Sunday, November 22, 2009

Killer SMS Christmas Greetings Ah! It's Christmastide! Time for festivity, celebrations, gifts, and killer SMS Christmas greetings! Bless that great

Killer SMS Christmas Greetings

Ah! It's Christmastide! Time for festivity, celebrations, gifts, and killer SMS Christmas greetings! Bless that great country Finland for starting the remarkable short message service in 1993! Bless the global mobile phone user community for their exceptional, devoted, and path-breaking gr8 textual vocabulary so that the lovesick can por da luv 2 him or her! And of course, thank Jesus of Nazareth for giving us the day on which butterflies in the stomach flutter, carols are sung with religious joy, and family reunions bring back memories to cherish for life!

Since the last several years what makes my heart drenched with happiness the most, besides the gifts and the reunions, are the unabated floods of the unique SMSs that start trickling from the 1st day of December to ultimately drown me by the 25th. Text, multimedia, and voice SMSs all together make such a beautiful symphony that it surpasses Beethoven's symphony no.9. The pleasure that I derive from reading Shakespeare's Hamlet saying, "To be or not to be," is mild compared to the pleasure that I gain from reading the SMS "2b or nt 2b". Disapprovals are considered blatant when you laugh out loud in anybody's face, which can be subtle in text as "lol". PUAs (pick up artists) are popular to use opening lines in the form of SMS greetings for their first move to judge the prospect of facing a charge of sexual harassment before they advance further. Generally, cloaked SMSs are known as killer SMSs. They are invariably double entendres with a sexual connotation or a risqué involved. The first meaning is innocent but the second meaning is not that decent and is exactly what the sender of the SMS actually means. For example, "The Lord sacrificed his life for the love of us. Let us remember this and sacrifice our lives for the loves of each other. Merry Christmas." This is a purely decent SMS when given to one's family, but the meaning drastically changes if given to someone with an intention of an affair.

Killer SMSs exhibit the most frequency during Christmas. Perhaps due to general bonhomie during this time, the human body pumps higher levels of adrenaline and creative juices mingle with the cerebrospinal fluid in the central nervous system, making persons highly imaginative, highly romantic, and highly social. Killer SMS Christmas greetings are double meaning messages with the sole purpose of killing at point blank range under the mask of sociability and amicability. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Thy word is Love. May your Love light my path now and forever!Happy Christmas." or "He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. Therefore, let us love. Merry X-mas." or "There is a time and a place for everything under the sun. The time is Christmas and the place is in your heart. Happy Christmas!" Such killer SMSs are known to break or make many relationships.

However, if two or more events combine then they become much more potent and may connote meanings at many different levels. They may be of many kinds, political, medical, psychological, etc. For example, "The snow is white, Santa's beard is white, and the White House is white. Rest all is colored in the colors of God. Merry Christmas." Here the second meaning is obviously political and may not go well with certain audiences, but then that is the sole purpose of sending such political double entendre killer SMS Christmas greetings. Again, they may be of the medical kind. For example, "The human brain has a left lobe and a right lobe. My left is not functioning right and there is nothing left in my right. That's why I think about you from my heart. Hearty Christmas!" An example of a psychological kind would be, "Freud's id, ego, and superego seem to be based wholly on sex. Let us meet and discuss why Freud seemed so obsessed with sex. Happy XXX-mas!" Thus, we find that killerSMS Christmas greetings say something else and mean something else. They are of all types, shades, hues and colors.

However, I personally find the most pleasurable are the ones that say and mean the same thing and kill in a positive way. For example, "Hey mom! I am coming home with Steve, Richard and Susan! Merry Christmas!- Rebecca." When mom gets this SMS from her daughter Rebecca who is coming for a family reunion along with her husband Steve and children Richard and Susan, she is so overwhelmed with happiness that she has to put her hand on her chest to steady the fast heartbeats. Such positive killer SMS Christmas greetings are perennial, favorites, and classics.

Merry Christmas.

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Diwali SMS

Diwali SMS

Diwali aai, masti chahi, rangi rangoli,
deep jalaye, Dhoom Dhadaka, chhoda phataka, jali Phuljadiyan,
Sabko Bhaye, "Happy Diwali"

Category: Deepawali SMS, Diwali SMS
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Diwali Parva hai Khushio ka,
Ujalo ka, Laxmi ka.... Is Diwali Aapki Jindagi khushio se bhari ho,
Duniya ujalo se roshan ho, ghar par Maa Laxmi ka Aagman ho...
Happy Diwali

Category: Deepawali SMS, Diwali SMS
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Laxmi aayegi itni ki sab jagah Naam hoga,
Din raat vyapar bade itna adhik kaam hoga,
Ghar Pariwar samaj me banoge Sartaj, Yehi Kamna hai hamari aap ke liye
Diwali ki Dhero Shubh Kamanaye...

Category: Deepawali SMS, Diwali SMS
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Deep Jalte jagmagate rahe, Hum aapko Aap hame yaad aate rahe,
Jab tak zindagi hai, dua hai hamari 'Aap Chand ki tarah Zagmagate rahe...' Happy Diwali.

Category: SMS, Diwali SMS

Deepawali SMS

Friday, February 9, 2007

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WO-WHEELER AUTO SALES VOLUME

Two-wheeler sales for January saw strong sales volumes reported

by the industry. While Hero Honda benefited from its new launches

in the third quarter, Bajaj Auto also benefited from the market

demand during the period. We expect the strong volume growth to

continue in the fourth quarter, which has traditionally been one of

the better quarters for auto companies.

Bajaj Auto:

Bajaj recorded a growth of 12% in motorcycles on the back of strong

demand for the Discover and Pulsar models. With increasingly stronger sales of

the Bajaj Discover and Bajaj Pulsar DTS-i products, only 45% of Bajaj motorcycle

sales now come from the commoditized 100 cc segment. The company is all set to

introduce an all-new motorcycle platform in Q2FY08 with the dual objective of

improving its market share and get higher margins.

Towards this end, Bajaj has now finalized product design and specification, and

has scheduled pre-mass production trials in Q1FY08. Three-wheeler sales continue

to be buoyant with a growth of 45% YoY. On the export front, Bajaj Auto clocked

119% rise in volumes (lower base) with sales of 39,812 units. The capacity is also

being expanded to 300,000 units per month from April 2007 as the management

expects growth of 25% in the next financial year. The Bajaj Kristal DTS-i, the first

product from an all-new hi-tech scooter platform, is likely to be launched in the

current month.

Hero Honda

: Hero Honda has reported sales of 297,554 units during January 2007.

We believe sales have been boosted by the launch of new variants in the third

quarter. The management expects the double-digit volume growth to sustain in the

quarter given the new launches and promotions. However, higher variants of bikes

in the entry variant will only add to the company's margin woes. Besides, the

company is also an official partner in the ICC world cup that should lead to higher

marketing expenses.

Volume trends - Two Wheelers

Jan '07 Jan '06 yoy (%) Apr-Jan'07 Apr-Jan'06 yoy(%)

Bajaj Auto

Motorcycles 195,560 173,835 12 2,039,214 1,553,041 31

Total 2 Wheelers 197,553 181,758 9 2,056,194 1,660,280 24

3 Wheelers 32,030 22,019 45 269,228 201,387 34

Total 229,583 203,777 13 2,325,422 1,861,667 25

Exports (out of above) 39,812 18,168 119 365,540 194,933 88

Hero Honda

Total 297,554 249,450 19 2,778,326 2,477,744 12

TVS Motors

Motorcycles 69,634 69,279 1 781,729 656,368 19

Total 2 Wheelers 121,147 112,910 7 1,279,786 1,104,424 16

Source: Company

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February 5, 2007

Kotak Securities - Private Client Research

Daily Morning Brief

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TVS Motors:

Motorcycle sales for TVS Motors increased only 1% for the month

clocking volumes of 69,634 units as compared with 69,279 units in January 2006.

TVS Scooty recorded 20,534 units in January 2007 compared to 17,957 units in

the same period last year recording a growth of 14%. On the export front, TVS

Motor Co continued its good performance having exported 7,049 units in January

2007 (growth of 11%).

Valuation FY08

CMP Sales Net profit EPS P/E Target Reco

(Rs) (Rs bn) (Rs bn) (Rs) (x) (Rs)

Bajaj Auto 2778 117 14.6 145 19 3234 BUY

Hero Honda 716 112 10 50.5 14 706 HOLD

TVS Motors 75 44 1.4 6.2 12 81 HOLD

Source: Company & Kotak Securities - Private Client Research