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A picture worth a thousand words?
Posted in Simplicity in life!.
– January 18, 2007
Thank you DURING REM for this link
This link was given to me by diring rem after a visit to my previous blog. I just wanted to share the same with you. This is an eye-opener. And I thank you for it, Nitin.
The pain of being blind and deaf
Dear Sir
Blind Man’s Bluff on Thursday night showed how difficult it is to be blind - can you imagine what your life would be like if you were blind AND deaf?
I am 18 years old and have a genetic disorder called Usher Syndrome which means I was born deaf and I am now going blind. I do still have some vision but as each day goes by it becomes slightly worse and the jobs other people don’t think about become increasingly difficult.
I can certainly relate to the situations encountered on the programme but for me they are everyday occurrences and as time goes by things become more difficult not easier.
I dread having to make a train journey on my own, for example when there is a delay I have no idea what is happening - no one tells me! When stations are announced I cannot hear and so have to count every stop, if I have to change trains it can be a complete disaster because often there is little time between connections and the signing isn’t clear - even large gaps between the train and the platform can be tricky for me!
I find going out to pubs and restaurants difficult because the lights are often too bright for me. I cannot see that there are steps ahead and will often fall over and also tend to knock into chairs and tables that are not in my field of vision. Rather than people helping me they stare and snigger - is this really the sign of a modern society?
Sense, the leading UK charity for people who are deaf and blind, carried out research that showed one in four deafblind people went without food or medicine because they found shopping too difficult. All I am asking for is people to make a few small changes so that deafblind people can do the things that everyone else takes for granted.
Nicola Henderson
Blyth
Northumberland
Posted in Life.
– January 17, 2007
I had eyes but could not see!
Was out with Fluff giving him his customary morning walk today.
Fluff is a sweetheart and generally evokes reaction of people going into raptures about his looks and about his being cute. He has learnt to take it in his stride and walks away pretending not to have heard the gushing. But the sudden lift of the shoulder and the wag of the tail gives him away at times.
Sometimes i am even sure he is having a quiet chuckle! His smile on his face is a total giveaway! 
Heading home we suddenly saw the mother and son pair walking towards us.
The boy was tall. Should have been 13, no less. Once boys reach that age or the height beyond the shoulder of the mother they usually do not hang on to her arm and walk in public.
This boy was evidently having a deep conversation with his mother. His head was bent towards her and she smiled as she spoke.
Suddenly she spotted Fluff and the usual gushing commenced. The boy’s face lit up! His lips widened into a smile. He kept walking and seemed to pay particular attention to the sounds about him.
What colour?
White!
Really!
Why was the boy asking of the colour? Could he not see for himself??
By now we were at par. They passed me by and I heard the little boy give a delightful laugh at the comment made by his mother.
It struck me only then! He could see with his ears. He was blind but yet could see!
I am blessed with vision and yet I could not see!
(I just read Alpana’s posting ” IN the Lurch”and was reminded of this i had written some time ago……thanks Alpana!)
Posted in Life.
– January 17, 2007
My Kinda Math!
I just couldnt resist this posting! I mean i have always been terrible in math, but this one kinda takes the cake!
Knowing the moderator and the time frame required, it is going to take a while for the pic to be approved and come on. But you have to be patient to see the pic, - cos it is self explanatory!
So, kindly drop in again in case you havent got to see th epic!..-plz!
Mathematically yours
Dolz
Posted in Math is life!.
– January 16, 2007
When i was just a lil girl!
When I was ..
I was 10 when I got into a residential school. I saw my seniors go for the Social at the end of the Fete. (Social is a word that was in use then for a prom dance!)
I was 10 and I wanted to be a teenager!! 
I was soon a teenager! People in their late teens and early 20's were having so much fun! 
I was a teenager and I wanted to be in my 20's! 
20's came along with it..marriage! Life was a roll! Suddenly I was called 'aunty'!
At 20 I suddenly felt old!! How could I be called an 'Aunty'?? After all I was still in my early 20's. 'Didi' should have sufficed. 
Then I said 'What the heck! After all I'm only in my 20's! 20 is not old!! Crossing 30 is what makes one old! 
A decade passed. All too suddenly I found myself in my 30's. Life had only just begun! How could anybody complain about being old at 30???? Hey that was for the people above 40!! 
My son was a strapping lad! Reached well above my shoulder. (Not that I was much competition for him height wise!) 
I had entered the 'Women get naughty at four-zero forty' stage![I am still trying to find out what gets classified as being 'naughty'!!] 
So then, do I feel old? Listless? Sick? Bedridden? 
Heck no!!! My life has only just begun!!!! So what if i am knocking on the doors of half a century!!!! 
Considering a man's life span is supposed to be 120 years ..I haven't even reached the half way mark!!
Life .here I come!!!!!!!!!
Dolz
(gosh!…. that was fun trying my hand at the emoticons! )
Posted in Life.
– January 16, 2007
Abhie na jao chhod kar!
Abhie na jaao chhod kar
Ke dil abhie, bhara nahi!
Abhie na jaao chhod kar
Ke dil abhie bhara nahi!
Abhie abhie toh aayi ho
Abhie abhie toh!
Abhie abhie toh aayi ho
Bahar ban ke chaayi ho!
Hawa zara mehek to lein
Nazar, zara behak to lein
Yeh shyam dhal to le zara!
Yeh shyam dhal to lein zara
Yeh dil sambhal to ley zara
Main thodi der jee toh loon
Nashe ki ghoont pee toh loon,
Nashe ki ghoont pee to loon
Abhie to kuch kahaa nahi,
Abhie to kuch suna nahi!
Abhie na jaao chhod kar
Ke dil abhie bhara nahi!
Sitarey jhil-milaa utteh!
Sitare jhil milaa utteh
Chirag jag maga utteh
Bas ab na mujhko tokna!
Bas ab na mujhko tokna
Na bad ke raah rokna
Agar main ruk gayi abhie
To jaa na paungi kabhie
Yehi kaho ke tum sada -
Ke dil abhie nahi bhara!
Jo khatm ho kisi jagah
Yeh aisa silsila nahi!!
Abhie nahi, abhie nahi,
Nahi, nahi, nahi, nahi!!
No matter how many time you listen to this song…you can never, ever tire of it!!
Posted in Lyrics.
– January 15, 2007
Visiting the BOOK FAIR
The Chennai Book Fair is on…it started on the 12th and will go on till the 22nd of this month. The venue is the huge open space opposite Pachayappa’s College.
Nothing like walking through the fair taking in the smell of new paper, the array of books available.
It was nice to see the enthu with which you had the motely crowd gathering at the popular stalls edging their way for a good discount.
Nothing like a book in your hand on a lazy sunday afternoon…..feel like Omar Khyyam when i say…with thou beside me what else would i need!
Picked up some real good bargains and some educative CD rom’s too.
If you have the time and nothing else to do….go , do it at the Book Fair.
You can browse through the stalls, watch the entertainment program, donate blood and eat at the canteen!
You wont regret it.
Posted in Bookland.
– January 14, 2007
A prayer fulfilled!
Posted in Prayer.
– January 13, 2007
And a beautiful bunch of answers for the posers as given by Kanchan Sir!
Thanks KB…you are definitely more sane than me anyway!!
| 1. A stupidity! 2. A transaction must be charged! 3. It takes a lifetime to count four billion, a moment to check! 4. Glue cannot stick to glass! 5. To ensure God receives no infection 6. He fell into a depilatory solution up to his chin! 7. He wears a bullet proof jacket, not a bullet proof mask! 8. Because they are afraid of crashing the gates of hell! 9. Mine! 10. Whatever goes up must come down! 11. Soap water is always white! 12. Halloween 13. The refrigerator is used in Mars for teleporting water! 14. Beats me! 15. Who says? 16. The same way fused bulbs get into the light fixtures 17. A stupidity! 18. Who, me? 19. Delusions of illusion! 20. Even daughter-in-law jokes are not there! Am I your sane friend? | ||||||
Dolz
Posted in Answers!!.
– January 13, 2007
Some more posers a la Prodigal Son
Why, Why, Why?????
.1. .Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are almostdead?
2. Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know
there is not enough money?
3. Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion
stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
4. Why doesn’t glue stick to the bottle?
5. Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?
6. Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard considering he is totally part of nature?
7. Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you
throw a revolver at him?
8. Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
9. Whose idea was it to put an “S” in the word “lisp”?
10. If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
11. Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles
are always white?
12. Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?(USA specific)
13. Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that
something new to eat will have materialized?
14. Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their
vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it
down to give the vacuum one more chance?(again USA specific)
15. Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first
try?
16. How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures? (stupid question!)
17. When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a
shopping cart then apo logizes for doing so, why do we say, “It’s all
right?” Well, it isn’t all right, so why don’t we say, “That hurt, you
stupid idiot?”
18. Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that’s falling
off the table, you always manage to knock something else over?
19. In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer
when we complained about the heat during summer?
20. How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?
And my FAVORITE……
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is
suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best
friends – if they’re okay,
then it’s you.!!!
Smile through the weekend!
Posted in think.
– January 13, 2007