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Simple happenings in the interesting thing called LIFE.

Entries from July 2007

Restaurant Review: “Village”

July 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Last weekend we had a family dinner at a restaurant called “Village”. This is a rather interesting and unique concept place located in Raghuleela mall at Kandivali (west). The idea is you pay Rs.300 per head and get an entry which gives you access to all the food that is available that evening at the [...]

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Tags: Food

Pownce and Twitter - The difference

July 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’ve been thinking on how Pownce and Twitter can be used differently or will they be serving the same purpose. And I think the query was very well answered by this message of aalaap on pownce:
Twitter is more about what you’re doing at the moment, as opposed to Pownce, which is more of a “send [...]

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Tags: Internet/Blog

Beauty of flickr on your computer

July 24th, 2007 · No Comments

If you browse the interesting photos at flickr! you’ll be amazed at some of the most beautiful shots which people capture and share online. It’s amazing I must say. You could spend hours browsing through because there is an update daily. But then who has so much of free time on hand, right?
So, I searched [...]

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Tags: Internet/Blog · Technology

My pick from the Cannes 2007 films

July 19th, 2007 · No Comments

A real good soul in office downloaded (almost) all the winning entries at Cannes 2007. The Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival (IAF) is generally regarded as the most prestigious international advertising festival. Over the last few days I reviewed the films and some of them truly amazed me.
My favourites:

Power of wind - bringing life to [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Creativity

In-film branding in 1984

July 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Last night I happened to catch a little bit of a movie called Dhokebaaz. This was a big star
movie with Shatrughan Sinha, Amjad Khan & Vidya Sinha but a few minutes of the movie was enough to predict the “predictble of typical hindi movies”.
Anyways, there was something interesting in the movie which made me write [...]

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Tags: Advertising

Get 4 months of holiday happiness

July 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Nitika and I are planning to take our second honeymoon next month. So currently we are busy evaluating locations, hotels, attractions and other details of places we would like to visit. Things are exciting and every night post-dinner we get online, surf, bookmark and make notes or action things – IT’S FUN and is keeping [...]

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Tags: Thoughts

Bong baby scores a goal!

July 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

If I am in the mood I usually try to catch up with the day’s happenings on the news between 9pm and 10pm. Last night I was amazed to see yet another piece of crap making it to the headlines and having two experts LIVE on the show to share their opinion on the same [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Thoughts

Employees are getting free iPhones

July 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Last evening I read somewhere on the net that Steve Jobs of Apple gave away 8GB iPhones FREE to all it’s 17,000+ Apple full-time employees. Now you may call it a smart move to increase word of mouth publicity, engage user experience and everything - But a product like the iPhone surely doesn’t need anything [...]

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Tags: Technology

Women and financial investment decisions

July 11th, 2007 · No Comments

You may have seen the latest ICICI Prudential tvc which shows the wife persuading her husband to sign up for the life insurance policy giving her all reasons why he should get one. Yesterday we had a little (healthy) debate on this ad. Without getting into details I’ll just put across the big question which [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Workplace

Slideshare: Unleashing the Creative Beast

July 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

A few days back while browsing around a few blogs, I came across an interesting presentation shared by Tara Hunt of Citizen Agency.
Click here to see the presentation at Slideshare.

Some of the interesting points to take home included:
[Slide 20] How many times do we often get into the mode of saying let’s do something innovative, [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Creativity