Yet another Online personality test

Global Personality Test Results

Stability (50%) medium which suggests you average somewhere in between being calm and resilient and being anxious and reactive. Orderliness (43%) moderately low which suggests you are, at times, overly flexible, improvised, and fun seeking at the expense of reliability, work ethic, and long term accomplishment. Extraversion (56%) moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

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I guess if i take too many of these tests, i'l end up categorizing myself as a selfish, uncaring, ruthless prick and end up skewing up results to that end all the time.

Hey, but what the f$#k !! Mebbe iam a selfish, uncaring, ruthless prick :)

How Selfish am I ? Very ;)

You Are 73% Selfish

You put your own needs first, figuring if you don't take care of yourself, who will?While this is a good philosophy to have, it wouldn't hurt you to be a tad more giving.

How Selfish Are You?

I was put up to this by Naren and Google desktop (which dutifully showed me Naren's post using its Really Really simple syndication tool :)

To tell the truth i cheated on the test saying "Often" instead of "Always" for certain questions. I wud have gotten like 95% selfish or something

Google mania

Google Google everywhere

Google desktop, google blogger, orkut every goddamn thing is now being integrated into one Google account.

Yahoo, Microsoft are surely f$#$#ed. :)

Only today i read a news item which was like

" google requests SEC (securities exchange comm of the USA) to not treat it as an 'investment entity' because google has accumulated SO much cash - like USD 10 billion in cash & marketable securities - that it has to invest (like a mutual fund) in short term parking lots.

It appears that such "invest" companies have higher/tougher rules of disclosure - which obviously is pain to google.

google claimed they were a "Information technlogy and emerging media company" and not an investment firm

:)

Oh well, for now all appears to be free.

So - Larry & Sergei - we're licking our chops and waiting ;)

Cars - the album

Today will go down in History as the day i discovered this brilliant album:

Disney's "Cars" the album - featuring brilliant tracks suchs as:

"Behind the clouds" - by this soulful country singer called Brad Paisley. Dude, iam a fan :)

" Life is like a highway " - by some Rascal Flatts. this is like a remix version of an older song. But what the heck - it is brilliant. ( 200 / 100 for this one )

" Life is a highway and iam goin drivin all night long " ....

" Real gone " - by our very own Sheryl Crow

i spent about 10 hours all day listening to Brad crooning with his hillbilly type guitar

" behind the clouds the sun is shining !
believe me even if you cant quite make it out.
Even if you cant , see the silver linin,
theres a big blue sky waiting right behind the clouds..."

*bliss*

Good Stuff

Couple of things i thought i shud record here:

1. Lessons learned from Dhriubhai - an series of articles by Mr. krishnamurty who founded 'Mudra' (the reliance group's Ad agency). Cool read

http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/11spec.htm

2. Indian Per capita income in fiscal 04-05 was 23,000 odd bucks (on a national average basis). Interesting statistic which got me thinking. (will write up if something takes shape).

delhi's average is about 58,000 odd, chandigarh's is about 63,000 odd making them the highest earning places in India.

hmm, kinda strange, isnt it ?

The Holy Grail & what not !!

An interesting take on why Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" is all wrong - is here:

http://warintheheavenlies.blogspot.com/2006/04/da-vinci-code-why-isnt-it-true.html

I have to admit that after reading this i have more reason to believe that Dan Brown is 'somewhat' true.

(apparently, brown's book's first page says "All characters, Historical references, locations etc are correct & accurate as per my knowledge" - thats strange. i'l look it up when i get home )

but what the heck, faith is just faith and i am fairly certain that every modern day religion or 'faith' was born out of some kind of old, like, 'pagan' system of belief and then subsequently 'polished' & 'cultured' by generations of scholars funded by kings & institutions who naturally depended on their 'faith' getting popular to save their own asses or make themselves richer.

That would mean that there should an element of "hanky pankiness" that must be allowed.

This is true of Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims - i mean everyone.

( Examples:

1. Christians - resurrection of the christ, miracles of the christ etc
2. Buddhism - stuff like Robbers attacking the Buddha and somehow not being able to inflict damage and similar stuff ive read in Illustrated Comics
3. Hinduism - Oh do i have to tell. Elephant faced Ganesha, Peacock riding Muruga, Durga with two dozen limbs, Boons granted after 50 years of penance inside ant hills and what not !!
4. Muslims - The Al Isra (journey of the prophet to mecca & his subsequent meeting with allah's spirit)

I am fairly certain that all these stories were spun out based on certain special junta and has passed through the hands of generations of spin doctors, wannabe gurus who doctored to suit their express purposes based on the degree of gullibleness amongst the people of the time.

I am a firm believer of the fact that anything - i do mean ANY thing revolves around the following:

1. Physical Security ( as in protection from violence, death, disease)
2. Materialistic goals ( as in money, wealth, land etc)
3. Power (This is more or less a function of 1 & 2 - but power become important as a tool for obtaining 1 & 2 and then controlling 1 & 2 for foreseeable periods of time against various external factors that may develop)

Religion, faith and so on has always something with which a hold can be maintained on a largish group of people be it for reason 1 or reason 2 or reason 3.

This fundamental concept can be extrapolated, even today to explain why religion works out.

Wierd Stuff

Was just ambling through some news item on Chelsea's loss to MLS's All Star squad on the Forbes website.

Then there was this sudden popup thingy and suddenly a guy just walked in the bottom right of my screen and said " hi iam steve forbes, welcome to Forbes.Com & went on to give a 3 minute discourse on why i should watch "Street talk" on the website's channel ".

Cute lil thingy - i'd say. Lets see if it ll catch on (p.s the applet / pop up thingy was called "in person" in case youre interested)

Heres more weird stuff.

I was reading the Useless knowledge website article on "What is a Fart?" - It says an average Healthy person farts 16 times a day.

Theres another equally weirdo item on "where did the Brassiere come from ? " here

Movie update

I ve broken my year long movie draught with 2 movies in 1 month.

Da vinci and now, "the pirates of the caribbean: Dead man's chest". Watched it with Mumbaiah & AD in adlabs theatre. The following are a few things i noticed:

1. The theatre had exactly 24 people including 3 security/torch light escort type guys. There were 3 of us, 2 couples 1 single guy, 2 other guys and a family. AD was of the opinion that the girl seated a couple of seats from him was "really da, really good looking da!" and the guy was "such a damn chooth da" :) "How does guys like him get such girls da ?"

2. THe movie itself wasnt that bad. Great effects & good fast moving storyline & exotic locales.

3. The story ends ubruptly cleaning setting this thing up for part III - but i wonder if Part III will be worthwhile because by the time you are through with this instalment it is pretty clear that the good guys will always win. Miss Swan, WIll turner & captain sparrow can never die.
The tentacled, undead villian - captain of the flying dutchman - appears at least 50 times & by the end of the movie we lose any fear of the guy or his,um, fishy looking crew.

4. It was an ok movie overall - but when i woke up today with a headache, i cud scarcely remember anything about the movie. Strange, i must be getting old :)

5. The "mysore masala dosa", "Chinese vegetable dosa" "sandwich dosa" and a few panner dosas that we had before the movie have already taken their toll on my digestive system and i may need to take tomorrow off :)

boy! iam REALLY sleepy