Have you thought about making a change, breaking free and leaving for another place to live out your life with a new name, new identity and living a new life? Going somewhere where no one knows you and you can create a whole new life for yourself and even create a fake history of yourself so anyone new in your life will only know you as what you tell them and they accept you for that. Living under a fake identity, a fake alias – making up a background story for yourself and changing things about your past as you see fit too. Carrying none of the old baggage and having people know you only from that moment onwards and they don’t have to know or ever can get to know any of your actual past? Sounds like the plot of  bestseller or a new Hollywood movie yes?

Sometimes I wonder about that and what it would be like. I’d go to a quiet place or a tropical island or some little hamlet away from the rest of the crowded word, if I could create a new identity. Somewhere where no one knows my name or anything else about me. They’d have to accept whatever story I tell them about myself and my past or go by the fake records that I have created. Maybe a new name and history. So as I start this new life on this island or place away from all that I know, I’d be breathing new life into me. None of the old stuff remains and my story is mine to create. A clean slate just waiting for me to fill in with new stories and perhaps make things better and maybe change a lot of who I am. Change stuff that I couldn’t change because of the people I knew but now since I’m alone all that is gone.

That would be the great escape, the escape from my life and who I am. I’m not saying that I want to do it but it’s an idea. If I felt that it would work and if I had the money and I found a perfect place to escape off to I might consider it. The opposite of the Cheers theme – Where everybody knows your name! Where no one knows your name or the stuff that you did or your past life or your baggage. Where you can be who you want to be. Hmmm, sounds interesting!

If you were supreme ruler of planet Earth for a day, what changes would you make?

Oh I so wish that were a post that I could apply too. I would do so well as the supreme ruler of our planet and even if it only for one day I’d make so many changes that the world would be a better place!

First, I’d ban all unnecessary political parties and make all them worthless assholes get real jobs. Do something useful for a change. I’d also make me supreme ruler forever so I can continue making all these awesome rules and changes in this world. Then I’d make it mandatory that all religious places or worship be banned, all religions made obsolete and instead all these buildings converted to make affordable or even free housing for those who are homeless or do not have a proper place of residence. With real food & clothes being served to them. Mandatory jobs for all these people so they can get back on their feet. Or should I make Friday part of the weekend and give every new baby chocolate eclairs?

Holidays will be a must; people need to rest & relax from the rigours of daily life. 2 days off and 5 days working for everyone and it is compulsory. No strikes or harthals or bandhs allowed. Borders will be just for keeping things in check, nationalities will be a thing of the past. Everyone is a human and the earth is our home. So no nationalities or nationalism. Sports will be a must however and teams will be based on their location but no nations fighting with each other. Racism will be made illegal, gods all chucked out and places of worship & idols to be destroyed and religions to be abolished – no hindusim, no chrisianity, no scientology, no judiasm, no islam, no youslam! All holy books to be thrown away and burnt! Science, music, arts and creativity will be encouraged and we will spend all our efforts to make life better for everyone. And oh – can’t forget the pets! Dogs, cats and other animals to get shelters and adopting them will be encouraged. 1 family of 4 or 5 can have 2 dogs & 2 cats or more! Take care of them.

Space exploration will be given the next most important status. Cause we’re gonna need it. Oh and marijuana will be legalized for everyone! What else?

At what age, and which song or songs that you were listening to in particular, did you realize that 95% of the time when they say the word ‘baby’ in a song, they don’t mean an infant?

I should say songs sung in English but yeah. I remember a younger cousin asking the question “in English songs when they sing “baby” do they mean an actual infant?” when he was around 10 or 11 years old and his older brother and I just looked at each other and giggled. But yes it was a valid question, especially for those of us who live in a country where English is not the native language. Or wait – don’t little kids in England, Canada, the US, Australia & New Zealand also get confused the first few years of their life when they hear “baby” in a song?

I myself must have been 8 or 9 years old when I attained ‘lyrical’ enlightenment and understood that it meant a hot girl. I liked Michael Jackson at that age! Which still didn’t quite satisfy me until the age of 12 and when I understood ‘biology’ and then slowly it dawned on me – calling a chick ‘baby’ sounded right! But then I remembered this song from Madonna that sounded confusing with it’s lyrics – “Papa don’t preach, I’m in trouble deep, Papa don’t preach, I’ve losing sleep, but I’ve made up my mind, I’m keeping my baby” – did she mean keeping her baby in her belly or her boyfriend? Since her father doesn’t approve, it could have been either right?

When did they first start using ‘baby’ for a girl and then for a man? I would like to know who was the first person to start calling a girl baby; it probably was an African American blues loving guy in the 40s or 50s. Cause they are the ones who start all these cool terms. Probably some dude who was walking around, whistling to himself, on the way to a small club to play his guitar with some band and he sees this hot looking woman and he says out loud “Oooooh baby!” and the term stuck! I’m sure that it was something like that. Yeah!

Learning a new skill gets more difficult as you grow older. It’s a whole lot easier to learn than  to unlearn and it’s also easier to learn a new skill or a way to do something when you are younger. Just like it’s easier to learn a new language when you are a kid and you pick up things much easier. Also using it or doing it often is the best way to learn something quicker, more fluently and easier.

Do I prefer to read about it, watch someone else do it, hear someone describe it, or try it yourself? I can do either way or the best would be a combination of two or more methods. The best, in my humble opinion, is to watch someone do it or show it to you and then try it out yourself. That’s the apprentice method for lack of finding a true title to it. I just feels that it is the best method going back all the way to when you are a baby and learn by imitating what your parent or an adult does. Aping someone else or monkey see, monkey do! So that is the best way to do. Trying it myself is also a very cool way to do some things, like reading the instructions and then trying it out – it’s always great when you can do it yourself especially if you are doing it without instructions. It gives you a special sense of achievement.

Instructional videos are a great way to learn stuff – be it building something, playing an instrument, software related and stuff like that. Someone describing something to you and going by just the words they say can work for a lot of things but there are stuff that you need to see to understand better or it could just be that the person is describing something but because of lack of clarity in the communication or in your understanding capability there could be some misunderstanding or some confusion and the results aren’t what you really wanted to see. And reading the instructions is good but not as good as watching someone do it and then learning it by doing it yourself. For a lot of things reading about it, like recipes or some instructions on software and stuff, is more than adequate especially if they have really helpful pictures or drawings as well.

So it might depend on what it is that I or you are trying to learn or do and the best method will vary according to it. But all methods have their plus points.