To learn a foreign language: French !

Many people want to learn a foreign language. Be it to strengthen your CV, to go exploring, meet new people, get to know new cultures or just for fun.

The 3 ways in which, not only French, but any foreign language would help you are:

1. Competitive Advantage

2. Broadening the Cultural Horizons

3. Help acquire skills that would help in further learning

Known as the most romantic language in the world, French is also one of the top second languages taught worldwide with 110 Million native speakers & more than 200 Million second language speakers.

One of the official languages of the UN & the European Union, it is spoken as the 1st language in France, Switzerland (Romandy), Belgium (Wallonia & Brussels), Monaco, Quebec & Arcadia region in Canada and as a second language in USA (Maine & Acadiana region of Louisiana), Gabon, Mauritius, Algeria, Senegal & Côte d'Ivoire.

Competitive Advantage

Learning French can be very beneficial. Companies incorporated in France, Quebec or other francophone countries hire French speakers to aid on projects. Other companies who deal with the French speaking clients also hire speakers on premium compensation packages to aid on projects in the francophone countries.

One of the great jobs that I was offered was as a French Hedge Fund Analyst, paying 40% more than my current job (Unfortunately, it was in Chennai)

The French Embassy hires proficient speakers & the French teachers, corporate trainers & translators are also well paid.

If you’ve attained the DELF B1 (3rd level of the French diploma exam), you can work in France as an English Teaching Assistant for a period of 7 months, teaching in French schools at a fixed compensation of €900/month.

Better yet, if you’ve attained DELF B2, you can go & teach French in France.

French can also help an individual in settling in any of the Francophone country. Quebec awards 4 to 16 points to a French speaker (depending on your proficiency) in its immigration points system.

Some Universities also award brownie points to applicants who've honed a foreign language. France is a great option for further studies in the finance, medicine, fashion & retail space.

Broadening the Cultural Horizons

A French speaker has the whole world of Wine, Cheese, Theatre & Gastronomy open to them. The French eras of film & culture are considered one of the best in the world and the various festivals of France are best witnessed in their native tongue. 

Paris is a culture in its own. “La Ville Lumiere” (The city of lights), along with its various cafes, fashion events, museums, monuments & shopping centres is worth experiencing. Although, you would be able to survive a few days with English, its worth interacting with the “Parisiens en français”.

Other famous vacation spots like Mauritius & Monaco also are French speaking nations.

Help acquire skills that would help in further learning

French, a romance language, is a descendant of Latin. Unlike English (A Germanic language), the romance languages have different masculine & feminine genders for the non-living objects too.

The other popular languages from the romance family are – Spanish, Italian, Portuguese & Romanian.

So if you’ve mastered French, you won’t have much difficulty in grasping any of the other romanic languages as compared to a new learner.

French, like any other European language is based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR).

All the languages in the CEFR have 6 levels:

A1 – Breakthrough / Beginner

A2 – Waystage / Elementary

B1 – Threshold / Intermediate

B2 – Vantage / Upper intermediate

C1 – Effective Operational Proficiency / Advanced

C2 – Mastery / Proficiency

Attaining a B2 certificate is more than enough to live & work in a francophone country while C1 & C2 are needed for a Ph.D / further studies

Where to learn: The best institute to learn French is “Alliance Française”. There are 19 such institutes in India (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Goa, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Karikal, Kolkata, Mahe, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pondicherry, Pune, Mysore, Trivandrum)

You can choose between the extensive course (4 hours/week) or the intensive course (8 hours/week) and select a weekdays or weekends batch as per your preference.

The fees structure & semester schedules vary from city to city. An intensive course in Delhi & Gurgaon costs around Rs. 15,000 and an extensive course around Rs. 8,500 (4 months) and with 3 semesters starting each year in January, May & September.

Log on to www.afindia.org for more or better yet, shoot me a query ;)

OH !! When I get my hands on you...

Like almost all of my posts, even this one is inspired by a song.

“Wow !! Wow .. You’re gonna kill me this way .. Oh, when I get my hands on you”

I know that sounds perverted & creepy !! But not in Portuguese:

“Nossa, nossa !! Assim você me mata .. Ai, se eu te pego, Ai, ai, se eu te pego”

I heard this song for the first time in a remixed version on Soundcloud. Although the song had 6-7 other songs too, this one particularly got my attention.

Well, for one, I didn’t understand a single word of it and also because of the way Michel Telo sang it.

You can listen to the song here:

This post is dedicated to all those songs that are sung in tongues unknown to us.

This one is Portuguese, the famous song “Aïcha”, is French, the English version of which was made popular by the Danish Hip-Hop band, Outlandish. The lyrics and the style of singing in the original French version is even more beautiful, written by singer songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman. The title refers to an Arabic female and was sung by an Algerian raï artist, Khaled. Then there’s the Spanish treat, “The Ketchup Song”, numerous hit numbers by Enrique & Pitbull and our very own Bollywoodised song, “Senorita”. 

These songs, except their tones & music, are unknown to us. There’s no “SA RE GA MA PA” in it and whether its an R&B song, a Rap, Rock Metal or a country song, we don’t have a clue.

But we do shake a leg on the songs of the trance genre (Think – Steroe Love by Edward Maya) in the nightclubs & the amazing remixes by the French DJ David Guetta.

What these songs do to us can’t be explained in some Ig Nobel Prize theory or by one of the stupid surveys the American Universities conduct. These tunes play with our minds !!

But so does Alcohol & Drugs.

One of my friends in high school, whose name I’ve long forgotten, bought some CDs of Trance Music while we were on a trekking trip to Manali. When I asked, he said, “This stuff makes me think & stimulates my brain cells”. (He said this in weird Punjabi metaphors so I gave you the crux of it).

And even I do agree. After I saw the movie, “Requiem for a Dream”, its leitmotif (theme song) "Lux Aterna" just stuck in my head. The song title is Latin for “The Eternal Light” and is a trance in its own. Give the song a listen on full volume with your headphones on and you will know what I mean.

So just log on to YouTube and listen to ‘em !! Trance, foreign songs (No Bhojpuris okay), trance music or even Opera (Not Opera Winfrey, she’s only here for motivational purposes) and you would be able to think clearly post that.

The Drunk Train Experience: All Aboard

If you guys have seen the latest season of “How I Met Your Mother”, you would know what the post title means.

For those who haven’t been fortunate enough to watch that episode, I’ll let you in on the story. So every night, the last train leaving from Manhattan to Long Island is full of drunk people who are returning from their respective parties and celebrations.

Well, the Delhi Metro has a Rs. 200 fine if you’re caught drunk. So, no one in the train was drunk, EXCEPT ME.

I was with a cousin brother & my brother-in-law when out of nowhere we just wanted to escape the evening heat and ended up at a beer shop. We didn’t really think it through practically while buying 3 large cans (You know what “CANS” I’m talking about right ??)of Tuborg STRONG.

On any other day, any 1 of us could gulp em all down without a sweat. But I had to leave for home in about 10 minutes and we didn’t have a place to sit & drink. Who thinks about all this when you have chilled beer in your hand ?? We cracked em open as soon as we parked the car below my cousin’s place (Dangerous territory BTW). All of us are down half our share when suddenly both of them hand me their cans too (Hand me their CANS .. Any1 else gets it or its just me ??)

The bro-in-law has to drive back home and Di would be back any second from South-Ex and the cousin has to go pick up his GF. Just a mere thought of their respective women refrained them from taking down another sip of this elixir of life (What has world come to L) and I’m fumbling with 3 beer cans in my hand and my mind a little hazy with the swigging from my share.

Who would like to waste beer ?? Water is so very scarce as it is ... So I take a deep breath and finish both of their beers and crush the tin cans with my bare hands (Feeling a little dizzy and like Stone Cold Steve Austin in the same moment).

I’m looking at my golden can of Tuborg when suddenly I realise we’ve reached the metro station. I force down whatever of the leftover I can and rush out.

In no time, I find myself in the metro coach when I don’t have any idea how I got there. Well, the amount of liquor isn’t much for us Punjabis but if you account for the time in which I forced it down my food pipe, it was way too much to handle at 6PM on a Sunday eve.

So, I have a book in my hand. I’m kinda reading it, well my eyes are at least. I don’t think my brain actually received whatever was happening between Khal Drogo and Danaerys or what Jon Snow was taking his oath in front of, in the Game of Thrones.

Another blurred series of minutes and I’m sitting now. But here’s how the people sitting across me looked like:

·         A Malaysian Stripper

·         An old friend from school

·         An Al-Qaida Leader

·         A dumb rich playboy

·         A computer whiz kid/hacker

·         Veerappan

·         A crazy in love stalker

I was staring at them and the display board with the book in my hand & the headphones shouting a Portuguese song in my ears and I’m tripping inside a trip, something like an inception of drunkenness.

Well, somehow I manage to reach MG Road.

But ... The trip isn’t over yet !! Due to the rains and hyperinflation driven rates of the autorickshaws, I take the bus which drops me just metres away from my home (Yes ppl, Gurgaon has SOME public transport)

The amazing breeze & the drizzle actually helped another tripping session and in minutes, I de-boarded the bus.

I know its hard living with your parents & siblings again after 9 long years. Its difficult to adjust & you don’t have any space or freedom anymore. But does that mean that as soon as you get off the bus, they’re standing there to receive you ??

Even if they have just come there for a “Stroll”

So a long story short, treading in the minefield, I reach home safe & sound, without a beating & not even a pravachan or scolding.

SAFE & SOUND ... (But what when my lifelines finally run out L ) 

Tennis: The Tri - Wizard Tournament

I just got my new laptop and I'm back to blogging.

Between selling off my PC and relocating to Gurgaon permanently, I didn't have much of a time to write and any time I got, was spent watching TV Shows and the Tennis Grand Slams.

Tennis is a game which is quite different from the other popular sporting events we watch. Here, we have a classical era and a modern era. Whenever drawing comparisons, we never compare the classical errans with the modern errans (That's a word I made up, so deal with it).

But why so ?? Has the game changed ?? Have the rules been modified ?? Was a new ground breaking technology invented ??

Whatever the reason might be, this post doesn't deal with the issue of this separatism. This post is about the current era of tennis we are witnessing. This era, possibly from 2010 - Current Date, is what I like to call, the TRIWIZARD ERA.

Like Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, we have Federer, Djokovic & Nadal. FedEX is our favourite no matter what happens, just like Hogwarts. Djoker is what they call the super good looking face of tennis (atleast my friend Diksha says so) and Rafa is the muscle and strength which Viktor Krum was made of. The three masters, ranked top 3 in ATP Rankings since don’t know how long back, battle it out not only in the Grand Slams but also the Davis Cup, Olympics and the other ATP Tourneys, be it for their country, their WAGs or themselves.

Until now, we have witnessed 3 Grand Slams in 2012. Djokovic defended his Australian Open title by defeating Nadal, Nadal took his revenge and defended his French Open title against Djokovic while Federer won his 17th Slam and 7th Wimbledon by defeating the Scottish hope Andy Murray.

Each of them won these titles on their best playing surfaces. Would you call it a home advantage or just a coincidence ??

In most famous tennis rivalries, we have seen at best 2 great players who were famous for being the corner stone of that age of tennis. Whenever a 3rd star entered the scene, one of the them would ultimately be etched out until only two remain.

Same was the case when the best tennis rivalry in the Tennis ages was formed; Federer v/s Nadal, who bagged all the Slam titles between them from 2005 – 2010.

Jelena Ristic (Djokovic)

Thus entered Djokovic. Taking the two champs by surprise, he won 5 Slams in the last 2 years. The usual trend almost followed when Federer dropped to World No. 3, lost to the likes of Tsonga & Murray (No offence to the French & the Scottish but Cmon, Its Roger Federer). Till now I believed the Swiss Maestro has lost his class and soon will be phased out but he proved the ordinary wrong when he came back won his record 7th Wimbledon title.

So. Is this the era of the triwizards or what ?? And along with that, it’s the age of the unlucky Scottish. No matter how super hot girlfriend he has and no matter how hard he tries, he always ends up on the losing side.

And now that I’m on it, how the hell do all of em so HOT WAGs ?? Its not like the women scouted for the best tennis talent and roped them in (No puns here fellas). Nadal, Djoko & Murray are all in their respective relationships for more than 4-5 years each while Federer met his wife during the Davis Cup.

Kim Sears (Murray)

Keeping Ivanovic, Sharapova & Kournikova aside, who knew Tennis was this glamorous ??

Coming back to the topic ...

The 4th and the final Slam will take place in US later this year where the defending champ Djoko will be the favourite. But we also have the Olympics before that. Federer & Nadal already have the Gold Medal under their belt but the World No. 1 would be ready ...

Hogwarts to Harvard ... A hopeful journey

It is a nice evening here in Gurgaon.

When I couldn't sleep, I went out for a walk and called up a friend to catch up on what everyone from our class has been doing.

Frankly, after that 5 minute conversation,

I either wanted to go back in time to do exactly what my fellow CBSites had done – Study my ass off for the CAT / GMAT and get into a world class school and with 2 years of hard work, see it pay off by getting a job, earning 4 times the salary I’m currently making

OR 

Wait for another 3-5 years, as I planned, pick up work-ex along the way and apply to my dream school, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL


So this is a journey I want to take.


From HOGWARTS, a school I read about in a book 5 years ago to HARVARD, a school I want to see myself in, 5 years down the line.

Like people say, it’s the journey, not the destination that is important.

But they never specify how frustrating it is to be on this journey, this path, where you see your fellow travellers on a similar road, taking different routes and reaching their goals so much quicker while you wonder, if your so called ‘journey’ is gonna be worth it or if you would be able to reach your goal at all.

So … HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL or referred to as H.B.S. !!

Ranked as the best B-School worldwide by various publications, part of the M3 (Other two being Stanford Graduate School of Business & Wharton School of Business) and the oldest of the Ivy League schools, HBS welcomes around 900 students every year into their MBA program.

900 is a huge number for such a prestigious school (Stanford takes in only about 250 and Wharton around 500) but so is the number of applicants. The chance of getting into this school is real slim. Only 12 out of every 100 applicants make it every year.

But as far as the supply & demand goes, all 900 of these students manage to find job offers of an average $100,000 a year.

So what does it take to get into HBS ??

They specify that each file a.k.a. each student application is unique and doesn't have to obtain a minimum score in every metric as the application as a whole is what makes or breaks a decision.

Although, it is recommended that you have:

• An average GMAT/GRE Score of 730 
• Around 2-5 years of work-ex 
• 110+ in TOEFL / 8 Bands+ in IELTS (Academic) 
• Some social work experience (It is important that every student gives something back to the society) 
• An Undergrad CGPA of around 3.5 (On a scale of 4) 

Along with other standard academic requirements off course.

What do they teach you in there that in 2 years, you start minting one-tenth of a million dollars annually ??

• Surrounded by professors who are the best in their fields worldwide and other 1,799 brilliant minds sure helps you bring on your A-Game 

• The people you connect with, the faculty – both permanent and visiting, the placement cell, the cultural diversity you experience being with students from every corner of the world and the friends you make in those 2 years coupled with the vast alumni network 

Frankly, no one ever knows if they are the ‘perfect FIT’ for the school so its all in the hands of ‘Their Holiness, The Admissions Committee’. 

A few examples of the accepted students are:

• An orphaned girl who moonlighted as her school janitor
• An IITian with a one year Master’s degree in some field 
• A BA (Honors) - Political Science graduate who worked with WHO to organize food camps for the underprivileged in Uganda 
• A BBA undergrad student from Stanford 

So whoever reads this (actually reaches the end of this post without getting bored) and has some advice for me, please let me know.

On the other hand, anyone who needs help on this topic, you can count on some help from my side. After researching on this for 2 years and counting, I might be of some help at the least :)

Yellow: The mystery of the Universe

"Feeling Yellow, I'm confused inside. A little hazy but mellow, when I see your eyes on me"

- Colorblind, Darius Danesh

I always feel there are mysteries in the universe we don't know about. I'm fascinated by the far away heavenly bodies I read about, all the stars and meteors NASA keeps discovering, light years away.

But some things that you see everyday, can easily be as mysterious.

Just like the color “Yellow”

The color of the sun, the marigolds, the flickering traffic light and one of the two dreaded cards on the soccer field, it has been a mystery to me all along.

The color is so reflective; it acts as a camouflage, hiding its own qualities and reiterating something entirely different.

Well, I couldn't think of more philosophical or thoughtful stuff about yellow so I made it not necessarily about the color, but all the mysteries it signifies.

The importance these secrets hold in our lives, is mind boggling.

Sometimes, it seems best just to shun them in a corner of your mind and forget about it, but at times, it nags you and eats you from the inside until you spill it out. And what is revealed and what isn't, makes it what it is.

So can we call it our very own Yellow Fever ?? Or as we say in French, "Comme si, comme ça" (As if, Like that)

Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caeser, whenever a man tries to cover up a fact, the nature makes it a point to uncover it and reveal the truth.

So what does it mean ?? even I’m confused now. Does a mystery stand for, "a truth not yet discovered" or "a cover up" ??

Come of think of it, I remember this one more incident with the color Yellow.

Some years back, when my relationship was on the rocks, out of the blue, my ex said. "Yellow".

When I asked what it meant, she simply said that the word gives her strength. But strength for what, to try and get through those difficult times or strength to just say the bitter words and end it once and for all ??

Guess even that'll remain a mystery for me huh ;)

"Look at the stars, Look how they shine for you. And everything you do, yeah they were all yellow. I came along, I wrote a song for you. And all the things you do and it was called yellow"

- Yellow, Coldplay

Till Death do us part !!

"When I'm gone, just carry on don’t mourn, rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice. Just know that, I’m looking down on you smiling and I didn't feel a thing, so baby don’t feel the pain, just smile back”  – Eminem

In a wedding, in all the oaths, chants & the vows you hear, I mostly just remember the last line

"Till death do us part"

Sharing lives together, being partners in happiness, sadness, sickness & health till death does them apart.

What exactly happens when eventually death plays its part ??

Does anyone know that ? We all have our theories & beliefs, nothing else.

Some days back, a friend told me how one of our mutual friends drowned in Rishikesh. He wasn’t a close friend but certainly was a friend.

From that moment on, I can't stop thinking about him. I keep recalling the memories, the time I spent with him, even if it was just the brief 10 day trekking trip we took together.

Its not just him, but all the obituaries I've come across over the years, mostly on Facebook where one of the friends dedicates an fb page to pay tribute to their memories.

I can't but remember by ex-GF's best friend who left us a few years back. The last time she had called me, was to try patch things up between me & my ex but I was in such a foul mood, I ignored her call. At that point in time, talking to her didn't really seem important.

But right now, I wish I had taken that call.

Even if you think that it wouldn’t have made a difference or I wouldn’t have made any difference, I believe picking up the phone receiver could have caused a butterfly to flutter its wings differently and maybe she would've been still here with us. I didn't even know her that well but I wish she was here, with her friends, her younger brother & her mom.

One of my juniors at school, an adorable little kid, who resembled my brother, a boy of 15 years of age, who used to play for the school U-16 cricket team, passed away in the arms of his friend, while on tour to another school, coz of an asthma attack.

An uncle, who slipped in the middle of the night and never woke up, a physics teacher who died of throat cancer or a peon who fell under the school bus while boarding it.

I can't imagine the agony, shock and the sadness in the witnesses' eyes when I can't even bear the news which reached me a month after the demise.

You don't suddenly start seeing the Thestrals from the magical universe when you witness a death nor do you hear a canon shot fire when someone's heart stops beating in the hunger games arena but whatever the feeling is, it surely is unbearable.

It leaves a void, an emptiness which can be never be whole again but will only have to go numb with time. We can still see & talk to that person in our dreams but is that in our control ??

Even in that unreal dreamland, we just wish it to be like an inception, where death only results in waking you up from a deep slumber.

“You used to captivate me by your resonating light, now I'm bound by the life you left behind. Your face it haunts, my once pleasant dreams, your voice it chased away all the sanity in me” – Evanescence

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Gadgets to Girls = Ashes to Wine

My first post "The Yin - Yang Combo" was inspired by a song. The name of this post is also inspired by one !!

Ashes & Wine by 'A Fine Frenzy'.

But this time, the meaning is exactly the opposite of what Yin & Yang stands for.

Ashes & Wine are not related and obviously aren't from the same universe. Wine, which is an alcoholic beverage, consists of a lot of acids which dissolve anything and everything mixed with it but with one exception, charred ashes !!

That's exactly what Girls & Gadgets are !! They literally don't go well together ...

I'm not saying the girls don't even know their phone's model numbers. C'mon, that'll be an insult. But do they know:

·         The tech specifications of their PC

·         What’s a Graphic Card & if they need one in their PC (You remember this ??)

·         Where exactly does the RAM fit inside the CPU

·         How to reset the message center number in the phone & what IS a msg center

·         How to get the IMEI number from the phone's memory

Oh trust me, I can go on forever.

So why exactly this kolaveri di ?? Guys nowadays have a sense of what fashion is, the most elite of the chefs in the world are men, changing a nappy isn't a rocket science for us anymore.

But these creatures from Venus ??

They can't handle the expensive little machines that make our lives so much easier. They rely on US for this task. A pretty face can wring you dry off your money, break up the closest of friendships & start the most brutal of wars but whenever it comes to these instruments, with their little buttons, sophisticated softwares and touch interfaces, they're the typical damsels in distress !!

If they actually are from Venus, the hottest planet (No Puns here guys) in the milky way (Over here too plz), then these gadgets are their KRYPTONITE.

Atleast I think so ...

Every girl can't be a Jessica Beil, operating a Military Tank while wearing a sizzling army tank top or ScarJo, who can hack into the most sophisticated of the defence systems in those hot leather pants or Megan Fox, who made Grand Theft Auto look like a piece of cake in that orange top & skin tight jeans.

They're all like a stereotypical Isla Fisher or Rachel Green, the fashionista shopaholics who know how to "swipe" a credit card but don't really know what's the mechanism behind the Credit Card POS Machine.

Therefore, I rest my case ...

Never-Ending phone calls: A necessary EVIL ??

You met a girl whom you like. She likes you too. You ask her out and BANG, you're in a relationship.

It seems too short but soon the honeymoon period ends and believe it or not, ur a normal couple just like the others. This is not the hard part but yeah, it's not easy too. The most difficult part and also, the crux of this post, is the painstakingly long and torturous phone calls you share with the love of your "current" life.

I never seem to understand the fact how the couples talk n talk n talk for hours at a time ... I've seen my pals glued to their phones and repeatedly calling the person at the other end of the line, "JAANU" or "BABY" (Pyaar ka Punchnaama Flashback anyone?) and talking till the wee hours of the morning. Not only the phone calls are long, boring and unyielding, the lengthy e-mails and text messages are intolerable too. A lot of girls can relate to Rachel writing the 27 page long letter to Ross about how she feels. 27 PAGES ...

FRONT AND BACK.

I remember the phone calls, where my replies were confined to the occasional "so" or "really" or "ok" while she would go on and on, the emails that could easily make up a chapter of the Lord of the Rings novel (which is super lengthy btw) to which I used to reply with a one or max two paragraph response, with don't know how many line breaks. I almost landed into trouble when my folks got the page-long (ironic huh) phone bills on every single phone I dialed her number from.

I bet, if I had the phone made of the two cans a string, they would deliver a hefty phone bill at my home. So really, why do girls always have to "express" themselves in so many words ?? Or should I be furious at the English language, where there are endless words to explain how they feel. I don't mean guys don't say what they feel, we just choose the shortest, the most precise and the fastest route. Ever seen a heterosexual guy who writes long letters and make those phone calls and actually talk most of the time? (and is not a stalker of course). If these creatures exist, please, enlighten me !!

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Bad Boys & Good Girls: A Yin Yang Combo ??

Some days back, I stumbled upon a song named "free falling". The original version is sung by Tom Petty but the one I heard was by the great John Mayer which he sang live at a concert. In the song, he talks about how he's been a bad boy and broken a "innocent good girl's" heart. He goes on about how happy she is now, in her perfect world without him.

This got me thinking. Are girls really suckers for bad boys ?? I don't really know about the real world but the reel world sounds affirmative. The sentiment is even stronger , in the era of the Twilight Saga, Vampire Diaries and True Blood. So are they really just aching to get those fangs into their necks ?? Even in the song, John Mayer uses the vampires in the same context as bad boys, making them synonyms.

And is it just the good girls or all the girls ? The good girls and bad boys, agreed, would be like the ultimate yin yang or the north and south pole in the laws of attraction but the bad girls too ? I mean, c'mon, give the good guys something to work with. Taking an example from a cheesy Hindi dramas or movie won't really help my argument but what about the Hollywood stories ?
Most of the popular chick flicks show the bad and spoilt young brat falling for the innocent sweet girl who lives a world apart from him. A walk to remember, Cruel Intentions and She's all that to name a few. They fall in love and a couple of years later, the guy has straightened out, has a good job, a family and they live happily forever.

To make it worse, most of these flicks are inspired by best selling novels (Nicholas Sparks is a major influence FYI) and this topic never seems to get old. Those, coupled with the break up songs by Adele n Rihanna, the good guys have to find a way out or else, their only option would be to go gay !! The last book I read was named "One Day" by David Nicholls. Even that one is on similar lines (I mean Bad boys and good girls, not homosexuals)

That's about the good girls, but the bad girls too ? The heavily tattooed, gothic and rebellious girls with father issues ?? I don't thing I've ever noticed one of em with the the geeky, law abiding, good hearted boys. You'll see plenty of em with Charlie Harper (Two and a Half Men), Drake Bell (Drake & Josh) or Barney Stinson (Do I really have to tell you the name of this show ??), ofcourse taking the Big Bang Theory guys as an exception. But I can't really say how many exceptions are there or will be there.

So please give the good ol guys, the Ross & Chandlers of the world, a chance. They're nice, funny, chivalrous & most importantly, NOT GAY !!


So a frnd of mine, supposedly A "Good" Girl retaliated and wrote something to refute my thesis !! Here it is ... Have a look and tell her she's wrong


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