It’s not just the global deals. Freida Pinto is constantly hitting headlines for another reason — her uncensored snaps. Now, Freida’s “naked” photo from Elite’s 2007 calendar and “washroom stills” from the sets of Miral are in the news.
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Paparazzi followed Freida even to the washroom on the sets of MiralOn the sets of Julian Schnabel’s Miral in Jerusalem, the Slumdog Millionaire star was shot when she stepped out of a portable toilet. Freida was clueless about the photographs till they started flooding websites and blogs.Experts, however, slam the pictures as ‘distasteful’. “It’s in bad taste,” says Ryan Martis, who shot Freida in her first shoot.“How can you click a person during his/ her private moments? I don’t believe in such photography.” Surprisingly, Freida’s latest photos are inviting critical reactions too. A post on wingfantasy. com states: “ The lissome lass, who has been posing all prim and proper with her powder and rouge done to perfection, was recently caught off guard sans any make-up.” Also, Freida’s past experiments are hotting up the internet world. A sizzling picture from the Elite Modelling Agency’s calendar adds up more drama with several reports calling it a ‘naked’ photo shoot.But interestingly, Elite’s India director, Sushma Puri, refuses to call it a “nude snap”. She adds: “We used Freida twice — in 2006 and 2007. But I don’t find her snap to be naked. Wendell Rodericks did the styling for us.” Sources close to Freida say the model-turned- actress is upset with her paparazzi pictures. And if the buzz is to be believed, Miral producers have doubled Freida’s security to guard her privacy on the sets.Co-incidentally, Freida’s latest picture trouble comes at a time when L’Oreal has signed an endorsement deal with her.Along with Freida, other global beauties — Evangeline Lily and Elizabeth Banks are also joining the L’Oreal Paris family.
A still from a calendar that Freida shot in 2007. Many reports are calling it a 'naked' photo shoot.“I am very moved to be joining the great L’Oréal Paris family and illustrious personalities: A family I am now proud to be a part of,” said Freida in a statement. Earlier, she was rumoured to have signed up with Estee Lauder.Coming back to Freida’s snappy issue, she must be feeling the heat of achieving international fame. Ever since stepping into the international limelight, her every move has been closely scrutinised.In between, Freida’s old pictures have become a hot property with publications and netizens. So, be it her romantic images with Dev Patel or the sultry photos before Slumdog, she is surely topping popularity charts.“If Freida’s old pictures are not being used in a justifiable manner, it’s not right to use them. They only make sense if a publication or website needs them for their write- ups and not for sheer publicity,” says Puri.Meanwhile, Freida is gearing up for Woody Allen’s yet- untitled film after wrapping up Miral.The shooting starts in July though Hollywood star Nicole Kidman has opted out of the multi-starrer project, reports Variety magazine.
Freida faces naked facts
Indians happiest with their sex lives
Indians sure are having a "rocking" time in the bedroom. A new survey has found that 70 per cent of people living in the sub-continent are sexually satisfied.
According to the - Asia-Pacific Sexual Health and Overall Wellness survey, by a pharmaceutical company, India topped the list with respondents saying they were satisfied with their sex lives while Japan reported the lowest sexual satisfaction rate at 10 per cent.
Malaysia ranked sixth among 13 countries with two out of three Malaysian men and three out of four women saying they are not happy with their sex lives. "The Malaysian figure is higher than the overall Asia Pacific results where 57 per cent of men and 64 per cent of women reported being not very satisfied with sex," The Star Online quoted Dr Rosie King, who led the study in the Asia Pacific region, as saying. "The survey links the level of erection to sexual satisfaction for men," said Dr King during discussion.
"We found that greater sexual satisfaction is strongly associated with greater satisfaction with life overall. Generally, men and women who are highly satisfied with their sex life have a more positive outlook on their relationships and life," King added.
Washington, May 11: In a new revelation, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the CIA of the United States and his country's ISI together created the Taliban. "I think it was part of your past and our past, and the ISI and CIA created them together," Zardari told the NBC news channel in an interview. In the interview, which was given to the NBC on May 7, Zardari also accused the US of supporting the military rule of Pervez Musharraf who was alleged to be taking sides of the Taliban. He disagreed with the popular belief in the US that the Pakistan military and intelligent services still have sympathies for the Taliban. "I think General Musharraf may have had a mindset to run head and hand with the hound but certainly not on our watch. We don't have a tough process at all," Zardari said. Asked about the influential role of the Pakistan Army, Zardari said he is in control of everything in the country, including the military. "The Parliament has final say. It's the Parliament form of government, and I am a product of the Parliament," he said. Earlier, Zardari in an another interview had said that India
was not a "threat" to his country and that Pakistan had moved some of its forces from its Indian border to western frontier to eliminate Taliban in its tribal belt.
Pak govt to take over all madrassas
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that all madrassas in the country would be taken over by the government to separate the students from extremism and impart modern as well as religious education to them. Speaking at a community dinner, Zardari said his government has resolved to bring reforms in the madrassa system and bring it under the government system. Commenting on the ongoing military operation in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) against the Taliban and other terrorist groups Zardari said the government would initiate every necessary step to pull the country out of the crisis and hand over a better Pakistan to the next generation. “We are striving for reconciliation with all forces in Pakistan, rejuvenation of national institutions, reorganisation of Pakistan’s strength. We have a lot of strength but we have never allowed our full potential to be utilised for the good of the country,” The News quoted Zardari, as saying. Zardari also claimed that Islamabad has shifted an ‘unspecified number’ of troops from its eastern border with India to fight against the Taliban.
50 YEARS OF SEEKING E.T.
Or maybe we just haven't been looking long enough.
All of those possibilities are considered in "Confessions of an Alien Hunter," a new book from Seth Shostak, the SETI Institute's senior astronomer.
Shostak's "confessions" are actually Shostak's arguments for why the SETI search makes sense - leavened with dramatic accounts of the effort's best-known false alarms and folksy metaphors that would put Dan Rather to shame (including this one: "Life is as durable as Christmas fruitcake").
The California institute where Shostak works is the primary standard-bearer in the search for alien signals. That search dates back to 1960, when astronomer Frank Drake (now the SETI Institute's president) aimed an 85-foot radio telescope in West Virginia skyward in hopes of tuning in the extraterrestrials.
After his initial foray, Drake and his fellow seekers moved on to bigger and better telescopes, including the old 140-foot Green Bank Telescope and the 1,000-foot Arecibo Observatory. But the strategy was pretty much the same: Check one star for an unnaturally steady radio signal, then move on to the next star.
Now that's changing. The Allen Telescope Array, a joint venture involving the SETI Institute and the University of California at Berkeley, will allow bunches of stars to be studied at once. Like microchips, the efficiency of SETI has been improving at a geometric pace in agreement with Moore's Law. If that pace continues for the next two dozen years, more than a million stars will be checked for signs of on-air life, Shostak notes.
Shostak and Drake say that sampling should be big enough to result in contact - assuming first that the aliens exist, and then that they think like we do. The first assumption is big, but the second one is even bigger. If the search for signs of microbial life on Mars and more distant worlds requires a correct understanding of astrobiology, the search for intelligence beyond our own solar system requires something more: astropsychology, perhaps?
Over the decades, the strategy for SETI has by necessity been dictated by a cosmic Golden Rule: We look for communication in the channels that we use to communicate. A generation ago, that might have been the analog television signals that carried "I Love Lucy" out to the cosmos. Today, Drake speculates that the aliens might be transmitting digitally, with lasers instead of monster radio antennas.
During a weekend talk in Seattle, Drake pointed out that the just-completed National Ignition Facility can focus the light of 192 lasers to create a pulse that lasts just a few nanoseconds but far outshines the sun. "Those lasers can make pulses of light which are visible to very small telescopes all across the galaxy," he noted.
Shostak theorizes that E.T. might have two types of transmitters going: one that flashes such pulses of light toward a long list of target planets that might be habitable - including us - and another "low-power, omnidirectional broadcast that tells you how to join their book club, or whatever." For that reason, SETI searchers have started conducting surveys for those tiny flashes of light as well as for sustained radio traffic.
So where should we look? Historically, the SETI Institute's target list has favored Earthlike planets where life as we know it might have taken root. But in "Confessions of an Alien Hunter," Shostak suggests that on the basis of what we're learning about artificial intelligence, the most likely aliens to send signals would actually be artificially intelligent machines.
If E.T. is a big shiny robot, the strategy of targeting Earthlike worlds orbiting sunlike stars may turn out to be "a very antiquated idea," Shostak acknowledged during a weekend interview. "A world on which the whole thing can rust might not be the best place for it," he said. A better place, from the machine's point of view, would be in orbit around a star hot enough to provide the prodigious power required for the big broadcast.
But Drake said the other end of the stellar scale shouldn't be overlooked, either. It turns out that about three-quarters of the stars in our galaxy are red dwarfs, which are dimmer than the sun but still could provide a home for E.T. Those stars have been overlooked in past SETI searches.
The bottom line, Drake said, is that "our simple picture was really way too simple" when it came to visualizing the kinds of places in the universe where life might lurk.
That's one of the reasons why Drake isn't discouraged that the SETI quest has come up empty, even after 50 years. He pointed out that only a thousand stars or so have been studied, over bandwidth that accounts for just a few percentage points of the potential spectrum. "We've looked at something like 10-5 of the possible combinations," he said.
Shostak said he felt confident that solid evidence of life beyond Earth will be found within two dozen years - either by continuing with SETI, or by analyzing exoplanet atmospheres, or by digging into the dirt on Mars or the ice on Europa or Enceladus. Drake, meanwhile, had a longer timetable in mind. "I don't think 2025 is going to happen unless we're very lucky," he told me. "Maybe it'll take twice as long - maybe 2050."
Other experts have suggested time frames of 100 to 200 years.
Of course, such timetables assume that SETI efforts around the world will continue to attract followers and funding. SETI efforts in the United States are funded privately rather than publicly, and Drake said it's getting tougher to raise money. "As long as the recession keeps going on, we have to move that [timetable] back," he said.
Could there ever come a point when the experts decide there's no E.T. out there to phone home? What would Shostak do if he hasn't heard from the aliens after a century of searching (other than celebrating the fact that he's still alive in the year 2060, that is)?
"I don't think I would be ready to say that they're just not there," he said, "but I might be inclined to say that we're barking up the wrong arboreal fixture ... that there's something fundamentally wrong with what we're doing."
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has announced a strategic tie-up with Hewlett Packard (HP) to provide "a portfolio of solution"' to businesses on its smartphones.
Under the tie-up, Hewlett Packard will unveil HP CloudPrint to enable BlackBerry users to print emails, photos, web pages and other documents from their smartphones to the nearest printer - at home, in the office or on the road.
The California-based PC maker will also unveil HP Operations Manager for BlackBerry Enterprise Server during the Wireless Enterprise Symposium at Orlando in Florida this year.
This manager (software) will "centrally monitor and manage the extended BlackBerry solution ecosystem.'' The ecosystem comprises the BlackBerry Enterprise Server software, mail servers, databases, Microsoft Active Directory and server operating systems such as Windows Server.
In a statement Monday, the Waterloo-based Canadian wireless giant said the solutions, including support for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, will raise service levels, cut operations costs and improve productivity for customers.
The statement said RIM and HP will "design and launch offerings to increase the productivity levels of the growing number of mobile employees, enabling businesses to extend the return on their investments in mobility.''
RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said, "RIM and HP are working together to deliver solutions to customers that weave mobility into their daily operations - from innovative new services in the cloud to managed mobile services for the enterprise.
"Through our collaboration with HP, businesses will have access to an expanded set of applications and services for their BlackBerry smartphone deployments.''
HP executive vice president said, "As businesses look for new ways to increase service levels, reduce operational costs and improve productivity, they can meet these challenges by transforming how they manage the infrastructure that powers their mobile workforces.
"Emerging models of communications and collaboration have created an opportunity for RIM and HP to provide service-based mobile solutions that deliver value to customers."
BlackBerry shares jumped up $1.68 to $87.48 on the Toronto Stock Exchange after the announcement of the tie-up.
Vote or pay fine!
STUNG BY the low turnout in urban India, BJP's prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani (81) on Thursday floated the idea of making voting compulsory for Indians. Though there are many countries that have made voting compulsory, a Supreme Court bench headed by of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan said India records up to 60 per cent average polling and that was satisfactory. The idea of making voting compulsory was immediately rejected by Advaniâs opponents as well.
It is binding on the citizens of countries like Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Costa Rica, Greece, Singapore, Switrzerland and Uruguay to cast the ballot, however, the degree of enforcement varies.
A spokesperson of the Australian high commission said, Australia made voting compulsory in 1924. It is well regarded by the Australians who see it as a part of their civic duty. Those who donâte vote have to pay a nominal fine. There is no sense of infringement of peoples rights.
The turnout in Australia has never fallen below 90 per cent. Meanwhile, Uruguayan ambassador Cesar Ferrer told, With a population of 3.5 million Uruguay has a system of compulsory voting since 1971. In case of no show on poll day, Uruguayans have to justify on a case by case basis their absence or they face a fine.
The Swiss have to pay a fine of three francs, the Argentinians 10 to 20 pesos and Cypriots face a Cyprus £200 fine, while in some other countries non-voters can also face imprisonment, according to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. In Belgium those who don't vote find it difficult to find employment in the public sector and in Greece they have trouble procuring passport and driving licence, the institute added.
A lawsuit seeking compulsory voting had come up before the Supreme Court earlier this month. The court dismissed the lawsuit on the point that greater voter turnout could be brought about by creating awareness rather than enacting laws.
Why Chiranjeevi is no NTR
'The leader and masses are there. But to win elections, you need a political programme and an organization - he lacks both,' says Prof Hara Gopal, political scientist.
'Chiranjeevi's Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) is more a commercial venture than a political party,' says Parakala Prabhakaran, who was among founding leaders of PRP in August last year. Disillusioned, Prabhakaran resigned from the party early this month.
'We thought using his charisma and crowd-pulling capabilities, we would build a new political platform. But he was neither interested in politics or in creating any structure.
' At a rally that Chiru addressed near Medak that went to polls in the first phase, a young crowd was ecstatic and charged as the star arrived three hours behind schedule in a scorching afternoon. They tried to touch him and were frantic as Chiranjeevi thanked them for the love, expressed by watching his movies.
'Now I will give you a lifetime of happiness, not merely happiness that lasts couple of hours,' he says rhetorically and moves on to his recurring theme - 'social justice.' 'He's using it in an abstract fashion,' says Gopal.
'Many of us in the party pleaded with him that our programme should be defined. He could not care less,' said Prabhakaran.
That's where Chiru is not a patch on NTR, also a film star but managed to rewrite the political scrip of AP permanently. 'NTR had a political programme that combined the interests of the poor and pride of the Telugu people,' says N. Chandrababu Naidu, his son-in-law and current TDP chief.
'NTR had articulated politics ranging from centre-state relations to local governance,' recalls Prabhakaran. There are more such dissimilarities that suggest Chiranjeevi is unlikely to replicate the TDP experience.
NTR fan following was better educated, socially respectable and spanned three generations; Chiru fans are less educated and restricted to the 18-30 age group. NTR made a social alliance of Khammas, a substantial section of backward castes and Madigas, a component of Dalits.
'NTR picked up socially acceptable candidates. Moreover, the situation was ripe for a non-Congress party,' says Gopal.
'PRP candidates are either moneybags or the weak ones fielded to help either the Congress or the TDP in a particular seats,' says Prabhakaran. The impact that the PRP may make this time is going to be mere flicker that will die down in the storm of real politics.
I've picked my favorite mistakes from history, science, and folklore. Some are familiar. We already know, for instance, that Christopher Columbus meant to sail to Asia, not America.
We may never have pondered other mistakes, however. Where would Jack be if his mother hadn't tossed his magic beans out the window? Not up the beanstalk getting golden eggs from the giant's goose, that's for sure.
And where would Cinderella be had she not dropped her glass slipper? Cleaning the fireplace, that's where. (By the way, did you know that the original Cinderella story had her wearing a fur shoe? A French writer made a mistake when he wrote the story down in 1697, confusing two homonyms--vair, an Old French word for fur, and verre, which is French for glass. But it was a good mistake, making for much more romantic story, and much better fashion.)
And now for the rest...
Coca-Cola, chocolate chip cookies, and yellow sticky notes
Did you wonder why I invited you to have a snack at the beginning of this story? It was because both Coca-Cola and chocolate chip cookies were mistakes--or at least unexpected delights. And yellow sticky notes were the result of a failure. Here's what happened.
Innkeeper Ruth Wakefield was baking Butter Drop Do cookies one day in the 1930s using a recipe that dated back to colonial times. She cut up a Nestlé chocolate bar and put the chunks in the batter, expecting them to melt. Wakefield thought she'd be pulling chocolate-flavored cookies out of the oven. Instead, what she got were butter cookies studded with gooey chocolate chips. Her mistake became one of the most favorite cookies of all time.
Coca-Cola was the result of another delicious accident. In 1886 a pharmacist named John Pemberton cooked up a medicinal syrup in a large brass kettle slung over an open fire, stirring it with an oar. When he was done, he figured he had created a fine tonic for people who were tired, nervous, or plagued with sore teeth.
Coke didn't make it as medicine, and wasn't even an instant success as a beverage. In the first year, Pemberton spent $73.96 promoting his new product but managed to sell only $50 worth. Today people guzzle 1 billion drinks a day from the Coca-Cola company (they make more than Coke), which is quite encouraging for us everyday screw-ups.
Yellow sticky notes, officially known as Post-it Notes, got their start in 1968 when a 3M researcher tried to improve adhesive tape. What he got was a semisticky adhesive--not exactly what you want out of tape. Even so, he knew he had something cool--he just didn't know what to do with it.
Four years later, another 3M scientist was getting frustrated. This scientist was a member of his church choir, and he kept dropping the bookmarks stuck in his hymnal. What he needed was something that would stick without being too sticky--something just like that weak glue his colleague had accidentally created. In 1980 the Post-it Note became an official product and a huge hit.
(Another 3M scientist came up with a cool substance called Scotchgard, which helps prevent dirt from staining fabric. But that wasn't what she set out to create: Scotchgard grew out of an attempt to make a synthetic rubber to be used in airplane fuel lines. One day some of the new substance spilled on her assistant's canvas shoe, and they couldn't get it off. As the tennis shoe grew older, it got dingy--everywhere except where the substance had spilled. It took three more years of tinkering, but they had their Scotchgard.)
Tires and Silly Putty
Rubber got its name when English scientist Joseph Priestley discovered that a wad of it was good at "rubbing out" pencil mistakes on paper. But the rubber really hit the road--literally--when someone figured out how to stabilize it for use in boots, tires, and the like. The problem was that rubber melted if it got too hot and shattered if it got too cold.
A colorful character named Charles Goodyear tried to fix this problem in several ways, but it wasn't until (according to legend) he accidentally dropped a blob of rubber and sulfur on a hot stove that he found something that worked. Goodyear denied this was a mistake, but the point is that he had the savvy to know he was on to something good.
Rubber shortages during World War II prompted the U.S. government to look for a synthetic rubber. It seemed like a good idea to try to make this substitute for rubber out of something plentiful, and researchers eventually settled on silicone. An inventor at General Electric added a little boric acid to silicone oil and developed a gooey, bouncy substance.
This substance failed as a substitute for rubber, but after the war it became an extremely popular toy known as Silly Putty. Apollo 8 astronauts later used it to stabilize their tools in zero gravity. (The astronauts carried their Silly Putty in sterling silver eggs.) Today, Binney & Smith (the company that makes Silly Putty) produces 20,000 eggs' worth of Silly Putty a day.
The implantable cardiac pacemaker and penicillin
Some errors have saved lives. Before Wilson Greatbatch came along, people with irregular heartbeats had to control their pulse using a sometimes painful external device invented in 1952 by Paul Zoll. The external pacemaker was about the size of a small television, and administered life-saving jolts of electricity, which sometimes burned the skin.
Greatbatch, a medical researcher, was working on a device to record irregular heartbeats when he accidentally inserted a resistor of the wrong size. He noticed that the circuit pulsed, stopped, and pulsed again--just like a human heart.
After two years of tinkering, Greatbatch had made the first implantable pacemaker. He later invented a corrosion-free lithium battery to power it, and millions have benefited.
Penicillin is another famous example of a mistake turned good. In 1928 scientist Alexander Fleming noticed that mold spores had contaminated one of the bacteria samples he had left by an open window. Instead of discarding his ruined experiment, Fleming took a close look and noticed the mold was dissolving the harmful bacteria. And that's how we got penicillin, which helps people around the world recover from infections.
This brings to mind a powerful quote by scientist Louis Pasteur, "Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind," and another, by writer James Joyce, "Mistakes are the portals for discovery."
What they mean is that you should look carefully--and study your errors. You may find things you were never looking for, things that could change the world, or at the very least, taste really good.
Unleash your inner sex goddess
Being a sex goddess is hard work…and not only is it constant work, it takes time, it takes planning and determination. When’s the last time you took the time to unleash the sex goddess trapped in you. Took a sensuous shower, pampered yourself with barely there lingerie, and seduced a man with every trick in the book…so much so that you just about had him worshipping the very ground that you glided on!
Take charge...Show off your body
Show off how sexual you are! Unleash the sex goddess in you. Instead of him being the master player, take over the baton and show him how to orchestra every move…isn’t that what Kamasutra is all about?
You play games
Who says games are for children? Well, they aren’t. Sex is supposed to be a whole lot of fun. The more you are in a mood to play, the higher you’ll be rated. Role playing, fantasies, blindfolding, bondage…from drab to going kinky, then you can be assured, you are one girl that’s on your partner’s mind all the while.
You Make the first move as often as possible A guy’s constant woe…”She never takes the initiative! So give your partner a zing by taking the initiative. Get bold and naughty, sexy and subtle in the same breath and your partner will be begging for more! And the woman on top – the power position always does the trick. Ask a man on the power play and he gives his thumbs up to the woman on top!
Foreplay lasts twice as long as intercourse
It’s not only women who enjoy the foreplay, but men too get off on foreplay. The little feathery kisses and touches, a nail trailing down their wrist, a nibble on their pulse…is enough to drive him out of his sense. Play it cool and play it to the hilt. I say, hold the reins and play him till he worships you as his own goddess.
No hands massage Use your body…to drive him crazy. Work your magic on him without using your hands. For him to worship you, make the first move. Teach him what a true massage is – with the tip of your tongue to the gentle swell of your hip! It’s all about knowing your sexual appeal!
Read my lips
According to Oriental erotic texts, a woman's upper lip is directly connected to her clitoris. During self-pleasure, or while receiving oral from your lover, bite your upper lip (or run your fingernails over it) to increase sensation and make your orgasm more powerful. You’ll try everything once If you haven’t experimented with pervy or kinky stuff, yet are game for it, then you get our thumbs up on this one. You should try everything (within reason) once. He wants you to dress like Fearless Nadia and talk dirty, then go ahead. You just may enjoy the power play role. You own a vibrator Men actually feel threatened by women who use sex toys. but the truth is, women who own one have higher libidos and generally want more sex. As a saying goes, “A clever girl won't demote her toys to the back of a drawer when her lover is around, but rather she'll put on a performance for him -- and even use them on him.”
You’ve said No to your bed You’ve abandoned your bed and gone wild in the beach, in the car, on the balcony when the neighbors are out (or in)...We know for a fact that semipublic sex is up there in the top five fantasies for men, the top 10 for women.
Please yourself Just because your lover is around that does not mean that you let him do all the work. Pleasuring yourself in front of a lover makes you feel hot and leaves him in a state of near frenzy. And if you’re embarrassed, put on a blindfold. It's kinky and almost private and just up’s your sex goddess quotient. Ask a man and he would put that in his top 5 sexual fantasies.
Go wild and wanton with your clothes Slipping into a flannel nightgown does not really up the sex quotient. Of course, you could look sexy in a potato sack, but if you have the clothes to match your mood, you have hit on a jackpot. Fishnet stockings, corset in satin and peek a boo lingerie with a sexy spray on your pulse points would just about have your man on his feet begging for more.
Source: India Syndicate
How to be a girlfriend stealer
Ever had a crush on a woman, and found out that she was already seeing someone? What did you do next, went home and cried, pussy boy? Losers aside, here are a few things that determined men do. They steal girlfriends. So if you think you’re ready to sweep the girl of your dreams from right under her guy’s nose, here’s Confetti, the Couples Lifestyle Magazine raising a toast to you, you… you little desperado.
So here we go again, on this exciting voyage of being the player and the best man to have existed on the face of this Earth. Casanova is history. So let’s hit first base here. You like a girl. And cupid’s struck the wrong butt… again. And you’re left in the dark. She’s with another guy. Alright, life can be a bit harsh at times. So will you stop with your whining and crying already?! For crying out loud, there’s a way to have her. Thankfully. And it’s all in my, as Chris Gardner says in ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’, “Ten Gallon Head”. Once you’re done blowing your nose and sticking the snot under the couch, let’s get to the deep, dark world of girlfriend stealing. Brr... I can feel the adrenalin already, that sick taste in the mouth and the annoying hair on the back of your neck that stands on end. Girlfriend stealing is an art, not some club swinging clumsy hit-and-miss techniques used by the lesser mortals. So sharpen your mind, and play it smooth, playboy.
Shut the doors, and keep everyone out. This lost art is the final nail on any boyfriend’s coffin. Have you ever come across any guy who could always get any girl he wanted, even if she’s been going out with her guy since the last millennium? It doesn’t matter if you’re a dodo who hasn’t noticed that yet, or if you’ve got so few friends that you don’t have one smooth talker around you, because in just a few minutes you’re going to be able to hold that coveted title in your very own hands. This is unlike me, helping a guy shatter another guy’s heart, but I’ve been hounded by guys who’ve wanted to know how to go out with a girl who’s already been taken, because they’re just so madly in love with them. It may have been the hardest thing on planet earth but with these little pointers, stealing girlfriends could just turn out to be as easy as stealing coins from a genuine blind beggar! So cheer up, lift your chin out of the dirt and keep your eyes peeled if you want that special girl. And if you’re a man who’s going out with a girl already, don’t hate the player, buddy, hate the game
1. Get to know everything she can tell
This is important. Once you’re pals, you need to become something more than that. So talk about her favourite dates, her kind of movies, the little annoying stuff she’s done, and everything else. Just to warm her up, you start off by narrating the time you ripped your pants off while trying to jump into a girl’s house. Just as long as you open up, she will too, and you know what, she’s going to love it!
2. Are you better than him?
The test of manliness. Talk about her guy. Pop the question. Ask her what kind of a guy he is. If you’re getting into her good books, she will keep it simple. Then ask her what she thinks of you. Compare both the scores out aloud. Laugh and talk about what you can do to tilt the balance to your side. And then get back to talking about how they met, and more blah, blah and blah about her guy.
3. Make her love you!
She’s in love with her man, but that could change. Impress her, be a man around her. Give her the space when she meets her pals or on phone when both of you are together, so she can be comfortable when you’re around. Remember her special days, her deadlines, and anything else, even if it is really trivial. Show her that even her little things are really important to you. And wait for the good times.
4. Be her other guy
Now get this straight, you be her other guy, not her back-up guy. If you find that she’s just using you as her Man Friday when he’s not around, walk out. She should respect you and want you. Don’t go trailing her at every opportunity you get. Keep it slow, and talk to her once in a while, at least once a day if you work at the same place, or alternate days or less if it’s on phone. Let her miss you when you aren’t around. Drive her to work if you can, give her the attention, and basically, treat her like a princess when you’re together.
5. Give her what her guy can’t give
Pamper her. You may not be around her all the time, and her guy may be. But that doesn’t matter. Because your one hour around her can do more damage to him than all day. Talk and be genuinely interested in her. If you get a call, see if you can cancel and call back, and let her see that. She should know how special the times both of you share is to you. And more than anything else, maintain intense eye contact with her when both of you talk. Make her feel like she’s the only thing in the world you care about when you’re with her.
Getting down and dirty
1. Dig all info
There may be a few things she knows but she won’t tell. And any info about her is good info. That’s where her pals come into the picture. If you know them in the first place, then go on and ask a few things about her. But very discreetly, of course. You don’t want them to know you’re hitting on her. And admit it, if you do like her, you’re definitely going to want to talk about her.
2. The annoying guy
Find out more about her guy from any source you can get. There may always be a few skeletons that could be dug out here. So he doesn’t believe in holding doors open for a woman? The next time you talk to her, tell her the story about a man who doesn’t open doors for women, and how annoying that is. See, that’s like letting her know her guy isn’t all that, without actually talking about him. On the other hand, talk about how much you live by the code of chivalry. Without coming across as pompous!
3. “Bump” into her
So you know things about her. Good. Does she hang out on weekends at a particular place? Did her friends tell you that? Excellent. As long as she hasn’t told you that, and you’ve figured it out yourself, go for the kill. Accidentally bump into her at the same place, and pretend like your “surprise” meeting is a damn sign from heaven that you guys have to be together. Ask her out to coffee or lunch. You know, these occasional bumping scenarios could actually take you somewhere.
4. Who’s that guy?
Remember, for you, her guy is of no value. So treat him like one. Unless you know him on first-name basis, refer to him as ‘your boyfriend’ when you talk to her. She may talk about how much she loves him, and blah, but it doesn’t matter. And at times, when she goes on and on about him, yawn pointedly and make sure she knows it’s a fake. But do make sure you laugh after you do that, you’d want to make it seem like a joke instead of a rude gesture.
5. Same workspace
Sometimes, we end up liking a girl in the same workspace. And to make things worse, her guy could work there too. So when you’re talking to her once in a while, there’s a fair chance that he’d end up joining the conversation too. Don’t lose your enthusiasm here, but stay away from flirty comments. But the second he walks away, thank your lucky starts loudly and get back to your flirty talk. A line that goes like, “Thank you God, at last, I can get a few minutes with this beautiful girl without her boyfriend around!” not only gets the point across, but also sounds humorous.