Thank you G*Nice!

It’s Friday again! What a wonderful start to the day. Like all passed Fridays since a long time, I kept aside the Gulf News and reached for the Friday magazine. The ritual is to start with G*Nice. For those not in the UAE, let me tell you, G*Nice is a person who’s got clicked the wrong way and he’s yet to spot this blunder. He’s a fellow who writes about ordinary things in extraordinary ways. And when he ‘talks’ about something, you actually realize these famous words: ‘Every particle on the face of the earth is a marvel in itself’.

Few seconds into a brand new G*Nice article and my name started to blink out of a few hundred words on the page. The Friday combo surprise!! Yes, it was me and G*Nice actually cared to read my blah blah and was talking about my speculations on ‘first impression’. Here’s what he had to say.
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GULF NEWS, Friday Magazine, 19 Sep 2008

First impressions can be so deceiving, you see. I liken it to pop bands or singers. Artists have their whole lives to make their first album, but the real challenge comes with the follow-up.
How many artists can you count who blew you away once with their inaugural collection of songs but after that went downhill fast? It's the same with people you meet in all walks of life.
One of my letter writers, Sarfraz, has some interesting thoughts on the subject of first impressions. Sarfraz speculates that "plastic smiles at the first handshake are often the reason for misleading first impressions". The mention of handshakes brings to mind the arena of business.
All of us flex our creative muscles when it comes to impressing potential employers, and I am sure we have all fallen in love with the version of ourselves that we present on our CVs – so much so that we become somewhat unrecognizable as the people we actually are.
I have been blessed in this area, I must say, but I also give myself some credit that I had a hunch that the world of media would allow me to be true to who I am without compromising my personality.
Despite the illusion of glamour in this world it is still a business at the end of the day so you have to bring your skills to the game. Exactly what my skills are remains hard to define, but I am still rolling with the punches somehow!
Sarfraz had one phrase: "You can't cut a cucumber and a coconut with the same blade" which I didn't really understand, but it struck me that both of those things could be blended together to make a refreshing drink. Smooth-ily yours.
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Thank you G*Nice for all the good thoughts you have shared with us and for the fact that you actually helped me to restart writing my scraps. Luckily, one of them slipped into the ‘Friday’. My blog is no more a misnomer.