Saturday, February 24, 2007
71. Back with Bang Hug!

Hello Hello Friends! How are you all doing! Its been a loooooooong time since I posted posts here, lest the fear of termites eating my dead remnants of the blog gnawed me so much - that I decided to return back with a mighty hugzzzzzz!

Ok so I disappeared for a quite some few months, proclaiming to do some research and studying, and did I??? Well obviously no, but I can tell you all one thing - How to act in case of Fire accidents or burns - why because thats exactly what happened to me - Dont worry nothing serious though, I will write about all that in the next post, now over to all this hugs campaign.















For 2 years on the downtown streets of Sydney, Australia a young man called Juan Mann( read as Yuann Maan) was holding on to a board with the words imprinted "Free Hugs" - why? Because all someone at times needs is a small Hug. However hard and loud we claim that "THE WORLD IS A SMALL PLACE" and we have thousands of "SOCIAL COMMUNITIES", the present day individual man is becoming far more lonely and recluse. And if this small hug can inculcate a small RAY OF HOPE in a stranger, if this small hug can help a few hundred souls in relinquishing despair for a moment - then so be it, that is my motto claims this man.

Sick Puppies a famous Australian teenage rock band realizing the popularity of Juan and his campaign smartly came up with a video that was seen 1 million times within 6 days(Whoa!) when it was loaded in You tube in Sep' 22nd 2006.



Whatever happened rest was history. Free Hugs Campaign was started as people's movement in every country. Sick Puppies band became so famous that now they are now singing in Los Angeles. Juan obviously became very famous too - and he talked about the in & out nuances of Hugging in Oprah Winfrey's show.

Now there who said you need to great thoughts and 99% perspiration to be famous and successful - sometimes all you need is just the human'e corner at the bottom of your heart -for just show your love and affection, the world will stop for you!!!
 
posted by Prasanna Parameswaran at 9:44 PM |


26 Comments:


At 7:15 AM, Blogger G3

Welcome back!!!!

Aaha.. unga return postla naan dhan 1stu commentu :D

Hope everything is fine at your end.

And the free hugs video was too good. Thanks for sharing :D

 

At 11:18 AM, Blogger Syam

innaiku enna enga ponaalum...புளியோதரை லைன்ல G3 முன்னாடி நிக்கறாங்க...வர வர நமக்கு புளியோதரை பஞ்சம் வந்துரும் போல....:-)

 

At 11:20 AM, Blogger Syam

சரி அத விடுங்க....welcome back IA....good to see you back...தாரை தப்பட்டைகள் தெரிக்கட்டும்... :-)

 

At 6:14 PM, Blogger Arunkumar

அடடா நம்ம கட்டிப்புடி வைத்தியம் :-)

video was cool. liked the music very much.

welcome back IA. rock n roll !!

 

At 5:06 AM, Anonymous Anonymous

Welcome back IA:))

Nice videos and a free hug for smiles

 

At 1:40 AM, Anonymous Anonymous

@ 69th Post

I went upto page 21. I don't have mood to go on endlessly.

But I learnt a lot. Nice link. Thanks.

Voracious Blog Reader

 

At 5:20 PM, Blogger Jeevan

Hi Friend! very nice to see you back:) and hope you are doing well.

Its a lovely post, Juan simple doing great. Hugsssssssss.

 

At 2:00 AM, Blogger starry

Good to see you back.loved the Huggs Video.

 

At 2:00 AM, Blogger starry

Good to see you back.loved the Huggs Video.

 

At 6:05 AM, Blogger SKM

Good to see you back Prasanna.
A heart felt hug to you from me.
you caught in a fire accident? Are you ok?Take care.

 

At 5:54 AM, Blogger Alan

Hey Angel,

Welcome back. A fire accident sounds like bad news. Hope you are OK.

 

At 3:51 PM, Anonymous Anonymous

Hey Smiles for your hugs video :)welcome back after so long a break .hope you are doing good ,wishing you happy times ahead.

Take care!

 

At 4:58 AM, Blogger Maayaa

WElcome indian angel!!

 

At 11:29 AM, Blogger Pritika Gupta

hey welcome back and see we people haven't stop coming to ur blog..:)

 

At 3:30 PM, Blogger Preethe

Hi Prasanna
Welcome back!!
Nice post and wonderful hugs !!

A fire accident !! hope you are fine now ..

 

At 9:57 AM, Blogger Maayaa

enga .. oru postuku aprom aala kaanom

 

At 5:27 PM, Blogger Balaji S Rajan

Welcome back Prasanna. We missed you. Nice that you are back.

 

At 7:13 AM, Blogger Dreamzz

Ahaa! eppo vandheenga! vaanga vaanga!

 

At 7:14 AM, Blogger Dreamzz

appo sleeping blogla irundhu ungala eluppidalaama

 

At 7:03 PM, Blogger Hip Grandma

'long time no see ay my blog' I thought but I see you've been taking a break.I now have a new comp which recognises tamil fonts.could you link me to the widow's story posted by you earlier?thanx

 

At 7:34 AM, Blogger Prasanna Parameswaran

thank you all. Im still not fully back yet - but will be back pretty soon

hip hop grandma: Here is the link you asked for
http://indianrhythm.blogspot.com/2006/10/62.html

This is part 5 this should have the links to all the other 4 parts

 

At 2:08 AM, Blogger Wyvern

I don't know...that picture looks gayish to me. On the other hand I wouldn't mind giving hugs to the opposite sex....may be thats what juan was trying to and hugging a male was just a small price he got to pay.

thanks,
A convoluted, twisted, sick, homophobic mind A.K.A wy

 

At 2:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous

enna vandhuttu thirumba kaanama poitinga?? :( dhevadhai eppovavadhu thaan varumo?? :)

-porkodi

 

At 5:23 PM, Blogger Bharani

Annathe..neenga eppa vandheenga...sollave illaye...nalla irukeengala...

 

At 5:24 PM, Blogger Bharani

howz things moving??

 

At 2:25 PM, Blogger Unknown

welcome back!