interfere with my education. and when it is a question of exams… Mumbai Mirror gave six Class XII toppers a simple GK test. Most of them didn’t even come close to getting a first-class – and so the newspaper calls them rather cruelly, floppers in its cover story of Friday June 13th. The questions we… Continue reading I never let my schooling…
Read at work
How often have you heard that people spend far too much time in front of their computers and just do not read these days? Adverblog links to this great site created by Colenso BBDO Auckland for the New Zealand Book Council to make reading books more… well, more like reading computer screens. The home page… Continue reading Read at work
Ads ads everywhere…
On the same say, in agencyfaqs, two articles about advertising on vehicles – Rickshaws: No longer just a transport option and Taxi advertising: It’s an ad-cab world . You can get away from television, but never away from advertising? On a related note, Chennai looks so much cleaner, greener, thanks to the fact that those… Continue reading Ads ads everywhere…
These lines suck
Has anyone noticed this latest trend in TV ads – three word end-lines? The first time I saw it was when Maruti launched SX4 – with this rather forceful campaign around the theme – Men are back. Alright, I said. SO where have they been hiding all this while? And which car were they driving… Continue reading These lines suck
The gods didn’t have it easy either
Not tonight, dear, I have a head-ache… [spotted on a wall in a Bombay chawl] Clearly, being a god doesn’t come with any guarantees either.
Engrish!
Came across these super-funny signboards on Point of reflection – and then went on to the original site – engrish. In just over ten minutes on the site, I have come across – Human Woman, Meet products, Breast Room, Today is under construction – thank you for your understanding. And some lengthy ones that defy… Continue reading Engrish!
Belated Blogger Appreciation Day
Blogger appreciation day…. came and went. And I had no clue. That may have been because I have not been blogging or reading blogs with any regularity (does speed-reading through google reader once every few days count?) Anyway, as it happened, I missed blogger appreciation day, which was April 14th – and came across the… Continue reading Belated Blogger Appreciation Day
Massage and marriage in Bangkok
…neither of them mine. hah! gotcha. If you have heard great things about those Thai massages and are dreaming of pretty young things softly caressing your skin with fragrant oils, here is something to make you pause and reflect. Sure you can choose to walk into a dimly lit massage parlour and live out that… Continue reading Massage and marriage in Bangkok
Back from a break
This blog has been silent for a long time now. For the last week or so, I have an excuse – we took a quick holiday in Cambodia and Thailand for our anniversary. It was an exciting, exhausting trip, given the heat and dust of Siem Reap and then the frenzy of Bangkok. Angkor Wat… Continue reading Back from a break
The fort of dreams
At a time when the world had long ago discovered the greens and blues of Kerala, the alluring backwaters of Alleppy and the warm beaches of Kovalam (and perhaps getting tired of the same images), director Maniratnam put a small spot in North Kerala on the map. Thanks to his evocative shots of lovers torn… Continue reading The fort of dreams