United Nations Online Volunterring

This is an initiative which I didn’t knew off, till some time back. Well incase you have a internet connection and some free time every week then this one’s for you. I myself have known quite a few people who though quite talented but aren’t in a position to travel to far off places and provide their services in a social cause. UN Online Volunteering provides a perfect platform for such people. As using this initiative you can play a very significant role and be a part of some project run by the United Nations Organization.

There is ofcourse a certain satisfaction that quite a few of us draw out of such an activity, but apart from that there are quite a few other benefits as well:

You get certificates from the UN accrediting the work that you have performed and also if lucky you might actually get an opportunity to work with people from different nationalities understand their style of working, which in itself is something very significant to gain.

So incase you as well want to be part of this or want to just browse through the projects/ opportunities in offering then the link to refer to is http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/vol/index.html

Well on my side I have applied for a project, let's see if my resumes gets through.

Any Given Sunday

This one's based on the cult like craze for American football. An excellent movie specially i would say because of the role played by Al Pacino. You must listen to the pre match motivational talk that Pacino renders during the course of the matches they play. Specially the one before the play off is really awesome. It's the one which probably the corporates should play during their team building sessions.
Loaded with lots of motivational dialogues and some crazy (american) football stunts this is a must watch movie.

IPL

Well guys.. just a quick one.. for the ones who don't have a TV but a net connection with a decent speed, you can watch the live streaming of IPL matches at IPL's official website.

http://www.iplt20.com/

Enjoi !!

Zoozoos : The Vodafone Creation

The Zoozoos.. This ones certainly on the verge of becoming among the most watched Videos (much like susan boyle's). This ad campaign with the characters called by its creators as zoozoos was launched by Vodafone during the second season of IPL (2009). The idea was to make vodafone's customer aware about the various Value Added Services offered by the company. Now as a senrior managment official of Vodafone puts across they have an huge customer base which is increasing at a rapid pace, but most of them are not even aware of VAS offered by Vodafone. Say for eg: their phone back up facility was launched two years back. Still most of us don't even know about it ( I am an vodafone customer, i wasn't aware of it).

Now coming back to the zoozoos roughly 22 such ads have been made and intially the plan was to launch one ad on each day of the IPL. But then this has it's own repurcursions, its very well possible that the customers might not be able to imbibe the ads at a pace at which the company's releasing it. So as of now around 7 ads have being released and they have been immensly successfull.

Now there's one more thing about this ad which i never knew untill i read an article. Those zoozoos that you see on the screen they are not animations, infact they are actual human beings, to be more precise they are women and in certain cases children. The reason for this being that zoozoos were designed to have thin arms and legs, with a dispropotionate head. So the zoozoos that u see on the screen are women wearing a costume/mask . The costume/mask is in two parts, one is for the head which is filled with foam to make it look bigger the other is for the remaining part of the boy.

Well, advertising sure is a proffession for the talented ones.

The Outsourced

The ones who had criticized danny boyle after seeing "Slumdog millionaire",

saying that it shows India's under belly .. well my dear friends then u should surely watch

"Outsourced" guess it was realeased some time in 2006.

I don't know but i feel that this one was equally open in potraying the slums of india.

But honestly when we are open to hear our appreciation for what ever good we have done,we 

should be equally honest and open to hear out the darker side of the story.

THough there wasn't anything great in this movie, but somehow i liked it a lot.

It depicted some practical issues and traditions which we follow and the perception

an outsider might have to those.