Joy of Giving ... the full month of Oct

Now what is Joy of Giving Week?

Now basic question first to think about,

What do we do when we see some poor person outside on the road?

What do we do when some stranger comes to our door step in need of our help, financial or as food?

What do we do, when we know we have something extra with us at home?

Now the reply to most of these questions in our day-to-day life would be, 'NOTHING'. Always we have this thought, someone will help them. We have NGO's, minister's for what, to help them, let they do it. We should not encourage them to beg, but we should give them work (the words just fly in the air).

We buy clothes every alternative week, for every occasion and weeding's, and there is no space in the wardrobe, but still we dont want to part some of the clothes for another brother or sister of mine who doesnt have anything to wear even for a day.

We eat every other day in restaurants, and order food more than we can eat, and it just goes waste, but there is this person who sits near my house outside, who just imagines of having a morsel of food everyday, and in the contrary never does.

We roam in GPS enabled, Fully Air-Conditioned, Power Steering, and all accessories included SUV's and MUV's, travel by flights and spend our vacations on cruises, but the same another creation of God who is a look alike like me, I see him dragging himself on the road every-time I pass the road.

If we had lots of money, we could have built a ashram for them. If we had a big bungalow or a firm, I would have appointed them as my employees. If I was the minister I would have eradicated poverty all over.

All these thoughts just remain as thoughts for the time being and then they are just faded while we move some steps further!

The Joy of Giving Week is an initiative, a reminder for us every year, to start sharing and giving what we have in abundance.

What can we do about it?

Collect all the old clothes, newspapers you have at home, and give it to Scrap Dealer, and the money you get give it some poor person you know or have come across

Any un-used stationary items you have at home, give it some NGO's or organisation who have planned to collect items to give it to the poor, ashrams etc.

Join as a volunteer in collecting things, and serving the poor.

Atleast if not anything, as a last good thing you can do is share the word to all.

A Long Night Tonight !

Please do not jump to any conclusions ! ;) i know you all have some dirty thoughts in mind the moment you read the title of this ....

What i meant to say that tonight i am going to finish a new book Revolution 20:20 by Chetan Bhagat. Chetan Bhagat is definately one of the best writers in English that India ever had. All the previous wonderful books that he has written right from 5 Point someone then One Night at the Call Center, then the 3 Mistakes of my life and then the 2 States.. all of them very good reads and now it is Revolution 2020 from Chetan Bhagat.

So now pretty much i am just waiting for the book to get finished tonight or tomorrow night and i can sleep in peace that i finished the book coz i know how good this book can be.

Inner Fear of the self , and the adrenaline it produces !

Fear is strange. When we’re in a moment of life-or-death danger, we’re frequently amazed by how our brains and bodies react. That’s because the fear response is carried out by subconscious systems to which we have no direct conscious access. It’s like a separate personality lurking deep within our skulls. The only time we get to meet it is when our lives are on the line.

Fear is fast. Like all automatic systems, the fear response deploys much more quickly than our conscious thought processes. The amygdala can identify danger and prompt an effective response before our higher-level mind is even aware than a problem exists.

Fear is clever. We tend to think of automatic processes as being stereotyped, if not wholly irrational. Creativity tends to get credited to the frontal cortex. But in the laser-like focus of a life-or-death crisis, people are often able to come up with creative solutions with astonishing speed.

Fear is effortless. Automatic processes don’t require mental effort. Time and again, people who survive mortal danger report functioning with unusual clarity, as they immediately perceived what needed to be done, and did it.

Fear is unforgettable. Amygdala activation jolts the hippocampus, the region that mediates long-term memory storage. This results in the “flash-bulb memory effect”: we can vividly remember events that took place in conjunction with intense fear.
These experiences play an outsize role in how we view ourselves. They are formative, transcendent, and unforgettable.

Have you ever been surprised by your reaction to an acute crisis? Have you ever experienced danger so intense it changed the way it looked at the world? I’d love to hear your stories.

ABOUT LOVE

THE ONE WHO IS FULL OF LOVE IS THE ONE WHO IS ALWAYS HAPPY.

Contemplation:
When you are constantly having love for everyone, you'll have no negativity. Your unselfish love will make you have only positive thoughts and you'll find yourself in constant happiness.

Application:
Start your day with thinking of all the people you come in contact with. Then take a thought in your mind that you have love for all of them. This thought will help you throughout the day. You'll find yourself accepting others as they are and having good wishes for them.

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YOUR LOVE FOR GOD WILL MAKE YOU VICTORIOUS IN ALL SITUATIONS.

Contemplation:
Your love for God will make you experience His companionship in everything you do. Where there is love there is never a moment of loneliness. Thus you will be able to move forward with courage in all the challenges that life brings.

Application:
Think of one situation where you have found yourself failing. Now think that God is with you to help you in this situation. When you believe this, you will find that you'll get the courage to accept and face the situation. Then you can also work and bring about a change in the situation.

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THE ONE WAY TO CHANGE OTHERS IS TO DEAL WITH THEM WITH LOVE.

Contemplation:
When you have love for others, you will have good wishes for them. Your desire to change them will then be for their good and not for your own selfishness. Others will quickly respond to your unselfish love and you will find them changing.

Application:
Think of one person you want to bring about a change in. Before you think of changing that person let there be a lot of love for that person in your mind. Also make sure the change you want in the other person is for his own good and not for your own selfish reason.

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IT IS ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE LOVE FOR YOURSELF THAT YOU CAN FORGIVE YOURSELF.

Contemplation:
Love gives you the power to forgive. Just as you find it easy to forgive a person you love, when you have love for yourself you can forgive yourself too. It is only then can you find yourself learning and progressing without making yourself heavy.

Application:
When you find yourself making a mistake, remind yourself that if you have to progress you have to forgive yourself. Learn from your mistake in such a way that you never repeat it and forgive yourself. Then you'll be able to move forward with lightness.

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WHERE THERE IS LOVE, THE HARDEST TASK BECOMES EASY TO PERFORM.

Contemplation:
If something is difficult, it means there is no love. Where there is love, even a task as difficult and big as a mountain becomes as easy and light as cotton. Love makes work easier and lighter.

Application:
Today is the day to love your work. Whatever you are doing, remember that you love your work. Experiment with one thing that you have been finding it difficult to do with a reminder to yourself that you love it and that is the reason you are doing it.

Long time ... No See :)

Like other things, the most difficult thing to do, is to start something AGAIN and AGAIN . I had stopped writing in this blog for long till my friend send me the link to check it again and start writing again. So here i am today again to write to read for my dear friend. I will not name my friend... it is anybody's guess who would be behind me to write more and more.

Anytime I start to write something, the first problem I face is to decide the topic, and the heading....which does not mean that I don't face other problems later, but mostly, it takes me a long long time to decide the topic.

Well, simply to explain to myself as to why i am not writing.

1. I could not find time and topic to write
2. Lot of work at work place and no time to blog.
3. Could not write the thoughts i get and forgot about the blog.
4. Was thinking if i would write crap what would my friends say .
5. Became a GARFIELD.. plain lazy.

But then, it is better to write something and let those thoughts come out somewhere .
So, here I start again....

Magadheera - Technically Brilliant Movie.

Long time since i found time and wrote on a movie.. Was busy with my work for the last 1 year and it was really hectic. Finally could not avoid writing about this movie.

A reincarnation story is not often seen in Telugu cinema. 1600 Aravalli, the kingdom of Udaygarh. Two lovers die; one a warrior and the other a princess, confessing their love for each other. Their love remains unfulfilled. And the person who cremates them -- Sher Khan (Srihari) says aloud that they will be reborn again to unite. Fast forward 400 years and they are reborn !!! ... well that gives a jist of the story.

The tale goes back and forth into the past and the present. There is a skilled warrior Bhairava (Ram Charan Teja) who wants to marry the princess of Udaygarh Mitra (Kajal Agarwal) ) and even wins her in the race against competitor Randev (Senapati) but bows down to the wishes of her father and does not. Bhairava is so consummate a warrior that he even kills 100 warriors of Sher Khan who has been winning over all the kings before he came to Udaygarh before dying like a true warrior. Bhairava's valour impresses Sher Khan so much that he even cremates him.

Present Scene 2009 : Harsha (Charan) rubs his fingers against a girl in a white churidar and feels a vibration, and realises it's the princess. He remembers his past birth and goes in search of this girl who after a chase reveals her name as Indu (Kajal).Randev is reborn as Raghuvir, Indu's cousin. Raghuvir sees Indu and is smitten by her.

The rest of the story i presume should be predictable ..it is the usual hero v/s the villian fighting and anybody on this earth can predict the outcome of the fights.

Hare Ram Movie Review !

Had to finally see this movie in Konark Theatre on Saturday 2nd Aug. Please read the review !

The film is about an IPS officer Hari (Kalyan ram) who is busy investigating the murders of a news reporter (Prabhakar) and then a well known doctor (Rajeev Kanakala) and then discovers that these are the murders done by his conjugal twin Ram (Kalyan ram).
The story goes that Ram has a problem with his brain and is unable to control his hyper emotions about few things which makes him a beast at times. He would not even hesitate to kill and does not like anyone being praised or belittling him. In this process, he builds a grudge against his own brother who is good at everything and tries to kill him right during their childhood. Their mother (Seetha) is unable to tolerate all this and takes it upon herself to change Ram, so she takes him away from Hari to avoid further hatred but then not much change happens in the nature of Ram even after they grow up.

Meanwhile, Hari is often chased by Anjali (Priyamani) who poses as a bank employee but in truth she is actually a CBI officer who comes to arrest Hari since she suspects his hand in the killings of a news reporter (Prabhakar) and a well known doctor (Rajeev Kanakala).
Apparently, the doctor happens to be the younger brother of the health minister Siva Reddy (Kota) and from then on the minister is closely on the heels of the killer. Anjali finally manages to arrest Hari successfully through a plan of hers and soon she realizes her folly when she chances upon his mother and understands the entire story of Hari and Ram.

Priyamani is impressive in her role as naughty girl and a powerful officer. She looked glamourous in the rap song, the last song, in the film. Sindhu Tolani played a key role in the film and is good in her role. Rest of the cast did their roles as required. Some comedy was tried with Ali, Brahmanandam and Venumadhav. Only Brahmanandam's track was successful to an extent.