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Kyun Bedi-yon se jakada hai Cricket??? |
Did the title remind you of Mandira Bedi? Hey man, then you are just on the right track! By any chance if you are a die-hard fan of her histrionics in ‘Shanti’ or a huge admirer of her off shoulder designer costumes please move ahead at your own discretion. Don’t blame me later for hurting your sentiments. ;)
All those who follow cricket more than just being a fan, might have already expressed their misery to watch and hear the ‘Extraa’ loquacious Mandira Bedi on the ‘Extraa Innings’ show on SEX MAX (Oops! Sorry!) its… SET MAX :lol:. With their new TRP increase formula in play titled ‘Entertainment weds Cricket’, they might have managed to get a mastodonic increase in the number of dumb folks watching their show (if not cricket), but upset the genuine interested. Their hot number for this formula – Mandira Bedi, simply adds misplaced sex appeal to some serious talk on cricket.
Its so over-fatuous to sit in front of your television set and hear to all her pakau-bakwas. She tries desperately to give her ‘expert’ and ‘exclusive’ comments on cricket based on some ‘Gully Cricket’ she once played, again thanks to Max TV for organising this promotional activity featuring her.
So what really is this femme fatale bimbette good at? With due respect to the gender she belongs to, belive me she is good for nothing to be on cricket shows. For a model of her glamour and beauty (ok, kept a little scope for any of her fans to smile if they had skipped para one), she should have been at some beauty peagent contest or may be on the ramp displaying some new Ritu Beri collection. Not here displaying her imbecile cricketing brain and her wrinkle lift creamed skin. ;)
To India, cricket means passion. We do not need an oomph girl Mandira Bedi or a cheese boy Rohit Roy on the sets of cricket discussion. Where we would like to hear some serious talk, match analysis, cricketing strategies and techniques. Not the howling, screaming and nonsense chatter of Mandira Bedi and more of her breed who may be waiting to get introduced, now impressed with their role model. We do not need entertainment to share place with cricket. We do not want to see any unwanted, undesired, unneeded glamour to be pushed upon the cricketing extravaganza. This is clearly not cricket!
For all those who support this new funda of clubbing entertainment with cricket, don’t you find Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Irfan Pathan or Harbajan Singh at all entertaining? Do you need such show dolls to interpret cricket in their own dumb lingos?
Mandira Bedi was introduced as a mandate for women in an attempt of popularising cricket amongst the fairer sex. But today with her inviting attires like skin coloured blouses, low-cut necklines, deep curve spaghetti straps and forget not her off shoulder costumes (all worn for making a spectacle of herself) has welcome enough criticism from the women’s domain. Infact during every show of ‘Extraa Innings’ my mom took every possible shot on her so many times, that I realised how much the women were also troubled to see her on screen wearing ‘Extraa’ scissored or to logically say ‘displaced attires’. And that is why this blog post is here.
Its high time that channels become more professional in their sports coverage, rather than chipping in such gimmicks. Before every match they have an astrology session too. How ridiculous! Well I know many cricketers have taken a leap into the entertainment industry. And that’s purely because they also can entertain us. I am sorry, but it just dosnt work the other way round! SEX MAX can’t really make us watch what we don’t want to. (Sorry for the deliberate error this time. I won’t stop titling the channel this until they don’t change the wardrobe of Mandira Bedi if not her :lol:).
I wonder if next is a Yana Gupta covering the Mumbai Bomb Blasts, or a Rakhi Sawant desperately trying to discuss the latest stock market trends! And to all those who just said ‘Why not?’, thanks for reading the article! :)
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Commercial/ising ‘Dada’ |
With ‘Ooh Aah Ouch’ and out of Cricket to ‘Hu Ha India’ on the screens, Ganguly still seems to have not lost hopes of wearing the country’s colours again. If you have been watching the Champions Trophy, you probably know what I am talking about. A (poignant??) Ganguly asks India in a new Pepsi ad if they have forgotten him. Sitting in the spectator stands of an empty cricket stadium(how sad :( ) this is what Ganguly says while batting (Uh I mean now batting for Pepsi!):
“My name is Saurav Ganguly. I hope you havnt forgotten me.
Whatever happened, why it happened I don’t know. I am practicing hard to come back into the team.
Who knows I might get another chance to swirl my shirt in the air!
In the field or outside the field, I wont keep quiet.
Hu ha India… Aaya India.
For every match of India I am going to cheer them like this and so should you… my team will feel good.
You will listen to your ‘Dada’ right?”
What a classic way of emotional blackmailing! Is this the way by which Ganguly thinks he would be back in the team? A couple of sensitive lines on screen with an intent to gather sympathy, my dear Ganguly… this is no way u gonna bat again for India.
Ofcourse we have not forgotten you… How can we? How can we forget, one of the best cricketing captains of India, one who changed what captaincy is in Indian cricket. How can we forget our Dada whose aggressive attitude on-field was always so exciting to watch. We havnt forgotten you Saurav. And if we havnt then please stop doing such stupid ads, trying to gather sympathy for nothing.
If Ganguly is practicing hard, he should be making his way back soon, not by media-cising(coined a new word lol! :lol:) his intentions like this. He may want to swirl his shirt again in the air to thrill millions, to be back to the glory he was at, but speaking the truth, by emotionally influencing people through such supposed to be sensitive and touching commercials, he is only taking down his dignity with him.
As most brands have chosen to downplay their association with Ganguly, Pepsi seems to have found the man at their shoulders. Both having let down millions of people at some point, seem to be desperately trying to leverage from each other. While Coca Cola presenting their all time hero Aamir Khan to do the job, Pepsi has not left any marketing trick in the book to try to do better. With their new catchline ‘Hu Ha India’ to enthrall the Indians before the World Cup fever begins, a Blue Billion website portal and a pleading Ganguly, they seem to be on the right tracks. For all they might have done to get Ganguly to do this, great job done! Though I am not sure if they can shoot up their sales all over India with this, but Bengal for sure ;) (Sorry if I hurt anyone by saying this).
For the cake that Ganguly thinks he has, I feel really sorry for him, for doing such (already termed stupid) ads, like almost begging to be taken back in the team, he has let us down one more time!
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Can you read this? |
One interesting forward from my mail.
Can you read the text from the image below?
Ok if you cant, then try this:
1. Pull the corners of the eyes as though you were chinese.
OR
2. Close your eyes almost 90%.
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YouTube is now a part of Google |
This deal has been in the rumour domain for long. But finally its a deal today! Google acquired YouTube for a whooping $1.65 billion, winning over Yahoo in a close bid. For today it looks like google is on a rampage to be the WWW leader.
The Press Release:
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.
The acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing online video entertainment communities with Google’s expertise in organizing information and creating new models for advertising on the Internet. The combined companies will focus on providing a better, more comprehensive experience for users interested in uploading, watching and sharing videos, and will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to reach a vast new audience.
Here is the Webcast.
Recently Microsoft released a Beta version of Soapbox to compete YouTube. Now it will surely be a tougher task to beat the net giant!
POST SPONSORED BY: YouTube.com videos
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Chat in 8 Indian Languages |
I found this cool program on net, many of you might already be aware of. Anyways, worth a share!
Called ChitChat this program by Monusoft can be used to chat with friends in Yahoo Messenger or Google Talk in 8 different Indian Languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu). And believe me its real easy, and you will soon catch up good speed. It supports both yahoo messenger 7.0 and 8.0. And there is no insallation too.
If you are using Yahoo Messenger 8.0 you can download the same program as a plugin for yahoo messenger from http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/apps/1711.
But in this case, buddies using yahoo messenger 7.0 will not be able to receive your messages as that version dsnt support plugins. I am not a great fan of yahoo messenger 8.0. The new sounds are too irritating and also the chat room button has been removed off. So you can download the program instead which is actually compatible with all the yahoo versions supporting unicode character messages.
So guys… spread the word!
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Petrolwaale Bhayya |
It is not a new trick for the ‘doodhwaala bhayyas’ to mix water in the milk he sells. Most of us won’t even realise the difference. But when it comes to adulterating petrol with water… I guess it is worth a laugh! You think it dsnt happen???… it does…may be you would have heard it in the news sometime, but let me tell you what happened to my friend…
My friend had some problem with his year old Honda Unicorn. The bike would stop while riding. He gave it to the service center a couple of times… no improvement. Finally he decided to show it to his family mechanic (I mean the local guy whom his whole family has trusted for long). That day, I happened to be with him. The guy emptied the whole petrol tank and collected the petrol in a container. We could clearly see two layers of liquid.
I poured a little into a pet bottle to see the difference more clearly. The heavier one(now in excess) was water and the petrol layer floating over it! Wow what dumbass the petrol guys were! Adulterating petrol with water???!!!… man its hilarious! The mechanic claimed that the petrol tank was properly sealed and there could be no chance of any seepage of water in the rains…I gave it a little thought and concluded that may be the petrol was adulterated with kerosene or something, which may have been adulterated with water.
In the pic, the container was a little muddy so the colour.
Well my friend fills petrol only at one petrol pump (as it’s nearest to his house). We thought of taking a sample from there. Once we do that and find a positive result, will post the details here. Until then, let the petrol pump guy (certainly no better than the illiterate bhayyas) have some nice sleep!
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Movie Freaking…!!! |
I just love weekends… Get to do what I want… Had a stocked up movie collection… just gave it a beat! I am not very good at reviewing movies, so will just give my rating.
6th Oct (Friday)
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3:00 pm - Wedding Crashers [Rating - 3.5/5]
6:00 pm - Shopgirl [Rating - 2.5/5]
9:00 pm - Mean Girls [Rating - 3.5/5]
7th Oct(Saturday)
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12:00 am - Ella Enchanted [Rating - 4/5]
2:30 am - Roadtrip [Rating - 3.5/5]
5:00 am - Hotel Rwanda [Rating - 4.5/5]
Well its all morning now… time for me to catch some sleep… might write a few lines on these later. Right now my eyelids too heavy to hold up!
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Wow! www.aseemn.org now PR-5! |
Had been at IIT Bombay until early this week for my project work. Got back, and got a pleasant surprise. I was checking my blog www.aseemn.org and noticed that the PR field of my Google toolbar for PR(Page Rank) was half filled! Wow! That means my blog is now a PR-5 site! Jumped from PR-0 to PR-5 in its very first update! :D
Some other sites of mine which I had optimised and managed some backlinks also shooted up in their Page Rank. But a PR-5 for my blog has been the most delightful! Well many other blog posts are PR-4 now and some of the more popular ones still got to make it little higher. May be by the next time Google updates!
Overall… Thank You Google!!! :)
Well for those you are not acquainted with the term Page Rank, then it’s a rank given to a page according to its importance on the net. Page Rank is scaled from 0 to 10. You can read more info here on Wikipedia - Google Page Rank.
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