Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Think creative live creative.......

Here the shadow says cant leave you ......addidas......



What a superb way to advertise where Ronald is visting Burger king....for bugers....



Sipder man dead when baygon or insect spray was hit on him.......isnt it creative thinking...

Think creative live creative.......

calvin n hobbes at its best



I luv this cartoon caracter for what it proves to be the best......

Monday, May 29, 2006

Juss got Luck -Y-Now....



Lucknow the city of Nawabs and their famous kebabs. A city that has a magical charm, a charm that's forever and a charm that's apart. Be it the cultural charm or the monumental one, all is well conserved here to make Lucknow “The city of many splendors".

This was my first visit to the North of India. So I was all charged up and excited for my 10 days visit to Lucknow. Out of excitement I almost forgot that it was my rural stint. Oh I can never forget the train journey I had; you can almost name it disastrous journey. Anyways when I reached Lucknow the city was total dark and almost looked beautiful and looked, like an old maharaja mahal. I was amazed by the beauty of it.

I was very excited to meet my colleagues as they already had checked in and enjoyed a day in Lucknow. I was very impatient to explore the whole place and hog the best cuisines of which I had already managed to take the list from the people of Lucknow.

Walking through the lanes and by-lanes of Chowk and Aminabad one finds Lucknow of yore. The 'tehzib' or mannerism is still prominent and a topic of great appreciation. This is a city that still speaks the language of "aap-janab" and the dictum of "pehle aap" is still a part of everyday life for a true Lakhnawi. – The lanes where called chauraha though we had difficulty understanding their pure language but we managed.

The best part of the whole trip was shopping. Here in my group not only girls were hooked and bang on towards shopping guys were more into it, specially shopping for their girlfriends. There were such beautiful and mind boggling dress materials and Lucknowi suit that we almost felt like buying the whole of Aminiabad. The best place to shop in Lucknow is Aminabazaar. Oh what collections and delicate hand embroidery work which still rules the wardrobe.

After all this of shopping and hogging it was time for us to get back to work which is visiting the rural villages of Lucknow.Now all we had was a Lucknow map and the name of the villages we were to cover in 7 days time. This was the best time we all must have had. Visiting each village was a total new experience where I, Kala, and Surabhi infact women had to be dressed like bhartiye naari with salwar kameez and your head covered with duppatta. Oh how I wish my parents had seen me in such attire and they would have almost fainted.

Rohan trying to speak shudh Hindi while taking interviews of the villagers oh what a laugh we had of our time. Where he would literally translate English sentence in Hindi. (Aapko kya laagti hai camera se photo keechnii aasan baat hai.) He used to change sentences according to the gender of the person. We teased him the whole journey where Niranjan used to make fun of him.

It was a real good experience visiting the real rural villages and observing the people their mind set and behavior and the way they treated guest in a very warm manner. That is the best thing about India. Guest is treated so well that you hardly feel left out from that place.



All fun used to happen in our hotel room where nobody used to sleep but play pranks on each other and we all used to wait to get back to our hotel rooms where the most important thing being the AC. The weather was so hot and burning. Luckily it rained and that day we all got drenched and had a rain dance at the hotel terrace.

Food for thought. We all hogged so much food that we almost busted out. Be it Thunde-ke-kabab -Royal ka katori chat Netraam ka thali or be it the sweets. All were mouth watering yummy.

I miss that royal katori chat and the gool gappe we had the mango shake which was a killer. How I wish I could go there once just to shop eat and visit places.

Now it was time for sightseeing as it was our last day in Lucknow. Lucknow being very famous for places like Bhara Himam vara. The legacy of the imperial splendor of Lucknow has always fascinated people all over the world. The ambience of the place has commonly been associated with the leisurely habits, etiquette, architecture, and refinement, the residues of Nawabi culture.

I have every moment spent there so fresh in my mind that I could almost visualize those moments and have a smile on my face.