Author: manuscrypts

  • Miss Leading

    In case you are wondering which nubile contestant in what paegant i am talking about, all ican say is that your line of thought is skewed, but then, that was just the idea- to illustrate a point..
    The newspapers and channels have been famous for these kind of headlines for quite some time now, part of an overall theme of being one up, creating news and packaging it in such a way as to seduce, no thats not the correct word, theres another one thats being bandied about by a lot of people in the fraternity – titillate (no, it does not mean delayed development of mammary glands!!)..
    Indiatimes, being an extension of the paper in a lot of ways, also uses this regularly, but i was in for a surprise when i went checking for the actress/model who was seen with the fastest Indian (which is also open for debate) following this link ‘Diva with India’s fastest man’..
    until next time, a mere slip of a blogger

  • Badhai Ho

    It is a natural progression, parents producing offsprings… Thats perhaps one of the few things on which Darwin and God wouldnt have an argument.. because thats what evolution is all about..
    It is not as though when parents grow old, they cease to be useful to the community or are ill equipped to survive in the world.. after all thats what they would have been doing for years, but after a certain time, nature has a way of bringing to the fore an offspring that is better equipped to handle the world than its parent could evolve to be..All parents would love their offspring to be better than them, in every way..
    and so the parent would have been pleased when people claimed that its offspring had better features and at least from the first few days of experience, the people familiar with the parent claimed that the offspring had qualities they had hoped the parent would have.. of course,it wasnt a perfect being, but it definitely was better…
    And so, while some firang geeks would care to describe it as the second Greek alphabet, at least those of us populating this country and speaking the language should realise it for what it is, and offer our congratulations to the service we use, when we get to know (as they would say in Bollywood) “Aap ko Beta hua hai” ..

    until next time, springing surprises..

  • Reclamation cost

    If you have been watching the cricket series or i guess, even television in general around this part of the world, you couldn’t have missed a (literally) screaming red Tata Safari asking you to reclaim your life.. I have seen around 3 print advertisements of this, and the copy is amazing, have a look here if you havent seen them yet… in fact i liked the entire concept of’reclaim your life’, i would have even bought the SUV, but it starts at 6.4 lakhs..
    And hence a small issue with the enire concept.. if i do decide to buy that awesome red colored machine, i’d have to take a loan, since old man Ratan doesnt know me from Jack…that leaves me paying off a reasonably big four figure sum as emi.. now assuming that most parts of the machine would be non edible, that necessarily means i have to be working on a salary that allows me to also spend on stuff that i can eat, and wear and all those other things that unfortunately are the hallmarks of civilisation…
    that reminds me of the old joke about the city guy who sees a man sitting by the river, fishing,and asks him whats his daily catch.. then goes on to teach him a thing or two about business, on how he should invest in a bigger fishing rig, get rich, build a processing plant, get richer, start exporting, get even richer and then take a vacation, and maybe go fishing, at which point, the man quietly points out that thats exactly what he is doing now…
    so the point being, if its all about reclaiming life, is buying an SUV worth 6.4 lakhs exactly the best way to start? or maybe i am just not the target audience 🙂

    until next time, wonder if the ad has a disclaimer..

  • Them Remembers…

    In a job interview
    Them: Its a marketing profile, but you’ll have to help out the sales guys too. They have a lot of promotions.
    He: Absolutely fine, so long as i get promoted too, once in a while..
    A year later
    He: Its been a year, i think i need a hike.
    Them: Go ahead, take one
    until next time, work @ humour…

  • Clothes make a man

    I strongly believe that its one of the smarter sayings that came out when they used to make such sayings.. and the reason is nothing but the fact that it is so open ended and can be made to fit any situation, the statement, that is…Among the mallrats, a discount sale would make the statement ‘Clothes make a man happy’ (at the moment of purchase) and ‘Clothes make a man broke’ (after checking the card transactions).
    On a sidenote – gentlemen, i am sorry, with the mall age, those shopping laws apply to men too, and its still okay to be in denial..
    in the context of all those wet sari sequences in Bollywood which they have now replaced with music videos, clothes make a man____…..Those were just examples to illustrate the usage of the saying.. Getting back, in my case, it can be suitably altered to ‘Clothes make a man disturbed’… and this is not a recent phenomenon..
    it started from when, a couple of decades back, my favourite pair of shorts was converted into what could pass of as a short skirt with a slit, by a maid who had her own ideas about the stitch in time.. the stitches were so meticulously removed that not even ninety stitches could mend it, forget nine.. couldnt sew it, couldnt sue her either!! One of my other disturbing memories is that of a nice black shirt being converted by a washing machine into what Snow White could wear to a funeral.. a jet black shirt with puffs of white all over.. by the time i knew about inside out and floss, the flaws made the shirt unusable..
    These days, we have a washing machine who comes in everyday morning, and wreaks havoc on my clothes.. She adds dark colors to light shades and vice versa, on close inspection, i think i can see floral prints too, the choice of colors definitely makes her a Govinda fan…and my trousers, when i see them flapping around like Thakur’s sleeves on the clothesline,i shudder.. not for anything else, but for the subtle chinese-like designs that have been added to them by punctilious use of the bar soap.. yes, i guess the stories they have of chinese tortures using bars of soap after removing the trousers must be true..
    yes, clothes make a man disturbed… next time, you see someone with clothes which shouldntbe having floral prints or weird designs, and a disturbed look, it could be me, or is it just me?

    until next time, some issues cant be ironed out..