Friday, November 21, 2008

channelising energies

Wednesday was a difficult day at work. I was running around the college campus looking for the Principal’s signatures on the posters to put them up. He wasn’t around. I worked on a power point presentation for a future training programme for a corporate. The entire thing came up in 25 minutes. It was another experience. I will remember, coming up with art in such little time is always demanding. It came out well in the end. It was a great day, very satisfactory as all the posters were finally put up all around the campus.

Thursday was a bad, bad day. THIS IS NOT IN CONCERN WITH THE WORK. Early in the morning as I was running up the office stairs I lost my cell phone. I was put off for the entire day. I was furious. But then I found a way to channelize all the negative energy. I came up with an astounding poster for the Proscenium Theatre Workshop. It gave me a lot of confidence. I felt great. We went and got it printed and felt great. But we had forgotten about the University logo. It was great that I made a mistake. There was something which I could carry forward. But the entire morning incident had put me off to such a great extent. I just couldn’t work on any longer. I took it easy after that.

Learning for the day: I went looking for what was lost.

the adventure begins-again

After such an eventful week, I couldn’t have expected more adventure. But that was not the case on this Monday morning. The start was indeed as eventful as last week if not more. There was a lot to do yet again.

I began with a great session of applied theatre. Since there was so much to reflect on after last week, it was a very interesting session. There were so many instances which I could relate to the book. Later in the afternoon I went to the various dailies in town for the press releases. It was an adventurous and taxing session. Running around, it took me a lot of town to get the work done. We hope all goes on well. We are eagerly anticipating the press releases. It seriously was a task of patience.

Learning of the day: We all come into this world with certain objectives and missions; with a longing to do something from deep within. But most of us fail to recognise and harness it. We fail to get the thunder in our hooves.

Tuesday was another great day. My artistic talents came to the fore, talents which I never knew I possessed. I worked on the posters for advertisement of the Playback Theatre workshop. I went and got them printed and was more than just satisfied with the outcome of the day. There was so much to learn from the entire day. This included bargaining with the printing department at Staples. Something I’m just not good at. I was finally satisfied when I saw a few posters on the boards of the college. It was a great feeling. There will be an even better felling when enquiries begin to flow in regarding the workshops. Later in the evening, I visited the office of the Indian Express, as I could not send in the press release there on Monday evening.

Learning of the day: Mostly, we do not practice our highest gifts because we don’t know what they are. We never realise that if something comes naturally and easily to us, it is mostly a gift. We never nurture it or make room for it in our lives and which is why it all dies out after a certain point in time. The only way one can find the highest gift is by following the heart.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Thursdy, Friday, Saturday

Time has been the biggest enemy for me in the last few days. Continuing from where I left, Thursday was another great, eventful day.

The whole day involved tremendous amount of field work. I and Shivaraj were running around the University Campus looking for contacts in the press and for holding meetings for our upcoming workshops. It was a tedious job. Was a great day overall.

Friday was a great day as well. Although I did get frustrated and angry at times, I was contented by the end of the day as I had experienced a lot. Early in the day, a person form the international affairs department came into the office and asked us to change the entire presentation for Saturday’s performance. It was tasking and we needed to change it by the evening, it was difficult and challenging, but it was fun. I put in a lot of effort but as I showed them what they had asked for, they found an error in that too. The error was just what they had asked me to add to the presentation. It really put me off. I spent the entire day adding the material and by of it, the wanted me to remove it again. But I still carried the right lesson forward, completed the task with perfection and understood that time was money.

Finally the longest day arrived. The show was scheduled for the evening and the rehearsals happened in the morning hours. I was at work for almost the entire day. It was great fun and the show was just amazing, although I couldn’t watch most of it. The week ended on a great high.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

intense workouts

Three weeks into my internship with Script Peoples Theatre, I feel great about the entire situation. A sense of belonging to the place has set in to me. I know for sure that this time around I’m in the right place.

It was a great Monday after a nice weekend. I completed another part of the book, Jesus in Blue Jeans. There actually is so much around us to learn from which we tend to overlook. Every person, every situation, a journey, a meal, a song has so much to tell that we cannot imagine. But we overlook it all. We do not have time to process the information going into our minds. The book has helped me immensely. There is an evident change which I can feel coming into myself.

This week has been really hectic for me. There have been so many things going on all around; I haven’t even found time to regularly update my posts. The week started off with my whole marketing day. I was busy working on videos for upcoming workshops. It almost took up my entire day.

On Tuesday, we were busy working on the press releases and documentation of all the material for the same. Yet again, it was a difficult day but by the end of it all, we were content on having all the material ready for being sent in. It was amazing feeling as how so much was going on all around me, simultaneously.

Come Wednesday, came in a new challenge. There is a seminar going to be held for the international students on Saturday. We needed to create a 5-6 minute visual for them. It is based on the song We are the World by Michael Jackson. It was a difficult challenge. We’re halfway through it and we hope to complete it as soon as possible.

This is a gist of my eventful week so far as all the three days so far, I have been involved in different projects. There is such a tremendous high at the end of each day’s work that one wants to come back for the surprises of the next day.

I sincerely apologise for not being able to update the blog posts on regular intervals. Cheers to all. 

Monday, November 10, 2008

successful launch....cruising time.

After a good night’s sleep and good healthy homemade food, I felt in great shape to come to work today. Another Saturday was passing as I completed three weeks of my internship with Script Peoples Theatre. I felt great. I had done so much in such little time; it was just an amazing feeling.

I began with my reading session, and then I worked on the marketing strategy for the workshops and finished with my blog session for the day. It went smooth as ever. Like always I learnt a lot. But more than all of that, I have a feeling of success; tremendous amount of confidence has come into me as I can foresee myself 6 months from now. I can what I would be, I feel differently from what I always felt about myself. I find myself so busy that I do not realise how quickly time had passed by. In a month’s time from now, I would be independently conducting a workshop for thirty students of the twelfth standard. It is such an amazing feeling; all of a sudden life feels so much more exciting and fulfilling.

I feel successful because my ‘BIG DECISION’ paid off amazingly well and I feel great about it. I am looking forward to the many more weeks to come with Script Peoples Theatre.

the first real challenge...:-)

Finally after so many open windows, I felt a challenge was thrown towards me. A difficult one too.

I reached work at 7 am in the morning. I needed to go along with the Madcap team for the semi-final round of Abhinaya, the inter-college theatre fest conducted by Shri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College. The entire scenario was pretty exciting till yesterday evening, as I thought I would be watching another brilliant performance by the ultra talented Mad-Cap team. But it was much more than that. It was a true test of endurance as 7 members of their team could not make it to the competition due to certain reasons and they had to proactively handle the situation and manage with a lesser bench strength. Most other teams would have backed out of a situation like that, but they made adjustments according to the needs of the play and put up a flawless performance. I along with Shivaraj provided them with all that we could to put up the show. I can only hope that the team gets selected for tomorrow’s final where they can go in with the full team and shake the stage with their vibrant and energetic play.

I came back to office by about 12:30 and immediately went off for lunch, but too much of eating outside took a toll on me and I felt giddy. I did my reading session post lunch and went back home.

It was undoubtedly an adventurous day right from being less on team strength, to being misled by the rick drivers, to the bad lunch that I munched on. I can only hope for the best for the Mad-Cap team and would love to go to work tomorrow with complete control on my stomach.

Till then Cheers to all. Keep in good health. :-)

Friday, November 7, 2008

awakening - 1

A great day passed by as I learnt about self realisation. There are actually several things which lie somewhere deep down in our subconscious minds and come to the fore only when we read or hear about the same. It is so weird that with every passing day, I am discovering several such small things which can shape or break one’s life and career. It feels like my friend (Jesus in Blue Jeans) seems to know all about me and is just helping me realise the thoughts in my subconscious mind.

Today I was reading about the law of attraction, of how we can shape out futures by our thoughts. I also read about success being cumulative, when I was reading this today, I said to myself, ‘Hey wait a minute, I know all of this from before, why have I never been using these laws from before.’ it was pretty amazing how we want success overnight even though we know that it is cumulative and takes time to come.
It was an amazing session of reading.

Then I took some time discussing about the press releases to be sent into the various dailies. I got a new assignment, a really challenging one too. I need to script a play, a very different one this time around. I was stunned by the situation when I saw it at first. Wait for the magic to happen. Wait for this another situation to turn into a dramatic play.

Then after lunch, we discussed about the marketing strategy in relation with the several workshops coming up towards the end of this month. I took initiative and chalked out a plan for the same. Planning to implement the same from Monday were just trying to give ourselves more time to think about the various ways in which we can go about the same. It seems to be a very daunting yet interesting task all the same. It’s so much fun venturing out into the various aspects of theatre which I had never thought about before.

As my day ends, I feel highly content with the proceedings; I see my subconscious mind rising from deep sleep.

“It is fascinating how small drops of water add up to rivulets, some such small rivulets add up to streams, similarly streams add up to rivers. Finally oceans of water are created. The same things happen in the circle of success. We need to remember that success in life is not a destination, it is a process.”

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

responsibility. hmmmm.not bad

With every passing day, a new sense of achievement, of liking my work is setting into me. I feel great. After my reading session today, I continued with working on the press releases. We hadn’t thought about the pictures earlier and those which were available to us were also way too large to be sent through e-mail. We faced a problem there. I did come back home and send the required material to the timeout magazine (Bangalore edition) but there were a few problems I faced with the others. I plan to sort them out at work tomorrow.

Then I continued to work on my second presentation. It felt great. We actually ended up doing a lot of work in just about 40 minutes. The presentation seems to coming out pretty well till now. It is something different that I’m working on this time around. Hoping for the best.

After a nice lunch I discussed about the ongoing Theatre Fest at Ranga Shankara. I needed to visit the place to get a few details. That was where my day ended. It was a good feeling; I thought I was becoming more responsible towards my work. I had something really important to come back home and complete, which I eventually did.

Learning of the day, ‘The true worth of all things around us is never really realised till we lose them. We tend to undervalue things at our workplace, in our relationships and if that is not enough, even parts of our lives.’

the challenge. part1

After another eventful week, today, I was really very excited about my work; I was going to begin work on new tasks and assignments. Halfway through the last week, I had completed most of my pending tasks and the week ended with my open window sessions. So I haven’t really been doing the routine tasks since almost 5 days.

I reached office, my friend Jesus (in blue jeans) was waiting for me as usual. I looked around the colourful office walls, painted in beautiful shades of red, green, blue and yellow, closed my eyes and waited for my system to respond from within.

I got the green signal and began working on the book. I felt great. I was reading the book after 4 long days, I missed out so much. But I hadn’t lost anything. The memories of what my perspective should be were still afresh. I had learnt how to maintain poise in my life.

Then I started working on a new project, the blending of still pictures and video clippings. It sounds confusing but I shall complete it and post it if possible for everyone to have a view of what it looks like. The entire world of visual effects is simply mind-blowing.

Then after lunch a surprise package was thrown towards me. Some information about workshops had to be sent in for press releases. That too to 6 different dailies and 1 fortnightly. I was assigned the task to do a research and find out the e-mail id’s where the same could be sent. It was a task on improving my skills in marketing. It was a challenging task, as no news paper had it on them , neither did their websites. What I liked about the task was that I needed to go out of the way to get the required information. The mails need to be sent in by tomorrow and I hope I have all the addresses by then.

In all it was a great day, the first day of the week is always an exciting day. There’s so much to do after a lazy weekend. TOTALLY REJUVENATING.

Monday, November 3, 2008

long day...completely amazing.

Today was special if I need to describe the day in one simple word. The day began with a great reading session. It is surprising that I actually read and learnt so much from a self improvement book. (I generally do not read such books; I’m more into fiction and such things) It was a nice feeling to see a change in myself, be it even in this manner. If nothing else, I have begun enjoying change. It is difficult to enjoy and appreciate change.
I completed work on the script, finally after about 10 days after I first watched the play. Two tasks in two days and I silently said to myself ‘good job Paarth’ I felt incredible.
Then I did something which I had never done before at work. I was told to watch the movie ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne. I had read the book but watching this movie was a completely different experience. I was stunned. There is so much that is there to learn from it that I would have to make an independent post on the movie. It is definitely coming soon.
Then we proceeded to the auditorium as there was a national level competition being held by the National Law School there and our Mad-Cap team from journalism and communications was participating there. It was an awesome performance put forward by the highly tremendous team. There was so much energy on the stage that the small audience present there was stunned. The content was different, inevitable truths of life such as envy, jealousy, hatred, gluttony etc were all depicted in the play. If people there did pay attention to what was being done on stage, they must definitely have learnt a lot.
One simple convention of being successful in theatre is by being different, it mostly works if one can back it up with the goods.

my first presentation.

Another bright morning, lead to the beginning of another great day at work which gave me tremendous satisfaction by the end.

I began with reading the book, and like always I felt fresh and positive about the day and my learning. I learned about how change was inevitable and completely necessary in our lives and that we should try and avoid being attracted to the form and appearance of things which we generally are. It is something that we know very well but never implement. It was good to know how such things can change lives.

The second session gave me a sigh of relief from the previous day as I could get another copy of the play on the script of which I was working. Finally I could on with the script which due to one reason or the other had been getting delayed since over a week of time.

The third was the one of the most satisfactory sessions I’ve had in a long time. I completed the presentation I was preparing for the students of Dhramaram College. With sound effects and transitions I had completed the compilation of pictures and photographs of their workshop. It was a great feeling. I felt extremely elated. I showed all the members of the faculty the same and was appreciated for it.

By the end of the day I feel extremely satisfied by my outcome today and am looking forward to the weekend as it holds a lot of surprises and challenges for me as there are theatre competitions and events coming up to keep me busy and buzzing.

Learning of the day...if u put in sincere efforts into anything, you are bound to enjoy the results, no matter what...