About likers and liker-mockers

Recently, I saw this spat between a few friends. Let's call them L, M, N & O
It started off for me with M, N & O apologizing to L, and asking him to 're-friend' them back on facebook.  L - upset as he was - initially didn't warm up to the idea..but later on 'friended' them back.

Let's flash-back a few days: Whenever L posted an article/comment/fart on facebook - he 'like'd any and every response he got to his post ( he still does). This prompted M to joke about it that L was being a 'like-wh**e' - giving his 'likes' free to anybody that paid him attention. To M, that was like desecrating the sanctity of the 'like'. It was like saying 'great question' any post-lecture question... you get the drift.
N & O 'liked' M's witty retorts around this topic.

And of course, these were the first set of responses that L didn't 'like'. And ended up banishing the entire lot from L's facebook living room.


Personally, I use 'like' to respond to other's posts. I 'like' responses to posts I make only when - the response is funny, or extra-ordinary in some way. If I want to acknowledge people's responses/wishes, I reply to a batch - "thanks everybody, ". 
If it's something like birthday wishes, I pretty much respond to each using the opportunity for some small talk.

Clearly - I'm not a 'liker' like L. But neither am I a 'liker-mocker' like M.
I also understand the point of view of the 'L's of the world. Their 'like' is to simply say 'thanks for your comment'. For comments which touch them more - they will probably go verbal on it.
I wonder how other facebook users feel about this.

I also noticed that I notice how people respond to responses to their posts. If somebody 'likes' a comment that I put on their post, I do check if they've 'liked' every other response.

I'm real glad now that facebook's graph API is being extended by individual apps to add stuff like 'thank', 'have', 'want' etc. Hopefully the status app(?) on facebook adds one of these things.

But what would you add, if you add only one other verb to a status update?      

Baanigondu Elle ellide - Dr. Rajkumar

I taught my son Avaneesh a little bit of guitar before letting the usual things in life distract us. I've been meaning to encourage him by putting up some of his playing on youtube.. but never got around to it.
So, I thought I'll finally do it before his 9th birthday.
The original song is by Dr. Rajkumar in 'Premada KaaNike' called 'Baanigondu Elle Ellide'
I've pulled down the scale while teaching him - to be in a pitch he could eventually sing. The beat is a 6 beat.

D                 G  A G   D  ( plucking) 
Ay .. eh he...    
D                       Em       G          D    
Baanigondu elle ellide, ninnaase gelli koneyide,   
Em                G   D
yEke kanasu kaaNuve, nidhaanisu nidhaanisu    x 2


D
Aaseyemba bisilu kudure yEke ODuve
Bm                      G        D
maraLu gaaDinalli summanEke aleyuve
D
avana niyama meeri illi yEnu saagadu
Bm                      G         D
naavu nenesidante baaLalEnu naDeyadu
   A              D            G              A          D
duraaseyEtake, niraaseyEtake, adEne aadaroo.. avana kaaNike

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Religion at the bottom of the pyramid..

This is a maid story. 

(To the guys: No.. not the kind you are imagining)   

This was an experience of a friend - and I found it so interesting I thought I'll write it up. 

My friend took on a maid to help her cleanup-dishes, sweeping/swobbing..etc. The maid's husband had deserted her or something.. but she had started living with a guy that had promised to marry her. Rather, he was living in with her. My friend - to help out the maid - even took on the guy as a driver. 

But the industrious fellow built a rather robust network amongst other maids in our apartment complex. Naturally, this irked his live-in girlfriend no end.

One of the many Radhas to this Krishna was also apparently a cook - who also cooked for my aforementioned friend. The maid went crazy about it (naturally? ) and took it up with my friend. The Krishna soon abandoned plans (if at all there were any) of marrying this maid.  

The claims soon went beyond 'she stole my man'. She claimed the cook went to Kerala and got some 'maaTa' - Indian black magic - done against her. Now, she was getting possessed by demons. 

Soon, she decided that her recently adopted religion - christianity - wasn't helping her out in this regard. Clearly she's not watched Exorcist. So, she went back to Tamilnadu (where her village was ) and reconverted to Hinduism. One reason was "Christianity isn't giving me more peace of mind as promised".  Another was that whatever reversing charms had to be done, would be more effective if she were a hindu - apparently the spirits also discriminate based on religion.

This reconversion had a temporary effect in the black magic stuff, but the most recent update is that the fight is on. 

Back to my friend -  she was in a tizzy coz the maid had to take leave pretty often to address her 'demon possession' incidents. The cook had to go- she had already cooked up a decent enough mess that this maid wasn't even around to cleanup.  Our Kishan Kanhaiya driver - he was already fired due to incompatible chemistries owing to his physical activities. Finally - the maid - she had to ultimately fire - she was not around anyway. 

Minding two little kids close in age, and carrying out the remaining chores - she's wondering when she'll get possessed.