Smileys :)

Just fascinated and amazed at the use of smileys, so often and so varied.

Some of the situations, i observe they being used, are:
1. First - time conversations where you want to create a comfort level.
2. IM conversations regarding work in office.
3. When you want to get your work done.
4. When you want to say something firmly without sounding strict.
5. When you find yourself smiling in the middle of an online conversation.
6. When you want to say a lot but are at a loss of words, the smiley says it all.
7. When you want to be sarcastically funny.
8. When you want to be polite and ignore the other person's stupid comment.
9. When you realise your folly.
10. When you want to ask for forgiveness.
11. When you want to sound funny (obviously)
And it goes on......

There are so many expressions they convey. i only use and identify the most basic ones,
:( - Sad smiley
:D - Laughing smiley
:O - Surprised smiley
;) - Flirtatious (kind of...) smiley
:p - Teasing smiley
....but there is a whole lot, out there.

They really are a cool usage. Wikipedia credits a few men for inventing it. i think they did a really good job.

Aah...and i just realised that the hyphen in between the colon and the round bracket is for the nose.
:) - without nose
:-) - with nose

Doesn't really change the meaning but i am just too fascinated.
:)

The Gods are smiling upon us, me!

There couldn't be a better time to have this astronomically novel night. To me, it's like a reassurance that everything's gonna be okay!

Yesterday late evening while returning back from work, a lady in the train was telling her kids on the phone to look at the sky to check out the moon. i thought it must be something silly or oh-this! kind. But just as i stepped out of the station, i looked up.

The moon was right there smiling. And Chanda Mama was smiling such that it immediately lifted my spirits, brought a broad smile on my face. It made me feel blessed! Someone up there is looking after me, us and is there! Someone up there is smiling upon me, us!

i immediately smsed my friends. Some of them cold catch it and i specially asked my friends to show it to their kids.

Wow! What a sight!
That lady also had said that this is an once-in-centuries sight.
I feel inexplicably blessed and lucky to have seen such a beautiful picture.
Thank You Almighty! We, me just needed it.
Fascinating!

P.S. i regretted having a camera-less phone, for not getting to capture that divinely sight. Nonetheless, the memory is captured in the heart :)