DST - Delhi standard time

It happens every time I go to some party particularly if it is an evening function. In Delhi, the invitation will always say 6PM or 8PM but the function will never start until it is well past two hours after the stated time?

If it is a marriage then you can add a good 4-5 hours after the stated time.

This month I attended a wedding. Before leaving, Hubby and I finished dinner at home (brushed our teeth and gargled too!) and left well after 10PM to reach the venue. The barat had just entered at 1030PM. And it took till 1130PM before the groom came onto the dias and we could give our gift and politely return home. We could not meet the bride.

Why are people in Delhi extra passionate about the lack of timeliness? Why do they lack respect for other people's time?What is so great about stating a particular time on the card but starting the real function much later?

How do you refuse a 'fraanship' request?

What do you do when you find that someone who you are merely 'acquainted' with and who you hardly know, sends you a 'friendship' request on one of those several social networking sites that you are registered in?

Frankly, increasing the number of friends I have in my list does not appeal to my ego as it does ( if you were to believe the newspaper articles) to some youngsters. Further, I do not like to display my profile publicly - that goes for those sites as well which are supposedly there to 'help you network for business reasons' (no frannship mails here).

Surely there is no harm in 'accepting' the invite of an 'acquaintance'. But if it were a social networking site, I may not want to share photos of say a vacation with everyone who is listed as a friend on the site. (One solution is to use some other site and send a link to only those who you think are relevant). Further, there may be personal information that I may not want to share with merely an 'acquaintance' I met at some party. Besides, what do you do, if you had taken an instant dislike to that 'acquaintance' and would certainly not want to be seen as being 'friends' or whatever with him/her?

Getting yourself de-listed (is that the right word???) from the site is not the correct solution. After all, I know more about my friends and relatives these days through these social networking sites than I do from talking to them or e-mailing them. But what can one possibly do about some people who I think are a pain in the ***?