Thursday, January 8, 2015

The Critical Eye (Season 1) Episode 2 The Stupid Takes Over Youtube

The Critical Eye (Season 1)

Episode 2

The Stupid Takes Over Youtube

You call them copycats, you call them imitators, you call them impersonators or call them emulators or even facsimile, mind you, your vocabs can end but not these duplicates that are moving in herds on YouTube.

The largest video sharing community, that elevates your knowledge and if you follow the good, escalates your skills too, but what if you are flocking with the easy and not so breezy groups. The makeup and beauty community on YouTube that claims to specialize on product reviews, makeup looks and hauls are actually the ones that are simply swarming the YouTube without appending any real value to its audiences. Some popular although useless scenarios that are prevalent on YouTube these days can be broken into different categories.

The Haul Herd

A total brainless show-off, of what you are buying be it

Clothes,

Makeup,

Footwear,

Jewelry,

Sundry items.

Except for the people who really pass on important information when it comes to buying from certain online sellers or a product that is actually worth buying or needs attention,

The remaining or infact majority of these haul videos seem useless or rather a vulgar display of wealth. I was watching one such video thinking it might help me know the services of a particular online seller from which this girl had purchased. But to my disappointment all I could hear was cacophonies of the lace being on the collar, the slit being on the left side, the buttons on the front and Dress being Black…(Are we Blind? Go Get a life Girl) & Blah! Blah! Blah!

Hell Hauls

There was everything except any meaningful information on the seller. We do see the dress is black, and we certainly see the collar, wakeup dumbo, it is a video and not a radio that you are detailing out on things we are actually seeing. These videos only add on the number and not WORTH!! I find lookbooks to be way better than the stupid hauls where atleast the maker utilizes some brain by not detailing out the unnecessary details of their haul. Horrendous use of valuable digital space……….YouTube should ban such videos for sure.

Product Reviews

Another category that congregates with these rubbish people on YouTube, is the Product Review one. Although I would not be that harsh on this group because there are some intelligent people too who are a part of it, which gives me a breathing relief. Good reviews on products that are costly or ambiguous bring in a thumbs up for those people.

HOWEVER THE PROPORTION OF USEFUL TO USELESS IS STILL HIGH.

With a motive of only adding number to their uploaded videos some blockheads rope in products like daily use shampoo that have been for ages in the market or things widely known as toothpicks. Don’t we know what is a toothpick or an ear bud, like seriously. And then you have juggheads telling us what a toothpick is and how it is used. Amazing!!

Makeup Looks

This is the most interesting class of YouTubers who keep sliding in makeup videos, name them as Christmas Look, and New year’s look without actually looking a point different. Ditto looks, sometimes identical lipsticks also and still they call, it a smashing new look. The viewers can be fooled once or twice but not all the time. Helpful makeup videos and tutorials that seriously make the populace MAKEUP LITERATE are more than welcome because they are helping that stratum of the society that can’t afford high-end makeup artists but still are keen on learning the tricks.

Any video that adds and increases the skill, knowledge and learning of the viewer gets a thumbs up from me but idiotic videos added only to pull on the numbers of videos one has, is absolutely ridiculous and cluttering.

Vlogs

Latest to join the brigade are the Vlogs. They are indeed hopeless and pathetic. The reason why I have such a strong opinion about them is the fact, that Vlogs were first filmed to share with people the scenic places and arts etc that everybody couldn’t reach out to. But as time progressed people took the liberty of filming their restaurant visits, or market visits where they Vloged as to what they shopping, how they are shopping, what they are cooking for dinner, ask their dog to say hi! YouTube, what they have ordered in a restaurant and tell others as to how yum that is. Bull***t. like seriously people?.....if those are the kinds of Vlogs you make please keep them to yourself.

No one is really interested in knowing what you shop, what you ate, how you popped, how you are farting…………..for heaven’s sake….just get your ass outta this YouTube world.

If you travel the world, Vlog the places, the picturesque you come across, things that are astounding and never see before, share them with the world. There are a lot of people out there who cannot afford to travel like you do, or who cannot because of their ill health, give those people awe!! Moments that will make your Vlogging really worthwhile.

Rescue Yourself

If one girl says “like so” the others will keep repeating it like mentals in their videos for hours whether that makes any sense or not. If one will call a color pink-ISH then all other fools will have everything ending with “ISH” no matter even if it like I am feeling Poop-ISH. DUMHEADs…….certain gestures and sudden singing in between the videos is a retarded trend that has plagued the You tubers.

Making a video interesting is one thing but mimicking one style for all and overacting in every video is another. But the worst that comes from these videos is the fact that there are some retards’ out there who not only like those videos but also spill out compliments for such foolish activities. It is this mutual thoughtless and imprudent behaviour that leads to muddling of “WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER YOUTUBE” into a stinking place.

Choose Your YouTuber Wisely!!!

Episode 3

Excerpts- Don’t forget to tune in with the coming episode of THE CRITICAL EYE that tickles the psychology of FACEBOOK PICTURES.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

The Kitchen Chimney Season 1 Recipe 1. Gudd Ke Chakki (Jaggery Delight)

The Kitchen Chimney

Gudd Ke Chakki (Jaggery Delight)

The best thing about winters (that I don’t like otherwise) is, that you get to snack upon some scrumptious sweet delights that are perfect for winters. One such delectable treat is the Gudd Ke Chakki or the Jaggery Delight. Before I dive into the recipe of this treat it will be great to append something that you all might not know about Jaggery and its benefits in general.

Jaggery,The Wonder Sweet

ü Eating jaggery after a meal helps in reducing the sour taste in the mouth resulting from GERD. But how many of you actually know the right way to eat that Jaggery? A reasonable piece of Jaggery should be taken that fits into your mouth conveniently and it should be sucked on like a toffee till it dissolves in the mouth, so that the Jaggery’s juice along with your saliva goes slowly down your throat.

It is this slow sucking of the jaggery piece that makes it beneficial for people suffering from the after taste and sourness.

Tell me honestly guys, how many of you actually knew that…??? J

ü The best time to eat Jaggery in any form is actually winters because the nature of it is HOT or should I say its “Taseer is HOT”. It gives energy and warmth to the body so it should be eaten less or avoided in high heated summers.

ü Jaggery anytime is way better than processed sugar, although both are sweetening agents hence people suffering from diabetes should take both of them in moderation only. Remember both are sweet and both add calories.

ü Recipes that involve milk and Jaggery together should be cautiously made while cooking them together. Jaggery should be added last and not cooked for long if adding to milk because this can cause the milk to split.

After all that knowledge let’s get right into the recipe……..

Recipe For Gudd Ke Chakki

Ingredients

500 gms of Gudd (Jaggery)

1 Tablespoon of Ghee for cooking

1 Teaspoon of Ghee for greasing the vessel

500gms Peanuts (More if you like more peanuts in your chakki)

A quarter teaspoon of Black Pepper Powder

Note:- This recipe can be made either with peanuts, cashewnuts, roasted grams. But the best combination according to me is the peanuts and the Jaggery combo.

Method

Jaggery

ü Take Jaggery, usually it comes in a solid slab. With the help of rolling pin and pastry board pound the Jaggery so that it becomes flat and soft and easy to melt.

ü Now add one tablespoon of Ghee in a wok or any big cooking vessel. When the ghee warms a bit, add the mashed Jaggery slowly in it. With the help of a large spoon keep mashing the Jaggery in the ghee till the heat liquefies it in a smooth paste.

Ghee

ü Keep your gas on a medium to low heat to avoid the Jaggery from burning.

ü We don’t have to cook the Jaggery but melt it so that it combines well with the peanuts.

ü Roast peanuts in another pan without any oil and then crush them into a coarse powder. Do not blend the peanuts to get a fine mixture because we want to feel the peanuts when we eat the Chakki.

ü Add roasted and coarsely grinded peanuts to the melted Jaggery and add black pepper. Keep stirring it till everything combines well and the mixture leaves the pan. This will not take more than 5 minutes or even less. Remember to keep the flame between low to medium.

ü Transfer this mixture to a greased flat plate or tray and smoothen the mixture over it with the help of a flat spoon or a spatula.

ü This has to be done quickly before the mixture cools and solidifies.

ü Rest the mixture for half an hour and then cut cubes or squares or diamond shapes and store in an air tight container.

ü Do not keep in the fridge but yes at a place where it is away from ants.

ü Eaten lukewarm gives the taste buds a soothing sensation, however it tastes equally yum when at room temperature.

Easy to make and delicious to eat, is this Gudd Ke Chakki(Jaggery Delight). I am sure you will love this during winters and don’t forget to share your pics of the recipe in case you decide to make them. More Easy recipes are coming SOON………..STRAIGHT FROM MY KITCHEN ….:)

Love Ya All !!

Monday, January 5, 2015

The Critical Eye (Season 1) Episode 1 Introduction

The Critical Eye (Season 1)

Episode 1

Introduction

The Critical Eye is neither a thriller nor a revenge story or a piece of fiction but it is what meets the eye and sometimes more than what rendezvous the EYE. It is a narration of what the heart feels, the mind observes, the eye captures and the personality absorbs.

Based on real life instances, incidents and accidents, The Critical Eye slits open some of the so called beautiful scenarios that other people make us see. It penetrates to the ugly root of the veiled fabulous and compels to question ourselves about the real reality. This season of “The Critical Eye” will showcase a series of 30 episodes that will tantalize the senses and will challenge the seasoned us.

So lose yourself to the drama of words. Just sit back and soak in………………………………..!!!!!

Episode 1

Photographer Clicks Creatures From Outer Space

The story revolves around the breath of life today, any guesses? Gadgets and technology are totally incomplete without social media and so is our story. Facebook, the need, the want, and a day without which is a Saz-e-kala-pani. With numerous requests to like pages on Facebook I stumbled upon one such request that catered to photography. Absolutely aroused by the ever-exaggerating introduction that it gave to the readers I was drunk in its beauty. Before I got a glimpse of the pictas which were so hyped about, stating that they are the world’s most exquisite pictures of out of the world people, people that the photographer has never seen before in his life, people that are the cream of the crop, people that are extremely beautiful and excellently groomed and people that are incomparable to any living being on earth. With such a description and such a shout out for the clicks he made, my thoughts were lost in the unseen beauty of those snaps.

Aroused to the zenith of my curiosity and a desire to just leave everything and go through those five hundred something photos, came crashing down when I just ran my eyes quickly over all of them to relax my heightened yearning for the pics. All that bragging, all that self praise, all that talk about some super humans that he had shot was flushed away with the very first pic I saw.

Regular party pics with people just ordinary a little dolled populace for attending the party was what actually captured the photographer’s lens. The false bubble that enveloped around the whole propaganda did not even last for a few pics for me to see. Totally and absolutely the grandeur of words fizzed down to nothing. Normal party snaps with usual men and women, everyday shots and nothing WOW! Like was the real story behind all those sugar laced words. The photographer either didn’t think or thought that the populace reading it was stupid or just underestimated the intelligence of the audiences he was catering to. At one point I thought that he has managed to shoot aliens or some extraterrestrial entities for which he stirred this whole storm up. Unfortunately his reach was just the humans.

Creating a little air about your work is fine but when you wish to swirl up the world you should have the ability to put forth THE UNIVERSE. A photographer’s work is admired through the medium of pictures he/she captures and not through words that gives its audiences’ the liberty to visualize anything based on their mastery of assortment of words. Instances like this force you to develop or plug-in your critical eye. The want of thinking highly of the photographer’s work was smashed by himself because indirectly he stimulated his viewers’ critical eye instead of the loving eye.

This episode took you into the thinking sediments of people who provoke the common mindset of regular people and revolutionize it to “The Critical Eye”.

Episode 2 Coming Soooooooon…………………………………

Copycats, impersonators, copiers and impressionists as I delve into the lives of these YouTube herds.

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Are You Lipstick Dumb?

Are You Lipstick Dumb?

What Is This Lipstick Nonsense?

Hellaaa!!! Hunks and Dolls, today I am going to break into this Lipstick Nonsense….yeah! lipstick nonsense aka vocabs that it very easily and amazingly used by “n” number of bloggers, and to which I completely don’t agree to.

Things I don’t understand about Lipstick:-

Ø Literally all(except me ofcourse) I mean like really, everyone seems to write, say or vlog or blog that their Lipsticks are very moisturizing.

Hello! Lipsticks are meant to give your lips color and not moisturize. No matter how high-end or economical budget your lipstick is, it will never moisturize your lips. It can prevent your lips from drying or feeling itchy or rough to a certain extent but not really.

Lip balms, lip creams, moisturizers, thick creams are manufactured solely to keep your lips moisturized so that your lips remain soft, supple and glowing.

Your lipstick can only add sheen, gloss or feel creamy but not moisturize……..wake up!!!!! LIPSTICK BRIGADE…wake up!!!!

A lipstick can glide on smoothly, be creamy and nor drying but in no sense it can moisturize your lips, if it does then you need to ponder again if what you are using is a lip balm or a lipstick.

Ø There is no need to tell you audience how to open a lipstick bullet. Dumbozzzz should know someone who doesn’t know how to open a lipstick will never be interested in it.

Ø Theeeeeeeee….most important thing that I wanna tell all ma ladies is that, once your lipstick breaks from the base it remains damaged forever, and de-poting(which I hate) remains the only option. No matter how fancy a video may be shot on fixing your broken lipstick bullet, it doesn’t help. Believe me beauties, it doesn’t (I have damaged the lipstick more rather than getting it fixed, my super personal experience.) :D

More I come across some lipstick bull***t……to which I totally disagree I will keep appending that to this post, till then do give your eyes a lil read till I hunt for more.

“ Love ya all” J

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Elle 18 Color Pop Lipsticks

Elle 18 Color Pop Lipsticks

Price and Quantity:

Rs.100 for 4.3 ml.

Price increased from Rs.110 to Rs.120. If you are lucky you might get a discount, however I haven’t got a single discount till date on any of my lippiezz… !!

Packaging:

Elle 18 Color Pops Lipsticks come in a delightful black plastic lipstick bullet with a twist up bottom. The shade name and number are written on the foot of the lipsticks. The packaging is sturdy which makes these lipsticks easy to carry and mess free. The only hitch you might have is the ‘breakage’. The basic complaint is that, they break at the base.

NOTE:- for me once a lipstick is broken from the base its like ruined for me forever. Depoting and all that nonsense, I just hate it coz from here on it gets messy and useless. A lipstick is best when it stays in its bullet strong till it is used up.

Things you may wanna know about Elle 18 color pop lipsticks

vThe lipsticks are more prone to breakage from the base.

vThese lipsticks have a typical smell some say it is bubble gum-like but I really can’t tell. Xtra sensitive nose can have a lil trouble.

vAll these Elle 18 color Pops enclose a lip balm core in the center to prevent lips from drying.

vThe staying power ranges from 2-3 hours but not more than that.

vBest affordable lipstick picks for you!!

vNo one I know has ever experienced irritation with these Lipsticks, however if you ae buying them for the first time, buy one, use it and if it seems all right to you go ahead grab the hell outta it…:D

I have about 20 Elle 18 lipsticks, I am reviewing 5 shades in this post, please ignore the picture quality as the pics clicked are from my 2 mega pixel camera……! More reviews in coming posts. J