Time whizzes by and I, I write of glimpses I steal

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Where is the outrage?

I kid you not, this is a real advertisement on television:

Open to a beautiful young woman looking longingly at her marriage photograph as she dusts an immaculate room. Cut to a charming young man running through a corridor carrying what appears to be a huge canvas. Back to the woman whose mobile rings. She picks up the mobile and wordlessly goes to the window to open her curtain. And lo behold! on the opposite building is the charming young man holding a canvas with a heart shaped rose petal artwork and waving madly and he had given similar canvases with bold letters on them, to people in different apartments to read M-A-R-R-Y M-E A-G-A-I-N. The girl moved by this romantic gesture, blushes. End advertisement.

The ad was for Pond's Age miracle cream.

Here is this guy who dumped his woman because she looked old and wrinkly and now that she has used Pond's age miracle cream and gotten all young and beautiful, he wants to marry her again. And she blushed.

Excuse me, I have to throw up.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Mini samosas

Opportunities are like mini samosas, if you don't grab them when the tray does the first round, there probably won't be any left for you.

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Pragmatism?

He called himself a pragmatist. That is, he believed "What if the Emergency stole your civil liberties, the trains ran on time!"

Shocked, one asked, "How could you possibly say that? Would you say, What if you have cancer and chemotherapy has caused your hair to fall, at least you don't have to spend money on an haircut". No, that wouldn't do. "What if your car got stolen, at least you didn't have to wait in line at DMV to pay for registration"

Not at all. He is just being practical, you know.

What if a million people die of hunger, at least the population reduces