Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Way to Alibaug Crazy But Cautious , Long Run But yet Intersting

What do you think about the Subject??
It's all about the Mission Alibaug targetted on 31st December 2003.Total Participants 8+1.....(1 Joined in Alibaug)
All this is happend may make u feel that it is pre-planned but it's not absolutely.Actually we (participants) all have certain kind of feeling that we should celebrate the Pre new year Eve somewhere else.. So the thinking moved to the various places then we settled down for the Rajgad.
On the day of 31st Evening some of us are turned back 'cuz the personnel problems but still we have tried to get the best we can do for the next hours.So the quick move was decided to the Alibaug .
So the Team headed on Bikes to the Pune-Mumbai high-way at night-time. We reached Lonawala after couple of hours later & stayed for some time in the Dhaba-Hotel whatever u may call it.
The Hotel had got the Perfect Environment for some of us to get involved into
the ongoing Music & Dance out there.Non-Vegeterian had Enjoyed the food very much ....So U may get the Point...???
We cautiously moved to the Highway & reched Alibaug by 3:00 am Not to say that we celebrated the exact Dragon Time 12:00 pm of 31st on the way itself
That night we got into Vishwajit's Room.Some of us remains awaken whole night later.Then later-day we all had a lots of fun on beaches....I think only those who actually were present there can share it over here , can't u?
Thus we Njoyed this Biker Boyz Troom-Tream Trip a lot.
Participant for the
1. Yogesh W.
2. Rahul S.
3. Prashant W.
4. Sachin D.
5. Dhananjay W.
6. Sujit D.
7 & 8 were probably unknown to some of we team Members also.

Monday, July 12, 2004

The Neo .... Real-Life Matrix Hero

The Neo ……..
“Everything that has beginning has the End”. This is the dialogue from the famous movie Matrix Revolution. In which the super-hero Neo remains survived despite of the Agent’s strong will & power to kill him. Although all this happens in a movie and the character are impractical ones, I believe that superman exists in real life too. I felt it strongly when I came to know about the superhero… Christopher Reeve.
Christopher Reeve portrayed the leading heroic role in 1978 in the movie Superman. He made Superman believable by playing him as a hero with brains and a heart.
In May of 1995, it was during the cross-country portion of such an event in Culpeper, Virginia, that Reeve's Thoroughbred, Eastern Express, balked at a rail jump, pitching his rider forward. Reeve's hands were tangled in the horse's bridle and he landed head first, fracturing the uppermost vertebrae in his spine. Reeve was instantly paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe. Prompt medical attention saved his life and delicate surgery stabilized the shattered C1-C2 vertebrae and literally reattached Reeve's head to his spine.
When some of the people heard this news their first thought for the accident was like “It might had happened during the shooting of some of his movie”. But later on all come to know that it’s a part of Inventing. . He loved the sport called "Eventing" which combined the precision of dressage with the excitement of cross-country and show jumping.
In these activities as well as the rest of his life, Reeve sets obstacles for himself and then works to overcome them. He believes that progress in one's life comes from setting your own challenges and then doing the best you possibly can to succeed. An accomplished pianist, he composed and practiced classical music several hours each day and said in an interview that had he not been an actor, he would have liked to have been a professional musician. But Reeve was also a superb athlete who did his own stunts in films and an avid outdoorsman. He earned his pilot's license in his early twenties and twice flew solo across the Atlantic in a small plane. He also flew gliders and was an expert sailor, scuba diver, and skier. By the 1990's, horses had become his passion.
Less than a year after his injury, Reeve began to accept invitations for speaking engagements. Traveling with a team of aides and nurses he has crisscrossed the country, speaking at the Peter Lowe Success Seminars, at universities, benefits, and at many functions relating to disability issues. He then started narrating the documentary films, directing films and returned to the acting.
Reeve says: "This accident has been difficult for all of us. But it hasn't frightened anybody away. We all miss the activities. My daughter, Alexandra, and I loved to ride together. My son, Will, and I would play piano and sing together. Matthew and I loved to play tennis. We all used to sail together. I'd be kidding you if I said I didn't miss that. Ultimately, you have to accept that being together is more important than doing together. My spinals are still working good as they were before the accident. I desire to live like this in my remaining life"
What a tragedy! The superman on the silver screen has to sit in the chair and is unable to move his fingers. There is even one more superman the world has observed against whom the superman in the Christopher Reeve would have leaned.
Bauby, Jean-Dominique, editor-in-chief of French Elle has written the bibliography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, not with the help of fingers, pen, typewriter, computer but with the eyelid (not even lids) just one eyelid.
It was happened so far, Bauby’s the father of two young children and editor-in-chief of French Elle, suddenly in a hospital bed, suffered a sudden and severe stroke in the brain stem and emerged from a coma several weeks later to find himself in a rare condition called "locked-in syndrome" (LIS). Although his mind was intact, he had lost virtually all-physical control, able to move only his left eyelid.
The right eye was sealed (because he was unable to close by his own, so there is possibility of ulcer). There was no hope of significant recovery, unable to speak or move his body, connected to intravenous and feeding tubes.
There was only single way for him to communicate with the rest of the world it was the eyelid. Sandrin was not only a speech therapist but was a Guardian Angel for him. For Jean she prepared a usable language like Morse code according to the French language. Drawing out the letters in the language which are mostly used she prepared a chart. Suppose if character S is the one mostly used then it is listed first. She went on reading the list, when she came across the letter that Jean wanted, he just pluck the eyelid and the letter was written. Later onwards others also helped in this task. In this way writing (or plucking) letter-by-letter, word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence Jean told his story to the world.
On Father's Day, his wife Sylvie and his children Theophile and Celeste, take him to the nearby beach. Theophile dabs the saliva that escapes his father's lips with a Kleenex, while his daughter, holding his head, covers him with kisses and says, "You're my dad, you're my dad." He watches them play and in a silent moment, his wife holds his hand and both reflect over their lives that have been ruined since Bauby's stroke. Other expeditions to the beach allow him to smell cooking potatoes and he is appropriately placed down-wind to savour the aroma. My nostrils quiver with pleasure he writes, as they inhale a robust proletarian odour - intoxicating to me, but one that most mortals cannot abide.
This real life superman passed away on March 9, 1997 teaching the world about the unbeaten battle, desire to struggle till end.


- Long back, I read about both these superman in some publication (don't remember now which one. In any case, I would have liked to point reference to that source). It is just my attempt to share their incredible life story with this post.

Sunday, July 11, 2004

Here me go .... my first step into Blog'ing

Well Dhanno,
It is long time back that....... you are really being able to write something
Anyway, I think it can not be Anne's Pages But somethings which I feel are good
and may be bad ..but worth to mention.

"When I peered slowly in to dark
to know my life
I realized
my two eyes are enough for it"