05 October 2008

--Random Thoughts--

1.Hot Bar Move: Take Notes.

Last night a few of my dental school classmates came into town, so we met at Rush Street martini lounge for a mini-reunion. Let me first introduce you to the key parties: there's me, Anoosheh (noosh), Niraj, and Sheila (Noosh's best friend, radiology resident).

It was:

1. Niraj's birthday
2. Noosh's homecoming (from the Cleve)
3. re-living LA (when me, Noosh, Sheila, and Scherzad - Sheila's sister - all met up in LA during my externship there two years ago).

Let me particularly focus on Sheila. She's a pretty good looking and pretty well endowed woman. Aint' gonna lie. And her top on Friday night was more than flattering to her blessings by Mother Nature. In fact, it was so flattering that it led to the high point of my night:

Some young guy brushes past me and Noosh,trying to get to the bar where we were all congregating and just creating catch-up conversation. At first I thought he was just some overly zealous pre-drunk schmuck who was just eager to get his drink and felt that the only way to get the attention of the bartender was to push his way through....that is, until he shoved me into Noosh and said to Sheila, "Hey. You're gorgeous. What's your name?"

Wow that's some game, shoving a girl's friends trying to get her attention.

Real smooth.

2. Shop Theory

My friend has a very typical and ingenuous theory called The Shop Theory. It states how girls are items for sale in a shop. There are various sections based on qualifications and values that each girl has. HAHA, I would not be in this shop because I am priceless. HAHAHAHA. Just Kidding. Wait, not really.

Anyways...so my question is really...are guys also items in the Shop Theory? As in to say, is this Shop divided into male and female sections like most department stores? Or is it simply limited to a single-sex store? I would like to think that is is a duo-gender concept. And yes people are probably shopping for a significant other. However, I don't necessarily like the idea of people being categorized as "things". The problem with making people into inanimate objects is that they then lose their human characteristic, and thus, become emotionless. Becoming emotionless is, if you want to put it in "Shop Theory" terms, almost like becoming valueless. Not priceless, there's a difference.

It also makes it easy to lose connection with someone. If say, your significant other was a jacket. What happens if you become "tired" of that jacket? You just take it off, get a new one. It makes people disposable. And by making people disposable, they then become replaceable. And that in turn, makes relationships meaningless, leads to more breakups, taking people for granted, and broken marriages. Except of course, because there is this whole mindset of easily-replaceable object-ism, it ends up being a sick and vicious downward spiral.

Good thing I'm not for sale huh?