Emma tagged me with the ‘Bare your Soul’ tag questions. Hmm, I am running for cover. Here is why! 1. If your lover betrayed you, what will your reaction be? 6. Which is more blessed – loving someone or being loved by someone? 9. If you would like to act with someone who will it…
Category: Off Topic
When the Car Felt Like a Boat!
Yesterday (14/08/2008) I needed to get out of the office around 4.00 in the evening to attend a meeting elsewhere. There were three of us. A little while ago the skies had opened and the rain was coming down like anything. Standing at the gate of our office, we saw a river on the street…
Pre-show Chat with Adnan Nawaz, The Host of My Games Show at he BBC
Screen Shot of the My Games Program on Olympics at the BBC, Adnan Nawaz with Us I have to admit I do not enjoy a post till I can associate a picture with it! So for this one, I decided to go for a screen shot of the My Games Olympics show on the BBC…
The Beginning of a New Semester!
Remember how it used to feel when summer vacations were about to end? I know I am very lucky there is still a phase at my work that feels like summer vacation. But I start teaching from Monday and still feel the same about summer vacations coming to an end, the way I used to…
Branding Wednesday- Gawker’s Take on HDFC Na Sir Jhuka Hai Kabhi …
Remember the HDFC Ad where a family is shown at the railway station where everyone refuses each-other’s help. Gawker at ‘A Goose Nest’ stretches it to its logical conclusion. The post is hilarious and I have cross posted it at the Ad Critics too. And if you can find a video of the Ad, please…
Off Topic- Who is Their Audience?
I was reading Mint online and clicked on ‘travel.’ Under it was something called style. Now I wonder if travel and style really mix apart from at some obscenely priced places that you will find regularly mentioned in such publications. I think many of us consider travel a time to live in jeans and shirts…
Off Topic- The Hari Sadu Naukri.com Ad
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKdkAIDMhis&hl=en&fs=1] I wanted to write since a long time about Naukri.com ‘Hari Sadu’ ad. Then I remembered the Ad Critics website. I asked them if I could do the post at their site and they agreed. So here is my take on the Hari Sadu ad. No, you have to click that link, I am…
Talking about Branding
I consider myself to be pretty brand unconscious. I really enjoyed reading No Logo by Naomi Klein quite sometime back. Now due to some writing that I wish to do, I am doing a lot of academic reading (literature review) around branding. I just finished reading ‘Brand Hijack’ by Alex Wipperfurth. Before that I read…
Monet Talk or Not!
Monet Picture at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford I am very poor at appreciating art. I know of only a few big names like Monet, Van Gogh and umm, OK, Michaelangelo. So why am I talking (or not) about Monet now? Well, it all started with this post that I linked at Blogbharti- Kusum visits the Poppy…
When I started Blogging …
When I started Blogging … I would blog just for the heck of it. Then I started thinking more and more about it and suddenly when I wanted to write something today, I was just giving it too much thought. Should I write it like this? Should I write it like that? Then with a…