Brilliant Ad

I came across this article in one of the blogs.

Chevrolet created havoc with its 20-foot billboard advert made entirely from one-pence coins in London’s New Oxford Street. The unique billboard that consisted of 20,000 pennies was created to advertise the 769,500-pence starting price of the new Aveo. Understandably, it didn’t take long for hundreds of opportunistic by passers to strip it clean. To be exact, the penny-billboard only lasted for a mere 30 minutes!!!

Chevrolet's Les Turton commented:“There have been some great car adverts before, but none that has stopped traffic and actually put money back into the motorist’s pocket so this is certainly a first. We’re glad we’ve topped up lots of people’s wallets, purses and, in some cases, rucksacks, but it would have been nice for the billboard to last a little longer than 30 minutes.” This is really a good way to make the motorist look at the advertisements.

I personally feel that the brand recall for this AD will be the highest across it's category !!:)

Biscuits at Karachi bakery

I was on my way to chennai on 18th July. Some of my colleagues in my office referred me to Karachi bakery near Nampalli station. They referred to the delicious fruit biscuits that a person gets at the bakery.

Based on my colleagues reference, I went to Nampalli station and decided to go to Karachi bakery. The bakery is around 1 to 1.5 km from the station. I tried to catch an Auto to that place. I was shocked when the autowala asked me to pay Rs 35 for the 1.5 km trip. I decided to walk to the shop.

The route to the bakery was one of the most crowdest and busiest road of hyderabad. I felt that a person can walk faster than the car or bike in that place. After walking for 15 minutes,I reached the bakery.

I was a bit surprised by the security arrangements at the bakery. I had a doubt if I had come to a bakery or to some VIPs residence. There were three levels of security check that was carried out at the entrance of the bakery. I had to stand in queue for 15 minutes . Initially, a security guy checked my bag, a second one checked me with a metal detector and finally a third one came a made a thorough manually. I still have a doubt as to why do they have such a tight security. But, none of the customers standing in the queue were complaining of this checking.

After all the formalities were over, I went into the bakery. It was at this point,that my nostrils experienced the best scent of fruit flavored biscuits. It was here that I understood another concept of biology that ur nose and tongue are connected internally. As soon as nose had its share, it started troubling my tongue to taste those biscuits.I went in and tasted all the biscuits they had kept in the bakery. My favourite was their badam biscuit. After that I had their Strawberry cake. I have not yet had a cake like that anywhere. At that time, all the miseries that I had been put through at the time of entering the shops melted away like the black forest cake in my mouth.

So guys, If u happen to be in hyderabad, Never fail to go karachi Bakery.

My first dinner at 6Pack @ Gachibowli

Off late, Thanks to Neeru Thambhi's advise we are eating out at various health food joints. Day before yesterday i had my veggie delite at subway@Whitefields.

Yesterday, For the first time we visited 6Pack. To know more about this place visit their website at www.6packcuisine.com

For all the fitness freaks, this place is a must visit .
Vegetarian Menu consists of
1) 100 gms of boiled carrot, beans and cauliflower
2) Ground soya/ any special item of the day (Ground soya tastes gr8 there)
3) 150 g of green rice/brown rice
4) 1 cup of dhal

Even though the quantity of food provided by them was less, i felt that the dinner was quite filling.Even the ambience out there was too good.

Guys, if you intend to eat out , 6pack is worth trying.

Dasavathaaram Review with hidden things

people, came across this article in my mail. A good review for Dasavatharam

One thing we had noticed is why people didn't get the real subtext and reason for the various roles and hence the title.

If you knew the real dasavatharams of Lord Vishnu and their characters you can appreciate the script more.

Let me explain, starting with the best adapted role:

1. Krishna avatar - Vincent Poovaraghavan

Lord krishna is actually a dalit, he is dark-skinned [shyamalam]. He saved draupadi when she was being violated and he was the actual diplomat in mahabharatham. Lord krishna dies of an arrow striking his lower leg. Now look at how vincent was introduced.. he appears when asin is about to be molested and he saves her like draupadi. Vincent is the dalit diplomat, fights for land issue [soil issue to be exact] and dies from the metal rod striking his leg. Oh even five of vincent's men are drugged at P. Vasu's.. sounds familiar???

2. Balarama avatar - Balarama naidu

This is an easy given. as the name suggests and the role personifies you can easily get it.

3. Mathsya avatar - Ranagaraja nambi

nambi is thrown into water in an act of trying to save lord from being thrown into sea, though vainly. what more clue do you want?

4. Varaha avatar - Krishnaveni paatti

During the mukunda song, krishnaveni paatti does varaha avatar in the shadow puppetry. The frame freezes on it for a second. there is the clue. Moreover, in varaha avatar lord actually hides earth so as to protect life forms. Here too krishnaveni hides the germs - life form inside the statue so as to protect.

5. Vamana avatar - Kalifulla khan

remember in vamana avatar, lord vishnu takes the vishvaroopa, that is the giant form! Hence the giant kalifulla here symbolises vamana avatar.

6. Parasurama avatar - Christian Fletcher

Parasurama is actually on an angry killing spree and killed 21 generations of the particular kshatriya vamsa. Hence the real KILLER... Guess what thats what our Fletcher is! He comes around with the gun [modern upgrade for axe] and kills everyone around. I have to check if he kills 21 people though. :-D

7. Narasimha avatar - Shingen Narahashi

first of all the name itself is a play on the words singam [means lion in tamil] and narasimha [the avatar being symbolised]. Lord Narasimha manifests himelf to kill the bad guy and he also teaches prahaladha. In the movie, he shows up to kill the killer fletcher! and is also a teacher.. Lord Narasimha had to kill the asura with bare hands and hence the martial arts exponent here.. get it?

8. Rama avatar - Avatar Singh

Lord Rama stands for the one man one woman maxim, kind of symbolising true love.. Here Avatar portrays that spirit by saying that he loves his woman more than anything and wants to live for her.

9. Kalki avatar - Govindaraj Ramasamy

As you know, the hero in kaliyug can be none other than the Kalki avatar!!!

10. Koorma avatar - Bush

This is the most loose adaptation I couldn't clearly comprehend. But if you look at the real koorma avatar, the lord is the turtle/tortoise that helps in stirring the ksheera sagara and bringing out the amruth. This essentially creates war among the devas and asuras. Similarly today Bush facilitates war between you know whom... May be Kamal also indicates that this avatar is a bit dumb like the tortoise..

Puzzle

I came across this in one of the numerous forwards that i keep receiving daily!!!

how do we make 1 1 1 = 6??

Ex:
How do we make 2 2 2 =6
by doing
2+2+2 =6

Spain marches into EURO 2008 finals

I was shocked to see today morning headlines that Spain had trounced russia. I coul'nt beleive it. Thanks to Electricity board(EB) people of White fields and our honorable cable guy for not allowing me and my room mate Neeru thambhi (Wizard of Amazon) to see the semifinal match. As soon as the first drop of rain falls in any part of hyderabad, our EB officials happily switch off the power supply.

Anyway, I would have hated seeing Russia lose the match.Better luck next time for them. Now that Germany and Spain are going to fight for the final spot, i would support Spain to win it!!

Lets see as to what's in store for the final.

Turkey gets its own medicine

The semifinal match between Turkey and Germany turned out to be an evenly contested match. I had a feeling that Germany might just steam roll over much depleted Turkish side.

A much-weakened Turkey side had dominated the first half but were only level at half-time after Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger had cancelled out Ugur Boral's opener. The second half was evenly contested by both the sides. Both the sides had a fair chance of scoring the goal in the second half.

Germany took the lead through Klose in the 79th minute. Rustu looked favourite to come out and claim Lahm's lofted cross into the area, but Klose beat both the goalkeeper and Topal to the ball to send a glancing header into an unguarded net.

That might have spelt the end of some side's hopes, but Turkey had proven themselves an obstinate opponent in the three previous matches and, astonishingly, they managed to net yet another late goal.

Sabri sent over a low cross and Semih managed to poke the ball past Lehmann at his near post
After seeing Senturk scoring in last five minutes, I felt that Turkey were going to make history by staging a comeback in the final minutes and go to the Euro Final. But Philip Lahm had other intentions. His 90th minute winner shut the doors for Turkey.

Waiting for the semifinals between Russia and Spain tonight. I would like to see Russia lift the EURO 2008. but let's keep our fingers crossed till that.

"DUS KE DUS" for Kamal in Dasavathaaram

WOW!!!This was my first expression after watching dasavathaaram. Before watching the movie, I had got mixed response from my friends . Most of them were saying that dasavathaaram can be watched only once and that too for Kamal. But after seeing the movie, I felt that we can understand the movie only after watching it twice.Hats off to kamal for his acting and especially for the roles of Naidu and the old lady. These roles were quite realastic.
We cannot compare these movies with Anbe sivam,Mahanadhi or Nayagan. These movies had brought the best of kamal's acting. But Dasavathaaram and Hey ram has given Kollywood a brilliant screenplay and story writer. The way he has linked all the characters in the film is really amazing. Eventhough he has acted well, his acting takes a back seat in front of his story and screenplay. Thanks to kamal for giving such a good movie for Tamil Audience.

KG,ALLEN,and PAUL lead Celtics to their 17th NBA title on June 17th

It would have been a record in the NBA history had Lakers come from 1-3 down to win the trophy.

But the three Big Celtics had a different plan. KG,Allen and Paul ensured that Lakers wont make history. It was a complete one sided affair and the result could not have been different.

Being a Lakers fan, it would have been good if they would have lost the match a bit close. But, Congrats to Celtics for taking the title.

Kobe, better luck next time.

Sharing of my personal experience with NGO!!

While doing my MBA @ Great Lakes Institute of management, one good thing that happened to me was to start working with a NGO. Sanjeev, Rajesh, Anubhav , Nesa and I worked for Nethaji Mercy home. It is an orphanage located in Velachery. 24 children in the age group of 6 months to 15 years are residing in this orphanage. As part of Karma yoga course, we were supposed to work for a month and uplift the life of children staying there. People might think that it is quite ridiculous to do such a thing within a month.

For the sake of the course credits, we started working for the NGO. At the end of one month, I found it really difficult to disengage myself from NGO. Even today, after one year,whenever possible I make it a point to meet the children and spend some good time with them. It is here that I understood that, after all money is not the most important thing in one's life!!Some where I have read that "Time we spent enjoying is not wasted time". It is only here that I understood the meaning of that.

In this hectic life of ours,where earning money and reputation is the only goal,we can also spend some time with these people who really require our attention. Money is only a secondary requirement for these people living in these orphanages and old age homes. Love and affection from people like us is their foremost requirement.

Dont take this as a preaching. But this is just my viewpoint. Why dont we allocate some time every week or month or year and make it a point to share our love and affection with these people in orphanages and old age homes (and if possible, some money :) ). Lets spread love and affection and make this world a better place to live.

You can find details of the NGO at the following website address.
http://www.nethajimercyhome.org/

A look at past NBA finals and championship

Courtesy: www.espnstar.com

1987 Los Angeles Lakers 4–2 Boston Celtics

1988 Los Angeles Lakers 4–3 Detroit Pistons

1989 Los Angeles Lakers 0–4 Detroit Pistons

1990 Portland Trail Blazers 1–4 Detroit Pistons

1991 Los Angeles Lakers 1–4 Chicago Bulls

1992 Portland Trail Blazers 2–4 Chicago Bulls

1993 Phoenix Suns 2–4 Chicago Bulls

1994 Houston Rockets 4–3 New York Knicks

1995 Houston Rockets 4–0 Orlando Magic

1996 Seattle SuperSonics 2–4 Chicago Bulls

1997 Utah Jazz 2–4 Chicago Bulls

1998 Utah Jazz 2–4 Chicago Bulls

1999 San Antonio Spurs 4–1 New York Knicks

2000 Los Angeles Lakers 4–2 Indiana Pacers

2001 Los Angeles Lakers 4–1 Philadelphia 76ers

2002 Los Angeles Lakers 4–0 New Jersey Nets

2003 San Antonio Spurs 4–2 New Jersey Nets

2004 Los Angeles Lakers 1–4 Detroit Pistons

2005 San Antonio Spurs 4–3 Detroit Pistons

2006 Dallas Mavericks 2–4 Miami Heat

2007 San Antonio Spurs 4–0 Cleveland Cavalie

Final scoreline says it all !! LAL 87 BOL 81

After Sunday's Match, Those who had doubts on L A Lakers being NBA champions can bury all their doubts.

It was Kobe all the way from start to end. He was the top scorer of the game with 36 points. He was equally well supported by Sasha with 20 points.They were the only double digit scorers for Lakers.

On the other hand, for Boston, Only Allen was repeatedly netting the ball. Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce had a forgettable game. Garnett's stats were 6 of 21 whereas for pierce it was even bad at 2 of 14!!!( This is what pressure is all about)

Now that Lakers have brought down the lead from 2-0 to 2-1, the remaining games will be even more interesting.

Celtics!!Watch out for KOBE in the fourth match on thursday!!

The Happening - By Shyamalan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fwccFTJIdo

Genius in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9khTa01lkJQ