Its good to know some things

Walked into work today only to find out that we'd been kicked out of the conference room that had been my project team's den for the past month. Apparently they did not need to explain to us why we were temporarily shifted to a room thats only thats just about bigger than the size of my kitchen back home. But I should say the only thing I am complaining about is the fact that now my supervisor can lean back and get a full view of all the non-value added (for the lack of a better term) activities I perform, like killing time on Facebook, Gmail, Google News and the sports websites. The key words to note here are "killing time". Yes! I have a lot of time that I can kill and I'm putting it to good use by basically thinking about Nothing. Mark Gungor explains in his talk "Tale of two brains" about how men are completely capable of having nothing on their mind from time to time.

Being fond of psychology, I've always been fascinated by how people think, even though I don't understand it a lot of times. It just does not make sense to me how people make some decisions in life, particularly women! You can safely term them as the unexplainable species and get away with just a stare from them, because frankly, they know it themselves that they cannot predict their own moves in different scenarios. Although I do know they are unpredictable, I still take up the challenge of trying to figure out how they think, knowing very well that its a losing cause. The main reason why I do this is because there is no fun in doing something if you know you are going to win. On the other hand, there is a lot of excitement in playing a game when you know you'll keep getting better each time, even though you're going to eventually lose it.

So I begun this dangerous game somewhere halfway through my undergrad studies. At first, I was able to predict the moves of some of the girls I knew. I could even guess what they were thinking about the people around them. But soon I started second-guessing myself and realized that my initial success was predominantly due to beginners luck. But I would not deter from my motivation to pursue the ever-elusive female thought process and I should say I have learnt a lot of things over the past few years. The learning has included lessons on how men react when it comes to women and how they perceive relationships that women have with the people around them.

A few things that could help men when they're handling some situations with women include the following:

1) If you feel a girl and a guy are so close that something could be going on in between them (clarification for all dirty minds: i mean feelings for each other), then be rest assured that something surely is going on! Do not try to assume anything else, because you're probably wrong.

2) If you think you can give advise to a girl who has feelings for someone, please back off and live your life. Do not try to provide any advise, since all you would be doing is stepping into a Tsunami like the one that hit Japan- you'll end up feeling like a house or truck hit you from behind!

3) If you think you can give advise to girls who are just out of relationships/break-ups, be sure to tread a careful path, because you never know when your advise hits the Recycle bin and when her feelings for the guy are Restored back to the Desktop.

4) If you are not a ladies man, please do not try to pick out a gift for the girls without the advise of one, or you'd probably end up disappointed.

Just realized that writing a blog makes me look like I am doing work. So, I shall stop my list of advises for today so that I can write more in the coming days at work. Feels good to have a blog entry after more than 6 months.

PS: I am ready for your smiles (men) and stares (women) now.