Saturday Movie - Pulp fiction

After skating today, as usual I ended up in my friend's place and he invited me to the idea of watching Pulp fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino. I had seen this movie already may be a few years ago when Star Movies was the talk of the town in India. I thought I could watch it again as anyway I forgot what's the movie was all about. So here writing about it now...

I could tell an old joke from the movie, but I'm afraid that you wouldn't laugh...

This was kind of the typical American movie with lots of 'F' and 'M' words. If you are bothered by the use of those words, I wouldn't advise even taking a peek at this movie. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rates the movie "R". The movie is nothing but a day's life may be two day life of two mob men, their boss, a boxer and a couple of bandits. Parts of their lives are mixed and matched by pieces and presented to us. One great thing about this movie is the dialogue delivery. Especially I like the commanding voice of Samuel L Jackson and his delivery of Ezekiel 25:17 from the Bible...

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon those with great vengeance and with furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know that my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

I was quite not sure why he is stating that piece before he kills somebody. Answer came towards the rear end of the movie, he says that he memorized those lines to just say something dramatic before the killing. Well, it made a very dramatic scene before they start shooting like hell. The best part is after Jules (Sam's character in the movie) admits that he doesn't event understand what those words were, and goes on to break them into pieces and try to find the meaning. That was one of a kind direction.

Do you still want to hear that old joke? Ok, here it goes...

Three tomatoes are walking along... papa tomato, mama tomato and baby tomato. Baby tomato is lagging behind so Papa tomato goes and squishes him and says "catch-up"

Keep laughing

later...

Business Presentation and Me

Business Presentation Skills - one of the many trainings we need to attend to better showcase ourselves in this world. I'd always look for such trainings. However this time I was not interested, reason, it was scheduled on a beautiful sunny Friday evening (which is of course rare in Seattle) for 6.5 hrs. I had another session the next Sunday, full day and that's another story. Since I nominated before the weather changed, I had no other choice other than stepping into the training room half-heartedly. All those half-heartedness existed only till the start of the session.

This was my first session with Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI). Ms. Malini Sathi flew in from India to improve us in this soft skill, which I came to know not only useful for business, but also for day to day life. In spite of me complaining of the duration at the start, we ended up overshooting the schedule and at the end we have to cut short the discussions mainly because it is getting too late. All those are mind opening discussions. I may not be able to convey all the topics we discussed in the Business Presentation front due to IPR issues, but I think I can tell the best part.

The best part of the session is the video taping of us giving a presentation. First we are asked to make an introduction of ourselves for 3 minutes. It doesn't sound that long, but when we stand there facing others, it's sure a lot long. The whole effect of the session is when we get the comments from the audience and the realization in us when watching ourselves making the presentation in the screen. When we see what mistakes we make, it makes a great impact to correct ourselves rather than somebody telling us. For the second presentation, we show cased ourselves better. In that way, this session is a huge success. Thanks to Ms. Malini Sathi for the great session!

I'm still waiting for the copy of the video of my presentation, once I get it, I'll post it here

"Only you can correct your mistakes, none other"

later...