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It Hurts....

It hurts that with so many intelligent people, we are still stupid.

It hurts that even though we are so beautiful, we are still so very ugly.

It hurts that we are so democratic, but our voices are not heard.

It hurts that as we change the world, we fail to change our own homeland.

It hurts to know that even though we are of many religions, we lack faith.

It hurts that with all our integrity, we are so corrupt.

With a billion people to watch over her, a girl can get raped. Everyday.

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Better Roads, Cleaner Country, not Billboards

As I arrived in Brisbane this morning, I read the following article on the NDTV websitehttp://www.ndtv.com/article/india/chintan-shivir-congress-leaders-debate-how-to-win-back-urban-voters-319505?pfrom=home-otherstories about the Congress party meeting to discuss how to win Urban votes.

Here is a tip: Ban Political Billboards and use that money to build better roads and to employee people to clean the cities, towns and villages once a day!

I dont see a shortage of money or people in India, just no will to do it.

India will vote for your not by looking at your faces on billboards (trust me we know what you look like! ), but by what you have done for her.

With a growing population and a large number of poor and unemployed people, why cant our ruling parties in different states use the money they use for billboards to hire people to keep our country clean?

Please share, like and retweet this post and hope fully someone with the will to change(or get votes) will listen.

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Create your Social Media Presence

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to meet with people from across the community who run different kinds of businesses. Since I cannot stop myself from poking my nose into the kind of marketing they do, I went ahead and asked them about their social media presence and plans for the future. As you may expect, social media wasn’t really on the agenda for a lot of these businesses. Yes they all want to use social media but were either unsure of how to proceed or were caught in the dilemma of doing it right vs. doing it at all.

When I started blogging about Social Media and our community, my intention was to write blog posts that will help businesses and the community understand social media a little better and help these entities create an effective online presence. I have to admit that with my last few blog posts trying to promote the building of responsible online communities, I may have lost track of this purpose. So let’s get back to it.  From this week on, I will walk you through the basics of gradually building a social media presence. If you have any queries at any stage of the process, you can always contact me through twitter @angeldirect.

Before we get started, I want you to ask yourself a few basic questions. What is the product or service you want to promote? What kind of an organisation are you? Who is your target audience? Who in your organisation has the interest to use social media? Are you able budget your social media marketing into your regular marketing budget? What are your current marketing strategies? How can you incorporate Social media into them? What do you think is interesting\impressive about your business or organisation? What is your unique selling point (USP)?

 These are a few basic questions that will help you set the foundation to your social media presence. I suggest you set some time aside to think about these questions and write down the answers as it will give you more clarity as we proceed through each step of the process.

Next fortnight we will take a look at how we can use the answers to determine which of the many existing social media platforms suit your business best and how to design your presence. See ya next fortnight!

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An introduction to Facebook and Twitter. 

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My Blog post for the morning Bulletin about how Social Media, if used the right way can be your best friend\resource.

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Blogging with the Morning Bulletin

I have started blogging with the Morning Bulletin every Tuesday on the topic Social Media and your community. 

Read the first blog post of my series below:

http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/story/2012/06/26/blog-treassa-joseph-social-media/

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From Kutty to Kudi

All my life I had a feeling that there was something Punjabi about me. My love for Punjabi music and dance. The fact that my favourite place in Bangalore was the Gurudwara and my love for Punjabi food (what led me to the Gurudwara in the first place).

28th November 2010, changed my life. I went from Kutty to Kudi. What changed you may ask. On 28th November 2010, I, Treassa Joseph Puthenparambil, got married into the Pathak Family. Now, to be honest, I was aware of the fact that I should not expect everything to be the same. I mean, Syrian Christians (Nasranis) and Punjabis don’t really have a lot in common, do they? I was about to find out.

My life changed.

For all those who have already presumed that it was my love for everything Punjabi that translated into my love for my Punjabi husband, ‘You are wrong’. Sumeet and I had an arranged marriage. That’s another long story. He is one of those rare breeds of Catholic Punjabis (Brahmin Punjabi Dad and Catholic Malayali Mum).

Basic change, I went from being Mole\Molu to Putr\Putri. All my life I have struggled working out who were my Chechis, Ammais, Memas, Ellaymas, Velliyammas, Ammamas and Ammachis, now I had made new relationships. Now I have Didis, Bhabis, Maamis, Buas, Maasis, Naanis and Daadis. Im still working out some of the terms for the male members of the family. I have to say, I think I have done pretty well remembering who is who so far. I went from one unbelievably huge family to another ridiculously enormous family. Win!(No cousin Vin, I’m not referring to you)

That was just the beginning. The red lipstick and red nail polish became my new best friends (and I absolutely LOVE them!). As a Malayali who loves her different shades of white and cream, it was eye opening to find out that white were worn at FUNERALS!!! Aiiyooo , I say ! Bling Jewellery and clothes, like what regular Punjabis wear, have become part of my life. I can quite comfortably wear a hot pink sari, with heavy crystal work all over at a dinner party and still feel under dressed. Oh I love my Punjabi side!

When you marry into a Punjabi family, your coconut oil changes to sunflower oil, your mustard seeds become cumin seeds, your coconut milk turns to fresh cream. Dal and potatoes become a part of your staple diet and parathas and Puris replace your idli dosa.

Everything is not different though. Nasranis love Gold and alcohol(amongst a few other things), and guess what, so do Punjabis. Maybe that’s an Indian thing. Punjabis love their food and so do we Malayalis. Punjabis love their family, and like us Malayalis, even though we cannot tolerate our families at times, we fight anyone who raises a finger against anyone in our family.

These are just few of the many changes, if I were to list them all, I could go on forever. But all the difference were best summarised by my late father. He said is he went from being ‘Josephey’ to ‘O Joseph-eh’.

More Kutty to Kudi stories to follow.

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My very own piece of Van Gogh. My IPad skin.