Wouldn't it be loverly?

If you were given an option to do whatever you like for whatever time you want it to, what would you choose to do?

For myself, I do like my analytic job as a test automation developer where I get to solve some highly technical programming problems and while writing automation, I am reminded, everyday that the simplest tasks we take for granted are never that obvious to a computer, and I appreciate the human brain even more. But that doesn't mean that I don't have other professions that I like.

There was a time when I really wanted to study physics and become a research scientist, but now I would hardly call that my dream job. If I really had to become a research scientist, I would want to live in a university town all my life, probably not get married and also don't think of having a nice home and family. I would have spent most of my time in labs. Which is very good, but would have been a disaster to me!

Given the mentality I have now and the things that please me, my second option would have been a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if I'd make a feminist divorce attorney... perhaps I would. Empower the girls to get rid of their shackles. Anyway, I am currently reading Arthur Hailey's "In high places" and Alan Maitland's ideals look good to me. The best thing about law is that it exists. Also, tricky law points excite me and it is fascinating how humans can find loopholes in existing law and solve problems (like finding loopholes in a software developer's code). Very interesting profession. I probably wouldn't want to be a criminal lawyer though, that would have been a little too scary for me.

The second one would be a blog writer. Hehe, isn't that what I am doing right now? Well, yes partially true. But I would love to be a professional blog writer. I like writing, so it would be good if I could be in my PJs and sit at home and write...not bad.

How about an interior designer? No, I don't like those half eaten coffee tables, crooked vases or just-about-to-fall-on-your-head wall decor. Neither do I believe that you have to be extremely creative in order to design and decorate a nice home, nor do I believe that "everything has to be in perfect order" in a house. Actually, a good taste and a mid-sized budget is all that you need to have a nicely decorated cozy home. I like neutrals in the background with pops of bold color. Color is extremely important to lift the mood of the inhabitants but that doesn't mean I'd want to paint my bathtub in streaks of orange or put fuchsia curtains in the master bedroom. Anyway, this is not going to be a post on home decor, so I shouldn't say any more on this subject.

The final one would be owning a yarn shop where I can also have classes or group knitting sessions for charity. I would like to have a group of ladies get together and knit-knit-knit while they chat. At the end you have some nice knitted stuff to donate and you also have a bunch of happy contented women :)

Facebook and human psychology

I did an experiment in my psychology class where I found that there is a positive correlation between the importance of social life and Facebook activity. Huh! Well, we might think that who didn't know this, but it was fun to see that in real life data.
I am pretty much a Facebook fan. I love connecting with my old friends from school over Facebook, and also love to share pictures with family and friends. But, as Grumpy has said, I too will die of sleep deprivation if Facebook adds a "dislike" button!
Why?
Mainly for the stupid things people share, without thinking. Those "pleas of help" for some missing child or "important information to share" are absolute spams. They do no help in anyway other than directing traffic to the spammers sites, or worse still, can be depots of malware. Also, for those things like - what to do when people throw eggs at your windscreen or enter your ATM pin the other way to avoid robbery are as stupid as they can get. And I seriously wonder at the intellect of those people who re-post them. Has anyone ever tried to enter the pin backwards? Has anyone tested that? If that was the case, banks would let you know that. Oh, and those of you who think Facebook will donate 1 cent for each "like", you are sadly mistaken. If you really want to help anyone, go do something tangible. This way you are satisfying yourself that you are "helping" some poor person when in reality you are helping spread spam!
The worst of the lot is sharing pictures of gods and thinking that will bring good luck, or it will cause bad things if you don't share. People who think they are smart actually share these!!! ROFL!!! :D :D

Less irritating, but still weird is how people share random quotations and just put the name of someone famous. Then those quotations start making their rounds through people's walls. Again ROFL!!

Then again are the philosophical messages. I didn't know people were so philosophical before I saw those on Facebook. In real life they seem as rash and hot headed as every other person, but on Facebook they share Zen quotations :D

Another thing I fail to understand is, pictures (of girls) ALWAYS have people commenting "so sweet", "so pretty", "OMG! You look fabulous". Do people really mean those? Same about baby pictures. Everyone say "how cute". Seriously? I understand that most baby pictures are cute, but surely not always!

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Then there are what I call the "bandwagonish" status messages. If some famous person dies, everyone have to comment RIP :D Started with Steve Jobs, then it goes on and on and on. People who never read say some author's books would be the first ones to comment RIP when that author dies.

Still these bandwagonish messages are better than those whose creativity ends at a status message saying "good morning friends". Hehehe!

The WORST of the entire thing is writing in that special style where letters are eaten up. Where "that" becomes "dat" and "I'm" becomes "m". Nowadays people write bengali in this way too, using Roman script! I sometimes wonder why? There might be a need of this style when people compose text messages, where using more letters might make it longer. But' what's the use of this online? You have a full keyboard to use and no one is setting restrictions on how many letters you can use. It's not even "cool". It makes the stupid messages look even more stupid.

So, the end verdict is, Facebook is an awesome thing. It helps us connect with people for social, family and business reasons...and it is a real life experiment where you can just sit an observe human psychology. I'm definitely going to recommend this to any alien if they want to have a crash course on understanding the basic of human behavior!