Jalaj P. Jha

How do I celebrate New Year Eve? Well nothing special about it! I am always with my family at home watching television when the calendar rolls into new year, or alternatively, having a sound sleep as with any other day. But the celebrations were a little different on a particular instance a few years back.

We had heard that our office was organizing a New Year Party in a Hotel and all staff and their family members were to attend. Such a gathering was never organized before, so it was natural that we were all excited about it and eagerly waiting for the day.

And then one fine day we came to know that the party was pre-poned to 30^th Dec. Reason? Most said that hotel booking was not available for 31^st! but booking was already done beforehand? Isn’t it right?? Well then someone whispered… this party was the brainchild of our Boss’ wife and now that she was expected to be out of station on the New Year Eve, the party had to be pre-poned to ensure her presence.

So on 30^th at around 8:30-9:00 pm the party started we all enjoyed the dance and song items. In between we all had the dinner. One song item was ended abruptly and was replaced by a countdown 10… 9… First we were confused but then realized that clock was going to strike 12. And then one voice called out “Happy New Year” and many hesitant voices followed “Happy New Year”. Many people were smiling when they greeted, after all the New Year was still 24 hours away. But hey it seems that those people never heard that “Boss’ wife is always right!”

Wishing you all a Happy New Year!

The New Year also marks the beginning of the 4^th year for this blog, though however the actual anniversary date is 12th Dec.

Though the counts of new posts have reduced in last couple of years, old posts on this blog still draws thousands of unique visitors each month. As always, my new year resolution is to be active again on this blog and post frequently and regularly, and I believe, I will be more serious in sticking to the resolution.

That’s all for now. Keep reading in coming months.

Fevicol has been coming up with funniest ads which would even beat Manmohan Desai’s movies when it comes to reality and logic. Here is the latest ad for it’s own 50th Anniversary.

A small girl is preparing for a play she is acting in. She is portraying a male character for which she needs to wear a mustache. Unable to find anything else, she uses Fevicol to stick the mustache and as the tagline say ‘Fevicol ka jod hai tutega nahin’ she fails to get it removed even after the play is over. Now the girl is shown growing still with the mustache, gets married, ages and at last dies in an hospital. The moment she collapses cries of a newborn baby is heard from a nearby room. The nurse comes out with a baby with mustache depicting that even rebirth could not separate the mustache.

The ad shows different timelines in different screen sizes and color to give a sense of time passing by. But if you are going to check logical accuracy, I suggest don’t. Fevicol just completed 50 years of existence, the girl lived a long long life of 70-90 years, and still could use Fevicol in her childhood. This type of liberty has been freely taken by Fevicol in its ads.

On way back home from work, I noticed a three wheeler auto-rickshaw carry a notice on its back that says

“Capacity : 3 idiots”

Now this notice and the fact that the auto-rickshaw allows only 3 passengers can make any passenger feel offended, of course if he is not aware of upcoming bollywood movies. I moved closer and found that it indeed was the teaser for the upcoming movie “3 idiots” starring Aamir Khan.

So get ready to watch “3 idiots” on an auto-rickshaw (in a theatre?) near you!