Anyways, I, for one, am thrilled about this whole 'no smoking in public places' rule. I hate passive smoking and feel quite bugged by the fact that there was nothing much I could do, except move away, if some random stranger decides to have a puff. Mr. Ramdoss you have my vote for this one. Though, like many others, I am not too sure as to how seriously the rule would be implemented and followed but a first step in this direction is whole-heartedly welcome.  I was also quite enthusiastic about the 'no smoking in movies' rule. Agreed the gangster looked lot cooler with a ciggie and that it gave a whole new dimension to the much anticipated hero's entry. Why, the ciggie companies must definetely owe a significant part of their sales to this one man and his antics with the tobacco tube.

I remember how people protested and detested such a ban. Creativity, freedom of expression and what not. But guys, do you realise how popular these actors are in the country? Is it not evidenced by the number of endorsements they get? If so, wont their antics on screen also impact people accordingly. I know, you will protest saying that smoking is a personal choice and each smoker has chosen to do so. Agreed, but are these actors not passively influencing people through their screen roles? You and I, being educated and old enough, may be able to make a distinction between an actor and the character he potrays. But how do you expect the same of young, impressionable adolescents who are not so educated and are totally enamoured by these stars?? who grow up thinking they too would turn into a matinee idol one day? And smoking is the first of many habits they pick up. Most of the time, the habit is defended by smokers as a route to 'fit-in' or 'be cool' or 'rebel'. These are probably the more common 'reasons' why people start smoking, often during their adolescent years. Maybe, Mr. Ramdoss is jsutified after all, what say?

I am not so foolish to say that this one stroke is going to result in a non-smoking gen-next. But it is one incentive less, one step ahead. The topic is so old but I have been wanting to say this for a long while and I did not have a blog back then. So there............ I have been keenly looking out for smokers in public places with my phone in hand to click and give them their 15 minutes of fame on my blog. I, happily, report that I have been unsuccessful so far. Chennai seems to be following this rule pretty seriously. Yipeeeeeee :)

Feel like smoking soon after a good meal at the restaurant or light up a cigarette in a pub? So let me tell you dear, it is strictly prohibited on the Indian turf now. If next time you wish to make rings out of smoke, then please find a suitable place for yourself to put up a show. It will impress no one but police to charge a fine of Rs. 200 for non compliance. You are surely forbidden to light up a cigarette in the public area.

You know what? Even I am forbidden.

Flash back

Shock

This ban takes me back in time when I went to London for a business meeting. I booked a smoking room in a hotel to take a puff every night in that beautiful city. Short after my check-in I realised, I was given a non-smoking room with sprinklers and fire alarms. Like any other foreigner I headed straight to the reception and started to behave as an irate customer. I showed the booking confirmation mail to a well-suited gentleman, which clearly stated - Non-smoking room for 7 nights. Trust me British hospitality is no where close to Indian “bend backwards” attitude. It comes from our five thousand years old heritage and culture, “Atithi Devo Bhava” (Guest is a god). This guy at the reception said in his deep voice “Smoking is banned in the UK since last month, you can feel free outside on the road”. Thinking, why the hell this ban was implemented a month before and not a month later?

The innovator

Craving for a puff, I tried everything possible to convince this gentleman in black suite to get me a room with balcony, but no luck. My notorious mind started to think faster in crisis, I took a portable table fan from the hotel’s store for a deposit of £10 and switched off the lights in my room. I placed that fan nicely against the window, like an exhaust fan in the kitchen, and started to blow smoke in the fan to flush it out. I didn’t want the alarm to set of and penalise me with £50 dent on my very first night in London. This trick made me survive nights after nights.

Grand acceptance

I used to smoke on the road while rushing to the tube station in Earl’s Court. As it was banned in all the public areas I had to stub the cigarette right outside the station. I was cursing the ban. On my first visit to London office I was little excited and hesitant at the same time. After a quick introduction with everyone in the office, I started to make myself comfortable on my British made seat. As the hours passing by, I took a small 15 minute break to smoke a cigarette and got along with a friendly gentleman called Dave Roberts. I asked him over blowing a puff as to how people are accepting the new smoking law? And surprisingly, he said, “It is good; people were getting hurt being passive smokers”. With my jaw dripping reaction, he added “people have rights to decide what do they want and we shouldn’t take their rights away from them by making them breathe the toxic air”. I noticed people were health conscious as they passed by us avoiding our path of smoke blowing chimneys. I asked the same question to many other people there and the answer was ditto. I was amazed to see their civic sense and their positive attitude in accepting the change.

Learning of the day

One morning while travelling to my office in 39 Victoria Street in a tube, I noticed one lady avoiding my tobacco coated breath and changed her seat. She stared at me as she spotted an unhealthy drifter into her territory. I was ashamed of myself and made sure to carry mouth fresheners or completely avoid smoking before travelling in close encounters.

As the day progressed I decided to venture out in a hip pub in Soho. I mostly had Guinness beer in the pub; it was a dark (rum look alike) beer, unlike Indian beer. I didn’t enjoy that beer as I was more interested in finding my same old Barley juice. What a shame, my craving for a smoke took over me suddenly. I had to choose between leaving the pub and smoke outside or forget the craving completely. So sanely I decided to stay put. The pub was packed with people and surprisingly no one was smoking. Out of curiosity, I asked a guy wearing a white shirt and blue jeans if he craves for cigarette while drinking in a pub. He smiled and said in his British accent “I can’t handle two poisons at one go, enjoying beer right now and saving another for a smooth passage in the morning”. I laughed. I knew exactly what he meant to say “a smooth passage”. At least, people are not a lot different in this country crossing 7 seas.

Situation now

What are we looking at after imposing this ban on a country which is the second largest producer of tobacco in the world after China? To add little spice to it, 1.2 billion people have been forbidden by law from lighting up in bars, offices, bus stands and other public places on pain of a Rs. 200 fine, that's a day's wages for many. Keeping in mind the corruption level in India, people would pay a little amount to get away from paying a fine. In India where money has the maximum importance and showing it off is an understatement. I am little apprehensive in enforcing this new law to our over populated country infested by 1.2 billion of head count. We have a history for not following the traffic rules, spitting, littering and leaking everywhere possible. We are contributing in turning the entire country to a giant toilet or dustbin. We don’t feel man enough until we paint the wall with our pee and leave a master piece behind for admiration.

We learn so many things from western culture, the way they walk, the way they talk and take pride in just be cool as they are. But one important thing that goes unnoticed; their passion to do whatever’s possible to make their place and life worth living. There is no harm in being modern and pace up to brush shoulders to shoulders in this rapidly changing world. We need to learn more, in order to call our country modern and developed; we need to change our mentality as well.

Request

I wish to see a modern India where its citizens follow the law and order without being enforced to do so. It comes with good civic sense and compassion for the all human beings. No one is stopping anyone from smoking but the idea is to smoke without hurting anyone. There is a lot of public interest involved into it, so please make it a success. This is banning those who want to smoke but saving those who don’t want to. One has rights to spoil his/her life or make it beautiful, think about your children, spouses or parents for that matter. Do they deserve your blown smoke even if they decided not to inhale the toxic air which might kill them?  I took the decision to smoke but not at the cost of my loved ones.

“The World Health Organisation says Western style ailments such as lung cancer and heart disease are set to end more lives per year in India by 2015 than all infectious illnesses.”

My vow

I promise to follow the law and avoid smoking in public areas. It is not an enforced decision but a compliance that I need to adhere to.

My question remains the same: Can I expect the same from you my fellow citizens?

October 3, 2008 | Lisa Nainggolan

New Delhi, India - India is attempting to impose the world's largest smoking ban, with a nationwide edict prohibiting smoking in all public places that came into effect yesterday, to commemorate Gandhi's birthday [1,2].

The initiative is supported by a massive public-awareness campaign, with pamphlets being given out and articles and advertisements in all major Indian newspapers [3]. For the first few days, smokers caught flouting the ban will be given a warning; thereafter they will be fined 200 rupees (approximately $5), more than the average person's daily wage.

Observers admit, however, that the ban will be difficult to enforce—spitting and urinating in public are already outlawed, but in practice these laws are widely flouted and sporadic attempts have been made to ban smoking previously, with little effect.

Dr Prabhat Jha (Centre for Global Health Research, Toronto, ON), lead author of a New England Journal of Medicine paper that earlier this year predicted there will be a million deaths from smoking in India by 2010 [4], told heartwire: "Quitting by India's 120 million current smokers is top priority if tobacco deaths are to be reduced in the next few decades. Bans on public smoking are quite effective at getting current smokers to quit, aside from protecting nonsmokers. This act alone might save several hundreds of thousands of lives if well implemented and enforced."
Big boost to Asian attempts to curb smoking

Many Western countries have successfully banned smoking in public places, and the benefits have already begun to be seen in the form of reduced admissions to hospitals for a variety of smoking-related disorders, such as acute coronary syndrome.

Asia is a little further behind, however. Although smoking in public places is banned in a number of countries there, such as Singapore and Thailand, and there are partial bans in place in other nations, the bans have often been difficult to enforce [5]

This act alone might save several hundreds of thousands of lives if well implemented and enforced.

One of the main thrusts of the campaign in India is to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, but some are concerned that this may backfire. Dr Sajeela Maini, (president of the Tobacco Control Foundation of India) told BBC news [6]: "The ban on smoking in public places is a good idea, but my biggest worry is that the smokers will now start smoking more at home. Now, who is the biggest passive smoker? It's the family—the wife and the children. What we need is a complete ban on production and availability of tobacco products," she says.

She is also concerned that many smokers may shift to chewing tobacco if they are unable to smoke in public places: the ban covers only cigarettes and rolled-up products, known as bidis. The poor tend to smoke bidis exclusively, whereas people in the emerging Indian middle class smoke cigarettes. Maini, who runs a cessation clinic at a private hospital in Delhi, says the answer is to encourage more people to try to stop smoking.

Jha agrees: "We know from evidence worldwide that stopping smoking works, but in India only 2% of adults have quit smoking, and most of them only do so when they fall ill."

He disagrees with Maini on one point, however. "There is no evidence that bans on public smoking increase smoking in the home. On the contrary, such bans help smokers to quit."
Indian government heeds warning

At the time his New England Journal of Medicine paper was published, Jha said the Indian government did not take the risks of smoking seriously; now it appears to have heeded his warnings. Indian Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, who has spearheaded the campaign to ban smoking, was himself out and about in the Indian city of Chennai yesterday distributing pamphlets about the ban and the ill effects of tobacco [7].

Jha said he welcomes the ban, but there are many other deterrents that could be employed by the Indian government: "Clearly additional efforts to raise prices, especially on bidis, get prominent warning labels, and inform smokers of their risks are needed—and I hope will follow," he told heartwire.

The ban covers smoking in all public places, including offices, hotels, restaurants, airports, cinemas, and even bus stops. And although the move has been welcomed by many, others, such as bar owners, are concerned about possible negative effects on their businesses. And India's largest tobacco manufacturer, ITC Ltd, is seeking to overturn the ban in the Supreme Court next month.

I am talking about Mr. Mahatma Gandhi. 2nd October 2008 is going to be his 139th birth anniversary. So what is so special about this 2nd October this time?

"Government of India has banned smoking in 'Public Places' from 2nd October 2008 onwards."

I could not or rather we could not have asked for a better gift (return gift) than this.

Now this is really cool. I could never understand or comprehend the pleasures one got from smoking. Never. Atleast, now we can stop other 'chimneys' from opening their firepits in public.  :-)

Let's celebrate this event with this awesomely and most aptly decorated cake...

Yes...even putting up of candles was avoided. The reason being that no smoker should be encouraged to smoke by seeing the candle flames...

After first banning smoking in public places, what next can be done by the government...

Make every place a public place ;-)

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Come 2nd Oct 2008 all you can do is buy cigarettes to light them in public places you got to have guts

So according to SC order, market places are off limits for smokers , Hotels, Restaurants, pubs, bars and discos too are now strictly no smoking zones, Smoking at the metro station is a one way ticket to the police station !

Auto rickshaws too fall in the no-smoking zone.The notification also bans smoking anywhere in office buildings, stadiums, auditoriums etc.

Neither the Health ministry nor the Supreme Court thinks that an open park is public place where passive smokers are at risk. So the next time you want to light up, you might as well go for a walk in the park.
You can even smoke inside your car provided you're not the one behind the wheel.

So who all can haul you up if you're caught taking a drag? I just love where this goes ...    Anyone from traffic cops and beat constables to government officers, teachers, principals to the HR managers in your office!

October 2nd will be remembered for 3 reasons now

1. As Mahatma's Birthday
2. A Dry Day ( No Alcohol is served this day)
3. Now a start to the Smoking Ban

No Rules in INDIA get enforced as its we citizens who break the rules . Ramdoss might be an ass but I think this one is for you and me . So if you were looking for a motivation to quit I think its this is the time else you will never do it again .

The worst was the “A, B, C, D, E, and F” days. I was in homeroom, so, obliged to follow the teacher’s rules of raising my hand before speaking, I dutifully raised my hand as she, in the robotically- cheerful-but-could-turn-on-you-any-moment-way that only teachers have, was chirping, “Now, today, I think, is a B-day that you’ll be following on your child’s schedule.”

I’d examined the schedule. Arm beginning to ache, the lovely, midway pregnant, still graceful, no makeup, about my age teacher (whom I’m sure had never been in the real world, but rather instead had simply never left school—just moved to the power side of the desk) — at last acknowledged me.

“If B, D, and F days are the same,” I asked, “and C and E days are the same, why don’t they just have A and B days?”

Duh, right?

Then again, I’d worked for a time as Management in Real World Big Business, where the Bottom Line was an Important Thing. Also, so were Budgets, where you Cut to the Chase, and Axed Everything that was Unnecessary. Including people, which was one reason why it had sucked, and I now prefer my life as a starving artist.

The teacher was patient with me, the ignorant parent. She shrugged at first. “It’s just how they do it,” and turned, apparently thinking I’d be satisfied with such a ridiculous answer.

“Why do they do it that way?” I asked her back, at the same time thinking to myself: it is SO not fair that she doesn’t even LOOK pregnant from the back. When I was pregnant, being only five-foot-one, with all my height in my legs, from about three months in, I look like I swallowed a torpedo. And that’s about the nicest thing you can say about how I look pregnant. She WAS one of those gorgeous, glowy girls, I had to hand it to her. 

She turned around, surprised I still existed, and gave me another Colgate grin, and another shrug. “It’s just their system. It’s just the way they do the days here at this school.”

As if slightly different wording would make me go: “Ooooh, I get it. Shut up, Ms. Bushey.”

Echoes from my own school experiences came flooding back. This little Open House adventure, concocted by who knows whom, was for parents of my daughter’s middle school classes to live through a truncated “Day In The Life” of their own kid.

Ask me no questions, I’ll tell you no lies, I thought. Better still: ask me no questions. I’m the teacher.

“I’m sorry, I still don’t understand,” I tried once more — in all seriousness, not to be annoying, but because I really didn’t get it, and I never WAS one to sit there, unsatisfied. I had no problem bringing the entire classroom to a dead halt while I stubbornly would attempt, although often fail, to make the teacher stop, and go over my question until I got it. After all, if I didn’t get the binomial theorem, there were likely others who didn’t and simply didn’t have the nerve to speak up. “Why?”

This time I got a terse: “It’s just the way they do it. I don’t know why.

Okay, I thought, at least that’s an answer. At least you admit you don’t know. As she turned her back on me again, I silently mouthed to the parents in the seats one row back: “I wouldn’t last a day here,” and they started to giggle.

This WAS turning out to be just like real school for me.

I felt a little hornswaggled by the whole deal, to tell you the truth. The paper had only said: Open House, 6:30 p.m. – not “Go to School for Three Hours, and no Smoking.”

Because the law says you can’t smoke on school grounds, although I am buddies with the cop on duty at the school, who TOTALLY would not bust me – I know this, because during “lunch” – I came over to her. “Hey, Officer Boss! Be my friend, okay, cuz I have no one to sit with.”

She laughed. “Not one of the popular kids yet, huh?”

“Well, that, and you can protect me.”

“True. I’m the only one here with a gun. At least, I should be. Let me know if you see anyone else with one, okay?”

“I’ll be sure to let you know, Starsky.”

Officer Boss – besides having the absolute best cop name in the universe – is a drop-dead beautiful but tough as nails (on the outside) police officer stationed at the middle school. She knows every kid by name, including mine, and keeps tabs on them all. While not by nature a police lover, I do like her a lot – and a few others on our town’s force. They happen to be quite cool.

I tried calling Peter during class switches, but the cell service was spotty, and besides, the teacher made me put my cell phone away when he walked in. Poor Peter, who couldn’t really hear what I was saying, wasn’t sure if I was calling for help, letting him know I’d be home soon, or reciting the multiplication tables.

That teacher I actually liked a lot – he, like myself, does not believe in homework. I wanted to jump out of desk and high-five him. One other teacher, when I asked her, told me she thought homework should take no less than thirty minutes.

The kid has seven classes. If every teacher gives thirty minutes of homework (see how much I learned?) that’s three and a half hours of homework – on top of a full day of school.

How many grownups have to keep working almost four hours after they get home? It’s outrageous, really. No wonder middle-schoolers have such terrible attitudes. I know by the time I left, I had a pretty rotten attitude myself. (Plus, I was dying for a cigarette.)

It was an excellent idea they had – making us live our kids’ lives for a few hours. It was illuminating to meet their teachers, walk the halls of the school, smell that school smell that takes us back to our old, powerless days. When teachers walked the earth like giants, and principals were kings and queens.

I addressed every teacher by his or her first name. Ha ha.

By the same token, I made sure to offer my volunteer services whenever I could – in an attempt to be part of a solution, not just a needling prod. For instance, in my daughter’s English class, I sympathized with her teacher who was obviously frustrated at having to “teach for the test” – the obnoxious standardized test the state administers.

One aspect is determining “fact from opinion.” As a former journalist, I offered to be a guest speaker. She nearly cried out with delight. Points for my kid.

Points for my kid from me, too, for keeping her chin up in an oppressive environment. Kids ask me all the time if I’d rather be a kid or a grownup. I don’t have to think about it.

Grownup, hands-down. I can do all the kids’ stuff I want to – plus, I don’t have to go to school, and I can eat frosting out of the can.

Unless there’s another open house where they make me go to school again, the sneaks. But I think it did me some good.

Mr. Salve, Mr. Jaitely tried to put a stay on the ban arguing the definition of public places.

Additional Solicitor General Mr. Gopal Krishnan argued against the stay on ban saying that Smoking is injurious to health..hahahaha news huh?

If the ministry is so concerned about citizen's health why not ban selling of cigarettes??

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Nagesh was a chain smoker, but he never smoked at his home. After the ban on smoking in public places got effective, he started smoking at his home. Nagesh just can't quit smoking, how hard he tries. He can’t go out and smoke because he is afraid of being caught.

Nagesh is having altercations with his pregnant wife daily, she has unwillingly became a chain smoker too, a passive chain smoker, their yet to be born child has started smoking before even getting born.

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The story is just one aspect of the ban. I myself do not like smoking or smokers, but I feel the ban is not justified.

P.S: Cigarette smoking is injurious to health. 

"We are of the view that it is not a fit case for grant of interim relief. The prayer staying implementation of prohibition of smoking in public places is rejected...Let transfer cases be heard on November 18," the bench said.

The court also clarified that "no court in the country shall pass any order in derogation of this order."

The Centre's plea seeking permission to implement a ban on smoking in public places from October 2 - birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi - was part of an application seeking transfer of all the petitions, challenging the ban on smoking in private offices, pending before various high courts.

Even the employer can be fined if somebody is found smoking within the office premises.

Some of the options?

1. Parking area?

2. Basement Parking area?

3. or else..

Two of my friends who smoke at least half dozen cigarettes a day, were on board Mumbai-Hyderabad express.

They could not resist themselves for long and started smoking, standing near the door. Unfortunately they got caught by a police man and were fined 200 Rs/- and the cigarette packet was snatched from them.

While on their return journey, they came up with an idea, one of them will go inside the toilet and smoke, while the other will keep a look outside and alert if some police man came.

The guy who was keeping a watch was tempted so much that he also joined the other guy in the toilet.

Both of them were shocked when they heard a knock on the door, after waiting for few minutes they opened the door, and to their surprise, found the same police man standing in front of them smiling.

The police man asked for 200 Rs/ and their cigarettes packet, both of them denied smoking.

The police man then asked them, if they were not smoking what were they doing inside the toilet together? He reminded my friends that they are in India and not in US of A and its still illegal in India.

My friends turned pink, red and blue; a considerable number of people were gathered around them, included a pretty girl, with whom one of my friends was flirting.

They had no other option than to admit they were smoking, they had to pay fine again.

Both of them swear never to smoke in train again. Let’s see... if they can keep their promise....

P.S : Cigarette smoking is injurious to health.

The images are from an email forward I got.

And for the Raja Petra (RPK) sticker is also FREE for every Political Tee purchased in my previous post! Grab it before is too late, cause is only limited to 20pcs only for now for the RPK t-shirt.

Η Ελληνική Αντικαρκινική Δράση (Ε.Α.Δ.), υπό την αιγίδα του Υπουργείου Παιδείας, του Δήμου Αθηναίων και του Σώματος Ελλήνων Προσκόπων και με την υποστήριξη της "Τεχνόπολις" του Δήμου Αθηναίων διοργανώνει  το 8o Διεθνές Αντικαπνιστικό Φεστιβάλ Νέων.

Βασικός στόχος της Ελληνικής Αντικαρκινικής Δράσης είναι η ευαισθητοποίηση και η ενημέρωση του κοινού για την πρόληψη και την έγκαιρη διάγνωση του καρκίνου, με έμφαση στον αγώνα κατά του καπνίσματος, που θεωρείται ο βασικότερος καρκινογόνος παράγοντας.
Στο πλαίσιο του Φεστιβάλ θα βραβευτούν οι νικητές του διαγωνισμού που πραγματοποίησε η Ε.Α.Δ. με σκοπό νέοι από 15 κράτη, ηλικίας 15-25 ετών, να εκφράσουν τις αντικαπνιστικές τους θέσεις.
Ο διαγωνισμός συμπεριλάμβανε τις παρακάτω κατηγορίες: κείμενο, ποίηση, ζωγραφική, φωτογραφία, εικονογραφημένες ιστορίες, κινούμενα σχέδια, μουσική, χορό και θέατρο. Παράλληλα, διοργανώθηκε και διαγωνισμός ζωγραφικής για παιδιά ηλικίας 10-14 ετών που ζουν στην Ελλάδα. Από κάθε θεματολογία, επιλέχθηκαν 3 νικητές, οι οποίοι, με έξοδα της Ελληνικής Αντικαρκινικής Δράσης, θα βρεθούν στην Αθήνα προκειμένου να παρουσιάσουν τα έργα τους και να βραβευθούν σε ειδική τελετή, το Σάββατο 27 Σεπτεμβρίου στις 19:30.
Την εκδήλωση θα συμπληρώσει η ομιλία του Πνευμονολόγου Μ. Πατενταλάκη με θέμα "Κάπνισμα και επιπτώσεις στην υγεία", καθώς και η παρουσίαση του αντικαπνιστικού τραγουδιού "Σε κάνει σκλάβο" από τον Αλ. Φωτεινό.
Το Διεθνές Αντικαπνιστικό Φεστιβάλ Νέων, διοργανώνεται από την Ελληνική Αντικαρκινική Δράση κάθε δύο χρόνια από το 1992
Τέλος να σημειώσουμε πως η είσοδος θα είναι ελεύθερη ενώ οι ώρες λειτουργίας της έκθεσης θα είναι 10:00-22:00

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Όλα αυτά συμβαίνουν ενώ στην Κίνα οι καπνιστές έχουν ξεπεράσει τα 350.000.000, και στις λεγόμενες χώρες του τρίτου κόσμου ο αριθμός όσων απολαμβάνουν αυτήν την καρκινογόνο συνήθεια αυξάνεται ραγδαία. Οι καπνοβιομηχανίες, δηλαδή, μετά το διωγμό που υφίστανται στις ανεπτυγμένες χώρες, έχουν στραφεί με απόλυτη επιτυχία στους φτωχούς του κόσμου, για να τους διδάξουν τον πολιτισμό...

Ενδεικτικά αναφέρεται ότι η μεγαλύτερη καπνοβιομηχανία του κόσμου, η Philip Morris (βλέπε και κάπνιζε Marlboro) έχει τζίρο πάνω από 70 δισεκατομμύρια δολάρια, ποσό που υπερβαίνει τους προϋπολογισμούς πολλών μικρών χωρών.

[photo by mag3737]

Big Bang performed Haru Haru live on Inkigayo, and also collaborated with Uhm Jung Hwa for a special performance. Big Bang's No Smoking-campaign was also displayed. And I must say that Seungri is the most flirtatious nurse ever!
But what in the world was Uhm Jung Hwa wearing? She looked like something you would find in a dark corner somewhere inside a pyramide, but a whole lot creepier.
Watch the performances + No Smoking-campaign HERE.

- xNoodles , just aint no sunshine when I'm gone :3

This what I've did last month>>

I don't smoke and I don't really like some smoker (Idiot who smoke in the lift and public area), anyway this surpose to be a job for a high school No Drug & No Smoking Campaign. But it end up no where, so though to print it out and give it out FREE (won't be printing it in large quantity). So if anyone would llike to have 1 just drop me a comment or mail.

My friend RYAN from Phillipnes was here in Malaysia for a week, did this MABINI DEMOLAY logo he requested before he leave to Singapore. He's kinda happy with it, and maybe would like to have it printed on Tee for his member. Actually I dont really know what it is... MABINI DEMOLAY?

Back to my Political Tee. Sorry for those who ordered, and I still havent reply (busy and too much of incident happens at once). Since the order quantity  doesn't reach the quote, I maybe sending it for print from another printer and the price may vary. But I'll get everyone updated ASAP, and thanks for your support.

So that's for now, stil have work to be done, Cheers!

So basically they're the next one's to do the 2008 no smoking campaign: Say No, Save Life -0-;; (These people really should hire a native speaker to do a final edit. I bet they could find people to do it for free -0-) G-dragon actually arranged the music himself, like many other things that big bang tends to do. So I'm hoping it's more interesting than Nam Gyuri's No Smoking MV that was on Inkigayo a few days ago -0-

This week, Big Bang grabbed the Best New Arist Award for the Korea Broadcasting Awards. I must echo the words of TaeYang, 2 years and you're still a new artist? Interesting...

Anyways, the music video was shot in a hospital and this particular song is raising interest because G-dragon was personally involved in the song and SeungRi is set to play a nurse with his comical acting. This week's music video is set to air on the 7th on Inkigayo's 500th Special Episode.

Big Bang is set to perform on the 6th at the "Let's Rock Festival" with No Brain. (I like to think of them as Big Brain or maybe No Bang...the latter being the one that's more fitting imo lol) I'm so sad though I can't believe I missed the Let's Rock Festival last year out of choice and this year because I can't go and both years involved guys I'm currently obsessed with ^_^

On a side note I think I am ovulating today. My doctor told me that we needed to wait 4 cycles after my miscarriage but I am not going to listen. I have read a lot about early miscarriage and have decided that there is no real medical reason for me to wait. We are going to try to have sex every other day to up out chances. Of course we were suppose to do it yesterday and we did not BUT we did this morning so I hope that it was sufficient! As exciting as getting pregnant again would be, I am terrified it will at the same time.

On this occasion I was at the airport exactly 3 hrs before the flight. Knowing the traffic situation in New Delhi, my colleague and I left office at 3PM to be at home by 4PM; we planned to rest a while as we needed to be at the airport by 8PM to catch an 11PM flight to KL. We managed it well in time.

I don’t smoke at home and while driving, so my last cigarette before leaving for home was at about 2:55PM IST. I thought I’d catch a smoke at the airport. But the New Delhi airport has changed and changed for good, I guess :D

[5 Hrs without a smoke]

We went looking for the X-Ray machine and were told - "You don't need that, go to the Check In counter". 40 min. saved. We took 10 mins at the Check In counter as there weren't very many people. 20 min. saved. Now as there wasn't a Q for security check, so we went in. Forgetting that beyond that yellow line, there was no way that I could smoke. Phew. Mistake, but that was it! We took around 10 min. at the security check and another 10 at Immigration. 1:30 min. saved.

So if you calculate it we saved 2:30 hrs out of the 3 that we had.

[8 Hrs without a smoke]

To this add another 5.30 for the flight.

[13:30 Hrs without a smoke]

Add another hour to get to out of Immigration at the KL airport and then to the city.

14:30 hrs without a smoke!

Wow! I sure am proud of myself.
Here are some pictures of where I finally got to smoke... the Petronas towers in KL