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There is an org. "Spandana" whch works for the development n welfare of young orphans.... The org. is celebrating it's 1st anniversary on 27/03/10 @ Harihara Kalabhavan, Sec'bad.... The passes are available in denominations of Rs. 100/- Rs. 200/- and Rs. 500/- You can book them from www.bookmyshow.com or call these nos. +91-9966999007, +91-9000531531, +91-908995216, +91-9885988533. The money collected thru the passes will be utilized for constructing a home for the orphans... Pls. spread a word... Thnx...

More About Spandana:

‘V’ Care is a voluntary organization registered under the Andhra Pradesh Societies Act (Reg # 1087/2008). The activities of the organization formally commenced on the 22nd of March 2009. We are a group of friends, majority being students and the rest being employees. We have started as a team of 3 and now we have grown up to 143 registered members. We support HIV affected children, orphans and the specially-abled. We now support 65 children in 4 different organizations in and around Hyderabad. We support them with food, education, health, clothing and other miscellaneous expenses worth around 60,000 Rupees every month.
We collect donations from friends and family members of all our members. Impressed with our work, communities like Singapore Telugu Mitrulu (Singapore based telugu people’s association) has been donating 400 Singapore Dollars (13000 Rupees) every month. We are trying to associate with more such organizations to expand our reach and also support as many as we can.

We have organized a fund raising event by name COLORS on October 31st 2009 and could raise 5 lakh rupees through sponsors and tickets. On March 27th 2010 we are planning another fund raising event by name SPANDANA. The funds raised through this event will be used for the construction of a hostel building for the underprivileged children. Funds would be raised through tickets and sponsors.

Who We Support:
Sneha Kunj
Sneha Kunj is a foster home started by Mr.T.L.Reddy, houses 10 children. ‘V’ Care supports them with their food, education, home maintenance and health aspects of children. ‘V’ Care spends 30,000 Rupees every month to overcome these expenses.
Contact No: 9866675232(Mr.T.L.Reddy)

Shraddha
Shraddha – home for orphans and differently abled was started by Ms. Sujatha. It houses 5 inmates. ‘V’ Care supports Shraddha by providing monthly groceries.
‘V’ Care spends 7,500 Rupees every month to overcome these expenses.
Contact No: 9291519619(Ms.Sujatha)

Sphoorti Foundation
Sphoorti foundation is an orphanage, started by Mr.Srivyal houses 90 children - 45 boys and 45 girls in separate premises in the age group 4-12. We sponsor 12 kids at the home with their food, education and health aspects.
‘V’ Care spends 15,000 Rupees every month to overcome these expenses.
Contact No: 9490120168(Mr.Srivyal)

Charumathi Child Care Center
Charumathi which houses 40 children afflicted with HIV is located in Nalgonda district. It was started by Mr.S.Nagasena Reddy. ‘V’ Care supports Charumathi by providing them with food material every month (except rice and vegetables).

‘V’ Care spends 7,500 Rupees every month to overcome these expenses.
Contact No: 9440651089, 9666656416(Mr.Naga Sena Reddy)

Our Current Project:
SPANDANA-towards the children in need is a fundraising event to be held on 27th of March 2010 in Hari Hara Kala Bhavan, Secunderabad. Professional dancers and singers would be performing at the event. Harinath Reddy, winner of dance show “D” of Etv , Mahesh , a physically challenged dancer trained by ace choreographer Lawrence, Rashid , visually challenged folk singer from Maa tv’s rela re rela. Apart from these, there would be few moving performances by talented singers.

Objective of the event:
Fund raised from this event will be used for the construction of a hostel building for the under privileged children.

Previous Events:
We have organized a fund raising event on 31st of October, 2009 at HariHaraKalaBhavan by name ‘COLORS-shades of life’ and could collect 5 lakh rupees through tickets and sponsors. 1700 people attended the event, majority of them being employed youth and the rest being students and families. With the success of the COLORS event we are now expecting a crowd more than 2000.

Ways of raising funds:
Tickets: Tickets will be of three denominations, 100, 200 and 500. Each ticket bought is a contribution made. More tickets you buy – More is the donation made.
Sponsorship:
Through this event, we are committed to working with sponsors to help achieve our mutual goals. In this regard, your support in becoming a sponsor and promoting our event would be a great help to us in lending a helping hand to the children and also in making this event a tremendous success.


Benefits of Sponsoring
Sponsor will be promoted on a hoarding in a prime area (as per availability) provided sponsorship amount should be minimum of 40,000 Rupees.

Product display and advertisement space (stall) at the event to display and/or demonstrate products and services.

Sponsors will be listed on the sponsor page on the 'V' Care website with a hyperlink to their website.

Company name or logo will be displayed on the posters (posters display at Bakeries, Hotels, Top Engineering, Degree & Management Institutes, .Etc…..)

Company insignia will be placed on the backdrop of stage.

Sponsors name will be shown behind the ticket.

Banners being displayed in and around the premises

Complementary passes for the Event.

Acknowledging of sponsorship in the media ( Paper, Television, Radio and also in the online press release websites)

NOTE: Minimum sponsorship amount is 10,000 Rupees
We would request you to convey your confirmation at the earliest for the above event to our email id events@vcare.org.in or call us at 9966999007 9000531531 9908995216 9885217782

He is just that not into you

Alright, I really and seriously do not know what I should write about this movie. Well it’s all about what a girl/women interprets when a man has to say something to her. This movie is about showing how women end up assuming things which men do not tend to say and at time assuming them in a wrong way. It is about how women try to pull men into things which do not actually interest the men and always have to say to each other (just to console) he definitely loves you, he is really missing you when that is actually not the case on the men’s side.

It is a story about married couples, unmarried and living in, looking to get into a relationship, in a relationship but confused and looking for more being in a relationship. At the end as it always is, true love wins over everything and there is nothing beyond true love.

Some find it in the partner they are with and some find it outside crossing the boundaries after all it’s all you want in your lives (true love). Women seem to be more demanding when it comes to love and men do not seem to respond and always feel it as a complication and problem. This movie is just about how people desperately want to love and be loved.

It takes you through all ups and downs we now-a-days see in real life between couples but at the same time it sends out a good message of how you can keep moving in life with your relationships. A sweet movie with lots of drama, passion, emotion and comedy as well. Not really a bad watch, 3.5/5 is it deserves on a whole.

17 Again

Have you ever wanted to be young when you were a teenager? Did you ever wanted to go back so that you could change things and make them go your way? Well “17 Again” is all about a guy who wishes he was a teenager again and could choose better in life as currently he is not going through a good time and his marriage is at stake (at the divorce doors).

Mike O’Donnell re-lives cannot believe it when he just re-lives his life as a teenager when he wanted to and thought he could have chosen better when he was young, but when he goes through all over again he starts feeling that he was wrong and what he desired and chose 20 years back as a teenager was right and the best of his decisions ever made.

Mike gets a chance to be with his son and daughter at the high school and that is when he realises about a lot of things which he has been missing in his life all this time and perhaps has been ignoring. It’s always about what and who do you choose in your life and that is what Mike realises re-living his life as a teenager and also winning the hearts of his loving family.

The movie might make you as well, realise a few small things that you have always forgotten and have been worrying too much lately. A punch of humour and comedy that would make you not just smile but also laugh. Again a definite recommendation for those who really need a laugh and at the same time life’s learning’s, 3.5/5 is what it deserves to get.

How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days !!

A beautiful romantic comedy of all time I would say and a Hollywood movie that just made me cry, I can't believe it either. I am talking about "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days". Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) is a writer with one of the most famous fashion magazines in New York but has always loved to write not just about fashion but about politics, news and lots other stuff apart from fashion. It's a chance that she needs and when given an opportunity by her boss to write whatever she feels good about just after an article on how girls blow up with their boy friend’s seeking example of her friend who just had a break up with her boy friend last night.

Andie takes up this opportunity and wants to write it her way by getting to know a guy, date with him and then blow up with him on the tenth day after all it's all about losing a guy in 10 days. On the other hand Benjamin (Matthew McConaughey) an advertisement executive bets for wooing a girl in 10 days and bets it for a higher opportunity he wants to grab at job. And guess what both Andie and Ben end up meeting each other and trying all sorts of things to win for their own benefit.

How would Andie ever try and breakup with a guy who is trying to really woo her and how Ben would try to woo a lady who is trying to breakup with her. You got to see this flick and enjoy the roads and paths it takes you all along and makes you laugh, enjoy and cry as well. In the end as it is always said the journey to the destination called love never fails and that is what you got to look out for. A Thumbs Up for this beautiful romantic comedy from my side. Definitely if you love Andie and Ben it’s got to be a part of your personal collection too. My personal rating goes a 4 on 5.

2012

It might sound common to some people if I say exceptional, as Hollywood action movies are always full of Special Effects and nothing extraordinary in it. It might give you a feeling that 2012 is just another Hollywood flick with same action scenes, special effects and fight against the problems which we might experience in the future but believe it or not one of the most amazing movies in recent times I have seen.

It all starts with an Indian scientist rather a Geologist identifying that there is something very serious occurring beneath the earth and the world is about to experience the worst time which might even end up destroying the entire world and nothing would exist and from then on it is the fight against the nature and how this massive destruction would affect the lives of people across the globe and would anyone survive the transformation planet earth is about to undergo.

Amazing special effects and picturization. A definite watch and that too at a theatre near you. Thumbs up and a full 5/5 points from my side for this latest flick. Just ignore the people who are saying nothing really to watch for in the movie.

Chapter Chennai Closed !!

It all started on 29th May, 2009 when I got a call from my manager in Bangalore telling me that there was a requirement in Hyderabad although it was not for a US client and whether I would be interested in taking it up? How could I miss a chance to come back to Hyderabad (my hometown, my family, my friends). I instantly accepted the offer and asked him to do the needful. Haah... but since it was a Friday no discussion, nothing would be on until Monday (1st June, 2009). Well it always happens with me that I get a call informing me that I am being referred to some project and it is always on a Friday and I have to always wait until Monday. I know how I spend my weekends thinking and preparing for the discussion and this time it was the most important interview/discussion I was about to face because if I cleared through I would land up in my hometown and that too with a project.

Somehow the weekend passed by and as I was eagerly waiting for the call for discussion at the same moment I was a bit tensed also. Well as awaited and expected I did get a call on Monday but was from the consultant of the project and she ended up asking me about my work experience and telling me that I will get a call from the concerned Project Manager for a technical discussion. I did get a call from the Project Manager but I had to wait for 24 hours since he had called up only on the next day and that too after reminding the consultant that I haven't received any calls yet. I must say it was a call (that too an interview call within the organization) I have been looking forward to, afterall as said if everything went fine it would land me in Hyderabad. The Project Manager interviewd me in ETL tool Informatica and BO and the inerview lasted for an hour. Post the technical discussion the Project Manager told me that the Delivery Manager would have a discussion with me very soon and there would also be a Client interview scheduled but not in the same week and in the next week. Now this is again called luck. I already had waited for a long time I felt and 1 more week? It seemed as if the road to Hyderabad was not so easy as I was expecting. The next day (2nd June, 2009) I got a call from the Delivery Manager in the evening and he discussed about the role I would be playing in the project and what were the expectations from me. As per the discussion with the Delivery Manager it seemed as if 1 more week and I shall be in Hyderabad.

Days passed by and it was getting tougher and tougher to survive in Chennai with the thought that made me feel really happy (I will be going to Hyderabad very soon). After a long wait and repeated trouble (actually not trouble) to my manager the date for the Client interview was fixed and it was after a complete 20 days of the interview that the Projet Manager had taken and 25 days after I was actually referred for the project. Finally the D Day arrived and I was really tensed and as well excited as this discussion/interview with the client would bring change into my life. The Client interview went on fine as per me although I was bowled over completely by his very first question itself but then I regained and picked it from there and ended up quite satisfactorily.

25th June, 2009: The day when I can say the most happiest moment of life occured until now, at 12:05 PM I got an email from the Consultant who had called me on the very first day for the requirement stating that the Client had given a go ahead for my on-boarding into the project and that I was supposed to report in Hyderabad starting the next week. I could hardly believe what I read in that email and kept reading the email for no. of times over the next few days. I was all geared up to come back to Hyderabad and did not want to waste any time and that is what I did, I took the next day (Friday - 26-June-2009) bus and reached Hyderabad on Saturday (27-June-2009) morning. As I reached Hyderabad the only words I had was "Chapter Chennai Closed"

Learn to accept what you can't change

As intellectually evolved beings, we constantly analyse all events and endeavour to identify the underlying likely cause. This obsession for a

cause extends even to actions or events of a past birth.

It compels us to look into outer space and implicate the movement of celestial bodies like stars and planets to serve as plausible causes.

Science has, to a large extent, been able to explain physical phenomena. But finding a cause for every mundane facile event might be taking things a bit too far. When the cause of suffering is diagnosed to be a person, it leaves one with a sense of victimhood. And along with it come anguish, resentment and a deep desire for retribution. This process continues unabated and over time becomes a stockpile of hate.

The feeling of hate, initially restricted to the individual, tends to be highly contagious and one day it could acquire epidemic proportions. All violence, racial discord and inter-personal strife are just manifestations of this perceived 'victimisation' that is derived from our obsession to somehow fix the blame.

Can our intellect be diverted towards fixing the problem? Can we, at the apex of the evolutionary pyramid, be redeemed from the curse of this blame game? Can't we accept events as just a pattern emerging in the kaleidoscope of life, the pattern which has no bias or machinations towards any individual being? In reacting lies a sense of insecurity, a sense of threat perception and inevitably a sense of being a victim of conspiracy. This approach only leads to further suffering. Constant threat perception is the genesis of insecurity. Over a period this induces metabolic changes in the body leading to a host of ailments.

We have the choice of continuously resenting whatever comes our way or equanimously accepting the same. Liberation is when we intelligently accept people and circumstances as they come. A state of zero resentment. Rather than asking 'why' it would be more prudent to question ourselves 'how'. How do i fix the problem?

The conspiracy theorists are also egotists because they believe that they are the obsession of the conspirators. Every person is leading his own life and solving his own problems. No one really has the time to target another individual to the exclusion of other activities.

Harbouring bitterness makes the person an eternal sceptic. Regret and unconditional apologies from the perceived perpetrator are celluloid events far from reality. What can be set right is neither the circumstances nor the other person but our (mis)understanding.

Memory is recorded in the dominant temporal lobe, which also houses the limbic system. The limbic system is one of the oldest neurological constructs and is responsible for all interactive behaviour by the organism. It is intricately interwoven with survival and procreation.

The limbic system is responsible for emotional templates as well. So it is possible that every byte of data stored is coupled with an emotional pixel as well. It may have its origins in survival mechanisms. Every person or object is recorded with an element of pleasure or pain to help the organism in future interactions. But then evolution of the frontal lobes in humans makes for finer data processing. It provides for intelligent acceptance of the vagaries of persons and events beyond the binary code of either pleasure or pain.

Courtesy: Deepak Ranade