I visited my blog today and realised that there has been only one blog entry for the month of february...well thats pretty amusing cos Feb has been the month of sorts for me and i havent managed to convert them into written literature..Never mind that....i m now back in flow...
Surprisingly..i got a couple of mails asking me why i was not updating the blog...well "surprising" cos i never thought anyone(other than me!!) actually read my blog :))
One of these days, while i was idling time at home, mom comes up with this BRILLIANT Pestering idea of me getting someone to get the exteriors of the house painted...seem like of late she has developed this unassuming grudge of having me in the house doing nothing, finishing off the ration at home and not getting paying in any form for it...but guess...mom's do assume that role at some point in our life's...
well...about the painting job...ignored it for the first 1 week...then mom made it torturous to ignore it thereafter...So i finally set out on the hunt to find a Painter in my neighborhood..you wont believe it...after having searched for 2 days...couldn't manage to get hold of a Single painter, who was free to do the job...all were booked for the next 2 weeks...its the same Kinna feeling you go through, when u go to PVR or INOX on a weekend and find that all tickets are booked for the weekend and the next available ticket is for Monday...who needs Monday anyways...right??
So i came up with this brilliant idea...why not have advertisers put up their banners on my house's exterior walls? this way, there will be absolute no need to paint them and i will earn some money in this process as well..i would like to have the Axe Ad with all those scantily clad women covering my walls...no one would actually miss my house then :))
Just imagine, if this concept were to catch on...Asian Paints and Nerolac will shut shop and every house will become more and more interesting to look at, and of course my nemesis, The Painters, would be out of jobs, what fun !..
Think about it, When u d b hunting frantically for a friends house on a particular street, it wud become lot more simpler...all he'd have to say is "the House with the LUX Ad on it"...
This concept would have a High remembrance value and no one could simply ignore..unlike how they skip coming in the print media and television..
Ad Companies are you after-all listening? This is Irfan "Ogilvy" Ali Talking !! :))
Advertiser's are you listening ??!!
Self-Victimised by the Credit Mania and Derivation of Pseudo Happiness
When i took my baby steps into the corporate world, everything seemed rosy ! I had a pay package which was 2 Digits + Pocket Money Figures ! if i were to be more mathematically-Correct : My Salary was square times my pocket money ! Boy, that was a time, i saw the whole world unfold in front of my squint eyes ! (No No i m not squint physical-appearance per se, but were squinted with the Bright Sun which came along with the revelation of the unfolding of the whole New BIG world !)
This part of my story is called The AWAKENING !
Then with the money came the aspirations of doing a lot of things, which i only dreamed of my in college years ! Shopping, Dating a lot of Women(Paying for once) & Of course, Partying in the creme de la creme spots ! Damn i could afford it now !
I took my women to the best places & brought the most thought-off gifts ! Wore the best of brands(i still do & but not in degree of the above stated magnanimity).In a nut-shell, ATE-DRANK& MADE MERRY !
This part of my story is called Psuedo Happiness !
It was rosy for the first few months, where i could make ends meet and then i was smitten by a Bug called Credit Cards(which has bitten many of us, i mean most of us)...In efforts to take my Psuedo lifestyle to the next level, i bought in the crap that the Credit Card Salesmen said, Life-Time Free Card, 45 Days Credit Period, Accident Insurance blah blah blah blah....Well, i thought(thought : is the word to note here) i had struck the chord between Financial Independence & Personal Bliss...
But then they came like Bangalore Monsoon Showers, the Credit card Statements ! Week on Week!!! It was so bad, that i dreaded getting back home ! Cos i would see a stack of them, neatly arranged on my table ! i tore all of them, but didnt have the audacity to cut my 3 Credit Cards...they were all overflowing with thier SAID LIMITS. My So-called Bomb of a salary was paid towards paying off interests of these cards, not even the Principal !
This part of my story is called Ignorance is Bliss !
Just in my Sophmore year at Work, thanks to the insightful talk from my fren, Zaid, i finally decided to cut them all (read : with a Heavy Heart). The day i cut them, i had like withdrawal symptoms, which was quite wierd...i didnt know this Credit thing had become a Habit, something like a contraband addiction!
But seriously, i was going thru this Self-Inflicted crap & Friends & Women were out like pub-hoppers walk out of a pub after 11:30....they moved out in Herds !!
Honestly speaking, realised who my true frenz were !!! At various junctures of life, world creates some circumstances that put YOU and PEOPLE around you to a COLD WATER TEST ! There are 3 possibilities to this :
- You & your close ones stay together in the cold water taking the warmthfrom each other to survive
- Close ones touch the cold water with thier toes and just walk back,stating they might catch a Cold
- The Smarter ones, see you way ahead , getting into this Water and theychange thier path completely
This part of my story is called Withdrawal symptoms of Credit living.
In this case, i surely have to mention my Ex-Girlfren's help(only one in this case) ! She was quite a Solid Support ! She never ever made me feel that i was Broke and miserable, she always made me look at the brighter side, that i had finally cut my cards ! Damn, i miss her and her optimism!
But like many things in life, people come make a Huge +ve Impact on your life and then walk in thier respective directions ! and its always important that we dont cry over the Empty space created by them in our lives, but the positivities of thier companionships they left !
We, Humans, very often cry about something we lost but how many times have we looked and take count of what we learnt/gained from it !
Well, i learnt my lessons and been off Credit for the last 3 Years now...now i feel lot more Financially stable and yes, when i dont have the money to spend, i stay at HOME ! Its a nice place u know ! :)
The moral of the story is you always learn from your mistakes, but do make it a important part of your life to learn from other's mistakes...
Last piece of advice : Dont go with flow of "Chill-dude-Life-is-to-be-lived-for-the-moment"
Cheers and Let buddha be with you !
