Archive for April, 2008
DLF Indian Premier League
One can't seem to escape the fact that the DLF Indian Premier League for cricket commences this friday, with seven games being played at the M.Chinnaswamy stadium, being the home grounds for the Bangalore Royal Challengers. With hoardings, TV ads, radio promos and the like, it seems like the event is bearing down upon one and all, and just adds [...]
“TVS Flame” Advertisement Rants and Raves
The new TVS Flame ad is pretty cool. It shows some guy doing a wheel spin of his bike, riding it down some multi-storey parking lot and then going as fast as he can to intercept some girl who has leapt off another taller building and is gliding downwards using a parachute. Firstly, this ad doesn't show the biker doing some crazy stunts. Any idiot [...]
A Matter of Principle
A friend of mine recently attended a corporate presentation at the office where he had commenced his summer internship. One profound statement made during the presentation was what he recounted to me, and it has somehow been stuck in my mind since then. It isn't a principle unless it starts to hurt sometimes. Sure, we all have principles. We [...]
Going Through the Right Channels
The TV I have in my house right now is an awesomely cool dinosaur named Videocon Bazooka, which, despite its ancient vintage still serves me well when I come home cold and tired, to warm my bones beside the fire and all that, you get the picture! Back at home in Mysore, my family has a Tata Sky subscription, and ever since I have checked out that [...]
African Visitor(s) !!
This is exciting stuff. Not on the same lines as being able to travel to Africa, but nevertheless really cool all the same! I check my sitemeter on a regular basis to see what sorts of psychos and crazy people end up visiting my blog and while going through my sitemeter world map today, I noticed that someone from Lesotho had searched for [...]
Cartwheels of Joy!
I am putting cartwheels of joy. More amusement than joy, but cartwheels nevertheless. This is simply because some enlightened soul decided to put search for 'dorky superhero names' on google and it redirected him to my blag. Ah, my online existence has finally reached fruition! EDIT: Another google search for my blag to be the first hit - "A [...]
News Channels Suck
I had previously posted about how I was in total agreement with how trivialization was becoming a leitmotif for the Indian mainstream television media and how The Hindu was one of the sole survivors of the en masse dumbing down that our media has subjected itself to, to cater to the moronic idiots whose viewpoints on the world seem to be myopic [...]
Vishwakarma
Another movie I saw over the weekend was The Darjeeling Limited, which was recommended by a friend in the US, who had told me that its a pretty psychedelic movie, a good one of the drame-comedy genre. The movie was quite absurdly funny, and represented the portrayal of our country through the eyes of someone not from it, and was a story about how [...]
