Jewelry

Gold, Silver, Diamonds - Whatever makes you happy 12/13/2004 12:32 PM
If you look at the history of currency, people invented the concept of rare stones, and precious metals to facilitate trade. Society then created the concept of jewelry and conditioned minds to think that it makes one look more beautiful. Yet another success stories for the marketing departments.

Philosophically what is jewellery? Dead weight that you lug around. The story of the King and his invisible clothes repeated. The parody is that people refuse to see it.

Financially, families needed to have some liquid assets and needed to keep them safe. So they converted a part of their fortunes into jewellery and hung them on the women kind. During economic downturns, women, noble as they are rise up to the occasion and liquidate these. During economic upturns, it was safe to do so, because women guarded their gold with their lives. How many of you have heard stories about women gambling with their jewellery or selling them to buy drinks. It is always the men who succumb to their vices. The real cool bonus that men reap is by creating a moral obligation on their ladies and extracting all sorts of favors.

A beautiful person really does not need any ornaments. Most men will agree with me (though they might not admit it) that women look the best when naikaid.

>> For Konkanis only (Do you understand humor?) >>

Let me let you in on a little secret. Paulay is the cheapest red “Bling Bling”

Hindus had already masterminded the scheme to stick a red dot on the forehead of all the married women to warn others that “This one is taken”. Unfortunately Konks constituted of lots of bluddy perverts who directly talked to the rack rather than greet the eye. So the wise old men of the community got together and decided to put on another sign post hanging on the married women as an additional security measure. Now to implement it, they pulled a magnificent con job convincing the women that “This is bamba”, “You look beautiful”, “If water flows from it on your body, it is good”. Till then corals were just some useless red things that were stacked with shells and sand. I really admire those guys who ever coined the words “precious stones” and created the market for Jewelery, wonderful con job to. Diamonds at least shine, these things don’t even do that. But never will a Konk woman ever accept that she had been conned.

Women in CS

Here are some interesting reads if you want to know more about women in CS. Read it with a pinch of salt.

http://www.theglassceiling.com/wib2/ww2_33.htm
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/Gender/pap/pap.html

Directions

Right from my child hood, I haven’t found a single place from my mom’s direction. I give her a pencil and paper and ask her to just draw it out and for heaven’s sake, she will stand there and tell you what to do but never touch the paper. Scale of distance and time is perfect – Near can be anywhere between an hour and 2 days away and Far can be anywhere between 5 to 10 minutes. One interesting conversation

Mom: It is right in front of the red building.
I find the place on my own and take my mom there another day and make her stand there and ask – “Where is that red building?”
Mom: It is right behind this building. You can not see it from here, because this building that you wanted to find is blocking it.
Me(now enlightened): Hmm, then how the hell do you expect me to find this building using the red building?
Mom: If you come straight this way you can not, but if you get lost and go to the next street, you know how to get back. But what I told you is correct.

And I consider my mom as one of the better woment that I have known.

Sometimes when I am in a good mood, I just ask one woman to give another some directions. Believe me, you will never want to watch a comedy movie no more.

lies

Men seldom lie but just keep mum and not report some piece of information that they consider irrelvant. Eventually this gets discovered and women accuse them to be liars. Women also hide information intentionally and if caught they justify “I did that for your own good/I did this because I thought you would not want to know about it/ I did this because I care about you”

And when they do lie, it is so easy to catch men but difficult to catch the women because they actually believe in their lies.

Who lies more is very subjective to the individuals that we consider but more important is who is better equipped to lie? I feel it is the women who add a “cry” with that lie and then the men withdraw their cases.

Bicycle falls

I have observed this among kids, at an young age when their minds might have not yet been conditioned to the norms of societies. When boys fall off their bicyles, the quickly get back to their saddles and flee the scene. They try to mend the damage to the bike/themselves and create fake alibies. They often get embarassed when somebody in the neighborhood delivers the news in the daily gossip channel to their family. The girls on the other hand make such a bigh fuss/cry of their fall that they will wake the whole neighborhood. They are not ashamed of their skill level and are more worried about gaining attention and sympathy.