Saturday, January 31, 2009

Hours before Super Bowl 43 and commercials(ads)

Now is the time for super bowl 43 in my host country.This game is been played between Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.The Cardinals seen to be the Kid in the super bowl and Steelers seem to be the big brother in super bowl.I think the kid deserve the prize than the big brother this time .. Take a break Big bro, but it seems that the Big bro want the small kids lollipop because chocolate bar does not taste good than a lollipop.huum nasty world haa .

This is also the time for booze and more booze but I m sure more people love to see the games just to spend more time with friends,spend time with family or to spend more time with booze.Sounds something hysterical?? I don’t think so.  There could also be many people who enjoy the game alone whom many like to call sadistic and the funny part is the people who watch the game alone call people in the  other camp as morons.. funny to watch this unspoken enmity if someone is not part of the super bowl like ME. I think this would be the best ad in the entire super bowl 43 if they would have made something like that.

But I came to know through the official site nfl.com that there will be a show by Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band during the half time.I m sure that these people will rock.I also came to know that the channel that broadcast the super bowl will not broadcast the sensational PETA  super bowl ad.Does it sound the main broadcast partner is in line with the meat packers and trying to push the vegetable vendors to the ground??Or Is it a nod to conservative views?  But I was chilled to my bones when  I read in the internet that 206 Million dollars are going to be spent for the ad spots during the game.OMG!!!. What would be the best ads during this seasons game? Will it be some ad for the beer or ,lingerie or,courier or some other content?Looking ahead to see it …. I hope to write a new post soon about the ads soon.

There is also big questions rising for the money spend for ads,What would be the profit for the companies from this ads who are spending the million dollars in this time of recession?Are they trying to stimulate the American economy with the money they have hoarded in their bank lockers by showing ads to the people and coxing them to spend too?? Are the companies saying to the people we can still flex the muscles?? Its a scenario worth watching.I m sure that the world will also be watching too.

But for me its another day in the year and I m sure that good Samaritans will be posting the ads in Youtube as soon as the game is over and I hope to catch it and watch over the effects of the ad on American people and ME.

I have no idea about copyright stuff and I think I m not messing around with that stuff by having a few links in my post. :)

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Why did she Cry? or Is it Ok for men to Cry?

I happen to spend the whole weekend in fun but a misstep happened to end with a little bit of sadness.I happen to go to the home of a friend who had invited me for dinner and I had a very delicious dinner which is very different from the Indian food I eat normally.I happened to know from her that her roomie too helped to wonderfully make some dishes and I would like to call her roomie `J`. So after the dinner I happen to play cards with her friends and we started out in good spirits. But as time went on the game grew more serious and more funny too coz I,`J` and all of us were trying to pull each other down and trying to stay on the winning streak.So at some point in the game I and some other people where more often speaking in some common language and `J` did not happen to know that language, and after some time she was in a verge to loose the entire game and she also came to the verge of crying and left the game in the middle.

I was shocked and others might be upset when we saw this as we thought that she could have told us people to shut up speaking in common language but she did not as she was very polite but kept her emotions in her mind and cried all of a sudden.This put me a thought inside me whether the other people (me & co)should have acted more maturely or she should have acted more mature and told us to not speak the language which would have been more good than feeling bad and leaving the game.

I think the good solution would be that I & co should not have spoken in the common language but I also believe that her say would have the greater value if she would have told us to stop.As she did not tell us we happen to continue our conversation which ended the game in a sour note :(

Soo I checked on with google to know what the world tells about women crying in a social meet in general.I happen to find this link inAbout.com

I also thought to myself how I would have reacted in this situation which would not have been crying but may be shouting and saying stop it.

Though it affected me to think that have I acted soo rude? I could not find a very big fault with my actions( I m faulty still).

It also made me to think that ,though this may not be a general case it left me with question,Why does the women behave more differently than men in a emotional situation though they want to be in par with men in all things?(Kind note ladies: I m not an anti feminist)

This also made me to realize a advice told to me by a friend of mine ‘You fellow do always talk in English if you are in an uncommon territory’.(This friend of mine is soo much good)

May be I would try to be a better gentleman :)

I also found a intresting link about men crying in TimesOnline

Friday, January 09, 2009

Dried Fish Fried Rice

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I was wondering what to write in my Blog in the new year.I had no events interesting to present which I can publish on my journal but we know that life is full of surprise, so on a particular evening I came home hungry and my friend was in home listening to something interesting to him and I said ‘Hi’ to him, but normally an ‘Hi’ does not evoke any responses from people of same sex even when they are your friends and roomies. But when I said ‘Hi’ my friend gave me a surprise saying that he has some Chinese fried rice for me which i was sure was a left over. Still the hunger has greater power which made my mouth water, but my Brain said ‘NO NO NO’ because it is still recovering from the shock what it received from the Chinese fried rice when I had it last time,and my intestine was speaking out loud to me to spare him from filling with the noxious Chinese fried rice (he does not like the HOT chillies and spices in there )which my friends normally get from an Chinese restaurant nearby for me. I said a big Thank You as I don’t want the fried rice to ruin my Friday evening by making me to sit the whole evening at the leisure room, but this friend of mine was pursuing me to eat it and I asked him what kind of fried rice is it and which store is it from as my heart and tongue was not allowing me to skip the offer. He threw a big surprise saying it is ‘Dried fish fried rice’ which would make people yuck,but believe me it is a very delicious one if you like fishes to eat. Man O Man. I thought that this friend of mine has set a booby trap and I m ready to fall. I showed some restraint but my tongue would not now allow me to hold back from tasting the fried rice. So I just took a morsel of rice and thought that it would satisfy the glands on the tongue but like a oasis in the middle of desert I felt something great within me when the Dried fish fried rice slipped through the throat, my hand would not now stop from taking another handful of rice because some how my tongue gained the upper hand in controlling my hand at that moment which was very surprising to me.

My brain too got  mesmerized by the taste and I started eating and my olfactory lobes where in cloud nine because they got hold of the wafting from the dried fish fried rice. To make sure I was following some basic etiquette I stopped eating and I told my friend that I m not eating the whole of the left over but he can have it for the next day to eat. He was a gentle man and I think he somehow sensed my full love with the food and he pushed me to eat the tasty fried rice. I rushed to finish it up but when another friend came on the way I was mindful to say to him to taste the food. He was like this food is OK,but to me it was a very special tasty food.

Huum… Life is full of surprises and the meaning of happiness and satisfaction is personal. I think that small unexpected joys and grace like this make our life wonderful and worth living. Folks this friends fried rice made my evening a better one than what I expected it to become. It was pessimism turned to memorable evening !!

Note: Myself eating the weird ‘Dried fried rice’ for the first time in life though I have previously ate dried fish curry at back home in India.



I had Good salted fish fried rice from this hotel. U can check it if you are interested.