Birthdays and Facebook

I read about a guy who had 400+ friends in Facebook. One day he woke up as a curious little wanker and wondered if he is really that sociable. So he organized a party and sent invitations to all his contacts over Facebook. 50% confirmed and another 20% were tentative. He was delighted - that’s one hell of a response, actually. The real day came. Our man waited at the venue, which happened to be a popular joint, but no single soul turned up. An hour later, one woman came but she also left in the next 30 minutes. He had 400 friends and yet he ended up drinking alone that night.

So the question to ponder is how close are our virtual worlds to the reality?.

But my case was quite not as somber. Yesterday was my birthday. Facebook reminded of it to a whole lot of my gang. Some of them have never wished me in decades and some are new. How exciting! So here is my big thanks to all my dear friends for the wishes over calls, sms and facebook. You made me feel special. Special thanks to cutie pie Amanda. And big hugs to my lovely wife Suji and little Trisha, who made it memorable.

By the way, don’t ask me anything about how the day went. I am in KL, slogging over a proof of concept. Read below to measure how tired and blurred I was and still am.

• I held my chop sticks upside down over the entire lunch and only realized it when I placed them back on the bowl.
  
• Once I pushed hard on a glass door but it was already open. You should have seen the expression of the girl who was trying to enter from the other side.
  
• Left my door key inside the hotel room and closed the auto door. Had to make a trip down to lobby and prove ‘I am who I claim to be’
  
• The bitch of it all, I went to the office with the fly open.