A Taboo called “Eye donation”

My wife was having red eye and we went to Narayana Netralaya. There we found the Eye donation form.  We both filled it and completed the formalities.  With there permission, I took some 10 forms with me, to give to my friends at office.

I sent out an e-mail to my gang in office, saying, I have the form, let me know anyone is ready to donate.  The first two people, Uma and Vinod were generous enough to fill the form with in 5 mins.  They  collected some blank form from me, so that they can give to their family members too.

What was surprising for me was, most of the people were not willing or afraid to donate.  In some cases, they were even afraid to talk about that !!!  All of them are well educated people, who are living in metro and spent most of their time in big cites. 

If this is the mind set of these educated-metro people, I wonder how many of the small town and less educated people would be willing to make an eye donation ?

Times of India and Tata was running campaigning for making people go for voting.  If that money and time were spent on more realistic causes like this, that would changed the life of at lest one person or family.

Any one need more info on eye donation, do contact me.  Believe me : You don’t carry anything after death.  If you don’t donate, theseprecious  gifts would be either burred or buried.  Eye or any organ donation is much better than any pilgrim that you do.

Oh..forgot to tell you.  My friend Raghav, he is willing to donate, and what ignited him is, Dr.Rajkumar had donated.  Salute to Dr.Raj, I am sure he educated /  encouraged millions of people to do the same. 

Slum dog Millionaire - A Terror attack on Indian BPO, Tourism and on our country India

This is what this movie shows :

Indian BPO :

1. Even the person who supplies tea attends the calls in Indian contact centers.
2. Indian Call center people lies all the time.
3. In Indian call centers, anyone walking in to the floor can access the database, and get all the info about the clients (which includes home phone numbers, amount of money in each account etc)

 

Indian Tourism :

4. The tourist guides you find in Indian historic places like Taj Mahal etc, knows nothing about the history and they tell lies and stores, which they build, to the visitors
5. And, almost any one can become a tourist guide
6. In India, even the kids cheat foreigners.
7. If you park your car in a lonely place, the car would be dismantled and everything (except  the body) would be stolen with in minutes !!!
8. The above vanishing act would be performed by kids
9. You can’t leave even your footwear out side an Indian heritage place – it would be stolen.

 

Crime

10. Indians are ready to kill even their own brother for a night with a girl.
11. Indians are ready to do any crime for money and female
12. Indian police are famous for chasseing  poor children kilometers
13. You can kidnap a girl even in one of the busiest railway stations in India, even in day time.  No one will even ask anything.(Police are busy chasing children)
14. Getting a loaded gun is an easy task for a teenager, by selling stuffs in trains (and know who is Samuel Clot)
15. During communal conflicts, children are dressed up as Hindu Gods, and stands in the corner of streets.
16. All Indian men, except the hero, are cruel, and they are mad for drug, money and women.
17. Indian police can arrest (or rather Kidnap) anyone, anytime and troche them in all the possible ways, including electric shocks
18. If any crime/abuse is happening for an Indian child, US People are the only hope !!(dialogs is something like “oh!! My son…let me show the real face of America” and give few dollars to the abused child)

 

India :

19. US dollar is the currency more widely used in India.  Even a blind boy can recognize it by just touching it once.
20. Indian class rooms are a big mess, and teachers are monsters !!
21. India is a cricket crazy country.  If any one disturbs them while watching cricket, they go ballistic.
22. Though Indians are mad about cricket, they don know nothing about “First Class Cricket”
23. Indian super stars are villains in real life.
24. Indian super starts cheats in real life.
25. Poor people are abused, even if prove their capabilities in a Reality show.
26. Indians are ready to be covered from head to toe in human Sh*t, just for an autograph from a Super star.
27. Indians watch TV shows by sitting in road side.
28. People traveling on the top of train is a usual scene in this country
29. Indian talks in term of “Millions”, & “Billions” – not in term of Lakhs and Crores
30. Well, how is Mahatma Gandhi ?  Indians know only  Benjamin Franklin, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis

 

This movie should be treated as a terror attack towards India, since it will have major impact on Indian tourism, Indian BPO business and image of India.  Do not watch this movie, since it will only give more finical benefit to the people who done this crime.

 

When “The Passion of the Christ”, was released, we saw a massive protest all over the country.  When a carton was published in Denmark, we saw similar protest in this country.  MF Hussein painting created anger waves.  But, when a crime like this happens, I don’t see anyone moving a single finger !!!

 

Do not watch this movie.  If you are thinking of A R Rahamn’s music, believe me, he has created better music before.

 

Check the usage of your G-Mail account

There are reports people hacking in to e-mail accounts and sends mail, which cause legal actions towards the account owner, who is innocent. 

Best way is to have strong passwords, not sharing passwords, always use log off button, use Incognito, clear the history etc.

If you are using G-Mail, there is a way to check whether your account is hacked.  Follow the below steps :

1.                  Login to your G-Mail account

2.                  Go to the bottom of the screen, where your Inbox is displayed.  You can find a line as “Last account activity: xxx hrs back…..” and a link “Details” (as shown below, marked in Red circle )

 3.  Click on this, and you will get a similar window (IPs of my usage are removed)

4..                  Check for any discrepancy.  ie : if you are accessing your account only thru browser, you should see Account Type “Browser”.  If you see access type is POP3, Mobile etc, you can be sure that some one else is access the account.  Also, check the IP.  If the account is accessed from some unknown IP Address, be on alert and take the necessary actions.

            If  you have found some unknown IP address, use some on-line tools (eg: http://www.arin.net/whois/  or http://aruljohn.com/track.pl or http://www.dnsstuff.com/ )

Some of the best practices :

a)     Always sing out/logout from your session

b)     Clear the history, cache, Passwords, cookies etc, especially  when you are accessing the account from shared computer

c)      Do not click on “Remember Me”, when you are accessing the account from shared computer

d)     Never share your password

e)     Use complex passwords (ie: password and user name should not be similar, use extra characters.)

     eg: Use combination of Cap, Small letter, extra characters.  Butremembering such a password is painful.  So, make your own logic. ie: instead of “a”, always use “@”, or instead of “s” use “$” or always typethe third letter in capital etc

Film Festival - Status Yo!

Status Yo!
Director : Till Hastreiter

It was crazzzzyyyy.....I thought i am not going to understand this film. Lots of different things happening in different places, couldn't find the relation. What the silver train got to do ? Why people are running all around ? Why some one is chasing someone ??? Lots of questions!!!

But in the last 30% of the movie, all the puzzles solved, and it turned out to be a great movie. A new experiment, which i consider as success. It was like “Pulp Fiction”. But in this movie, events happens chronologically.

Visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/kue/flm/gfw/spf/en3541710.htm

Film Festival - Distant Lights (Lichter)

Distant Lights (Lichter)
Director : Hans-Christian Schmid

Lot of human lifes, and so lot of stories. But director handled almost 6 different stories with great discipline and presented in a wonderful way.

Visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/kue/flm/gfw/spf/en3535384.htm for the story line. But, this has only 10% of the movie

Film Festival - Cherry Blossoms - Hanami

Cherry Blossoms - Hanami
Director :Doris Dörrie

This is one of the BEST love story that I have ever seen. The chemistry between Trudi and Rudi is great. Very touching story, it wetted my eyes. The way husband and wife loves each other, and going to extremes that they take for each other is …don’t have words. You got to watch this classic.

Please visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/kue/flm/gfw/spf/en3541545.htm for the story.

Film Festival - Four Minutes (Vier Minuten)

Four Minutes (Vier Minuten)
Director : Chris Kraus

I watched this wonderful movie in yesterday(11th Aug 08). A great movie. The director was able to show the strong human emotions, with wonderful support from the Actors and Camera. I give +10 to camera, a wonderful job. Perfect casting and both ladies do 100% to the character.

The climax shot is a classic one, which I seldom saw. Great brains and touch of a creative genius. The piano is at its best, I never knew piano could talk.

Below is the story line (From http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/kue/flm/gfw/spf/en3541524.htm)

80-year-old former pianist Traude Krüger has been driving to the same women’s prison almost every morning since 1944. She teaches her female students – thieves, frauds and killers – how to play the piano. Seeking out new talent, Ms. Krüger meets lethargic, violent and volatile Jenny von Loeben. As a teenager, she has brutally killed a man, and is therefore considered highly dangerous. However, she used to be a ‘wunderkind’, performing at big concert halls at the age of ten.

When the uncontrollable Jenny beats the living daylights out of a prison officer at her trial piano lesson, she is put into solitary confinement. Still, Traude wins Warden Meyerbeer’s approval for an experiment. Traude is allowed to train Jenny at the piano so that she can participate in a contest for young talents. Little by little, the two vastly different women, Traude and Jenny, form a bond over the struggle with their opponents and the prison’s bureaucracy and approach one another. After another violent incident involving Jenny and a fellow inmate, the warden prohibits Jenny’s participation in the piano contest finals, but Traude smuggles Jenny out of the prison for the final. When she is on stage the police arrive to take her back to the prison.

Jenny doesn’t have much time: four minutes only. But she uses her time wisely, doing something that no one, not even Traude, would have expected.