Archive for September, 2008
The Millennium School, where your child can meet HIS talent… what about HER talent? Is the school partial towards boys… what happens to the girl child? If a school can give this kind of an advertisement in the national newspaper, would you really want your child to go to such a school?
September 15th, 2008 | Posted in Education | 3 Comments
You must have seen this commercial many times already, I know I am a little late in posting this article but what the heck! So hear goes… The advertisement shows 5 friends cramped up in a small Volkswagen Beetle and eating KFC chicken from the bucket (except the driver who is not eating) , The [...]
September 14th, 2008 | Posted in Advertising | 4 Comments
At the Delhi IGI airport where the basic facilities are missing most of the time, DIAL is planning to offer spa and other facilities by the end of 2008. Firstly I doubt if they will be ready by the deadline as deadlines don’t exist when it comes to India. Secondly I am pretty sure Chief [...]
September 13th, 2008 | Posted in Cribbin | No Comments
Tip sent in by Ashok and this article was published in Mid-Day Excerpt from the article is below As many as 1500 flats, out of the 5000 being offered by the DDA in its housing scheme, are old and had either been surrendered to the authority or their allotment cancelled. However, the offer scheme does [...]
September 13th, 2008 | Posted in Delhi | 1 Comment
Update: 16th Dec 08 Check results here http://dda.org.in/tendernotices_docs/dec08/DRW_RSLT_DDA08.pdf Results of the draw will be out today and will be displayed on DDA website by 3 pm. Update: 19th Nov 08 You can now view the status of your application on the DDA website by visiting this link http://www.dda.org.in/housing08/Application.asp (link no longer works) and entering you [...]
September 11th, 2008 | Posted in Delhi | 120 Comments
A couple of amendments have been made by DDA for then 2008 scheme, please read the below so you know what they are. Just a reminder that only 5 days are left for the scheme. You can also read a lot of unofficial questions on DDA 2008 scheme.
September 11th, 2008 | Posted in Delhi | 3 Comments
I have not been able to understand the psychology behind the Ghari Detergent ads. In both their print advertising as well as commercials, they show chemists working in a lab which is definitely very low tech and then you see school kids running around the lab for no good reason. Even if I forgo the [...]
September 8th, 2008 | Posted in Advertising | 2 Comments
Firstly I am not able to understand the Youngistan concept, its seems so silly to me… just to hype something superficial which was completely ignored by the audience. Secondly what’s with this ad. concept? Are we that naive that we would get sucked in by such a useless commercial? But of course we are!
September 6th, 2008 | Posted in Advertising | No Comments
West Bengal government is proposing to give out government jobs to those people who are letting their land go. I think it is a last ditch effort and not to forget a stupid idea thereof… knowing very well that almost all the government offices have over-employment problem possibly in the ratio of 1:2 which means [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Government | No Comments
I can’t wait to see what kind of sentence has been awarded by the court to Sanjeev Nanda. I am really happy that he was convicted but most probably the sentence would be appealed in the higher courts. An excerpt from HT epaper He’s sankat Mochan (one who wards off trouble), and letting him slip [...]
September 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Law | 2 Comments
Lately all the commercials Aamir Khan is doing is borderline boring and predictable… Samsung next is what? Was the most ridiculous of all. The way Aamir said at the end of the Ad. Next is What? Samsung Mobile, got me cracked up… the words sounded so ghetto (local, thaka hua). The TataSky Ad. is on [...]
September 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Advertising | No Comments
I was just wondering about this a few days back, same goes for the petrol prices… why can’t they be reduced since the crude oil is now cheaper? Article taken from HT epaper Oil marketing companies including Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum have slashed aviation turbine fuel (ATF) by 16 per cent, passing [...]
September 1st, 2008 | Posted in Airlines | No Comments