The first time I quit
Nicotine-addled friends opine that Allen Carr`s “The easy way to stop smoking” is something of a magnum opus. After several cracks at quitting, Mr Carr`s willpower steers his 4 by 4 wheels toward hypnosis. Et voila he hits the jackpot ! Not a ciggie jab in his mouth ever since. Must have surely been an easy-on-the eye hypnotherapist ! Pitty his opus does not expound much on the hypnotherapy technique.
Telling a compulsive 14th day smoker that it`s easy to stop is voluntary suicide. Especially when there lurks a bias in you to trans-atlantically invite them for ``les Galuoise Blondes``.
Back to the topic, Carr is not preaching, he is empowering. The pivotal mission of the book is to help deal with the psychology of smoking. He compares commencing on tobacco with putting on a pair of shoes that are too tight just to feel the pleasure of taking them off again.
This forms the mainstay of his `Easyway` method - in other words, smoking is a David Blaine like illusion and when the illusion dissipates into thin air stopping smoking becomes “easy”.
So Zehra:
What will it take apart from ``Gauloises Blondes`` to fly you over to Her Majesty`s beloved 007 territory ?
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 21, 2005 04:54 am
Re: # 25Nicotine-addled friends opine that Allen Carr`s “The easy way to stop smoking” is something of a magnum opus. After several cracks at quitting, Mr Carr`s willpower steers his 4 by 4 wheels toward hypnosis. Et voila he hits the jackpot ! Not a ciggie jab in his mouth ever since. Must have surely been an easy-on-the eye hypnotherapist ! Pitty his opus does not expound much on the hypnotherapy technique.
Telling a compulsive 14th day smoker that it`s easy to stop is voluntary suicide. Especially when there lurks a bias in you to trans-atlantically invite them for ``les Galuoise Blondes``.
Back to the topic, Carr is not preaching, he is empowering. The pivotal mission of the book is to help deal with the psychology of smoking. He compares commencing on tobacco with putting on a pair of shoes that are too tight just to feel the pleasure of taking them off again.
This forms the mainstay of his `Easyway` method - in other words, smoking is a David Blaine like illusion and when the illusion dissipates into thin air stopping smoking becomes “easy”.
So Zehra:
What will it take apart from ``Gauloises Blondes`` to fly you over to Her Majesty`s beloved 007 territory ?
The first time I quit
Nothing inspires me more than a soul-searching lady batter-dipped in smoke inclined towards pseudo “multi-culti” conversation. Though I relinquished the tension-easing libido-inducing convention of burning a pack of my lungs a day, I now ebb towards the occasional cigar. Manufacturing my 2am delight.
We are talking Castro’s finest: Cohiba`s Havana’s and Davidoff’s ranked on the top echelons. I somehow remain morbidly drawn to mocha-coloured Mademoiselles who pledge allegiance to ciggies and poetry.
The fires from their lighters clench me into ecstatic imagery. Even though I do acquiesce that immoderate nicotine incline provokes a restrictive hall-way culminating in the left ventricle.
Here in London nicotine is still a law of introductory presage between the genders. A proverbial breaking of the ice between initiated guyz and galz. Ciggies reign supreme in my presided haunts: namely London`s plushest nightclubs, bars and restaurants.
Zehra:
The Galuoise Blondes await you in the buzzing city of London. Are you daring enough to travel Trans-Atlantic to taste them?
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 20, 2005 07:08 pm
ZehraNothing inspires me more than a soul-searching lady batter-dipped in smoke inclined towards pseudo “multi-culti” conversation. Though I relinquished the tension-easing libido-inducing convention of burning a pack of my lungs a day, I now ebb towards the occasional cigar. Manufacturing my 2am delight.
We are talking Castro’s finest: Cohiba`s Havana’s and Davidoff’s ranked on the top echelons. I somehow remain morbidly drawn to mocha-coloured Mademoiselles who pledge allegiance to ciggies and poetry.
The fires from their lighters clench me into ecstatic imagery. Even though I do acquiesce that immoderate nicotine incline provokes a restrictive hall-way culminating in the left ventricle.
Here in London nicotine is still a law of introductory presage between the genders. A proverbial breaking of the ice between initiated guyz and galz. Ciggies reign supreme in my presided haunts: namely London`s plushest nightclubs, bars and restaurants.
Zehra:
The Galuoise Blondes await you in the buzzing city of London. Are you daring enough to travel Trans-Atlantic to taste them?
The first time I quit
Your curiosity scratchingly inquires ``which Stalinesque brute decided to ban cigarettes in NYC restaurants and bars?``
The Big Apple sheds tears over promiscuously vanishing ashtrays into the palms of nicotine-phobes, who sit on their high-stallions heretically demonizing one of the few pleasures of life: ciggies.
As for the culpabale Stalinesque: Donate your ashes, venom and ciggie butts to none other than Mayor Bloomberg.
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 20, 2005 06:41 pm
Miriam KYour curiosity scratchingly inquires ``which Stalinesque brute decided to ban cigarettes in NYC restaurants and bars?``
The Big Apple sheds tears over promiscuously vanishing ashtrays into the palms of nicotine-phobes, who sit on their high-stallions heretically demonizing one of the few pleasures of life: ciggies.
As for the culpabale Stalinesque: Donate your ashes, venom and ciggie butts to none other than Mayor Bloomberg.
Boom-Box Mentality
In your article you speak only of the World Bank, kindly be aware that there are other key stakeholders in Pakistani development, namely USAID, the IMF, Asian Development Bank and the Islamic Development Bank.
The Vice President of the Asian Development Bank, Mr Liquan Jin reaffirmed ADB’s support for further strengthening its partnership with Pakistan. The President of the Islamic Development Bank, Mr Ahmed Muhammad Ali clapped his hands on Pakistan`s exemplary Zakat and Baitul Maal system hailing it as a beacon of hope for Islamic countries.
Mohammad Asim Raza
Contrarian to many of your observations, the twinkle of Pakistan`s economy does shine on a midsummer`s night. We must however not glowingly bask in glory, for much is left to be desired. Pakistan is slowly crawling toward the Information Age. But at snail`s pace. Someone needs to rev up the ignition.
Nonetheless Pakistan in many respects is velocity-geared well on track to concretize its millennium development goals. The Pakistan Development Forum 2005 on “Sustaining Growth and Improving Quality of Life” bears testimony to my statement.
Pakistan is a nucleus for lucrative windfalls branching out of gas pipeline revenues from Central Asia, and its economic stability will serve the region as a multiple corridor for energy, trade and transportation. Admittedly the tourism sector needs a nose to the grindstone. Another imperative: to leverage our comparative advantages on the world stage. To this effect prospects of Pakistan’s Textile & Cotton Exports post-MFA (Multi-fiber Agreement) seem sanguine.
Feverishly rising inflation (CPI inflation rose to 9.1%) and current account + trade deficits demur as grave causes for concern.
To steer the economy toward calmer shores the GOP will need to rigorously pursue prudent macroeconomic policies to curb rising inflation, which can undermine exchange rate stability and shabbily distort incentive structure stalling growth.
Yet nefarious clouds do bear silver linings. A record cotton crop of 14.6 million bales, or 46% was harvested, and production of wheat is expected to eagerly climb to 10%. Sustained high demand continued to boost production in the large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector, which expanded by 14.7% in the first seven months of FY2005. Growth in LSM sector was broad-based, with increases being particularly large in the case of cement, electronics, automobiles, fertilizers, and cotton cloth.
A 76% boost in cellular telephone connections to 8.8 million in February 2005 and 160,000 WLL connections given in the first 8 months of the FY show that telecommunication services are spreading their wings far afield. Cutting the ambilical chord of PTCL was a masterful stroke indeed. Prudently the SBP started to aggressively tighten the screws on monetary policy increasing the discount rate to 9%. Subsequently, interest rate on 3-month and 1-year TBs increased by 138 and 130 basis points to 6.39%.
In the services sector, the meteoric rise in the telecommunication sector is likely to accelerate further. Suited and booted bankers also expect fruitful outcomes through the prisms of reform and privatization. GDP growth expected to catapult to 7% and imports maintaining very high growth, CBR tax revenues should steadfastly succeed in raising a target of Rs 580 billion. There will be a shortfall in receipts from surcharge on petroleum products, as the Government erroneously failed to pass on the increase in international oil prices to domestic consumers until 12/2004.
Shaukat Aziz`s soundbites amplified to the tune of ``the government has adopted a future growth strategy, which rests on five pillars including water security, energy security, infrastructure development, human capital development and second generation reforms``. Let us hope these promises do not fizzle into hollowed meaningless slogans.
You applaud a high-tech information economy, but what Pakistan needs more urgently is realistic sustaining growth, rural development, creating job opportunities and equitable distribution of income. The current inelastic tax base is a disservice to all and sundry.
The macro stability must duly travel to improve the socio-economic conditions of the masses. Strengthening our local institutions, building a robust human infrastructure, transparency in policy-making, strengthening of tax administration, improving legal police and judicial system to surmount the trajectory to a beckoning 21st century.
Rule based fiscal policy with a debt limitation act is highly called for. Most pressingly, and this point cannot be over-stressed: Pakistan must plunge full-throttle toward universal primary education with 100 percent net primary enrolment ratio, fortifying disease control and power generation to avoid WAPDA-crisis like the plague, reducing infant mortality rates, basic farming inputs such as credit, seeds, fertilisers, improvement of irrigation, and even farm machinery made available to them.
Pakistan needs to fully immunise children, improving maternal mortality ratio and access to sanitation and safer water. Economic growth must address the gender dimension, because empowering women hits poverty at its root with many tangible benefits.”
Only then can Pakistan start scribbling an agenda for an ``information economy``.
Past follies of decades cannot be undone with whimsical rhetoric. Long term equity, rule of law, property rights and social justice must be from the grass-roots upwards.
An evolution from below.
Not an imperial imposition from above.
The collective genius of Pakistan if fully harnessed can reap a rewarding harvest.
So before leaping into the information age, Mr Asim Raza, we need to put our house in order.
The above points form the mainstay on the sketchboard for reform. Momentous strides for the winding road ahead.
Not only for Pakistan.
But for the bewildering array of emerging markets sprinkled around the globe.
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 18, 2005 06:45 pm
Mohammad Asim RazaIn your article you speak only of the World Bank, kindly be aware that there are other key stakeholders in Pakistani development, namely USAID, the IMF, Asian Development Bank and the Islamic Development Bank.
The Vice President of the Asian Development Bank, Mr Liquan Jin reaffirmed ADB’s support for further strengthening its partnership with Pakistan. The President of the Islamic Development Bank, Mr Ahmed Muhammad Ali clapped his hands on Pakistan`s exemplary Zakat and Baitul Maal system hailing it as a beacon of hope for Islamic countries.
Mohammad Asim Raza
Contrarian to many of your observations, the twinkle of Pakistan`s economy does shine on a midsummer`s night. We must however not glowingly bask in glory, for much is left to be desired. Pakistan is slowly crawling toward the Information Age. But at snail`s pace. Someone needs to rev up the ignition.
Nonetheless Pakistan in many respects is velocity-geared well on track to concretize its millennium development goals. The Pakistan Development Forum 2005 on “Sustaining Growth and Improving Quality of Life” bears testimony to my statement.
Pakistan is a nucleus for lucrative windfalls branching out of gas pipeline revenues from Central Asia, and its economic stability will serve the region as a multiple corridor for energy, trade and transportation. Admittedly the tourism sector needs a nose to the grindstone. Another imperative: to leverage our comparative advantages on the world stage. To this effect prospects of Pakistan’s Textile & Cotton Exports post-MFA (Multi-fiber Agreement) seem sanguine.
Feverishly rising inflation (CPI inflation rose to 9.1%) and current account + trade deficits demur as grave causes for concern.
To steer the economy toward calmer shores the GOP will need to rigorously pursue prudent macroeconomic policies to curb rising inflation, which can undermine exchange rate stability and shabbily distort incentive structure stalling growth.
Yet nefarious clouds do bear silver linings. A record cotton crop of 14.6 million bales, or 46% was harvested, and production of wheat is expected to eagerly climb to 10%. Sustained high demand continued to boost production in the large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector, which expanded by 14.7% in the first seven months of FY2005. Growth in LSM sector was broad-based, with increases being particularly large in the case of cement, electronics, automobiles, fertilizers, and cotton cloth.
A 76% boost in cellular telephone connections to 8.8 million in February 2005 and 160,000 WLL connections given in the first 8 months of the FY show that telecommunication services are spreading their wings far afield. Cutting the ambilical chord of PTCL was a masterful stroke indeed. Prudently the SBP started to aggressively tighten the screws on monetary policy increasing the discount rate to 9%. Subsequently, interest rate on 3-month and 1-year TBs increased by 138 and 130 basis points to 6.39%.
In the services sector, the meteoric rise in the telecommunication sector is likely to accelerate further. Suited and booted bankers also expect fruitful outcomes through the prisms of reform and privatization. GDP growth expected to catapult to 7% and imports maintaining very high growth, CBR tax revenues should steadfastly succeed in raising a target of Rs 580 billion. There will be a shortfall in receipts from surcharge on petroleum products, as the Government erroneously failed to pass on the increase in international oil prices to domestic consumers until 12/2004.
Shaukat Aziz`s soundbites amplified to the tune of ``the government has adopted a future growth strategy, which rests on five pillars including water security, energy security, infrastructure development, human capital development and second generation reforms``. Let us hope these promises do not fizzle into hollowed meaningless slogans.
You applaud a high-tech information economy, but what Pakistan needs more urgently is realistic sustaining growth, rural development, creating job opportunities and equitable distribution of income. The current inelastic tax base is a disservice to all and sundry.
The macro stability must duly travel to improve the socio-economic conditions of the masses. Strengthening our local institutions, building a robust human infrastructure, transparency in policy-making, strengthening of tax administration, improving legal police and judicial system to surmount the trajectory to a beckoning 21st century.
Rule based fiscal policy with a debt limitation act is highly called for. Most pressingly, and this point cannot be over-stressed: Pakistan must plunge full-throttle toward universal primary education with 100 percent net primary enrolment ratio, fortifying disease control and power generation to avoid WAPDA-crisis like the plague, reducing infant mortality rates, basic farming inputs such as credit, seeds, fertilisers, improvement of irrigation, and even farm machinery made available to them.
Pakistan needs to fully immunise children, improving maternal mortality ratio and access to sanitation and safer water. Economic growth must address the gender dimension, because empowering women hits poverty at its root with many tangible benefits.”
Only then can Pakistan start scribbling an agenda for an ``information economy``.
Past follies of decades cannot be undone with whimsical rhetoric. Long term equity, rule of law, property rights and social justice must be from the grass-roots upwards.
An evolution from below.
Not an imperial imposition from above.
The collective genius of Pakistan if fully harnessed can reap a rewarding harvest.
So before leaping into the information age, Mr Asim Raza, we need to put our house in order.
The above points form the mainstay on the sketchboard for reform. Momentous strides for the winding road ahead.
Not only for Pakistan.
But for the bewildering array of emerging markets sprinkled around the globe.
Dusk
NT SYED and Miriam K
Both your posts were witty and drop-dead hilarious that they impaired my tummy with ceaseless laughter. Now let me attempt to reciprocate that favor, in my own enfeabled way: I eagerly await your respective feedback.
To the question : Do you think a chick flick with kicks but no licks can bust the box office bimbo feats ?
The answer is yes. Let me pretend to be a film director. I am driven to cast South Asian female felines at war. What could be more arousing for us testosterone-fuelled males than witnessing beady-eyed Bolly-Lolly wood “bimbettes lipo-suctioning” the living daylights out of each other ? Taking pot-shots at their botoxed-Barbie rivals ?
Catfights come naturally to filmdom’s actresses, like arranged marriages come naturally to Machiavellian match-making aunties. Male actors maintain the “bhai-bhai” camouflage, their opposite gender hone a `Bollywood Bi&ching` beyond belief. The blood-baths are non-ending: Younger nubile actresses with candy-floss roles of dancing around trees, rolling-down hills with grass revealing a tad bit of sari….now lets change the script a little...
Miriam and NT Syed inch your imaginations toward a meatier plot. Ozer`s plot. I`m filming a “Desi Charlie`s Angel”: going for the full-throttle bagging super-duper “jhatkas” galore. Ek, do, teen and here comes out the desi female fighting machines. Steamy scratching hair-pulling scenes have our towering “iconettes” crumble into mud-slinging mania. Unsullied by the venomous outbursts our vixens, with their faded concealer fight to be summoned by the most dexterous plastic surgeons.
In the wrestling ring, salacious gossips are settled as we have biting brouhaha between Kareena and Bipasha, wanting to finish where they left off in Ajnabee , Lara Dutta –vs- Priyanka Chopra continue a spate of punches from a much-awaited sequel for Andaaz, Karisma and Raveena`s long-running feud over who can wear more mascara and Manisha Koirala and Ash venting their spleen on who will be the first to get that tummy-tuck. Rani Mukerji can unleash her pent-up estrogen against Sunitaji in an aim to win the heart of Govinda.
A digression to the plot is necessary: here I intensify the circus by bringing in Miriam K`s aptly described “ghee-smeared aunty jees” with augmented bicep girth who jump into the ring merely for heightening the shock factor. Here is where the celluloids sashay in with their clinging saris giving all these tiny anorexics a run for their rupees.
The ``aunteez`` flex their enviable flab and crumple these skinny divas into desperation. Sans make-up, sans pedicure, these sixty-somethings shock entranced audiences. The “bimbette” feathers are scrambled under the heavyweight of our celluloid “ranis”. Raking in “pungas” with the “phopos” and “mumanis” never was a good idea eh NT Syed and Miriam ?
In the audience unsavory “paan” chewing “peindus” are adoring every nano-second.
No more exploited dancing prowess. No more villains with moustaches. Industry veterans suggest an image transformation. No more sustained lycra-clad, teenybopper roles. The clout wielded by our horizontally challenged aunty jees reigns supreme.
Their roll-call for gossip is winner du jour. Let them take over Bolly-Lolly wood. Ntsyed here I have shown you the licks (paratha hungry aunts) and their wielding “kicks”. 60+ “Ma Baker” female Dakus who cremate other “Kuttees” and say “main tery khoon peee jaoungee” .
Now that is what I call a real script.
The utterance of desi women as ``ghee`` and celluloid ``tigresses`` will certainly provides a testosterone-fuelled male ilk with sporadic climactic ecstasy evidencing “a ceaseless gushing of the embarrassing kind” ?
Will it not ?
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 18, 2005 05:02 pm
Re: # 152NT SYED and Miriam K
Both your posts were witty and drop-dead hilarious that they impaired my tummy with ceaseless laughter. Now let me attempt to reciprocate that favor, in my own enfeabled way: I eagerly await your respective feedback.
To the question : Do you think a chick flick with kicks but no licks can bust the box office bimbo feats ?
The answer is yes. Let me pretend to be a film director. I am driven to cast South Asian female felines at war. What could be more arousing for us testosterone-fuelled males than witnessing beady-eyed Bolly-Lolly wood “bimbettes lipo-suctioning” the living daylights out of each other ? Taking pot-shots at their botoxed-Barbie rivals ?
Catfights come naturally to filmdom’s actresses, like arranged marriages come naturally to Machiavellian match-making aunties. Male actors maintain the “bhai-bhai” camouflage, their opposite gender hone a `Bollywood Bi&ching` beyond belief. The blood-baths are non-ending: Younger nubile actresses with candy-floss roles of dancing around trees, rolling-down hills with grass revealing a tad bit of sari….now lets change the script a little...
Miriam and NT Syed inch your imaginations toward a meatier plot. Ozer`s plot. I`m filming a “Desi Charlie`s Angel”: going for the full-throttle bagging super-duper “jhatkas” galore. Ek, do, teen and here comes out the desi female fighting machines. Steamy scratching hair-pulling scenes have our towering “iconettes” crumble into mud-slinging mania. Unsullied by the venomous outbursts our vixens, with their faded concealer fight to be summoned by the most dexterous plastic surgeons.
In the wrestling ring, salacious gossips are settled as we have biting brouhaha between Kareena and Bipasha, wanting to finish where they left off in Ajnabee , Lara Dutta –vs- Priyanka Chopra continue a spate of punches from a much-awaited sequel for Andaaz, Karisma and Raveena`s long-running feud over who can wear more mascara and Manisha Koirala and Ash venting their spleen on who will be the first to get that tummy-tuck. Rani Mukerji can unleash her pent-up estrogen against Sunitaji in an aim to win the heart of Govinda.
A digression to the plot is necessary: here I intensify the circus by bringing in Miriam K`s aptly described “ghee-smeared aunty jees” with augmented bicep girth who jump into the ring merely for heightening the shock factor. Here is where the celluloids sashay in with their clinging saris giving all these tiny anorexics a run for their rupees.
The ``aunteez`` flex their enviable flab and crumple these skinny divas into desperation. Sans make-up, sans pedicure, these sixty-somethings shock entranced audiences. The “bimbette” feathers are scrambled under the heavyweight of our celluloid “ranis”. Raking in “pungas” with the “phopos” and “mumanis” never was a good idea eh NT Syed and Miriam ?
In the audience unsavory “paan” chewing “peindus” are adoring every nano-second.
No more exploited dancing prowess. No more villains with moustaches. Industry veterans suggest an image transformation. No more sustained lycra-clad, teenybopper roles. The clout wielded by our horizontally challenged aunty jees reigns supreme.
Their roll-call for gossip is winner du jour. Let them take over Bolly-Lolly wood. Ntsyed here I have shown you the licks (paratha hungry aunts) and their wielding “kicks”. 60+ “Ma Baker” female Dakus who cremate other “Kuttees” and say “main tery khoon peee jaoungee” .
Now that is what I call a real script.
The utterance of desi women as ``ghee`` and celluloid ``tigresses`` will certainly provides a testosterone-fuelled male ilk with sporadic climactic ecstasy evidencing “a ceaseless gushing of the embarrassing kind” ?
Will it not ?
Dusk
NT SYED and Miriam K
Both your posts were witty and drop-dead hilarious that they impaired my tummy with ceaseless laughter. Now let me attempt to reciprocate that favor, in my own enfeabled way: I eagerly await your respective feedback.
To the question : Do you think a chick flick with kicks but no licks can bust the box office bimbo feats ?
The answer is yes. Let me pretend to be a film director. I am driven to cast South Asian female felines at war. What could be more arousing for us testosterone-fuelled males than witnessing beady-eyed Bolly-Lolly wood “bimbettes lipo-suctioning” the living daylights out of each other ? Taking pot-shots at their botoxed-Barbie rivals ?
Catfights come naturally to filmdom’s actresses, like arranged marriages come naturally to Machiavellian match-making aunties. Male actors maintain the “bhai-bhai” camouflage, their opposite gender hone a `Bollywood Bi&ching` beyond belief. The blood-baths are non-ending: Younger nubile actresses with candy-floss roles of dancing around trees, rolling-down hills with grass revealing a tad bit of sari….now lets change the script a little...
Miriam and NT Syed inch your imaginations toward a meatier plot. Ozer`s plot. I`m filming a “Desi Charlie`s Angel”: going for the full-throttle bagging super-duper “jhatkas” galore. Ek, do, teen and here comes out the desi female fighting machines. Steamy scratching hair-pulling scenes have our towering “iconettes” crumble into mud-slinging mania. Unsullied by the venomous outbursts our vixens, with their faded concealer fight to be summoned by the most dexterous plastic surgeons.
In the wrestling ring, salacious gossips are settled as we have biting brouhaha between Kareena and Bipasha, wanting to finish where they left off in Ajnabee , Lara Dutta –vs- Priyanka Chopra continue a spate of punches from a much-awaited sequel for Andaaz, Karisma and Raveena`s long-running feud over who can wear more mascara and Manisha Koirala and Ash venting their spleen on who will be the first to get that tummy-tuck. Rani Mukerji can unleash her pent-up estrogen against Sunitaji in an aim to win the heart of Govinda.
A digression to the plot is necessary: here I intensify the circus by bringing in Miriam K`s aptly described “ghee-smeared aunty jees” with augmented bicep girth who jump into the ring merely for heightening the shock factor. Here is where the celluloids sashay in with their clinging saris giving all these tiny anorexics a run for their rupees.
The ``aunteez`` flex their enviable flab and crumple these skinny divas into desperation. Sans make-up, sans pedicure, these sixty-somethings shock entranced audiences. The “bimbette” feathers are scrambled under the heavyweight of our celluloid “ranis”. Raking in “pungas” with the “phopos” and “mumanis” never was a good idea eh NT Syed and Miriam ?
In the audience unsavory “paan” chewing “peindus” are adoring every nano-second.
No more exploited dancing prowess. No more villains with moustaches. Industry veterans suggest an image transformation. No more sustained lycra-clad, teenybopper roles. The clout wielded by our horizontally challenged aunty jees reigns supreme.
Their roll-call for gossip is winner du jour. Let them take over Bolly-Lolly wood. Ntsyed here I have shown you the licks (paratha hungry aunts) and their wielding “kicks”. 60+ “Ma Baker” female Dakus who cremate other “Kuttees” and say “main tery khoon peee jaoungee” .
Now that is what I call a real script.
The utterance of desi women as ``ghee`` and celluloid ``tigresses`` will certainly provides a testosterone-fuelled male ilk with sporadic climactic ecstasy evidencing “a ceaseless gushing of the embarrassing kind” ?
Will it not ?
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 18, 2005 04:52 pm
Re: # 154NT SYED and Miriam K
Both your posts were witty and drop-dead hilarious that they impaired my tummy with ceaseless laughter. Now let me attempt to reciprocate that favor, in my own enfeabled way: I eagerly await your respective feedback.
To the question : Do you think a chick flick with kicks but no licks can bust the box office bimbo feats ?
The answer is yes. Let me pretend to be a film director. I am driven to cast South Asian female felines at war. What could be more arousing for us testosterone-fuelled males than witnessing beady-eyed Bolly-Lolly wood “bimbettes lipo-suctioning” the living daylights out of each other ? Taking pot-shots at their botoxed-Barbie rivals ?
Catfights come naturally to filmdom’s actresses, like arranged marriages come naturally to Machiavellian match-making aunties. Male actors maintain the “bhai-bhai” camouflage, their opposite gender hone a `Bollywood Bi&ching` beyond belief. The blood-baths are non-ending: Younger nubile actresses with candy-floss roles of dancing around trees, rolling-down hills with grass revealing a tad bit of sari….now lets change the script a little...
Miriam and NT Syed inch your imaginations toward a meatier plot. Ozer`s plot. I`m filming a “Desi Charlie`s Angel”: going for the full-throttle bagging super-duper “jhatkas” galore. Ek, do, teen and here comes out the desi female fighting machines. Steamy scratching hair-pulling scenes have our towering “iconettes” crumble into mud-slinging mania. Unsullied by the venomous outbursts our vixens, with their faded concealer fight to be summoned by the most dexterous plastic surgeons.
In the wrestling ring, salacious gossips are settled as we have biting brouhaha between Kareena and Bipasha, wanting to finish where they left off in Ajnabee , Lara Dutta –vs- Priyanka Chopra continue a spate of punches from a much-awaited sequel for Andaaz, Karisma and Raveena`s long-running feud over who can wear more mascara and Manisha Koirala and Ash venting their spleen on who will be the first to get that tummy-tuck. Rani Mukerji can unleash her pent-up estrogen against Sunitaji in an aim to win the heart of Govinda.
A digression to the plot is necessary: here I intensify the circus by bringing in Miriam K`s aptly described “ghee-smeared aunty jees” with augmented bicep girth who jump into the ring merely for heightening the shock factor. Here is where the celluloids sashay in with their clinging saris giving all these tiny anorexics a run for their rupees.
The ``aunteez`` flex their enviable flab and crumple these skinny divas into desperation. Sans make-up, sans pedicure, these sixty-somethings shock entranced audiences. The “bimbette” feathers are scrambled under the heavyweight of our celluloid “ranis”. Raking in “pungas” with the “phopos” and “mumanis” never was a good idea eh NT Syed and Miriam ?
In the audience unsavory “paan” chewing “peindus” are adoring every nano-second.
No more exploited dancing prowess. No more villains with moustaches. Industry veterans suggest an image transformation. No more sustained lycra-clad, teenybopper roles. The clout wielded by our horizontally challenged aunty jees reigns supreme.
Their roll-call for gossip is winner du jour. Let them take over Bolly-Lolly wood. Ntsyed here I have shown you the licks (paratha hungry aunts) and their wielding “kicks”. 60+ “Ma Baker” female Dakus who cremate other “Kuttees” and say “main tery khoon peee jaoungee” .
Now that is what I call a real script.
The utterance of desi women as ``ghee`` and celluloid ``tigresses`` will certainly provides a testosterone-fuelled male ilk with sporadic climactic ecstasy evidencing “a ceaseless gushing of the embarrassing kind” ?
Will it not ?
Dusk
Hamid M
Maybe, just try and fathom the thought, the ``fan club`` have momentarily vanished into thin air. Could you exercise such a vanishing act yourself ?
Purely out of public interest amigo ?
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 18, 2005 02:25 pm
Re: # 153Hamid M
Maybe, just try and fathom the thought, the ``fan club`` have momentarily vanished into thin air. Could you exercise such a vanishing act yourself ?
Purely out of public interest amigo ?
Power in Writing
When I first read ``I have a dream`` shivers ran through my spine. Seldom have I felt so empowered in my life.
Especially in South Asia, we are all bruised by the storms of persecution and staggered by the thunder of brutality: be that of the millitary, the bearded brigade, the ``tulleh`` or the intelligence services.
Articles such as yours should electrify us to climb from the desolate feudal hills of caste, ``baradari`` and class structures climbing atop an Alpine sunlit surrounding of justice. Now is the time for all the Desi youth to stick their necks out and not be mired in the quicksand of nationalism.
We all stand in the symbolic shadows of great icons like Jinnah, Gandhi, Iqbal, Phoolan Devi and Martin Luther King. Their momentous efforts descend as a beacon light of hope to millions of unemancipated sufferers in Mazar-e-Sharif, Assam or Gujarat.
Everywhere South Asians are seared in the burning fire of injustice. A daybreak to end this long night of mental captivity has not yet dawned. Martin Luther would be turning in his grave at the way we as humans rape, shackle, imprison and ensalve ourselves.
We are crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination from the glaciers of Siachin to the Sinhalese/Tamil war-torn SriLanka. Millions exist in mudhuts of poverty amidst a vast ocean of neo-con ``brown-sahebs`` awash with material prosperity. We are languishing at the periphery of society finding ourselves
Not exalted but exiled.
Not emancipated but endangered.
Female genital mutilation, child labour, honour killings irrepressibly deny our inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. SAARC and other fora have sought to adress some of these malignant issues yet they remain paper tiger with suited cronies who have defaulted on their dire diplomacy. Or as Martin Luther would put it ``there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity``.
We are citizens of a globe garbadged by environmental damage, scarred by HIV, hungered by malnutrition having harboured a most hallowed spot. The fiercest urgency is to rectify this. It is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off in our air-conditioned ivory towers of Mumbai, Pak Towers of Karachi or edifices in Dhaka, nor to take the tranquilizing drug of ``nasha`` inducing gradualism.
It would be fatal for the Sub-continent to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of our people`s legitimate disquiet will only deafen if there is an invigorating autumn of freedom.
This is not a case of my blowing off eutopian steam.
Whoever thinks it is merits a rude awakening. The whirlwinds in Kashmir needlessly shake the foundations of our Sub-Continent. Why not hold a referendum there ? Let the people decide. Nothing is more soothing than the warm threshold of public approval. Let us not quench our thirst for freedom by violating rights in Sri Nagr, or anywhere else.
Chowk provides a forum for a creative protest: this must NEVER, especially not on CHOWK,
degenerate into Indo-Pak mud-slinging. A favourite past-time of many registered users herein.
The marvelous new militancy of Indo-Pak agitation has been witnessed a million times and more on this forum. Guys let us grow up. Move on. Not engulf ourselves in petty politics. 56 years are ENOUGH.
Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, Bhutani, Sri Lankan destinies are inter-twined.
Our unearned suffering is redemptive. This redemption can be sought by reading deep into the sagacity of Dr King.
Witness Martin Luther King at his greatest:
``We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. A sweltering heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
``I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies. Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God`s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words ``Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!``
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 18, 2005 02:13 pm
Steven GuevaraWhen I first read ``I have a dream`` shivers ran through my spine. Seldom have I felt so empowered in my life.
Especially in South Asia, we are all bruised by the storms of persecution and staggered by the thunder of brutality: be that of the millitary, the bearded brigade, the ``tulleh`` or the intelligence services.
Articles such as yours should electrify us to climb from the desolate feudal hills of caste, ``baradari`` and class structures climbing atop an Alpine sunlit surrounding of justice. Now is the time for all the Desi youth to stick their necks out and not be mired in the quicksand of nationalism.
We all stand in the symbolic shadows of great icons like Jinnah, Gandhi, Iqbal, Phoolan Devi and Martin Luther King. Their momentous efforts descend as a beacon light of hope to millions of unemancipated sufferers in Mazar-e-Sharif, Assam or Gujarat.
Everywhere South Asians are seared in the burning fire of injustice. A daybreak to end this long night of mental captivity has not yet dawned. Martin Luther would be turning in his grave at the way we as humans rape, shackle, imprison and ensalve ourselves.
We are crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination from the glaciers of Siachin to the Sinhalese/Tamil war-torn SriLanka. Millions exist in mudhuts of poverty amidst a vast ocean of neo-con ``brown-sahebs`` awash with material prosperity. We are languishing at the periphery of society finding ourselves
Not exalted but exiled.
Not emancipated but endangered.
Female genital mutilation, child labour, honour killings irrepressibly deny our inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. SAARC and other fora have sought to adress some of these malignant issues yet they remain paper tiger with suited cronies who have defaulted on their dire diplomacy. Or as Martin Luther would put it ``there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity``.
We are citizens of a globe garbadged by environmental damage, scarred by HIV, hungered by malnutrition having harboured a most hallowed spot. The fiercest urgency is to rectify this. It is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off in our air-conditioned ivory towers of Mumbai, Pak Towers of Karachi or edifices in Dhaka, nor to take the tranquilizing drug of ``nasha`` inducing gradualism.
It would be fatal for the Sub-continent to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of our people`s legitimate disquiet will only deafen if there is an invigorating autumn of freedom.
This is not a case of my blowing off eutopian steam.
Whoever thinks it is merits a rude awakening. The whirlwinds in Kashmir needlessly shake the foundations of our Sub-Continent. Why not hold a referendum there ? Let the people decide. Nothing is more soothing than the warm threshold of public approval. Let us not quench our thirst for freedom by violating rights in Sri Nagr, or anywhere else.
Chowk provides a forum for a creative protest: this must NEVER, especially not on CHOWK,
degenerate into Indo-Pak mud-slinging. A favourite past-time of many registered users herein.
The marvelous new militancy of Indo-Pak agitation has been witnessed a million times and more on this forum. Guys let us grow up. Move on. Not engulf ourselves in petty politics. 56 years are ENOUGH.
Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, Bhutani, Sri Lankan destinies are inter-twined.
Our unearned suffering is redemptive. This redemption can be sought by reading deep into the sagacity of Dr King.
Witness Martin Luther King at his greatest:
``We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. A sweltering heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
``I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies. Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God`s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words ``Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!``
Intelligent Design or Accident?
Darwin`s model of evolution, known as ``the survival of the fittest``, is inherently flawed and skewered. A gargantuan raft of scientific data illustrates the absence of any empirical scientific evidence in support of the alleged ``spontaneous generation of life`` in the first place, let alone the evolution of life forms from one species into another.
Anthropologically and historically, the fossil evidence to date indicates the spontaneous appearance, without the existence of any earlier related life forms, of a vast number of life forms around 600 million years ago known as the `Cambrian explosion`, followed by very long periods (tens of millions of years) of minor changes occurring within species (a process known as Stasis) and the absence of any examples of possible evolutionary links between species prior to, during, or after this period.
Biochemists identify the most serious flaw in Darwin`s Theory is that due to the `irreducible complexity` associated with the biochemistry at a molecular and cellular level. Darwin`s theory cannot be applied to the evolution of life at this fundamental level, which implies other factors must be operating in the evolutionary process.
Biologically efforts to correlate evolution with mutations in gene frequencies have not embraced success. Exhaustive analysis at the molecular level err to demonstrate the expected correspondence between changes in gene products and the sorts of organismal changes which constitute [what Lewontin called] the ``stuff of evolution.``
I feel that it does not matter, if the evolution is a Darwinian mechanism, such as natural selection, or an alternative evolutionary mechanism. Most do not suffice to explain macroevolution-the origin and history of major innovations such as phyletic lineages. They explain, at best, only microevolution, not macroevolution.
Why has there been such a proliferation of alternative definitions to natural selection? For example, Mohammad Gill, you mention so many variants in your thesis such as that of Imam Ghazali etc...We suggest that they arise because of the failure of the historical, Darwinian concept of natural selection to provide a compelling explanation of major events in the history of organic life, such as the spectacular rise of 50 or so phyla in the Cambrian explosion, and how these phyla changed over time in the history of complex, multisystem life.
It is high time that tainted scientific eyes look at anthropology, biochemistry or biology: all are indicative of the failings of ``the fascist survival of the fittest`` theoreum.
An investigative mind, religious or not, will go even to the depths of the ocean to empirically prove that science should not be worshipped as a religion.
Science too has its trappings. Darwin is a chief pedestal.
Most of us need such pedestals.
Not out of necessity.
But out of desire.
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 18, 2005 12:21 am
Mohammad Gill:Darwin`s model of evolution, known as ``the survival of the fittest``, is inherently flawed and skewered. A gargantuan raft of scientific data illustrates the absence of any empirical scientific evidence in support of the alleged ``spontaneous generation of life`` in the first place, let alone the evolution of life forms from one species into another.
Anthropologically and historically, the fossil evidence to date indicates the spontaneous appearance, without the existence of any earlier related life forms, of a vast number of life forms around 600 million years ago known as the `Cambrian explosion`, followed by very long periods (tens of millions of years) of minor changes occurring within species (a process known as Stasis) and the absence of any examples of possible evolutionary links between species prior to, during, or after this period.
Biochemists identify the most serious flaw in Darwin`s Theory is that due to the `irreducible complexity` associated with the biochemistry at a molecular and cellular level. Darwin`s theory cannot be applied to the evolution of life at this fundamental level, which implies other factors must be operating in the evolutionary process.
Biologically efforts to correlate evolution with mutations in gene frequencies have not embraced success. Exhaustive analysis at the molecular level err to demonstrate the expected correspondence between changes in gene products and the sorts of organismal changes which constitute [what Lewontin called] the ``stuff of evolution.``
I feel that it does not matter, if the evolution is a Darwinian mechanism, such as natural selection, or an alternative evolutionary mechanism. Most do not suffice to explain macroevolution-the origin and history of major innovations such as phyletic lineages. They explain, at best, only microevolution, not macroevolution.
Why has there been such a proliferation of alternative definitions to natural selection? For example, Mohammad Gill, you mention so many variants in your thesis such as that of Imam Ghazali etc...We suggest that they arise because of the failure of the historical, Darwinian concept of natural selection to provide a compelling explanation of major events in the history of organic life, such as the spectacular rise of 50 or so phyla in the Cambrian explosion, and how these phyla changed over time in the history of complex, multisystem life.
It is high time that tainted scientific eyes look at anthropology, biochemistry or biology: all are indicative of the failings of ``the fascist survival of the fittest`` theoreum.
An investigative mind, religious or not, will go even to the depths of the ocean to empirically prove that science should not be worshipped as a religion.
Science too has its trappings. Darwin is a chief pedestal.
Most of us need such pedestals.
Not out of necessity.
But out of desire.
The Creator of Legends
Your tribute to Vijayan is acute. Nonetheless you ignited a spark: a comparison between Marquez Kundera and Vijayan : could you kindly elaborate and interweave on their commonality, in terms of style and themes, sharing with a wider audience the similitude you observe in their various works ?
I concur completely with thyself that Vijayan, though cremated, will have a candle flickering in the light of eternity. His ashes should inspire us all to unleash our souls into the flames of creative expression. No matter what the odds.
Vijayan, a much beloved satirist and story-teller took his booklovers to Himalayan heights of creativity. Rightly hailed as the pioneer of modern fiction, “Khasakinte Ithihasam” changed the face of Malayalam literature. Our initiate stamps an immortal collection of novels glistened by philosophical insights and historical interpretations.
”Khasakinte Ithihasam” spring-boards an interregnum in modern Malayalam literature dividing it into pre and post-Khasak, unleashing a set of unforgettable characters foisted onto the imaginary settings of Khasak.
Dabbling then into political satire and spirituality like “Dharmapuranam” “Gurusagaram” and “Pravachakante Vazhi” seems a well-fathomed follow-up.
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 17, 2005 03:19 pm
Sunil K PoolaniYour tribute to Vijayan is acute. Nonetheless you ignited a spark: a comparison between Marquez Kundera and Vijayan : could you kindly elaborate and interweave on their commonality, in terms of style and themes, sharing with a wider audience the similitude you observe in their various works ?
I concur completely with thyself that Vijayan, though cremated, will have a candle flickering in the light of eternity. His ashes should inspire us all to unleash our souls into the flames of creative expression. No matter what the odds.
Vijayan, a much beloved satirist and story-teller took his booklovers to Himalayan heights of creativity. Rightly hailed as the pioneer of modern fiction, “Khasakinte Ithihasam” changed the face of Malayalam literature. Our initiate stamps an immortal collection of novels glistened by philosophical insights and historical interpretations.
”Khasakinte Ithihasam” spring-boards an interregnum in modern Malayalam literature dividing it into pre and post-Khasak, unleashing a set of unforgettable characters foisted onto the imaginary settings of Khasak.
Dabbling then into political satire and spirituality like “Dharmapuranam” “Gurusagaram” and “Pravachakante Vazhi” seems a well-fathomed follow-up.
Dusk
T Ahmed you inspiringly borrow from Heraclitus:
``The people [of a city] should fight for their laws as they would for their city wall. ``
Your interweaving Greek history and rendering a modern-day comparative analysis on Pakistan and Jerusalem is strikingly true. Regretabbly our laws are flagrantly raped by Chief Justice big-wigs mind-trapped in the Victorian ages, with brigadiers wearing badges symbolically saluting for their shallow power-grabbing schemas.
As Supreme Court Justice of India, Upendra Baxi, once proclaimed ``these men with long
purses`` serve only the platter of disservice to justice.
Justice is never served on a silver platter.
It is never given.
It must always be taken.
And then bestowed upon a populace.
Never with the sword.
Always with the mind.
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 17, 2005 09:41 am
Re: # 126T Ahmed you inspiringly borrow from Heraclitus:
``The people [of a city] should fight for their laws as they would for their city wall. ``
Your interweaving Greek history and rendering a modern-day comparative analysis on Pakistan and Jerusalem is strikingly true. Regretabbly our laws are flagrantly raped by Chief Justice big-wigs mind-trapped in the Victorian ages, with brigadiers wearing badges symbolically saluting for their shallow power-grabbing schemas.
As Supreme Court Justice of India, Upendra Baxi, once proclaimed ``these men with long
purses`` serve only the platter of disservice to justice.
Justice is never served on a silver platter.
It is never given.
It must always be taken.
And then bestowed upon a populace.
Never with the sword.
Always with the mind.
Dusk
T ahmed
Seems like Rahul Mal aka (Mahareshchavalanapatnamavala) casts himself in cloak and daggers and trots his horse indo the deeper green of the leafy glade inn. He has become the new self-appointed Robin Hood. Lo and Behold: maybe even the next Pink Panthered Inspecteur Clouseau. Earlier on he stated ``I will ezamine zee chowk webzite and raize every bit of suspicion with a beret and a baguette``.
Mahareshchavalanapatnamavala do us all a favour: go on top of the Eiffel Tower, for it beckons you, hold your breath, and take a leap and a jump. Who knows maybe Jacques Chirac, or even better, Laeticia Casta will be there to save your life ?
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 17, 2005 09:23 am
Re: # 128T ahmed
Seems like Rahul Mal aka (Mahareshchavalanapatnamavala) casts himself in cloak and daggers and trots his horse indo the deeper green of the leafy glade inn. He has become the new self-appointed Robin Hood. Lo and Behold: maybe even the next Pink Panthered Inspecteur Clouseau. Earlier on he stated ``I will ezamine zee chowk webzite and raize every bit of suspicion with a beret and a baguette``.
Mahareshchavalanapatnamavala do us all a favour: go on top of the Eiffel Tower, for it beckons you, hold your breath, and take a leap and a jump. Who knows maybe Jacques Chirac, or even better, Laeticia Casta will be there to save your life ?
Dusk
Miriam K
What about the feline fighter instincts of women ?
Uma Thurman -v-Lucy Liu`s Crazy 88
Cameron Diaz -v- Evil Temptress collagen injected Demi Moore
Halle Berry`s Catwoman gymnastics
Miriam now just as beefy bankable females like Xena, GI Jane and Elektra are raising temperatures at global Cineplexes, actresses are no longer perky love interests and weepy crime victims, (Gwenyth Paltrow take note, especially whilst holding awards)
Movie studios finally realized that women can royally kick derrieres. Literally. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Charlie`s Angels, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon all vaulted, jabbed, and roundhouse-kicked their feline whiskers past the $100-million benchmark of a cinema blockbuster.
Angelina Jolie whirling her way as Lara Croft or the three witches in Charmed, candy to the eyes, kicking to the fore, are not too unpleasant a formula. Even Bollywood`s Phoolan Devi is a case in point.
Miriam Im sure just like these heroines you too are a knock-out. We guys, wanna see cat fights galore is it not T Ahmed Sul Temporal ? Visually electric knockouts.
Now we need our Desi women to crank up the soundtracks, storm into cardio-kickboxing classes at the gym, and hope that the even Sari-wearing Auntie ``jees`` can stop hatching marriage plots and start wielding a wicked uppercut.
Trot out female tigers upping the titillation factor with a healthy Chowk audience.
Avoid wardrobe malfunction
Kindly: No Barbie-doll spin-offs from the ``spoilt girls`` shelf.
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 17, 2005 09:11 am
Re: # 130Miriam K
What about the feline fighter instincts of women ?
Uma Thurman -v-Lucy Liu`s Crazy 88
Cameron Diaz -v- Evil Temptress collagen injected Demi Moore
Halle Berry`s Catwoman gymnastics
Miriam now just as beefy bankable females like Xena, GI Jane and Elektra are raising temperatures at global Cineplexes, actresses are no longer perky love interests and weepy crime victims, (Gwenyth Paltrow take note, especially whilst holding awards)
Movie studios finally realized that women can royally kick derrieres. Literally. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Charlie`s Angels, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon all vaulted, jabbed, and roundhouse-kicked their feline whiskers past the $100-million benchmark of a cinema blockbuster.
Angelina Jolie whirling her way as Lara Croft or the three witches in Charmed, candy to the eyes, kicking to the fore, are not too unpleasant a formula. Even Bollywood`s Phoolan Devi is a case in point.
Miriam Im sure just like these heroines you too are a knock-out. We guys, wanna see cat fights galore is it not T Ahmed Sul Temporal ? Visually electric knockouts.
Now we need our Desi women to crank up the soundtracks, storm into cardio-kickboxing classes at the gym, and hope that the even Sari-wearing Auntie ``jees`` can stop hatching marriage plots and start wielding a wicked uppercut.
Trot out female tigers upping the titillation factor with a healthy Chowk audience.
Avoid wardrobe malfunction
Kindly: No Barbie-doll spin-offs from the ``spoilt girls`` shelf.
Dusk
Miriam K
You verbalize ``I would rather have the b.s to sift through then silence the much cherished ideal of freedom of expression``. This is a tellingly wholesome world-view.
More so, you articulate “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”.
This is by the startling French philosopher Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778). One of my all-time fave quotes !
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 16, 2005 07:03 pm
Re: # 106Miriam K
You verbalize ``I would rather have the b.s to sift through then silence the much cherished ideal of freedom of expression``. This is a tellingly wholesome world-view.
More so, you articulate “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”.
This is by the startling French philosopher Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778). One of my all-time fave quotes !
Dusk
Miriam K
Professor Harry Frankfurt ingeniously pontifies `` BS has no actual relationship with the truth or falsity of the statements at all. Unlike lies, which depend on a construct of truth to succeed, BS stands aside from any objective thought of unreality and becomes, he says, a tool for asserting sincerity``. Miriam in other words what seems like BS to some is sincerity to others !!! It is all premised on value-judgments is it not ?
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 16, 2005 04:52 pm
Re: # 106Miriam K
Professor Harry Frankfurt ingeniously pontifies `` BS has no actual relationship with the truth or falsity of the statements at all. Unlike lies, which depend on a construct of truth to succeed, BS stands aside from any objective thought of unreality and becomes, he says, a tool for asserting sincerity``. Miriam in other words what seems like BS to some is sincerity to others !!! It is all premised on value-judgments is it not ?
Dusk
Temporal
Iam unaware of the ``sage portrayal`` you allude to. However on a brief sejour to the land of ``liberty, stars and stripes`` I did catch a glimpse of Johnny Carson`s tonight show. What enthused me about Carson was his calm demeanour and unflappable nature. Carson habitually opens each show with a monologue, not as tongue-in-cheek as Jay Leno.
Carson should be a role-model for fellow ``Chowkies`` cause unlike Jerry Springer and Sally Jessy Raphael Carson tends to avoid anything controversial and was usually content to keep his audience ``productively`` amused.
A friend recently whispered into my ears that on his first ever show Carson was introduced by none other than Groucho Marx; Johnny`s first words, reacting to applause as he walked onstage for the first
time was
``Boy, you would think it was Vice President Nixon.``
Posted by
OzerKhalid
May 16, 2005 04:27 pm
Re: # 113Temporal
Iam unaware of the ``sage portrayal`` you allude to. However on a brief sejour to the land of ``liberty, stars and stripes`` I did catch a glimpse of Johnny Carson`s tonight show. What enthused me about Carson was his calm demeanour and unflappable nature. Carson habitually opens each show with a monologue, not as tongue-in-cheek as Jay Leno.
Carson should be a role-model for fellow ``Chowkies`` cause unlike Jerry Springer and Sally Jessy Raphael Carson tends to avoid anything controversial and was usually content to keep his audience ``productively`` amused.
A friend recently whispered into my ears that on his first ever show Carson was introduced by none other than Groucho Marx; Johnny`s first words, reacting to applause as he walked onstage for the first
time was
``Boy, you would think it was Vice President Nixon.``
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