Through the day .
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Flying Colours
Many people (mostly women, although some men joined in to keep it interesting) were/are updating their ‘facebook status’ with a colour – apparently for a cause.
The only mission the ‘campaign’ accomplished was a generate a whole lot of curiosity to a question, that turned out to be colours of a womens bra. A friend of mine took it to another level with her status reading ‘white with blood stains’ – which made me wonder “What’s for dinner?”.
The point being – how effective are these viral campaigns on social networking sites? This one for example did make everyone search the trend to find out that it was meant to generate ”Breast cancer awareness’. Honestly though, how many of the people who participated were not already aware of breast cancer?
The fad spread and quick but what needs to be measured is its true effectiveness – did it translate to real research on the subject, or make people go for a check up?
If only, all those who had updated their status, told us if they passed the check-up with flying colours.
First comes the..
There have been many, many weddings spanning the entire last year and a very eventful January 2010.
Everyday, my facebook/orkut homepage’s along with my inbox are splashed with links to wedding albums.
As I witness all my beautiful friends get hitched and disappear into bliss, I cannot help but think “First comes marriage, then comes baby”. Just a matter of when 
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Oh boy!!! or girl …
Combat misleading advertising
Been watching advertisements that promise more than they deliver? Well, you can do your bit to stop it:
More information here.
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War of the instant noodles
First there was noodles, then along came smoodles and now we have foodles. The naming is possibly where the differentiation against Maggie noodles and new entrant Horlicks foodles* ends. ( The removal of ‘No’ from noodles, appears to be a clever and sublime way to suggest n0 to noodles: or is it my active imagination)
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Coming to what interests us in food 
– Foodles tastes just like Maggi noodles ( and possibly better, the quantity of the spice mix looked a little more than in the Maggi packs – which seems to lend a richer taste).
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The verdict : Maggie noodles and Horlicks foodles are so close in taste, texture, quantity and pricing that I would not bother much about which to pick. Although I really like the aroma that comes only from cooking Maggi noodles .
* Horlicks Foodles claims to be a a multi grain noodle which comes with multi-vitamin enriched spice mix. Maggie has also being playing on the health angle by promoting its product as a healthy snack with its now popular tag line “Taste bhi Health bhi”.
Also did you know that there is a World Instant Noodles association?
Beats me
People sometimes say the silliest of things, making you quite sure that they have issues with not just their grammar but like – real mental issues.
One such annoying phrase is “Believe you me”. Now I am not sure about the origins of this brilliant contortion of a statement, but this grammatically messed up phase manages to be abrasive to the ear while making no sense - there is always a mental retranslation from “believe you me” to “believe me” when you say or hear this phrase.
Then there is the classic situation where the waiter brings in a horrid looking dish and the diner thrusts a fork full of some dead plant/meat and says “OMG!! This tastes horrible. You have to try this to know, believe you me.”
Sigh!!
Spam mail
Everyday the mailbox fills up with piles of junk and ’spam’ mail. A consequence of ‘reply to all’ or just poor design.
While replies to one mail are threaded together and form a neat cascade in Gmail, similar features needs to be integrated into mails from facebook, even better would be a pop-up (in facebook) that’s ask whether you want notifications about additional activity against any status/pic you have responded to.
For office mail spam I guess common sense should work:
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