Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Been away for a while......

I know I have been away for a while.... I will be back soon....with a BANG!!!!!!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Jokes

A distinguished young woman on a flight from America asked the Priest beside her.

'Father, may I ask a favor?' 'Of course. What may I do for you?'

'Well, I bought an expensive woman's electronic hair dryer for my mother's birthday that is unopened and well over the Customs limits, and I'm afraid they'll confiscate it. Is there any way you could carry it through Customs for me? Under your robes perhaps?'

'I would love to help you, dear, but I must warn you: I
will not lie.'

'With your honest face, Father, no one will question you.'

When they got to Customs, she let the priest go ahead of
her.

The official asked, 'Father, do you have anything to
declare?'

'From the top of my head down to my waist, I have
nothing to declare.'
The official thought this answer strange, so asked,
'And what do you have to declare from your waist to the floor?'

'I have a marvelous instrument designed to be used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused.'

Roaring with laughter, the official said, 'Go ahead, Father.
Next !'

Monday, November 16, 2009

This is something we should all read at least once a week.

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone….
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
19.. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26.. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ‘ In five years, will this matter?’
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything..
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. GOD loves you because of who HE is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.”

Dont know who wrote this….but very meaningful…

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?

or listened to the rain slapping the ground?

Have you ever watched a butterflies erratic flight?

or gazed into a sun as it turns into 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 bed

with your next hundred chores

running through your head?

You better slow down

Don’t dance to fast.

Time is short

the music won’t last.

Ever told your child

we’ll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste

never seen his tomorrow?

Ever lost touch

let a good friendship die

’cause you never had time

to call and say “Hi”.

You 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’s like an unopened gift. . .

thrown away. . .

Life is not a race.

Do it slower.

Hear the music,

before the song is over

Sixth Sense Technology May Change How We Look at the World Forever

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Whatever happens life has to go on.......

I was off and on with my blogs for some time....lots of things happening in life in the last couple of months - travels..weddings..and also death of a close family!!!

I always knew that I was not in this world forever..but then as humans we tend to forget it and live lives as if we are always going to be in this world.Last week was another reminder to it.

What are we looking for in this world - money? houses? lands? we seem to be running a race to get all these things and don't stop to enjoy the little things in life. STOP RUSHING AND ENJOY THE LITTLE THINGS LIFE HAS TO OFFER!

When you wake up every morn thank God that you are alive...(many must have not been as lucky as you are)...look at your family and thank Him (for you have one)...help that elder citizen to cross the road.....smile at the person walking towards you ....TAKE TIME TO SMELL THE ROSES!!!!!


After all we are not going to carry any of these things we are running after when we leave this world.This rat race will never end....but then we can make a difference and enjoy out lives...after all we only live once!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

We will miss you.....


.......gone into the world of light....we will miss you......

Friday, September 18, 2009

Phew..looks like I am back lol

Its been a long time since I wrote something on my page...well I was not just sitting idle but was working and also traveled thousands of kilometer and also crossed 5 states in this little time...how much things have changed!!! I haven't traveled long distance in a train for almost 15/16 years. It was a great feeling especially going on the route that I used to frequent (while traveling to the NE).

Things have changed since then...I remember an Andra which was so barren with just palm trees and dust and thistles...but today its changed its all green and so full of life ( and cooler too!!!). I understood from people that the government has done a lot to make the land what it is today.

One thing was very clear when i boarded the train from Chennai - South was the medical hub of the country! There were many who were traveling back to their homes some had to be lifted into the coach, others had scars of a recent surgery, some with tubes, little kids with their happy parents who were satisfied with the treatment they got. Its a cultural hub out in the train....people from all backgrounds...different languages...different cultures..and I find it quite comfortable to mingle with them.

I will post pics of this travel soon.....

Friday, August 14, 2009

Some interesting facts about Swine flu I found on the net

!First off, This Swine Flu will not be deadly as its going to be in this first wave.
-The 1918 Flu Pandemic started out simultaneously in three different parts of the world.
*Europe
*Asia
*North America

It spread in 3 waves...
*1st Wave = Spring of 1918
*2nd Wave = Fall of 1918
*3rd Wave = Winter of 1918-1919 (! This wave was the most fatal)
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Right now we are in the first wave, with only a 100+ deaths reported so far, with almost simultaneous outbreaks in North America(Canada, United States and Mexico).

Its 1st wave kicked off in this month of April 2009 (Spring of 2009)

If history is any type of blueprint or outline, then we should be expecting another outbreak and more deadly one in Fall time frame of this year, and round winter we should see the deadliest outbreak

The group of people that will be effected the most is as follows....
*This is per 100,000 person's in each age group (this is the 1918 chart)
-2,200 (give or take) = Age less than 1 years old
-1,000 (give or take) = Ages 25-34
-2,200 (give or take) = Ages 85+

the one's less effected by the 1918 flu epidemic was Ages 5-14 with Less than 500 people dying from it.


Total Over All death rate
The worlds population in 1918 was around 1.8 Billion, with a 50 Million death toll world wide after the 1918 flu hit.

Todays world population is 6.7 Billion. I think we will see a 300 Million or more death toll, and I come to this conclusion through simple math and the coincidences that are present in today's flu outbreak and 1918 which I will further expand upon.
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Time Coincidences
Since the sun has be brought into this as a suspect, lets continue that frame of thought for a moment...

Total Solar Eclipse of 1918 was on June 8, 1918
Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 will be on July 22, 2009

1st Case of 1918 flu was on/or around March 4, 1918 = Monday
1st Case of 2009 Swine flue was on/or around April 2009

!Between the 1st case of 1918 and the Total Solar Eclipse of 1918 was a 3 month difference
!Between the 1st case of 2009 swine flue and the Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 will be about a 3 months difference

Sun Coincidences
The 1918 flu epidemic fell under the 15th Solar Cycle which between the years of 1913-1923 seen just over 100 sun spots. it had a 92 consecutive stretch of spotless days spreading from April-June 1913

2009 Swine flu, we are in the 9th consecutive day of spotlessness. A lot of scientist have already said they think this is our solar minimum. which if true, means that these 2 pandemics are taking place during solar minimum's.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Friendship Day




20 years ago when I was in school I never heard of "friendship day". I had many friends and I guess every day was friendship day....The next generation has all kind of "Days". Name it you have it! Wonder if these days we have friendship as we used to have when we were young.


Last year I posted pic of my daughter with her friendship bands....this year she didn't get any less...But my son he didn't get any. He asked his sister to tie some of which she got for him..... Poor guy......but when it comes to making friends he is an EXPERT!!!!

Friday, July 31, 2009

If you can get over your past you can live your future!!!

A life-altering conversation

Only about a month later I would have a conversation with my friend Kent that would change my life forever. I call this day the most important day of my life. I had an epiphany.

My plan with buying a house was to find roommates to help with the mortgage payments. I had done this in Virginia. I had two roommates which made my mortgage payments quite low. In Dallas I convinced Kent to move in one of the two spare bedrooms I had. I had bought a large three-bedroom house with two living areas on the west side of the Dallas/ Ft. Worth Airport.

Shortly after Kent moved in we stayed up late one night talking about our different upbringings. We sat up literally for hours in a tête-à-tête; each of us trying to prove who had the more difficult childhood. The only problem with my argument was that every time Kent mentioned his problem he ended by saying he still loved his father. And the point of his comment was that his father had to be more difficult than mine because it was written in the article in the pool house. Plus, except for my dad’s many prejudices he is really a nice guy, which is the best way to describe him. Today my dad gets along with everybody even my mom. When he is not mad he is like a big teddy bear.

Just like my conversations with Laurie I went through the litany of complaints about my bad parents. I started out by saying my parents did “this”, explaining one of the many faults I had found with my parents, and he would respond by saying that “my dad sent me to military school, and I still love him”. And I would say, “but my parents did something else”, and he would say his father never showed any love for him, and he still loved his father. I would bring up something else my parents did that destroyed my childhood, and he would respond with “my father never had the time to attend any of my school events because he was so busy at work, but I still love him”. This one really hit home because my dad never missed any sporting event I had ever played in. He loved his sports and seeing his kids involved in them. Like I said, this went on for hours. He broke me down. I ran out of arguments, and for probably the first time in my life I admitted I was wrong.

The conversation brought me to tears. Ten years would pass before I would cry again. What Kent taught me that wonderful night was the pain I had as a child didn’t matter. They were my parents and they taught me what I needed to know about life to be successful. They did the best that they could with their limited resources and we turned out to be pretty good kids. I actually got on the phone with them in tears telling them how much I loved them and thanked them for being such great parents. I even called up Laurie in tears telling her of my epiphany about my parents.

This was important to me because it opened up my mind to my future. I no longer had the anger of my childhood clouding up my conscious and unconscious mind. I could look at life objectively. I learned what is probably the most important lesson in life. I believe that maturity actually begins when you come to this realization. Mental growth really begins when you let go of the painful memories of the past. The difference between a truly healthy positive mind and an unhealthy negative mind is the healthy one has forgiven his or her parents for being parents. There have been no rulebooks on raising kids. My parents thought the best way was with the belt, but they did it in love.

The reality is most parents love their children, they just might not be able to show it but you cannot live the rest of your life blaming your parents or anyone else for the problems in life. If you think about your parents from their perspective you would probably have to understand that your parents love you, regardless of how they treated you, they brought you into this world. Think about that!!!

I have looked back at that lesson for many years and have been forever grateful for the lesson Kent taught me. This lesson brings me to the point of this book. I have learned the most important thing you can teach yourself to have a healthy mind, which is an absolute necessity for a healthy relationship. If you can forgive your parents for the way they brought you up then you can get over the past and begin to live for the future.

Again, it is faultfinding vs. problem solving. Faultfinding is having those negative experiences of the past and then having you interpret that they may occur in the future, except this time it is not by your parents but by someone else, your partner. If you want a happy and healthy relationship then it is absolutely essential that you look at your partner for who he or she is, not by who your parents are. Your partner is obviously not your parent.

Problem solving is looking at each problem as it occurs objectively, with an open mind, without the painful experiences caused by someone else. Life is actually quite simple today; we are the ones who make it more difficult. We can eat. We have houses over our heads. We have cars, cellular telephones, all of the trappings in life. But getting along with our partner is actually easier than not getting along. We don’t need to make life more difficult than it really is.

Since that conversation with Kent I have never found fault in anything my parents have ever done to me. I have actually looked at all of the good things they have taught me. I am not a bad person, and it is thanks to them. I like to joke that my goal in life is to simply stay out of jail, though seriously speaking my parents have taught me how to live a morally good life.

If you can get over your past you can live your future!!!

by Tim Kellis

www.HappyRelationships.com

The objective of this book is to provide keys to a happy relationship and real, logical help to couples so they can stay out of the divorce trap. Good luck on your journey as you learn how to have a happy relationship so that you can maintain a healthy, harmonious, loving, affectionate and intimate marriage.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Day and Night World Map




See how the earth looks in this day and night map.....