Deadly Stilettos

There is actually a thing called Stiletto-*RUN*. Just when I thought the world couldn’t get any crazier. Apparently this event organized by a glamour magazine, gives the women a chance to “flaunt their footwear prowess“, by running in their stilettos with the latest edition of the magazine in their hands! To ensure a basic minimum level of torture, the women had to wear heels at least seven cm high, and at most 1.5 cm wide. *Ouch..

Image courtesy: www.ibnlive.com

What would the winner do with the 10,000 euro prize? My guess – to plaster her broken bones and torn muscles.

Kaun banega sponsorpati

Yes, I watch KBC. Wait, before you attribute that to SRK, I watch KBC in spite of him. Notwithstanding SRK’s treatment of the contestants as bacchas asking them if their answer is “kaccha-kaccha ya pukka-pukka” (it’s like asking a kid if he wants to do su-su!), the format itself is very interesting and entertaining. I love watching the variety of people, the well thought out questions and the way people go about answering them. And what’s with SRK giving away watches to people who don’t win anything? Is this some Ram roti kendra for the “poor contestant” (tch tch)? But this is not an SRK-bashing post. This  post is about an interesting observation about the intial few questions at KBC.

I have noticed that a lot of times, one of the initial five questions posed at KBC, are related to the sponsors. Sample this – “In a Cadbury’s ad, which title does Radha win?” the answer to which is Miss Palampur. And then there are questions, related to Hyundai, about characters of “Naya Office Office” which is currently aired on Star One and ofcourse there are questions from KJo’s films.

So there does seem to be a slight SRK/Star influence, at least in the intial questions. For the contestants, there is a small incentive if they watch what Star and their sponsors are doing. Ofcourse, this only seems to be restricted to the chote-mote sawal and doesn’t figure in the later questions.

Women’s day

Who just got flowers AND a paper card? After a really long time.
And by the way, happy women’s day!

[Edited to add] : And chocolates! :D

Spot the difference

 

And if you do spot a difference, do let me know

Mornings are not for me

Mad mornings
Burnt toasts
Nothing elaborate, okay?
Only makeshift cooking
The tiny rose bud in the balcony smiles gently
A second or two lost in love
And the milk spills
Watery lifeless chai – ginger khatam
10 baj gaye
The maid’s nowhere in sight
Laundry’s piling
5 minutes to go
Pick one, quick
Kohl lined eyes or bio break
Tick, tick and pant
Got to keep up

Life on hold
for weekends

Paradox

Well, I know life is full of contradictions and all that blah. But I wasn’t prepared to face an actual person named Krishna Joseph!

Feel good

• A refreshing new song in your playlist
• That perfect cup of ubli hui adrak chai, the husband makes
• A hot shower
• A well-fitting old trouser that feels a little loose now
• Just for laugh – gags

Its funny how little it takes to feel good. It IS that simple, isn’t it? When it isn’t elusive, that is.

Be opinionated

I don’t need to have an opinion.
I don’t need to voice it.
I don’t need to fight for it.

Not always, No.

The more I classify,
the more difficult it becomes
to reclassify.

Backgammon

Ooh.. I am officially addicted to this game called Backgammon these days. I sort of like the personalized Google thing too, even though its kind of scary when I think of what would happen if there was an AOL-like leak on so precious personalized Google data. But anyway, I have all sorts of cool widgets on it now, including Backgammon ofcourse.

Its an excellent ego massage when I win against the damned computer program, especially when its a dull day otherwise. Anyway, I suspect that the dice outcomes for the computer’s player are rigged. Yea yea, throw the whole victim mentality thing I just blogged about at me. But you should know that I don’t always practice what I preach.

Have a good day~

Self pity?

Practically everybody goes through some kind of discrimination or the other. You can be discriminated by your religion/caste/race/sex/taste. And if these parameters fall short I’m sure there are a million other godforsaken parameters for everyone to get discriminated against.

Does that make each one of us a victim? Excluding the few genuine and serious cases, can’t we stand a little joke on us anymore? Or does the world now just consist of only inherently wimpish residents who are incapable of taking any ownership?
Note: This is a general rant and has nothing to do with the recent Big Brother issue whatsoever.