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It's July 3rd today. My day was spent in gruh pravesh (housewarming) ceremony conducted at a friend's place.
I came home in the evening and went for a nap. I couldn't sleep though. Why? I don't really know!!!
But I made good of that time and I saw a movie - King's Speech. It's a hollywood classic of current decade starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Geoffrey Rush is a veteran Australian actor although not so famous in Indian subcontinent, I believe. His best and most famous portrayal is of Barbossa in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. The funny, psychic semi-villian on the PoC series plays a very witty and unique character in this film.
Colin Firth, to me, is best recognized as Darcy from Bridget Jone's Diary. I don't remember seeing any other movie of this guy. And if I remember correct then Hugh Grant took the limelight away from him in that one too!!!
Anyways, coming back to the King's Speech. Colin Firth is probably destined to play simple, straight forward, nerds throughout his life and I can't think of a better suitor for this story.
The story is very bold and it makes you respect the society that accepts a story like that. It's about King George the 6th, his ascension to the throne durning the time of 2nd world war and most importantly his stammering, his struggle to overcome a life long weakness. Can you imagine a king who can't speak a simple line without shivering? Well, the story writer did. And if you believe him, this guy was so afraid of speaking that he was ready to renounce his throne.
Since the story is of real life events and one can't take too many liberties with the story, you need to appreciate the atmosphere created in the movie. I thought I could feel the pain and struggle of the man.
I am not going too much into the story as it is easily available online, in fact you can download the whole movie from utorrent and watch it yourself.
So, coming back to my day.
Afte the movie I had my dinner and then a gapshap with a friend. Topic of the gapshap was our development activites mainly.
Just to give you update, we have formed a group called 'Sunday Forum'. The idea behind this group was to develop and provide a readymade platform for everyone to develop themselves as a person and a professional. All of us, 3 founder members, are very keen to develop the art of training. Besides me we have Priyka Kedia who is a professor & business woman and Jayant Arrawatia, with whom I was doing my gapshap, who is working with a NGO.
Jayant and Priyanka both are already attending various institues to give lectures. They both know the pulse of education system today and vigorously trying to improve that. So, in comes our group again.
One of the prime objective of The Sunday Forum is to create various training & teaching techniques and presentations. We will also conduct work shops for various professionals, students and teachers. It's a long way from here but this is what we are aspiring to achieve.
We have kept a provision of outdoor meetings and learning as well which we will do once a month. In this event, we will either learn something new about our city or gather somewhere outside & brainstorm.
I have already written good enough on our first outdoor meeting on facebook and I am going to upload a presentation also as soon as I get complete photographs.
Anyways, this pretty much sums up my day today. It's 10:32 PM now and I need to go to sleep :)
Tomorrow is my parent's 31st wedding anniversary and we haven't plan anything yet. So, tomorrow is going to be another great and hectic day for me!!!
Looking forward to writing again........good night and good bye :)
It's July 3rd today. My day was spent in gruh pravesh (housewarming) ceremony conducted at a friend's place.
I came home in the evening and went for a nap. I couldn't sleep though. Why? I don't really know!!!
But I made good of that time and I saw a movie - King's Speech. It's a hollywood classic of current decade starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Geoffrey Rush is a veteran Australian actor although not so famous in Indian subcontinent, I believe. His best and most famous portrayal is of Barbossa in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. The funny, psychic semi-villian on the PoC series plays a very witty and unique character in this film.
Colin Firth, to me, is best recognized as Darcy from Bridget Jone's Diary. I don't remember seeing any other movie of this guy. And if I remember correct then Hugh Grant took the limelight away from him in that one too!!!
Anyways, coming back to the King's Speech. Colin Firth is probably destined to play simple, straight forward, nerds throughout his life and I can't think of a better suitor for this story.
The story is very bold and it makes you respect the society that accepts a story like that. It's about King George the 6th, his ascension to the throne durning the time of 2nd world war and most importantly his stammering, his struggle to overcome a life long weakness. Can you imagine a king who can't speak a simple line without shivering? Well, the story writer did. And if you believe him, this guy was so afraid of speaking that he was ready to renounce his throne.
Since the story is of real life events and one can't take too many liberties with the story, you need to appreciate the atmosphere created in the movie. I thought I could feel the pain and struggle of the man.
I am not going too much into the story as it is easily available online, in fact you can download the whole movie from utorrent and watch it yourself.
So, coming back to my day.
Afte the movie I had my dinner and then a gapshap with a friend. Topic of the gapshap was our development activites mainly.
Just to give you update, we have formed a group called 'Sunday Forum'. The idea behind this group was to develop and provide a readymade platform for everyone to develop themselves as a person and a professional. All of us, 3 founder members, are very keen to develop the art of training. Besides me we have Priyka Kedia who is a professor & business woman and Jayant Arrawatia, with whom I was doing my gapshap, who is working with a NGO.
Jayant and Priyanka both are already attending various institues to give lectures. They both know the pulse of education system today and vigorously trying to improve that. So, in comes our group again.
One of the prime objective of The Sunday Forum is to create various training & teaching techniques and presentations. We will also conduct work shops for various professionals, students and teachers. It's a long way from here but this is what we are aspiring to achieve.
We have kept a provision of outdoor meetings and learning as well which we will do once a month. In this event, we will either learn something new about our city or gather somewhere outside & brainstorm.
I have already written good enough on our first outdoor meeting on facebook and I am going to upload a presentation also as soon as I get complete photographs.
Anyways, this pretty much sums up my day today. It's 10:32 PM now and I need to go to sleep :)
Tomorrow is my parent's 31st wedding anniversary and we haven't plan anything yet. So, tomorrow is going to be another great and hectic day for me!!!
Looking forward to writing again........good night and good bye :)
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