Money for nothing .. and the CHICKS for free

They say the only thing that cuts across everything, unites people and sometimes destroys them is - Money. We love everything about it. Songs are dedicated to the sounds it makes and the colours it comes in, rap stars are even named after it. And with everyone wanting a bigger share of the pie, it’s no surprise when fast food chains that talk about customer satisfaction generally but making higher profits over quality or quantity. Where am I going with all this? Well, I had two diametrically opposite experiences at two fast food joints in Bahrain. I visited one of the more popular pizza joints after a long break of six months or so and was surprised to discover the sham that is the SALAD bar. The size of the plate for the salad selection had gone down from a nickel to a quarter. And if you wanted the nickel back you need to pay more. It was daylight robbery considering the fact the only thing edible in the salad bar – the pasta- had disappeared, all in the name of customer service. But the ying to this yang was a popular batter fried chicken fast food joint. I reached there after lunchtime, a day of hard work and some back breaking, heart stopping, mind numbing, clutch-brake control practise, in other words, a gruelling driving lesson (which by the way is material for a whole new article). Ordered two meals, some popcorn and a cookie. When I offered by credit card for payment. The lady behind the counter shook her head to say they accept only cash. I had maybe a Dinar and a half in coins that would only buy me half the things I wanted to satiate my hunger. So I looked heaven wards and agreed. When I my order was packed, a knight in Shining Armour revealed himself and asked the lady to give me all that I had asked for originally. I was pleasantly surprised. “ You pay next time you come”, was all he said without taking down any of my details. Now that’s what I call customer service and customer satisfaction not to forget value for money. So maybe money afterall doesn’t drive everyone and humanity still exists.

Look Who flirted with Advertising - mera number kab aayega!!

Hugh Hefner – Founder, Playboy Magazine(Worked for Carson, Pirie & Scott and Esquire)

Salman Rushdie – Booker Prize Winner(Worked for O&M and Ayer & Barker)

Alec Guinness – Actor(Worked for Arks Publicity)

Ogden Nash – Poet(Worked for Doubleday Publishing)

Shobha Dé – Columnist & Novelist(Worked for Nari Hira’s Creative Unit)

Dorothy Sayers – Author(Worked for SH Benson’s)

Hugh Grant – Actor(Worked for a London agency)

Joseph Heller – Author(Worked for Time & Look magazines as copywriter)

Rahul Bose – Actor / Director(Worked for Rediffusion, Bombay)

Helen Brown – Publisher & Editor, Cosmopolitan(Worked for Foote, Cone & Belding)

Vikram – National Award winning Tamil Actor(Worked for Lintas, Chennai)

Writing

BUKOWSKI ON WRITING

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouth and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hoursstaring at your computer screenor hunched over your
typewriter searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents
or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and pretentious,
don't be consumed with self-love.
the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket,
unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut,
don't do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.

The above words were penned by Charles Bukowski

Pamper Me!
Pamper Me!

Ok so I am finally here!!

Its been ages since i have been trying to do this and believe me it was frustrating to not find a suitable name for the blogsite everthing already existed. But then everything already exists and you have to make your place in it.. Seems like everyone has a blog these days. It's like al the people in the world have turned into dogs who pee around and mark their territory - a la Blog territory. So finally i got help from a sweet someone across the seven seas .. withthe site name , which worked and I promptly forgot.. so let me post this first and see if i remember the site name and get right back!!