(photo courtesy Hindu)
Anything out of the ordinary always attracts attention. I read this article in Hindu and was instantly impressed. I have myself participated in a few fancy dress competitions during my school days. But it was always the routine make-ups you would see in any fancy dress competition - Iyer mami with madisar, radha, nurse etc. I keep asking my amma, couldn't you think of anything else at all. Easier said than done ah? My amma was working and I guess she would have had a tough time - thinking of ideas, preparing me, hunting for costumes, dressing me up. Infact, she used to take off that day. The competitions are more of a test for the parents than the kids. My sister got to do a Burmese once. I still remember how we hunted for her burmese costume. But it was a big hit. I guess, the routine nehru, gandhi, indra gandhi have all taken a back seat now and children are becoming more creative (or should I say the parents!).
The girl in pic won the price for her performance as chandramukhi in a fancy dress competition conducted by BSNL! Way to Go!
Link to article in Hindu
How many times do we come across a restaurant that pleases all categories of people - be it some young couple wanting some privacy or a family wishing to have a nice meal together or a group of friends who want to make noise, have fun and enjoy. I visited one such place in chennai which can claim to satisfy all the groups - Rain Forest Cafe.
I have been to the Rain Forest Cafe in the US. They have adopted the same concept. The restaurant is in the basement, and gives a cave effect. In the evenings with all those lights, the place looks great. The door to the restaurant is something like what you find in Alibaba and 40 thieves. When we finished our diner and came near the door, it opened by itself. We did not even have to say abracadabra. But we did learn the secret, it seems, someone from inside rings a bell whenever a customer is about to leave, and the guy standing out opens the door - Cool ah!
The ambience is great! There is a small waterfall, there are bamboo sticks on the walls with leaves all over. We did not have an elaborate meal, but the vegetable manchurian balls is defenitely going to make me go over again. The restaurant has both veg and non-veg. I am not sure how the non-veg items are, all the vegetarian items we had tasted good. The prices are a bit steep and i think they could have taken more care while choosing the decorations - be it the leaves on the walls or the tomatoes on the table - a lil more quality would have made it more appealing.
However, the concept is new, the ambience is cool, the service is great and food is tasty - so, if you want to enjoy your evening and have good food then rain forest cafe is a good choice.
Rainforest cafe is near Adyar signal. You will miss it but for the electric lights around their name board.
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Come on tell me, whatz in a name? Say, if I my name was Sanjana or Samyuktha, would I be any different? Or, if i right now, change my name to something else, will my life be better? There are so many people advocating nameology...is it really true???
Well, let me tell u what actually triggered this line of thought...I have been looking at the diwali sales - why is that some shops have such a huge crowd and some shops have no one else other than their employees. Why do people go to some shops inspite of the fact that the place is so crowded that you cant even breath and all u can smell is sweat! If you cant understand what I am talking, just check out some shops in tnagar.
Coming back to the topic, if saravana stores was actually not called saravana stores or if rmkv was called abcd, will they still be making this sales? Is name so important in establishing the brand?? or do people throng these shops because of the price/quality/advertisements yada yada...
Will writing the name as Aarthi or Arthi or Arthy or Arti or Aarthy or RT make my life different???? Tell me folks, whatz in a name??? ¶ 6:48 PM 5 comments
