I have tried with all my might to ignore this but I can bear this internal anguish no longer. A few months ago, a popular brand of toilet paper re-branded (believe me this story is not going where you think it is). Due to the fact that I am neither a journalist nor a lawyer,I am not sure whether I'm allowed to state the brand name or not. I don't want to be sued (haha!as if enough people read this blog. But anyway. My paranoia and sense of self-importance won't me say what brand it is). So anyway, they re-branded and decided to make their logo (mascot?) a cat. It is an adorable little thing but what the hell does it have to do with the loo??? Are they saying that the t.p. is a soft as a cat? If that's what they're trying to say, how did they know how soft a cat feels on a persons butt? Are they doing some kind of sick animal testing? What other animals have they tested? How many people agreed to be testers? WHY did they agree? If they mean something else, what is it?!?! I want the PR person of this t.p. brand to come out and state their objectives 'cause I'm very confused and saddened that the feline race (I doubt that they're a race but whatever :)) are being associated with such crap. Literally. Another ad campaign that pisses me off is this one for this bank. It's like a pirated version- not even made in China. Made somewhere off the coast of China- of the 'old spice' ads. The 'old spice' ads= genius! The bank ones= lame. When you steal ideas at least make sure they measure up. Really, people. COME ON!
This is not really a rant. More like a short story on the dangers of using t9 or predictive text while texting;
So I was supposed to meet my...someone...in town today. When I get there I start texting 'im in town' while walking. I think I somehow got distracted and accidentally (like the dyslexic I try not to be) switch the letters w and n. Where is the danger in this you ask. Well kids, you see in predictive text the word that makes the most sense with the letter combination of the numbers 8669 is 'tony'. I almost sent a text saying 'im in tony'. The someone would probably have found it kinda funny but what if I'd been texting my mum???
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
holiday time!!!
Yes! Time to put down the books, grow fat and look for attachment...ok the last part is kind of an anticlimax but its fine. It has to be done so I'll do it. Anyway, my last blogpost was a while ago and sooo much has happened since then but I'll only tell you (most of) what happened since I put down my last paper.
1.Thursday
The last paper was done (computer science.booo!). It was mildly crappy with a side of 'blekh!' but I don't think I've failed it...thaaaat much...anyway it was put down. The end of the paper was the beginning of awesomeness. A friend baked a cake in celebration and I'm telling you that girl can bake! The cake was so good that I think she might have laced it with drugs (good drugs. Not the ones they put in the bhajias at...some place we eat sometimes). Post-cake the drinking began, and with great alcohol consumption comes great insanity. I don't drink by the way. I was high on coca-cola (I was going to say 'coke' then thought about how it sounded.haha!) mostly because my dear friends forgot to share...other things with me :/. Anyway it was a good night. Mostly. I ran into too many of my classmates. Now the image they had of me being a studious, angelic, holy girl are out the window. Sad. Hopefully they'll have forgotten by the time september comes around. I don't have much faith in that happening but yeah.
2.friday
I got home in the morning and SLEPT til around lunchtime. I missed a semi-important meeting and could not locate my phone for a couple of hours but later in the afternoon I was out. SLEEPOVER!!! Intensely fun...hehe. It was the climax of my weekend :)
3.sunday
The sleepover ended on saturday but when I got home all I did was watch movies so let me jump to sunday. At around 9 a.m. I saw my phone had a missed call from a pal who'd been inciting me to go for safari rally. I called back and was notified that I had 20 minutes to get dressed. That was a roadtrip and a half! Our driver (he's going to kill me for blogging about this but I hope he'll only half-kill me if I don't mention his name) was just mr. super-navigator and instead of going to kajiado we ended up in machakos. MACHAKOS! It was so funny!If we hadn't seen the sign-post I don't even know where we would have gone. So we were around 45 minutes off course, had to drive all the way back to some junction, met a couple of dead ends,almost started driving to namanga, got laughed at by some bodaboda drivers but we finally made it. I realized something that day. NO-ONE goes to see the cars. This makes sense because quite honestly I didnt understand the logic behind driving all the way to the middle of nowhere to see some cars pass by and scream at them. I ran into a large number of my highly intoxicated (excuse the pun)friends and finally got the...other things :) (refer to friday). In short it was awesome. We ate nyama (almost got lost going to the nyama place thanks to mr. super-navigator) and got dusty at the side of the road with friends. Fun times...
1.Thursday
The last paper was done (computer science.booo!). It was mildly crappy with a side of 'blekh!' but I don't think I've failed it...thaaaat much...anyway it was put down. The end of the paper was the beginning of awesomeness. A friend baked a cake in celebration and I'm telling you that girl can bake! The cake was so good that I think she might have laced it with drugs (good drugs. Not the ones they put in the bhajias at...some place we eat sometimes). Post-cake the drinking began, and with great alcohol consumption comes great insanity. I don't drink by the way. I was high on coca-cola (I was going to say 'coke' then thought about how it sounded.haha!) mostly because my dear friends forgot to share...other things with me :/. Anyway it was a good night. Mostly. I ran into too many of my classmates. Now the image they had of me being a studious, angelic, holy girl are out the window. Sad. Hopefully they'll have forgotten by the time september comes around. I don't have much faith in that happening but yeah.
2.friday
I got home in the morning and SLEPT til around lunchtime. I missed a semi-important meeting and could not locate my phone for a couple of hours but later in the afternoon I was out. SLEEPOVER!!! Intensely fun...hehe. It was the climax of my weekend :)
3.sunday
The sleepover ended on saturday but when I got home all I did was watch movies so let me jump to sunday. At around 9 a.m. I saw my phone had a missed call from a pal who'd been inciting me to go for safari rally. I called back and was notified that I had 20 minutes to get dressed. That was a roadtrip and a half! Our driver (he's going to kill me for blogging about this but I hope he'll only half-kill me if I don't mention his name) was just mr. super-navigator and instead of going to kajiado we ended up in machakos. MACHAKOS! It was so funny!If we hadn't seen the sign-post I don't even know where we would have gone. So we were around 45 minutes off course, had to drive all the way back to some junction, met a couple of dead ends,almost started driving to namanga, got laughed at by some bodaboda drivers but we finally made it. I realized something that day. NO-ONE goes to see the cars. This makes sense because quite honestly I didnt understand the logic behind driving all the way to the middle of nowhere to see some cars pass by and scream at them. I ran into a large number of my highly intoxicated (excuse the pun)friends and finally got the...other things :) (refer to friday). In short it was awesome. We ate nyama (almost got lost going to the nyama place thanks to mr. super-navigator) and got dusty at the side of the road with friends. Fun times...
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