12 Angry Men!!

Great to write a post about a movie. After a very long time. Yes. This is a 1981 movie that was shown to us by our unit head on the Dec 18th, 2010. It is a simple movie according to the production and the direction unit. It is about the story of 12 men who is in a room discussing about a case. These 12 men happen to be the jury to decide the outcome of the case. Among these 12 men first one of them votes against the 11 other men. But ultimately after a heated discussion the 11 men go with the decision of the one man. How they do get along with the man is what is the story.

A poster of the film!!

The story tells everything about analysing a situation, assertiveness, how to lead, how to align others thoughts with the yours, how to handle different kind of people who have especially different behaviour, and a lot more. The storyline is simple, direction is simple, production is simple, characters are less, but the story ultimately was very effective. Each time you see it you interpret it in a different manner. Effective enough to make people think.

I think people have to see it for sure. There are many movies like this but this one is very special. Simple way of telling how to do what. I think simple things are always beautiful and reaches to the people easily. Hope you people see what is there in it. Though a small storyline well directed.

See you soon folks!!

-SATZ

Capturing the hearts!!

The day was Sunday Dec 5, 2010. Wow!! What a day!! We started the day at 9:30. The reason for starting out being a trip to Science City,Gandhinagar and Akshardam. It started off beautifully with some people coming, after denying to come, at the last moment. We were around 45 in number and a bus was arranged for us through the company. There was so much fun while going. We went to Ahmedabad and there was a surprise. There was a hotel in which the company had arranged for the lunch. The bus was parked on the highway and we went to have our food which was nothing but excellent, except that all the dishes had sugar(usual in Gujarat)and dessert was served at the first. The weird part of their culture. The sweets were good and we filled our bodies with so much of calories that we would not have needed 2 days of food. The real part of the story started when we came back after having food. The bus which was parked in the highway was standing but with that was standing a police jeep.

The bus was parked on the highway itself and hence we were fined for the same.

Then we moved on to science city which made me feel that I should have had this kind of practical explanations while I was studying these concepts. It would have made some sense or the other. But it was also really good except for the models which didn't work. We then had some fun time together over there and went on to Akshardam.

Hall of space and Hall of science at the Science city!!

There was a tight security procedure which was to be followed. After the terrorist attacks in this building in the year 2003, the security has been tightened. Security system filters the terrorists, but catches hold of the neck of common people. Then we went to the Swami Narayanan temple which was good. The work and the articles of the guru was kept there with awe-inspiring cleanliness and great devotion. But the fun part of Akshardam is the water laser show. Absolutely amazing. The water laser show had the crowd on their feet. A lot of people were waiting outside the auditorium and we were having fun by being amongst them.

The laser show!!

The laser show was about "Karma". The story of Nachiketa, the divine child. It was well scripted. The laser lighting and the sound with sync. It was fun to see it. It was a real life time experience. Since it was the that I've seen. It was something special. It was worth the money. They do it for the real purpose. This was an amazing experience and very good to remember. This is what "Capturing of the hearts!!" means.

-SATZ

Training experience!!

What a way to spend the two days of December 3 and 4. It was good to have some soft skills training after a long time and that to from a prestigious training institute known as Dale Carnegie Training institute. It is good because I'm having something after nearly 6 months. We didn't have such training in our college. But right now I can feel some positive change which is good on the outside. The training comprised of many things about attitude, memory linking techniques, how to maintain relationships, about the Dale Carnegie principles that makes us into leaders, conversation linking techniques and a lot of fun filled activities that the so called Fortune 500 companies of the world have tried out.



The trainer got friendly with us in no time and that showed so much about him. It was a good two days that will take a long time to forget. I was actually starting to work with something called as a team. There is show much of difference in working as a team and working alone. We made a skit as a team which was funny and at the same time informative. We made it all in just 10 minutes. We did an activity called "Duke of york". This was an activity that involved a poem with actions. This was done by the Coca Cola company in just 6.2 seconds. We came close to Vodafone which was 7.56 and we made 8.23 seconds. We learned more about coordination live. This was the day. Adding some more to it was another incident. The India and New Zealand cricket team were staying in a hotel near ours and we saw the cricketers live. That was amazing, though, they didn't wave at us because New Zealand had suffered the greatest defeat. It was an amazing two days and well spent indeed.We saw good motivational videos. Hope such programs continue to pour in my life.

-SATZ

Grit to live!!

The week or so has been good in the company. I've suddenly started to become a little bit organized right from waking up, to the workouts. I've also been exposed to a new world. A world which involves a lot of nuances than I imagined it would be. There are a lot of changes taking place. Only thing is that I don't know whether these changes are enough to bring about something new.Yesterday, it was the AIDS day and our company had something to do with it. These people are really smart. They basically create awareness among truck drivers about the disease and help them so that they live for a long time and buy their product. There is no rocket science to it, but it is a very smart way of catching up with the customers. This act automatically makes them the number one in the truck tyres business. Simple. Start marketing from were you're manufacturing so that there is much of sales taking place. A place full of trucks. Pure business.

Well this is the business part that they're doing. But there is another face to it. They've got tie up with certain NGOs which makes them even more popular. There were two people from such an NGO and both of them were affected by HIV. They were given sometime to address the gathering. There was this lady of say 35 years of age.

She was affected by HIV and she came to tell her life, after acquiring the disease. She started to speak by telling that she got the disease through her husband who had it, actually. It has really been a pathetic life for her, after she contracted the disease. She says that the shop in which she was working had a boss who wouldn't permit her to have leave, which she required for getting her Anti retroviral treatment., in Ahmedabad. One day when she was coming back to the shop after having treatment, the shop owner stopped her in the middle of the road and told her to get away from the shop. Adding insult to injury, her husband died and you need not even imagine about the in-laws. She was sent out of their house. Even when she returned to her own house, she says that her mom used to keep her clothes separately. Mentally and physically she has been tortured daily. If this was not enough, her child also got it from her. At that time with no body to help a lady, with such a grit, was given a job in an NGO , was helping people who were from such a disease. It is deadly and it makes people's dreams crash just like that. But even at this stage she has only two things in her mind. One is that she should not transmit the virus to somebody else and second she doesn't want people like her suffer like what she had undergone. This is called generosity. I was close to getting tears after listening to her live. I don't know about the others but there was some truth in her which made me move emotionally. It shows how fortunate we're and nothing else.

-SATZ