Your Blog Should Be Orange
Your writing has a star quality - it's charming, bold, and flamboyant.You write what's on your mind, without fear of embarrassment later.
You are one of the most honest bloggers around, and people appreciate your daring persona.
Yes, I took a random quiz AGAIN on this site "blogthings.com".
Sad, I know.
On the bright side, I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. FINALLY! The story is too long and complicated for me to write a book review and do justice to it, so don't expect one. All I'll say is that dysfunctional, anorexic, under 5 feet Lisbeth Salander is the most original, intriguing and might I add, the coolest female protagonist in decades!!!
Aaaaaand, I got a new phone. A Nokia E72! :) :) :)
Shit, shit, no more smileys.
But as one of my abnormally tall friends reminded me, "No smileys here, you are a big girl.":P
And this is completely random.
But I've been thinking about it for almost a week now. There isn't a word for "being smiled at". (Is there?) Atleast I haven't found it.
I think there should be, don't you? :)
Btw, I was thinking about the state of Indian advertisements today. I have one word for them. Rubbish.
Neither do they get the shadow of their point across, nor do they make even the slightest sense. At the end of the ad you're left wondering why you didn't go blind and deaf before that torture was inflicted upon you! Like the one where chimpanzees are jumping around in bright red underwear and then the tagline is "Yeh toh bada toing hai". What the hell is THAT all about?
To think so many of these people are IIM graduates. :/
I remember reading this Ayn Rand quote somewhere once, "Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason."
They should chew on that for a while.
Did you know that Albert Einstein was offered the Israeli presidency and he turned it down?
Or that the first recorded account of plastic surgery is in ancient Indian texts?
THIS is what I write about when I feel I am running out of blog ideas. I refuse to put my name at the end of a blank blog post, and I refuse to go on a writing sabbatical as well.
If you have got to the end of this blog post, please suggest ideas on what to gift someone on their 18th birthday! :P
Word out. :D
13 comments:
I loved Stieg Larsson's originality and sheer audacity in creating the protagonist and the story surrounding her..I am currently reading The Girl who played with Fire..there's this lovely detective character called Kurt Wallander, created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell which is again a great series of books..I especially enjoyed this book called The Fifth Woman which is about a female serial killer..
Wonder how all that Scandinavian morbidity that makes Swedes such awesome crime writers..
All my rambling aside, I really think the fact that Einstein wasnt a Zionist is super cool!!
Until your next post! :)
Oh another lil tidbit about Einstein, he always wanted to learn to play the oboe but never ended up finding the time for it! :D
ohh..my...so many things in one varied post...so even before I could find out about the book you read.. I started to think about word for ""being smiled at"" and even before I could finish it.. you had moved to ads... good pace.. full action.. he he he... anyway ... yeah most ads are stupid..and nowadays many ads are playing a sentimental note...esp. loan/insurance ones... some get preachy..damn...just sell the product..i like your style.. of varied topics when you run out of one concrete idea..or maybe that was your idea..
keep blogging...and dont make blog in orange...i like green...oh!..its ur blog...
@Tangled up in blue- Haha, I didn't know all that about Einstein! :P What I remember reading somewhere is that he married his cousin!
(Gross. Even for a genius. :/)
I can't wait to get my hands on the next Steig Larsson now, I absolutely loved this book. It's a compelling read, and kept me hooked on till the last page! And a place that experiences "Polar Nights" is bound to be the scene for morbid crime writing! :P
And I'm reading "The World According to Garp" and also, "Metamorphosis" by Kafka right now. :)
@Sankoobaba- No, no that wasn't my idea at all. I just did write whatever was right at the top of my head. :D
As for the advertising industry, it makes me want to cry sometimes. A country with a billion people, and we can't come up with something better. :/
Yeah, I'm kinda an Einstein enthusiast if there be such a thing! :D And yeah, he did marry his first cousin Elsa (but apparently such things werent really frowned upon in those days), who was this really tame domestic woman after divorcing his fiercely brilliant wife, Mileva Maric! So typical right? ;)
And yup, must be all that ice and aurora and what not that makes for great crime writing!
Btw, I've never read anything by Kafka except The Penal Colony, which I'm not sure I liked..how do you find Metamorphosis?
I love talking to you about books, you know! :)
And to give you an idea for your next post, I've tagged you in one on my blog! Come look! :)
as gross as that ad is, the idea of an ad is to gain attention... the "toing" ad manages to do it by being ridiculous and at times vulgar, but as you are talking about it, those IIM grads are successful @ what they desired to do... to get ppl to notice the product. That they did it in a distasteful manner is of least importance atleast to them. In the media, if one dislikes an ad strongly, the best way to respond is to NOT talk about it... bcoz they are not looking for good publicity.... they are just seeking ANY publicity. OK, lecture done for today....
Post was a fun read esp the bit abt Einstein... Did my nickname have anything to do with the inclusion of that tit-bit in your post or am I being happy over it for nothing :P
@Tangled up in Blue- Look what I just read!
"Einstein became estranged from his wife. The biography reprints a chilling letter from Einstein to his wife, a proposed "contract" in which they could continue to live together under certain conditions. Indeed that was the heading: "Conditions."
A. You will make sure
1. that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;
2. that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;
3. that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only.
B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons…
There’s more, including "you will stop talking to me if I request it." "
Guess all his intelligence was limited to theories of special relativity and science gibberish! :D
@Tangled up in blue-And I am SO unbelievably glad to have found someone to discuss literature with. Thank you!!! :)
And you have bestowed me with my Blogspot Oscar. I don't know what to say.*dramatically tears run down my face*. I'd like to thank blah blah... You get the gist, right? :)
@Einstein- Hahaha, no that bit was not intended to glorify or offend your screen name in any way! :P
It was just a random fact that a trivia collector like me wanted to show off. :p
And please,advertisements that play on the audiences' mind for reasons such as these, are just a stamp on crap quality being dished out in the guise of "So cooooool" these days! :( Although, I must admit, you might be right.
Haha! Einstein once said that his mum told him he had two parts brain and one part heart instead of the other way around..
And now I get why he had so many affairs..his wife was just a way to keep appearances!
And you're welcome! ;)
The coolness factor is played up only by the PR agency and the Ad agency... the audience cearly finds the ad distasteful and starts talking about thereby recalling the brand. Thus the campaign is deemed to be a success. The process is akin to the losing team in a game playing foul because they know they cannot win by fair means.
And for heavens sake.. stop maligning the dead guy! For all you know he would have loved to have a divorce but as divorce was taboo in those times, he continued the marriage. Atleast he didnt follow the rule of thumb and beat up his wife! Perhaps he continued the sham because he didnt want his wife without a roof over her head as being a divorcee was not a great thing for a woman in those times... Although must admit, the chatter between you two made for a nice little gossip :D
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