Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Body Language is important! Non-verbal signals make up 55% of all face to face communication! Now I know why I don't like people who use the GLOVE HANDSHAKE. eeeee. I hate it. And somemore people intrude my INTIMATE ZONE 15-46cm without my permission, but I think for Asians it's less! haha. So I don't feel violated. See, there's 4 zones of personal space, depending on who we're interacting with: Intimate Zone(15-46cm), Personal Zone(46cm-1.2m), Social Zone(1.2-3.6m), Public Zone(>3.6m). Now I know why people don't like to sit beside strangers on the bus, cos their Intimate Zone is invaded, and if they're forced to be in such a situation they must abide by the unwritten rules of conduct:
1. You are not permitted to speak to anyone, including a person you know.
2. You must avoid eye contact with others at all times.
3. You are to maintain a 'poker' face - no emotion is permitted to be displayed.
4. If you have a book or newspaper, you must appear to be deeply engrossed in it.
5. The bigger the crowd, the less body movement you are permitted to make.
6. In elevators, you are compelled to watch the floor numbers above your head.

Shall become a BODY LINGUIST if there is such a thing ((((: so interesting!

Anyway, I think it's too idealistic to expect everyone to be THEMSELVES all the time, because you just can't. humans are social creatures, and you probably wouldn't survive if you didn't adhere to some code of conduct around different people. I know a lot of people always talk about 'being yourself' and being 'unique', but the truth is, if we weren't to a certain extent LIKE others, we wouldn't be accepted blahblahblah. What the hell. I sound umm vaguely philosophical. RECOIL IN HORROR! I hate preachy blogs, or bloggers who pretend to know lotslotslots. "Maybe someday, you'll be as clever as me."

Am looking to watch Kal Ho Naa Ho again!! I think it's 5/6 of what Kabhi Khushi is, which is pretty not bad, but I didn't cry as much for that one. Was plenty sad though! My mother cried at the end too, even though she only watched part of it ((: One day, I shall have four sons and name them Tom, Dick, Harry and Rahul! Poor Rahul will be the odd one out! But at least he has an Indian name! And my daughters will be Jane, Jill, Mary and Rahel! They'll be so plainplainplain that they'll stand out. I mean, honestly, how many people do you know are called MARY?? EXCEPT FOR NUNS.

Fact of the Day: The plural of Shar Pei is Shar Pei and not Shar Peis.

Poor girl in the 9 o'clock show! All her hair is falling out! )):

- BODY LANGUAGE.
by @ 7:47 PM