Bro introduced this to me... it's so beautiful... here's the Korean and English version for you to enjoy...
Korean version:
Lyrics:
An dwae yo nal, no, a beo ri myeon
Him deul eo do yeo gi deo, meo mul lo yo
Jo geum man do, bol, su i da myeon
Nam eun sa rang man keum uso bol, taen dae
Timeless, i byeol eun a ni jyo
Han bon eui sarm i ra myeon ji geum oo, rin dae
Hold tight baby
Timeless, i ga seum ae mud o yo
Sun gan eui yeol byeong cho rom jam shi man, a peul bbun i ni
We both agree
This is timeless, love
Sae sang eun da, ha na, ga ji man
Seul peum ma jo ham kkae ga neun geon ga yo
No mu geu ri wo ddo nal, bul ro, bun geu dae
Ma eum bbun in sang cho man mo mul gaet, jyo
To hae haen nun mul sam ki myeon, geu ddae so ya ar gae dwir kka yo
Nae son jab a yo, ddo na gae mal a yo
Timeless, i byeol eun a ni jyo
Han beon eui sarm i ra myeon ji geum oo, rin dae
Hold tight baby
Timeless, i ga seum ae mud o yo
Sun gan eui yeol byeong cho rom jam shi man, a peul bbun i ni
We both agree
This is timeless, love
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Baby, it’s timeless
Oh baby it’s timeless
Timeless dol a gal su i, do rok
Sun gan eui yeol byeong cho rom jam shi man, a peul bbun i ni
We both agree
This is timeless
This is timeless, love
English version:
English Lyrics:
Baby come close let me tell you this
In a whisper my heart says you know it too
Baby we both share a secret wish
And you're feeling my love reaching out to you
Timeless
Don’t let it end (no)
Now that you’re right here in my arms where you should stay
Hold tight baby
Timeless
Don’t let it fade out of sight
Just let the moments sweep us both away
Lifting us to where
We both agree
This is timeless love
I see it all baby in your eyes
When you look at me I know I feel it too (yes I do)
So let's sail away and be forever baby
Where the crystal ocean melts into the sky
We shouldn’t let the moment pass
Making me shiver let’s make it last
Why should we lose it don’t ever let me go
Timeless
Baby its timeless
Oh baby its timeless
Timeless
Don’t let it fade out of sight
Just let the moments sweep us both away
Lifting us to where
We both agree
It’s just timeless
It’s just timeless
Love
Sunday, February 25
Saturday, February 24
Funnies... Just for laughs!
An oral surgeon was scheduled to extract four wisdom teeth from Jim, a high-school football player, who had opted to be sedated for the procedure.
As the intravenous anaesthesia was being administered, the doctor asked Jim
how he was feeling.
"Man," he replied, struggling to keep his eyes open, "I feel like I'm in
English class."
~~~~~
The minister asked the little girl, "Do you know what's in the bible?"
"Yes," she responded, "I think I know everything that's in it."
Surprised, the minister siad, " That's a pretty big claim for someone your size, go ahead and tell me."
The girl started out, "Well... let's see... there's a picture of my brother's girlfriend, a ticket from the dry cleaners, one of my curls, and a Pizza Hut coupon.
~~~~~
A visiting minister was very long-winded. Worse, every time he would make a good point during his sermon and a member of the congregation responded with "Amen" or "That's right, preacher" he would get wound up even more and launch into another lengthy discourse.
Finally, the host pastor started responding to every few sentences with "Amen, Pharaoh!" The guest minister wasn't sure what that meant, but after several more "Amen, Pharaohs" he finally concluded his very lengthy sermon.
After the service concluded and the congregation had left, the visiting minister turned to his host and asked, "What exactly did you mean when you said 'Amen, Pharaoh'?"
His host replied, "I was telling you to let my people go!"
~~~~~
A lawyer was reading out the last will and testament of a rich man to the people mentioned in the will:
"To my loving wife Rose, who stood by me during the rough times, as well as the good : the house and $2 million."
"To my daughter Jessica, who looked after me in illness and kept the business going : the yacht, the business and $1 million."
"And to my cousin Dan, who hated me, argued with me and thought I would not remember him in my Will, you were wrong : Hello Dan!"
As the intravenous anaesthesia was being administered, the doctor asked Jim
how he was feeling.
"Man," he replied, struggling to keep his eyes open, "I feel like I'm in
English class."
~~~~~
The minister asked the little girl, "Do you know what's in the bible?"
"Yes," she responded, "I think I know everything that's in it."
Surprised, the minister siad, " That's a pretty big claim for someone your size, go ahead and tell me."
The girl started out, "Well... let's see... there's a picture of my brother's girlfriend, a ticket from the dry cleaners, one of my curls, and a Pizza Hut coupon.
~~~~~
A visiting minister was very long-winded. Worse, every time he would make a good point during his sermon and a member of the congregation responded with "Amen" or "That's right, preacher" he would get wound up even more and launch into another lengthy discourse.
Finally, the host pastor started responding to every few sentences with "Amen, Pharaoh!" The guest minister wasn't sure what that meant, but after several more "Amen, Pharaohs" he finally concluded his very lengthy sermon.
After the service concluded and the congregation had left, the visiting minister turned to his host and asked, "What exactly did you mean when you said 'Amen, Pharaoh'?"
His host replied, "I was telling you to let my people go!"
~~~~~
A lawyer was reading out the last will and testament of a rich man to the people mentioned in the will:
"To my loving wife Rose, who stood by me during the rough times, as well as the good : the house and $2 million."
"To my daughter Jessica, who looked after me in illness and kept the business going : the yacht, the business and $1 million."
"And to my cousin Dan, who hated me, argued with me and thought I would not remember him in my Will, you were wrong : Hello Dan!"
Tuesday, February 20
There's something about this period that is bringing out maudline feelings in me... maybe cos of Valentine's Day and the Chinese New Year.
Valentine's Day is a trying reminder to the singles out there... reminding you that you dun have a valentine (which is why I use it as an excuse to celebrate Friendship day!) It is also reminding how relationships dun seem to work out for me for some strange reasons... Maybe it's because my life is pretty much unsettled at the moment.
My best friend, J, is getting married this June and this is bringing out a strong yearning in me for a stable relationship that has long term potential. Looking at her fiance (WK)'s relationship, it's a reminder for me for what works and doesn't work in a relationship. When a relationship works, things just seem to fall naturally into place and there will seem to be little obstacles between the pair aka character differences, differences in opinion etc. While there are little quarrels here and there, it will serve to draw both closer, rather than divide. J was telling me, over dinner one evening, that somehow things will happen for me when my life achieves some form of stability...
I'm convinced of what she said cos it did seem to work out for her. A part of me also believes her cos I'm a hopeless romantic...
In truth, I haven't had time to eally think about what I really want from relationships. And this is why they have never really worked out. After brooding and mulling over this, I realised that all I want is to find someone who can complement me - enjoy the same activities as I enjoy, share my belief system, share similar love languages as I do, share my joys and sorrows etc. Kinda idealistic but then, I'm a hopeless romantic! I believe that for every one person, there is a certain someone out there for him or her... kinda fits like a jigsaw puzzle. I really believe that that someone out there really exist for me... and maybe, I might find him somewhere, somehow...
Chinese New Year is both a happy and uncomfortable time for me - happy cos it's a time of family reunion plus I'm pretty lucky at Mahjong during this period... hehee... Uncomfortable cos it always feels strange for me when I visit my paternal side. It's a reminder of your dysfunctional family and how you are the only child there without any parents accompanying you (except for your brother). The feeling of family reunion is lost for me at my paternal side...
Thankfully, it only lasts for half a day and my life seems to be back to normal in terms of routine. Only the maudline feelings remain... kinda a bitter-sweet experience.
Which strengthens my belief that I can only find someone who can complement me... I dun wan marriage for me to be a compromising affair - where I simply find someone cos I'm afraid I will be left on the shelf. There are some things in life that we can compromise but marriage is certainly not one of it. I have had friends who compromised and are stuck in unhappy relationships. Some are lucky to be able to recover that romance while some were less fortunate... I never hope my children will go through the same things which I went through... no doubt it made me tough, it was a hard road of experience to tread...
Valentine's Day is a trying reminder to the singles out there... reminding you that you dun have a valentine (which is why I use it as an excuse to celebrate Friendship day!) It is also reminding how relationships dun seem to work out for me for some strange reasons... Maybe it's because my life is pretty much unsettled at the moment.
My best friend, J, is getting married this June and this is bringing out a strong yearning in me for a stable relationship that has long term potential. Looking at her fiance (WK)'s relationship, it's a reminder for me for what works and doesn't work in a relationship. When a relationship works, things just seem to fall naturally into place and there will seem to be little obstacles between the pair aka character differences, differences in opinion etc. While there are little quarrels here and there, it will serve to draw both closer, rather than divide. J was telling me, over dinner one evening, that somehow things will happen for me when my life achieves some form of stability...
I'm convinced of what she said cos it did seem to work out for her. A part of me also believes her cos I'm a hopeless romantic...
In truth, I haven't had time to eally think about what I really want from relationships. And this is why they have never really worked out. After brooding and mulling over this, I realised that all I want is to find someone who can complement me - enjoy the same activities as I enjoy, share my belief system, share similar love languages as I do, share my joys and sorrows etc. Kinda idealistic but then, I'm a hopeless romantic! I believe that for every one person, there is a certain someone out there for him or her... kinda fits like a jigsaw puzzle. I really believe that that someone out there really exist for me... and maybe, I might find him somewhere, somehow...
Chinese New Year is both a happy and uncomfortable time for me - happy cos it's a time of family reunion plus I'm pretty lucky at Mahjong during this period... hehee... Uncomfortable cos it always feels strange for me when I visit my paternal side. It's a reminder of your dysfunctional family and how you are the only child there without any parents accompanying you (except for your brother). The feeling of family reunion is lost for me at my paternal side...
Thankfully, it only lasts for half a day and my life seems to be back to normal in terms of routine. Only the maudline feelings remain... kinda a bitter-sweet experience.
Which strengthens my belief that I can only find someone who can complement me... I dun wan marriage for me to be a compromising affair - where I simply find someone cos I'm afraid I will be left on the shelf. There are some things in life that we can compromise but marriage is certainly not one of it. I have had friends who compromised and are stuck in unhappy relationships. Some are lucky to be able to recover that romance while some were less fortunate... I never hope my children will go through the same things which I went through... no doubt it made me tough, it was a hard road of experience to tread...
Friday, February 16
Can angels take the form of animals?
As we know, everyone who is in heaven is a saint. But there are also "official" saints, those recognized for all the good they did here on earth. One who couldn't have succeeded without a particular heavenly helper was St. John Bosco, whose feast day we observed on January 31st.
John was born in Becchi, Italy in 1815, and although he grew up in poverty, he had a wise and loving mother, who saw that he got an education. Before John had reached his teens, he was already experiencing wonderful dreams about his future. It seemed clear that he was to become a priest, and work with homeless boys, saving them from the streets, educating them and teaching them about God. Just how this was all to come about was not explained in the dreams. John set out to accomplish the task anyway.
The street kids that he dealt with were rough, angry and not all that interested in reforming their lives. Often they would rob John when he approached them. Gradually, he won over the younger ones, and established group homes for them. But the assaults continued. And because many of John's rescued boys were hard to handle, the citizenry was not exactly thrilled with his mission. Often, they too attempted to drive him out of the area. (Teenagers were considered a pain by many then too.)
One autumn evening in 1852, John Bosco was making his way across the most broken part of the slum district. He was alone and depressed. (Yes, even saints get depressed.) "Lord," he prayed, "I know you want me to care for the least of your children, but I can't go on being mugged and robbed, and still do the work you've assigned me. How about a little help?"
Suddenly John noticed a dog behind him. Or was it a wolf? The creature was huge and grey...but friendly. Timidly John called it, and the dog trotted up and took his place alongside John, as if he had been trained to do so. "I'll call you Grigio," John told the dog (Grigio" means "grey" in Italian). The two strolled along in silent companionship until John reached his house, and the dog left, as if his job was done. But it wasn't. A few days later, John had to travel through a dangerous area, where he had once been beaten by street thugs. He was apprehensive but…there was Grigio! Again, the canine bodyguard stayed next to John, until he reached his home. How had he known?
Thus began a tender pattern - John walking alone, the dog suddenly appearing and escorting him to safety. On one occasion someone behind a tree fired two shots at John. They missed, and the shooter aimed again. But Grigio raced at him, teeth bared, and the man fled. Another time, as John was walking down a dark and unfamiliar street, two men threw a sack over his head, obviously intending to kill him. Suddenly John heard barking. Yes, although he hadn't seen his faithful companion, here came Grigio again,growling and driving the men away. A few days later, Grigio saved John's life in an ambush. A dozen men had surrounded him with their sticks raised to strike when Grigio arrived upon the scene. Of course everyone fled.
The animal became popular, for he sometimes came into John's house, and allowed the smaller boys to play with him. But his appearances always had a purpose. Sometimes it was to meet John at the door before some journey; sometimes to escort John safely home, even when John was unaware of danger. At least once, Grigio even prevented John from going out. He lay down on the threshold and barred the exit. "Grigio, move aside!" John commanded, but the dog resisted, and John eventually gave up and took off his coat. About an hour later, John's neighbor rushed in to warn John that another trap had been set for him. Grigio had saved him again.
By now, John realized that something heavenly was going on. And as if to confirm it, the dog appeared as John was on his way to visit a farmer. When they arrived, John brought the dog inside. Grigio lay down quietly in a corner while the family ate. But when they had assembled leftovers for Grigio's dinner, they could not find him! No doors or windows had been open, yet he had vanished.
For over thirty years, as John Bosco traveled Italy, saving boys and establishing the Salesian Society, a new order of priests, faithful Grigio continued his inexplicable but wondrous mission (and never grew any older!). To this day, if a Salesian priest is in danger, a large grey dog sometimes appears, just at the right time.
God sends angels in many forms. Even dogs? You decide.
John was born in Becchi, Italy in 1815, and although he grew up in poverty, he had a wise and loving mother, who saw that he got an education. Before John had reached his teens, he was already experiencing wonderful dreams about his future. It seemed clear that he was to become a priest, and work with homeless boys, saving them from the streets, educating them and teaching them about God. Just how this was all to come about was not explained in the dreams. John set out to accomplish the task anyway.
The street kids that he dealt with were rough, angry and not all that interested in reforming their lives. Often they would rob John when he approached them. Gradually, he won over the younger ones, and established group homes for them. But the assaults continued. And because many of John's rescued boys were hard to handle, the citizenry was not exactly thrilled with his mission. Often, they too attempted to drive him out of the area. (Teenagers were considered a pain by many then too.)
One autumn evening in 1852, John Bosco was making his way across the most broken part of the slum district. He was alone and depressed. (Yes, even saints get depressed.) "Lord," he prayed, "I know you want me to care for the least of your children, but I can't go on being mugged and robbed, and still do the work you've assigned me. How about a little help?"
Suddenly John noticed a dog behind him. Or was it a wolf? The creature was huge and grey...but friendly. Timidly John called it, and the dog trotted up and took his place alongside John, as if he had been trained to do so. "I'll call you Grigio," John told the dog (Grigio" means "grey" in Italian). The two strolled along in silent companionship until John reached his house, and the dog left, as if his job was done. But it wasn't. A few days later, John had to travel through a dangerous area, where he had once been beaten by street thugs. He was apprehensive but…there was Grigio! Again, the canine bodyguard stayed next to John, until he reached his home. How had he known?
Thus began a tender pattern - John walking alone, the dog suddenly appearing and escorting him to safety. On one occasion someone behind a tree fired two shots at John. They missed, and the shooter aimed again. But Grigio raced at him, teeth bared, and the man fled. Another time, as John was walking down a dark and unfamiliar street, two men threw a sack over his head, obviously intending to kill him. Suddenly John heard barking. Yes, although he hadn't seen his faithful companion, here came Grigio again,growling and driving the men away. A few days later, Grigio saved John's life in an ambush. A dozen men had surrounded him with their sticks raised to strike when Grigio arrived upon the scene. Of course everyone fled.
The animal became popular, for he sometimes came into John's house, and allowed the smaller boys to play with him. But his appearances always had a purpose. Sometimes it was to meet John at the door before some journey; sometimes to escort John safely home, even when John was unaware of danger. At least once, Grigio even prevented John from going out. He lay down on the threshold and barred the exit. "Grigio, move aside!" John commanded, but the dog resisted, and John eventually gave up and took off his coat. About an hour later, John's neighbor rushed in to warn John that another trap had been set for him. Grigio had saved him again.
By now, John realized that something heavenly was going on. And as if to confirm it, the dog appeared as John was on his way to visit a farmer. When they arrived, John brought the dog inside. Grigio lay down quietly in a corner while the family ate. But when they had assembled leftovers for Grigio's dinner, they could not find him! No doors or windows had been open, yet he had vanished.
For over thirty years, as John Bosco traveled Italy, saving boys and establishing the Salesian Society, a new order of priests, faithful Grigio continued his inexplicable but wondrous mission (and never grew any older!). To this day, if a Salesian priest is in danger, a large grey dog sometimes appears, just at the right time.
God sends angels in many forms. Even dogs? You decide.
Thursday, February 15
Ode to my Mom
My mom, in my opinion, is the greatest mom i could ever ask for... all these years, she had always been my champion, providing me with moral support especially in the area of my studies. I never was a good student... I was not failing but I din exactly get the best of grades either... She never made me feel inferior to my brother, who comparably scored better grades than I did... Instead, she would encourage me, telling me that having the best grades were not the most important. What was more important was that I enjoyed what I did and I did my best...
She has also supported me financially through my studies... Though I paid her back, she never failed to ask me if I needed help with my school fees. She would deposit the cheque in my account so I could sign for my school fees and earn my UNI$ points. She has also never harassed me to return the money. As long as i did return, which showed her I was financially responsible, it was enough for her...
I have a job that required me to put in ridiculously long hours... I leave the house at 6.30 am and I'm never home till almost 8 pm. Weekends, I'm also rarely free... having to do my marking, lesson plans, set and vet through exam papers etc. She does all the housework at home so I have a clean and comfortable house to come homw to...
I cannot ask for a better mom than her... one who has so unselfishly placed her children's needs above hers... and yet, request for so little in return...
On this special day, all I wanna say to her is "Happy Birthday" and thanks for always being there for me!
Although I missed service to spend a great birthday dinner with her and my aunts and cousins, this was remembered by her. She was very touched by my gesture... At least I did honour my Mom... I think I made God proud too! Hehee...
She has also supported me financially through my studies... Though I paid her back, she never failed to ask me if I needed help with my school fees. She would deposit the cheque in my account so I could sign for my school fees and earn my UNI$ points. She has also never harassed me to return the money. As long as i did return, which showed her I was financially responsible, it was enough for her...
I have a job that required me to put in ridiculously long hours... I leave the house at 6.30 am and I'm never home till almost 8 pm. Weekends, I'm also rarely free... having to do my marking, lesson plans, set and vet through exam papers etc. She does all the housework at home so I have a clean and comfortable house to come homw to...
I cannot ask for a better mom than her... one who has so unselfishly placed her children's needs above hers... and yet, request for so little in return...
On this special day, all I wanna say to her is "Happy Birthday" and thanks for always being there for me!
Although I missed service to spend a great birthday dinner with her and my aunts and cousins, this was remembered by her. She was very touched by my gesture... At least I did honour my Mom... I think I made God proud too! Hehee...
Wednesday, February 14
Happy Valentine's Day!
For the single souls like moi... be glad you never receive cards like this!
MARIANE'S VALENTINES (Rejected by Hallmark Cards)
by Mariane Holbrook - from www.marianeholbrook.com
# 1
With all my heart I love you,
With all my heart I care;
I still have one big question, though,
"Do you still dye your hair?"
#2
You look so lovely in that dress
I even love your hat.
Is it okay to tell the world
You've gotten sorta fat?
#3
My valentine, I love you so,
You fill my heart with bliss.
If you'd just put your teeth in
Then I might enjoy a kiss.
#4
Dear Valentine, you are so dear,
I love your tender touch.
Let's just forget your mother said
You'd not amount to much.
A young man called his mother and announced excitedly that he had just met the woman of his dreams. Now what should he do? His mother had an idea: "Why don't you send her flowers,and on the card invite her to your place for a home-cooked meal?"
He thought this was a great strategy and arranged a date for a week later. His mother called the day after the big date to see how things had gone.
"The evening was a disaster," he moaned.
"Why, didn't she come over?" asked his mother.
"Oh, she came over, but she refused to cook..."
When Mary was pregnant, her 5 year old, Billy, was utterly amazed, and a little bit
disbelieving, that his sister was growing in his mommy's tummy. So one day when the baby was especially active, she asked Billy to place his tiny hands on her tummy to feel the baby kick.
When he did, however, the baby was suddenly still.
"Oh, Billy, she must have decided to take a nap," shrugged Mary.
"A nap?" Billy marveled. "You mean there's a bed in there too?"
A man spoke frantically into the phone: "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart".
"Is this her first child?" The doctor asked.
"No!" the man shouted, "This is her husband!"
A successful lawyer bought a brand new Lexus and brought it in the parking lot to show his colleagues. A truck drove by and tore off the door. He dialed 911. The police came but the lawyer started screaming hysterically. "I just bought this car and it's ruined."
When the lawyer wound down the policeman shook his head in disbelief and said, "I can't believe how materialistic you are. You are so focused on possessions. Don't you notice anything else?"
The lawyer asked how he could say such a thing.
The policeman said, "Don't you know that your arm is missing from the elbow down?"
The lawyer screamed, "Oh, no. my Rolex is gone!
MARIANE'S VALENTINES (Rejected by Hallmark Cards)
by Mariane Holbrook - from www.marianeholbrook.com
# 1
With all my heart I love you,
With all my heart I care;
I still have one big question, though,
"Do you still dye your hair?"
#2
You look so lovely in that dress
I even love your hat.
Is it okay to tell the world
You've gotten sorta fat?
#3
My valentine, I love you so,
You fill my heart with bliss.
If you'd just put your teeth in
Then I might enjoy a kiss.
#4
Dear Valentine, you are so dear,
I love your tender touch.
Let's just forget your mother said
You'd not amount to much.
A young man called his mother and announced excitedly that he had just met the woman of his dreams. Now what should he do? His mother had an idea: "Why don't you send her flowers,and on the card invite her to your place for a home-cooked meal?"
He thought this was a great strategy and arranged a date for a week later. His mother called the day after the big date to see how things had gone.
"The evening was a disaster," he moaned.
"Why, didn't she come over?" asked his mother.
"Oh, she came over, but she refused to cook..."
When Mary was pregnant, her 5 year old, Billy, was utterly amazed, and a little bit
disbelieving, that his sister was growing in his mommy's tummy. So one day when the baby was especially active, she asked Billy to place his tiny hands on her tummy to feel the baby kick.
When he did, however, the baby was suddenly still.
"Oh, Billy, she must have decided to take a nap," shrugged Mary.
"A nap?" Billy marveled. "You mean there's a bed in there too?"
A man spoke frantically into the phone: "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart".
"Is this her first child?" The doctor asked.
"No!" the man shouted, "This is her husband!"
A successful lawyer bought a brand new Lexus and brought it in the parking lot to show his colleagues. A truck drove by and tore off the door. He dialed 911. The police came but the lawyer started screaming hysterically. "I just bought this car and it's ruined."
When the lawyer wound down the policeman shook his head in disbelief and said, "I can't believe how materialistic you are. You are so focused on possessions. Don't you notice anything else?"
The lawyer asked how he could say such a thing.
The policeman said, "Don't you know that your arm is missing from the elbow down?"
The lawyer screamed, "Oh, no. my Rolex is gone!
Saturday, February 10
plagued by poor health...
Something is wrong with my body for the last 3 weeks...
For the last 2 weeks, I was plagued by back pains caused I slipped and fell outside, hitting my tail bone when I landed. Nothing too serious but I just couldn't bend down normally...
This week, I'm down with flu... Maybe I should consider lucky that I'm among the last to kena flu at my workplace already.
Hopefully, I recover soon so I can back to my normal routine... so sianz being ill...
For the last 2 weeks, I was plagued by back pains caused I slipped and fell outside, hitting my tail bone when I landed. Nothing too serious but I just couldn't bend down normally...
This week, I'm down with flu... Maybe I should consider lucky that I'm among the last to kena flu at my workplace already.
Hopefully, I recover soon so I can back to my normal routine... so sianz being ill...
Wednesday, February 7
My Personality
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| You are neither a subdued loner nor a jovial chatterbox. You enjoy time with others but also time alone. Stressful and frustrating situations can often be upsetting to you, but you are sometimes able to get over these feelings and cope with these situations. Novelty, variety, and change spice up your life and make you a curious, imaginative, and creative person. You have some concern with others' needs, and are generally pleasant, sympathetic, and cooperative. You are reasonably reliable, organized, and self-controlled. |
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This is not a story but a true incident that happened in USA.
An Indian man walked into a bank inNew York City one day and asked for the loan officer.
He told the loan officer that he was going to India on business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000.
The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan. The Indian man handed over the keys to a new Ferrari parked on the street in front of the bank. He produced the title and everything checked out.
The loan officer agreed to accept the car as collateral for the loan.
The bank's president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the Indian for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank's underground garage and parked it there.
Two weeks later, the Indian returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest, which came to $15.41.
The loan officer said, "Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multi millionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow "$5,000"
The Indian replied: "Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return'"
Ah, the brain of the Indian... This is why India is shining !!!!!
An Indian man walked into a bank inNew York City one day and asked for the loan officer.
He told the loan officer that he was going to India on business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000.
The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan. The Indian man handed over the keys to a new Ferrari parked on the street in front of the bank. He produced the title and everything checked out.
The loan officer agreed to accept the car as collateral for the loan.
The bank's president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the Indian for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank's underground garage and parked it there.
Two weeks later, the Indian returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest, which came to $15.41.
The loan officer said, "Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multi millionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow "$5,000"
The Indian replied: "Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return'"
Ah, the brain of the Indian... This is why India is shining !!!!!
Saturday, January 27
Turning 25...
There's something about turning 25...
It made me reflect about all areas of my life and look for ways to improve my situation...
Relationships wise... I have learnt to treasure people dear to me, such as friends who have weathered through thick and thin with me, providing a listening ear whenever I need to get things off my chest and giving me great advices. Most of all, I have learnt to better appreciate my mom...
I have also learnt to let go of relationships that have caused me much grief over the years, or have drained my emotions quite completely... They made me realise how little I was loving myself... That's why 2007 is my 'Love myself more' year... Not narcissistic bt rather learning how to take better care of myself...
Health wise... I'm learning the importance of taking better care of my health... As a Christmas present for myself last year, I signed up with a gym and have been attending classes regularly (at least twice a week). I am getting fitter, no longer panting when I climb up the overhead bridge, and slimmer as well...
Spritually... I'm learning to draw closer to God, praying for his anninting on everything I do... In return, I have received a peace of mind, knowing he's watching me and giving me favours in everything I do...
Career-wise... that's an area of uncertainty in my life...
Frankly, I love what I do... the kids are great to be with (on most days!), the colleagues are friendly and easy to work with plus I have favours from my bosses...
However, over the last 6 years, I cannot deny that the stress of the job has taken a toil on my health. Last year, I practically clocked a MC a month (not as if it was something to be proud of!). I have also been on hormone pills for over a year to ensure a certain part of my anatomy can run like a clockwork... But I have since had to stop due to side effects... Now, things have gone awry for me again!
In like of this, I am really pondering if it's time for a career change... something less stressful for me... My gynaecologist has been bugging me to do something less stressful so I can tackle the root of my monthly problems... My facial therapist has also been telling me that so I can control spots that marr my 'beauty'.
I'm not afraid of working hard, neither am I afraid of new challenges... I just want a job that will end when I step out of the office... I no longer have an appetite for slaving over my computer, working my weekends away...
Financially, I would just like more $$$ for whatever I do... Like now, I'm only taking home less than $1.5K for the work I do... It's really bugging me how pathetic it is for the hours I put in... That averages to $60 a day for 11 hours of official work... It does not even begin to factor in the hours I put in at home...
In short, I'm tired... Over the years, the opportunity costs have really gone up for me and it's wearing me out... I really need a break from it all...
This is 'food' for me to seriously consider and to pray about over this year...
It made me reflect about all areas of my life and look for ways to improve my situation...
Relationships wise... I have learnt to treasure people dear to me, such as friends who have weathered through thick and thin with me, providing a listening ear whenever I need to get things off my chest and giving me great advices. Most of all, I have learnt to better appreciate my mom...
I have also learnt to let go of relationships that have caused me much grief over the years, or have drained my emotions quite completely... They made me realise how little I was loving myself... That's why 2007 is my 'Love myself more' year... Not narcissistic bt rather learning how to take better care of myself...
Health wise... I'm learning the importance of taking better care of my health... As a Christmas present for myself last year, I signed up with a gym and have been attending classes regularly (at least twice a week). I am getting fitter, no longer panting when I climb up the overhead bridge, and slimmer as well...
Spritually... I'm learning to draw closer to God, praying for his anninting on everything I do... In return, I have received a peace of mind, knowing he's watching me and giving me favours in everything I do...
Career-wise... that's an area of uncertainty in my life...
Frankly, I love what I do... the kids are great to be with (on most days!), the colleagues are friendly and easy to work with plus I have favours from my bosses...
However, over the last 6 years, I cannot deny that the stress of the job has taken a toil on my health. Last year, I practically clocked a MC a month (not as if it was something to be proud of!). I have also been on hormone pills for over a year to ensure a certain part of my anatomy can run like a clockwork... But I have since had to stop due to side effects... Now, things have gone awry for me again!
In like of this, I am really pondering if it's time for a career change... something less stressful for me... My gynaecologist has been bugging me to do something less stressful so I can tackle the root of my monthly problems... My facial therapist has also been telling me that so I can control spots that marr my 'beauty'.
I'm not afraid of working hard, neither am I afraid of new challenges... I just want a job that will end when I step out of the office... I no longer have an appetite for slaving over my computer, working my weekends away...
Financially, I would just like more $$$ for whatever I do... Like now, I'm only taking home less than $1.5K for the work I do... It's really bugging me how pathetic it is for the hours I put in... That averages to $60 a day for 11 hours of official work... It does not even begin to factor in the hours I put in at home...
In short, I'm tired... Over the years, the opportunity costs have really gone up for me and it's wearing me out... I really need a break from it all...
This is 'food' for me to seriously consider and to pray about over this year...
E-MAIL FROM JURONG POLICE DIVISION
BEWARE AS TO WHERE YOU PARK YOUR CAR NEXT - IN MALAYSIA!
This actually happened to a Man not a woman recently in KL Imagine:
You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car and get inside. Then you lock the doors, start the engine and shift to Reverse. Then you look into the rear mirror to back out and you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the rear window screen that is obstructing your view.
So you shift the gear to Park, unlock your door and jump out to remove that silly piece of paper (or whatever it may be). When you reach the back of your car, that is when the surprise begins!
The Car-Jacker appears out of nowhere, jumps into your car and takes off!! Your engine is still running, your belongings are all in the car, including whatever you may have bought from you shopping trip. They will mow you down as they take off if you so much as try to stop them.
BE AWARE OF THIS NEW SCHEME THAT IS NOW BEING USED.
Just drive away and remove the paper that is stuck to you rear window LATER, and be thankful that you read this email.
I hope you will forward this to your friends and family members.
Imagine if your purse is inside the car. They then will have your IC, credit cards, home address and maybe your house keys! Good Luck.
Disclaimer: I got this in the email... not so sure how true this is... but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry...
This actually happened to a Man not a woman recently in KL Imagine:
You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car and get inside. Then you lock the doors, start the engine and shift to Reverse. Then you look into the rear mirror to back out and you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the rear window screen that is obstructing your view.
So you shift the gear to Park, unlock your door and jump out to remove that silly piece of paper (or whatever it may be). When you reach the back of your car, that is when the surprise begins!
The Car-Jacker appears out of nowhere, jumps into your car and takes off!! Your engine is still running, your belongings are all in the car, including whatever you may have bought from you shopping trip. They will mow you down as they take off if you so much as try to stop them.
BE AWARE OF THIS NEW SCHEME THAT IS NOW BEING USED.
Just drive away and remove the paper that is stuck to you rear window LATER, and be thankful that you read this email.
I hope you will forward this to your friends and family members.
Imagine if your purse is inside the car. They then will have your IC, credit cards, home address and maybe your house keys! Good Luck.
Disclaimer: I got this in the email... not so sure how true this is... but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry...
Monday, January 22
The Honest Truth about Men
1. The nice men are ugly.
2. The handsome men are not nice.
3. The handsome and nice men are gay..
4. The handsome, nice, and heterosexual men are married.
5. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men, have no money..
6. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men with money think we are only after their money.
7. The handsome men without money are after our money.
8. The handsome men, who are not so nice and somewhat heterosexual, don't think we are beautiful enough.
9. The men who think we are beautiful, that are heterosexual, somewhat nice and have no money, are cowards.
10. The men who are somewhat handsome, somewhat nice and have money and thank God are straight, are shy and NEVER MAKE THE FIRST MOVE!!!
11. The men who never make the first move, automatically lose interest in us when we take the initiative.
NOW.... WHO UNDERSTANDS MEN?!?!
2. The handsome men are not nice.
3. The handsome and nice men are gay..
4. The handsome, nice, and heterosexual men are married.
5. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men, have no money..
6. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men with money think we are only after their money.
7. The handsome men without money are after our money.
8. The handsome men, who are not so nice and somewhat heterosexual, don't think we are beautiful enough.
9. The men who think we are beautiful, that are heterosexual, somewhat nice and have no money, are cowards.
10. The men who are somewhat handsome, somewhat nice and have money and thank God are straight, are shy and NEVER MAKE THE FIRST MOVE!!!
11. The men who never make the first move, automatically lose interest in us when we take the initiative.
NOW.... WHO UNDERSTANDS MEN?!?!
Monday, January 15
What's Your Personality Type?
| You Are An INFJ |
The Protector You live your life with integrity, originality, vision, and creativity. Independent and stubborn, you rarely stray from your vision - no matter what it is. You are an excellent listener, with almost infinite patience. You have complex, deep feelings, and you take great care to express them. You would make a great photographer, alternative medicine guru, or teacher. |
Sunday, January 14
My Positions in Christ
Based on "The Bondage Breaker" by Neil Anderson
I Am Accepted:
John 1:12 - I am God’s child.
John 15:15 - I am Christ’s friend
Romans 5:1 - I have been justified.
1 Corinthians 6:17 - I am united with the Lord, and I am one spirit with Him.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - I have been bought with a price. I belong to God.
1 Corinthians 12:27 - I am a member of Christ’s body.
Ephesians 1:1 - I am a saint.
Ephesians 1:5 - I have been adopted as God’s child.
Ephesians 2:18 - I have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit.
Colosians 1:14 - I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins.
Colosians 2:10 - I am complete in Christ.
I Am Secure:
Romans 8:1-2 - I am free forever from condemnation.
Romans 8:28 - I am assured that all things work together for good.
Romans 8:31 - I am free from any condemning charges against me.
Romans 8:35- I cannot be separated from the love of God.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 - I have been established, anointed, and sealed by God.
Colosians 3:3 - I am hidden with Christ in God.
Phi1ipians 1:6 - I am confident that the good work that God has begun in me will be perfected.
Phil1ipians 3:20 - I am a citizen of heaven.
2 Timothy 1:7 - I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.
Hebrews 4:16 - I can find grace and mercy in time of need.
1 John 5:18 - I am born of God, and the evil one cannot touch me.
I Am Significant:
Matthew 5:13-14 - I am the salt and light of the earth.
John 15:1,5 - I am a branch of the true vine, a channel of His life.
John 15:16 - I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit.
Acts 1:8 - I am a personal witness of Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:16 - I am God’s temple.
2 Corinthians 5:17 - I am a minister of reconciliation for God.
2 Corinthians 6:1 - I am God’s co-worker (1Cor3:9)
Ephesians 2:6 - I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realm.
Ephesians 3:12 - I may approach God with freedom and confidence.
Phil1ipians 4:13- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Hope this blesses all who are reading this...
I Am Accepted:
John 1:12 - I am God’s child.
John 15:15 - I am Christ’s friend
Romans 5:1 - I have been justified.
1 Corinthians 6:17 - I am united with the Lord, and I am one spirit with Him.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - I have been bought with a price. I belong to God.
1 Corinthians 12:27 - I am a member of Christ’s body.
Ephesians 1:1 - I am a saint.
Ephesians 1:5 - I have been adopted as God’s child.
Ephesians 2:18 - I have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit.
Colosians 1:14 - I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins.
Colosians 2:10 - I am complete in Christ.
I Am Secure:
Romans 8:1-2 - I am free forever from condemnation.
Romans 8:28 - I am assured that all things work together for good.
Romans 8:31 - I am free from any condemning charges against me.
Romans 8:35- I cannot be separated from the love of God.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 - I have been established, anointed, and sealed by God.
Colosians 3:3 - I am hidden with Christ in God.
Phi1ipians 1:6 - I am confident that the good work that God has begun in me will be perfected.
Phil1ipians 3:20 - I am a citizen of heaven.
2 Timothy 1:7 - I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.
Hebrews 4:16 - I can find grace and mercy in time of need.
1 John 5:18 - I am born of God, and the evil one cannot touch me.
I Am Significant:
Matthew 5:13-14 - I am the salt and light of the earth.
John 15:1,5 - I am a branch of the true vine, a channel of His life.
John 15:16 - I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit.
Acts 1:8 - I am a personal witness of Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:16 - I am God’s temple.
2 Corinthians 5:17 - I am a minister of reconciliation for God.
2 Corinthians 6:1 - I am God’s co-worker (1Cor3:9)
Ephesians 2:6 - I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realm.
Ephesians 3:12 - I may approach God with freedom and confidence.
Phil1ipians 4:13- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Hope this blesses all who are reading this...
Monday, January 8
Interesting Facts!
1. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
2. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
3. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
4. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
5. The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE!
6. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
7. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
8. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
9. Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN!
10. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first "Marlboro Man."
11. PEARLS MELT IN VINEGAR!
12. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
13. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from
a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
14. And the best for last..... Turtles can breathe through their butts.
2. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
3. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
4. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
5. The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE!
6. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
7. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
8. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
9. Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN!
10. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first "Marlboro Man."
11. PEARLS MELT IN VINEGAR!
12. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
13. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from
a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
14. And the best for last..... Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Sunday, January 7
Teaching in New Perspective
After hearing today's sermon at church, I had a renewed mindset to Teaching in particular...
You can't make people want something they don't want!
How true is this statement... Kids today are barely interested in going to school. Especially for the older kids. Why?
I really believe that there are times, as teachers, we have become so caught up with teaching to the textbook and syllabus that we do not address pupils' needs.
This was the same challenge the speaker at the Teacher's Conference 2006 highlighted. Kids today are so into multimedia... computer games, TV, podcasts, internet etc. However, in schools, we are still stuck to textbooks, workbooks and white boards...
Until we can link what's in the textbook to the things they can find through multimedia sources, I really believe we cannot reach out to children as effectively.
I also believe that some of the things we teach have lost its relevance to the world we live in around us. One of this area I feel in the topic of sexuality education... A topic everyone shuns to explain to the young ones what it is all about.
In due respect, I admire MOE for taking on a difficult task that should have belonged to parents. The curriculum is a solid one. I agree that teaching abstinence from sex is the only way to sanctify sex and prevent them from making mistakes that they can regret later aka getting sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy.
I also have to agree that we have a generation of youths who will not do as they are told. I've been through the rebellious stage before where for everything that you are told to do because it is good for you, you will choose the complete opposite.
Teaching children to protect themselves is also equally important... However, it is kinda like opening Pandora's Box... we may end up unknowingly encourage youths to cross the boundaries because protection is the safety net against sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy.
The challenge relating abstinence from sex is to teach the sanctity of sex in marriage... I believe that if we can do it right, sexuality education can be transformed and be relevant.
I'm not sure I'll actually have the fortune of teaching sexuality education this year... but I'm sure I'll definately look forward to the challenge.
As for other subjects, it is a new curriculum I am doing this year, I'm excited of rising to the challenge of making what I teach relevant...
You can't make people want something they don't want!
How true is this statement... Kids today are barely interested in going to school. Especially for the older kids. Why?
I really believe that there are times, as teachers, we have become so caught up with teaching to the textbook and syllabus that we do not address pupils' needs.
This was the same challenge the speaker at the Teacher's Conference 2006 highlighted. Kids today are so into multimedia... computer games, TV, podcasts, internet etc. However, in schools, we are still stuck to textbooks, workbooks and white boards...
Until we can link what's in the textbook to the things they can find through multimedia sources, I really believe we cannot reach out to children as effectively.
I also believe that some of the things we teach have lost its relevance to the world we live in around us. One of this area I feel in the topic of sexuality education... A topic everyone shuns to explain to the young ones what it is all about.
In due respect, I admire MOE for taking on a difficult task that should have belonged to parents. The curriculum is a solid one. I agree that teaching abstinence from sex is the only way to sanctify sex and prevent them from making mistakes that they can regret later aka getting sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy.
I also have to agree that we have a generation of youths who will not do as they are told. I've been through the rebellious stage before where for everything that you are told to do because it is good for you, you will choose the complete opposite.
Teaching children to protect themselves is also equally important... However, it is kinda like opening Pandora's Box... we may end up unknowingly encourage youths to cross the boundaries because protection is the safety net against sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy.
The challenge relating abstinence from sex is to teach the sanctity of sex in marriage... I believe that if we can do it right, sexuality education can be transformed and be relevant.
I'm not sure I'll actually have the fortune of teaching sexuality education this year... but I'm sure I'll definately look forward to the challenge.
As for other subjects, it is a new curriculum I am doing this year, I'm excited of rising to the challenge of making what I teach relevant...
Thursday, January 4
First Week of School
First week of school... many things to adjust to and this has been making me feel so tired...
It's been 3 years since I last taught a group larger than 25... the kids just seem so noisy all of a sudden (even when I know they aren't really!). The best thing is they seem to feel like they're all over the place... It's different when you can scan 12 faces at a glance...
Have to pray for strength...
Anyway, Misery loves company (especially when you realise the lives of others sux even more... lolz) so here's some interesting news that will brighten up anyone's day... Especially when you realise you're not the most miserable person having a pathetic life or situation.
#1
Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned-out section of the forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back, flippers, and face mask. A post-mortem test revealed that the man died not from burns, but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about to determine how a fully clothed diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire.
It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the man went diving off the coast, some 20 miles from the forest. The fire fighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, had called in a fleet of helicopters with very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and emptied at the site of the forest fire.
You guessed it! One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next, he was doing the breaststroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in the air.
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed...
#2
A man was working on his motorcycle on the patio, his wife nearby in the kitchen. While racing the engine, the motorcycle accidentally slipped into gear. The man, still holding onto the handlebars, was dragged along as it burst through the glass patio doors.
His wife, hearing the crash, ran in the room to find her husband cut and bleeding, the motorcycle, and the shattered patio door. She called for an ambulance and, because the house sat on a fairly large hill, went down the several flights of stairs to meet the paramedics and escort them to her husband.
While the attendants were loading her husband, the wife managed to right the motorcycle and push it outside. She also quickly blotted up the spilled gasoline with some paper towels and tossed them into the toilet.
After being treated and released, the man returned home, looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He went into the bathroom and consoled himself with a cigarette while attending to his business. About to stand, he flipped the butt between his legs.
The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband screaming. Finding him lying on the bathroom floor with his trousers blown away and burns on his buttocks, legs and groin, she once again phoned for an ambulance. The same paramedic crew was dispatched.
As the paramedics carried the man down the stairs to the ambulance,they asked the wife how he had come to burn himself. She told them. They started laughing so hard, once slipped, dropping the stretcher and dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs, breaking his arm.
#3
The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.
#4
A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood,breaking his arm in two places.
Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman.
#5
Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand pigs broke loose and escaped through a broken fence, stampeding madly. The two hopeless protesters were trampled to death.
#6
Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnaje didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.
Hearing things like these kinda put things back in perspective for me...
It's been 3 years since I last taught a group larger than 25... the kids just seem so noisy all of a sudden (even when I know they aren't really!). The best thing is they seem to feel like they're all over the place... It's different when you can scan 12 faces at a glance...
Have to pray for strength...
Anyway, Misery loves company (especially when you realise the lives of others sux even more... lolz) so here's some interesting news that will brighten up anyone's day... Especially when you realise you're not the most miserable person having a pathetic life or situation.
#1
Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned-out section of the forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back, flippers, and face mask. A post-mortem test revealed that the man died not from burns, but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about to determine how a fully clothed diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire.
It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the man went diving off the coast, some 20 miles from the forest. The fire fighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, had called in a fleet of helicopters with very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and emptied at the site of the forest fire.
You guessed it! One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next, he was doing the breaststroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in the air.
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed...
#2
A man was working on his motorcycle on the patio, his wife nearby in the kitchen. While racing the engine, the motorcycle accidentally slipped into gear. The man, still holding onto the handlebars, was dragged along as it burst through the glass patio doors.
His wife, hearing the crash, ran in the room to find her husband cut and bleeding, the motorcycle, and the shattered patio door. She called for an ambulance and, because the house sat on a fairly large hill, went down the several flights of stairs to meet the paramedics and escort them to her husband.
While the attendants were loading her husband, the wife managed to right the motorcycle and push it outside. She also quickly blotted up the spilled gasoline with some paper towels and tossed them into the toilet.
After being treated and released, the man returned home, looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He went into the bathroom and consoled himself with a cigarette while attending to his business. About to stand, he flipped the butt between his legs.
The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband screaming. Finding him lying on the bathroom floor with his trousers blown away and burns on his buttocks, legs and groin, she once again phoned for an ambulance. The same paramedic crew was dispatched.
As the paramedics carried the man down the stairs to the ambulance,they asked the wife how he had come to burn himself. She told them. They started laughing so hard, once slipped, dropping the stretcher and dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs, breaking his arm.
#3
The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.
#4
A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood,breaking his arm in two places.
Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman.
#5
Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand pigs broke loose and escaped through a broken fence, stampeding madly. The two hopeless protesters were trampled to death.
#6
Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnaje didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.
Hearing things like these kinda put things back in perspective for me...
Monday, December 25
This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done,
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done,
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
The time of the year where Jesus' birth is celebrated... A time of remembrance of what he came to Earth to do... A time of home-coming... A time of gathering with family... A time of relationship building with friends and family...
For me, a poignant time for reflection of the year passed...
This has been a year of celebration and awakening... receiving a new-found revelation in my career, new career challenges, relationship challenges with colleagues and love ones, renewal of my vision and purpose, stretching and developing myself...
All of us have done things in our past that we wish we had never done. All of us would love to have the opportunity to revisit our past and make the right choice, take back a word wrongly spoken, or express a different attitude than the one that brought someone pain. How do we solve this dilemma?
Trying to act better will not erase what has been done in the past, what has been said in the past, or what has been chosen in the past. There is no way that we can go back and undo what we have done, or unsay what we have said. Reading the Bible will not take care of our past, going to church will not heal our past, and doing good works will not erase our past.
God has provided the only complete and perfect solution to every regretful and sinful thing related to our past. God's answer is not found in what we can do, but in what He has done. God sent His Son into the world to die upon a cross. He didn't die as a martyr, but as our Savior. He didn't die for a noble cause, but for our sins. Jesus Christ died to save us from every stain of sin, every shame of sin, and every pain of sin.
When Jesus shed His blood for our sins, God's justice was satisfied. The blood of Jesus Christ stands as the only redemptive price God will accept for the cleansing and forgiveness of our sins. Because of the blood of Jesus, God says to us through His Word, "Turn to Me and I will cleanse you. I will wash you. I will forgive you. I will not only do this, but I will do even more, I will forget your sins completely and remember them no more."
Have your sins weighed you down? Let Jesus lift you up. Have your sins broken your heart? Let Jesus heal you. Have your sins had you bound? Let Jesus free you. Have your sins condemned you? Let Jesus speak His words of forgiveness over your life. Let Him embrace you in His arms of grace; let Him cover you with His mercy; let Him draw you close to His heart.
Because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, God says to you, "Come now, let us set things right, though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be crimson red, they may become white as wool."
- Isaiah 1:18 (NAB)
As you receive His forgiveness, hear Him say to you, "For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us."
- Psalm 103:11-12 (KJV)
During this year's Christmas, I re-dedicated my life to God and to do his will... I may not be perfect and I can make mistakes... However, knowing He will be by my side, guiding me in my decision, this has given me greater peace than other Christmases... I can also find forgiveness for myself for things that I have not done well or people I have failed...
Now, I'm just filled with excitement for the challenges in the year ahead...
The time of the year where Jesus' birth is celebrated... A time of remembrance of what he came to Earth to do... A time of home-coming... A time of gathering with family... A time of relationship building with friends and family...
For me, a poignant time for reflection of the year passed...
This has been a year of celebration and awakening... receiving a new-found revelation in my career, new career challenges, relationship challenges with colleagues and love ones, renewal of my vision and purpose, stretching and developing myself...
All of us have done things in our past that we wish we had never done. All of us would love to have the opportunity to revisit our past and make the right choice, take back a word wrongly spoken, or express a different attitude than the one that brought someone pain. How do we solve this dilemma?
Trying to act better will not erase what has been done in the past, what has been said in the past, or what has been chosen in the past. There is no way that we can go back and undo what we have done, or unsay what we have said. Reading the Bible will not take care of our past, going to church will not heal our past, and doing good works will not erase our past.
God has provided the only complete and perfect solution to every regretful and sinful thing related to our past. God's answer is not found in what we can do, but in what He has done. God sent His Son into the world to die upon a cross. He didn't die as a martyr, but as our Savior. He didn't die for a noble cause, but for our sins. Jesus Christ died to save us from every stain of sin, every shame of sin, and every pain of sin.
When Jesus shed His blood for our sins, God's justice was satisfied. The blood of Jesus Christ stands as the only redemptive price God will accept for the cleansing and forgiveness of our sins. Because of the blood of Jesus, God says to us through His Word, "Turn to Me and I will cleanse you. I will wash you. I will forgive you. I will not only do this, but I will do even more, I will forget your sins completely and remember them no more."
Have your sins weighed you down? Let Jesus lift you up. Have your sins broken your heart? Let Jesus heal you. Have your sins had you bound? Let Jesus free you. Have your sins condemned you? Let Jesus speak His words of forgiveness over your life. Let Him embrace you in His arms of grace; let Him cover you with His mercy; let Him draw you close to His heart.
Because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, God says to you, "Come now, let us set things right, though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be crimson red, they may become white as wool."
- Isaiah 1:18 (NAB)
As you receive His forgiveness, hear Him say to you, "For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us."
- Psalm 103:11-12 (KJV)
During this year's Christmas, I re-dedicated my life to God and to do his will... I may not be perfect and I can make mistakes... However, knowing He will be by my side, guiding me in my decision, this has given me greater peace than other Christmases... I can also find forgiveness for myself for things that I have not done well or people I have failed...
Now, I'm just filled with excitement for the challenges in the year ahead...
Saturday, December 23
Finding Meaningful Work: 10 ways to recover a sense of calling in your life.
by Jason E. Smith, M.A.
A job is way to make money. A calling is a way of life.
A calling consists of meaningful work that reflects who we are and not just what we do. Before we go out into the world to do our work, we need to turn inward and discover what that work might be. It is inside where we begin to make meaning in our lives. It is inside where we meet our deepest longings, our unique gifts, our truest self. It is inside where we find the twin gifts of purpose and passion that become the core of our working lives.
Here are some ways to begin the process of finding your soul’s work.
1. Do nothing
“Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received”
—Lewis Hyde
Our lives are so busy that we never have any time to check in with ourselves and reconnect to our innermost being. There are so many external voices trying to tell us who we should be and what we should like that we cannot hear our own still, small voice within that reminds us who we really are and what we really love. It is essential that we take time on a regular basis just to be with ourselves. Shut off the TV and the computer, unplug the phone, set aside the magazine and do nothing. We cannot know what we want if we don’t know who we are.
2. Ask yourself the question, “Why do I work?”
“The way we imagine our lives is the way we will go on living our lives.”
– James Hillman
Work is one of the great, unexamined assumptions of our lives. To most of us it seems obvious that we work because we have to, because that’s just what you do, that’s what people have always done. However, if we define work chiefly in terms of money-making, we lose the possibility of understanding the deeper dimensions of work, the meaning of work and the many ways it can nourish us – spiritually, psychologically, emotionally, physically, as well as economically. If you haven’t answered this question for yourself, then you may find yourself stuck in survival mode. To find meaningful work, you need to know what work means to you.
3. Get lost in something
“What did you do as a child that caused you to forget time? There lies the myth to live by.”
— Joseph Campbell
Too often our days become ruled by the daytimer. If every moment of our lives is scheduled, we cut ourselves off from the inspiration that an unexpected event or spontaneous action can bring. We have all experienced the feeling of being so caught up in something that we forget everything else. Some activities are more likely to put us in this state than others. Conversely, work that has us watching the clock can leave us drained and depressed. The feeling of getting lost in an activity is exhilarating and refreshing. The things that cause us to lose track of time are those things that connect us to a sense of the eternal in our lives and thus to a sense of meaning.
4. Remember to play
“Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways”
– Stephen Nachmanovitch
Play is not frivolous. Play keeps us connected to a sense of joy and pleasure. When we forget how to play, the things we do become rigid and stilted. In today’s world our leisure activities have become excessively work-like. If we go for a walk or ride a bike, it is not to take in the view, but to meet our weight-loss goals. We go to a concert to “get culture.” We go to a party to network. We have turned our play into work, when we should be turning our work into play. By playing we can resurrect our sense of creativity and remember how it feels to enjoy what we do.
5. Pay attention to your dreams and fantasies
“The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.”
– W. H. Auden
Dreams are spontaneous and candid portraits of who we are. Dreams can help us to uncover those aspects of our being that have not yet found expression in our lives. The images of a dream present aspects of ourselves that have been denied or forgotten. Dreams and fantasies reveal to us things that are hidden to our conscious minds, thus they are good guides for discovering the life that wants live through us. By paying attention to our dreams and noticing any themes, figures, or repeating images, we can get important information regarding our career exploration.
6. Read
“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
If we want our work to be filled with passion, we need to first awaken the possibility of passion in our lives. It is important to explore different ideas and different ways of thinking about work and about life. Ideas are ways of perceiving the world. They provide us with the means to understand the various facts of our daily lives. The way that we approach our work is determined by the ideas that we hold about it. Expand your horizons and you will expand the possibilities that are open and available to you.
7. Explore new areas of interest
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Explore subjects and activities that catch your attention. We cannot know if we like something—or how much we like it—until we’ve tried it. Passion is born of experience, not just theory. When our bodies and minds are engaged, they become highly sensitive instruments that can guide us in making the right choices for ourselves. If there is anything that you have ever been curious about, take it for a test drive. Volunteer. Take classes. Experiment. Imagine each class or each situation as a kind of laboratory in which you can test the chemical reaction between you and a given activity.
8. Trust yourself
“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”
– Goethe
Our world is saturated with advertising trying to convince us of the importance of liking the right products, the right music, the right lifestyle. We are told that if we don't fit in, we will be left behind. Soon we come to believe that if we don’t follow the tastes of the crowd, we will be ridiculed and rejected. Over time we completely forget how to recognize our own preferences. It is essential to stay true to what you like whether or not it is acceptable to others, whether or not it is in fashion, and whether or not it is “cool.” Learn to say “yes” to what you like and “no” to what you don’t like. Learn to love what you love. When you are able to admit and give room to the little callings of each day, it becomes easier to hear and enact the larger calling of your life.
9. Throw out job titles
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s easy to get bogged down in our preconceived notion of what a job entails. If we start with a job title, we may reject something that is a good fit for us. Instead, we might ask ourselves, “How would I identify myself if there were no job titles? How would I define myself if there was no such thing as work?” Before we can find work that fits us, we need to know who we are and how we want to be in the world. We need to identify the things to which we want to give our time and attention. Each of us has our true identity no matter what our job title might be.
10. Work with a career counselor
“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
– Henry James
Work with someone who can help you explore the idea of meaningful work. Don’t be satisfied with just finding a job. It is not enough to try to fit yourself into some job description. Meaningful work is work that fits you. Depth-oriented career counseling is meant to get you in touch with the deeper patterns in your life. When you have a deep understanding of who you are and how you want to be in the world, you can then begin the process of translating that knowledge into a satisfying, real-world work situation. Be sure you feel comfortable with your counselor.
Remember: You are not just a resume. You are a complex and unique human being.
by Jason E. Smith, M.A.
A job is way to make money. A calling is a way of life.
A calling consists of meaningful work that reflects who we are and not just what we do. Before we go out into the world to do our work, we need to turn inward and discover what that work might be. It is inside where we begin to make meaning in our lives. It is inside where we meet our deepest longings, our unique gifts, our truest self. It is inside where we find the twin gifts of purpose and passion that become the core of our working lives.
Here are some ways to begin the process of finding your soul’s work.
1. Do nothing
“Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received”
—Lewis Hyde
Our lives are so busy that we never have any time to check in with ourselves and reconnect to our innermost being. There are so many external voices trying to tell us who we should be and what we should like that we cannot hear our own still, small voice within that reminds us who we really are and what we really love. It is essential that we take time on a regular basis just to be with ourselves. Shut off the TV and the computer, unplug the phone, set aside the magazine and do nothing. We cannot know what we want if we don’t know who we are.
2. Ask yourself the question, “Why do I work?”
“The way we imagine our lives is the way we will go on living our lives.”
– James Hillman
Work is one of the great, unexamined assumptions of our lives. To most of us it seems obvious that we work because we have to, because that’s just what you do, that’s what people have always done. However, if we define work chiefly in terms of money-making, we lose the possibility of understanding the deeper dimensions of work, the meaning of work and the many ways it can nourish us – spiritually, psychologically, emotionally, physically, as well as economically. If you haven’t answered this question for yourself, then you may find yourself stuck in survival mode. To find meaningful work, you need to know what work means to you.
3. Get lost in something
“What did you do as a child that caused you to forget time? There lies the myth to live by.”
— Joseph Campbell
Too often our days become ruled by the daytimer. If every moment of our lives is scheduled, we cut ourselves off from the inspiration that an unexpected event or spontaneous action can bring. We have all experienced the feeling of being so caught up in something that we forget everything else. Some activities are more likely to put us in this state than others. Conversely, work that has us watching the clock can leave us drained and depressed. The feeling of getting lost in an activity is exhilarating and refreshing. The things that cause us to lose track of time are those things that connect us to a sense of the eternal in our lives and thus to a sense of meaning.
4. Remember to play
“Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways”
– Stephen Nachmanovitch
Play is not frivolous. Play keeps us connected to a sense of joy and pleasure. When we forget how to play, the things we do become rigid and stilted. In today’s world our leisure activities have become excessively work-like. If we go for a walk or ride a bike, it is not to take in the view, but to meet our weight-loss goals. We go to a concert to “get culture.” We go to a party to network. We have turned our play into work, when we should be turning our work into play. By playing we can resurrect our sense of creativity and remember how it feels to enjoy what we do.
5. Pay attention to your dreams and fantasies
“The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.”
– W. H. Auden
Dreams are spontaneous and candid portraits of who we are. Dreams can help us to uncover those aspects of our being that have not yet found expression in our lives. The images of a dream present aspects of ourselves that have been denied or forgotten. Dreams and fantasies reveal to us things that are hidden to our conscious minds, thus they are good guides for discovering the life that wants live through us. By paying attention to our dreams and noticing any themes, figures, or repeating images, we can get important information regarding our career exploration.
6. Read
“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
If we want our work to be filled with passion, we need to first awaken the possibility of passion in our lives. It is important to explore different ideas and different ways of thinking about work and about life. Ideas are ways of perceiving the world. They provide us with the means to understand the various facts of our daily lives. The way that we approach our work is determined by the ideas that we hold about it. Expand your horizons and you will expand the possibilities that are open and available to you.
7. Explore new areas of interest
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Explore subjects and activities that catch your attention. We cannot know if we like something—or how much we like it—until we’ve tried it. Passion is born of experience, not just theory. When our bodies and minds are engaged, they become highly sensitive instruments that can guide us in making the right choices for ourselves. If there is anything that you have ever been curious about, take it for a test drive. Volunteer. Take classes. Experiment. Imagine each class or each situation as a kind of laboratory in which you can test the chemical reaction between you and a given activity.
8. Trust yourself
“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”
– Goethe
Our world is saturated with advertising trying to convince us of the importance of liking the right products, the right music, the right lifestyle. We are told that if we don't fit in, we will be left behind. Soon we come to believe that if we don’t follow the tastes of the crowd, we will be ridiculed and rejected. Over time we completely forget how to recognize our own preferences. It is essential to stay true to what you like whether or not it is acceptable to others, whether or not it is in fashion, and whether or not it is “cool.” Learn to say “yes” to what you like and “no” to what you don’t like. Learn to love what you love. When you are able to admit and give room to the little callings of each day, it becomes easier to hear and enact the larger calling of your life.
9. Throw out job titles
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s easy to get bogged down in our preconceived notion of what a job entails. If we start with a job title, we may reject something that is a good fit for us. Instead, we might ask ourselves, “How would I identify myself if there were no job titles? How would I define myself if there was no such thing as work?” Before we can find work that fits us, we need to know who we are and how we want to be in the world. We need to identify the things to which we want to give our time and attention. Each of us has our true identity no matter what our job title might be.
10. Work with a career counselor
“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
– Henry James
Work with someone who can help you explore the idea of meaningful work. Don’t be satisfied with just finding a job. It is not enough to try to fit yourself into some job description. Meaningful work is work that fits you. Depth-oriented career counseling is meant to get you in touch with the deeper patterns in your life. When you have a deep understanding of who you are and how you want to be in the world, you can then begin the process of translating that knowledge into a satisfying, real-world work situation. Be sure you feel comfortable with your counselor.
Remember: You are not just a resume. You are a complex and unique human being.
Friday, December 22
To the cat lovers out there...
*_CATs RULES_*
To be posted VERY LOW on the refrigerator door - nose height.
Dear Cats,
The dishes with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.
The stairway was not designed by MacLaren and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.
I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort. Cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.
For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open.
I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years -- feline attendance is not required. The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough!
To pacify you, my dear cats, I have posted the following message on our front door:
To All Non-Cat Owners Who Visit & Like to Complain About Our cats:
1. They live here. You don't.
2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. (That's why they call it "fur"niture.)
3. I like my cats a lot better than I like most people.
4. To you, it's an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and doesn't speak clearly.
Remember: Cats are better than kids because they:
1. Eat less
2. Don't ask for money all the time
3. Are easier to train
4. Normally come when called
5. Never ask to drive the car
6. Don't hang out with drug-using friends
7. Don't smoke or drink
8. Don't have to buy the latest fashions
9. Don't want to wear your clothes
10. Don't need a gazillion pounds for University, and...
11. If they get pregnant, you can sell their children
To be posted VERY LOW on the refrigerator door - nose height.
Dear Cats,
The dishes with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.
The stairway was not designed by MacLaren and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.
I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort. Cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.
For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open.
I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years -- feline attendance is not required. The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough!
To pacify you, my dear cats, I have posted the following message on our front door:
To All Non-Cat Owners Who Visit & Like to Complain About Our cats:
1. They live here. You don't.
2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. (That's why they call it "fur"niture.)
3. I like my cats a lot better than I like most people.
4. To you, it's an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and doesn't speak clearly.
Remember: Cats are better than kids because they:
1. Eat less
2. Don't ask for money all the time
3. Are easier to train
4. Normally come when called
5. Never ask to drive the car
6. Don't hang out with drug-using friends
7. Don't smoke or drink
8. Don't have to buy the latest fashions
9. Don't want to wear your clothes
10. Don't need a gazillion pounds for University, and...
11. If they get pregnant, you can sell their children
Thursday, December 21
You are Judgement
Happiness, Content, Joy.
Judgment is related to the Hebrew letter Shin, which is fiery and spiritual. A break from the past, going forward.
With Fire as its ruling element, Judgement is about rebirth or ressurection. The idea of Judgement day is that the dead rise, their sins are forgiven, and they move onto heaven. The Judgement card is similar, it asks the resurrection to summon the past, forgive it, and let it go. There are wounds from the past that we never let heal, sins we've committed that we refuse to forgive, bad habits we haven't the courage to lose. Judgement advises us to finally face these, recognize that the past is past, and put them to rest, absolutely and irrevocably. This is also a card of healing, quite literally from an accident or illness, as well as a card signaling great transformation, renewal, change.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
hmmm.... taking the test at different times yield different results... guess we humans are really multi-faceted...
Wednesday, December 20
I am being stalked! Part 2
Mr Desperado sms again... so I asked him where he got my number from. Apparently, some bo liao person wrote my name and number on a public toilet door, saying I charge $100 for sex.
I was so pissed I told him I would call the cops and give them his number if he harassed me again.
Whoever did it was obviously a person whom I know cos it was by the name I was given as a kid... So to this bo liao person, I only have 1 thing to say:
There is not a problem that God has not already provided the answer for.
There is not a problem any of us face that is bigger than the God inside us.
There is not a problem that mankind faces that cannot be solved through the complete salvation of the cross of Christ.
So get a life and stop using others to harass me... I believe in God's justice. The deed that was done towards me can only add to your list of sins before God on judgement day. You alone have to answer to God for what you have done...
I was so pissed I told him I would call the cops and give them his number if he harassed me again.
Whoever did it was obviously a person whom I know cos it was by the name I was given as a kid... So to this bo liao person, I only have 1 thing to say:
There is not a problem that God has not already provided the answer for.
There is not a problem any of us face that is bigger than the God inside us.
There is not a problem that mankind faces that cannot be solved through the complete salvation of the cross of Christ.
So get a life and stop using others to harass me... I believe in God's justice. The deed that was done towards me can only add to your list of sins before God on judgement day. You alone have to answer to God for what you have done...
I am being stalked!
Some strange dude has been stalking me...
I have been receiving strange calls since Monday night. At around 8 plus, this dude called my handphone number and ask if it was a karaoke lounge. I told him 'no' and it was my personal hp number. Then he started calling back every hour until 1 am...
If this wasn't enough, he used another handphone number to sms me. First sms, "Hi". So I replied back "Who is this?". His reply? "U male"
I was like thinking like "What the #@$%*&?" so i din reply back. When I told my lil bro about this, he was laughing his butt off.
If this was still not enough, he continued calling me on Tuesday... My brave and heroic bro told him that he would send people to beat him up if he continued calling.
Today, that audacious goon had to cheek to sms me again, claiming he wants to be my friend. This after I have rejected his calls numerous times and my bro has scolded him!
All I wanna to him is:
I dun care who you are and I dun wanna be friends with you. Try sms-ing me again and calling me again... This, I swear, is what I am going to do to you.
1) I will publish your handphone numbers on my blog - that way, everyone will know what a desperate goon you are.
2) I will call my handphone operator to bar your numbers.
3) I will file a police case for harassment.
If you think I am vicious, too bad for you... I'm just simply valuing my privacy. Try me and you will live to regret it.
I have been receiving strange calls since Monday night. At around 8 plus, this dude called my handphone number and ask if it was a karaoke lounge. I told him 'no' and it was my personal hp number. Then he started calling back every hour until 1 am...
If this wasn't enough, he used another handphone number to sms me. First sms, "Hi". So I replied back "Who is this?". His reply? "U male"
I was like thinking like "What the #@$%*&?" so i din reply back. When I told my lil bro about this, he was laughing his butt off.
If this was still not enough, he continued calling me on Tuesday... My brave and heroic bro told him that he would send people to beat him up if he continued calling.
Today, that audacious goon had to cheek to sms me again, claiming he wants to be my friend. This after I have rejected his calls numerous times and my bro has scolded him!
All I wanna to him is:
I dun care who you are and I dun wanna be friends with you. Try sms-ing me again and calling me again... This, I swear, is what I am going to do to you.
1) I will publish your handphone numbers on my blog - that way, everyone will know what a desperate goon you are.
2) I will call my handphone operator to bar your numbers.
3) I will file a police case for harassment.
If you think I am vicious, too bad for you... I'm just simply valuing my privacy. Try me and you will live to regret it.
Monday, December 18
Soaking Monday...
This must have been the absolute wettest Monday I have ever come across... Rained almost 5 to 6 times today... gives a new definition to "Monday Blues". Typhoon Durian coming our way now?
I came to an interesting conclusion today... God has a wry sense of humour. He provides you with opportunities to help others when you are carring 3 huge bags of stationery...
When I got off the bus (I was heading home), I had an interesting opportunity to help a blind man. He wanted to get to Church of St Ignatius at the end of the lane. Initially, I wanted to help him to the junction so he could walk up the slope. However, seeing him struggle with his stick in the rain, plus he nearly walked into lamp posts and on the road a few times, I really didn't have the heart...
So I walked him all the way to the church.
The result: Me... soaking wet. My bags... soaking wet. My heart... feeling absolutely happy!
I came to an interesting conclusion today... God has a wry sense of humour. He provides you with opportunities to help others when you are carring 3 huge bags of stationery...
When I got off the bus (I was heading home), I had an interesting opportunity to help a blind man. He wanted to get to Church of St Ignatius at the end of the lane. Initially, I wanted to help him to the junction so he could walk up the slope. However, seeing him struggle with his stick in the rain, plus he nearly walked into lamp posts and on the road a few times, I really didn't have the heart...
So I walked him all the way to the church.
The result: Me... soaking wet. My bags... soaking wet. My heart... feeling absolutely happy!
| You Are A Realistic Romantic |
 It's easy for you to get swept away by romance... But you've done a pretty good job keeping perspective. You're still taken in by love poems and sunsets You just don't fall for every dreamy pick up line! |
Friday, December 15
Poetry from my past
Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIV
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
'I love her for her smile--her look--her way
Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight?
by Christopher Marlowe
It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.
When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should love, the other win;
And one especially do we affect
Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:
The reason no man knows; let it suffice
What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Clod & the Pebble
by William Blake
Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
So sang a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle's feet;
But a Pebble of the brook,
Warbled out these metres meet.
Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to It's delight:
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Garden of Love
by William Blake
I went to the Garden of Love.
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And "Thou Shalt Not", writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore,
And I saw it filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Love's Philosophy
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle;--
Why not I with thine?
See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven,
If it disdain'd its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When the Lamp Is Shattered
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
When the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead
When the cloud is scattered
The rainbow's glory is shed.
When the lute is broken,
Sweet tones are remembered not.
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot.
As music and splendour
Survive not the lamp and the lute.
The heart's echoes render
No song when the spirit is mute--
No song but sad dirges,
Like the wind through a ruined cell,
Or the mournful surges
That ring the dead seaman's knell.
When hearts have once mingled
Love first leaves the well-built nest.
The weak one is singled
To endure what it once possessed.
Oh Love! who bewailest
The frailty of all things here,
Why choose you the frailest
For your cradle, your home, and your bier?
Its passions will rock thee
As the storms rock the ravens on high.
Bright reason will mock thee,
Like the sun from a wintry sky.
From thy nest every rafter
Will rot, and thine eagle home
Leave thee naked to laughter,
When leaves fall and cold winds come.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know;
His house is in the village, though.
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Reluctance
by Robert Frost
Out through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question "Whither?"
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
'I love her for her smile--her look--her way
Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight?
by Christopher Marlowe
It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.
When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should love, the other win;
And one especially do we affect
Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:
The reason no man knows; let it suffice
What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Clod & the Pebble
by William Blake
Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
So sang a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle's feet;
But a Pebble of the brook,
Warbled out these metres meet.
Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to It's delight:
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Garden of Love
by William Blake
I went to the Garden of Love.
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And "Thou Shalt Not", writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore,
And I saw it filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Love's Philosophy
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle;--
Why not I with thine?
See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven,
If it disdain'd its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When the Lamp Is Shattered
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
When the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead
When the cloud is scattered
The rainbow's glory is shed.
When the lute is broken,
Sweet tones are remembered not.
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot.
As music and splendour
Survive not the lamp and the lute.
The heart's echoes render
No song when the spirit is mute--
No song but sad dirges,
Like the wind through a ruined cell,
Or the mournful surges
That ring the dead seaman's knell.
When hearts have once mingled
Love first leaves the well-built nest.
The weak one is singled
To endure what it once possessed.
Oh Love! who bewailest
The frailty of all things here,
Why choose you the frailest
For your cradle, your home, and your bier?
Its passions will rock thee
As the storms rock the ravens on high.
Bright reason will mock thee,
Like the sun from a wintry sky.
From thy nest every rafter
Will rot, and thine eagle home
Leave thee naked to laughter,
When leaves fall and cold winds come.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know;
His house is in the village, though.
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Reluctance
by Robert Frost
Out through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question "Whither?"
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thursday, December 14
 | The Priss Deliberate Brutal Love Dreamer (DBLDf) Mature. Responsible. Aristocratic. Excuse me. The Priss. Prisses are the smartest of all female types. You're highly perceptive, and confident in your judgements. You'd take brutal honesty over superficiality any time--your friends always know where they stand with you. You're completely unfake. Don't tell me that's not a word. You're also excellent at redirecting internal negative energy. These facts indicate people are often intimidated by you. They also fall for you, hard. You have a distant, composed allure that many find irresistible. If only more of them lived up to your standards. You were probably the last among your friends to have sex. And the first to pretend that you're pregnant. LOL. Though you're inclined to use sex as weapon, at least it's not as one of mass destruction. You're choosier than most about your partners. A supportive relationship is what you're really after. Whether you know it or not, you need something steady & long-term. And soothing. ALWAYS AVOID: The Playboy, The Loverboy CONSIDER: The Manchild |
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You are The Wheel of Fortune
Good fortune and happiness but sometimes a species of
intoxication with success
The Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, fortune. Almost always good fortune. You are lucky in all things that you do and happy with the things that come to you. Be careful that success does not go to your head however. Sometimes luck can change.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
Wednesday, December 13
Updates on Grandma...
My dear Grandma was operated on last evening at 6.30 pm. She was so nervous and scared the whole day that she barely said few words...
Seeing her so nervous, scared and worried also made me feel very jittery... I even prayed and fasted for her so that the operation would be smooth-sailing.
Praise the Lord! God showed her his favour. The operation went very well and she did not even have to stay in the high dependency ward. She was pushed back into her regular ward after the operation.
When the anesthesiologist came to check on her later, he told us what a great lil trooper she was. Although they only gave her an epidural, she wasn't fretful. She kept chatting with him throughout the operation. Her blood pressure was also "rock-stable" in his words...
The worst is over... but she still has to stay in the ward for another few more days.
Thanks to all the friends who helped me to pray for my dear Grandma!
Seeing her so nervous, scared and worried also made me feel very jittery... I even prayed and fasted for her so that the operation would be smooth-sailing.
Praise the Lord! God showed her his favour. The operation went very well and she did not even have to stay in the high dependency ward. She was pushed back into her regular ward after the operation.
When the anesthesiologist came to check on her later, he told us what a great lil trooper she was. Although they only gave her an epidural, she wasn't fretful. She kept chatting with him throughout the operation. Her blood pressure was also "rock-stable" in his words...
The worst is over... but she still has to stay in the ward for another few more days.
Thanks to all the friends who helped me to pray for my dear Grandma!
Monday, December 11
Busy Holiday...
I think this must have been the busiest holiday for me... between going back to school and going to the hospital... I can't say it has been very restful holiday for me...
Before anyone freaks, it is not me who needs treatment as the hospital or whatever... My grandma has been shuttling in and out of the hospital.
Last week, she was there for a cateract operation. Though it was pretty fast, was over in last than an hour, I had to be with her the whole morning to see her through her recovery in the day surgery ward.
Today, it was worse. She fell while bathing in the toilet this morning and her hip socket was fractured, causing her femur to be dislocated. She was in a pretty bad shape and had to be put on traction to stabilise the bone. Doctor recommended the removal of the fractured hip socket and a titanium implant will be put in place. The femur will be attached to the implant using screws.
Initially, the orthopedic surgeon wanted to operate on her tonite but she complained of giddiness. So she was sent to do an MRI instead. The doctor was worried she might wind up with stroke...
After the MRI, everything looks okie so she's set to be operated on tomorrow evening... However, the whole family is pretty worried cos Grandma is over 80 years old. Mom is worried about post-operation complications cos her brain vessels are a lil narrow (due to old age), or the antibiotics they will ply her with might be too strong for her.
I'll be praying and fasting for her tomorrow.
Dear friends, if you see my post, can help me to pray for her that she will get through this and be in good health? Thanks so much....
Before anyone freaks, it is not me who needs treatment as the hospital or whatever... My grandma has been shuttling in and out of the hospital.
Last week, she was there for a cateract operation. Though it was pretty fast, was over in last than an hour, I had to be with her the whole morning to see her through her recovery in the day surgery ward.
Today, it was worse. She fell while bathing in the toilet this morning and her hip socket was fractured, causing her femur to be dislocated. She was in a pretty bad shape and had to be put on traction to stabilise the bone. Doctor recommended the removal of the fractured hip socket and a titanium implant will be put in place. The femur will be attached to the implant using screws.
Initially, the orthopedic surgeon wanted to operate on her tonite but she complained of giddiness. So she was sent to do an MRI instead. The doctor was worried she might wind up with stroke...
After the MRI, everything looks okie so she's set to be operated on tomorrow evening... However, the whole family is pretty worried cos Grandma is over 80 years old. Mom is worried about post-operation complications cos her brain vessels are a lil narrow (due to old age), or the antibiotics they will ply her with might be too strong for her.
I'll be praying and fasting for her tomorrow.
Dear friends, if you see my post, can help me to pray for her that she will get through this and be in good health? Thanks so much....
THE CREATION OF THE TEACHER
The Good Lord was creating teachers. It was His sixth day of 'overtime' and He knew that this was a tremendous responsibility for teachers would touch the lives of so many impressionable young children. An angel appeared to Him and said, "You are taking a long time to figure this one out."
"Yes," said the Lord, " but have you read the specs on this order?"
TEACHER:
…must stand above all students, yet be on their level
... must be able to do 180 things not connected with the subject being taught
... must run on coffee and leftovers,
... must communicate vital knowledge to all students daily and be right most of the time
... must have more time for others than for herself/himself
... must have a smile that can endure through pay cuts, problematic children, and worried parents
... must go on teaching when parents question every move and others are not supportive
... must have 6 pair of hands.
"Six pair of hands, " said the angel, "that's impossible"
"Well, " said the Lord, " it is not the hands that are the problem. It is the three pairs of eyes that are presenting the most difficulty!"
The angel looked incredulous, " Three pairs of eyes...on a standard model?"
The Lord nodded His head, " One pair can see a student for what he is and not what others have labeled him as. Another pair of eyes is in the back of the teacher's head to see what should not be seen, but what must be known. The eyes in the front are only to look at the child as he/she 'acts out' in order to reflect, " I understand and I still believe in you", without so much as saying a word to the child."
"Lord, " said the angel, " this is a very large project and I think you should work on it tomorrow".
"I can't," said the Lord, " for I have come very close to creating something much like Myself. I have one that comes to work when he/she is sick.....teaches a class of children that do not want to learn....has a special place in his/her heart for children who are not his/her own.....understands the struggles of those who have difficulty....never takes the students for granted..."
The angel looked closely at the model the Lord was creating.
"It is too soft-hearted, " said the angel.
"Yes," said the Lord, " but also tough, You can not imagine what this teacher can endure or do, if necessary".
"Can this teacher think?" asked the angel.
"Not only think," said the Lord,. "but reason and compromise."
The angel came closer to have a better look at the model and ran his finger over the teacher's cheek.
"Well, Lord, " said the angel, your job looks fine but there is a leak. I told you that you were putting too much into this model. You can not imagine the stress that will be placed upon the teacher."
The Lord moved in closer and lifted the drop of moisture from the teacher's cheek. It shone and glistened in the light.
"It is not a leak," He said, "It is a tear."
"A tear? What is that?" asked the angel, "What is a tear for?"
The Lord replied with great thought, " It is for the joy and pride of seeing a child accomplish even the smallest task. It is for the loneliness of children who have a hard time to fit in and it is for compassion for the feelings of their parents. It comes from the pain of not being able to reach some children and the disappointment those children feel in themselves. It comes often when a teacher has been with a class for a year and must say good-bye to those students and get ready to welcome a new class."
"My, " said the angel, " The tear thing is a great idea...You are a genius!!"
The Lord looked somber, "I didn't put it there."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
If children live with hostility,they learn to fight.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to be shy.
If children live with tolerance, they learn to be patient.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with praise, they learn to appreciate.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with security, they learn faith.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with acceptance, and friendship, they learn to find love in the world.
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"Yes," said the Lord, " but have you read the specs on this order?"
TEACHER:
…must stand above all students, yet be on their level
... must be able to do 180 things not connected with the subject being taught
... must run on coffee and leftovers,
... must communicate vital knowledge to all students daily and be right most of the time
... must have more time for others than for herself/himself
... must have a smile that can endure through pay cuts, problematic children, and worried parents
... must go on teaching when parents question every move and others are not supportive
... must have 6 pair of hands.
"Six pair of hands, " said the angel, "that's impossible"
"Well, " said the Lord, " it is not the hands that are the problem. It is the three pairs of eyes that are presenting the most difficulty!"
The angel looked incredulous, " Three pairs of eyes...on a standard model?"
The Lord nodded His head, " One pair can see a student for what he is and not what others have labeled him as. Another pair of eyes is in the back of the teacher's head to see what should not be seen, but what must be known. The eyes in the front are only to look at the child as he/she 'acts out' in order to reflect, " I understand and I still believe in you", without so much as saying a word to the child."
"Lord, " said the angel, " this is a very large project and I think you should work on it tomorrow".
"I can't," said the Lord, " for I have come very close to creating something much like Myself. I have one that comes to work when he/she is sick.....teaches a class of children that do not want to learn....has a special place in his/her heart for children who are not his/her own.....understands the struggles of those who have difficulty....never takes the students for granted..."
The angel looked closely at the model the Lord was creating.
"It is too soft-hearted, " said the angel.
"Yes," said the Lord, " but also tough, You can not imagine what this teacher can endure or do, if necessary".
"Can this teacher think?" asked the angel.
"Not only think," said the Lord,. "but reason and compromise."
The angel came closer to have a better look at the model and ran his finger over the teacher's cheek.
"Well, Lord, " said the angel, your job looks fine but there is a leak. I told you that you were putting too much into this model. You can not imagine the stress that will be placed upon the teacher."
The Lord moved in closer and lifted the drop of moisture from the teacher's cheek. It shone and glistened in the light.
"It is not a leak," He said, "It is a tear."
"A tear? What is that?" asked the angel, "What is a tear for?"
The Lord replied with great thought, " It is for the joy and pride of seeing a child accomplish even the smallest task. It is for the loneliness of children who have a hard time to fit in and it is for compassion for the feelings of their parents. It comes from the pain of not being able to reach some children and the disappointment those children feel in themselves. It comes often when a teacher has been with a class for a year and must say good-bye to those students and get ready to welcome a new class."
"My, " said the angel, " The tear thing is a great idea...You are a genius!!"
The Lord looked somber, "I didn't put it there."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
If children live with hostility,they learn to fight.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to be shy.
If children live with tolerance, they learn to be patient.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with praise, they learn to appreciate.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with security, they learn faith.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with acceptance, and friendship, they learn to find love in the world.
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Saturday, December 2
Jokes Galore!
One day God called Jesus and his helpers into a meeting.
God said that he wanted them to create a data base on heaven's super computer.
He said He wanted them to list everyone who had ever been born and all the good and bad things that each had done since the beginning of time. They all said they could do that and so they sat at their keyboards for hours, then days and weeks.
Finally they were almost done when there was a power failure in heaven and the computers all went off. Only seconds later the lights came back on and all the computers started to re-boot. There was much crying and gnashing of teeth and pounding of keyboards as this happened. Down at the end of the table sat Jesus with a big smile on His face.
Why was Jesus smiling amongst all this dismay?
Jesus Saves!
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What's Paul's favourite shampoo?
Rejoice!
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Who's the most pro tennis player in the bible?
Joseph, coz he "served" in pharoah's "courts"
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What's Jesus' favourite shampoo?
Follow me (and I will make u fishers of men)
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A bible scholar, after analysing the Bible from Genesis to Revelation after twenty years, come up with the conclusion that ... one of the thief that was crucified along with Jesus on the day of Calvary, was actually Apostle Paul's father! How did he come up with that conclusion?
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Romans 6:6
God said that he wanted them to create a data base on heaven's super computer.
He said He wanted them to list everyone who had ever been born and all the good and bad things that each had done since the beginning of time. They all said they could do that and so they sat at their keyboards for hours, then days and weeks.
Finally they were almost done when there was a power failure in heaven and the computers all went off. Only seconds later the lights came back on and all the computers started to re-boot. There was much crying and gnashing of teeth and pounding of keyboards as this happened. Down at the end of the table sat Jesus with a big smile on His face.
Why was Jesus smiling amongst all this dismay?
Jesus Saves!
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What's Paul's favourite shampoo?
Rejoice!
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Who's the most pro tennis player in the bible?
Joseph, coz he "served" in pharoah's "courts"
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What's Jesus' favourite shampoo?
Follow me (and I will make u fishers of men)
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A bible scholar, after analysing the Bible from Genesis to Revelation after twenty years, come up with the conclusion that ... one of the thief that was crucified along with Jesus on the day of Calvary, was actually Apostle Paul's father! How did he come up with that conclusion?
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Thursday, November 30
You Think English is Easy???
Can you read these right the first time?
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a strange language.
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of
odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this. There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP
for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP . We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP . When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP . When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP . One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP , so........... it is time to shut UP .....!
Oh . . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a strange language.
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of
odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this. There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP
for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP . We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP . When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP . When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP . One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP , so........... it is time to shut UP .....!
Oh . . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P
Wednesday, November 29
Gold Wrapping Paper
The story goes that some time ago a mother punished her five year old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and she became even more upset when the child used the gold paper to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree.
Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift box to her mother the next morning and then said, "This is for you, Momma." The mother was embarrassed by her earlier over reaction, but her
anger flared again when she opened the box and found it was empty.
She spoke to her daughter in a harsh manner, "Don't you know, young lady, when you give someone a present there's supposed to be something inside the package?" Her daughter had tears in her eyes and said, "Oh, Momma, it's not empty! I blew kisses into it until it was full."
The mother was crushed. She fell on her knees and put her arms around her little girl, and she begged her forgiveness for her thoughtless anger.
An accident took the life of the child only a short time later, and it is told that the mother kept that gold box by her bed for all the years of her life. Whenever she was discouraged or faced difficult problems she would open the box and take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
In a very real sense, each of us, as human beings, have been given a Golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and GOD. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.
Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift box to her mother the next morning and then said, "This is for you, Momma." The mother was embarrassed by her earlier over reaction, but her
anger flared again when she opened the box and found it was empty.
She spoke to her daughter in a harsh manner, "Don't you know, young lady, when you give someone a present there's supposed to be something inside the package?" Her daughter had tears in her eyes and said, "Oh, Momma, it's not empty! I blew kisses into it until it was full."
The mother was crushed. She fell on her knees and put her arms around her little girl, and she begged her forgiveness for her thoughtless anger.
An accident took the life of the child only a short time later, and it is told that the mother kept that gold box by her bed for all the years of her life. Whenever she was discouraged or faced difficult problems she would open the box and take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
In a very real sense, each of us, as human beings, have been given a Golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and GOD. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.
Tuesday, November 28
Love and Marriage
During one of our seminars, a woman asked a common question. She said, "How do I know if I married the right person?" I noticed that there was a large man sitting next to her so I said, "It depends. Is that your husband?" In all seriousness, she answered "How do you know?"
Let me answer this question because the chances are good that it's weighing on your mind. Here's the answer.
EVERY relationship has a cycle. In the beginning, you fell in love with your spouse. You anticipated their call, wanted their touch, and liked their idiosyncrasies. Falling in love with your spouse wasn't hard. In fact, it was acompletely natural and spontaneous experience. You didn't have to DO anything. That's why it's called "falling" in love... Because it's happening TO YOU.
People in love sometimes say, "I was swept of my feet." Think about the imagery of that expression. It implies that you were just standing there; doing nothing, and then something came along and happened TO YOU. Falling is love is easy. It's a passive and spontaneous experience.
But after a few years of marriage, the euphoria of love fades. It's the natural cycle of EVERY relationship. Slowly but surely, phone calls become a bother (if they come at all), touch is not always welcome (when it happens), and your spouse's idiosyncrasies, instead of being cute, drive you nuts. The symptoms of this stage vary with every relationship, but if you think about your marriage, you will notice a dramatic difference between the initial stage when you were in love and a much duller or even angry subsequent stage.
At this point, you and / or your spouse might start asking, "Did I marry the right person?" And as you and your spouse reflect on the euphoria of the love you once had, you may begin to desire that experience with someone else. This is when marriages breakdown. People blame their spouse for their unhappiness and look outside their marriage forfulfillment. Extramarital fulfillment comes in all shapes and sizes. Infidelity is the most obvious. But sometimes people turn to work, church, a hobby, a friendship, excessive TV, or abusive substances. But the answer to this dilemma does NOT lie outside your marriage. It lies within it.
I'm not saying that you couldn't fall in love with someone else. You could. And TEMPORARILY you'd feel better. But you'd be in the same situation afew years later. Because (listen carefully to this) : THE KEY TO SUCCEEDING IN MARRIAGE IS NOT FINDING THE RIGHT PERSON; IT'S LEARNING TO LOVE THE PERSON YOU FOUND.
SUSTAINING love is not a passive or spontaneous experience. It'll NEVER just happen to you. You can't "find" LASTING love. You have to "make" it day in and day out. That's why we have the expression "the labor of love." Because it takes time, effort, and energy. And most importantly, it takes WISDOM. You have to know WHAT TO DO to make your marriage work. Make no mistake about it. Love is NOT a mystery.
There are specific things you can do (with or without your spouse) to succeed with your marriage. Just as there are physical laws of the universe (such as gravity), thereare also laws for relationships. Just as the right diet and exercise program makes you physically stronger, certain habits in your relationship WILL makeyour marriage stronger. It's a direct cause and effect. If you know and apply the laws, the results are predictable... you can "make" love.
Love in marriage is indeed a "decision"... Not just a feeling.
Let me answer this question because the chances are good that it's weighing on your mind. Here's the answer.
EVERY relationship has a cycle. In the beginning, you fell in love with your spouse. You anticipated their call, wanted their touch, and liked their idiosyncrasies. Falling in love with your spouse wasn't hard. In fact, it was acompletely natural and spontaneous experience. You didn't have to DO anything. That's why it's called "falling" in love... Because it's happening TO YOU.
People in love sometimes say, "I was swept of my feet." Think about the imagery of that expression. It implies that you were just standing there; doing nothing, and then something came along and happened TO YOU. Falling is love is easy. It's a passive and spontaneous experience.
But after a few years of marriage, the euphoria of love fades. It's the natural cycle of EVERY relationship. Slowly but surely, phone calls become a bother (if they come at all), touch is not always welcome (when it happens), and your spouse's idiosyncrasies, instead of being cute, drive you nuts. The symptoms of this stage vary with every relationship, but if you think about your marriage, you will notice a dramatic difference between the initial stage when you were in love and a much duller or even angry subsequent stage.
At this point, you and / or your spouse might start asking, "Did I marry the right person?" And as you and your spouse reflect on the euphoria of the love you once had, you may begin to desire that experience with someone else. This is when marriages breakdown. People blame their spouse for their unhappiness and look outside their marriage forfulfillment. Extramarital fulfillment comes in all shapes and sizes. Infidelity is the most obvious. But sometimes people turn to work, church, a hobby, a friendship, excessive TV, or abusive substances. But the answer to this dilemma does NOT lie outside your marriage. It lies within it.
I'm not saying that you couldn't fall in love with someone else. You could. And TEMPORARILY you'd feel better. But you'd be in the same situation afew years later. Because (listen carefully to this) : THE KEY TO SUCCEEDING IN MARRIAGE IS NOT FINDING THE RIGHT PERSON; IT'S LEARNING TO LOVE THE PERSON YOU FOUND.
SUSTAINING love is not a passive or spontaneous experience. It'll NEVER just happen to you. You can't "find" LASTING love. You have to "make" it day in and day out. That's why we have the expression "the labor of love." Because it takes time, effort, and energy. And most importantly, it takes WISDOM. You have to know WHAT TO DO to make your marriage work. Make no mistake about it. Love is NOT a mystery.
There are specific things you can do (with or without your spouse) to succeed with your marriage. Just as there are physical laws of the universe (such as gravity), thereare also laws for relationships. Just as the right diet and exercise program makes you physically stronger, certain habits in your relationship WILL makeyour marriage stronger. It's a direct cause and effect. If you know and apply the laws, the results are predictable... you can "make" love.
Love in marriage is indeed a "decision"... Not just a feeling.
Interesting Trivia about Sex...
This is hilarious! It claims to be 100 % True but....... dun take it too seriously!!!
1. Sex is a beauty treatment. Scientific tests find that when women make love they produce amounts of the hormone estrogen, which makes hair shine and skin smooth
2. Gentle, relaxed lovemaking reduces your chances of suffering dermatitis, skin rashes and blemishes. The sweat produced cleanses the pores and makes your skin glow.
3. Lovemaking can burn up those calories you piled on during that romantic dinner.
4. Sex is one of the safest sports you can take up. It stretches and tones up just about every muscle in the body. It's more enjoyable than swimming 20 laps, and you don't need special sneakers!
5. Sex is an instant cure for mild depression. It releases endorphins into the bloodstream, producing a sense of euphoria and leaving you with a feeling of well-being.
6. The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones. These subtle sex perfumes drive the opposite sex crazy!
7 . Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. IT IS 10 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VALIUM.
8. Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.
9. Sex actually relieves headaches. A lovemaking session can release the tension that restricts blood vessels in the brain.
10. A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural anti-histamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.
1. Sex is a beauty treatment. Scientific tests find that when women make love they produce amounts of the hormone estrogen, which makes hair shine and skin smooth
2. Gentle, relaxed lovemaking reduces your chances of suffering dermatitis, skin rashes and blemishes. The sweat produced cleanses the pores and makes your skin glow.
3. Lovemaking can burn up those calories you piled on during that romantic dinner.
4. Sex is one of the safest sports you can take up. It stretches and tones up just about every muscle in the body. It's more enjoyable than swimming 20 laps, and you don't need special sneakers!
5. Sex is an instant cure for mild depression. It releases endorphins into the bloodstream, producing a sense of euphoria and leaving you with a feeling of well-being.
6. The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones. These subtle sex perfumes drive the opposite sex crazy!
7 . Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. IT IS 10 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VALIUM.
8. Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.
9. Sex actually relieves headaches. A lovemaking session can release the tension that restricts blood vessels in the brain.
10. A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural anti-histamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.
Saturday, November 25
Just for laughs # 2
A koala is sitting up a gum tree ... smoking a joint when a little lizard walks past and looks up and says, "Hey Koala ! What are you doing?"
The koala says: "Smoking a joint, come up and have some."
So the little lizard climbs up and sits next to the koala and they have a few joints. After a while the little lizard says his mouth is 'dry' and is going to get a drink from the river. But the little lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river.
A crocodile sees this and swims over to the little lizard and helps him to the side, then asks the little lizard:"What's the matter with you?" The little lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the koala in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink.
The crocodile says he has to check this out and walks into the rain forest, finds the tree where the koala is sitting finishing a joint, and he looks up and says "Hey you!" The koala looks down at him and says: "Shiiiiiiiiiiit dude ... how much water did you drink?!!"
The koala says: "Smoking a joint, come up and have some."
So the little lizard climbs up and sits next to the koala and they have a few joints. After a while the little lizard says his mouth is 'dry' and is going to get a drink from the river. But the little lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river.
A crocodile sees this and swims over to the little lizard and helps him to the side, then asks the little lizard:"What's the matter with you?" The little lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the koala in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink.
The crocodile says he has to check this out and walks into the rain forest, finds the tree where the koala is sitting finishing a joint, and he looks up and says "Hey you!" The koala looks down at him and says: "Shiiiiiiiiiiit dude ... how much water did you drink?!!"
Thursday, November 23
Just for laughs...
A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, right up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, "I would like to buy some cyanide."
The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?"
The lady replied, "I need it to poison my husband."
The pharmacist's eyes got big and he exclaimed, "Lord have mercy! I can't give you cyanide to kill your husband! That's against the law! I'd lose my license! They'll throw both of us in jail! All kinds of bad things will happen. Absolutely not! You CANNOT have any cyanide!"
The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife.
The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, "Well now... That's different. You didn't tell me you had a prescription."
The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?"
The lady replied, "I need it to poison my husband."
The pharmacist's eyes got big and he exclaimed, "Lord have mercy! I can't give you cyanide to kill your husband! That's against the law! I'd lose my license! They'll throw both of us in jail! All kinds of bad things will happen. Absolutely not! You CANNOT have any cyanide!"
The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife.
The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, "Well now... That's different. You didn't tell me you had a prescription."
Wednesday, November 22
Men Never Listen!!!
In a Chicago hospital, a gentleman had made several attempts to get into the men's restroom, but it had always been occupied.
A nurse noticed his predicament. Sir, she said, "You may use the ladies room only if you promise not to touch any of the buttons on the wall."
He did what he needed to, and as he sat there he noticed the buttons he had promised not to touch.
Each button was identified by letters:
WW,WA, PP, and a red one labeled ATR.
Who would know if he touched them? He couldn't resist..
He pushed WW. Warm water was sprayed gently upon his bottom. What a nice feeling, he thought. Men's restrooms don't have nice things like this.
Anticipating greater pleasure, he pushed the WA button. Warm air replaced the warm water, gently drying his underside.
When this stopped, he pushed the PP button. A large powder puff caressed his bottom adding a fragile scent of spring flowers to this unbelievable pleasure.
The ladies restroom was more than a restroom, it was tender loving care.
When the powder puff completed, he couldn't wait to push the ATR button which he knew would be supreme ecstasy.
Next thing he knew, he opened his eyes and he was in a hospital bed, and a nurse was staring down at him.
"What happened?" he exclaimed. The last thing I remember was pushing the ATR button.
The nurse replied, "The button marked ATR is an Automatic Tampon Remover. Your penis is under your pillow."
Men Never Listen!!!
A nurse noticed his predicament. Sir, she said, "You may use the ladies room only if you promise not to touch any of the buttons on the wall."
He did what he needed to, and as he sat there he noticed the buttons he had promised not to touch.
Each button was identified by letters:
WW,WA, PP, and a red one labeled ATR.
Who would know if he touched them? He couldn't resist..
He pushed WW. Warm water was sprayed gently upon his bottom. What a nice feeling, he thought. Men's restrooms don't have nice things like this.
Anticipating greater pleasure, he pushed the WA button. Warm air replaced the warm water, gently drying his underside.
When this stopped, he pushed the PP button. A large powder puff caressed his bottom adding a fragile scent of spring flowers to this unbelievable pleasure.
The ladies restroom was more than a restroom, it was tender loving care.
When the powder puff completed, he couldn't wait to push the ATR button which he knew would be supreme ecstasy.
Next thing he knew, he opened his eyes and he was in a hospital bed, and a nurse was staring down at him.
"What happened?" he exclaimed. The last thing I remember was pushing the ATR button.
The nurse replied, "The button marked ATR is an Automatic Tampon Remover. Your penis is under your pillow."
Men Never Listen!!!
Monday, November 20
Birthdays...
A birthday is the date on which a person is born, marking the day a life outside the womb begins. It is customary in many cultures to celebrate the anniversary of one's birthday, for example by having a birthday party with family and/or friends. Gifts are often given to the person celebrating the birthday. It is also customary to treat people specially on their birthday, either generally acceding to their wishes, or subjecting them to a rite of transition.
A birthstone is a gift of a precious material that symbolizes the month of birth. There have been many different sets of birthstones used throughout history and in different cultures, but in 1912 the American national association of jewelers officially adopted the following list; it is currently the most widely used list around the world; some alternatives are added:
January - Garnet, Rose Quartz
February - Amethyst, Onyx
March - Aquamarine, Red Jasper ('bloodstone')
April - Diamond, Rock Crystal (Quartz)
May - Emerald, Chrysoprase
June - Pearl (the only non-mineral), Alexandrite or Moonstone
July - Ruby, Jade
August - Peridot, Aventurine, sardonyx or sapphire
September - Sapphire, Lapis lazuli
October - Opal, Pink Tourmaline
November - Yellow ('Golden') Topaz, Citrine or Turquoise
December - Blue Zircon, Blue Topaz, Turquoise, or Tanzanite
There is an astrological version of the birthstones using the twelve zodiac signs instead of the twelve calendar months. Listed below are the corresponding dates for the tropical sun signs and their associated birthstone.
Aries (March 21 - April 19) Diamond
Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Emerald
Gemini (May 21 - June 20) Spinel
Cancer (June 21 - July 22) Pearl
Leo (July 23 - August 23) Ruby
Virgo (August 24 - September 22) Sapphire
Libra (September 23 - October 23) Peridot
Scorpio (October 24 - November 21) Aquamarine
Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) Topaz
Capricorn (December 22 - January 21) Garnet
Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) Amethyst and moonstone
Pisces (February 19 - March 20) Diamond
Birth Flowers
January- Carnation
February - Violet
March - Jonquil
April - Sweetpea
May - Lily of the Valley
June - Rose
July - Larkspur
August - Gladiolus
September - Aster
October - Calendula
November - Chrysanthemum
December - Narcissus
One year older today, hopefully one year wiser...
Quince is the sunrise of a woman
Underneath the canopy of love.
In her again life's gift of youthful grace
New dawns across an old, familiar face,
Chanting in the wind through which we move,
Ecstatic at the joy of being human.
A birthstone is a gift of a precious material that symbolizes the month of birth. There have been many different sets of birthstones used throughout history and in different cultures, but in 1912 the American national association of jewelers officially adopted the following list; it is currently the most widely used list around the world; some alternatives are added:
January - Garnet, Rose Quartz
February - Amethyst, Onyx
March - Aquamarine, Red Jasper ('bloodstone')
April - Diamond, Rock Crystal (Quartz)
May - Emerald, Chrysoprase
June - Pearl (the only non-mineral), Alexandrite or Moonstone
July - Ruby, Jade
August - Peridot, Aventurine, sardonyx or sapphire
September - Sapphire, Lapis lazuli
October - Opal, Pink Tourmaline
November - Yellow ('Golden') Topaz, Citrine or Turquoise
December - Blue Zircon, Blue Topaz, Turquoise, or Tanzanite
There is an astrological version of the birthstones using the twelve zodiac signs instead of the twelve calendar months. Listed below are the corresponding dates for the tropical sun signs and their associated birthstone.
Aries (March 21 - April 19) Diamond
Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Emerald
Gemini (May 21 - June 20) Spinel
Cancer (June 21 - July 22) Pearl
Leo (July 23 - August 23) Ruby
Virgo (August 24 - September 22) Sapphire
Libra (September 23 - October 23) Peridot
Scorpio (October 24 - November 21) Aquamarine
Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) Topaz
Capricorn (December 22 - January 21) Garnet
Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) Amethyst and moonstone
Pisces (February 19 - March 20) Diamond
Birth Flowers
January- Carnation
February - Violet
March - Jonquil
April - Sweetpea
May - Lily of the Valley
June - Rose
July - Larkspur
August - Gladiolus
September - Aster
October - Calendula
November - Chrysanthemum
December - Narcissus
One year older today, hopefully one year wiser...
Quince is the sunrise of a woman
Underneath the canopy of love.
In her again life's gift of youthful grace
New dawns across an old, familiar face,
Chanting in the wind through which we move,
Ecstatic at the joy of being human.
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