Reality Shows & Communist State(s)

Was it on Saturday or Sunday, I am not very sure, when the "Sa re ga ma" challenge 2005 finals were shown on TV. The winner was to be decided by an audience poll via SMSes. Just going by the participants, according to me, Vineet stood a greater chance .... u ask me to reason ... ok
1) Sings very well (big deal ...even debojit does)
2) Young chap
3) Unmarried
4) Cuter than Debojit
5) Better Style
6) And was falling at any feet visible with 2 kms (kitna sanskari hai)

I am not very sure how, but I did manage to see a couple of the earlier episodes too and sure didnt miss the Vineet & Debojit posters and fan fare. If you ask me, the real winners were the telecom companies who minted huge money on every SMS. They also do announce how many votes they received from each zone(north, south, east & west). Now given that Vineet was from UP and Debojit from Calcutta, votes for each, from each zone was announced and ofcourse zonal loyalism shouldnt be suspected & was very obvious.

During the finals, when they announced the votes from each zone, these were the figures on an approximation

Total votes - 5 cr somthing
east zone - almost 3cr
north zone - 1 point something cr
south zone - 21 lakhs
west zone - do your maths now

Now, if you look at the sheer maths & madness of the votes, you would realize east zone alone contributed to the babu moshai's narrow win, the rest of india werent a lot interested other than ofcourse the north zone who tried to be interested. Southies did try to participant but alas since the songs were in Hindi, it wasnt helping them decide.

There is something about communist states like W.Bengal & Kerala when it comes to 'their' people. Years of reading & watching communism, it runs thru their veins instead of blood or toddy. They will always try to divide people into 2, our people and the rest like for e.g, the employers & the employees or the landlords and the slaves and its always the sauve sounding community thatz actually dominating, like the employees or the slaves or the "our people". The passion with which each issue is dealt surpasses all.
The recent most famous being, the Saurav Ganguly case, though a disgraceful exit but many like me thought it really was high time. But who cares about the likes of me .... The Bongs took to the streets, harrased people at large VIA the media, took dalmiya to task, provoked sharad pawar to make weird statements & booed the Indian team at Eden Gardens and provoked the famous Greg Chappell's injured finger and thus proved their loyality to "Saurav".
You can see the Asianet TV News Reader(mallu channel) go, "2000 were killed in a stampede in Mecca and there was 1 mallu" and then the whole focus shifts to the family, neighbours and relatives of the ONE unfortunate Mallu. None other matter, the very least the count of Indians.

I think, the Bongs & Mallus, if you leave these cults alone, they would manage to destroy themselves without any outer intervension in the due-course-of-time due to ofcourse high population, high literacy level(lethal combination) & politics. But the moment a bong or a mallu is targeted by others, the entire cult turns against them. So that answers babu-moshai's win over the poor bihari.

Moral of the story:

Never get the audience involved when you want an unbiased opinion :) and the least when a bong or a mallu is involved.

Be Entertained

So all the while when I have no work and cant pretend anymore with the excel sheets open, I start out with blog-hopping. Sometimes I get lucky and land-up reading a few interesting pieces which would have me go back and dig out more. So I am just about to bestow upon the readers of my blog the direct pleasure of reaching out to a few good blogs(if you havnt already).
There are some things the general blogging-junta do when tagging someone, but for some god damn reason I havent been able to figure it out. Some 7 things or 5 things abt urself kind of an essay you got to write ...... those actually remind me of the dreadful days in 10th & 12th when people come to you with thoes pinky-bluish autograph books and make you write all kinds of crap in there. I know ... I know ...a lot of you would be really sentimental about it and must be still holding onto it for life, but, I for one would always dreaded getting one of those books and then secondly trying to think of what to write.... the worst would be the ones with... your fav color?... ur fav food? .....your dog?..... God!! Made me rave my grey cells everytime.

OK, so leaving that aside, I am going to just give you links to reach out

1)Sidin

shouldnt miss

http://sidin.blogspot.com/2004/05/travails-of-single-south-indian-men-of.html
http://sidin.blogspot.com/2006/01/phyrds-uykl-33.html


2)Vinod G

shouldnt miss

http://vinodg.blogspot.com/2005/06/shoppers-stop.html


3)Rashmi Bansal

The interesting thing about this blog is, it usually ends up getting very controversial & the comments generally run into an online debate kind of thing and sometimes gets more interesting than the post itself. You will find the whole IIM/IIPM story here.

http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/2005/12/ethics-of-mbas.html
http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/2005/10/lies-damned-lies-and-fake-blogs.html

http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/2006/02/pyaar-ke-asli-dushman.html

34 Days More!!!

What kind of a post would you expect from a nine month preg lady other than loads about herself and her ever growing tummy and ofcourse about the one whoz in there and thinks kicking rocks.

The countdown has started and the arrival is eagerly awaited. The eagerly waiting sure is for emotional reasons but additionally also to end the trauma of being treated like a football ground and a active gymnast's wide open field. Sometimes humps appear as the bottom sticks out to the left of my tummy button. Sometimes a little foot sticks out on the right, under my ribs. The little one seems to be stretching. I can also see the surface wriggle most of the time. Its said, after the eighth month, the activity of the little one will get fewer but with harder knocks bcoz of lack of space but personal experience says there are also the kinds of mine where the knocks sure get harder but the movements never get fewer. No, Doesnt kick hard enough to hurt me(thankfully not enough space), but surely makes me all uncomfortable and gets me off-balance with the kind of twists and twirls it makes. Everyone tells me, dont get lazy else you will have a lazy child, but how I wish it would slow down a little and STOP trying to be the BECKHAM & NADIA right now. Infact, the maximum activity happens exactly when I am trying to laze around.

Today when I went in for my appointment, my gynec said, the "heads down" now which would mean its begining to prepare for arrival. But I have my own doubts. I guess its fooling around big time with my dear old gynec. I would assume it would be pretty difficult to do a lot of hand and leg movements, twists and twirls with your heads down but even as I type this I can feel the "dont write about me" kinda kicks.

Dear, didnt someone tell you, your mom's a writer who aspires to make it big with the bad spellings and still worser usage of the language.

Whoever it is, tell him, writers never care ...its just the feeling conveyed :-).