Think of a cliché king company - think of LUX!

I mean if sunsilk "gang of girls" was not enough, Lux has another, better cliché to offer to its female audiences - "LUX Provocateur: Magic of Black". Don't even ask me whats this all about. All you need to know is it some new range of toiletries by Lux and the fact that they are black.

However, there's more interesting stuff you need to know - the fact the when Ms. Recent Bachchan who also happens to launch this believes"the black soap bar as reminiscent of the bygone era of delicate, elusive scents and women who seductively commanded attention by their mystery."

WHOAA!! that explains a lot, that actually explains why this microsite on the product has characters like "Bomshell", "Wildcat" and "Angel". i wonder since when words like Bomshell, Wildcat started being referred to as "delicate" and "elusive".


The whole site has this fairyland theme, which makes me wonder if the product is for women or some pimple-struck, Barbie lover girl?

i was actually amused by the whole concept and this is what happens once you are on the site. You choose one character of the above. After much deliberation, i chose being a 'Bomshell' ;).
And hence started the sickening fairlytale, and i cant resist quoting: "GD wore her favourite pink frilled dress and set off to the lush green woods with her faithful friends"...eeewww...

what next? in woods i am "stunned by a handsome young man, passionately playing his flute"...and i was like yeah rite! i only hope Eminem just see this and rips it apart in his next music album!!!

But it seems like the flute playing jerk(the handsome young man) isnt impressed by me , and he says "You’re very graceful, generous and kind hearted, but i have always longed for someone with a dark streak. A shade of stunning black that seduces and lures. And so hearing this the inconsolable me run into a black tunnel that seemed to be inhabited by the largest black bats, it is here that i "pluck the biggest black wild rose in the garden and slowly inhale its intoxicating aroma" and turn into some irresistible Bombshell... i mean come on guys give us a break! It’s so obvious and blatant that even a schoolchild can see through it. How did it ever make it through all the gamuts through which ads have to go in the advertising agency?

Not only is it overtly sexist, but what were the Lux guys thinking before making this? Do they actually believe people who first would be online to watch this crappy website, be lured into something as shitty as a black soap, which says "well, you actually suck, but maybe this black crap can turn into you a tease" for some god forsaken vapid, sheeplike moron?

i am not ever purchasing this piece of black shit for sure now!

Being Professional

Blame it all on the film, the Damn film!!!

Of all the stupid things i have done in my life so far, i added another one last night:( And it all coz of the film "The Devil wears Prada". i know its quite a chic flick, but i just love Meryl Streep!
To cut the long story short, i wrote a long super senti mail (don't ask me why) to my "soon going to be future boss" (actually not my direct boss, but the only guy i like to believe i worked for :)) . I mean who writes a mail in the middle of the night to their super boss, just coz you feel like? And to top it all i rambled and rambled stuff, thinking little that this was extremely "unproffesional"
hmmm!Anyhow all this makes me now wonder what actually constitutes as being professional? Is it about wearing different suits for different life? one at work and one at 'anyplace but work'?

According to Wikipedia - "A professional is a worker required to possess a large body of knowledge derived from extensive academic study (usually tertiary), with the training almost always formalized."

Ha Ha Ha!!! and the best one is yet to come

"The above definitions were echoed by economist and sociologist Max Weber, who noted that professions are defined by the power to exclude and control admission to the profession, as well as by the development of a particular vocabulary specific to the occupation, and at least somewhat incomprehensible to outsiders"

So ladies and gentlemen by above standards i have been EXTREMELY professional! Often i'd hear my boss telling other folks , "yeah, yeah this girl can confuse you with her web jargons and make you sound like you know nothing about web"
Thanks, Weber! you simply gain yourself another fan for the last line "at least somewhat incomprehensible to outsiders" ;)

To well- wishers , with love

i love the way people call you when you have quit... "what do i hear, you have put in your papers, really?", "oh! what a loss to the company" and i am like yeah, i can bet all those who say this have no clue what i did all along in this company :P . Some come up to me and ask in such concerning and friendly way, as if all my important decisions in life were taken after consulting them.
And then answering the ever-inevitable question "so where are to heading to?" - i mean come on guys you know you wouldn't get an answer on that, yet they all just love asking it. What more if i do give them an answer most of them just don't really believe. And then theres more to it "yeah?" "really? " "oh, so in Delhi or somewhere else"... yeah like we are playing some 20 questions to the answer game!
So i have a solution now, for long people in my company believe, actually not believe almost swear by the fact that i am heading to X place, so X be it!!! yes guys i am heading to X!!! you guys always knew it, i was bluffing all the way.
At least this saves me the worry of remembering and repeating the same old story of how "i have a couple of options"...damn! guys but i had started loving it now. *sighs*

"The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course… it probably isn’t. The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled."
- The prestige, 2006

Notice Post!

I start this blog while i am serving my notice period at my current company. yeah , yeah ... don't start preaching work ethics and all. After all a girls got to do something, i am sick and tired of one week of no working :( . I mean of course working now and then (for my current 'going to be xboss' ;))
so yeah anyways, keep looking for this space for 'how to spend your notice period successfully' :D
Funny how most of us (at least me) love reading what others write and feel this urge to react to them, however when it comes to writing your own blog, you wait for this something special to happen to at least push you into writing something. PHEW!

Ok! so this can qualify as THE first post :)