28 September, 2011

Channeling my inner Carrie Bradshaw without the chain smoke and the Manolo Blahniks!


When I started blogging, I imagined myself sitting in front of my laptop every night like Carrie Bradshaw and type the heck out of posts and make super stylish sense like "After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot"  or "I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet" and leave my readers with profound questions like " Are there women in New York who are just there to make us feel bad about ourselves?". Except I am not single, live in a city that is a mere shadow of NYC and don't chain smoke. I do rock a mean bun though!  


I thought dishing out posts everyday would be a piece of cake because anyone who knows me in real life knows that I am capable of having an hour long phone conversation on a single topic as lame as why I think Harem pants should be banned! So, I assumed that I will never ever run out of topics to write about. Boy, was I wrong! The moment I sit in front of the computer, I go blank. I go blog-hopping (yup, that's a word?!) searching for inspiration. I admire bloggers who write almost everyday or atleast thrice a week. I admire them with a capital A. I get back, I sit with my laptop and even look out my window for inspiration. I try to channel my inner Carrie Bradshaw, who I think is the patron saint for all bloggers . I am pretty sure if she had lived in 2010, she would have been a blogger instead of a columnist for a print media! I know it was a lame post, but hey, a legit post nevertheless with two paragraphs and all the punctuations in place. But I will come back with posts with profound questions and quotes :p For now I will leave you with this a.k.a bradshaw " Is it really possible to find material to blog everyday if you are a housewife or do you need to have a life to be able to blog everyday" ..;p Whoa..back off..that was just a joke!!

18 September, 2011

Perspective!


 

This ad has been getting a lot of flak from a lot of women. I admit this ad could be construed as stereo-typing women in the role of a house wife,a mom and a husband and nothing beyond that. Now, I am against ads that stereo-types anything/anyone. Period. Be it a fairness cream ad that stereo-types women as someone who want to be fair to be accepted by the society or a vegetable oil ad that calls itself ' Husband's choice' . But, when I saw this particular ad for Kellogg's , I really didn't think there was anything wrong with it! So, I decided to ask people around me and ask for their first impression on this ad! Here are the observations in their own words!

Hubs :  Smiling knowingly ( ummm..coz he does walk around the house asking for where the remote control, sugar and such are :p)  and then says "Oh, Kellogg's All bran  prevents constipation, I guess!! " That was his observation. Nothing more , nothing less.He is a man of few words!

Single friend of mine: She and her sister (or is it sister and her!! ) cracked up laughing after seeing this ad. It reminded them of the younger sister who does the exact same thing as the husband in the ad and asks my friend for every single thing like lip gloss, shoes and keys while getting ready . And her sister asked her if she was such a pain too :p

Married Friend of mine: She didn't think Kellogg's All Bran would keep her from getting mad at her husband when they are getting ready for work in the mornings  and I helped her by suggesting that maybe, the cereals would help us from killing our husbands when they ask for socks right when we are in the middle of  something important. Yes, sometimes these thoughts do creep into our head ;p

And nowhere did I see them reacting to the ad like how the ad is interpreted by some women. Yes, the ad  does show a woman who doesn't speak out her mind but keeps it to herself. But that could mean that women are smarter when it comes to picking the battles :) She could have saved this one for a bigger , more important battle  like mm, I don't know maybe for the battled of "who is doing the dishes tonight" ?! Isn't marriage or any relationship all about picking the battles? What do you guys think?

This ad made me think that we all see things in a very different perspective than others. It only means that we live in a world filled with so many different kinds of people with different thoughts, different accents, different colour, different sense of style, different choice in movies, music and TV shows. That is what makes this world so beautiful and colourful! It doesn't mean that one person is right and the other is not. It only means that we all agree to disagree.  It is a joy to read so many blogs and absorb so many experiences and thoughts through so many people, but sometimes the online world is also filled with so much anger. Wish we would all celebrate our 'differences' and enjoy them and widen our minds :)

09 September, 2011

Just a tweet away...

 

Growing up, I would eagerly wait for my morning newspaper which was Hindustan Times at that time, not to get my daily does of NEWS but for the supplement that used to come with it called HT City/cafe. Now, that had the daily dose of celebrity gossip. Don't judge me, those were my college days and I was more interested in who is dating who than the employment rate in India! And we would discuss the latest gossip with friends and talk about the dress the actress had on and the kind of make-up she had. And any information that you wanted to know about the celebrity, you had to earn it. You couldn't just get to the wikipedia and see their entire life history and some more. You had to buy the magazines, read the newspaper , it was a tough job. The lives that the celebrities led was a mystery to a certain extent. Whatever they wore to award functions were a dream and you didn't have much idea about where to buy those clothes if you wanted them.You had to catch them on talk shows if you wanted to know more about them, to see the personal  other side of their lives.

Then came the era of social networking, an era which I like to call TMI(too much info)Era. Now, all you need is google. You want to know what dress Kareena Kapoor