Peak Day Blues

During my weekend visit to Cochin, I chanced upon an Ice Cream Parlour with a difference... You get to choose what you want in your ice scoop a.k.a you can have vanilla, choclate, strawberry, apricot - all in one scoop. The shop's name is Pick & Mix and they charge you by the proportion of your ice cream's weight.

I've updated the snaps from the presentation ceremony of the summer cricket over here ...

I'm a big fan of creative advertising. Period. If you've noticed my past posts, you would have noticed a heady mix of advertisement related topics. Here's one I found really funny and creative after a long time... This one is from Camlin for their permanent markers.. People who get chain mails from friends also would have seen another of Camlin's creative advertisement, that of, the CEO writing CHANGE in the board!!

My better half forwarded me this wonderful flash animation depicting the life of a programmer, whose program suddenly goes berserk in his desktop, flaming all the desktop icons!! Simply great!

Unrequited love led to tragedy at a Noida call centre, when a senior customer care executive shot and seriously injured a colleague at the company cafetaria after an argument over a woman colleague on Thursday evening. Karanjit Singh, 27, pulled out a pistol at HCL’s call centre number 4, in the presence of the woman, and shot Aamir Alam, 28. When the security guards surrounded him, he handed over the pistol and surrendered. Read more

Most of you Mallus by now would have received an email forward with an attachment of the malayalam version of 50 cent song called The Bucket!! Now, Asianet Plus has gone one step further and has created a video out of it... Njoi!

Here's another set of "identify these" for you... am happy to tell you that you guys are really good at it!!

Now here's a cool way to make money just by receiving SMS' on your mobile. This service is the brainchild of 3 people, from IITs and ISB! The service is simple, you register your mobile with them and you will start receiving ads. Each ad carries 35 paise and once you accumulate Rs. 300, you will get a check! Sounds like a brilliant Idea! mGinger was launched on 19th April 2007 and is in beta stage now. Within a month's time they are planning to do a full launch. What are you waiting for... Click here now and register yourself before it's too late!

Here's my naughty little nephew in action... His Mission... to switch on and switch off the lights..

Summer Cricket '07 of FRM was a huge event this past Saturday. It was a day long event with 8 teams and each match consisting of 5 overs per innings. Unfortunately I had to go to my home town, as it was previously scheduled, and couldn't make it to the event. Thx to Anto for sharing the snaps! Head over here to catch all those snaps! PS: I was a sponsor by way of putting up two posters of PeakDayBlues. Thx to the organizers, they put up the hoardings in the boundary line with a clause that whoever hits the board will get 10 extra runs!! But none could hit it!

Here's the second in a series of identification parades you need to do of various places in and around Coimbatore city! Hope this time it's going to be easier... First one again is easy, our very own Jothy Baker @ Saravanampatty... now try identifying the remaining pics! Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4

One more reason to gulp more!

Here's a small gap for all of you to play... These are three pics taken at different traffic signals in Coimbatore city... Let's see how many of you Urbanites are able to identify... To give you heads up, first one is the signal at Gandhipuram when you come from Sathy Road... Let's c how many of you can guess pic 2 and pic 3 Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3

As part of their honeymoon, the newly-married Bachchan couple, Abhishek and Aishwarya decided to watch football matches in London. Chelsea football fans saw the glamorous guests at two of matches at the Stamford Bridge football club recently. Of course, Bollywood’s first family was not found on the terraces, but was given full use of Russian millionaire and club owner Roman Abramovich’s private box. The second richest man in the UK laid out a spread of Indian food for his guests and arranged for them to receive a sterling silver pen and signed a football shirt as belated wedding presents. Courtey: DNA

Most of you might be knowing that Mohanlal is playing the role of Thakur Baldev Singh in Ram Gopal Verma's adaptation of the classic hit Sholay... Head over to my Movie Review blog over here to check out a few exclusive snaps from the shooting location!

The Maran's have lost Rs 84 crore in the last three days, since the family fued between them and Karunanidhi family came out in the public after the Madurai fiasco.... According to this report on ET: "Sun TV’s market cap was above Rs 11,124.57 crore last Wednesday, and dropped to about Rs 10,188.02 crore on Tuesday! Meanwhile, the share prices of a rival channel Raj TV jumped 20% to Rs 226.40 a share on Tuesday." That's the problem when your business is politically motivated!

Sorry, ladies! The world has lost yet another most-eligible bachelor -- perhaps the most eligible bachelor on the planet. We've learned that Sergey Brin, the former Prince Georgian and U-Md. grad who co-founded Google, quietly married his girlfriend, Anne Wojcicki, in the Bahamas last weekend. Google officials said they cannot comment on their executives' personal lives. But one guest told friends that Brin flew the smallish wedding party down to the islands and that the ceremony itself was held on a sandbar to which guests either had to swim or take a boat. Brin immigrated from Russia as a young child with his parents, both academics, and founded the Internet search engine with fellow Stanford grad student Larry Page. Now 33 and Google's president of technology, Brin was estimated by Forbes this spring to have a net worth of $16.6 billion, making him the ninth-richest person in the United States and the richest 30-something in the world. Wojcicki, a biotech analyst who jus

Srijith forwarded me these beautiful snaps from the beauty contest organized by HCL... So, without much ado, Njoi! Don't know who won it though!

Watched a wonderful tamil flick after a loooong time... yep, saw Mozhi recently and here's my review of it in my Movie Review blog

Chandru pointed out to me this particular licensing agreement , from the makers of WordWeb, the widely popular web-based thesaurus, for people to download their free version of the software. "You may use the program free of charge indefinitely only if You take at most 4 flights (2 return flights) in any 12 month period. AND you do not own or regularly drive an SUV (sports utility vehicle). " And if one doesn't qualify these terms and conditions, he/she should uninstall the s/w from their computer. I'm impressed! Definitely a unique way to spread on the message of Global Warming

I'm glad to inform all my dear readers that I will be featured in two television shows pretty soon... First I got an invite from Asianet for their program Sahasikante Lokam and since the producer of the show was also the Exec. Producer of Nat Geo Adventure, I will be featured in that also.... Ok, let me get into the "matter of the fact"... I did a daredevil stunt recently to rescue a little kid's favorite playing ball from a deep and dirty pond, by using my intuitive mind and "who's scared" attitude which drew the attention of many.... Don't believe me?? See for yourself!! [The ball didn't fall fully into the pond as the "patta" blocked it] [with great difficulty and courage, I rescued it!] [Here's the big band pond, which I heard is haunted?!]

We all are familiar with the "snakes" game in the good-old Nokia phones.... I've played a zillion times and was a good way to kill boredom... Now, here's an enhanced web version of this game, with a slightly different touch... u need to move your mouse through the mazes and jump levels with varying difficulties... Am pretty sure you will like it.... Give it a try over here It's a must do guys!

This was expected to happen, but so soon, no one expected!! Let's wait and watch and the power of politics drags this further... Read more Update: Apparently, it was MKA's alias "Attack Pandi" who was the mastermind behind this! Updated news

For many of us, life on the Internet starts and ends with Google! However you try denying it, life is not full without us using the services of Google each and every day. Heck, I can't even imagine a day without using any of Google's services... Well, here's a man who successfully vented out Google from his life and lives to write in about it.... and has a good reason to do so. PS: Personally, I think he's crazy as I can't imagine myself living without Google. Do you also think so??

Okay, here's a quick quiz for all of you.... Name the device that, with less years in the market, sold twice the amount of the iPod? Here's a clue. It's the best-selling cell phone in the world - 200 million units!! No, no, it's not my LG Chocolate, though it has shipped 10 million itself and comes fourth after iPod and RAZR.... Gave up?? It's our humble-looking, rock bottom priced Nokia 1100!! Read more

In what could be termed as the biggest takeover in the media/financial news industry, Canada's Thomson Group (which owns Thomson Financial also) is in talks to buy Reuters for $17.6b. The dual-listed group would be called Thomson-Reuters and the combined Thomson Financial unit and Reuters financial and media businesses would be called Reuters. Read more about this historic deal!

Hailing from the state of Kerala, I've been brought up to respect Elephants and its sensitivities. I don't know when I turned into a die-hard elephant lover, but I believe the over exposure to elephants through various "poorams" at my native helped a great deal in this. Elephants by nature are tame and by no way they have any intentions to hurt anyone. But, if provoked they can go to any extent. I've personally seen it in my childhood as to what happens when an elephant gets angry. But this video, which was forwarded to me via mail, was horrifying. This incident happened in Chettuva, Thrissur during a mosque's annual celebrations on 09.04.07. The elephant named "Vinayan" became angry seeing the treatment meted out to another elephant and attacked its mahout and killed him. Watch this gruesome video only if you are not faint at heart!! PS: Here's another video taken by a videographer at the event, which is more gruesome