How to spend time at office

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The Chat Mania!!!

I have always been a chat fanatic.. I had written a few posts on that too. But it has been a few days since I realized that we all have become so addicted to chatting, and how this is not a positive aspect.

Now let me prove my point.. (I'll just keep myself the target.. :) )

• To talk to my supervisor (who happens to sit right next to me), I find him on the chat network and send him a message. All I have to do really is to push my seat a little away from my desk and start talking to him, or I can just stand up look over the partition and start talking. But I don't do any of the above two and I send him a message.
• When my class fellow, who is in my team, is having fun with our colleagues, and as I can't barge in but do like to comment on my friend, I do the same thing, I find him on chat and send him a message.
• Whenever I am bored at office, and wanna have some fun, instead of getting up and going to a friend's seat, I chat with them. I don't get up, I don't budge, I just sit at the same seat I had been sitting on since morning, staring at the same screen and I chat. Whereas, leaving my seat vacant for a while won't let the business go down, would it? It would just be good for me if I could go and stand on someone's head for a while, and chat, chatting that includes talking NOT typing. But no matter how much I hate sitting all day long, I still don't go and stand and talk to someone.
• At client side, two people from the same company, (one of them is obviously me), sitting right next to each other, and still... chatting.. not talking but typing. Even if the discussion is purely professional, we still chat.
  

They invented chat, they invented emails for God knows what reasons, but one of that must have been close to;
"to bring people closer to each other"

With chatting and emailing, even if your sister lives in another country, you can still know her day-to-day life, you can still have long chat sessions with her, you can still be close to each other. Distances have shrunk because of this technology.

Let's go a little beyond chatting now. We have emails and text messages too. Now friends make email groups so that they can keep in touch with each other. That's all fine. Pretty good. But whatever the hell happened to picking up your phone once in a while and calling them up. Of course you can't call everyone and through email groups you don't have to do that. But still.....
And what happened to having regular lunch with your friends just so that you can meet each other.

And text messages... uff.. I hate being wished "Happy Birthday" through sms. On my last birthday a lot of people wished but through sms only, and I have gotten so much accustomed to this that even I messaged my friend on her birthday rather than calling her.
I even get invitations to weddings now over sms.

(People may think that I have a very weak circle of friends, who don't like hearing each other's voice and thus, restrict themselves only to written conversations. But this is not so, if you think about it, the above applies to most of us, not all may apply to everyone, but some would apply to each. I have just collected them all at one place so it seems a little depressing.)

Another aspect of chatting; the emoticons. They have become a total replacement of emotions. We use emoticons when we don't have emotions.

And maybe we use chatting so much because it's easier to express oneself over a written conversation... Anyways, we have indulged into this activity so much that we keep ourselves from getting up and talking to each other as much as we can..
They call it "The Advent of Technology".
I say "There is something wrong with the human race".


Author's Note:
By the way, I intended this post to be humorous. Highlighting my laziness of not getting up to talk but sitting comfortably at my seat and chatting.
But as I am a very serious person, I turned this into a debate rather than a humorous and tanziya (couldn't come up with English for tanz) piece on chatting.
My readers (if there are any) don't mind; the joke's surely on me.
And yeah.. I have nothing against technology. I earn my living sitting 9 or so hours in front of the computer screen and even spend my weekends doing the same. :) :)

Kahan aa kay ruknay thay rastay, by Amjad Islam Amjad

Kahan aa kay ruknay thay rastay, kahan mor tha usay bhool ja
wo jo mil gaya usay yaad rakh, jo nahin mila usay bhool ja

wo tere naseeb ki barshain kisi aur chat pe baras gayain
dil-e be khaber mari baat sun usay bhol ja, usay bhul ja

main to gum tha tere dhyan main teri aas tere guman main
saba keh gai mere kaan main, mere saath aa usay bhol ja

tujhay chand ban kay mila tha jo tere sahilon pe khila tha jo
wo tha aik darya visal ka, so utar gaya usay bhol ja

Kaheen Chak-e-Jaan Ka rafoo Nahee, Kisse Asteen Pay Lahoo Nahee
Keh Shaheed-e-Rah-e-Millal Ka Nahee Khun Baha, Ussay Bhool Ja

Kyun Atta Howa Hai Ghubar Main, Gham-e-Zindagee Kay Fishaar Main
Woh Joo Darj Tha Tairay Bakhat Main Soo woh Hoo Giya, Ussay Bhool Ja

Na Woh Ankh Tairee Ankh Thee, Na Woh Khawab Hee Taira Khawab Tha
Dil-e-Muntazir Too Yeh Kis Liay Taira Jagna, Ussay Bhool Ja

Yeh Joo Raat Din Hai Khel Sa, Issay Dekh, Iss Par Yaqeen Na Kar
Nahee Aks Koi Bhee Mustaqil Sar-e-Aieena, Ussay Bhool Ja

Joo Bisat-e-Jaan Hee Ulat Giya, Woh Joo Rastay Say Palat Giya
Ussay Rooknay Say Hasool Kiya, Ussay Mut Bulla, Ussay Bhool Ja

Qurani suraton kee khasosiyat..

Sur-e-Fatiha Allah ke azab se bachati hai.
Sur-e-Yaseen Qayamat ke din pyas se bachati hai.
Sur-e-Waqia fikar-o-faqay se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Mulk azab-e-qabar se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Kausar dushmanon se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Kafron maut k waqt kufar se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Ikhlas munafaqat se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Falaq haadson se bachati hai,
Sur-e-Naas waswasoon se bachati hai.

Life style of our beloved Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (S.A.W);
Talk softly,
Walk humbly,
Eat sensibly,
Breathe deeply,
Sleep sufficiently,
Dress properly,
Act fearlessly,
Work patiently,
Think truthfully,
Believe correctly,
Behave decently,
Learn practically,
Plan orderly,
Earn honestly,
Spend intelligently.

When we are students...

Before my first mid term of Masters, I was thinking about how all of us friends used to sit in a room, sitting with our books and notes open in front of us, but not studying.. oh not studying at all, but talking.. talking and having fun. And I thought everyone in Masters would be mature and no one would be talking loudly as we used to in Bachelors.. Bachelors was a different story altogether. Here they'll all be studying seriously, they'll all just reach the university 5 minutes before the paper so as not to waste their time, and leave immediately, again so that they can reach their jobs and start working. No jokes, no making bogus plans for cheating, nothing. Just serious people, waiting to give an exam and get over with it...
And I thought I would miss my friends. I thought I will be the only one asking
"Yaar parhna kya kya tha?"

Or asking;
"Oh that's also included in the syllabus?"

But I turned out to be very very wrong...
Because the scene there was the same. All the students sitting in the examination hall (though it wasn't like Bachelors in one way and that was all of us hadn't gathered there since morning but only came some time before the paper was scheduled to start), and all of the students instead of studying were having fun.

The same..
"Yaar koi mujhe yeh chapter to parha de?"

The same,
"Yaar yeh Sir ne itna sara kyun parha diya.., puri kitab hee parha dee Sir ne to"

The same,
"Ooye tu ne yeh parha hai?"

The same,
"Tu yahan beth mein wahan betha hoon"

It was all the same... the very same.


Note:
When I started writing this post.. and that was back in December 2008. I must have planned to include a lot of other things... But now when I am completing it I have already forgotten why I decided to write this post in the first place. :P :P

I am sounding like an author who has just finished writing her 100th novel after 5 years of work on it. :P :P

World's shortest horror story

World's shortest horror story by Martin Garner contains only the following lines:

"When the world's last man was alone in his room, the door was knocked."