Dream A Dream
Remember me talking about NGO way back in february Link. After due diligence, I zeroed in to work as a volunteer in Dream A Dream Web. DaD is a Bangalore based NGO working on enhancement of lives of economically disadvantaged children. Every one of us has tons of fruitful memories about our childhood. We might talk about our school, toys, joyful summer vacation, host of friends, punishments and pains, jocous moments and many more. Imagine a section of children are being denied of their rightful pleasant childhood just because they born on disadvantage state and family. For no mistake of their own, those kids lead a pathetic life. DaD steps in their formative years and believes in providing a good life. DaD conducts various programs like story telling, teaching computer, encouraging sports, trekking, conducting cultural programs. And with all those programs, DaD aims to provide a normal livelihood for those kids. That normal livelihood are crucuial in imparting more confidence and open up a world of oppurtunity to move ahead. And I strongly believe in DaD's vision. Not lot of NGO's run with help of volunteers, they demand dedicated people. But DaD started as a voluntary organisation by 6 engineers and its work is purely based on volunteers's enthusiasm.
On my association with DaD, I went for volunteer orientation program in april and was waiting for suitable oppurtunity to contribute to their grand vision. I am now working with Dream A Dream computer program, where we impart basic computer training to group of children from the above mentioned background. In the forthcoming program, I volunteer to teach "How to draw using Ms paint" for kids. And here are my primitive ideas about the list of topics that I wanna cover in the training. Do feedback me about your thoughts after seeing the flash presentation. I am sure most of us would have stepped into teaching computer to kids at some point of time. We erred at some styles and found out better way to convey the information to kids. The intended audience for the training will be around 8-13 years. I am looking for more active and constructive feedback. Click on the flash file to move on to next slides.
Here is the revised version and it early version.
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not fair for Italy to get into quarter finals by the penalty kick route. I have a serious reservation about the judgement of referee to give away shootout chance at the final moments of the game. I wish he had given a free kick rather than that heart breaking decision. I was supporting Italy till that point, after this, I am not gonna be supporter for Italy, its not fair game at all. The sorrow face of that australian defence guy, who made that last minute foul, was undescribeable.
England Vs Ecuador: England played the game with the worst strategy ever, 4-1-4-1 pattern left Rooney in the top all alone. Whatever Rooney tried to do, there were couple of ecuador defence to stop. Add to that, none of the passes from other england players to Rooney were perfect, either he had to run a long way or passes came in midst of defence shield. If at all, Ecuador player Tenoria didn't miss the golden goal chance in first half, England would have had never reached the quarters. Lot of foul game too, if referee was not strict, the game would have had become the childish fight. Atlast my demi-god, england angel David Beckham saved the England face with that beautiful free kick. That goal put a lid on his critics mouth, people were questioning his leadership ability off-late, he was arraigned for failing to inspire the fellow team mates to perform. Expected a lot of quality game and interesting tactics from England team, for which they failed miserably. After that Beckham's goal, England team resorted to all sorts of dirty delay games, just to push off till the final whistle blow. Not at all fair game again. Till now, germany and brazil are the best two teams in the fray. My wishes are that good team should clinch the world cup and matches should be very interesting and competitive.
Yesterday's Brazil vs Japan was an interesting match to watch. Curse Indian timings, we got to wake up till night 12:30 to witness the great event. In first half, Japan was concentrating on the defence for long time. And they were successful in thwarting most of the attempts of Brazil forward players- the magical rectangle- Ronaldinho, Robinho, Ronaldo and Kaka. Japan broke the brazil defence ring once and fortunately they converted that attempt into a goal. There were tensions in the face of all brazil players and brazil fans, as they were one goal down at one point of time. Me and my frens were cursing Ronaldo during that time. He was accused then for missing most of the chances given by his team mates. Japan made sure two players were covering Ronaldo always. In the last minute before end of first half, thanks to beautiful cross passes from the other brazil players, Ronaldo scored his first goal in 2006 FIFA worldcup. After that only, we were relaxed. Can't really imagine, Brazil going back to dressing room with one goal down. I missed the second half as it was already late to fall into bed. Morning, woke up to hear the good news that Brazil won the match 4-1, dominating Japan in the entire second half. That was refreshing news for all Brazil fans like me. Viva Brazil, this is the way to go! Wish the finals will be between Germany and Brazil this time. My favorite stars for this season: Ronaldinho, Arjen Robben, David Beckham, Robinho, Messi, Klose, Lahm.
What happened in capital market in past 2 weeks is a tragedy. Huge correction made bearish change in mood of investors in India. Even in this hot moment, a hilarious story made people laugh out in dalal street. I read this story in this week's business today. The story goes like this:
