don't waste your time with that kinda garbage when it's your (only?) opportunity to communicate with him...ON (almost) A DAILY BASIS.
(I love how he ordered Karan Johar around on twitter :P *ish amused*)
Have to go to school now.. my carriage awaits! (and 'the driver' has been poking me every 2 seconds to get ready ^^;;)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Background update...
Today, it's the struggle with tiling the pic...awwww.
Some fans tried to help..but alas, it's to no avail and we're all stuck with viewing a bigass picture on the background.
But truthfully, when one is attempting to type as many words as possible in record time to avoid being pushed down the tweet queue, who cares about viewing backgrounds?? (except maybe some anal fans who annoyingly kept asking him to edit it *dushum*).
I've seen this pic floating around the net, but Aryaan making that funny face must have rendered this shot one for private viewing only hehe.
Some fans tried to help..but alas, it's to no avail and we're all stuck with viewing a bigass picture on the background.
But truthfully, when one is attempting to type as many words as possible in record time to avoid being pushed down the tweet queue, who cares about viewing backgrounds?? (except maybe some anal fans who annoyingly kept asking him to edit it *dushum*).
I've seen this pic floating around the net, but Aryaan making that funny face must have rendered this shot one for private viewing only hehe.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Twitterverse update..
Is this twitter update thingee's gonna be a regular feature here in my blog?? Lemme channel my inner tweet and confirm it.. ha! I'm sorta addicted big time with that social networking site now.. demmit. I registered to follow Karan Johar (coz I genuinely like him, and reading bits of SRK updates was a bonus) but since Shah Rukh is in twiverse as well, I doubt I can leave.
Reading other fans' tweets (and mine) made me wonder.. what kinda face he makes while reading them? Expressionless, I bet. The kind of face he reserves for listening to story narrations from directors.. LOL. I think his unfeeling(picked up this word from his interview)-ness about certain things that can affect people so greatly is the reason he can go ahead and "Just Do It!" ..something I can surely learn to emulate in my work life (and personal too..with some relatives).
What was the point of this post, again? Oh yes. He changed his background pic today.. way da go Shah Rukh! You rock, man! *phewitt* Now it's this:
Karan looks so gay. Hey.. why are you frowning at my post like that? Stop it! I meant gay as in 'cheerful' okay! But I do think something suspicious is going on with this red theme. In that MNIK press conf, it's Shah Rukh with his red-rimmed spectacles and Kajol too.. with the red-bordered saree. Oh, Karan also had that red collar for him during the conf. And now this picture turned up, courtesy of Shah Rukh, with Karan wearing a (very classy) pair of red-rimmed sunglasses. What's up with that? Ish curious coz I'm anal like that.
Reading other fans' tweets (and mine) made me wonder.. what kinda face he makes while reading them? Expressionless, I bet. The kind of face he reserves for listening to story narrations from directors.. LOL. I think his unfeeling(picked up this word from his interview)-ness about certain things that can affect people so greatly is the reason he can go ahead and "Just Do It!" ..something I can surely learn to emulate in my work life (and personal too..with some relatives).
What was the point of this post, again? Oh yes. He changed his background pic today.. way da go Shah Rukh! You rock, man! *phewitt* Now it's this:
Karan looks so gay. Hey.. why are you frowning at my post like that? Stop it! I meant gay as in 'cheerful' okay! But I do think something suspicious is going on with this red theme. In that MNIK press conf, it's Shah Rukh with his red-rimmed spectacles and Kajol too.. with the red-bordered saree. Oh, Karan also had that red collar for him during the conf. And now this picture turned up, courtesy of Shah Rukh, with Karan wearing a (very classy) pair of red-rimmed sunglasses. What's up with that? Ish curious coz I'm anal like that.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Updates from the twitterworld...
- I've found a much easier way to tweet using my ombollywood twitter account. So if you have an account and don't mind getting spammed irregularly with all sorts of SRK-related links that I can't be bothered to log into the blog and post about, you can join the currently smallish crew over here (I hate the term 'followers' ..eeep, it makes me feel like some sorta spiritual leader or something).
- After checking up on @iamsrk messages every so often over at twitter search (via a very convenient app), I'm now thoroughly convinced that my tweets will never be read by Shah Rukh. They're out there, buried under a sea of muck and occasional gems sent out oh-so casually by more than 60k people at a rate of 57 times per person per day. Meh. I'll continue sending him tweets daily though, coz I'm a masochist like that.
- After checking up on @iamsrk messages every so often over at twitter search (via a very convenient app), I'm now thoroughly convinced that my tweets will never be read by Shah Rukh. They're out there, buried under a sea of muck and occasional gems sent out oh-so casually by more than 60k people at a rate of 57 times per person per day. Meh. I'll continue sending him tweets daily though, coz I'm a masochist like that.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Hoshiz.. Shah Rukh is on Twitter!!&*%#*&111!!!??!
My face is red. I can't believe I'm blushing just from getting all excited over finding him on twitterverse.
I did wonder how long it will take the tech-savvy Shah Rukh to get on that medium when the rest of his cohorts have been jumping into the bandwagon. I mean, Karan is always going on in his tweets about persuading this and that person to be his twitter buddy that it's pretty impossible for Shah Rukh to escape his radar.
I would not have believed it were him either were it not for Priyanka sounding the gong for the rest of us to take notice, and Pree has thousands and thousands of followers. Karan promoted it too in his very recent tweet. I bet the reaction is rather slow from the media coz Shah Rukh started this revolution on a Sunday. Typical.. :P
I'm sort of shaking a bit right now, trying to reign in the screams. I want to jump around, but am at the lab (on a Sunday..uhuh). So have to control my unmachoness, at least until I get back home.. dunno when yet.
Gyabo.. be calm my furiously beating heart.
I did wonder how long it will take the tech-savvy Shah Rukh to get on that medium when the rest of his cohorts have been jumping into the bandwagon. I mean, Karan is always going on in his tweets about persuading this and that person to be his twitter buddy that it's pretty impossible for Shah Rukh to escape his radar.
I would not have believed it were him either were it not for Priyanka sounding the gong for the rest of us to take notice, and Pree has thousands and thousands of followers. Karan promoted it too in his very recent tweet. I bet the reaction is rather slow from the media coz Shah Rukh started this revolution on a Sunday. Typical.. :P
I'm sort of shaking a bit right now, trying to reign in the screams. I want to jump around, but am at the lab (on a Sunday..uhuh). So have to control my unmachoness, at least until I get back home.. dunno when yet.
Gyabo.. be calm my furiously beating heart.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
This blog goes on twitter!
Yes, I've succumbed to technology.. again. Twitter updates are on the RHS of this blog... it's still clunky though, so pls bear with it for awhile.
At the moment I'm just posting links to past posts that I feel like dredging up from the murky water of oblivion, no real updates yet. Plus, Shah Rukh has gone covert after resurfacing during his birthday celebration just long enough to give us a fill of his magnificient-ness, then he's gone.. *poof* ..just like that. Such a tease.
I'm doing twitter coz it's more convenient for short posts with links, rather than going down here and opening up all sorts of schbang just to record them. Meh.. I'm too lazy. Here's to fun times ahead!
At the moment I'm just posting links to past posts that I feel like dredging up from the murky water of oblivion, no real updates yet. Plus, Shah Rukh has gone covert after resurfacing during his birthday celebration just long enough to give us a fill of his magnificient-ness, then he's gone.. *poof* ..just like that. Such a tease.
I'm doing twitter coz it's more convenient for short posts with links, rather than going down here and opening up all sorts of schbang just to record them. Meh.. I'm too lazy. Here's to fun times ahead!
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