Recession Recession ...

Everybody by now will be aware of the world recession , if some one had a tummy upset its b’coz of recession if some one fainted then its because of recession, where ever you go what ever happens its all b’coz of recession. During the APEC summit the so called developed country leaders did say that “India & China are the 2 countries that have to pull the world from recession”, Wow what a lovely sentence to hear, is in it? Not US, UK or AU its up to India & china… what else to say other than “Every dog has its day”.

Awareness:

When I was coming from work the other day from central coast I passed a note that the council have left for the drivers, it really fascinated me , It’s stuck in my mind; It was different from rest of the think ponds,it goes like this…

"Welcome careful drivers we have 2 cemeteries but no hospitals”

Brotherhood:

This happened around 4 months ago around the time I joined this job, had to go to a place called “Bathurst” which is around 157Kms from my place, a remote region for decommissioning servers; had been there a week ago for auditing. On that particular day of decommissioning around 6pm I was supposed to meet 2 of my co-workers at that customer place, I was the team lead for the day so had more responsibilities, around 6.05pm got into the facility was waiting for the drive tape people from a different organization to come and then the courier people who are supposed to take the decommissioned servers to Sydney. Except us all the other people were late, reached around 7.00pm. The servers had to be shut and routed so it took around 8.30pm to finish and then around 9.00pm w e started to remove the servers and the courier people were packing it accordingly around 10.00pm we finished our work and was on our way, one of my team member had to go to work early next morning so he left first now its just us we went to a service station and each of us bought some snacks and got into our cars and left, it was dark and at times it was so scary but the other co-worker was behind me all along until a point where we had to go 2 different ways my house was just 10Kms from that point, even though he could have gone leaving me behind he choose to stay behind and be there, to be more precise I don’t even know that person very well but the way he took care of me was so overwhelming, the very next morning when I went to work I thanked him for his brotherhood.
Is this what called as humanity/thoughtfulness/mankind…? Looking out for someone no matter whether they are strangers or friends. Indeed it was an act of benevolence.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
--- Eric Hoffer

Work Daemons:

Today was quite a big day at work….offfff, and will remember this day for ever. In my 1.5 yrs of career never had a day like this… Today I felt the real pressure of a support engineer’s work…
The day started as normal but bit earlier than ever had to go to a place called “Charlestown” (Customer site) which is 160km from my place have to be there by 7am so started around 4.30am from home the drive was so fabulous n-joyed the silence, the nature … After 2hrs of journey reached there around 6.30am, in the midst of nature watching forgot to refuel my car, there goes the alarm had to find a service station, toyed with my navman (GPS Navigator) for a while and got one station with was 500m from where I was standing; lucky me refueled and back in time to work. Now starts my bad timing, one can say that way; one by one every other computer stuff goes down starts from UPS then goes the Server1 then server 2 so on so forth, this is the first time ever such disaster occurred, called my superior they were puzzled, alone at customer site I was stuck and the “drivers team” who usually manage these equipments were helping me thro’ phone. Some how got one server up and running and eventually everything started to work then came the 2nd attack there goes the 3rd server and subsequent systems… finally around 12.30pm with the help of drivers team everything was up and running smooth, from morning 7.00am to noon I was running as if I had fire under my feet… luckily the site manager was very patient, friendly and helpfull. At the end of this drama I was so tired and drained just wanted to be home, then remembered that I didn’t eat or drink anything since morning and started to hunt for some veggie food…

Forget it...

Sunday, one of the boring days of the week, nothing interesting to watch in TV, so was just browsing the channels, suddenly came across one of the programs that I like to watch “20 to 1” which lists 20 good or bad movies/action movies/ singers/ actors…. And some famous faces comment on it, so this weeks episode counts down 20 modern movies that put bums on seats around the world, from big budget action films to unforgettable romances, so at number 8 it was “Men in Black” they showed a scene where a doctor finds an “Alien” and says that “this is an alien which your government tries to hide” suddenly Tommy Lee Jones one of the action heroes in the film quickly wore his dark glass like his partner Will Smith and took out an equipment which looked like a torch and flashed it towards the doctor, it was a tool to erase memory… boom, she forgot everything… so I started to think what would people do if they really get an equipment like that?? Asked my husband he simply said “I’ll do nothing” an answer which I thought that I’ll get, so next asked my friends and my team people at work and all gave me different answer then I thought now it is my turn to think what I’ll do?? Hmm… unlike others I won't waste that equipment on others instead I thought I’ll use it on myself, ha ha ha… it sounds selfish though but according to me it would be one of the wisest decision I would take in my life, but unfortunately I don’t have that luxury, hope to have it one day.

Family Outing...

Offf… finally reached India after 14 long hours of journey, was very tired and quite excited to be in the country and to see the family…rested for a day trying to get rid of jet lag but no luck; but slept well, ate my mom-in laws yummy food. My father-in law & Mom-in law were quite excited to see their only grand son… by next day my sis-in law and my nieces arrived to spent the weekend with us… all were quite excited to see each other and had a lovely day, around noon I came up with an idea of family outing to the beach and dinning out, thought that all the 3 kids (my son and my 2 nieces) would enjoy playing around… As usual my father-in law didn’t come so the rest of the family started the trip to Marina beach after almost 2hrs of journey reached the beach parked the car and started to walk, would have walked around 10 minutes and suddenly saw a crowd running away from the sea we thought hmm its nice to see the grown-ups playing around… but to be more precise they were not playing around they were running from the rain it was too late before we realized it, it was pouring heavily for 30 minutes with wild winds blowing we were just running around no where to shelter-in fully wet from top to bottom the children were crying & shivering… and finally found a tree to stand underneath, by then my husband found the car without a second thought got in went to my sis-in laws place changed picked my brother-in law and we all went out to eat and finally reached home, we keep on talking about the trip and had a hearty laugh… this is one family outing that we would never forget in our life, it didn't turn out the way we thought it would, but still we n-joyed it.

May Fair....
May is an auspicious month for me and my husband…We share a same B’date its May 6th and our wedding day is on May 2nd… We are keen in n-joying our special day rather than n-joying some festive day…As usual May this year, first came our wedding day we went out shopping had lunch and dinner outside…the day was silent and went well…then came our birthday My good Lord gracious I made a big feast with 10 curries and then came a surprise from my adopted mother she surprised us in the evening with a cake and she spent the whole evening with us and blessed us…We all n-joyed it and had a luvely time together… I just have one wish to make “I wish to have this happiness and love always in our life”.

Dream come true…

After a very very long time and effort finally got a job... wow, what a great feeling it is…As usual applied for number of jobs, called countless of agencies thought as usual will drop the job hunt after couple of months ...but this time stuck a jackpot, One fine morning applied for a job and then called the agent and attended the phone interview got selected,1st thought that passed my mind was hmmm its not a big deal, number of times have passed the phone interview lets see how it goes…then after couple of hours the agent called me and fixed appointment for a personal interview, after attending the interview the agent told “ ok, I am happy to proceed, lets pass your resume to the company”, when I heard it I thought, good its seems promising, hoped that it wud’nt be like the interview that I attended last week, but luckily he called me when I was on my way back home and said “ the company is happy to interview you on Monday at 8.00 am is it ok with you…” I wud have been a fool if I said NO, then came the ‘D’(Do/die) day…Gosh was very nervous, but attended the interview with a smile and confidence hurray!! got selected and the interviewer told me that I am the only female technical person in the team oops my heart sunk a little but still told him that won’t be a problem… As told 3 weeks have gone and so far so good... offfff a long lengthy process but the final result was amazing…Not sure about tomorrow but for now am njoying my job and looking forward to shine in my career.

Foggy Mornings…

When I wake up in the morning the first thing I do is peep out my bedroom window love to see the crispy morning shine…yesterday was bit different though… it was filled with fog a wonderful view, nothing but just a white smoky appearance… It seemed to me that I was flying in the clouded sky … Just like in my dreams… Visibility was zero… Can’t even see my neighbor’s house… This is quite usual here in winter, happens at least once a year… It seemed Mr. Sun was late for his work… Even though the room was warm and cozy with the effect of heater the smoky fog gave me shivers…

Wish

I made a wish,

To be surrounded with love
To be loved for who I am
To be there for me always
To make my day brighter

I made a wish and u lot came true...
Luv u guys luv u sooooooo much....and thank u.

No means No…

It seems to us (me & my hus) that we had our son Adhav yesterday and now he is 20 months and started to speak can say words quite clearly… Last Sunday morning when his dad asked him to finish his milk at first he said “no” but his dad kept insisting him for a while he kept quite but after some time he took his sipper to his dad and said “No means No”, our mouth and eyes were wide opened when we heard it….our little monkey boy is growing up…oh, at one end I feel so happy but other end feels bit hard to take it…

Free Beers for life....

Last week there was an horrible boat crash at darling harbor which claimed 6 young lives all were in their mid 20’s they had a celebration combined with free beers and they stole a boat and ended up colliding with another fishing boat…

Is it necessary that always parties and celebrations should have alcohols??? Consuming alcohol is not a crime though… but one should always know their limits…

Nature’s own recyclers…

For a very long time now I wanted to have a worms composite bin for recycling the household wastes and garden wastes…finally bought one and have set up as per the manual…Its so amazing to know what these small creatures do and how nature had made it to work… It’s like a cycle of continuity… strange but efficient way… well fits in for the phrase “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle”…

And my next target is solar energy for our sweet home.....

Special gift…

“Happy Mothers Day, May 12” to all the mothers world wide…My son Adhav gave me a gift that his day care teacher’s helped him to do …one of the most valuable gifts that I ever got… He gave me the gift when I went to pick him up from the day care on Friday May 10 and gave me a hug and a kiss but right away he took it from me and held it in his hand…after coming home he asked me to hang it on one of the fridge magnet and now it stays there on the fridge where I can see it every single day which just widens my lips… And on mothers day 3 of my children (Puppy, Julie & Achu) woke me up with a smooch, what else a mother wants??

And this is what he made for Easter...

How loud would it be??

We dine out at least once a month, mostly it will be an Indian Restaurant but we are quite fond of a North Indian Restaurant which is quite famous in our suburb, as usual I ordered my samosa chole chat and my hus ordered his favorite chicken briyani and we were n-joying our meal Alfresco all of a sudden we heard loud laughter and talks, some young ladies who were in their mid 20s - I cudn’t resist hearing it and it went like this “Hey I use only Gucci yar… it’s very xpensive perfume all the other cheap stuffs don’t work for me and their fragrances are not up to the mark”…and these brags went for a while. After some time someone else came up to their table and as they were talking he asked if they got the jobs they were looking for? but the girls said they were still unemployed.

Presumably they were spending someone else’s money on the’ up to the mark’ Guchi… I am just wondering how loud the brag would have been if they cud have afforded the Guchi from their own bucks…

Night drive…

As the dark sky being lit by the moon light and the cold breeze soothes our mind the outline of trees, mountains and plains seems fascinating, silence and the long stretch of highway seems endless. Many unanswered questions seem to have answers, but the 64 km drive with soft gentle music playing in the background seems short but relaxing and mesmerizing… Sometimes my mind wishes to have this silent dark night drive forever and ever… But the petrol price makes me to think other way round…

Tiny brains…

Its Easter long weekend here … So thought will do some gardening and went to the hardware and gardening store “Bunning’s Warehouse” a quite huge and a famous one… Can get most of the stuffs you need from there… When we came closer to the shop and we were standing in the traffic signal my 18 month old son Achu who was sitting in his seat at the back of the car said something, my husband and I turned and asked him what was it? He showed the shop and said bunababa (means Bunning’s Warehouse) with the exact tune they use in the advertisement its one of his favorite advertisement … We just couldn’t believe what we heard and both of us were so amazed to hear it and I still can’t figure out how he recognized it… As we went closer to the shop he raised his voice and started to repeat the song again and again… My husband was telling me that he would have recognized it by the pattern and colour of the letters from the adv… but for me it’s still a puzzle… It just made me realize never underestimate anyone, even babies…

Light as a feather…

Wow, What a good feeling it is? It seems that I never felt like this for ages… I can see the dark clouds disappearing and the bright blue sky is popping out, few little dark cloud patches are here and there but still I see the clear blue sky and the feeling is marvelous believe me am n-joying it… My heart feels “light as a feather” it just wishes to fly, fly for ever… Finally, the time has come for me to move on and let go of my anger and the feeling is fantastic and don’t have words to express it, am so happy… Its true that time has an answer for everything; just have to be patient…

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world”

“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble"

Expectations

Expectation is associated with human behavior
Expectation is the first step for disappointment
Disappointment leads to anger
Anger inturn hides our thinking capability-
which followed by rude meaningless actions & words
Thus spoiling a relation and a life...

... The outcome of our hardwork is the result of expectation, which pushes us to bit more perfection and closer to our dream...but whereas the real mistake of expectation is expecting from other... which most of the time leads to disaster...

Always Expect the unexpected... and be brave and prepared for the outcome...

BALANCE SHEET OF LIFE ...

One of my trust worthy friend and a family member forwarded me this mail..I really n-joyed it and wished to post it so if someone comes across my blog can read it and n-joy it .....

"Our Birth is our Opening Balance!
Our Death is our Closing Balance!
Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities
Our Creative Ideas are our Assets
Heart is our Current Asset
Soul is our Fixed Asset
Brain is our Fixed Deposit
Thinking is our Current Account
Achievements are our Capital
Character & Morals,our Stock-in-Trade
Friends are our General Reserves
Values & Behaviour are our Goodwill
Patience is our Interest Earned
Love is our Dividend
Children are our Bonus Issues
Education is Brands / Patents
Knowledge is our Investment
Experience is our Premium Account
The Aim is to Tally the Balance Sheet Accurately
The Goal is to get the Best Presented Accounts Award."

Chinese Proverb:
"When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others"

Cannot recover...

4 things that you cannot recover....

The Stone ..........

.......after the throw!

The word............
.......after it's said!
The occassion.....
.......after the loss!
The time........
.......after it's gone.

Unconditional pure Love

I am a mother of 4 children (3 four legged and 1 two legged) their names are puppy, Julie(both 2 and a 1/2 yrs old), Adhav(17mths old) and Bella(13mths old). Puppy and Julie are doggies and Bella is a cat… And for the record I DON’T like calling my girls as dogs and cats, MUST use their names...

Our children are the most precious God given gift, I never knew it until I had my own princesses and prince… It is so funny to see Adhav playing with puppy and Julie… Bella won’t take a chance with Achu (nickname of Adhav) she will maintain a safer distance from him… whereas Puppy and Julie love to play with him especially Julie she just lies down for him to rub her tummy, kiss her, hug her and so on… Achu behaves well with them and they care for each other… and share things like doggy house & trampoline in the backyard and Achu tends to sit in their bed along with them inside the house… I have told him number of times not to climb on to puppy and Julie’s bed when they are in it, because he might unknowingly hurt them, I just can’t tolerate my children undergoing pain… but this reverse psychology plays a big role in kids especially under the age of 5…

So one day as usual he was playing with them and finally Puppy & Julie went to bed and Achu was watching the advertisement(His Favorite). When the advertisement got over he climbed over Puppy - Julie’s bed … right away Puppy jumped out of the bed and Julie as usual laid their for him to rub her tummy … unfortunately, Achu stamped on one of her leg and she cried out aloud, it was unintentional. I was so furious with Achu and I scolded him and gave a small smack on his bum and I was attending to Julie giving her a massage and comforting her… Meanwhile Puppy ran and came to see Julie and Achu was still puzzled and couldn’t understand why Julie cried and why I am giving her a massage and scolding him… Next what happened was really amazing and made me to realize the love they have for each other… Puppy couldn’t tolerate to see me scolding Achu, do u know what she did???? Have a guess….

She ran to and fro between him and me and she jumped and smooched him and she looked at me with that pitiful eyes, I felt like she was saying “Mum plz don’t scold Achu he didn’t do it on purpose” and the next thing that happened just took me away, guess what??? Julie ran to him in a very playful mood and smooched him as well it was like telling him that “don’t worry Achu I am feeling better I know that you didn’t mean to hurt me” and she ran and came to me and jumped at me and gave me a smooch and sat near me for a massage… and finally Achu told her "soiiyee" (it is Sorry in his language) and gave her a hug. I was speechless… It just shows how much they love and care for each other… I was wondering what was going in their tiny minds?? How did they know that they have to comfort each other and be there for each other??? Really fantastic… and is lovely to see them care for each other… I am so proud of my children and I thank God everyday for giving me this treasure… Like this many many more incidents has happened…

I love animals… and I am really really crazy about them, I can live without humans in my life but I can’t live without a pet… I am very much comfortable with animals and babies… The love that pets and babies have towards us is unconditional and pure… And I always wonder what have I done to receive this unconditional and pure love???

Experiences - best teachers

"Life" a wonderful word of prosperity, a mysterious teacher who teaches us good and bad thro’ the experiences we encounter…

A teacher with no pay who works day and night and always there for us… Just keeps our past & present and helps us to mould the future… which we await with hopes and dreams…

Some experiences are touch and painful but others are cherishing and enjoyable as long as we learn our lesson and try not to commit the same mistake again we are playing the life game safely …

As long as we learn to put our past behind and take life as it comes and deal with the emotions - which is the better half of our life, we then will have the magic wand of happiness.

Its always a puzzle as our past is a mixture of happiness and sadness, quite often we seem to forget about the happy past and sit and whine about the worst dreadful past which only brings sadness and bad memories but still we find hard to let go of it…

“When one door closes another door opens but we still sit and cry for the closed door instead of enjoying the opened door”.

The best way to enjoy life is to put behind our past and move on – which is easier said than done, life is short try to enjoy it to the fullest.

Medical Marvel

It just amazes me how we humans have developed and improvised our ways of living, thinking and the achievements we have done in innovating ourselves, its marvelous and incredible…

Today a medical miracle has been revealed -- an Australian teenager “Demi Brennan” is believed to be the first person in the world to completely accept a donated organ to the extent where her immune system entirely changed.

Demi Brennan suffered severe liver damage and had a transplant at the age of nine in 2001. After several months her doctors at the Hospital were shocked to discover her blood type had changed to match the blood type of her deceased male donor. Her blood group has changed from O –ve to O +ve … what an amazing life saving outcome??? Specialists found that stem cells from the donor liver had penetrated her bone marrow, effectively resulting in a naturally-occurring bone marrow transplant… she is the only patient who was able to come off the immunosuppressant drugs which most of the transplant patient have to take for life long so that their body would not reject the new organ…

It is a big puzzle for her and her family and the doctor’s who treated her… now the scientists are working on this miraculous puzzle to improvise it so that by doing will improve treatments and outcomes for other transplant patients.

"Medical miracle is just not an outcome rather a new beginning …"

Hate group Vultures…

Famous hollywood actor Heath ledger’s death shocked hollywood as well as his fans… Its a shame that we lost a talented upcoming young actor… am not much of a Ledger fan… but when I read today’s paper I was in for a real shock. It says …

“A US CHURCH described as a "hate group" has promised to form a picket at Heath Ledger's funeral because he played a gay cowboy role in the film “Brokeback Mountain”… and also issued a homophobic statement which said the Australian actor, who was found dead yesterday, was now in hell”.

What sort of church goer’s are they?? Where is the humanity and normal sense of courtesy that God asked us to follow?? Have people lost there minds?? Instead of thinking about Heath Ledger’s after life it would be more sensible to think about his near and dear’s feelings and the pain that they are going thro’ … We can’t blame him for playing a gay cowboy role… For playing that role he was nominated for Oscar award…come on people put on your listening ears and activate your thinking brain … he is an actor, as long as he is happy in playing a role and as long as he is paid… what is the damn problem?? Acting is his career and his life long dream… which he had achieved in a very short period… I have never heard any GOD preaching that working hard to achieve one’s dream is a sin… If people opt to be homosexual that’s their way of living their life which we have to respect … I don’t know whether GOD approves these hate group's way of hurting ones feeling…

I don’t know anything about Heaven or Hell but am sure that I know one thing that these people are the “Vultures of Earth”…

“Before judging other’s action its better to judge our own action”

Low acts at high seas….

Last week the events in the southern ocean have been making headlines around the world. The anti-whaling activists terrorizing the Japanese whaling ship and their crew have been taken hostage…and the two countries (Australia & Japan) were trying to resolve the situation smoothly…

This is quite a scene which happens every year, the anti whaling people trying to stop Japanese from whaling the endangered species …but Japanese say that they are slaying the whales for some research purpose(GOD only know what research these people are doing). But this time the protest has gone way too far…2 anti whaling activists (Benjamin Potts, 28, of Sydney, and Giles Lane, 35, from Britain) from the Australian ship Steve Irwin boarded the Japanese ship Yushin Maru illegally to hand over a letter of protest and the crew was taken hostage after 3 days of diplomatic talks the 2 activist were returned back to their ship…

I just have a question for those activists, what were they thinking when they jumped over a ship illegally and what did they prove by damaging the Japanese ship? Were they nuts? Have the cold Antarctic weather froze their thinking capability?? I just couldn’t understand these people’s concept they are very much concerned about the whales but what about their own safety and the safety of the Japanese ship crew members?? What did they achieve by doing this, except straining the relationship between the two countries… Is it really worth it?? There are many peaceful and legal ways which can be followed to prevent whaling… what if the Japanese say that kangaroo’s are only found in Australia so that we are not supposed to consume kangaroo meat?? Would we listen to them… I don’t see any of these activists in front of any slaughter house aren’t the other animals deserved to live??? It doesn’t mean that I am supporting the whalers, I am strongly against whaling but I am not approving the activists way of taking things into their own hands and worsening the situation…Would the crew members and the Captain of Steve Irwin have accepted if Japanese men damaged and boarded their ship illegally?? I don’t understand what they have achieved by this act of foolishness if they wanted to make headlines all over the world then they have achieved it… but still the whalers are whaling the endangered species…

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-- Albert Einstein

Three cheers...

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
~ Lao Tzu

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "
~ T. S. Eliot

The following proverb reminds me of the 2 Australian kayakers (James Castrission, 25, and Justin Jones, 24) who padded 3300Km across the tasman sea to New Plymouth on New Zealand’s West Coast, their 62 days of journey in rough seas ended today. The pair are thought to be the first to kayak across the Tasman, and have taken part in the longest two-man kayaking voyage ever. There were fears Jones would be unable to stand because of the deterioration to his leg muscles, which have not touched dry land in two months. No wonder their families, the local kayakers were happy to see them after 2 long months padding in the rough seas..

It just amazes me of their strong determination, their desire to achieve and the tremendous effort they put in to conquer their dream. Way to go guys…Three cheers for you…

“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
-- Michael Phelps

Prioritizing substances

I am a resident in Australia-a wonderful, rare and unique place to live..here December and January are summer seasons unlike other countries..the temperature will rise drastically sometimes it goes to mid 40's...at this time of the year the country will face draught and the farmers suffer a lot...but this time it is raining, continuously pouring for 3 weeks...so the state where I live in some of the northern suburbs experience flooding and people are suffering without shelter,food,medical supplies lost most of thier livestock and they are cut out from the rest of the world and rescuers cant reach them b'coz of bad weather...The worst part is that the insurance will not cover the flood damage..I was feeling so bad for them and cud'nt imagine myself in their place...where as another state was having bushfire b'coz of hot temperature, the temperature there was 41 degree and almost 40 hecters of bush land was burnt..100's of fire fighters were fighting to control the blaze so I was waiting for the evening news to hear and see the footage..but I was in for a total disappointment... they were eager in telling about Nichol Kidman's(Hollywood actress) pregnancy and they headlined it as "Personal preferences" and then after couple of other news I heard what I wanted to hear...I was puzzled, have we really lost our sense or is it me nagging for nothing? what importance does it bring to us about the celebrities pregnancy...Is it of that importance that we have to hear it in the headlines?? so what are we teaching our children??what sort of example and future are we providing them??? It just reminds me of a quote:

"I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that."

Meaningful Message

Internet & E-mails has become a part of our life, without it nothing revolves around us...Like tele and paid channels computer and internet has become a must have item in a house...so like everyone else here I am browsing the net checking my mails n-joying the time for myself...when I opened my mails there comes forward mails....I really hate when I get any forward mails..b'coz most of them are meaningless and they say pass to others or else u will endure bad luck..just nonsense....but some forwards are really meaningful and I luv reading it..like this one which one of my best friend forwarded to me...I really n-joyed reading it so thought I should add it to my blog...here it is

"The Mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee"

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours ina day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups ofcoffee.A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in frontof him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large andempty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar wasfull. They agreed it was.The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if thejar was full. The students responded with a unanimous "yes." The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. "Now," said the professor as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things---God, your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.The pebbles are the other things that matter like yourjob, your house and your car. The sand is everything else---the small stuff. "If you put the sand in to the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you." "Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents.Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand." One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked!" It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."

New year resolution..

"Happy new year to me" imagine getting stranded to ur bed for continuous 3 days with pains..believe me its horrible..like everyone I was looking forward for the new year..but here comes my "FIBROMYALGIA" pains...out of no where....I am suffering from these pains for past 12 year....now for couple of years its like on and off....but out of the blue it got severe on Dec 31st and continued for couple more days...after ongoing physio and body massage I fell much better now, things are coming to normal phase....after a day or 2 I sat in front of my tele with a hot cup of tea and my mind wandering elsewhere and suddenly I realised Oh New year started but still I don't have a resolution for this wonderful special year...I am not much of a resolution person...I strongly believe that resolution can be taken anyday of the year as long as we keep up to it...but am sure about 1 thing my pains have given a serious thought about resolution and they have taken one...good luck for them....but am not in a hurry there is still 360 days by then I'll have one but for time being I am seriously laying plans to break my pains resolution...wish me luck..