Who am I?

Well, well, well... I took this test online called the 'Cattel 16 Factor Test'. The link was sent by a friend and the email promised me the most accurate picture of my personality ever. Yaa..right! Anyways, I gave it a try and here are the results -

Cattell's 16 Factor Test Results Warmth |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 82% Intellect |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74% Emotional Stability ||||||||||||||| 46% Aggressiveness |||||||||||||||||| 54% Liveliness ||||||||||||||||||||| 70% Dutifulness |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 90% Social Assertiveness |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74% Sensitivity |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 86% Paranoia ||||||||||||||||||||| 62% Abstractness ||||||||||||||||||||| 70% Introversion |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 90% Anxiety |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74% Openmindedness ||||||||||||||| 50% Independence |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 86% Perfectionism |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 82% Tension ||||||||| 30%

So, I am emotionally unstable, an extreme introvert, as dutiful as a dog....mannnnn why did I even bother to take the test. It's such a load of crap X-(

There are lots of such tests available all over the internet. But seriously, can you tell all about me just by looking at how I've answered a set of pre-defined questions? I mean who answers these set of questions accurately? At least I didn't. Yeah, maybe 70% of them were accurately answered (after pondering for a lengthy 0.78 seconds) but the others...click, click,click,done.

Ask someone to rate his negative traits on a scale of 1-5 and I'm damn sure it won't go above a 3, even if he actually is the devil himself. On the other hand, ask him to rate his good side and I'm sure it won't be below a 3. So, the final result would most definitely be biased towards the positive side of one's personality. After all, I wouldn't want you to know that I'm a disaster waiting to happen :D

Now let's look at it from the tester's point of view -
If by some miraculous way, some test does highlight your negative traits in your face, do you think you'd take that test again? Or, recommend it to your friends? You'd be embarrassed to let them know your results. And heaven forbid if the same test shows your friend out to be the reincarnation of Gandhiji himself :) So, in simple logic...give people results they feel happy about, would like to talk about. They will then copy the link into their chain of emails and shoot it of to new 'victims'. Perfect marketing strategy huh?

Now, not only did the test give me crappy results, it also made me give up half an hour of my TV time to write this blog! But, I guess my 90% dutifulness rating compelled me to warn you people about what a load of bull these tests are.

Southie woes

First of all, I'm a southie myself. Well, southie in a 'can speak my mother tongue' kinda way. Other than that single thread of southie-ism, I'm as lost down south as Jay is right now. In fact I'm considered an outcast by my cousins and south-indian friends, a MBCS - Mumbai Born Confused Southie :(

I may be confused, but I absolutely need to get a few things clarified and a few questions that need to be answered. So, here goes...

1. Where Exactly is South India?
Ask someone from Delhi and he would say - anything below Madhya Pradesh. To the extremities of my knowledge, South India is basically anything located below the state of Maharashtra. On this point, I think I have the correct answer.


2. Why don't people down south learn Hindi?
Hindi is the national language of India. We have a national language so that someone from Srinagar can talk to a person form Kannyakumari. How can you expect someone to communicate his price for 1.5 kgs of tomatoes in Tamil if his only idea of Tamil is 'andu gundu' ??

And talking of andu gundu....

3. Southie + Southie = high speed andu gundu. Why?
Take a room full of people who speak only english and hindi. Put two southies into the group and 2 minutes later all you can hear, in high speed is -
'cheppu cheppu' if they happen to be Telugu
'machhi yenna solray nee' if they are Tamilians
'magane yenu helta iddiyo' if they are from Karnataka
'Yenda Mone' if they are Keralites

When will they learn that the other 10 people in the room don't know a word of what they are talking? Tell them this and they will probably shoot you on the spot. It's not difficult not to talk in your native tongue when no one around you understands it. It makes the others uncomfortable and terribly pissed off. Talk in your native tongue...but not always!!!

4. Autorickshaws have a Meter built into them for a reason!
Instead of fighting with me for 20 minutes over 10 rupees, the stupid rickshaw driver can run by the meter, ferry 3 differnet passengers and make 5 times the money in the same time. When will the poor soouthie rickshaw drivers get this into their heads?

I'm sure all the true southies who read this post will be waiting to get their hands on me. I'm a southie too albeit a confused one...but I need answers It's high time someone cleared my doubts!

Snapshot 1.0

Whew...it's done! Complete! Over! Finished!

I maybe like a 'bit' in a 100 zettabyte hard drive, but after months and months of procrastinating, I now have my own blog. Not that anyone really cares, but yeah...I'm here people.

I am a Computer Science major. So, when a Psychology major walked up to me and said "I've been blogging for 2 years now", somewhere in my brain a bunch of neurons screamed "Wake up Jackass! She's a psychology major. You're the Ctrl+Alt+Del guy, and you don't even have a blog". That was it...I had to, just had to get my own blog.

Better late than never they say. I maybe late on the blogging scene...but hey, at least I won't be never.