I woke up at 7.30am in the morning. First I prepared lunch for my father.Then I prepared breakfast also for him. After that I packed lunch for him at 10′o clock. When my father left I prepared breakfast for my brother. When my brother left for his office, I cleaned the room. Then I took bath. Then I had brunch, after brunch I was ready for public speaking course. I left home at 1 0clock, and reached institute at 2.15 pm. After the class, I would go home and take some rest. After that I will prepare dinner and serve it to others. Then I will take dinner myself. After dinner I will watch T.V. and I will go to bed at 11′o clock.
How I became confident
I had my session with Anurag on 28th of Nov, 09 for the first time.
It took me almost 30min to locate the conference room. I am expecting a lot from this course and today Anurag has also asked us to expect too much from him. Later on he explained that when participants expect too much he performs well .
Hence I have great expectations out of this course
Pankaj Jain
‘FANTASY OF GRAND GANGA TOUR’
AAIPS had undertaken an excursion tour of the grand ganga for the AAIPS students, members and guests. It was a two days tour starting from onset of night of 1st of oct.2009 and we returned on the mid night of the 3rd of oct.2009.
The tour was full of fantasy, amusements, entertainments, songs, and other presentations by almost all the participants. On the evening/night of 1st oct. 2009, we assembled at Kamala Nagar AAIPS office and started our journey. All the participants joined the tour and we reached the Delhi –U.P. border around mid night. After completing the travel formalities we proceeded towards our destination.
Every body was vide awaken and in a cheerful mood as he was waiting for the time to bring out the heart for making the time more and more entertaining and pleasure some. There were Antakshari, singing of songs, quiz/puzzles, jokes, dance, acting and what not.
The entire programmes were of course guided /anchored by Anurag Aggarwal.
First of all there was antakshari competition between the occupants of the right hand seats and the occupants of the left hand seats in the bus. Later on there was the dance and music session which continued for late hours. The bus had the small tea halt in between the on words journey.
We reached our camp site at around 9.00 A.M. the camp name is “Wonder lost camp“, in grand ganga area which is around 25 K.M. from Rishikesh on highway to Badrinath. The camp site is on the edge of river ganga and we had to walk down about 1 K.M. the hill and rocky terrain, rough footsteps from the high location where the bus had the halt.
The camp site was very amazing. We were on the right side edge of the river ganga. There was sandy ground in a width of about 50 Meters. Small size elegant tents were erected having the capacity of 2 or 3 persons in each tent. All of us got refreshed there and took the breakfast.
Around 11.00 A.M. on 2-10 09, the entire team proceeded for Rafting in river ganga. The starting point was about 6 K.M. upstream of the camp site. All of us were accommodated in three Rafting boats. We sailed down and reached the camp site around 1.30 Noon. We had lunch at the camp site and after one hour we again proceeded for the downwards journey. It was a very fantastic journey, full of joy and adventure. We nine persons were rowing in one boat. We were required to follow the instructions of the guide.
There were over 10 raffles in the river course and crossing the raffle was really an adventurous, courageous, and dangerous game although every body was wearing the safety life jackets. The boats used to tilt up & down. Water waves used to enter in the boat (raft), and I was throwing out the filled water in the boat/raft. It was very adventurous scene and every body in the boat used to cry/scream when the boat used to encounter the high tide and fast flowing water in the river. While sailing down we reached a very interesting location and got down from the raft on the right bank of the river. It was the bathing site with shallow water and there is a warm water spring coming down from the hill side. There is also a hill of about 15Ft. height and the people used to jump from the height right in to the deep water of the river. It was really a fun time. Every body wanted to have a dip in river and enjoy. There was all amusement and pleasure everywhere. After an hour or so we all again boarded our boats and proceeded further downwards towards Rishikesh. There were several raffles again in the boat journey. Passing through raffles and rough water is really adventurous and exciting. The screaming and cries of the occupants of the boats shall always hound in the memories and provide pleasure.
Around 5.30 P.M. we reached the location on the river side near to the location of parking of our bus. We all traveled towards the Rishikesh city on the right hand side of Laxman Jhoola. Around 6.00 P.M. most of the persons went around in Rishikesh to see the temples and other holy sites and returned in the bus at 7.30 P.M.
Then we proceeded towards our camp site “Wonder Lost” which was about 25 K.M. from Rishikesh. Around 9.00 P.M. we reached in our camp. The location of the camp was around 1 K.M. down the hill with steep slope. It was a bit difficult to walk down & up the hill. After reaching the camp we had our full dinner.
After dinner it was again amusement and romantic atmosphere. The camp boys arranged for Bone-fire and placed cane chairs around. Every body assembled around the bone-fire. It was a pleasant weather and cool breeze was blowing. It was the dance on music session. Every body had the chance to perform. There was quiz competition, exploring competition, acting, play, musical chair game and lot more. The entire amusement went up to late mid night, till every body got exhausted.
Next day i.e. On 3-10-09 in the morning at 7 A.M. we woke up amid the river side musical sound of the early morning. The chorus by birds on the trees, cool breeze and flowing water of Ganges were making the atmosphere pleasant like any thing. After getting fresh and taking bath in the river, we got prepared for taking the breakfast. We all had the breakfast by 9.30 A.M. It was a good prepared breakfast.
Now in the eternity of items/activities, we had the items of rock climbing & rappelling along with songs, music, jokes and other amusements. We had to leave the camp site by 2.00 O’clock in the afternoon after the lunch. Many persons packed their luggage and climbed up to board the bus parked on the highway.
We reached the rock climbing site which was about 3 K.M. away. It was about 15 Ft. high rock, almost flat vertical in the front side. There were two ways to climb up the rock. One way was to climb from the vertical face of the rock by placing the feet in the cracks and fissures of the rock, and also placing the hands in the upper sides of the rock. Here the push is provided by one of the legs and further hold by the hands. It is a bit tedious and tiring method, but it has its own charm and pleasure. Who so ever has accomplished this task has the enhanced confidence and pleasure of success. The other way of climbing the rock was to walk down from the back side of the rock. On the top of the rock there was one game master who used to rap the rope on the body of the climbers to perform the activity of rapping, appropriately. Other safety precautions were also taken and all participants rappelled down the hill with feet on the rock face.
We spent several hours in the games. Others were busy in reciting poems, jokes, stories and their experiences. A few were busy in taking photo snaps of each other, group and general photos. The atmosphere was totally charged with humor. At around 1.00 P.M. we all proceeded towards our “Wonder Lost” camp site. The persons who did not have brought their luggage in the morning went down to bring their luggage. They also took their lunch down there. Rest of the persons remained in the bus parked on the highway and a request was sent to the persons who went down and the camp manager to send up the lunch in some packets for those persons who did not got down. The request of bring up the packed food was how ever not accepted by the camp manager due to some reasons.
Any how our bus proceeded for the back journey for Delhi & home. Bus halted for the lunch at a suitable restaurant in Haridwar. We all had the full lunch and now we were fully ready to proceed towards our back journey.
By this time the atmosphere was fully charged with enthusiasm. Every body was in a very high mood. Passing through Haridwar provided the religious fervor. The team leader sensed the mood and started an antakshari competition bhajans, geet, religious songs and other similar activities by making two groups in the bus. There were two rows of seats in the bus and the persons in each row formed the group. There was “left side group” and the “right side group”. The competition started by each group by Arties, and further the religious songs, geet, bhajans, shabad, guruvani, bhenta, ardas etc. were recited by each group. Proper marks were awarded to each group for their performances. Every person in group was associated in the songs, bhajans etc. and this also counted towards the marks awarded. More and more enthusiasm was there. In the puja and bhajans the participants mixed dramatics actions along with dances and different worship posses. The competition credibly became tougher & tougher and went for about one & half hour. The bus was completely engulfed in the fervor of religious songs and other activities. The passer biers on the highway were also attracted towards the songs, chorus etc. going on in the bus. Finally the competition ended in a tie. Every body was full of enthusiasm and high spirit. The leader praised very much the religious antakshari and termed it as the best performance.
It was going to be the midnight and the bus was moving fast towards Delhi. Light humor was still continuing in the bus. Finally after mid night we crossed in to Delhi and each one was carrying the sweet and pleasant memories of the trip. It was really a fantastic and pleasure some journey / tour, whose memories will be there for quite a long time.
—R.S.Verma
- Team member
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How to improve your sense of humor
Hi, This is Anurag!
Having a sense of humor is a very admirable trait. The opposite sex is attracted to a good sense of humor. Like anything, some people are born naturally gifted at telling good jokes, while others struggle to find the right punchline. If you find comedy difficult, understanding what makes a good joke will vastly improve your sense of humor and allow you to be the star of a dinner or party. Remember that a sense of humor is learned as well as inherited. You can sharpen your sense of humor if you really want to. When you do, people find you more attractive and fun to be with.
Here are Twenty two ways to improve your sense of humor:
1. Arouse curiosity. Never speak the punch line of the humorous story/joke in the beginning. Your audience should not have any inkling about the end of your joke otherwise the laughter would be missing and your joke may boomerang.
2. Never announce that you are going to tell them a joke. If you do they will listen to you on the first time but soon they may get bored and would avoid meeting you in future. If you want to become famous, first make the ground for the joke and then blur it out to make it look spontaneous. you have to do this cleverly. If you do it, they would look for you, call you, invite you in their parties and seminars.
3. The punch line should always be in the last of all the sentences of your story/ joke. If you speak anything after the punch line that would only spoil the effect of that joke. And there is no exception to this rule.
4. You may fumble while narrating the joke many times but you cant fumble on the punch line. It must role out smoothly from your lips. That’s why I would suggest you to always mug up the punch line and practice it speaking. But never memorize the story word to word.
5. Take special care of the ‘Punch word’; What is a punch word? Punch word is that word on which people laugh out loudly in the last. Punch word is mostly the last word of the punch line. You should not speak even a single word after the punch word. For example: A father was giving a piece of advice to his son on the eve of his wedding. Father: Son, there is only one way to handle these women… And what that way is…Nobody knows…( In this example the punch line is “and what that way is nobody knows”… Punch word is “knows”)
6. ‘The Three Pauses Technique’(TPT): Never speak a joke in one breath. You know your joke well but most people take time to understand. Give them time. Give the first pause before the punch line. So they understand that you have reached to the climax. Second pause before the punch word and third pause after the punch word and then shut up.( The dots on three places in the previous point represent pauses)
7. The body language, voice modulation, facial expression and eye contact: You may use all of them during the joke. But keep the punch line as simple as possible using none of the above. Don’t you agree? Try using them in your joke with someone, you will know the fact yourself.
8. Begin to focus on the funny things and enjoy the laughter they evoke. Look for incongruous situations. Incongruity is the soul of good humor. A skinny guy with big woman; a bearded man wearing a uniform; A doctor in suit wearing sport shoes; A fat man on a small scooter; anything mismatched that makes you smile.
9. Live in present. People who think about yesterdays and fearful tomorrows never improve their sense of humor.
10. The most important thing in a sense of humour is being able to look at the funny side of even the most annoying things. Look for the humorous side to events, especially stressful ones, before they get you down. Lighten up.
…A flat tire may be annoying, but you have to laugh at the gizmo they give you to jack your car up these days, don’t you?
This way Soon you will be seeing humor all over and enjoying it fully.
11. Start associating with humorous, fun loving people and avoid the tongue-tights. With quiet people you remain quiet and funny company makes you just like them. Society moulds a man.
12. It is important to realize that we all make mistakes and when we have a good laugh, that makes the mistake seem trivial. People like you when you laugh out your mistakes.
13. Never speak good about yourself. People don’t like you when you play your own trumpet. Rather, others like you when you play yourself down. So why not make fun of yourself.
14. When people try to laugh at your expense join them and laugh at yourself. They will instantly stop making fun of you. How can others continue laughing at you when you, instead of sulking, do the same on yourself? One of our course participant, Uma Wadhwani, a little overweight, went to a gurdwara with her friends sometime back. One of her friends said jokingly to her, “Uma, don’t step into the holy pond, the whole water will come out of it. Uma, instead of grumbling, joined them in her leg-pulling, “If it comes out, you put the water back into the pond. Her other friends laughed at her quick wit.
15. Make note of the jokes that really make people laugh and save them for opportune moments. I recall reading the ‘Situation Vacant” ads one morning and discovered this gem : ” The successful applicant should have 203 years experience.” Obviously the advertisement meant to say 2 or 3 years experience.
I immediately cut it out and placed it in my collection for future use.
16. Exaggerate the embarrassing moments of your life and tell others as a humorous story.
17. Encourage others to share their humor. Listen and appreciate it when they do. When someone sees that you have enjoyed their humorous contribution they will be eager to continue sharing and you may get their stories to use in future with your other friends.
18. Concentrate on the talks of your friends. Some are in the habit of repeating words, some are into self praise, some have pet-peeves. Make humor out of it but don’t make a mockery of them.
19. When you face a situation, ask yourself, how could I see this as funny? Or What’s funny about this? If you don’t get an answer, try to imagine What your favorite comedians might do in this situation? How would they describe it to an audience in a way that gets a laugh. You will get your answer.
20. Find your style. Watch all the great comedians on TV, radio or on big screen. To name a few: Raju Srivastav, Shekher Suman, Surender Sharma, Anupam Kher, Jaspal Bhatti, Johny Lever etc. They all have their own unique style and brand of comedy– slapstick, situational, political, cynical, raunchy, etc. Discover whatever works best for you and make your identity.
21. Find the content. Do you enjoy stressing details in a long story or do you prefer quick one-liners? Do you enjoy making fun of yourself or events you have witnessed? Do you like talking about passions or pet peeves? Do you like sharing stories about friends or the opposite sex? Your short or tall height, thinness or thickness and other personal situations are perfect for comedy. Choose content that makes others laugh.
22. The more you read, the more you imbibe the essence of humour. And not only reading humorous pieces – whatever you read, it makes you wiser, it enriches you, makes you think, and it all contributes to your sense of humour. But of course, you must keep your mind sharp too.
Some DO’s & DON’TS:
1. Once you have selected, prepared and practiced your jokes, find an audience. Ask yourself, what type of audience do you enjoy presenting your jokes to? Kids, adults or your peer group?
2. In my full day humor workshops I always ask the participants to break up into groups and begin sharing the funniest thing that has ever happened to them. This simple activity generates laughter in many silent people and then once they start they keep on cutting one joke or another on themselves. This way they come out and shed their inhibitions in a very short span of time. Try this with your friends sometime.
3. Never take others’ jokes seriously but don’t even hurt someone by just cracking a joke on them .
4. Make sure to avoid racist, sexist, or filthy humor. There is plenty of good, clean and naughty humor to go around without resorting to these. Remember that there is a difference between dirty and naughty humor. I personally like naughty humor. I don’t appreciate dirty material.
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