Sunday, October 30, 2011
we must have faith in our own ideas even if everyone tells us that we are wrong.
There was
once a newspaper vendor who had a rude customer. Every morning, the Customer
would
walk by, refuse to return the greeting, grab the paper off the shelf and
throw the money at the vendor. The vendor would pick up the money, smile
politely and say, 'Thank you, Sir.'
One day,
the vendor's assistant asked him, "Why are you always so polite with him
when he is so rude to you? Why don't you throw the newspaper at him when he
comes back tomorrow?"
The
vendor smiled and replied, "He can't help being rude and I can't help
being polite. Why should I let his rude behavior dictate my politeness?"
While you must be open to change, do not compromise on your values.
Mahatma
Gandhiji often said, "You must open the windows of your mind, but you
must not be swept off your feet by the breeze."
Values like
honesty, integrity, consideration and humility have survived for
generations. At the end of
the day, it is values that define a person more than the achievements. Do not
be tempted by short cuts. The short cut can make you lose your way and
end up becoming the longest way to the destination.
~ Around the Bend ~
Life offers many things to see,
So many more to do,
Adventures yet to be taken,
Some I’ve followed through.
Life choices wait around the bend,
That only I can make;
Some are made quite easily,
Others… made too late.
The beauty of it all, you see,
Although we make mistakes,
We live and learn from each one…
To this you may relate.
Keep looking forward, don’t look back.
Yesterday has met her end.
New life-experiences wait for you,
Just around the bend.
So many more to do,
Adventures yet to be taken,
Some I’ve followed through.
Life choices wait around the bend,
That only I can make;
Some are made quite easily,
Others… made too late.
The beauty of it all, you see,
Although we make mistakes,
We live and learn from each one…
To this you may relate.
Keep looking forward, don’t look back.
Yesterday has met her end.
New life-experiences wait for you,
Just around the bend.
Amazing Facts of the Human Body
Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.
Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
We have over 600 muscles.
We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
We are about 70 percent water.
We make one litre of saliva a day.
Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies. 446/ The human body gives out about 100 calories of heat an hour - equivalent to a 120 watt electric light bulb.
Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
We have over 600 muscles.
We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
We are about 70 percent water.
We make one litre of saliva a day.
Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies. 446/ The human body gives out about 100 calories of heat an hour - equivalent to a 120 watt electric light bulb.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Never give up in the face of adversity.
It comes
on you, suddenly without warning. Always keep in mind, that it is only the test
of fire, that makes fine steel.
A friend
of mine shared this incident with me. His eight-year old daughter was
struggling away at a jigsaw puzzle. She kept at it for hours but could not
succeed. Finally, it went beyond her bedtime.
My friend
told her, "Look, why don't you just give up? I don't think you will
complete it tonight. Look at it another day."
The
daughter looked with a strange look in her eyes, "But, dad, why should I
give up? All the pieces are there! I have just got to put them together!"
If we
persevere long enough, we can put any problem into its perspective.
In Cricket, no one bats a hundred every time.
Life has many challenges. You win some and lose some. You must enjoy winning. But do not let it go to the head. The moment it does, you are already on your way to failure.
And if
you do encounter failure along the way, treat it as an equally natural
phenomenon. Don't beat yourself for it or anyone else for that matter! Accept
it, look at your own share in the problem, learn from it and move on.
The important
thing is, when you lose, do not 'lose the lesson'.
Riddles
A high speed electric train is traveling south at 90mph. The wind is blowing westward at 30mph. In what direction will the smoke from the engine blow?
* Electric trains don't blow smoke *
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Randy Brown was washing windows on a high-rise office building when he slipped
and fell off a sixty-foot ladder onto the concrete sidewalk below. Incredibly, he did not injure himself in any way. How was this possible?
* He was standing on the bottom rung!
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What is greater than God, more evil than Satan, poor people have it, rich people need it, if you eat it you will die.
* Nothing *
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A woman marries 10 men.
They are all from the same state.
She doesn't divorce any of them and none of them have passed away.
How is this possible?
* She's a priest *
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What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour.
* The letter M *
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How many cubic meters of dirt are there in a hole 6m long, 2m wide, and 1m deep?
* There is no dirt in a hole! *
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At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen.
* the stars
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Take one out and scratch my head.
I am now black but once was red.
* A match *
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The more there is, the less you see.
* Darkness *
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They are Dark, and always on the run.
Without the sun, would be none.
* Shadow
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What can fill a room but takes up no space.
* Light *
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What goes on four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at dusk?
* Oedipus gave the proper answer: man, who crawls on all fours in infancy, walks on two feet when grown, and leans on a staff in old age. *
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Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black blue and grey,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
* eye *
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You throw away the outside and cook the inside, then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
* an ear of corn *
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The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.
* The letter E *
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What is worse than finding a worm in the apple you are eating?
* Finding half a worm!! *
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A family has 5 kids. Half of them are boys. How is this possible?
* all the kids are boys *
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Only two backbones, a thousand ribs.
* A railroad *
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Two people sharing the same biological (human) parents are born on April 25th 1969. Yet these people are not twins, how can this be?
* They are triplets *
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If it takes six people six days to dig six holes, how long will it take one person to dig half a hole?
* There is no such thing as half a hole
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What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
* A stamp *
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Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
* Ton *
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Light as a feather, there is nothing in it;
the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute?
* Breath *
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The rich men want it, the wise men know it, the poor all need it, and the kind men show it.
* Love *
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* Electric trains don't blow smoke *
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Randy Brown was washing windows on a high-rise office building when he slipped
and fell off a sixty-foot ladder onto the concrete sidewalk below. Incredibly, he did not injure himself in any way. How was this possible?
* He was standing on the bottom rung!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What is greater than God, more evil than Satan, poor people have it, rich people need it, if you eat it you will die.
* Nothing *
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A woman marries 10 men.
They are all from the same state.
She doesn't divorce any of them and none of them have passed away.
How is this possible?
* She's a priest *
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What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour.
* The letter M *
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
How many cubic meters of dirt are there in a hole 6m long, 2m wide, and 1m deep?
* There is no dirt in a hole! *
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen.
* the stars
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take one out and scratch my head.
I am now black but once was red.
* A match *
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The more there is, the less you see.
* Darkness *
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
They are Dark, and always on the run.
Without the sun, would be none.
* Shadow
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What can fill a room but takes up no space.
* Light *
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What goes on four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at dusk?
* Oedipus gave the proper answer: man, who crawls on all fours in infancy, walks on two feet when grown, and leans on a staff in old age. *
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Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black blue and grey,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
* eye *
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You throw away the outside and cook the inside, then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
* an ear of corn *
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The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.
* The letter E *
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What is worse than finding a worm in the apple you are eating?
* Finding half a worm!! *
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A family has 5 kids. Half of them are boys. How is this possible?
* all the kids are boys *
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Only two backbones, a thousand ribs.
* A railroad *
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Two people sharing the same biological (human) parents are born on April 25th 1969. Yet these people are not twins, how can this be?
* They are triplets *
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If it takes six people six days to dig six holes, how long will it take one person to dig half a hole?
* There is no such thing as half a hole
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What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
* A stamp *
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Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
* Ton *
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Light as a feather, there is nothing in it;
the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute?
* Breath *
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The rich men want it, the wise men know it, the poor all need it, and the kind men show it.
* Love *
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