WED Special - I

Hi Guys,

Today (June 5) is celebrated as World Environment Day (WED). As a nature lover, I have decided to write back to back posts about Environment all this week. All the posts will be micro blogs and their main purpose would be to create awareness among my readers.

The theme for this year's WED is Forests: Nature at your Service. Forests cover one third of the earth's surface and it is so important for the survival of many species of animals, trees and they contribute so much to the survival of our planet. Forests have given so much to us and it is sad that we destroy the forests. Each year around 13 million hectares of forests is destroyed. It is equal to the size of Portugal. It is so important to save these forests from extinction.

Visit the official website of WED to know more.

Source: UNEP Website

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Movies that touched my Heart - I

Hi Guys,

Certain people get emotional and become characters of all the movies they see. But for people like me, tears are very precious and they come out only when I see very emotive movies. Here, I bring out some of those movies which really brought tears in my eyes.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Released in 1975, this movie directed by Milos Forman deals with the hard times faced by the patients of a mental institution. Jack Nicholson arrives at the hospital in order to escape from the hard labor of his prison term. He tries to bring fun into the patients before he goes out of the hospital.

The ward is taken care by Nurse Louise Fletcher, who ill treats patients with embarrassing treatments. Jack comes to know that he can’t get out of the hospital even if he is mentally fit. He encourages other patients to do their works and befriends them. He steals a school bus and takes the patients to a short tip and earns a terrible name. Meanwhile he gets into brawl with Louise and is hence treated ruthlessly.

Finally Jack has a master plan to escape along with a Chief, who is acting as a deaf and dumb person. They get into trouble before executing the plan and Jack’s end is very shocking. Some of the scenes including the terrible treatments bring tears.

The acting of Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher are so good and they add feel to the movie. Deservingly, both got Oscar awards and the movie amassed 5 Oscars.

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is one of the best movies I have ever seen. This movie is directed by Robert Zemeckis in 1994,  stars Tom Hanks who plays the lead role as Forrest Gump. He is not very smart, but is somehow present in all historical events from his young age. He meets Jenny (Robin Wright) the first day he goes to school and she is the only girl whom he could think of in his entire life.

Jenny likes Forrest Gump, but neglects him just because he isn’t smart. Forrest is not intelligent, but one way or another he always meet good people and fortune favors him and so he is always in the history book. But Jenny eludes him till the end and when he finds her, there is a shocking truth. The scene in which Tom Hanks speaks to Jenny’s grave shows all the feelings he had for her.

There are so many wonderful quotes in this movie. ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you get’. Forrest proposes to Jinny, ‘I’m not a smart man… But I know what love is’. This movie got 6 Oscar Awards and it is no surprise that Tom Hanks got the award for Best Actor.

(To be continued…)

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Life's Beautiful!

Hi Guys,

Life’s Beautiful ^{*Conditions Apply}. This is the tag line of one of my friends. I have asked him what are those conditions quite some times and he has never given me the answer.

The statement is very true and I think the condition is that you should realize the beautiful things around you and start to enjoy them. Life will be very very beautiful then. I often feel that we fail to notice the things that are beautiful just because they are so small and neglect them.

It was one of those hot summer days today morning and I never expected that there will be a rain. It was sunny till 2 pm and all of a sudden clouds arrived and started to quench the dry earth. The feel was just magnificent. I tried to take some photos and at the end I failed. But when I was taking photos from the windows and doors, the rain water was splashing on face and it was just wonderful. How many of you will consider this wonderful?

Another thing I enjoy always is the appearance and behaviour of tiny creatures. Watching them creates peace and happiness in my mind. I watch squirrels almost every day. The way they roam around actively, the way they quarrel among themselves for food, the way they climb and jump or in short the things they do in order to survive amazes me. I enjoy watching birds, butterflies fly. Have you watched spiders spin their web? It puts in a lot of hard work in that and if the web is destroyed it builds one newly. Also watching these creatures make me realize that life is interconnected and we can’t survive without relying on each other.

Again lets go back to my friend, for whom Life’s Beautiful. I think Life’s Beautiful to him, just because he is full of positive thoughts. There were lot of times when he has sowed positive thoughts inside me. I think the positive thoughts have made him quite philosophical these days. This is what he was saying about my blogging today morning,

‘Not everyone has the power to make people read words written. It's something which can come only when you really mean something from deep inside your mind. This flame will keep u go a very long distance of achievement in your life’

I think he is a far better writer than me. Not just this, he is very philosophical about a lot of things. I have heard him speak about relation between Job and Hard work, Life and Death and many more things. But, whatever he speaks will be positive and will also fuel positive thoughts into you.

Well, he is my friend Vijay Dinesh, who is currently working in Singapore.

Happy Reading!!!