Friday, February 27, 2009

Improve your Speech skills

Everybody might be wondering on how to improve your speech skills? Let me introduce some ways which you can practice daily to improve your communication as well as vocabulary skills which will be helpful to you in the future.

1) Take a word which you don't use normally and try to use that word as much as you can in your speech on a random topic which will gain you confidence in using that word in a crowd. This helps in improving your vocabulary.

2) Crack a joke by a narration of an incident. This will help in improving your expressions, gestures and eye contact while giving a speech or trying to convey something to a crowd.

3) This one is familiar to everyone, Story telling which one person starts with some topic and the next person should continue where the last person has left. You can tell whatever you want. This will mainly improve your creativity and also on the spot speaking talent.

4) Take a topic and have a group discussion on that which will help you on how to talk in a meeting, it will also bring table manners which will be very useful when you are especially attending meetings with your colleagues.

5) The main important thing is try to avoid using words like "but", "you know", "so", "like" unless it is appropriate to the context. These are called filler words which are usually used by many of us to avoid passes in between our speech. One whitespace is fine instead of repeatedly using the filler words and annoying the people who are hearing you. Even I used to count how many "I hope I believe" my faculty says in his/her class which will entirely divert the listening of your audience. Many of you would have also done this!! :).

The main important thing is try to use the word which you have selected initially in all your speeches to know more about the usage of that word and call that as "Word of the day". A group of 3 or more people sit together and try this then you will definitely see a difference in your way of speaking and improvement in your speech skills.

I hope this helps you to be more "eclectic" in terms of communication, I used my Word of the day and also hoping others to do the same.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Power of hope

Everybody may be wondering about the title of the post but it is easy to guess whom i am talking about and yeah its none other than the Oscar winner, the legendary music director AR.Rahman. The man with so much potentials should have got this award a long time back for many movies he worked on but luckily "Slumdog Millionaire" turned out to be a milestone for him to get this award. He became the first Indian to get two Oscars. Can anyone ever imagine that you could be so humble if you were announced this award but i think everyone would have seen his humble reaction on the stage when he got his awards.

These are the few words he talked on the stage after grabbing the award "I just want to thank again the whole crew of Slumdog Millionaire, especially [director] Danny Boyle, for giving me such a great opportunity", he also added "all the people from Mumbai and the essence of the film, which is about optimism and the power of hope and our lives" and he went on "All my life I've had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I'm here. God bless!!" Finally he said a saying in tamil "Ella pugazhum iraivanukke!!" that has made many tamizhians proud of themselves.

Hats off to AR Rahman and I am wishing him the best to continue his service towards music and to get more and more awards like this.

To see the moments click here
Talking about the movie Slumdog, it made Indians to get Oscars after 17 years (Satyajit ray for life time achievement).

The awards for the film are following

Best Movie
Best Director
Best Adapted screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Film editing
Best Sound mixing
Best Original Score - AR.Rahman
Best Original Song - AR. Rahman

Jai ho!!!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Men In Blue

Hi friends, I know this is very late start to my second post but could not find time indeed. I thought of this post right after Indian Cricket team who are generally called as "Men in Blue" shortly MIB lost in the final ODI against Srilanka and unfortunately missed to top the ICC Cricket team ranking. I know many of you would feel happy that India won the ODI series and also the T20 contest against Srilanka in Colombo but only very few would have known the effect of the one defeat for India in the final ODI in this series. The nine consecutive wins helped the MIB to move to the second spot following SA and followed by Australians but the last ODI defeat against Srilanka pushed India's position in ICC ranking from second to third instead that single win could have helped us to top the list.


We can always get to that spot at one point or the other but the opportunity comes rarely which should be used in an effective way but Dhoni's men missed it. Don't think that I am criticizing the Indian Cricket team, indeed I am very happy that the young team is delivering more than expected but the momentum should not go off when there are continuous victories.

I suggest if the momentum keeps going for the next few years then we can win the world cup 2011 which will be the happiest moment for every cricket lover in India. I am hoping to see that moment. Lets all wish MIB for a bright future as cricket lovers .

See you all soon with a new post!! bye..


To see the ICC ranking click here

Friday, February 6, 2009

Naan Kadavul

I have never thought of writing a blog so far in my life but this day turned out to be really pathetic after watching the movie "Naan kadavul" from director bala after his three consecutive stupendous success. I think now onwards he is going to be considered as one of the most attitude directors in terms of his thoughts, his way of expressing thoughts etc.. Getting into the movie, Dont worry anyways I am not going to reveal the story but only want to share my views.

Let me first share the plus of the movie is none other than "Pooja" I guess many of you who read this will now be wondering that why i mentioned Pooja's name as the first plus of the movie, you will realize this only when you get to watch the movie. Even I was shocked to see her in born talents towards acting. Hats off to director for extracting out her full potential because nobody else has tried it out so far from her. She will stand in everyone's heart when you come out of the theatre.Her character is shaped really well and she has put her full effort to bring out the character really well. Hurray!! we have got another actress who has proven herself for the first time.

The second plus for the movie is the Maestro "Ilayaraja" who has again proven his excellency both in songs and background score. The title song and the introduction song of Arya are too good and it was very suitable to the situation. I could say that Ilayaraja is one of the gifts to Tamil cine Industry.

Now going into the negatives of the film, there are so many. I am starting with the director who has shown his complete attitude in the movie. I would like to ask a question Has he ever thought that the movie is going to be watched by children and women? There are so many gory scenes which can't be watchable by everyone especially women and children. The climax is as expected, yet another negative ending which reminds me of Paruthiveeran but thank god it is not worse than that.

The second and the Unexpected negative is the charcter of Arya. He has got good talents and he has really acted well in the movie but the potential is not upto the expectation. I think the director could have extracted more from him. He is totally wasted in the movie. I would always say that he has put so much effort to bring out the character but unfortunately it is not used so well in the movie. Ultimately this is also the mistake of the director.

Overall my comment on the movie is not worth watchable except for the people who really like the direction of Bala. My personal suggestion to gals and kids Please don't watch the movie and to boys if you are a weak hearted person Please avoid watching the movie. One thing I can assure to others is that you will feel for the beggars after watching the movie. The tamil film directors especially the commercial ones have got yet another villain for their movies now.

I started blogging after watching the movie so people you can make out that how far the movie has affected me. Beware of Bala!!!!