Life is beautiful...
with a very very heavy heart i start out to write this... It's because of the movie life is beautiful.
I started out to see the movie without knowing much about the story. I was thinking it would be one of the movies where miraculously people survive after bad times....
Half way thru' the movie i realised I'm definetly going to feel heavy. How stupid of me I thot hitler had is idedologies defined. And they did something that made sense from there point of view... I don't want to talk about what the jews did to the germans i'm sure it would have irked to form the nazi party... but then how valuable a life is a family is.... when my sister malar showed me the photographs of the hitler's concentration camp after her german trip i was shocked but i din't feel heavy.... after reading Anne Frank's diary I was wondering how it would have been for that girl but it would have definitely been like hell. A hell unimaginable.... A Hell, is that how you feel in a hell.... Hatsoff to the director and all the actors. having a son i some how related my self to the father in the movie.... But i think i would have lost hope for sure in life would have bought in the fear factor to my son also. Guido, this character has impressed me.
Between you and me blog I cud'nt control my self. I feel like crying out loud. Is it fate... if guido had hidden in with his son maybe he would have survived to see the sunshine.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Save the country from Industrial Waste.
Hi Ppl,
Last evening I had been to Alliance Francaise to check out the photography exhibition titled "Bhopal 1000". Followed by screen of the documentary "Hunting Anderson" (CEO of Union Carbide, chemical company reason for the Bhopal gas tragedy).
Well I dropped in because it was longtime since I had touched base with the art world. But it turned out to be a thought provoking evening. I happened to know a lot about gas tradegy. There were about 8000 poeple who were killed in this. Union Carbide the company which was responsible for this mishap had actually switched off most of the safety plant as a cost cutting measure on that particular night. India governement had put up a compensation case for 3billion and the UC has paid a fraction of it 470million. and the worst part is only a fraction of that has reached the the affected people...
The photo exhibition was not just to highlight what happened at bhopal but also to bring to light the problems faced due to industrial waste in places like cuddalore, mettur, manali etc. This was an awareness camp. I believe cuddalore is the most affected place in tamilnadu with these kind of industrial pollution. And governement is planning to setup couple of more industries in cudddalore.
The exhibition and documentary touched me for a lot of reasons, the most important one being am I not conscious about the nature and people around me? and I told to myself I will spread the awareness of industrial pollution and its adverse effect to people whom i know.
You can get more info about this in: http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com
There is an online petition which you can sign which is available at:
http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com/action.html
If you get the time please visit Alliance francaise, chennai. The exhibition is on until 11th. (11 am-7pm)
Hi Ppl,
Last evening I had been to Alliance Francaise to check out the photography exhibition titled "Bhopal 1000". Followed by screen of the documentary "Hunting Anderson" (CEO of Union Carbide, chemical company reason for the Bhopal gas tragedy).
Well I dropped in because it was longtime since I had touched base with the art world. But it turned out to be a thought provoking evening. I happened to know a lot about gas tradegy. There were about 8000 poeple who were killed in this. Union Carbide the company which was responsible for this mishap had actually switched off most of the safety plant as a cost cutting measure on that particular night. India governement had put up a compensation case for 3billion and the UC has paid a fraction of it 470million. and the worst part is only a fraction of that has reached the the affected people...
The photo exhibition was not just to highlight what happened at bhopal but also to bring to light the problems faced due to industrial waste in places like cuddalore, mettur, manali etc. This was an awareness camp. I believe cuddalore is the most affected place in tamilnadu with these kind of industrial pollution. And governement is planning to setup couple of more industries in cudddalore.
The exhibition and documentary touched me for a lot of reasons, the most important one being am I not conscious about the nature and people around me? and I told to myself I will spread the awareness of industrial pollution and its adverse effect to people whom i know.
You can get more info about this in: http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com
There is an online petition which you can sign which is available at:
http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com/action.html
If you get the time please visit Alliance francaise, chennai. The exhibition is on until 11th. (11 am-7pm)
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Icons... the first most usable icon design - Susan Kare.
This afternoon I was surfing to web focusing mostly on icon design. There poped-up Susan Kare's website.... like usual i saw the portfolio (i believe in "see it to believe it") but to my surprise i ended up seeing some single bitmap icons.... like the ones you see in MS paint. i was laughing at the portfolio thinking to myself... what the heck somebody as actually dared to put stuff as primitive as this and claims that to be there portfolio... but to my surprise when i read the description at the base... it read like this "created for Apple corporation in the year 1983. I was like give me a break!. I got so hooked on i saw the entire portfolio and moved on to read about Susan Kare. Here's a portion from her bio data:
"Susan Kare received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in fine arts from New York University. In 1989, she was a founding partner of Susan Kare LLP. She is a 2001 recipient of the Chrysler Design Award.
read more at: http://www.kare.com/design_bio.html
If i'm asked to do a design (not just me all designers for that matter) the first thing I will tend to do is look for reference :(. I'm kinda trying to put myself in kare's shoes 24 years back creating something out of nothing... unimmaginable. I've become a great admirer of Susan Kare.
Awesome. I felt i have learnt something worthwhile... while sometimes you tend to get carried away with all peer pressure.... meaning whats your friend's designation in another company, how much does she get paid. we kind of fail to get in terms with the fact that all of that is just a superficial hype. I believe in good design, creative design and simple... similar to the ideologies of susan ;). Suddenly I felt a sense of confidence I can do far far better than what I'm doing. There is more to my career than just designations and money.
Got her mail ID from the site... I think I'm going to mail her and tell how nice i felt knowing about her.
This afternoon I was surfing to web focusing mostly on icon design. There poped-up Susan Kare's website.... like usual i saw the portfolio (i believe in "see it to believe it") but to my surprise i ended up seeing some single bitmap icons.... like the ones you see in MS paint. i was laughing at the portfolio thinking to myself... what the heck somebody as actually dared to put stuff as primitive as this and claims that to be there portfolio... but to my surprise when i read the description at the base... it read like this "created for Apple corporation in the year 1983. I was like give me a break!. I got so hooked on i saw the entire portfolio and moved on to read about Susan Kare. Here's a portion from her bio data:
"Susan Kare received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in fine arts from New York University. In 1989, she was a founding partner of Susan Kare LLP. She is a 2001 recipient of the Chrysler Design Award.
read more at: http://www.kare.com/design_bio.html
If i'm asked to do a design (not just me all designers for that matter) the first thing I will tend to do is look for reference :(. I'm kinda trying to put myself in kare's shoes 24 years back creating something out of nothing... unimmaginable. I've become a great admirer of Susan Kare.
Awesome. I felt i have learnt something worthwhile... while sometimes you tend to get carried away with all peer pressure.... meaning whats your friend's designation in another company, how much does she get paid. we kind of fail to get in terms with the fact that all of that is just a superficial hype. I believe in good design, creative design and simple... similar to the ideologies of susan ;). Suddenly I felt a sense of confidence I can do far far better than what I'm doing. There is more to my career than just designations and money.
Got her mail ID from the site... I think I'm going to mail her and tell how nice i felt knowing about her.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Wow i've become a frequenter to blog spot.
mmm... is it because these days i have an opinion in things around it... maybe i do. Well its ok if nobody wants to listen. You are there bloggy i can count on you.
Here you go.... there are 2 things i would like to discuss with you.
a. Why is it that men take women for granted??? is it because thatz the way they are brought up in India.... not really this trend is there across countries... I have read somewhere that in primitive days matriarchy was the thing... as a human being man used to wonder how on earth does this woman deliver a one more of our kind.... and gradually as days went by he started realizing it is he who is responsible and ever since that i guess he had started to revole things around him.... so why did i actually talked about this.... just remembered (i sincerely wish there was a time machine which will enable me to travel time backwards)
so here's the thing :) 2 incidents 2 days just to re-ensure the fact that i'm a man and you do things my way. sometimes i feel like laughing at there attitude sometimes i think it is the fault of the society which has actually brought them up like that.... now i'm a part of this society... can i make a difference i genuinely will make a difference 'cos i have a son i will make sure that i give him exposure to a woman's point of view.... well it's upto to him to take it or not. lets see how it goes...
b. Today a colleague of mine told me eating animals (chicken, mutton etc) does not fall under cruelity towards animal.... does it not?
If killing is not good then i guess that holds good to even plants. Y'day i saw this program on discovery which showed a small seed growing into a plant it was all continuos guess they would have had the camera rolling continuously for about 3 days atleast. It does have life it actually had put so much effort to come out from under the ground just because it can't move doesn't mean they don't live. All these people who preach vegetarianism convinently eat stuff which has life and cnsistently make fun of non-vegetarians and how creul they are.
Now my only logic towards building a food habit for my son is concentrate on health more than anything else. I don't intend to give him mutton i don't see any value as food to be taken in except taste but fish is different it has good proteins which i guess my son will need. thatz the point of arguement i always end up having with my husband... because he preaches vegetarianism and i'm very sure that rice which is rich in carbohydrate need not be taken in the quantity we take in... it is of no use... but we still keep eating it 'cos we are used to that food habit... so really the point is eat good healthy food period.
coming back to cruelty part... you know what is worser than getting killed living as a cripple for life... I hope that doesn't happen to the dog in our office (well that is a big story... someother time bloggy)
got to go now.
mmm... is it because these days i have an opinion in things around it... maybe i do. Well its ok if nobody wants to listen. You are there bloggy i can count on you.
Here you go.... there are 2 things i would like to discuss with you.
a. Why is it that men take women for granted??? is it because thatz the way they are brought up in India.... not really this trend is there across countries... I have read somewhere that in primitive days matriarchy was the thing... as a human being man used to wonder how on earth does this woman deliver a one more of our kind.... and gradually as days went by he started realizing it is he who is responsible and ever since that i guess he had started to revole things around him.... so why did i actually talked about this.... just remembered (i sincerely wish there was a time machine which will enable me to travel time backwards)
so here's the thing :) 2 incidents 2 days just to re-ensure the fact that i'm a man and you do things my way. sometimes i feel like laughing at there attitude sometimes i think it is the fault of the society which has actually brought them up like that.... now i'm a part of this society... can i make a difference i genuinely will make a difference 'cos i have a son i will make sure that i give him exposure to a woman's point of view.... well it's upto to him to take it or not. lets see how it goes...
b. Today a colleague of mine told me eating animals (chicken, mutton etc) does not fall under cruelity towards animal.... does it not?
If killing is not good then i guess that holds good to even plants. Y'day i saw this program on discovery which showed a small seed growing into a plant it was all continuos guess they would have had the camera rolling continuously for about 3 days atleast. It does have life it actually had put so much effort to come out from under the ground just because it can't move doesn't mean they don't live. All these people who preach vegetarianism convinently eat stuff which has life and cnsistently make fun of non-vegetarians and how creul they are.
Now my only logic towards building a food habit for my son is concentrate on health more than anything else. I don't intend to give him mutton i don't see any value as food to be taken in except taste but fish is different it has good proteins which i guess my son will need. thatz the point of arguement i always end up having with my husband... because he preaches vegetarianism and i'm very sure that rice which is rich in carbohydrate need not be taken in the quantity we take in... it is of no use... but we still keep eating it 'cos we are used to that food habit... so really the point is eat good healthy food period.
coming back to cruelty part... you know what is worser than getting killed living as a cripple for life... I hope that doesn't happen to the dog in our office (well that is a big story... someother time bloggy)
got to go now.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
weekend was good...
lot of thing to tak about. I had gone to a tamil movie Paruthi veeran. the storyline was simple... when the movie got over it really din't leave a trail in me... but as you keep thinking about u.... it really makes one think. Sometimes people are so carefree including me simply because if we get into trouble it is ok we really don't get hurt... 'cos it s just me in trouble but when it happens to our loved ones it shatters us completely. Now thatz the storyline. kuddos to the debut actir karthi but more than him i guess it is a directors film....
It turned out to be a confident weekend for me... i was absolutely non-dependant on anybody i just enjoyed my weekend. I slept like a log which i guess i missed doing for sometime now. The luxury of going to my house i guess...
lot of thing to tak about. I had gone to a tamil movie Paruthi veeran. the storyline was simple... when the movie got over it really din't leave a trail in me... but as you keep thinking about u.... it really makes one think. Sometimes people are so carefree including me simply because if we get into trouble it is ok we really don't get hurt... 'cos it s just me in trouble but when it happens to our loved ones it shatters us completely. Now thatz the storyline. kuddos to the debut actir karthi but more than him i guess it is a directors film....
It turned out to be a confident weekend for me... i was absolutely non-dependant on anybody i just enjoyed my weekend. I slept like a log which i guess i missed doing for sometime now. The luxury of going to my house i guess...
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