the bloody piece of paper !

no , i 'm not talking about exam paper or question paper !
no . not even stamp paper !

Ambani once rightly said * is not everything , but earn enough * before you say all that shit,
its the piece of paper we all run behind ,
its the piece of paper we all value,
its the piece of paper you and i crave for ,
its the piece of paper which makes the difference between bill gates and i ,
its the piece of paper that we wouldn't use to make a silly boat even if it rains in Thar desert and we were there ,
its the piece of paper we count and count on ,
its the piece of paper that has caused a huge economical difference in this country that has gradually trickled down to determining the social status , standard of living and even the choice of cable connection we have .
its THE piece of paper .

its green in some place ,
its pink in some place ,
its blue in some place ,
its white in some place ,
its value differs ,
but its THE piece of paper .

you might not be able to draw anything on this piece of paper ,
but you sure can draw people towards you ,
cuz i told you ,
its THE piece of paper .

you might not be able to fly a kite with this kinda paper ,
but you sure can fly high if you have this paper ,
(is that why A.R.R named one of his composition as paper planes ? i wonder .)
cuz i told you ,
its THE piece of paper .

you might not have the heart to wrap a kilo of sundal* in this paper ,
but you maybe can wrap the sundalkaaran* if you have this paper ,
cuz i told you ,
its THE piece of paper .

you might not wanna recycle this piece of paper ,
cuz the oldest of its kind is considered to be the luckiest piece of paper.

its the piece of paper that runs farther the more you run towards it ,
its the piece of paper that makes people lose their basic ethics*,
its the piece of paper that has bred corruption,
its the piece of paper that makes people like A. rajah ,
its the piece of paper that you and i dread to shed for the everyday-increase-in-petrol-price,
its the piece of paper that doesn't give the luxury of sleeping in your mothers lap and taking a power nap ,
its the piece of paper that creates an unjustifiable difference in the society ,
its THE piece of paper that sometimes costs the lives of many .



PS : i am desperately in need of sponsors for one of my departmental cultural , hence the post . and oh ! the cultural is called *ethics :D ! if you care to sponsor , post a comment regarding the same . you can post a comment even otherwise . see ! i am nice !

sundal :Legumes. please visit any iyer/iyengar house during golu/navrathri, you might get to taste a lot of its kind . sundalkaran : the man who sells sundal .

vague

i haven't written in a very long while now , for a simple fact that so many things have been happening around me , more posts to follow on that part .
what made me write this post now ?
because when it rains , and when you have tata sky connection at your place and when it says your digicomp doesn't receive signal because of the rain and you cannot watch master-chef Australia , you automatically choose the other option of wasting time ( like how my amma calls it), computer . even when sitting on computer the first thing we all do is to log into facebook , ( accept that you do it too!we all do . I DO .) and when everything on facebook gets depressing like hey-look-at-me-i-am-so-cool-i have-a -dslr-so- i- summa-keep-taking -pictures-or-sad-lovefailure-status messages,or status messages with too many !!!!!!!!!'s or :):P:|:(:('s on them that is when i get into blogging .honest . i follow around 20 other blogs , so reading what the others have written become more interesting sometimes, sometimes ? no, always .
so its a combination factor and a accumulation of distractions that doesn't/hasn't let me write all these days, but from today , i have decided to write something , some random thing, at-least one post per month about whats happening in my life whether you ask for it or not .



okay , so what do i write about in this post ?
all right , remember i wrote a post on the new years eve ?
according to what i wrote and mentioned in that post and comparing the standards of where i am and what i am doing right now , well , i would say i am not even half way through my goals when half of the year has gone by already .
this year for me , is going to be a lot of pressure for en number of reasons like :
1) being in the final year and not being able to answer my parents question of "kannamoodi kanna thorandha april vandhudum , adhukapram enna panna pora ne ? "
translation : within a blink of the eye April will come by , WTH are your future plans ?
2) being a member of the students council (yay ?), managing various activities and carrying out everything successfully (!) PRESSURE I TELL YOU .
3) not being able to understand anything in costing or income tax and the pressure of not having any arrears and finishing my UG and the like.
4) being the first commerce student in the family , the pressure of doing something and scaling some heights.(!)again .
5)the pressure of finishing my diploma by the time i finish college.
bottom line , decide what am i going to do with my future !


when you finish schooling and come out, you concretely know that you have to do some UG in some college / university , but college life doesn't work that way .you make your future after college . THAT choosing the right decision just cannot happen in the inkypinkyponky way , no matter how badass you are . i am 19 now , turning 20 this october* and i am simply not able to digest the fact that i have been in this world for 20 years now and still am confused about what am i going to do in the future .not being able to decide what i exactly want .
my problem is i get content with what i have .(* inner voice - "change it mahalakshmi , change it" *)
best part , people are talking about getting me married already ( the oldies in the house are a problem sometimes)


so atleast by the time i write my next post , i should have scrutinized the areas of my interests and narrowed down my future plans .(!)again.
wait for the next post .






*yes , my birthday is on october , exactly on the day of diwali this year (YAY) , so dual wish me :D also my end semesters start the very next day . i choose to watch the regular awesome sun tv festival special programs and movies . so semester = god is great story .
and i am not able to digest the fact that ladygaga is being featured on india's more desirable - irrelevant , i know , couldn't control writing that. okay . go now .

கடவுளே

sometimes life gets dull.
it gets boring .
you wont have anything to be proud of while others will be happily marching towards their "goals" , or it might seem so to you .

this feeling of complete boredom and lack of interest in everything ?
well , i am going through it right now .

the reason why i am probably writing this post is because i am extremely pissed with ONE question which is asked by every possible person i know .

"what are your future plans ?"

firstly , how is anything that i am going to do in my life going to affect the person who asked me that question?
why cant he / she just shut his/her mouth and walk off?
they see me and give a sly smile and yes , THAT question follows without a pause .

secondly ,
my replies and motives and my so called " future plans " keep differing every single time .

thirdly ,
i HATE answering that question , for a simple reason that , i do not know what i am going to do in my future , that justifies my second point .

i am this person who takes life as it comes , and travel with the flow of it .
when i try to be honest and tell this as the answer ,
you should seriously see the reactions that i get to face .

one big lecture will follow , with all the " i had to walk without slippers to my school and college . you have everything , you should focus , hare rama , hare krishna .
gqdgrfirjg hrjwijdj"

I JUST FACED one of those 5 mins back , from no one else but my father .
what did i do ?
tried to make a mango banana smoothie ,at 11:45 pm , cut all the fruits and poured half a bottle honey + vannila scoops and turned on the mixer , without closing the lid .
i mean , that was NOT intentional , my mother was surfing channels in the living room and a favorite song of mine came on tv and i got so engrossed in it that i did not realize what i was doing .

and then comes my father ...in to the kitchen , immediate response to my " ohh f****" as loud as it could get , and gives me this death glare and of course , the lecture .



but
why would he ask me my future plans at 11:45 pm , in the kitchen , when i am standing like a buffoon with a quarter glass of smoothie all over my face and hair , all sticky and dripping , and the rest spilled all over the kitchen ?

why would he ask me " why the hell are you making a drink for yourself now ?
WTH ?
CANT I HAVE A DRINK WHEN I WANT ?
its my holidays . i mean i have the license to do cranky stuff non stop .
sleep whenever i want .
eat when ever i want .
do whatever i want .


i told him tat .


"kjshurgjsadhcd ifh ivdjlifh" followed .
i cleaned the kitchen .
all over .
lost my smoothie .
sat on the comp .
typed a useless post .

irony

I have always wanted to look fair .
So any fairness product commercial gets my attention instantly .
Recently I purchaced the product X , it “ promised " definite fairness overnight !
We are human .
We are greedy .
Well , I tried that .
Next day morning , the first thing I did when I woke up from my bed was to rush and look at myself in the mirror .
I could not find any difference .
250 rupees GONE WITH THE WIND !

I sat down and gave a thought about what I was actually doing .
Firstly why did I even buy that product ?
If that product gave the “promised” effect then why are so many people , who are capable of spending 250 for a cream and have the want to become fair , still dark in this country?
And I realized!
Advertisers and copy writers are geniuses!
They convince you , SO EASILY!
And apparently we fall for it .

Seriously !
how can a person with an abnormal melanin secretion become fair overnight with a cream ?
They say its been formed scientifically , well they do not understand that what they promise actually contradicts science .

Like I mentioned earlier ,
Advertisers and copy writers are such geniuses !


They know what they actually try to sell , they know what it is made of ,
So finally at the end of the advertisement they put a slide that says
*conditions apply !

but WE ?
never care or even notice that .
all we want is an immediate result .
what lack of patience can do to a person I tell you !
we would not mind spending 250 rupees for a 10ml cream ,
but! We want instant results.

Advertisers know the psychology of consumers .
They target them emotionally .
introducing a slimming gel targeting fat women ,
showing lustrous hair on a mans head targeting the bald ,
they would not care about womens thyroid problem or the man's heredity !
all they want is sales ,and they would do ANYTHING for it .

Half the time the advertisement might not even relate to the product .
Best part ,
They depict women in inappropriate ways,
for what joy?
They do not understand the cultural differences in each part of the world .
Showing women in bikini is absolutely natural in the west , but in countries like UAE and India?
just absurd.

And not to forget the stars who promote the product .
The ambassadors are sometimes given more importance than the product .


The basic purpose of an advertisement is to educate the consumer about the product ,
Create awareness about the product ,
In an appealing way .
Most of the advertisements these days fail to do that .

Advertisements have become completely irrational ,
Absolutely irrelavent ,
But highly irresistible .
*conditions apply .

yes , i am angry with the manufacturer of product "X" , thats why i wrote this post .
now go off you !