Hi.. I am.. Move on.. 3mins up

A few days ago while going through a magazine i read an amazing article about speed dating in india(jee haan bharat desh main !!). This agency is in bangalore. They take 1500 from a person and pit 10 girls against 10 boys and give them 3 mins each to interact with all the ten people of opposite sex. Not to forget of course the piquant cocktail. If they find comptatible then they can go on a lonely date. But the glitch is that each person can talk with the opposite sex for only 3 mintues and then move on. Did u say ridiculous ? Me too. But the psycholgists aver.

They say that when two people meet they form an impression in the first 30seconds. This reminds me of oscar wilde's quote

" There is nothing like good or bad in this world. Its either charming or tedious"
Touche sir.
While calculating the permutations and combinations atleast one pair will be of a shy guy(like yours truly !!) and an equally demure girl. Literally speaking it will atleast take more than 3 minutes for that guy to break the ice(i dont know if pun is intentional or not !!). And god help if its a shy guy and a girl with oodles of chutzpah. He will either look at her toes(who said swarg pati ke charan main hota hai !!) or the surroundings but most definitely not at her face. And by the time he counts the number of fingers(who said abacus is the simplest form of counting) in her feet 3 minutes will be up. God forbid !! If the girl is a drop dead gorgeous(if she is does she need a date !!) one then the guy will take the whole 3 mintues to gorge at her beauty.

The other day i was watching mtv super select(god knows whats super except the two new commodes) and the effusive nikhil chinappa was in k.j.somaiya and he chatted with girls over there. HE asked them what is the first thing that u look in a guy. The answers left me quite befuddled and increased the disquiet in me. One of them said muscles. Thats the reason we see salman and john topless..

The other one said fashionable clothes. I dont want to hurt anyone's sentiments but girls usually like overtness. And some guys(including me) like subtlety. Thats gonna increase the friction. Another gal gave a prompt reply that she wants a guy with intellectual eyes. I have tried to look at the eyes at people of both sex but all i could find was a black or brown or blue ball on the cornea. Girls are really inscrutable(Mr.anurag mathur u made a BOO-BOO).

Whenever an eccentric book or movie or music is released the artistes claim that their works have their own target audience and all they need to do is to procure that audience. In the same way these dating agencies will help any guy or girl to find their perfect dates. But my only grouse is that a person will be counting those damn 180 seconds !!