the eve parties
Posted by: ajitjoy on: December 31, 2009
Only a few hours to go for 2010 to rush in and only a couple of hours for the new year eve parties/new year bashes with unlimited food and beverages at various hotels, pubs discos…blah blah…to begin.
Some ‘celebrate/party’ by paying an entry fee of couple of thousands of rupees, while some go to their holiday destinations, while some do it at their apartment terrace , while some don’t party/celebrate at all.
During my last twenty years on this planet i have celebrated/partied only a couple of times… uhmmmm not more than five…ok say six times! Now that will make some people say “oh!! look at this bore!!”
The first time I was invited to a ‘31st ’ the first thought that ran through me was, just why the hell are they partying so hard?? It may be the end of the year but…
when i put this question to a friend, he asked me, ”why are you happy when you get something new?? same is the case here”
I don’t know how it is outside my country, but how you celebrated ‘31st’ is like a status thing for we Indians, at least here in Mumbai.
“what are you doing on the 31st?” will be an imminent question one will encounter in the month of December.
sorry you had to read this dumb ass article 
It’s the last day of the last year of the decade of the millenium!!
Happy New Year to all of ya!! Cheers!!!
P.S but just why do we party on the 31st? anyone?
India in 2010 Fifa Final
Posted by: ajitjoy on: December 18, 2009
Andreas Gellner, Adidas India managing director, is no prophet but he does know who will be in the 2010 Fifa World Cup final in South Africa. Jabulani.
No, that’s not some African underdog team doing a Senegal (they made the quarterfinals in 2002, beating defending champion France in their opening match), but the official match ball for football’s greatest show.
And while the Indian football team will be watching the action on TV, there will be a little of India in every match, courtesy Jabulani. The latex bladder used in the ball is manufactured in India.
What’s that? The bladder makes up the inside of the ball, which enables it to be pressurised. The ball itself has 11 different colours, representing the 11 players in each team, the 11 official languages of South Africa and the 11 tribes in the country.
Jabulani means ‘to celebrate’ in isiZulu, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa.
-OPEN
creativity gone wrong
Posted by: ajitjoy on: December 18, 2009
A classic case of effective communication gone wrong.
When The Economic Times was giving away awards for the country’s top advertisers and marketers here in Mumbai, TBWA an advertising agency was in damage control mode in Delhi.
What happened was TBWA had created signboards for HAAGEN-Dazs, an ice cream chain based in the United States, which was opening its first outlet in India in a South Delhi mall. The company had put up the signboards around the mall which read
‘EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLERS’ with a rider
‘Entry restricted only to holders of international passports’
What the teaser actually wanted to convey was ‘Now get a taste of abroad right here in India’. But it was misinterpreted by an Indian when he was turned away from the store apparently due to “lack of space”.
The Indian pissed of with the treatment took a photograph of the teaser and sent it to a Times Of India blogger. What followed was loads of hate messages against the company from around the globe.
“it was wrong choice of words and we regret the error” said the MD of General Mills, which markets the brand in India.
With future plans of opening 30 to 40 outlets the company sure has a tough time ahead.
So all those Creative Agencies out there make sure that you don’t get carried away with your creativity…make sure you follow one of the most important laws of communication – effective communication in short simple and understandable words.
Cheers!!
like this!! is how we treat(shamelessly) our protectors
Posted by: ajitjoy on: November 20, 2009
how will you react when you are entrusted with a serious job of protecting a heritage monument and an iconic hotel from terrorists and then…you are made to sleep on the roads without any proper basic facilities??
you will obviously take shelter beneath the shade of the monument you are to protect. (shops were their first bedrooms. they used to wait for the shopkeepers to shut shop and leave in the night)
you will obviously drive nails into the century old monument to tie ropes and hang clothes on them for drying.
you will obviously keep your shoes and slippers and water bottles here and there.
what else you expect you can do??
let alone basic shelter facilities you have only two cans of potable drinking water for your 30 jawans for your round the clock job. (toilets are the other source of drinking water one the cans dry up)
you have to wake up at 4am in the morning just to complete your morning ablutions in the nearby public toilet because you will not be allowed to once the Colaba policemen come at 6am.
THIS IS THE HUMILIATING TREATMENT METED OUT TO THE STATE RESERVE POLICE FORCE JAWANS WHO HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED TO PROTECT THE TAJ MAHAL HOTEL AND THE GATEWAY OF INDIA FROM TERRORISTS!
THIS IS THE CONDITION NOT ONLY OF THE SRPF BUT OTHER POLICEMEN TOO.
AND THEN WE BLAME THEM FOR NOT DOING THEIR DUTIES.
when the authorities came to know about this, they were “thrown out” of the gateway the ver next day.
images: times of india; mid day.
a date with LeT
Posted by: ajitjoy on: November 15, 2009
The other day in muscat:
Shahzad Khan, with his family and others had come for a prayer meeting/get-together at this place.
Besides them there were other unknown faces present there.
After the meeting got over and the snacks done, one of the unknown faces approached Shahzads father and started speaking to him. Shahzad saw the talking animatedly with his father. He understood that the man was introducing himself. In a moment Shahzad was called and was introduced to the man.
The man suddenly veered his conversation to the injustice(s) done to Muslims around the world and how the world was getting cruel and Islam was losing its importance.
“Sir, my group needs some funding. We help all our brothers from our community. You can help me with it” said the man to Mr. Khan showing him a sheet of paper.
Mr. Khan had formerly agreed to pay and sign, but was horrified when he read Lashkar -e- Toiba written in bold at the head of the sheet. He immediately disagreed and left with his family.
As told by Shahzad during our International Finance lecture.
BEE mobile
Posted by: ajitjoy on: November 1, 2009
The next time Mr.HoneyBee does not reach back home after a long hard days work collecting nectar, be ready to get yourself stinged and blamed, because you are the one who made Mr.HoneyBee lose his way.
Wondering whats going on??
Bees which pollinate almost 80 per cent of all fruits and vegetables, have started to disappear. The US, Europe and the UK have been reporting large bee disappearances, posing a direct threat to the survival of thousands of plants used for food, fibers and medicines – a “potential health crisis for the planet” and an already fragile ecosystem.
And the crisis has just hit home. Whats causing this phenomenon is the probably the way we talk (read MOBLIEPHONES.)
Electro Magnetic Radiations/ Radio Frequency Radiations being emitted from mobile phone towers and mobile phones hamper the navigational skills of bees who step out to collect nectar.
Dr Sainuddin Pakattazhy, a zoology expert from S N College and president of KERA, Punalur,Kerala, said electromagnetic waves emitted by such towers hamper the navigational skills of worker bees that set out to collect nectar.
During an experiment, when a cell phone was kept near a bee hive, Pakattazhy noticed that worker bees lost their way, leaving the hives with only the queens and eggs.
The result: the colony collapsed within 10 days – a phenomenon many call the ‘Colony Collapse Disorder’ (CCD). German researchers, too, have recorded behavioural changes in bees near mobile towers.
Researchers say the state has seen about 60 per cent plunge in commercial bee population.
The same phenomenon was seen in sparrows too.
A study by Kerala Environment Research Association (KERA), said the eggs of sparrows nesting on mobile phone towers failed to hatch even after a month, though their normal incubation period ranged from 10 days to a fortnight.
stop !! and talk
“The mobile communication towers emit electromagnetic waves of a very low frequency of 900 or 1,800 MHz. But this is enough to harm the thin skull of the chicks and their egg shells,” said Dr Sainudeen Pattazhy.
Flower nectar is one of two food sources used by honeybees. The other is pollen, which worker bees gather daily on foraging flights. As bees hunt for nectar, pollen sticks to the tiny hairs covering their bodies. Some of that pollen rubs off on the next flower the bee visits and this fertilizes it, resulting in better fruit production. The bees unload the remaining pollen when they return to the hive, which is stored in the honeycomb , providing protein and other nutrients for future use.
n 1960, beekeepers were charging $3 per hive. By 2004, the figure stood at $60. But due to CCD, it is $180 per hive in the US currently In 2006, US beekeepers had to import bees for the first time in 80 years.
Half Of World’s Hungry Live In India
Posted by: ajitjoy on: October 16, 2009
WFP
INDIA SHINING??? Not really though…
On World Food Day the UN with their World Food Programme released some startling facts :
1) Nearly fifty percent of world’s hungry live in India, a low income, food-deficit country.
2) Around 35 percent of India’s population- 350 million- are considered food insecure..i.e. they do not know from where their next meal requirements will come from, consuming less than 80 percent of minimum energy requirements.
3) Nine out of ten pregnant women aged between 15 and 49 years suffer from malnutrition and anaemia.
4) More than half of the children under five are malnourished or are suffering from stunting.
And 70 per cent of the children consume less than 50 per cent of the micronutrients they are supposed to consume. This deprivation, made worse by economic recession could be a healthy future lost forever for an entire generation.
Dr B Sesikeran, Director of National Institute of Nutrition says, “Even those marginally better nourished, will be pushed into the undernourished bracket because of the economic recession. That is a major concern.”
For children less than two years old, this will leave a lifelong imprint.
Some other global facts:
1) Domestic food prices in about 46 developing countries are higher than 12 months ago
2) The number of chronically hungry people in the world, rose in 2008 due to the food crisis & is set to top 1 billion this year
3) Financial crisis + food crisis = 1.4 million to 2.8 million additional infant deaths by 2015
Global Hunger
Where the hungry live:
1) The vast majority of the world’s undernourished – 907 million – live in developing countries. Of these 65 percent live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
Regional breakdown: Asia, 583 million; sub-Saharan Africa, 236 million; Latin America and the Caribbean, 51 million; Near East and North Africa, 15 million.
The human cost of hunger
.One in seven people (adults and children) go to bed hungry each night.
..Hunger (underweight) is No.1 on the list of the world’s top 10 health risks.
…25,000 people (adults and children) die a day from hunger and related causes.
….One child every six seconds dying from hunger and related diseases (or 14,000 children a day).
…..Hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
SOURCE: wfp.org, wfp factsheet & ndtv.com
Love Jihad
Posted by: ajitjoy on: October 13, 2009
A new way “to struggle to improve one’s self and/or society” or more commonly known as “JIHAD” 
has come into light in the state of Kerala, famously known as “gods own country”, in India.
An organization/movement under the name of ‘LOVE JIHAD’ has been going around the state in which Muslim boys (Jihadi Romeos) trap non Muslim girls in their web of fake love, make promises of marriage in order to make them get converted into Islam.
Newspaper reports show that more than 4000 girls have been converted to Islam by these Jihadi Romeos.
Their Modus Operandi or Method Of Working:
As per the instructions to recruits of this organisation, they have to love a Hindu girl within the time frame of 2 weeks and brainwash them to get converted and marry within 6 months. Special instructions to breed atleast 4 kids have also been given. If the target won’t get trapped within first 2 weeks, they are instructed to leave them and move on to another girl.
College students and working girls should be the prime target. Once completed their mission the organisation will give 1 lakh Rupees and Financial help for the youth to start business. Free Mobile Phone, Bikes and Fashionable dresses are offered to them as tools for the mission.
Money for this Love Jihad comes from Middle East. Each district have their own zone chairman’s to oversee the mission. Prior to College admission they make a list of Hindu girls and their details and target those whom they feel vulnerable and easy to be brainwashed.
-figures taken from HINDUJAGRUTI.ORG
(picture shown is for representation purpose only)
Why Do You Care??
Posted by: ajitjoy on: October 10, 2009
At a pre-election rally in shivaji park yesterday an MNS leader threatened the Australian cricketers that they will be dealt with the same way the Australians treat(racial attacks you know) Indians down under.
The Australian Cricket Team will be touring India for an upcoming series in a couple of months.
Why do you care Mr.Leader??
Almost every Indian who was attacked back there was a “north indian”.
You being a staunch enemy of North Indians back here i don’t think you should care much.
chubby cheeked!
Posted by: ajitjoy on: October 6, 2009
Kaun Banega Crorepati, brought a host of other infamous reality shows to the Indian television industry.
baby shitters
Pati Patni aur Woh..is one of them. A rip off of BBC’s Baby Borrowers, the show has a bunch of wannabe- married, yet to be married and god knows if they are getting married – crooks trying to get themselves get expertized in baby caring or baby sitting we say.
The show obviously had to fall into controversy because it features month old babies being experimented and tested by the contestants. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has demanded a ban on the show.
What made me perplexed was a statement given out by one of the parent who lent out her baby.
“my husband and i did this purely as social work. all the couples are either getting married or are preparing to marry. so we are helping them for the future.”
What kind of social work are you doing dear mother?? Your baby is not an instrument that you can give it out for experimenting! The kids are only months old..a period were it needs the utmost care and love from its mother and not from some limelight seeking crooks. Did you attend any classes before your marriage where they taught you to babysit babies! then the whole meaning of you being a mother is meaningless!
Maybe in future it is possible we will have reality shows were someone will lend out girls – all in the name of social work – and contestants will be trying to compete in love making!
thanks
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