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Business establishments have for long practised several marketing strategies to get their sales charts rising. Sudden offers and sale's have always set graphs on fire and have proved to be effcient methods of promotion and clearance of stocks. I have always been a keen supporter of the corporate way of gettings things done. Efficient and meritorious with better turnovers and profits being the only consideration and nothing else standing in the way. I've always believed that marketing strategists and economists should rule a country as they can make the best out of it's economy.

But lately i have found that TN political parties seen to have taken this marketing strategy thing too seriously albeit the recent ad's one has been seeing on TV or hearing on radio. If you are wondering what i'm talking about, it's the recent ad on Sun Tv that has irked me. 'Vote for udhayasuriyan and get a gas stove free'(plus a kid modelling for the ad). It seemed too sleazy, c'mon people if it had been something like 'buy a prestige cooker and get a gas stove free' it would have been well and good. but vote and get a stove free?? Does it make any sense?? Ok lets say the party is seriously interested in improving the welfare of the people,consider this: now a guy has got a gas stove, so who's gonna get the gas? if he has so much money to buy a god damn cylinder he would have had bought a stove in the first place right?? I wonder if this is just another ploy to sell more cylinders rather. I wouldn't have gotten so apprehensive had they offered free solar cookers or something(ahh we would accept that the party is socially,environmentally and economically aware).

Lets forget the gas stove for a bit. Even more atrocious is the free tv offer for everyone. I've heard of free clothes for people(it actually made sense to me, cos they were addressing the need of people below the poverty line by providing free clothing), but free tv's?? I can think of this to be just another proposition by which they plan to increase their Tv channel viewership(and increase trp ratings of programmes, get more sponsers etc etc..the chain goes on) and nothing else. all the ladies at home are just gonna sit infront of the Tv and watch serial after serial. If this happens, when on earth are we gonna see woman empowerment and the rise of a woman in Indian society?? If such a situation occurs then social evils like Dowry, polygamy and all the assorted crap will continue to prevail.

Now lets talk about what we, the consumers(this is a corporate world-so to every political party we are a consumer) would like from a political party.first and foremost, a steady government(do you know that in countries like singapore the prime minister and respective MP's retain their position for more than just a five year tenure). Given the situation in our country it's not the kids faultif he flunks in social studies if he forgets the PM's or CM's name- they keep changing every other day rite?? I'm sure everyone would be happy if the government could offer: jobs to every guy depending on their talent, proper infrastructure, medical facilities etc. Our list has been the same for decades. I wonder how the Politicians seem to nicely miss out on what we exaclty ask for and give us crap that we don't need. Hey any politco's out there listening? just give us what we want ok, we don't need you to buy us our tv sets. we can get ourselves what we want thank you...

English-who owns it??

briteesh destraayed avar kantry faar 150 ears. Let us destraay theiyer languvedge foryever.. Do itt yend yenjaay.... Gudd maarningguu...

This was a SMS I received some time ago. Initially I thought that the Queen had agreed to make the changes as per the EU's suggestions.(that was another joke ppl who have been using email for quite sometime would know. you might have got this mail some time ago say 6 or 7 years back..it was meant to mock the EU's system or somethin--gettin back to where I was), I finally figured out what they were trying to get to me.. So I was just pondering over this message in class when a "well-informed" classmate saw the message and popped the question, "hey since when did English belong to the British? I thought it was the American's discovery?" I nearly got a heart attack. So as I drilled some history classes to him, his question kept ringing at the back of my head. Given today's globalisation trend(a favourite topic of my college Director-Globalisation) Engish actually, hardly belongs to the English. It is a global language. Every guy from Afghanistan to Zurkinistan(sorry u won't find that in the map cos I created that) speaks english with a good measure of the local accent mixed in, just like HSBC does. Global banking done locally.(ever seen HSBC ad's ?)

Just walk into a local girls convent school, you'll understand what I mean. An example is , "hey don't stand in the veyil"(no harm meant der, oh fairer sex :)). so as I was saying, you go to tamil nadu you hear tanglish, drop by singapore and you'll get a taste of Singlish(where people rather tend to sing rather than speak. want more examples? try this-"yeah la", "can la", " cmon la, can't tahan or what?") . Now make a trans-continental flight to the land down under and voila you've found a new way of speaking British English... So as we go through places we find that the language is being manipulated and incorporated the world over with the basic essence being the same.

Anybody reading this ever seen a Russell Peter show? For those who don't know wh0 he is, he's an Indo-Canadian Comedian. I happened to see one of his shows(one of my friends had a copy in his comp) the guy said in one of his shows that the world is mixing that in 300 years we won't have white's, black's, yellow's or brown's. Everyone is gonna look beige. His reason?: the major population of the world comprises of Indians and Chinese(add up all da ppl in India, China and all da Ind's n Chin's in da rest of da world u'll get more than just 2 billion.)So sooner or later we are gonna hump u and all we'll have is beige kids..(no offense there again :) incase u are wonderin what there is to be offensed about, just forget it ;) ) But the fact is that what he said is true. Not the humping bit, but the part about the world mixing, and hence the barriers of language disappearing as well. Hmm I think i've put in enough words to express what I felt like tellin, if you still have no idea what I was talkin about, forget it cos I have no idea either.

Pachydermatous Asiaeus

Pachydermatous asiaeus. it's da medical term for a new disease to have affected a part of tamil nadu. To be more specific: CIT in Coimbatore. I have no idea to the origins of this malady which i shall henceforth refer to as the Asia syndrome. Affected persons can be easily identified by their speech which is littered with the word 'Asia' at the end of all or most exclamations. I believe it was a term created to mock a person who has tried saying or doing something that he thinks is funny, but recent trends have been changing. It's being added everywhere. Words like 'tryasia' , 'betrasia' 'comedasia' were the trend but people have taken the concept to such an extent that words like
'seruppula-appitasia' have started poppin up. for those who are not prolific in tamil, 'seruppula appa' means to be slippered literally. you may wonder where on earth did asia come up in that.Good question. beats me. Any tamil linguists around? or maybe some one workin on a doctorate in tamil? U could consider doing ur thesis on dis new found dialect maybe...
till then i shall just sit n ponder over the intricacies of this ... hmm what do u call that? asia syndrome..... byeasia to everyone....

22,222 kilometres on my Dio n still runnin...(dis was taken a month back actually-da count is 23,900 now..:) 

Pattiyal

Hmm. Pattiyal. it's a tamil flick for the uninformed and it's interesting unlike the recent crop of sleazy or dumb storylined things that were released. due to my limited tamil vocab i don't see any link between the title and the film cos as long as i know pattiyal means a list or putting things in a list or something on those lines... but who cares. the film is good(especially with pretty faces like pooja :)-- hey i always liked her since da film JJ though i don't find Padma priya(the other female lead) so inspiring inspite of the reduction she has had in terms of clothing...:))

Decently nice songs(though lotsa eng pop influences were visible), not too much of a masala mixture with a slightly different storyline n voila, we've got a run of the mill story with a difference. finally tamil cinema is seeing some non standard films without 'all's well that ends well' happy endings. They have started to grip us a bit and leave us pondering at the end and pattiyal is one of them. Arya and Bharat i can't really say much as in terms of acting no one in da film has done any record breaking stuff or anything but everyone has made decent performances with the 1st half being seriously hilarious. seriously ppl it was real fun. the second half gets senti and a bit dull but a few twists and the viewer is made to sit up and watch again.

All in all it's worth a watch though the older generation might not like it(my uncle fell asleep watchin it) but i'm sure no oldies are gonna be readin my blog, so my verdict: worth a watch.

P.S. others opinions may differ frm(hey i liked da story, i think Pooja is seriously cute-neone got a prob wid dat?) . I just typed out what i felt.

And this will be my last blog for a few weeks as my semesters are comin up so my dear readers(if there r any) i'll be back in may.stay tuned..