Jab I Met SRK!!!

 I was sleeping tight. I hope my mouth was not open because he would have seen that when he came and sat near me. He must have tried to call me cause by the time I woke up he was shaking me up. Hope he didn't think I was dead. When I woke up I stared for a second then tried to scream but I couldn't find my voice. He raised his eyebrows. “Shhh dont worry. Relax you are in a plane”

I continued to stare. What was he doing in my plane? I seemed to have forgotten the plane did not actually belong to me. He smiled. “Hi you know me right?” Whatever on earth I was doing, I was not talking. He offered his hands for a hand shake and whispered “I am SRK” I shook his hand and replied “I am RM” He laughed at this and whispered again “Shah Rukh Khan”. I whispered back “Rinita Mishra” He opened his mouth wide and said “Wow that's you!”

I sat up straight now. If this was a dream, I was beginning to enjoy it. I said “Ahh don't tell me you know me” He said “But of course! I watch every step of yours! I am your best fan ever! I mean who isn't? But I beat them all I tell you!” I tried to look modest now. I am not sure if I had any idea of what was going on. It was like we interchanged our roles. I signed his autograph book. I actually wrote “Hope you have a bright future ahead” and he insisted me to add this “And be it almost as nice as mine. Love, Rini”

So SRK carries an autograph book what do you know. How surprising it can be!! Then he asked for the weirdest thing. He asked me to touch his head and bless. Okay now this was going too far even for an interesting dream. I had to get out of it. Wake up RINI!!! Seems I did not wake up cause Sharukh was still talking “I normally don't like anyone touching my hair. I am kinda fussy about it you know” That sounded like my fav. man Jesse (If anyone watches the TV sitcom "Full House" would know) I said so. He didn't seem to like it. But hey something was wrong here. How come he didn't recognise me if he watched me every second? I asked that. But he didn't answer.

I woke up. Nope this was not a dream. This was a chunk of my imagination. A big chunk!! How else could I mess it up so much! Oh well it was good while it lasted! Hope he has not lost that autograph book.. ;)

BASIC E MAIL ETIQUETTE TO BE KEPT IN MIND!

From the title of this post, i guess you will have a fair idea as to what the subject is all about. There probably are hundreds of sites on email and chat etiquette; Still this is my attempt to list a few essentials that many of us (including me) forget to keep most of the time!

So as a reminder, here goes a few:

1) When a person whom you know has sent you an email or an offliner in your chat messenger,  we may not have the time to reply back the moment we look at it. Its okay to do that. But its not okay to completely forget about it. Make sure you reply within a day. This is important; as we often push for later and forget. People on the other side may not take it in the same absent-minded way we do. Some people get hurt, some get offended, others annoyed.

But most of the time, people don’t tell us about it, so we go on making the same mistake and they go on feeling offended. Of course, its all together a different story if there are personal reasons as to why you don’t want to respond to some people.

2) The above also works for sms'es or unanswered calls. We most often keep these things for later and it’s the same story again.

3) When you are about to leave, please let the other person know before you do so. Of course such a miss wont happen in real life because you can’t afford to disappear without people noticing it (trust me when i say that..been there.. done that!!).

 

What I am talking about is online conversation via chat you have started.If you suddenly decide the need to shut down and disappear, the person on the other side would feel that may be he/she said something that offended you. Please let them know if you want to go off and don't make them feel guilty. Again, I am telling this out of experience!! :P

4) When someone has sent you a mail or an offliner, please acknowledge!! You need not reply but you have to acknowledge getting it. This could be really annoying. I found that out when I was at the sender’s end. I send something and even after repeated did-you-get-its some people forget to type and send a simple “yes”.

5) Well those are few i could think as important, most of them from my own experience. But the most important acknowledgement which you could give to anybody on this planet is without the help of any sort of technology. It is the something which every person has in him/her -a simple and sweet smile. No one can ever get hurt by it and it does wonders to both the sender and the receiver.

On the other hand, when you take an absent minded stroll on a road and miss all the faces that smile at you and you being in your dream world walk with an indifferent air, you are putting the whole world against you. Trust me, you don’t want to do that!

I tend to be over-expressive and over-reactive on seeing a familiar face.I say my hi’s and bye’s with full on energy (not a good advice if you do that for the byes because people may just think you were looking to get away, which you probably were!! :P )