The 'Weekend' phenomenon
Does anyone know who started the concept of weekend? I mean I have studied histories of various cultures and shit but never came across the concept of weekend in any of them. But at the end of it all..isn't it great! Can you imagine the 21st century without weekends?!! Weekend are bliss..those two days of legal freedom from all your worldly professional academic ties. Its like gaps in the continuous plot of life. Your regular life just stops there. Its like those pit-stops you have in F1 races..u keep running, racing and HALT - its weekend, Saturday Sunday and then - start racing again. And I know a lot of people(obviously including me) who have this notion of being able to complete any given amount of work over the weekend. "Have you done that work?" ends with replies like "Cool..I have a weekend before the deadline right..I'll complete it over the weekend". Its like if Hitler was assigned the job of conquering an extra continent in addition to his empire all he would need would be an extra weekend in his life. God save and protect Weekends!!! Amen to that. Saw the movie Flavors yesterday..felt itchy all over throughout the run of the movie..one of those ABCD type movies..And there was a book fair yesterday in college and they started giving them away for free towards the fag-end of the fair.. got my self 2 books..still hoping that they will turn out to be useful sometime to me. Findings of the day: I have come to know of this lately. Take a deck of cards and pick one at random and before seeing it, guess its number(from 2 to A). Obviously no logic involved, this is a guessing game. I have tried this for like an hour yesterday and amazingly I have realised that you will guess the card right once in every 10 tries. Guaanteed! Try it out.
posted by Vithal @ 02:55
1 Comments:
this cannot be! i mean.. how can this be?? i cannot believe it! what? that i wuz thinkin' of the funda of weekends too! tho' in a different perspective altogether. i wuz thinkin' of how much the west have influenced us.. where the calendar is concerned. we follow their holidayz. the commonest of them being? u said it! weekends! i seem to rem. that in the gulf, ppl have fridayz as holidayz. is that not so? anyway, here in india.. eons ago.. what were the holidays? did people take a break from work every 5 dayz n' hey, i dunno abt ur funda, but i NEVER set myself work on a weekend. no way! comin to office on a wknd is an absolute NO-NO! OK, i got my appraisal screwed 'cuz of that.. but i shan't change
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