Was going to Mumbai on some weekend (I have been doing that a lot lately 🙂 ), when I noticed a lady surfing orkut on her lenovo laptop using a firefox browser. She obviously was switching between a lot of windows and was also chatting using gtalk. Later, she got bored and took out her blackberry and started playing solitaire on that. Hmmm, I am not a peeping tom, but when I was looking at that scene, it suddenly struck me how much you can find out about someone just by looking at their habits.
- The lady is a management professional or a management student
- The laptop is her own (since she uses firefox, which is not the standard corporate browser, sadly, and she can surf orkut)
- The lady has an orkut account 🙂
- If she is a student, then most likely she would be studying at ISB
- If she is a management professional, then she just might be into sales (the blackberry)
- If she is in sales, then she would most likely be single (assumption)
Yes, I did not have anything else to do. No, I do not ogle at girls.
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I find this very interesting!!!
@LC – 🙂 everybody can play Sherlock Holmes once in a while right?
other assumptions…
1. she could be a core techie, may be a young CTO who understands organization’s firewall and more over, the importance of a proxy server.
2. she is a consultant with an HR agency, which uses orkut as an advertising medium
3. She’s a raizz baap ki beti doing her MBA ( could be any of the colleges in bombay)
4. She could be an employee of google.
5. since it’s bombay, she could be employed with a media company.
6. well her single status would be wishful thinking, at least for a bachelor like yours truly 😉
and no, we do not ogle at any of them, we simply google them or make friendship! [;)]
Just kidding!
nice post kida!
@sudhir – lol … watson just met sherlock 🙂
why do u say she’s from ISB?
@bhavesh – its another assumption based on the premise that she might be a mgmt student, and that she has her own personal laptop and is extremely comfortable with it 🙂 … again, being a brand conscious fellow I dared not to think of the other b-schools like IIPM and ICFAI
I dont know y this lady/gurl grabed ur atention at a crowded public place?? another query crops up y anyone intend to know abt a stranger????
@ harshu – oops! an adage comes to mind “curiosity kills the cat” 😀 :-D, besides anyone who uses firefox deserves attention 😀
sales?
have you met real sales people like an earlier version of yours truly? we were the true ragpickers – without even money for the next meal, let alone a blackberry. ac rooms made of glass and theorising about the world outside and all that jazz…
btw, i met a guy recently who was using a thinkpad, and had all kinds of stickers on the lid – plug, linux, kde, gnome, ubuntu, suse, redhat, codehack, firefox etc… he claims to be a linux user, a mac user and a plug member, BUT on that laptop he was using windoze xp (firefox alright :D).
I’m using firefox and thunderbird on my company laptop (vista 😦 ), so don’t make that assumption. And I surf orkut (when no one’s looking :D) even though the proxy server blocks it. oh, and if she’s sitting in an airport, she’s definitely using a datacard and not the company LAN, so no proxy server to override, and she can use orkut anyways 😀