Hi-Bye friends and small talks

Chance upon this friend's post on small talk and I totally agree with her.
Sometimes I think I m rather bad in making small talks.
Sometimes you meet someone that you know (probably hi-bye friends, or just friend of another friend etc), then you feel complied to make small talks, just because I dislike awkward silence. I will start up the conversation with lame questions like "Where are you heading to" (when it is obvious tat he/she is going for class), "Taken your dinner?" (when it is obvious that he/she just got to the canteen) etc. For the next moment, you will realize, ohman, you are really stupid.

Same goes with Hi-bye friends. It is like you started up "Hi" and without realizing the next sentence will be "Bye". This is like so DUH!

Friends come and friends go. We need to accept this fact. I do have many friends that I want to sit down and have a nice meal with and just meet up. Seriously, that requires initiative. If everybody gotta wait for another ppl to set up the gathering, nothing is gonna be done.

I guess I gotta do my assignments and lab report. Lab is fun but not the lab reports.