Currently i am reading 'The Inscrutable Americans' by Anurag Mathur. Bought it second hand for 40 bucks. Less amount of guilt involved hear. I have lots of pirated stuff though. The thing is if i do not get all this content in the pirated form , i would never have been able to afford it at all. Like for example, the game- Call of Duty- which i picked up from the streets for 100 bucks. The actual MRP of the game wil be anything above Rs. 1500 and if i blow up my fathers money on this he will certainly throw me out of the house.
I read recently in the papers that the BMC has decided to arrange a raid a day to get rid of the pirated CD's menance. When will they ever learn? It is all futile and plain economics is enough to prove that it is futile. There is a voracious demands for such pirated CD's/DVD's. These days a decent DVD player is available in the market for lees than Rs. 3000. Almost every other home is in possesion of one. But their income levels are not high enough that they can buy CD's at their mrp rate. They certainly aint going let their systems rot now, will they?
Moving on, old habits die hard. I still aint studying leaving it for the lastminute. Got no motivation at all this time and i am in my dreamland most of the day. Wonder if this is going to change in anyway whatsoever in the coming few months.
About my future, i have started having doubts about taking up Account Planning as my specialisation. Over the past few days i have researched a lot online about this subject. Have found loads of sites pertaining to it but not a single one could exlain convincingly what the role and responsibility of an account planner is. What i could decipher is that an Accont Planner sits and tries to analyse the creative work and find connections between the work and the TG and recommend whatever is necessary. Now this role is a very intemediary and subjective one. Boundaries are not properly defined and since this discipline has started only about 30 years back no one seems to know what a planner is actually requied to do. If i do not achieve satisfactory clarity on this front in the next few months then this option will be out of the equation.
My mother has already started contemplating how lonely she would be once i go the hostel. I have spent 22 years with my parents and my sudden absence willl be a large void in their lives. India is one of the few countries in the world where the child stays with his/her parents till an average of , i believe at least 20 years. And the bonding too seems to be greater though i am basing this judgement purely on the picture painted about the western world by the media. Wonder whether i will feel homesick.
I read recently in the papers that the BMC has decided to arrange a raid a day to get rid of the pirated CD's menance. When will they ever learn? It is all futile and plain economics is enough to prove that it is futile. There is a voracious demands for such pirated CD's/DVD's. These days a decent DVD player is available in the market for lees than Rs. 3000. Almost every other home is in possesion of one. But their income levels are not high enough that they can buy CD's at their mrp rate. They certainly aint going let their systems rot now, will they?
Moving on, old habits die hard. I still aint studying leaving it for the lastminute. Got no motivation at all this time and i am in my dreamland most of the day. Wonder if this is going to change in anyway whatsoever in the coming few months.
About my future, i have started having doubts about taking up Account Planning as my specialisation. Over the past few days i have researched a lot online about this subject. Have found loads of sites pertaining to it but not a single one could exlain convincingly what the role and responsibility of an account planner is. What i could decipher is that an Accont Planner sits and tries to analyse the creative work and find connections between the work and the TG and recommend whatever is necessary. Now this role is a very intemediary and subjective one. Boundaries are not properly defined and since this discipline has started only about 30 years back no one seems to know what a planner is actually requied to do. If i do not achieve satisfactory clarity on this front in the next few months then this option will be out of the equation.
My mother has already started contemplating how lonely she would be once i go the hostel. I have spent 22 years with my parents and my sudden absence willl be a large void in their lives. India is one of the few countries in the world where the child stays with his/her parents till an average of , i believe at least 20 years. And the bonding too seems to be greater though i am basing this judgement purely on the picture painted about the western world by the media. Wonder whether i will feel homesick.
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