Anyways so here I am – after a rather interesting week. Lots of reading up online, sparked off by some gyan-search needed for my AF exam which kind of spread out, with some attempts to study and a successful effort at organizing my notes. Had planned to visit Bbay this weekend and have some much-deserved fun now that Kunu has officially shifted back to Bbay (I envy him big-time!), but my BP played truant and dipped low (54/90 - horror of horrors!) forcing me to stay back….the mood-swings oscillating faster than a pendulum didn’t help matters much! So now I’m under the scrutiny of Mommy dearest who’s doing her best to pump Vitamins into me – atleast she can’t complain that I’m not eating well – with the amount of weight I’ve gained since I got back from Europe I have to now start thinking seriously of getting an exercise regime into action, if I hope to continue fitting into my size 24 jeans! Ah where went those days when I was ridiculously underweight? ;-)
Note on advertisements that caught my attention recently – The (Motorola?) SLIM advert annoys me. I find it quite disturbing that the advert promotes the ‘slim’ image for women – and we are trying to battle the growing incidences of Anorexia among young women?
The new Reliance phones advert makes me want to slap someone – could the girl have been portrayed more materialistic and silly? Gawd – but that couple is the heights!
On the other hand – the Tata Indigo Marina advert is very nice. Tasteful. Classy. And I love the way they wove the by-line into the story. "Because we like to carry the world with us" - I like! :-)
Right now
- I’m reading a book on Picasso – it’s a Taschen publication. I picked up the book from the Taschen outlet, Paris (yeps it’s been months since then) and started reading it last week to get the French flowing in my head! Though I didn’t quite comprehend Picasso's style of painting earlier, it’s slowly starting to make sense to me now and I'm regretting having missed the Picasso exhibition when it had come to NGMA (Bbay). Am finding myself increasingly interested in Art and with my preliminary readings I think I quite like the Impressionists.
- I’m listening to Billy Joel’s We Dint Start the Fire.
- I'm feeling very Smug and Content with today's shopping at FabIndia, my decision to send personally made cards this year for Diwali and my initial preparations on this new project - and finally having bought a nice book to jot down quotes/poems/gyan that catch my attention! The double dessert of Kheer and left-over Apple Stew just made that smile broader! :-)
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Yeah, i heartily second that opinion on the Reliance ad.
Another recent one, i absolutely abhor is the Fairandlovely Ayurveda Ad. Just when you think that the F&L ads can't get any worse, boom! you're hit in the face with another mighty one.bleh.
I've been cutting out a lot of cartoons from newspapers, since the past few months and some interesting articles as well. Fun :)
Isn't your exam on the 30th? reaaally hope tu arrivez here soon :p
madusa
Its been a week since you posted any stuff.
Great to have you back in action...
Madusa - I wholeheartedly agree.
The Fair & Lovely ads - absolutely horrid. What does being fair have to do with anything? People in the country are obsessed with white skin. It's just the way things are. It can't be helped. But that does not mean corporates should exploit that and make things worse by promoting the concept of "Fair is beautiful" and "Dark is Ugly".
Horrid.
Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. We end up losing our simple and straight outlook to the beautiful things around us.
Yeah Sreekesh I agree with you there - too much knowledge kind of makes you lose your own sense of perception; you tend to look for hidden meanings in the simplest of things (something I feel literary critics do too often!)...but too less knowledge makes you rather ignorant and gauche! Let's just say I'm trying to achieve that fine balance between ignorance and knowledge ;-)
Madusa and Manjusha - you're right about the F&L ads - obnoxious to a limit. And that babe in one of the ads (who transforms frm a homely thing into a over-made up bimbo in a pink dress) is actually a Psycho Major and someone who should have had more sense than to endorse such a product. Makes it all the more disgusting for me!
'It's all about the money, it's all about the dum dum duh dee dum dum.' - Meja
:-) Money sure makes the world go round doesn't it?
LOVE that song btw!
Hii Geets...awww...Low BP..watch out my dear...Health comes before anything; W.r.t. adverts..U bet...wonder when women would stop saying NO to doing such commercials but it's the era money seems to dominate moralities (sigh!!)
Ignorance is the lack of knowledge, but it takes knowledge to lack knowledge and be ignorant, tilting to then who is more ignorant?
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