advertising

I have been back home for about two weeks now, and really wanted to blog (scream!!) about the plight of the advertising industry here. I have no clue about the nature of the so called advertising executives. The final straw came today (along with the penultimate straw and a whole lot of other straws, it seems to be some kind of straw migration...hyok!!). I saw an advertisement for a seemingly revolutionary kinda toothbrush. Now, there comes to my mind umpteen ideas about how this could be presented properly and efficiently( and of course attractively). The advertising folks here however, came up with this gem of an idea. They showed two toothbrushes, one male and another female talkin about their son, the revolutionary new toothbrush. Now this idea, in its original form is not bad, some real cool things could be done with it. However they decided to do the whole thing where, the parents are talking about how their son can clean germs out of teeth much better and about how his bristles are longer and so on. I am not sure, due to my hindi being rusty at best, but at one point im fairly certain that one parent said to the other "he gets those bristles from you my dear". I mean, oh my dear gods above...what is the world coming to.
Wouldn't it be funny if the same toothbrush family was painted in a different light, for instance, an american light. The toothbrush dad is a drunk and that too an abusive drunk. The toothbrush mom is an exotic dancer and she is the one who makes ends meet. The toothbrush son is a renegade who after extracting the germs from teeth seels them on the green market (green symbolizing germs and stuff like that...what was that? lame joke? oh no...I am being judged...ahh...me scared...me no write long time...ahh go shove it..my blog my path..). Would that not be an interesting alternative to the story that our ad execs came up with. I do however understand why they cannot show such events on public TV.
Advertising as such is sinking with respect to the intelligence that goes into the creation of such ads. However this does not mean that the effectiveness of the ads are going down, since the population in general is becoming dumber by the day, these moronic ads seem to hit the spot.
Do not even get me started on the hindi soaps. I intend to do a huge blog post about that one of these days, gonna collect some pictures from the net and so on, might be fun.

otherwise, am havin a nice time at home. Feels good to revert back to being me.

Magus.

concernin stupidity

Have you ever been in a situation where you could actually feel yourself getting dumber? What was that? College lectures? Oh you aint seen nothin yet.

Stupidity in its lower levels is an innocent and mostly harmless trait, and also quite amusing when observed in another person. When it graduates to the higher levels though one must be wary when dealing with masters of stupidity. These people can destroy your brain using simple attacks.

For instance, after coming to the US I realized that the majority of people here are stupid masters. Especially the female populace. When one waits at the bus stops or malls one can sense snippets of their power through their conversation. They talk about such irrelevant and asinine matters that you can actually see the following scenario unfold in your head.

A vast battlefield, thousands of neurons kneeling down (for the moment assume that I am anthropomorphing the neurons.....what was that? I cant do that? Oh ok, im sorry , I wont....oh wait, this is my blog so you can go shove ur opinion..). These brave warriors each hold a small wakisashi ready to slice their innards out. The neuron in the lead screams out "We cannot stand this anymore, the stupidity in this conversation has defeated us. We have let our master  and clan down, we must commit seppuku"....and then they all kill themselves. What just happened? You became more stupid. Congratulations, you are one step closer to getting your US citizenship.

The one reason why this country got where it is right now is due to the various immigrants who have toiled away for it at one point of time or another. These immigrants include the original irish, the japanese, the chinese and then us, the indians. Not to mention the jews, germans, russians and all the other races. Put together thats a massive amount of brainpower, more than enough to mask this country's inherent stupidity.

There is something I think about though whenever I see one of these stupid masters, or another term would be aeropostale zombie. Or abercrombe and fitch zombie, GAP zombie, and so on.

What goes on inside their heads. Are they simply following the idea that ignorance is bliss and therefore not trying to open their eyes to the world since they know that actually knowing the state of things is going to be horrid.

Well, something to think about I suppose.

latero,

Magus.

losing..

yea another dark post...boo hoo...shove it...i dont care no more...

my classes are over and right now I dont really have anything to do throughout the day. Therefore i sit here lost inside myself. Thats a song from staind, at least part of a song, the lyric goes

"and i sit here, lost inside myself,

remembering all the things you said,

the silence, gets us nowhere

gets us nowhere, way too fast"

i've always loved staind for their amazing expressiveness. Their songs actually mean something more than the typical emo bullshit about some girl dumping some guy. I mean how many times can you tolerate listenin to someone moan about somethin which happened. I am being a hypocrite when I say this because I complain a lot about the things that happened to me.

Of course In mycase I dont complain to anyone in particular since no one listens, i talk to my walls instead. I was talkin to my best friend In india the other day, and I was telling him "dude, i think my walls are about to walk out on me, they have heard enough whining"....he laughed, so did I.

Laughing is important, it doesnt matter how you do it, if you can do it that means you can still be saved. As long as you can find something or the other to make you smile, then that means the next day is still worth living for.

Of course some relationships are doomed to fail even as they start. This is an inevitability. Friendships fading out and so on. I had this one friend back in college and we used to be quite close, I liked him for his honesty and simplicity, and heaven knows why he liked me. We got along famously untill one time, there was this one competition for which we had registered as a team. He had asked me whether I could make it, and I had said yes. At the last moment my laziness engine kicked in somethin fierce and I called him and said I would not be coming. This was followed by more cheapness on my part as I asked him to return the money I had invested in the travel arrangements. For about a year he did not talk to me, but then slowly we started talking again and even became slightly better as far as the friendship thing was concerned. However, it was never the same.

And now I do not even have any contact with him.

The same story goes for so many people, you meet them once and both parties feel like there might be something in continuing the communication. We find out more about each other and so on. If you are lucky this goes on, if not, this fades away. Eventually we all come to that point where watching that new sitcom or reading that novel is more important than asking a friend "how was your day?". It is something essentially human I suppose.

Is every act we do motivated by greed in someway or the other? I wonder about this.

Today, this one friend of mine called me up and asked me whether I could help this other friend of hers move a table into her apt. I said yes and went over to that apt and helped this girl move the table in after which I left. She was not very thankful which irked me not a little. I had walked over to her apt in the hot sun and moved a table in, i didnt know her, and didnt even know the girl who had called me that well. Why did I do it then? Why did I agree to help?

Because I am a good guy at heart? hell no. If I was then I would not even be irked at having received no thanks from her. Thus I think that at some subconscious level my motive was another, less idealistic one.

On a positive note, there was this one friend I have been exchanging emails with for a while. When she got into a relationship, I did the decent thing and backed off so as to not take her time since I know how time consuming such things are. Recently she mailed me again, and we are once again talking. This felt good. I guess it can be likened to the single ray of sunshine that filters in amidst all the darkness.

Life is sad now.

I am constantly depressed.

later.

Wraith.