My Rocking Week

worked week ends on a brand input plan
went on monday to mumbai , courtsey a jet vimaan
cooped up the entire tuesday in office for a meeting that just ran and ran
began a party at 11 , finished at 2 , got up at 4 for the morning flying swan
reached b'lore , on wednesday and the same mumbai drill began
tried meeting ppl and friends , but that proposal went to the tin can
thursday back to kolkata and thot my busy life would now be put to a ban
but on friday b fast was in delhi and lunch enroute to jaipur in a mini van
saturday was for market at ajmer and some blessings from ajmer's most famous man,
sunday enroute to delhi was a major accident ,me and my taxi fried like a butter naan,
went for an x ray, as well as a ct scan,
luckily , am still as fit as jackie chan
met parents had lunch with them at delhi and dinner was back in kolkata man
and now my life is back to kolkata where it all began.

Personality Cults - Larger than Life

A cult of personality is a political institution in which a country's leader uses mass media to create a larger-than-life public image through unquestioning flattery and praise.

A cult of personality differs from general hero worship in that it is specifically built around political leaders. However, the term cult of personality is often applied by analogy to refer to adulation of non-political leaders.

A bit like Big Brother always watching you in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

A personality cult is also characterized with many images and representations of a leader in public places, including statues, billboards, posters, signs, paintings, and vast murals.

Take the most contemproary example

"Dear Leader" and the"Great Leader" Kim Jong-il ,the north korean dictator also regularly hailed by the media as the "peerless leader" and "the great successor to the revolutionary cause.
The media also sometimes hails him by such lesser titles as "General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea", "Chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission", and "Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.

Wonder how the man writes his name in a passport , i.e if Kim Jong-il needs one.anyways , hardly visits anyplace.

And personality cults are no longer a political leader's prerogative only.

Finally It happened

after 8 consecutive losses in football, with the best scoreline of 2-0 and the worst scoreline of 5-0 , i finally won something.

pity it wasn't the football field. it was on a small platform, in a small corporate quiz. so what if i came 3rd, the guys who came 1st and 2nd, well they are and were seasoned quizzers who used to be quizmasters while i was still in my shorts.

incidentally the only woman,( and she came 2nd ) was my visiting faculty teaching me sales and distribution. then while staring at her talk from the back benches , never thought she was the quizzing types.lesson learnt , never ever stereotype anyone.

and yes i need to give special thanks to my partner in crime, mr N Moza. for a man who last quizzed in his primary school, he didn't do too bad. He was damn good, and i say that not because he shares my dad's initials.He controlled my emotions, got me to concentrate and more importantly answered thoose very questions which i didn't know. thats what a team should be like.Mutally exclusive and collectively exhaustive.Am i not becoming good at the jargon :-).

So now what. i shall do as my boss says.which is what?
Stick to quizzing , chuck football.
Just that i love them both, and i hate losing in both.