Tit-bits, tag-wags

Turns out there are plenty of tags floating around that I haven't done, and soon the debt will start counting as sub-prime [:p] so there's no harm taking a few up to prevent my reputation (ha!). But first, some news off the top of my head.

Last week was pretty eventful, with friends dropping by all the time, a visit to my would-be office, a creepy unmentionable incident and a rocking department party that turned out much better than anyone expected (especially me, I was so paranoid given the 5-yr history of my department that somebody would have a fight, someone would get psyched, someone would say or do something inappropriate etc) . It was quite an experience for me though, trying to get people to agree and fix it up, but eventually most people turned up and mostly had a good time. With semester entering its last month, there would be more parties and more nostalgia coming up, for sure.

Among other things, a sign of times we live in: Two more companies that had recruited on campus withdrew/deferred for 6-12 months their offers. Two acquaintances have acceptance for MBA's from Ivy League and are planning to join ISB instead. The other day, after lunch at my would-be company, the first question my dad asked me over phone was "How was it? Are they planning to give you a joining?"

A Yey for Dravid scoring all those runs this series.

A once-upon-a-time-excellent-friend advises me that hugging a friend, even your best friends, or light affectionate touches are still like sending signals and giving hints to the 'hungry' that you're easy if they are from the opposite gender. Probably it's just me, but I'm having a hard time assimilating the import.

And Aa Dekhen Zara should be renamed Zara bhi na dekhna. Super-awful.

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Achha to the tag now, let's do "little things that piss me off" by Vibhav. Rules: "Write about things that piss you off, and the reason in brief. No rants, they only make you more miserable. This will let you let it out in a civilized manner. And please, not things like terrorism, politics, poverty or moral policing. Write about small, mainly personal things, things that you directly and often come across during the day."
I'd write whatever comes to my mind then.

1. Girly gossipy bitching (and not just by girls): I live in a girls hostel and still can't stand it. Tons and tons of free-flowing gossip, mostly based on little or no knowledge. Back-bitchers, but still best friends on the face. Opinions, and ever-changing loyalties, helped by a really short memory. Maybe it's nothing evil, it's just that I don't get it.
2. If you can't follow your own rules, don't make them: This holds especially for people working with you, mostly the superiors/leaders/bosses/teachers etc who make the rules for everyone to follow and ditch them themselves. Don't demand punctuality, regularity, sincerity and commitment if you can't give in your own share. Don't expect me to know the subject if you're the teacher and don't know what you're teaching. Uninspiring unintelligent leaders piss me off.
3. People talking around me in the early hours of the morning when I don't want to get up yet: I'm so not a morning person. I hate waking up, nd for the first half hour after I wake up, my mind refuses to work, even comprehend enough of what's happening around. So people who talk around me or make noises in the same room in the last few minutes of my sleep piss me off so much I become violent.
4. Nosy neighbours: Mind your own business, check your own household and stop worrying about what I'm doing, who's coming where, what's happening in the building, who's getting married (or not), who's talking to whom etc etc.
5. People abusing power and causing harm to the larger group: Basically, I have a violent and often irrationally stubborn sense of right or wrong, especially when it comes to a large community and people who abuse power or bend rules and knowingly do the 'wrong' agitate me, even brings me to tears.
6. Not recognising the "grey" and the "irrational": It exists, whether you like it or not, whether it makes 'sense' or not. Period.

I'm sure there are many more, but I'm tired of thinking and this is an awfully long post already.
Later. And oh yes, tag to everyone who wants to. It's fun!