Just some stuff

I was watching t.v. just now and I realized that maybe not all Indian t.v. is bad haha. Usually the things I see are the usual corny dancing and singing. I was watching this channel called "V" and I guess it's supposed to be a channel like MTV or VH1. They do show music videos on there but in between they have pretty cool things. There's this one project they're going to be showing called "My India Report" . It's about a group of people about 21 or so going around India and just reporting on it. I think the main theme is supposed to be how westernization and the tremendous economic growth have effected the youth of India. It seems like an interesting theme, the India that my generation is growing up in is completely different from the India of the previous generation. It sounds interesting, I'll have to tune in. Each of the participants has a blog online too, you can check it out at http://www.myindiareport.in/

They also have pretty neat commercials about HIV/AIDS. One commercial shows a family sitting in front of the television and a commercial on their t.v. comes on about AIDS. The father of the family, obviously uncomfortable with the subject matter, asks his kids to get something from the kitchen while he changes the channel. The commercial then goes on to say "how can children learn about AIDS if the parents don't give them a chance" and then the commercial goes blank. I thought it was a good way to convey the message, especially in a country where the number of people with AIDS is exceptionally high.

Of course right after the commercial for that there's a beef cake of an Indian guy with sunglasses two sizes too big for his head splashing in the water for a beautiful woman that he "imagined" seeing in the water. Seriously, he looked so sad that he couldn't find her...IN THE WATER.