I was lost totally lost this evening..people kept calling me telling me how inspiring my speech was today..some said my presentation today was excellent so full of energy that they felt the whole room became energetic...another girlfriend said people around were whispering she is great she is great after I finished speaking..another friend said the whole audience felt touched, felt my passion, understood my emotion and connected with me the minute I started speaking..the team said I did a great job of all.. they just kept clapping and clapping..
I got half of the crowd who attended the meeting sign up my volunteer sign up sheet for various activities..
strangely I dont remember anything of what I spoke on that stage..All I remember is people clapping multiple times as I spoke..it was a strange experience..I debated all my life, spoke many times on stage and I always remember what I speak but this time I didnot..I was the group leader for community service and was trying to convince everyone in that lecture hall to sign up for volunteer activities..
And this meeting was before big people, four of my collegues spoke before me..and they were all dressed in suits..I just went in jeans and a sweater..I was too tired to dress up..and this wasnt a scientific presentation at all...I felt a lil out of place compared to everyone there as they were all so experienced than me..
but I guess speaking from my heart helped, I dont remember what I spoke, but people kept using my name multiple times during that 2 hr meeting saying we need madhavis kind of energy...
I started my talk I remember the first two sentences..they were..
" I see this room full of bright professionals contributing a lot to our company through ur work. But I also see in this room lot of human potential, lot of energy, lot of giving caring good human beings who can contribute a lot to community around us. That is the reason why we started this community service group to involve all of u in making a bigger difference to Indianapolis"
rest of the talk strangely I dont remember what I spoke..still feel overwhelmed by the impact it had on people..I get that often..People say I can convince anyone about anything when I speak...power of strong words I guess..power of speaking from my heart I guess what I truly felt..
anyways today was a memorable day..
Iam glad I got so many people inspired..
now it makes sense the card my best friend A gave me last week which said " madhavi u are a wonderful role model" she always told me I make an excellent sales woman and probably she was right..I now remember why our immigration senior associate told me 4 years back when I asked her why she selected me of all Indians in the company to represent them to meet senators, she said I had the right communication skills to convince senators in washington..may be she is right..
sometimes isnt it strange we dont understand who we are and how powerful our words can be , how much they can inspire others..
key is believe in urself..may be I should start believing in myself and power of my words too..and it is good to speak from ur heart I guess..u connect to people better..
interesting experience..
what else..
life is busy as usual..
scientist job, lots of drug screens and potential cures for medicines to look at..
evenings and nites reserved from some tv, some cooking, some reading...
Books Iam reading right now
"Obama's Dreams from my father". The more Iam reading the book, more I realise how real this man is, how tough his life was, how inspiring he is never giving up on his dreams whether it is changing lives of downtrodden in chicago suburbs or changing his own life constantly educating himself, it also is an interesting journey of a unique man with a kenyan father and a white american mother with white grandparents and black friends and an indonesian sister and an african brother letting all of them coexist, share his life and trying to figure out his own identity in all these confusing relationships making him a man belonging to a universal country..no wonder obama is so tolerant to everything. It is inspiring to see this man with no role models or father to guide him, gets down to drugs and everything and then turns back his life 360 degrees to turn out into a responsible adoloscent and a responsible socially conscious young man helping youth and also at the same time trying to help himself grow higher and higher finally getting a law degree from harvard..amazing journey of unique young man with unique heritage and background..a must read for all voters before u vote..
other books Iam reading right now.
surviving the slaughter by a ugandan refugee marie omatusu..
also revolutionary wealth written by famous futuristic writer alvin toffler..
two great books..
what else..
Movies I watched
sivaji - rajnikanthmovie..I never watched any of his movies before, so I wanted to see why people are so crazy about him in south..it was a pretty boring movie for me..And frankly I cannot see what is good about the movie..he acted just ok..had some strange mannerisms..shriya looks pretty like a doll cannot act much..dont know what the craze is all about..to me it was just a bearable or pretty hard to watch movie..pretty boring moving to watch too...
saw venkatesh telugu movie adavari matalaku arthale verule..meaning womens words mean something else..it was a lil better..comedy was ok in this movie..specially those scenes when they start showing the joint family in a village with no restrooms, everyone getting up early in the morning doing yoga together etc., trisha was ok..people say I look a lil like colors swati tv artiste all the time specially my uncles and some telugu friends..swati is in this movie..but then I dont think I look like her that much..may be a lil bit..venkatesh was ok ok.. not worth watching but better than sivaji, atleasts songs are ok in this movie..
what else..
politics is taking an interesting turn..
now indianapolis is in national news..obama hillary battle now is so intense now people are paying attention to states like indiana too..hillary was here a couple of times, obama will be in indy this week...I see obamas adv. on tv here..he has one adv. with his white mother, white grandparents photos in it, may be to get white votes..this adv. are very intelligent , short and sharp..lets see who wins..
good food I ate this week..
rice, achar, cabbage sabji, daal makhani, roti all home cooked by me..now Iam liking making and eating daal makhani a lot..
music I listened to thanks to MVs blog Iam hooked on to this song..pehli nazar I keep listening to this song often..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-yk-xXo6pY&feature=related
I also listened to a lot of norah jones this week
come away with me, nightingale, dont know why I didnot come are my fav.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBKcKQHZXks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP9m2pNFa60&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NDuj-MyVyA&feature=related
I dont know if Iam missing my soulmate or missing my dad or sad over this young leukemia patient sameers death whatever it is..Iam just listening to soft songs..
weekend is finally here..
saturday is telugu new year ugadi, so Iam going to go to temple that day..they have panchanga sravanam, interesting activities..sunday meeting friends for dinner..
life is going on..
lot of reading, lot of cleaning, lot of cooking to do..
