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Advertisements are getting difficult to understand these days. I don't understand if they are trying to sell the product or not. A little more thinking is needed to understand the logic of the Ad. Some of the incomprehensible Ads:

1. XCD135: The genie asks the guy to make three wishes. The guy asks for a house and up comes a white palace. He just wants a simple house and genie gives him that. For the second wish, the guy asks for a gal and a hot gal appears. Again, the guy wants a simple homely gal. For the third wish, the guy asks for a bike, and the genie gives an XCD. But the guy wants a simple one and goes with one.

I wondered why did they make the bike they were marketing look like a passable one. How was the guy made to refuse the bike? Then I did a lil bit of reverse engineering and oh, they wanted the bike to be shown extraordinary. The guy always refused such magnificent things and by refusing a XCD, it was shown as one. But weird marketing!!

2. Bingo International: The gals' family calls the groom-to-be home to see the bride, assuming him to be a foren guy. The guy gets bingo international as present from home. One guy exclaims 'hamara bingo videsh mein bhi milta hain' and they find out that the guy was lying.

Now, I thought one shouldn't make the customer think that the product is not available outside. This ad is not as bad as the previous one and they have even changed the dialog to 'yeah hamara gaon mein bhi milta hain'

3. Castrol Oil: A sardar is teaching bike riding to his son and tells that while in traffic, one uses brakes more than the accelerator. Then the garage guy informs that brakes reduce the life of the engine, which is why castrol oil should be used. The next time the father-son pair go bike riding, the father asks son to apply accelerator. First, I dint understand how the castrol advice was used. I feel the father dint believe the garage guy that castrol will help in increasing engine life and hence asks the son to apply accelerator.

4. Colgate salt: This ad, they market the salt factor of the toothpaste well. But comeon, Sanshya mridul comes in the plane asking if the toothpaste has salt when a guy whines with toothache. Aeroplane? where did she fly after the guy takes the toothpaste?And Sandhya Mridul!Whats wrong with her???

More would come....

Road

I had forgotten to attach the meeting on meeting place and I remember it when I sit in the cab! darn!! I hoped that he drive fast and there be no traffic on road. Now, that is optimistic. The driver didn't wait for anyone, so we saved a few minutes, maybe. But no traffic, that dint happen.

Now I come with the rules known to every person with a two wheeler in Bangalore. If you have just bought a new one, here they are:

1. Overtake a BMTC bus from the left. Trying from the left, will leave you behind it forever. BMTC buses will immediately go to the right lane when they start from the stop, which is on the left lane. They will now see if there are vehicles inches behind on the right lane. The driver puts his hand outside, n the bus goes to the right.

2. Never be on the left side of the BMTC, when a turn is coming up. The bus will always come to the left and stand in front of you. There is always a bus stop after a turn.

3. To overtake a lorry, just guess which side would be better. They generally take the middle lane.

4. Autos, they follow no rule. They have a special ability to take a right angled turn.

On the road, I don't like to be overtaken by any vehicle smaller than my Dio.

Go Roddick!!

Federer wins Wimbledon and the numero uno rank yet again.
I am not his ardent supporter, and feel that others should win more to make each match a better one. But he holds such an edge over his opponents, it is difficult to deny him victory. Semifinal with Haas did not look like a semi, with him gliding to the straight sets win. He always did that, dint he? Unless Nadal appeared to the scene. The two slams victories still has one pondering if the result would have been the same if Nadal was fit? Tennis, like any other game is half won in the mind. Having a match against Feddie could make one have nightmares the previous night. Does Nadal have that effect on Federer? But the final was a good fight, Roddick played his best making his opponent sweat for this cup, which could be considered his own possession. Hats off to him! He might have just prolonged Federer's wait to get till there, but fight is what a match is about!
Sampras won't be the highest Slams record holder anymore, Nadal is not number one; But to get till there, Roddick gave him a very good resistance. Yo RODDICK!!!

Seetha

Watching Ramayan always gets me wondering. The days of doordarshan, Ramayan was one of the serials we used to follow very religiously. The scene I remember of it was Seetha getting gobbled. Maybe I dont remember that scene, and I have just succeeded in making up that scene well with Ramanand Sagars sets in my mind.
Well, the new Ramayan in NDTV had again that scene yesterday. That scene, like always, makes me wonder. If Ram's perfomed his duty as a king, should it have been at the stake of his duty as a husband. How many times would he want to 'test' Seetha? If she walked through the fire to prove her chastity, why wasn't it enough later on? When some person in Ayodhya brings it up, couldn't that be told to him? Was it necessary to send her to the wild? She was asked to prove again when coming back with her children. I could understand the pain when she goes into the earth.<> How many times!!!
If she did a mistake, that was to want the golden deer. If she did a mistake, that was to cross the lakshmanrekha. But such a punishment!!! Oh well, might have been a mistake to go for vanvaas. New angle to the story-- did urmila have to give tests as well? She was away from lakshman for 14 years;
When Seetha married Raghunandan, did she dream of this? He was ekapathnivrathastha, but didn't she follow the same with lot more trouble? She played a single mom to Luv Kush for a long time. After the grand swayamvar, was this life a fair one?