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Saturday, January 2, 2010

The Dance floor

We had a Google family day a couple of weeks before in Golconda resorts. The organizers did a good job by choosing a good resort and organizing events to keep everyone busy. Also, in typical Google style there was food everywhere to keep everyone happy.

I happily roamed around, played squash ( which is primarily why I headed to the resort,) ate food and socialized. After dinner we had a dance floor like all other Google events and I headed there to have fun. As usual I danced mindlessly but kinda used a small part of my mind to observe the people on and around the dance floor and hence this write up.

1) The bubbly ones :

As the description goes this kind of people are the ones who head to the dance floor the first and create a lot of positive vibes on the stage. These guys are usually in a gang, create a lot of noise, do not care about what others think of them and dance their way to glory. These people needn't be trained dancers but carry themselves with the same confidence and form the epicenter of any dance floor.

2) The ones that have to be pulled on to the floor :

Next on the list are the ones that have to pulled on to the floor to make them dance. These are the ones who kinda act like remote controlled robots in a way. I say this because, when someone pulls them on to the floor, they hesitate initially for a few seconds and suddenly dance with a burst of energy for say 20 seconds and fade out. Encouragement through fellow dancers or by the DJ ( by playing good music) comes after sometime when they get another burst of energy, dance for another 20 seconds and fade out again. This process continues over and over again until the DJ calls it a day or the fellow dancers give up - whichever is earlier.

3) The romantic couple :

This is my favorite one. On any dance floor mostly towards the corner or the most dimly lit areas you can find romantic couples. But as couples have starting to increasingly believe in public display of affection, they have started to occupy areas other than the ones mentioned above. This set of people display certain unique traits :

* They are the only ones that pay utmost attention to the lyrics of the songs played while the rest of the crowd cares only about the music and it's decibel levels.

* They are the only ones that smile more than laugh.

* They are the only ones that make prolonged eye contacts while certain other sections of dance floor care for everything but the 'eye contact.'

Also, if you observe them carefully, they are the ones that have the most gracious moves on the floor. You have to give it away to them for this!

4) The Dudes :

These are the guys that have confidence up to the brim and nothing else. It is the aura they exude combined with their sex appeal that gets them to dance with the hottest girls on the floor.

5) The Losers :

Next in line are the losers. These are those 'single' guys who keep looking at the dudes dancing with the girls they wanted to and feel jealous. Not that these guys aren't good dancers. In fact, there is a good chance these guys are better dancers than the ones above. They are in battle with themselves thinking "I dance ten times better than him. But, why doesn't any one come to me?" May be they forgot, that 'single women who come to the dance floor have better reasons than just dancing.'

6) The single guys gang and the single girls gang :

These are that sections of people who fall under any of the following categories :

* do not believe in getting a date on the dance floor.
* who are pissed off with romantic relationships as they are still coming to terms with their most recent break up.
* who are happy being within their group and not willing to go beyond for the fear of failure and the bullying that follows.

7) The ones sitting with worry some faces around the dance floor :

These are the ones who sit with the facial expression that makes the onlooker believe that they remember all the miseries they faced through out their lifetime - all at the same time. Who doesn't have anything to worry? These are the ones that need some real help and be taken to the dance floor!

Having been in all these categories at some point in time or the other in life, I strongly feel that the first is the best!

P.S : There is a good chance that there is an overlap between the categories mentioned above. So, you can safely assume that you are still a loser if you fall under the third sub category under the sixth category

5 comments:

Bindu said...

You nailed it with this post.

Most fantastic!
B

Unknown said...

Interesting post!!

I was trying hard to fit myself in one of the categories but wasn't successful. Dance floor is one place where I feel really uncomfortable. I don't know how to dance and dancing is not my thing.

Pragi said...

Karnananda!

I'm the one who stands, watches and then joins in after a LOTTTTT of thought.

Santhosh Karnananda said...

Pragi.. you fit into the second category

Santhosh Karnananda said...

And Prasanna, I think you'll fit into the 2nd and 3rd category! :-)