I love a good advertisement. I’m one of the weird people who actually loves sitting through advertisement during breaks in shows. Maybe it is because I am interested in video editing and see my self one day creating an advert that will be truly memorable, or that consumers will enjoy watching.

Dairy Milk Drumming Gorilla

Now I know this is a very old one, but you have to admit it is a goodie. So what makes this advert such a good one, I really cannot say. Maybe it is the mystery surrounding the advert, since you are not sure what the advert is about or even if it is an advert till the very end, maybe it is just the fact that you have a gorilla drumming or maybe it is just the sound of Phil Collins voice. For me personally. it was the initial few seconds of the start of the advert, before the gorilla starts drumming, when you can actually see the gorilla *feeling* the music, getting into the mood/zone. That was what killed it for me. What did it for you?

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Dairy milk have changed the advert to one about trucks which i absolutely do not like…. but that is just my opinion.

Ok, I’m planning on moving to London sometime soon and the invariable house hunt has started. House hunting in London is a completely different ball game than house hunting anywhere else. From figuring out which area in London you want to live (north, north-east, north-west, south-east, south-west) to what zones, and also trying to stay away from the rent scams that are currently rampant on gumtree.

Through a posting on gumtree, I came across an estate agency called Brinkley’s. Although the flat i was  calling for had already gone , they were very helpful in helping me find alternate flat viewings for me. After a few viewings, I was in a dilemma, I had whittled my possible choices down to two, one was a one bedroom flat in a modern development area, the other was a one bedroom house in a quiet, residential estate. Both residences are reasonably near to train stations  and are in good neighbourhoods. The choice was basically based on living in a block of flats vs living in a house.

Personally, I prefer the block of flats because in my opinion, they look nicer, you have your own balcony and it is styled in a modern layout. Seems to suit the image of a working professional living in the city. The house on the other hand is in a quiet suburbia styled environment and reminds me more of the sort of place I’ll move to once I start thinking about a family.

Ah decisions, decisions, house or a flat???

I am actually getting tired of people inviting me to join this social network or that social network. I am already a member of more social networks than I can manage - from Flickr to Facebook and so are most of my friends. Yet every now and again someone invites me to join yet another social network.

What is the fascination behind social networks? I mean, (ranting at no-one in particular and everyone in general) I already connected to you through Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. You have my address, email, phone number and even updates on what I am doing daily via Twitter. So why do you think you need to connect to me via another medium? Enough with keeping tabs on me already.

Now don’t get me wrong, I do not have anything against social networking, I just don’t see why you need to be connected to people via every social network you can find. Has it become a thing of pride, or something to brag about? You hear people say, I have 10,000 friends on Myspace or 500 friends on Facebook. I bet you you do not talk to all your 500 Facebook friends, or can even remember half of the people you are connected to on Myspace? So what is the point. The whole point of social networking is to connect to people you are actually interested in either professionally or personally, not just every Tom, Dick and Harry.

What started this little tirade was an invitation to join Plurk, which as far as I can see is just another twitter. Since i am already on twitter, I do not see any reason to become a “plurker”. Well unless they come up with some features that blows twitter out of the water, they will just another twitter to me.

On second thoughts, I do like the look of the advance plurks and the fact that you can share media with it, so inspite of the tirade, if you find me inviting you to follow me on plurk, let’s pretend the first few paragraphs do not exist .

Image from wittysparks

As almost everyone in the world knows, GTA4 is coming out tomorrow and considering I was not savvy enough to pre-order it, I am not expecting to be able to get a copy of the game till the weekend. Interested in what reviews the game got, I spent most of this morning trolling through game review sites and I found out the GTA4 got perfect scores on almost all the review sites. I am talking ten out of ten, even Halo, the flagship game for the Xbox did not get perfect scores… I didn’t even realise that reviewers were allowed to give perfect scores to a game.

I am just hoping the game lives up to all its hype, because Halo (IMHO) definitely didn’t. It will be interesting to hear what Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation will have to say about it.

Liverpool Chelsea today…. I am looking forward to that match with a mix of trepidation and anticipation. This happens to be the third time in a row that we have met Liverpool in the semi finals of the UEFA Champions League, the last two times they have beaten us either by hook, crook or just luck (my story and I’m sticking to it ).

3rd time’s the charm? It better be….