About Relationships

That was the second time I was meeting my Fiancée. It was a pleasant March evening when my dad and I walked past a few shops in the busy streets of a fast growing metropolitan. The moon shown brightly on the lawns of the park and there were a few children still playing. I seated my dad on a bench at a distance and went to the ladies hostel to call on her.

My Dad had not met her after the first meeting of our families a couple of weeks ago. He was hoping he could speak to her and understand her better. After all, he was curious to know if she will fit in our family well enough.

She greeted my dad cheerfully and began telling us about her father who passed away a couple of years ago. I was sitting in the middle of the bench and was feeling awkward when each voice reached me from either side. I then stepped into the lawns and started walking about. Playing as a child would, I climbing in and out of the metal frames of children’s playthings in the park, I at once plunged myself into the early days of my childhood. Time flies, taking with it those precious moments of life, leaving only the memories behind.

Relationships are like saplings, when you nourish them they grow and give shelter to you. When you neglect them, they perish and are no longer fulfilling.

Digital Trail spreads its wings without your notice!

We put a lot of info about us on the web. It may be difficult to control this info. Every time we refer to a friend of ours, we are also enlarging their digital trail. It costs an awful lot of money to get your trail completely off the web. It has infact become a business now, there are specialists who can get your information completely removed from the web if you pay a price.

Some reasons why you must be careful about what information you put on the web:
1. There are some companies who trace you to your blogs, social Network profiles to know more about you and your credibility. Obviously, they wanna make sure they are hiring someone well worth the trouble.
2. Some insurance companies also track people on the web for various obvious reasons I need not elaborate here.
3. You can yourself come up with a few more points to add to this list.

You may say, “I have used high security on my networking profile, only my chosen friends can view my profile info.” But do you know that there is no way of stopping people from putting some malicious code in the applications that you add to your profile.

BBC has recently created a data miner application that could look just plain to people from outside, but inside when it is added to a profile, it mines info from the profile not only of that profile but also all other profiles attached to it. Guess where they tested this? Facebook! Yes, Facebook.

I agree that privacy is promised to us. I also know that we all sign an agreement that we will abide by the website terms of use, but not everyone is a good guy you see.

Should we now panic, should we get our profiles removed from these sites? Not really, but we ought to be very cautious of what we reveal on these sites. Beware! Private settings are not really private.

April is the cruelest month!

This title rings a bell in your mind. Yeh, you are right. T. S. Eliot's Wasteland.

April is the cruelest month,
Breeding lilacs out of the dead land
Mixing memory and desire...blah blah

Hyderabad this summer has been scorching. Never in the past ten years have I experienced this kind of weather during summer. Heat waves engulf the city throughout the day, strangling people with heat and spreading sunstrokes and dehydration. Even when standing in the shade, the winds have the potential to bake your brains and fill your ears with blazing hot air. Its like you are inches away from a furnace this time.

Nights are no better. Where have those winds gone that used to cool the city at night and lull everyone to sleep? Are we heading towards a situation where every household must definitely have an air cooler or an air conditioner?

If this is a temporary change in weather I am not going to crib. But just imagine if this is a consequence of rising temperatures globally. If this continues, I am afraid all of us have to start contributing to reducing global warming in a big way. I am scared and worried. Are we slowly making this Planet inhabitable for ourselves and many other species of living things.

Where are we heading?