Game of Clouds

Coca Cola: Khushiyan lutao Crazy Kehlao

In the series of Cold Drink ads, you can not move away without taking a name of Coca Cola. Coca Cola has an ad airing on TV for some good time. Its mention here is though bit late. The theme of the ad is "Open happiness", which is very good concept and surely a need of the time. Ad talks about involving yourself  in some such acts which otherwise would appear crazy but it can change the mood of a person and helps him/her relax, have a laugh and forget tensions for the moment. The ad comes to you as a beautiful surprise and might even inspire someone to do some crazy but useful act.The music of the ad is very simple and comes under the category of melody. The acts designed are from our day to day life. Lyrics are very simple and very beautiful to follow.Here are the lyrics:

Theme: If being kind to strangers seems crazy, then call me crazy
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Haan haan main crazy hoon

crazy crazy
Haan haan main crazy hoon
crazy crazy
Kisi ko smile dena, kisi ko khush kar jana
agar ye sab crazy hai , haan main crazy hoon
haan haan main crazy hoon

Kisi kaa din banana, khushi yunhi lootana 
agar ye sab crazy hai, haan main crazy hoon

Yes I am crazy, I am crazy
crazy crazy crazy
Haan haan main crazy hoon

Yes I am crazy, I am crazy
crazy crazy crazy
Haan haan main crazy hoon

crazy crazy
Haan main crazy hoon

Kya aap duniya ko khush karne ke liye crazy hain?
Are you crazy enough to make the world happier?
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The ad is inspired by its global version which apparently shows some actual crazy acts by people that helped change people's lives. Here is a link to this ad on YouTube. Unfortunately, the sound track has been banned for the ad for some copyright issue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UNys5Y0fwZ4
Here is a link I found on youtube to the ad where you can watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zejH20F6VrA
But apparently this particular Coca Cola ad has some copyright infringement issues, so you might be disappointed not to find it running.

Prepare for the Race

Learning French - I - Introduction

I am starting a new thread by name - Learning French.

I always wanted to learn French and so I joined Alliance Française. But, learning French or any other any language for that matter in institutes like Alliance Française or similar ones could be problematic for some.

Normally, they give lessons which run continuously for two hours. So, five sessions in a week, means 10 hours of foreign language dose, which is pretty much hectic for a normal mind. If you are a dedicated Foreign language learner, you may survive. But if you wish to learn it as a hobby, managing it with your regular routine work, then soon it starts turning into a burden. 

Learning a new language is not easy. You have to remember  new words, their meanings, their pronunciations and  then how to use them in a sentence making sense. By the time you come to senses, understanding first set of words you learnt, you are bombarded with another set. Over the time, it becomes difficult to keep track of what you have learnt and what you are learning.

Later part of this exercise, is to be comfortable with the words when some body speaks it to you. I went through this situation when people are talking to me French and I could not understand a single word, even though I had taken some elementary lessons. So, I started learning it on my own. Making use of internet    lessons, help from colleagues.
One thing, I learnt is learning French or any other language sitting in a class 2 hours per day, 5 days a week is not the way. Its a slow process which automatically comes to you as you spend some small time regularly. Even now, I am not much comfortable with French, but now it hasn't remained totally alien language to me. I am still struggling with the pronunciation part and so the conversation, which is a difficult part if you have been speaking English for some time.I will share some simple French words and their usages as I learnt out of my experience in this thread. The lessons will be designed keeping the audio lessons given by Michel Thomas as a base. He gives a very sensible and simpler way to learn European languages. But they won't be strictly following his lessons. I will be modifying them as per my experience of learning French. It will be a fun exercise to learn some french with out putting pressure on mind.

Looking forward to create a good thread to learn French and share with all.

Breakfast lane

Wikimapia.org

Wikimapia.org

Have you used this site? Well, its not a new utility to discuss, but, I have been using it for some time and it could prove pretty useful for some. I recently restarted running in the morning. Now, I don't have anything to measure the distance I run. If it is a regular road, it is possible to drive the same distance in the vehicle and measure the distance. But some times you run on a track where vehicles don't go. I initially started measuring time. Then knowing  a normal jogging speed which is normally around 8-9 kms/hr, I tried to calculate the distance I run using distance=speed * time. But this is not a very satisfying way for one who wishes to make note of exact distance. So, I started using Wikimapia.org.

It is a very useful utility. It allows you to measure distance anywhere on the earth provided the picture is available. Depending on the quality of the picture, you can access difficult and non measurable paths on the earth. You can click on the path and respective distance is measured. You can go on clicking on the path to add up the distance. Here, is a distance measurement of the walking/running track around the Shivaji Park in Mumbai. Though the quality of the picture available is not great, but still you can measure distance. 

If you wish, you can measure the distance passing through the Park also where vehicles won't be allowed.

So, now no matter where you run, measure the distance.

Go Green