Hurrah.. im cover page material.. ( yea rite!) .. so finally the product of the never ending photoshoot that took place on Saturday was uncovered this morning via XPRESS.. the new free tabloid issue launched by Gulf News... and guess who's on front page? Yes mes dames et monsieurs.. its Jalebi the great...!!
Out of the million and one pics that they took, in which amillion of them were of me smiling, they ended up sticking up the one pic in which i look frustrated to be standing amongst others!! As someone called up and said " Hey saw ur pic in the paper, you look so unhappy to be an Indian!!".............. damn them all!!!!!! When somehting can go wrong.. it just HAS to go wrong with me!! .. and I AM DAMN PROUD IM AN INDIAN.. !! So.. NO. im nottttttttttt frustrated with my nationality.. i was frustrated with the photoshoot!!! Sigh.. who am i trying to convince here?? :(
So ya it doenst matter really... im still on coverpage of a tabloid.. which is so kewl. lolz... and the pic inside was much better...:) yipeee.. nothing to complain about i guess. The article.. well it was not as kAbooM as expected. For a cover page pic.. and story.. it was really quick and breezy... if you know wat i mean. Though written well, i think more should have been published on thoughts and ideas regarding "home is uae"topic. But whats done is done.. finito.. so its all good.... overnight ive become a superstar!..In my office.. i have people coming up to me going "How did u manage that? ... autograph.. please.. on my chest!"... yes .. that is true.. chest was the word that was used.. what can i say? i have a very happening office..!! :)
The whole day i recieved phone calls from people who managed to get their hands on the paper and recognized that it was me standing there with my lille indian flag. Funny thing was when i decided to check my orkut account... a random guy.. who had messaged me asking for friendship agez back( ahuh its friendship he asked for!!)... was back scrapping me ... lets c... .. how can i phrase it...hmm.. "hey.. congrats.. saw u on the xpress paper amongst the expatriate crowd. Thanks to orkut i recognized you!"....... were the guy's exact words!!!... Talk abt being popular.. Mish.. yo.. gal.. youve made me a STARRRRRRRRR! lolz.. good or bad.. i dont know.. star nonetheless.. *hug hug * to you! :) Now you can leave gulf news in peace... uve done a good deed! lolz....
Sometimes i do feel like i write this blog just for Mish.. my sole inspiration to start blogging! So for you my dear.. i dedicate most of my blogs.. lolz! :)
I ended up with a sore throat this morning.. so im sipping my hot cuppa tea and writing this blog.. and im thinking... there are sooooooooooooooooooooo many papers,tabloids,magazines out there.. how much material must they gather to write so many stories to actually be able to publish them? i mean.. is there soo much in the world to talk about? Then it clicked me... adverts to the rescue... 50% or more , of the contents in the paper are actually adverts... !! So has news become so commercialized? I mean, i thought it was initialized for people to know what's happening in the world, keep them informed/updated with day to day happenings in other parts of the world.... but these days.. news seems to be revolving around celebrities/sports people/ and random stories of dogs getting married to trees!
I do realize that people need something eye catching so that they read the paper but does eye catchy necessarily mean things that really dont make any sense?? Ive seen that sometimes a text is strategically worded in a way that the readers tend to assume the rest of the story....
Is that a positive sign? Or a negative one? hmm.. makes me wonder...
Ah well... that was a thought i had ...
Lets move on to another thought.. totally random.. which of these is better? 1) Going for further studies leaving the country, for a recognized degree and loosing touch with the market and with possible contacts in the market? or 2) Living in the area, working while others pursue their higher studies, building a rapport and gainging experience in the market and later on deciding to take up.. or mayb never take up.. a qualified degree?? well both have their pros and cons , but of course, thats the way life works, but still... which option seems to benefit people today?
In this dynamic world, if you stay back a second to tie your shoelace, you risk the chance of losing your job/ your major opportunity to make it big. Within seconds another person has moved up the ladder, taking the position that you could have had, if it werent for the blastid shoelace ( no im not promoting shoes without laces...!!) ... Is this a sign of a developing market? or is this a sign of a developed market that is reaching saturation point???????? What happens when the bubble bursts? Do let me know your thoughts on this one...
Keep thinking.. and i shall be back with more newssssssss !
Cheerioooooooooooooooo!
3 comments:
Hey finally mananged to get a hold of xpress..like u said first pic...seems u jus wanted to get outta dere..second pic..u look nice n aaaaaaaaaappy :) Interesting comments too..u fittin in kerala..thats sooooo happenin :)Anyways..have a good weekend..n congrats on da cover page..
hey .. well written posts gurl! :) keep it up.. Suvi
Damn proud to be Indian, eh? Even after our disastrous loss against B'desh? Lol! :-) No, no I am not a cricket fanatic but it is the World Cup and what else can you be patriotic about if not cricket and Bollywood?! The two great Indian passions!Lol.
Anyway, the whole media content/advertising/blah blah debate is too complicated for my half-dead brains to comment on from work ...and so we skip that...
:-P
What was the last bit that I soo had to give my esteemed opinion on? Yes, the master's vs the career ladder bit... hmm...its an individual choice more than anything I think. But for me, it would be master's atm. iA.
2 more weeks of work only iA! :-D
Yay!
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