CHA DO RI's Time

Taare Zameen Par ~ “Like Stars on Earth” (released 21 December 2007) is another movie from Aamir Khan that I adore after Three Idiots and Ghajini . It is really really really a touching and beautiful movie. It tells about an eight-year-old-boy, named Ishaan, who is dyslexic but blessed with excellent painting talent. Taare Zameen Par received numerous awards, including the Filmfare Best Film Award for 2008 and the 2008 National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare . It was India's official entry for the 2009 Academy Awards Best Foreign Film but it failed to progress to the nominations short list.

Have you ever imagined trusting your property or goods or money to many people whom you don’t acknowledge well? It really happens in the factory where I’m working. The stalls where these ladies sell her food and snacks do not have CCTV or hidden camera. They trust their merchandise by believing that we, the buyers, are all honest and do not steal from them. The factory where I’m working is a manufacturer of hairpieces/wig/hair replacement. It starts at 7.20 am until 3.30 pm. In the morning, there are many ladies, who mostly work as ventilators, earn more money by selling foods or snacks. Above picture shows the situation in the morning. They use tables along the corridor to spread out their merchandise. SOFU took the pic at 6.30 am.

On Sunday, April 28, the church committee who delivered a sermon at that time inserted a topic of “Triangular Theory of Love”. That really caught my attention so I also wanted to explore further here. Triangular Theory of Love is developed by a psychologist, Robert Sternberg, which divided three components of love as intimacy, passion, and decision/commitment. Further, the combination of the presence or absence of these three components forms seven kinds of love experience: liking/friendship, infatuated love, empty love, romantic love, companionate love, fatuous love, consummate love. Whereas, the absent of intimacy, passion, and commitment is what-so-called non love. Stenberg believed that all couples in love will experience intimate, passionate, and committed love. Although love quality may exist in non-loving relationship, but Stenberg’s are specific to loving relationship.