The Coffee Story - Search Within And You Shall Find It

This is one story which has been engraved in my mind and the hidden meaning in this story is so powerful and inspiring that it keeps surfacing on my mind from the deep corners where its been stored for ever. I don't remember where i heard this one, may be it was on TV, movie, magazines or newspaper.


"Its a beautiful morning, slightly drizzling which makes the morning even more beautiful. A person wakes up and decides to start the day by sitting in his veranda which gives him a view-to-die for of the beautiful ocean and having a hot cuppa of coffee.

But he is surprised to see that someone has already made his coffee and his lying on the dining table. He is pleasantly surprised, takes the coffee and walks towards his veranda. He is comfortably settled down and savors the beautiful morning view. He takes a sip of his coffee but is taken aback. The coffee is very bitter. He is so comfortable that he feels very lazy to go and get some sugar and a spoon to make his coffee sweeter. So he decides to have the bitter coffee itself. He is clearly a bit unhappy but then that's the choice he has made.

He has finished his coffee half way thru, when the next sip totally surprises him again but this time in a positive way. The coffee becomes a bit sweeter this time.

He notices that the nearer he reaches to the end of the cup and finishing his coffee the sweeter it becomes. Now he is almost reached the end when he sees something and starts laughing at himself.

At the bottom of the coffee cup there were sugar cubes. All he had to do to make it sweeter was to stir. "


Now it may seem like any other story with a good funny pay off but its a beautiful analogy to relate to each and everyone's of our life.

The coffee is our life. When you have reached the end of the cup and can see the base, we have entered the twilight zone of our lives. We all search for happiness, peace, calm around us and by running over other material stuff like money, fame, prosperity, recognition, attention of others and so on, but we fail to realize that the real happiness lies within us all. All we have to do is stir.

So before its too late, stir and seek inside yourself and i can assure you that, you WILL definitely find whatever you are looking for.


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Weekly Movie Recommendations : 31st January 2009 - 6th February 2009

Der Untergang aka Downfall (2004)

Language - German

Genre - Drama/History/War

Directed By - Oliver Hirschbiegel

Cast - Bruno Ganz, Alexander Maria Lara

Whats It About - Traudl Junge (Lara), the final secretary for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Why To Watch It - This is almost perfect cinema, beautifully shot, acted, lit, staged and on and on.

What we have here is an exercise in patience. A film that allows us to watch the disintegration of the largest empire in modern history, from the inside out. Beginning after the start of the siege of Berlin, the bulk of the film takes place in the cramped bunkers below the city, where Hitler and his officers are trapped like rats on a sinking ship, aware of their fate, but not smart enough, not willing enough, or maybe incapable of escaping the fates they created for themselves.

This is a daring, brilliant film with a virtuoso performance by Bruno Ganz as Hitler. He shows us that beneath the genocidal, world changing shell of hatred that the globe knew, Hitler was still that petty, hate filled, failed art-student that he was before becoming the greatest villain in history.

This movie will definitely touch you ! Simply Awesome !

Celebrating Our Mistakes

Came across this nice article about why we should celebrate our mistakes and learn from it instead of brooding or feeling sad over it, because if not for the mistakes we may even cease to grow in life.

Read more right here.



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A New TV Show - Lie To Me : Great, Specially For Animators

Came to know about this new TV Show - Lie To Me, from Andrew's post on Spline Doctors.


This is what Andrew has to say about this show -

"There is a new show on Fox called Lie to Me. It is based on the work of Paul Ekman who has given many lectures at Pixar about everything from Micro Expressions to How to Spot a liar. His stuff is amazing. For animators, its pure gold to understand the details that your face gives away during a conversation."


I just saw the first episode and it was absolutely fantastic and more so when i saw it from an Animator's perspective. So much can be said just by observing some one's face or their body language.

So if you are an animator, you just cant miss this one, but even otherwise its a cool show to watch !


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AWN TV Oscar Showcase 2009

Now you can watch the trailers and the clips from the Oscar nominated shorts and features on AWN TV


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