Wednesday, December 28, 2005
I was chatting with Zak today and was moaning about the fact that I have lost my blogging spontaneity. In 2003, there was no pressure. Blogs were not cool and no one knew I existed. I used to write for me. Now I worry all the time about whether I am making sense or not. WTF! As Zak pointed out, I have an Articles section and rants about competition and corporations and human rights can go in there.OK, so I had a divine Almond Magnum last night. How's that for mundane fluff? Unilever Pakistan got sued last year by a local ice-cream company that claimed there is no cream in Wall's products so they can't be referred to as ice-cream! They won the case and all the Wall's products now carry the label of "Frozen Dessert".
My mamoo just arrived from London and brought me the Live 8 DVD set. Haven't had a chance to sit down and watch 10 hours of content at a stretch but have managed to check out Pink Floyd's rehearsal, Richard Ashcroft and Coldplay doing Bittersweet Symphony, U2 and Sir McCartney's Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, U2's Beautiful Day, Vertigo, and One, as well the backstage action at London's Hyde Park. So amazing to be able to relive those Live 8 moments without Nestle's orange juice ads. The DVD packaging is lovely.
Check out http://www.backingblair.co.uk/london_underground/ for a really funny and mean song about the London Underground.
Am totally and utterly impressed with the work of 26 year old Jonathan Harris. Do have a look: http://www.number27.org/index.html
Just saw a couple and a child go by on a motorbike. The child was the only one who had a helmet on. So, god (?) forbid, if they get into a nasty accident, the parents could potentially die owing to lack of head protection. The child might survive but he'll be a 5 year old orphan. Does that make any sense?
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Heheh! Sabeen. I too have that problem with my blog. Whatever I write just doesn't seem to be good enough, so I don't write at all.
I must say I was rather taken aback by Zak's suggestion, considering the posts on his blog are mainly article type stuff. No fluff.
i am waiting for the Live 8 idea to pull through. any update as such? Call 'N' and get a yes or lets just go ahead and do it ourselves. i am willing to offer me! :)
sabizak: Good to hear from you after a long time. I was just complaining to Zak about how I feel so pressured (self-inflicted entirely), to write pithy, profound stuff and how it used to be so much fun in the early days to just blabber on about whatever ... he wasn't suggesting that I resort to fluff on my blog - just that since I have an articles section, I should use it and get over my apathy and start posting, on the blog as well as in the articles section.
insiya: Has "N" shown any interest? If yes, then I'll give her a buzz. Otherwise, perhaps we can talk to Cineplex directly. We'll need to then work really hard on word-of-mouth marketing otherwise we won't generate any funds for earthquake victims if only a handful of people show up.
I totally know what you mean. Before i used to log on and write and go on and on forever, but when i realised (a few) people actually read the crap i wrote, i became restrained. (or as restrained as i can be...)
in any case ... some of your fluff is better than many people's articles. so go!
bryan adams' cocert will be blogged by 18000 of the 25000 people so write on the edges about it (like FS sang!) ... you always do that well.
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