Hairtime.

Although, I do get my eyebrows done, everytime I visit the salon I do so with trepidation and pain misgivings. It really does not take that long, nor do I find it a tremendous pain from the 'ouch' perspective. I do, however, find it a tremendous pain, from the highly annoying, why do I have to do this, YET AGAIN, perspective. I find shaving even more irritating because of the whole 'hairy legs just aren't ok' outlook from society. Trust me, not that I would ever NOT shave my legs, because I'm definitely a fan of the not hairy look myself. I am curious though, who decided that women were going to be the ones who fall in the not-hairy category and for men to fall in the hairy category. What if the way of the world were reversed and men were the ones needed to be hairless, I would oh so love to see my partner and all the men I know getting wax sessions, threading sessions while we women could just gloat with hair all over and try and alleviate their hairy pain! Hmm..that's something to ponder. I'm not a quitter. But, if there was ever something I would want to quit, shaving would be pretty high up on that list...of things I will never quit, but would love to.

Emmys 09.

God...My Emmy predictions went astray! Neil Harris did more than an exceptional job and carried off a white suit awesomely well ! With the Sitcom gurus dressed in varying shades of black, Neil was swan white and had the nonchalant humor of Jack Sparrow only with a more manicured visage. NPH's opening number and monologue were exceptional and gave Hugh Jackman from the Academy Awards good competition...The Emmys felt like a re-run of all the familiar shows like '30 Rock', 'Mad Men', 'Monk', 'The Office'..same people..same themes...Comedy, Reality, Variety, Made for TV Movies and Drama. The extra category was the Variety section which entirely seemed made up to me. Alec Baldwin won the best Male ACtor in the Comedy series for 30 Rock, and surprisingly Toni Collette won the best actress in the comedy series for United States of Tara. Now I haven't seen United States of Tara but I was completely on for either Christina Applegate - Samantha Who? and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, New Adventures of Old Christine. Both women have the charm and the exuberance of personality to carry it off and it surprised me that Toni (who seems to me like a plain Jane) walked away with the award! Toni,,,you must've been really good and enamored the academy to deserve the award, but the only time I've seen Toni on screen is on the Hugh Grant movie, "About a boy" where she plays a distraught single mother striving to bring up her son. She hardly struck me as a natural for wit and humor though. Anyways, she won. Sigghhh....the LOL of the nominations was when comedian Sarah Silverman donned a faux mustache as Justin Timberlake read the nominees for best actress in a comedy. She had an incredibly pained and mournful expression and looked like a pitiful dog lost in search of its master! It was so classique and the idea so completely unique, it was an inimitable Emmy Moment - had people pealing in laughter! It was a show stealer when people sniggered and then had a good laugh - soo suggestive on the evil Silverman in play!

But I, in my opinion really wanted Neil to win...Jon Cryer...I mean okay,,,Jon could be good,,,but Neil is Barney ! And Barney never loses! He always makes it ! For those of you that watch " How I met your mother" and are familiar with Barney's flippancy, his easy-cheesy way with the women - you would be equally disappointed as me. Remember the intervention episode when Barney dresses up like a 80 year old version of his self and he is trying to attract young women while in old man makeup to prove to Marshall that he will still be hooking up with 22-year-old bimbos when he is 80. Or that other episode when Barney vouches he goes to bed all dressed up in a suit to be "PREPARED" for the sudden occurrence of hot chicks in bed! I mean come on --- Jon Cryer couldn't do better than that !
Oh well...the consolation is that all the chicks love Neil and all the baby boomers might vote for Cryer! So there! I content myself with the thought that Neil carried off an image of a well clad rebel perfectly well. He dressed in white as the world dressed in black, his humor was self deprecating and yet self-aggrandizing! So well played and well hosted. In comparison, Cryer looked like he stepped out of a period movie in his yellow-striped sweater vest under his pinstriped black suit. Not a big fan of mis mismatched tie, either.
So Cryer can have his award and gloat all over it - It ain't gonna make the women swoon over him.

Neil -- you're the man dude!!

Women and their personalities??

Hot Babes have poor personalities?? Now women, please don't hate me for saying this, but we know that there are very few women that possess the delectable combination of beauty and brain. How many of us have that one pain coworker who thinks dresses like a bimbo , thinks she is hot and super smart, but ends up foot in the mouth every time she talks!

You’re not born with personality. Personality is not a sign of intelligence- its more of what life has made you to be. If personality were a sign of intelligence, then those with good looks have used up all their genetic currency and therefore don’t have much left for other endeavors. Personality is more of trial and error. This trial and error is the friction that turns someone with a bad personality into someone with a good personality. talk about heat turning charcoal into a diamond--much the same!
Consider this following conversation.

Ugly Chick: I sort of enjoy family feud..it’s junk food but entertaining nonetheless.
You: Family Feud is a mockery. Don’t think I can just watch that kind of stupidity and walk away unscathed, that kind of cheese seeps in whether you want it to or not.

Hot Babe: I just love Family Feud. (I cannot add in the exclamation or the tone of false-interestedness here, pls to be imagined! )
You: Yeah, it’s a pretty good show.

Was that a conversation at all? It was an exchange of words- a few phrases- opinions were voiced- no reasons given. If someone does challenge the hot girl’s sensibilities, it will probably be disregarded because it’s coming from someone ugly.

Then there is the next kind of woman that is marginally attractive who thinks she is attractive and does not need to develop a personality. These are the most annoying because again, we value both looks and personality/intelligence but have obvious disdain for someone who has neither. Especially those who have neither and think they have both and pretend to be boisterous and funny to make others think they have a personality.

To sum it up, I hope that hot babes understand the theory of pattern recognition - of being dumped again and again for uglier chicks! But if they're still content to be shopping at the mall for the latest hip styles and designer wear, time is running out! These women will mostly end up embracing one of the religious cults by their late 30s or attend " The Burning Man" in the hope of meeting another male exactly like them to hook up with. And maybe the charcoal process by then would've taken its toll and given them a personality better than the former. Anyone know of such people??

Has it been long or wht??

Goodness me--the last time checked, I was still literate and was able to write, now my visits to the blogosphere was been over 6 months! Jeez...Got hooked to the social networking site- Facebook. Its a matter of minutes as you run into old pals..and friends from school. The one thing I found really interesting in FB is that it has a friend suggester option- I cannot imagine a website that hardly knows me, my interests, my personality to be suggesting friends for me!80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook are people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with? Duhhhh...Fb needing rational upgrade to match the user's personality! And there are these other folks on FB that continually update their status messages. The whole doesn't need to know you had coffee, or that your boss farted, or what song you are listening to. Like seriously..I was curious about what extents people go to make their facebook walls look cool, and I found this info on yahoo answers, "What are some funny things to put on your facebook status?" I didn't know how loud to laugh- The web is definitely goign further than I thought it would! One seems to find a fix for everything--or so at least it seems that there are suggestions of fixes, and one of those might just click!
And then there is the other category of people that indulge in farming on FB! Like yeha---virtual farming! FB has this feature called Farmville..and my FB home wall is covered with most of my friends either finding a lost black sheep on their farm and auctining it for adoption, or earning a blue ribbon for lettuce growth!! People must really be not so busy at work to spend all that time farming on their FB...hhoohhoho!!! In fact I might give it a hand to find out how one feeds livestock, how one milks a cow, cuts weed- online!

Oh well,,,inspite of all the talk FB suffers, its quite a novel way to keep in touch, easier to write on a friend's wall than send an email. But its more fun to blog and ridicule FB here- for all you know I maybe ridiculing blogging on FB ;---)) Welll----at least FB made me blog today after ages,,,so maybe its too bad afterall!

Things that annoy me the most while travelling

Okay the list begins---So here is a short version -

- Airline fantasy food (you need a lot of fantasy to call it "meal" or "snack")
- Taxi drivers who need a map to get you to your hotel
- Security personnel because they usually make everyone feel like a criminal
- Coming back to your room really late in the night which is on the 50th floor, has a mega-slow elevator , and realizing your room key doesn't work.
- Arriving late and being told that the hotel kitchen is closed - not even a simple sandwich can be obtained
- Airline check-in staff who ask me if I am carrying any knives, WMDs, explosives etc in my luggage (as if i would say 'yes' if i was!)
-Security devices that sound an alert when you have absolutely nothing metallic on you
- Hotels that charge about 20 times the real price to make a phone call
- Hotel porters who insist on taking my bag AND wanting a tip when it is only a light bag that my 83 year old mother could carry with ease

LBD- Not Libido--its the Little Black Dress!!!

The Little Black Dress (LBD) is probably the most versatile garment you could wear from work to shopping to dinner to a night out at the party, whatever--chances are that cute cocktail piece you bought a year ago could add glamor to any party! The new bond flick seems to be the biggest and the most believeable advertisement for the Little Black Dress.
The eras it traces from the days Audrey Hepburn wore it to Breakfast at Tiffanys till today's Olga Kurylenko wore it throughout the Quantun of Solace- proves the timeless quality of the garment. The black dress Kurylenko wore amassed a surprising mileage right from the cocktail party at Panama through all the bus and airplane rides (which had her dress swinging all over because of the turbulence ;--) ) to the desert trails and she walked pronto into the hotel with dust, desert, sand and oh yes- still the prada black dress and still looked awesomely gorgeous! Now we all know Olga is hot, but the little black dress is just so much hotter!!

The holiday season that went by saw me recycling my oldest black dress with loads of bling amassed by glittery belts, scarves, earrings and chains that made the simple black dress stand out like it was out of a fashionista's closet !

There is this very cute quiz I found online- the little black dress quiz.

http://www.blogthings.com/thelittleblackdresstest/

Check it out. It tells you about your personality depending on the style of the black dress you like most!!!