Carl Sagan, Frying Pan and Local Election
on 12 Oct, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
That did rhyme, tell me no?
(1) Carl SaganI am sitting in a cubicle with dimensions as small as 1/862180000000000 square light years in an obscure country in a tiny speckle of blue dust and metal on the shore of a cosmic ocean and hitting keystrokes madly, the purpose of which is so irrelevant that reading [...]
A dream that is three and half years old…
on 11 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
January, 2003:It was my engineering final year, campus was abuzz and everybody was hopeful and anxious since its placement time. CSE people have more opportunities naturally and we kept hearing about the companies that might visit the campus this year.
Finally the first company was announced. India’s largest software services company it is. We were running [...]
HOT HOT Advertising
on 6 Jul, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Courtesy: Metro Plus, Chennai
A man eats a stick of kurkure and suddenly burns into flames, after the fire is doused, he distributes kurkure to horrified crowd. I think this is probably the best outdoor advertising I have ever seen. No wonder the ad bagged gold in cannes for JWT, Chennai. Read the entire story in [...]
More on placements, graduation etc.
on 1 Mar, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Somestuff…
I am leaving day after tomorrow. Madhu (comp), all the books and most of the clothes will be leaving tomorrow
Planning a trip to Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and some other northeast destinations. May start from 16th March and go on till 29th march.
The convocation is most probably on April !st. somebody said in bill [...]
9 sureshot ways to kill your audience using powerpoint
on 7 Feb, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Lately I have been attending campus pre-placement talks by various leading companies in India. It would suffice to say that I have attended over half-a-hundred presentations of companies “trying to sell themselves” to us. Some of them were really good, and then some of them are so pathetic that it made me feel sorry about [...]
Read More >>SBI Life: Message that hits
on 31 Jan, 2006 in advertising, banking | 1 Comment
Incase you find it tough to read, the message is:
There is no such thing as wrinkles. Only lines that tell an interesting story. Of a lifetime of love, laughter, loss, learning and squinting to read small print. It’s okay not to tell you grandkids stories of a life well lived, when you’re still too busy [...]
Welcome to the miraculous world
on 16 Jan, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Last night while switching the channels I stopped quite sometime at the TVC/Tele-shopping infomercials in some channels. I thought to myself, why not do some research on this type of marketing. The result is this post.
What is tele-shopping all about?In the words of Mehesh Panna, a country manager at TeleBrands,
“The basic concept of telemarketing [...]
