Happy Friendship Day!

Ahoy, me Hearties! :D

Happy friendship day to all my friends J

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History behind the Friendship Day

Every year first Sunday of august is celebrated as FRIENDSHIP DAY among friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, besties, BFF or whatever  :p !  The tradition of Friendship Day started in 1935 by the US congress, they decided to dedicate one day in an honor of friends. At that Era devastating effect of the First world war created mistrust and hatred among the people so, the US congress declared this day to bring love and friendship back in the world.

This became so popular that all other countries also started celebrating this day with their friends and dear ones. 

Written and posted by : Prerna Arora

The Story behind Keep Calm and Carry On!

Digital Scan of an original 1939 Keep Calm and Carry On poster
Author: UK Govt.
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Keep Calm And Carry On - Five very simple words but are one of the most recognizable and popular memes of our times!  Be it your mobile phone cover cases, your bags, accessories, t shirts, mugs, fridge magnets and so on and so forth, this popular meme can be seen almost anywhere & everywhere amongst us!

But ever wondered how these five little words encapsulated the collective imagination of the world & became a global cultural icon??

The Story behind Keep Calm and Carry On

With the war against Germany starting to look unavoidable, in the Spring of 1939, the British Government's Ministry of Information commissioned a series of propaganda posters to be distributed throughout the country to offer the public reassurance in the dark days which lay ahead & to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath which was predicted before the beginning of the Second World War (WWII).

The posters were required to be uniform in style and were to feature a 'special and handsome' typeface making them difficult for the enemy to forge. The intent of the poster was to convey a message from the King to his people, to assure them that 'all necessary measures to defend the nation were being taken', and to stress an 'attitude of mind' rather than a specific aim. On the eve of a war which Britain was ill-equipped to fight, it was not possible to know what the nation's future aims and objectives would be.

At the end of August 1939 three designs went into production with an overall print budget of £20,600 for five million posters. The first poster, of which over a million were printed, carried a slogan suggested by a civil servant named Waterfield. Using the crown of George VI as the only graphic device, the stark red and white poster read 'Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution will Bring Us Victory'. A similar poster, of which around 600,000 were issued, carried the slogan 'Freedom is in Peril'. But the third design, of which over 2.5 million posters were printed, simply read 'Keep Calm and Carry On'.

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The first two designs were distributed in September 1939 and immediately began to appear in shop windows, on railway platforms, and on advertising hoardings up and down the country. But the 'Keep Calm' posters were held in reserve, intended for use only in times of crisis or invasion. Although some may have found their way onto Government office walls, the poster was never officially issued and so remained virtually unseen by the public - unseen, that is, until a copy turned up more than fifty years later in 2000, one of the owners of Barter Books, Stuart Manley, was going through a box of dusty old books bought at auction. At the bottom of the box he saw a piece of paper. He took it out, unfolded it, liked what he saw, and showed it to his wife, Mary. Mary liked it, too. In fact, she liked it enough to have it framed and put up near the shop till.

Since that time, the rediscovered 'KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON' poster, copied and recopied (as well as parodied!) by others, has sold in the millions to become one of the first truly iconic images of the twenty-first century!

Check out the video below for more information on this very interesting and iconic phenomena!

Primary source of information: Lewis, R M, 'Undergraduate Thesis: The planning, design and reception of British home front propaganda posters of the Second World War': Written April 1997. Accessed July 2013. ww2poster.co.uk/phd-research/undergraduate-dissertation-1997/

Written and Posted by: Olga Mittal

And it's time for some action!

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success" 

- Henry Ford

I truly believe in this quote by Mr. Henry Ford & I am overwhelmed by the support you folks' have showered upon us! And I want to thank each one of you who took out time from your busy schedules and had a look at our initiative! Really means a lot! :) 

It's new beginning for us as well & we hope to bring real quality & fun bit of information for you guys! :)

As you might be aware that this blog is not concentrated on one particular domain & posting reviews or articles randomly on any given topic could create a bit of confusion, so we came up with an idea that we will be following a weekly system i.e. a topic will be chosen every week and we going to write on that for that whole week! Fair enough right?! :D

And the fun part is that it's YOU who is going to decide on which topic you would want us to write! We want your whole hearted involvement in this initiative & want this to be a platform which is interactive and not some boring one way stuff! :)

So for this, we have added up a voting widget right on top of our blog! The topics for the first week are : Movies, Music, Food, Technology & Latest Business News! The poll is up & we will be closing it on 4th August, 2013 (12:00 AM).

The Voting Widget (at the top)

The rule is simple: Whichever topic get's the maximum votes, we are going to write on that topic for the next one week! :) As i said earlier, this blog belongs to you guys out there! We are writing 4u! So start voting friends!! Hope to get a tremendous response from you all! :) Savvy?? :D

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Till we meet again, Be good!

Signing off..

Written & posted by: Olga Mittal

Talketh like a Pirate!

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Ahoy! Me hearties! :D

me was wondering about what should i blog about?! & then i was like 'hey! why not a lil something..like a crash course for the beginners on 'How to be Speakin' Pirate Like' ! :D Sounds fun right?!

Well I am huge, gigantic fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean series & Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow made the Pirate Lingo sound ultra cool & real fun to converse in! I feel it gives your conversation a swagger! :D C'mon lil bit of fun won't do any harm? ryt?! Talkin' like a pirate is total fun & trust me it's really that simple!

So let's brush ya up wit some basic pirate lingo! Savvy?? You say 'Aye!' :D

Startin' Rules

• So for starters, Double up on all your adjectives and you'll be bountifully bombastic with your phrasing. Pirates never speak of "a big ship", they call it a "great, grand ship!" They never say never, they say "No nay ne'er!"

• Drop all your "g"'s when you speak and you'll get words like "rowin'", "sailin'" and "fightin'". 
• Dropping all of your "v"'s will get you words like "ne'er", "e'er" and "o'er".

• Instead of saying "I am", sailors say, "I be". Instead of saying "You are", sailors say, "You be". Instead of saying, "They are", sailors say, "They be". Ne'er speak in anythin' but the present tense!

Now time for some commonly used pirate phrases!  Pirate lingo is rich and complicated, and several sites offer glossaries that are really pretty good! But over here i am gonna mention the basic phrases, so that it doesn't' get complicated for you guys & you start to get hang of it!

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Basic Pirate phrases

Aaaarrrrgggghhhh! - exhortation of discontent or disgust

Ahoy! - Hello!

Ahoy, Matey - Hello, my friend!

Ahoy, me Hearties! - the same as saying "Hello, my friends!"

All hand hoay! - comparable to all hands on deck

Avast ye - stop and check this out or pay attention

Aye - yes; an affirmation

Becalmed - The state of a sailing vessel which cannot move due to a lack of wind

Bilge-sucking - insult

Blimey! - exclamation of surprise

Blow me down! - expression of shock of disbelief akin to "Holy Crap!"

Blow the man down - command to kill someone

Booty - treasure

Bring a spring upon her cable - to come around in a different direction

Buccaneer - a pirate

Bucko - a buccaneer

Cat O'Nine Tails - a whip with nine strands

Cleave him to the brisket - to cut across the chest, from one shoulder to the lower abdomen

Corsair - pirates in the Mediterranean Sea

Crow's nest - small platform atop the mast where the lookout stands

Cutlass - short heavy curved bladed sword used by pirates

Davy Jones' Locker - fabled, mythical place at the bottom of the ocean where the evil spirit of Davy 

Jones brings sailor and pirates to die

Dead men tell no tales - phrase indicating to leave no survivors

Doubloons - other coins or found in pirate hoards and stashes

Feed the fish - will soon die

Fire in the hole - A warning issued before a cannon is fired

Hang 'im from the yardarm - punishment of those captured in battle

Head - the pirate ship's toilet

Heave Ho - give it some muscle and push; to come to a halt

Hornswaggle - to defraud or cheat out of money or belongings

Jacob's Ladder - the rope ladder one uses to climb aboard a sloop

Jolly Roger - pirate's flag including white skull and crossbones over a black field

Keelhaul - punishment in which a person where dragged underneath the pirate ship from side to side 

and was lacerated by the barnacles on the vessel

Lad, lass, lassie - a younger person

Landlubber - big, slow clumsy person who doesn't know how to sail

Letters of Marque - letters issue from governments during wartime to privateers endorsing the piracy of another vessel

Man-O-War - pirate's ship outfitted for battle

Me - my

Mizzen - third mast from the bow of the ship on ships that have three or more masts

No prey, no Pay - A common law meaning a crew received no wages, but rather shared whatever loot was taken

Old Salt - an experienced sailor

Pieces of eight - coins or found in pirate stashes

Pillage - rob, sack or plunder

Poop deck - the part of the ship farthest to the back, which is usually above the captain's quarters.  This is not the bathroom.

Privateer - government-sponsored pirates

Rum - pirate's traditional alcoholic beverage

Run a rig - to play a trick.

Run a shot across the bow - warning shot to another vessel's captain

Sail ho! - An exclamation meaning another ship is in view.

Savvy? - do you understand and do you agree?

Scallywag - mild insult akin to rapscallion or rogue

Scurvy dog - the pirate is talking directly to you with mild insult

Scuttle - to sink a ship

Seadog - old pirate or sailor

Shark bait - will soon join Davy Jones' Locker

Shipshape - cleaned up and under control

Shiver me timbers! - comparable to "Holy Crap!"

Son of a Biscuit Eater - insult directed towards someone you don't like

Splice the mainbrace! - give the crew a drink!

Thar she blows! - Whale sighting

Three sheets to the wind - someone who is very drunk. One sheet is mildly drunk and four sheets is 

passed out.

Walk the plank - punishment in which person walks off a board jutting over the side of the ship while at sea. The consequence is drowning and a visit to Davy Jones' Locker.

Weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen! - pull up the anchor and the sail and let's get going

Ye - you

Yo Ho Ho - cheerful exhortation to demand attention

So folks' these are some of the most typical pirate phrases. If you have a pirate phrase, word, some pirate lingo or a bit of pirate vocabulary that you'd like to share with us, please send it in matey, and we mights just post yer scurvy saying right here.

Guess this is enough to atleast get started & I hope you had fun learning this lingo!

 ....... Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.....

 We extort and pilfer, we filch and sack. 

..Drink up me 'earties, yo ho....

Maraud and embezzle and even highjack

...Drink up me 'earties, yo ho...

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Signing off & till we meet again, Be good!

Adios Amigos!

Written & Posted by: Olga Mittal

And we are off to sail !

Ahoy, me Hearties! :D

We are back (as promised)! But before we really get sailing into the vast oceans of knowledge, we thought of introducing ourselves to you (as requested by most of you out there! :D )

Well it's a two man..err..i mean two WOman crew!

First up is the ship's second in command i.e. our first mate on our ship of learning...
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*drum rolls* :D
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Ms Prerna Arora!

She is smart, pretty, fun loving, one with a bindass attitude, loves watching movies, surf the internet and totally believes in the idea of Shop till you Drop! ;)

Currently pursuing MBA in International Business with Marketing and believes that '..everyone has their own experiences...opinions..ideas...about anything & everything and with the help of this blog we just want to share ours with you'!

Indeed that's what we intend to do! :)

And now introducing to ya all the ship's Captain in command...(more like a pirate in disguise :D)
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You want the drum rolling again? o.O Seriously? :D...
nay...i prefer more of a silent entry! :D
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Ms Olga Mittal!

Witty, prankster for a few..drop dead serious soul for the rest :D (many heads will nod in affirmative :D) , a very good listener, an observer, a big introvert who once gets along well with you can paint the town red, out and out movie buff, loves inventing lingo of her own(oh yes!), a big foodie & at times the geeky nerd! :D

Currently pursuing MBA in International Business with Finance and loves the idea of learning new things whenever and wherever i can! I love observing ...be it people...the nature. or anything..and believe that learning is cool and if done in the right manner, it can be one joyful journey! :)

Yo Ho Ho! Yeah we are done bloating about ourselves :D & now let us finally sail off!

The Crew: Prerna & Olga (L2R)

...While we share all by the rule of thumb...

...Yo Ho and a bottle of rum...

Till then adios! Be good! :)

Signing off...

Olga

P.S. I am big fan of the pirate lingo.. (As can be seen very prominently!) so brush up! Savvy...? ;)

Welcome Aboard!

"Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

Ahoy! We welcome you to our blog 'We'View 4 You! Your one stop destination for information related to anything and everything! As the name suggests 'We'View i.e. our reviews, our views, our opinions, our ideas etc. etc of... be it movies, music, some food joint, books, fashion, technology, new gadgets(old ones too!), travel destinations, latest gossip, our experiences....and the list goes on! So that you don't really have wrack or rack up (whatever works for you! :D ) your brains and all you gotta do is switch on any electronic device with an internet connection, open up the browser and type "http://weview4u.blogspot.in/" and voila! The information you need is right in front of you! Thus the name 'We'View 4 You!! 

We hope this blog becomes a place where people can come in, get good informative stuff, have a little bit of discussion and in all have a nice experience (not the brain wracking one!)

Now you must be wondering who are these 'we'?  :D

Well we are two good friends from Delhi, India pursuing our MBA & with whatever time we can get, we like checking out new stuff & then there was a thought that 'hey! why not share our reviews & experiences with you folks!' (and also that this is part of our project at our B-School! ) :p

So friends let us embark on this journey of continuous learning, and let it be one filled with joy! :)
Let us make this blog an interactive one and all your suggestions, comments, views, opinions..be it whatever, are most welcome! We will be posting soon!

Welcome Aboard!

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