And here I am back to the blogging world (uff..how many re-entries do I need??) Its almost two years since I started blogging (yeah I only said started blogging..not blogging). Hmm..Times just flying I should say.
I was just searching something...ended up on someones blogspot and that gave me the inspiration to make yet another re-entry to the blogosphere. I am sure that there are not many followers (thats a big ask) to this blog, so I can post any rubbish down here :-p
Monday, August 27, 2007
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Rain Rain...Come Along
After almost a month of scorching heat, finally Varuna Bhagawan smiled at Bangalore. At last there was some respite from some ever increasing summer heat. It was on Wednesday evening, there were some slight drizzles and it gave a hope of a nice shower. I started from office a bit late and thought that I could enjoy(?!) the rain, but probably the rain god didn't want to put me in to the trouble of getting wet. He stopped. But since thursday, there are regular showers in the evenings and is really bringing the temperatures down. Even though I never got an opportunity to get wet and play in the rain till now, but I am waiting for one.
So its no more, Rain Rain go away...its Rain Rain Come Along....
So its no more, Rain Rain go away...its Rain Rain Come Along....
Sunday, April 01, 2007
On Television Ads
Television ads have changed a lot in time.
I remember very well, and we have always laughed about this whenever we have discussed this in our family, the first thing that we saw on our ET&T Black & White television that we bought on Jan 22nd (year unknown, maybe 1990), was the then famous Woodwards Gripe Water ad. When we first switched it on, all that we heard and saw was, "Yenna aachu?....Kozhandhai azharadhu....Woodwards Gripe water kudu..nee kozhandhaiya irukarcha, adhaan kuduthen!!" :-)
Today, advertisement making itself is a profession for many and makes up a huge industry. Its all about creativity to advertise and market a product.
I just love some of the ads that have come up recently. Particularly Hutch. The recent ad which showcases the TalkSize feature that Hutch has introduced, is at the top of my list. The sweetest of this series is the small kid who comes to talk about her pet dog. Anyone, who is not even interested about a mobile phone would love that. The ad is so sweet.
Another ad which recently caught my attention was the one for Videocon Air conditioners. The catch line for this one is "Keep your mind cool" - Videocon air conditioners keep you and your mind cool and relaxed. The wife remains cool and undisturbed, in fact engages in an interesting conversation, when another women tells her that she is in love with the husband. (If you want this to make some sense, please go and watch this ad.)
Creativity has no limits!!!
I remember very well, and we have always laughed about this whenever we have discussed this in our family, the first thing that we saw on our ET&T Black & White television that we bought on Jan 22nd (year unknown, maybe 1990), was the then famous Woodwards Gripe Water ad. When we first switched it on, all that we heard and saw was, "Yenna aachu?....Kozhandhai azharadhu....Woodwards Gripe water kudu..nee kozhandhaiya irukarcha, adhaan kuduthen!!" :-)
Today, advertisement making itself is a profession for many and makes up a huge industry. Its all about creativity to advertise and market a product.
I just love some of the ads that have come up recently. Particularly Hutch. The recent ad which showcases the TalkSize feature that Hutch has introduced, is at the top of my list. The sweetest of this series is the small kid who comes to talk about her pet dog. Anyone, who is not even interested about a mobile phone would love that. The ad is so sweet.
Another ad which recently caught my attention was the one for Videocon Air conditioners. The catch line for this one is "Keep your mind cool" - Videocon air conditioners keep you and your mind cool and relaxed. The wife remains cool and undisturbed, in fact engages in an interesting conversation, when another women tells her that she is in love with the husband. (If you want this to make some sense, please go and watch this ad.)
Creativity has no limits!!!
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Pray for me brother...
One of the best compositions for a long time, from A R Rahman. And what more this ones for a very good cause, the song penned by Rahman himself and Blaaze will surely touch everyones heart...So here it goes.
If you would like to listen the song, here are the links:
Instrumental: http://www.indianpad.com/story/37688
Video: http://www.indianpad.com/story/37687
If you would like to listen the song, here are the links:
Instrumental: http://www.indianpad.com/story/37688
Video: http://www.indianpad.com/story/37687
Pray for me brother
Pray for me brother
Pray for me sister
Are you searchin’….
Pray for me brother
Lookin’ for the answers To all the questions In my life
Will I be alone Will you be there By my side
Is it something he said Is it something he did
I wonder why
He is searchin’ For the answers
To stay alive
Could you ever listen Could you ever care
To speak your mind
Only for a minute For only one moment
In time
The joy is around us But show me the love
That we must find
Are you searchin’ For a reason to be kind, to be kind…
He said… Pray for me brother
Pray for me brother Pray for me sister
Pray for me brother
Say what you wanna say now
But keep your hearts open
Be what you wanna be now
Let’s heal the confusion
Pray for me brother
Don’t let me take When you don’t wanna give
Don’t be afraid Just let me live
Don’t let me take When you don’t wanna give
Don’t be afraid
Say what you wanna say now
But keep your hearts open
Be what you wanna be now
Let’s heal the confusion
Pray for me brother Pray for me brother
I’m ashamed ah, brother be dying of poverty
when he down on his knees its only then he prays
And it’s a shame ah, brother be dying of ignorance
cos the world is a trip and everybody’s a hypocrite
Need to stop ah , taking a look at the other
I’m not ashamed of poverty
need to be making his life better
So think about it, think about it once more
cos life is a blessing and it’s not justa show, ah
Round and round the world is spinning around
We need to be singing a prayer, we need to be singing it now
Round and round the world is turning around
We need to be singing a prayer, we need to be singing it now
Need to be feeling the power, need to be feeling the faith
We need to coming together just to win this race
Need to be feeling the power, need to be feeling the faith
We need to coming together just to win this race (twice)
Round and round the world is spinning around
We need to be singing a prayer, we need to be singing it now
Round and round the world is turning around
We need to be singing a prayer, we need to be singing it now
Are you searching for a reason...to be kind
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Not any more!
All along I have been waiting to complete my great long travelogue but it never happened. Not any more do I want to have this as an excuse not to blog. So here I am.
P.S Hopefully I will indeed complete my first travelogue story.. :-)
P.S Hopefully I will indeed complete my first travelogue story.. :-)
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
A Travelogue
I have always liked to travel around but somehow I have never cared much to remember much of my travel adventures. This is one which quite cannot be called as an adventure, but still I thought to write a travelogue on this short family trip to “Gods own country” that we had recently. It was the first long trip after my brother’s marriage and with Vidhya (my manni).
It was meant to be a very hectic pilgrimage actually as we had plans to visit as many as six temples in two days along with visits to some relatives. Might sound simple but with the strict timings that’s followed in Kerala temples it’s quite an achievement, if at all achieved.
It was planned that we will leave Bangalore by the afternoon/ early evening of Thursday, 25th January 2007, so that we can make the most of the three day long weekend, thanks to Republic day falling on a Friday. We got the request/ news that my aunt and uncle would join us, who were supposed to travel the earlier day by bus, and were unable to do so due to cancellation of the bus. (No prize for guessing that the bus was cancelled due to a Kerala bandh (read strike/ protests, famous in communism). So it was a fully packed Maruti Omni with seven of us. Yeah, we have two additional seats on the back of our one year old beach wagon.
Thursday evening, on a long weekend, going out of Bangalore, is a deadly combination. All negatives joined together. Almost half of young Bangalore moves out of the Silicon Valley city on such a day. We started by four o’clock in the evening, picked up aunt and uncle at Madiwala, and by the time we crossed Electronic City, it was nearing thirty past five and getting dark. It was a mere thirteen kilometer drive from Madiwala. That’s the spate of traffic on the Hosur road, but I should say it has improved by leaps and bounds in the recent six months.
So then that’s how we crossed out of Bangalore. Luckily I did not have to drive this patch as I hate driving with such heavy traffic; though I love the challenge it poses to the drivers’ patience. But always you have the up and booming FM radios to your rescue. It helps you keep your calm listening to some of the latest hits. I took up to the steering after we almost reached Krishnagiri. It was almost as we glided our way through a glacier till we reached Krishnagiri, on such good roads. With a short coffee break on the way, we munched on to some snacks that aunt had brought, not fully aware what was in store.
As we started again and crossed Krishnagiri, we were welcomed by an array of potholes on the road which never seemed to end. Our travel speed drastically reduced from an average 70 kmph to 35 kmph. This was in the end the worst patch, roads from Krishnagiri to Dharmapuri and almost up to Salem. We had a long debate over where to stop for the night, Salem or Erode? Both being nearly 60 kilometers apart and time running out very fast we thought we better stop by Salem. We finally reached Salem. We started searching for a nice lodge to stay and managed to find a decent one. We booked two rooms for seven of us and settled down. We had a nice idlis, tamarind rice and curd rice for dinner, which amma had managed to prepare. After a fulfilling dinner with Sun TV showing its prime time mega-serial “Lakshmi” much to the satisfaction to serial watchers of the family, we prepared to take some rest.
To be continued...
It was meant to be a very hectic pilgrimage actually as we had plans to visit as many as six temples in two days along with visits to some relatives. Might sound simple but with the strict timings that’s followed in Kerala temples it’s quite an achievement, if at all achieved.
It was planned that we will leave Bangalore by the afternoon/ early evening of Thursday, 25th January 2007, so that we can make the most of the three day long weekend, thanks to Republic day falling on a Friday. We got the request/ news that my aunt and uncle would join us, who were supposed to travel the earlier day by bus, and were unable to do so due to cancellation of the bus. (No prize for guessing that the bus was cancelled due to a Kerala bandh (read strike/ protests, famous in communism). So it was a fully packed Maruti Omni with seven of us. Yeah, we have two additional seats on the back of our one year old beach wagon.
Thursday evening, on a long weekend, going out of Bangalore, is a deadly combination. All negatives joined together. Almost half of young Bangalore moves out of the Silicon Valley city on such a day. We started by four o’clock in the evening, picked up aunt and uncle at Madiwala, and by the time we crossed Electronic City, it was nearing thirty past five and getting dark. It was a mere thirteen kilometer drive from Madiwala. That’s the spate of traffic on the Hosur road, but I should say it has improved by leaps and bounds in the recent six months.
So then that’s how we crossed out of Bangalore. Luckily I did not have to drive this patch as I hate driving with such heavy traffic; though I love the challenge it poses to the drivers’ patience. But always you have the up and booming FM radios to your rescue. It helps you keep your calm listening to some of the latest hits. I took up to the steering after we almost reached Krishnagiri. It was almost as we glided our way through a glacier till we reached Krishnagiri, on such good roads. With a short coffee break on the way, we munched on to some snacks that aunt had brought, not fully aware what was in store.
As we started again and crossed Krishnagiri, we were welcomed by an array of potholes on the road which never seemed to end. Our travel speed drastically reduced from an average 70 kmph to 35 kmph. This was in the end the worst patch, roads from Krishnagiri to Dharmapuri and almost up to Salem. We had a long debate over where to stop for the night, Salem or Erode? Both being nearly 60 kilometers apart and time running out very fast we thought we better stop by Salem. We finally reached Salem. We started searching for a nice lodge to stay and managed to find a decent one. We booked two rooms for seven of us and settled down. We had a nice idlis, tamarind rice and curd rice for dinner, which amma had managed to prepare. After a fulfilling dinner with Sun TV showing its prime time mega-serial “Lakshmi” much to the satisfaction to serial watchers of the family, we prepared to take some rest.
To be continued...
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Active Blogging
I was just browsing through some of the blogs. Huh! I saw so many things.
- Postings in various languages.
- Postings of players which downloads and plays music when the blog page is opened.
- Hosted their own music recording on to the web.
- Having chat boxes with the blog.
The list goes on. I don't know why feel so jealous about all these hi-fi soft gadgets. But there is no harm is feeling jealous for lack of knowledge. Probably that will drive you towards learning these things and implementing the same with you. But don't ask me, "Are you really going to do all this in your blog?"
So is this what active blogging means?
- Postings in various languages.
- Postings of players which downloads and plays music when the blog page is opened.
- Hosted their own music recording on to the web.
- Having chat boxes with the blog.
The list goes on. I don't know why feel so jealous about all these hi-fi soft gadgets. But there is no harm is feeling jealous for lack of knowledge. Probably that will drive you towards learning these things and implementing the same with you. But don't ask me, "Are you really going to do all this in your blog?"
So is this what active blogging means?
Friday, January 19, 2007
Choice...
Often we get choices to make in our life. Some could be as simple as choosing a shirt to wear to office, and some could be as critical as choosing ones life partner. Choices we get in life are like finding two paths on your way when you are wandering around the streets trying to reach a defined destination. It ends up so critical to choose the right path.
All said, a very common mentality of many (at least me) is that we tend to think about the choices even long after making decisions. Our mind tends to bother more about "what 'would' have happened, if I had chosen the other option", than working a way out of the current situation. This specifically happens when the path we choose to walk turns out to be the wrong one. We refuse to accept failure. We become week. Weakness unduly forces us to take the wrong paths again. This is a vicious cycle.
Isn't it much better forgetting about the choice we had and go ahead in life?
All said, a very common mentality of many (at least me) is that we tend to think about the choices even long after making decisions. Our mind tends to bother more about "what 'would' have happened, if I had chosen the other option", than working a way out of the current situation. This specifically happens when the path we choose to walk turns out to be the wrong one. We refuse to accept failure. We become week. Weakness unduly forces us to take the wrong paths again. This is a vicious cycle.
Isn't it much better forgetting about the choice we had and go ahead in life?
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Air Conditioner
Bangalore is pretty chill these days with the mercury dipping up to eight degree Centigrade during early hours of the day. When I travel to office in the bike, I feel its a natural air conditioner out there, with temperature set to the minimum. But the real air conditioner is inside the office where we feel quite comfortable and warm.
I remember my childhood days in the shore of Bay of Bengal, Pondicherry, where the climate is quite hot and humid. Those days, as a small child, the only thing we know about an air conditioner is that it will be quiet chill inside the room and the more funnier part, we feel very hot when we come outside. I remember quite vividly the Angle French Textile showroom in the Nehru street, was one of the places we would stop by during summer afternoons. Those were the days of joy and fun.
Things have changed and we have air conditioners at almost every place we go today. Its in our own houses, the big shopping malls, every shop we do our daily purchases, and strangely they even make temporary ACs in tented party grounds. Huh! What a comfortable life does a human gets to live in these days?
Its quite chill out here, so let me take a break and get into the Air conditioned room to get some warmth.
I remember my childhood days in the shore of Bay of Bengal, Pondicherry, where the climate is quite hot and humid. Those days, as a small child, the only thing we know about an air conditioner is that it will be quiet chill inside the room and the more funnier part, we feel very hot when we come outside. I remember quite vividly the Angle French Textile showroom in the Nehru street, was one of the places we would stop by during summer afternoons. Those were the days of joy and fun.
Things have changed and we have air conditioners at almost every place we go today. Its in our own houses, the big shopping malls, every shop we do our daily purchases, and strangely they even make temporary ACs in tented party grounds. Huh! What a comfortable life does a human gets to live in these days?
Its quite chill out here, so let me take a break and get into the Air conditioned room to get some warmth.
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