Sunday, May 15
Lack of Focus
Focused. Thats is one thing I am not. My friend says, so unlike her, I am focused. I wonder.
I am a jack of all trades, I try doing something new every few days. Some days its cooking, other days its working out, some other days, its reading, someday its writing, other days singing. And so much more. I am fond of doing many things. But I don't focus on a particular thing. Nothing.
I loose interest easily. That makes me a great explorer but it hampers me mastering anything.
Except the Masters Degree I have. That too I guess has gone for toss.
My mom said, 'education, you can never forget'. Somehow, I found out I have forgotten the subject I topped the University in. Brother had Operations research as a subject in last semester of his engineering. I have been telling him whole semester that I'll explain it to him, so he doesn't need any help for that. Kind of a student he is, he dint attend any classes of it even in the college depending on me. I let him down. And myself too. I couldn't recall solving simple sums. Yes, sums. Lack of practice may be. or Focus lost.
I wronged my whole base of my academic life. I never crammed. I believed in understanding concepts- theory or practical. But I just couldn't recall the simple solutions of simple problems. And they felt like playing LUDO when I was the student.
There is no focus. May be, I don't want to focus. May be, I loose interest because I haven't found something that can keep my interest intact. probabilities. Lots of them. Talking of probabilities, I think I wouldn't remember how to solve a probability problem either.
P.S. I have lost interest in Tweeting. That explains 2 blog posts in a day.
What Our Coming Generations Are Going to Miss
While writing the Practical File for my brother's last Engg semester, I realized I was seeing my own handwriting in a long while. I couldn't recognize my own handwriting. Ever since I completed my academics, I hardly write. Thanks to the modernization, the keyboards, touchscreens have replaced the need of a pen or pencil.
That's when this thought stuck me. Our coming generations probably would get to know in the history books/ PDFs, that humankind wrote with bare hands, or they used devices called pens and pencils. Funny, but heartbreaking thought.
Not just writing, but there are so many things I wonder our coming generations will never know they could do. I was playing this ' A Band called Nine' thanks to @TheMasakkali for sharing it. It took me back to my childhood.
Writing altogether apart, we have almost forgotten we used to write letters to our relatives, cousins. Now Facebook, Skype serve the purpose.
Saving pocket money for months to buy something. Now, almost every school going kid has a cell phone.
The excitement of wearing a new dress on birthday. Waiting a whole year for birthday. Birthday parties meant samose, rasgulle, cutlets. Now, Pizza Hut, Yo!China et al are there. For teenagers, bars are open.
Waiting for summer vacations for visiting naani house. Those long train journeys, visiting relatives, plucking mangoes, guavas fresh out of the tress and eating them. Mall Culture would never give the future this opportunity.
Those hours long Antakshri sessions. Everyone these days has a personal iPod, mp3 player. At the maximum, now, we steal our share of happiness or pride by sharing our pirated music collection through emails, bluetooth, wi-fi.
Pickling season used to be the best. Raw mangoes, lemons in the courtyard drying.
Fighting for remote with siblings used to be such fun. Now everyone has their own laptop, own internet connection.
Everyone is busy with themselves. Who knows if our coming generations would ever know the fun of bathing by a well.
Yes, pitying them is all I can do. No, I am not against technology, in fact, I have become a slave to it too. Just, it is killing the childhood or what we called 'childhood'.
Wednesday, December 1
Anger is short-lived madness.
A friend of mine got engaged recently. Her parents, like an ideal Indian family, gave gifts to the potential in-laws. Expensive gifts. Cash, jewelery, electronics. Only thing in mind that their daughter will live a comfortable life after she is married.
The relationship dint somehow work out. lets not go into details.
When it came to returning the gifts, the boy's family, in the first place dint return cash at all. That was in thousands. Some of the jewelery came back, not all of it. But the electronics including the cell phone the girl gave to the guy on his birthday came broken into pieces. Among the broken other things were microwave oven.
How disgusting people are. I generally don't get upset.But at times like these, I am forced to think that people have no self respect. All they have is ego. And they do not think about their respect when doing things.
Anger is spontaneous, just one letter short of Danger. You don't stop to think what you are doing and you might repent after you have done things and at times not even bother.
But the point is, whatever the reason be of break up, why on the face of earth do people lose their mind and try their best to hurt people. Whatever emotional damage is done, why the financial damage has to be done? Is it like the girl's family were in-debtors of the guy's family? that they had to pay them in lakhs and suffer loss?
Since everything we buy in market is Chinese, in my opinion, the relationships these days have learnt the basic feature too. Chale to chaand tak, varna shaam tak.
Thursday, October 7
TVC Thursday - Fevicol
Having to remember the childhood days is such a beautiful feeling and therefore this TVC Thursday tah is giving me immense pleasure. When I surf through Youtube to look out for old advertisements,
the funniest thing is to see people we dint recognize then and find how much they have changed over time. In the same line of action, I hereby bring you the old Advertisement of Fevicol- the adhesive we all know/ remember as 'zor laga ke haisha!'. Try to recognize the man in the advertisement. Its none other than RajKumar Hirani. Yes, the director who gave us Munna Bhai Series and 3 idiots. Raj Kumar Hirani had initially been interested in acting. Somehow, he turned into directing later on.
So here goes the 'Hayiishaa!!'
Monday, October 4
The Common Wealth Games Opening on Twitter
India witnessed the grad Opening of The Common Wealth games yesterday. It had been a depressing thing to see all the people making fun of Suresh Kalmadi all these days and expecting a fall of the whole event, Thanks to Indian Media. While tweeting live watching the opening, I thought, this had to be posted on the blog. So here it is:
• Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, NZ don't have ads. DD is all set to Make money :D They rarely get a chance :P
• Why are the leading ladies wearing watches with arm full bangles?
• I am guessing the watches are by the time the countries they are leading. #Tukka @Ohayesha @ShutterCrazy @DKMahant
• Indians are prettiest. Worldwide. Period
• Canada cheering! They got Punjabis over there. No?
• Cook Islands. They must have great food :D
• Smiles look good. Players look like they are here to play and not die.
• Ghana leading lady has put the flag in her hair.
• Saree is one sexy dress. Period.
• Kenya placard lady’s saree *drool*
• Punjabi Suit #win
• 71 dresses and saree drapes. #IndianHeritage #SooperWin
• MonsterRat! Whattey country dude! They must be scary people.
• RT @DKMahant Mozambique is the SOLE nation which was not trespassed by British
• Okay. How unbiased we are, the special games are also being organized in the same event.
• Norfolk Island. They do not have any folk songs or dances.
• There is more in Rwanda than Hotel Rwanda. :D
• Scotland. Where are the bagpipes?
• After the Ayodhya verdict, it is too soon for timeline to go doped.
• Lehnga saree for Tanzania.
• I like the purple dress Africans whose name I missed.
• Jin countries ke humein naam nahi pata un countries ke players ke liye transportation to India specially charter karwaya tha?
• Zambia flag bearer looks scared!
• Abhinav Bindra! India. #win
• MMS, Sheila Dixit, Pratibha Patil should‘ve stood up for India
• Wow. Total number of people from total teams < total number of people in Indian team.
• Prince Charles stands up for India. Thank you :)
• Raise hands who stood up for India.
• Btw, #CWG ne dil khush kitta ee :) #MogamboKhushHua
• #onetightslap to all those who ve been making fun of #CWG. Well begun is half done.
Thursday, September 30
TVC Thursday- Surf
Afterall, this TVC Thursday was not a bad idea at all. I get to recollect the commercials from my childhood :D
Well, Like they said in old time, 'this program is brought to you by Surf. This time, the Old Classic Indian Ad of Surf is brought to you by yours truly :D
Remember Lalita ji? 'surf ki kharidari mein hi samajhdaari hai'
Oh and in case you cant recall where else this lady featured, remember the Udaan TV serial from Doordarshan. Kavita Chaudhary aka Lalita ji, played Kalyani Singh a lady police officer and her trials and tribulations. Wiki here.
Thursday, September 23
TVC Thursday
Indian television has been a constant part of the growing up process if you were born in early 80s and thereafter.
The Doordarshan times with Chitrahar, movies, Hum Log, Buniyaad, Fauji, Circus, Dekh Bhai Dekh, Zaban Sambhal ke, Ramayan, Mahabharat, the 'rukawat ke liye khed hai sign' and many others.
Somehow, what always attracted to television was the television commercials. The #EpicIndianAds as we call them on Twitter. I realised that I remember the jingels of some of the brands by heart, which most of the other people are unaware of the existance of. And then this thought struck my mind. Why not recall one such commercial every week and rekindle the blog?
Youtubing was done and it was analysed that this could work out. :D
So, here is the first post of TVC Thursday tag.
This is an ages old advertisement of ECE Bulbs featuring Paintel. 'Bhool na jana, ECE Bulb lana' :)
P.S. Let me know in the comment section if there is any old ad you remember and want to see next Thursday :)
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