A good article on India and US, Indians and US etc...
http://lifestyle.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2146444,curpg-1.cms
Monday, June 25, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Addiction to Habits
Per dictionary, Habit is an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary.
The extent to which one acquires these is very interesting. Habits like getting up early in the morning, having a cup of coffee, reading a newspaper etc. are the ones which most people hardly want to change. But how about something like running to read newpaper first in the home no matter what or fighting to sit on the same seat everytime to watch TV. Habits like these not only makes less sense but sometimes also annoys other people.
Here is one such instance in my previous workplace. I was working in an agile project which recommends team members sit in a single room during work hours and also occasionaly (once in few days or so) change seats to improve their working relationships with other team members. A senior team member was against this and insisted to sit in the same place everyday and also argued that changing routine like that reduces his productivity. Well, that might not be main reason for others to think twice before approaching him but was one of them. Sitting in the same place had formed his habit and he could not get his mind to work independent of his seating place.
Some of the habits are not an addiction but feels like they are being done involuntary. Almost every afternoon at 3, I go to starbucks for latte. I am not a coffee drinker and I dont like coffee, but I drink cafe latte in starbucks. The reason may be that its become a routine, a habit. Some days even if I am feeling like not eating or drinking anything, I go to starbucks and drink latte. This is also true with me watching Scrubs every evening on comedy central after I am back from office. I think this is not an addiction because even on the days when I am not drinking latte or watching Scrubs as I had to do something else, I dont feel like I am missing anything. I guess they are mostly developed habits for lack of better work.
A habit is good if it is not affecting you negatively. If it is, then it's about time you re-think your priorities and develop new habits :)
The extent to which one acquires these is very interesting. Habits like getting up early in the morning, having a cup of coffee, reading a newspaper etc. are the ones which most people hardly want to change. But how about something like running to read newpaper first in the home no matter what or fighting to sit on the same seat everytime to watch TV. Habits like these not only makes less sense but sometimes also annoys other people.
Here is one such instance in my previous workplace. I was working in an agile project which recommends team members sit in a single room during work hours and also occasionaly (once in few days or so) change seats to improve their working relationships with other team members. A senior team member was against this and insisted to sit in the same place everyday and also argued that changing routine like that reduces his productivity. Well, that might not be main reason for others to think twice before approaching him but was one of them. Sitting in the same place had formed his habit and he could not get his mind to work independent of his seating place.
Some of the habits are not an addiction but feels like they are being done involuntary. Almost every afternoon at 3, I go to starbucks for latte. I am not a coffee drinker and I dont like coffee, but I drink cafe latte in starbucks. The reason may be that its become a routine, a habit. Some days even if I am feeling like not eating or drinking anything, I go to starbucks and drink latte. This is also true with me watching Scrubs every evening on comedy central after I am back from office. I think this is not an addiction because even on the days when I am not drinking latte or watching Scrubs as I had to do something else, I dont feel like I am missing anything. I guess they are mostly developed habits for lack of better work.
A habit is good if it is not affecting you negatively. If it is, then it's about time you re-think your priorities and develop new habits :)
Friday, June 01, 2007
Kill Bill
Kill bill, a very entertaining movie with Uma Thurman doing a great action role. Though some of the action sequences look directly out of Thriller Manju's secret action book, it far better picturized and above all has Uma! Yeah, she carries the whole movie and surely the movie is a total entertainment. Soundtrack is cool, woo hooo song or music is great and Nancy Sinatra's bang bang is a classic (i mean really classic!).
Also there is moral that Uma preaches here and there in the movie during fights. She breaks a boy's sword into pieces and with a spanking sends him home to his mother! Ofcourse, under-18 are restricted from fights.
And then there is a total mix up of chapters in the movie. Ending is shown first with Lucy Liu already dead and Uma goes on to kill others who killed her family and her (atleast thats what they thought) after she left a group of assasins to lead a normal life. All of them who killed her (thats what they thought) face the wrath of wounded, could have been mom Uma after she wakes up from 4 years in coma. The main in her hitlist, Bill is a proud warrior or dharma yodha who does not want to kill her while in coma. Well, he doesn't know whats in store for him in Kill Bill II.
Quentin Tarantino would have been have serial killer and might have even become one of the greatest in that league if he were not a director. Hail hollywood for reducing crime to large extent by catching a could have been killer in its clutches.
Trailer of Kill Bill:
Also there is moral that Uma preaches here and there in the movie during fights. She breaks a boy's sword into pieces and with a spanking sends him home to his mother! Ofcourse, under-18 are restricted from fights.
And then there is a total mix up of chapters in the movie. Ending is shown first with Lucy Liu already dead and Uma goes on to kill others who killed her family and her (atleast thats what they thought) after she left a group of assasins to lead a normal life. All of them who killed her (thats what they thought) face the wrath of wounded, could have been mom Uma after she wakes up from 4 years in coma. The main in her hitlist, Bill is a proud warrior or dharma yodha who does not want to kill her while in coma. Well, he doesn't know whats in store for him in Kill Bill II.
Quentin Tarantino would have been have serial killer and might have even become one of the greatest in that league if he were not a director. Hail hollywood for reducing crime to large extent by catching a could have been killer in its clutches.
Trailer of Kill Bill:
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