No! I am not going to write another review on "Taare Zameen Par". There are enough written already and it has become a well established fact that Aamir has come out with of an excellent movie. Watched the movie in the cinemas and I have now become one among the 'many' who had moist eyes after the climax. I was literally crying when the boy got the prize. There are very few movies which have evoked such an emotional response from me and this one has a very special place among them.
Stories of men/women rising to their peak have always been inspirational. But what moved me most about the movie was not just how the boy rose from shambles, it was 'what an understanding teacher/parent could do to a child'. They can literally turn around the life of a child. In the current days where schooling has become very commercial, and the pressure on students to perform is very high, a film like this should definitely send a valuable point. Hope the parents and teachers take a lesson out of this movie and turn around the life of many children for the better! Let us not lose many such genius's due to lack of understanding.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
Take the 25!
Take the 25! - Chances are you have come across this phrase already!! This is a pretty popular phrase that was used by the Comedian "Goundamani" in a tamil movie. Goundamani plays the role of a "strict" traffic constable in the movie. He is SO strict that he always gets "only" Rs 25/- as bribe..nothing more..nothing less! just Rs 25.
Not sure what he did with all the money he collected! but a group of us in my office think that we ve put Rs 25 to better use. Ya, we are trying in our own little way to make the world a better place to live. Now, that sounds like boasting too much about ourselves, but come on, we need some motivation to go on..right.
So what do we exactly do?! We got ceramic cups for Rs 25 and we use those cups to drink coffee in our office!! Whats the big deal you ask..Imagine an office of 1000 employees with a coffee vending machine available. That amounts to approx 2000 paper/disposable cups (assuming people drink coffee two times a day) a day. If ceramic cups are used instead of all these paper/disposable cups, just imagine the amount of cups that will be saved every month in an office. Now that makes a good amount of paper saving which goes on to save trees.
So the next time, you use paper cup in your office, just remember to "Take the 25, save trees and go green". Make the world a better place to live.
Not sure what he did with all the money he collected! but a group of us in my office think that we ve put Rs 25 to better use. Ya, we are trying in our own little way to make the world a better place to live. Now, that sounds like boasting too much about ourselves, but come on, we need some motivation to go on..right.
So what do we exactly do?! We got ceramic cups for Rs 25 and we use those cups to drink coffee in our office!! Whats the big deal you ask..Imagine an office of 1000 employees with a coffee vending machine available. That amounts to approx 2000 paper/disposable cups (assuming people drink coffee two times a day) a day. If ceramic cups are used instead of all these paper/disposable cups, just imagine the amount of cups that will be saved every month in an office. Now that makes a good amount of paper saving which goes on to save trees.
So the next time, you use paper cup in your office, just remember to "Take the 25, save trees and go green". Make the world a better place to live.
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