“Once you say you are going to settle for a second,thats what happens to you in life.”
John F. Kennedy
Quote of the day
Posted in Uncategorized on 02/21/2010 01:49 pm by sunita thakur
RED MARBLES
Posted in Uncategorized on 02/16/2010 12:41 pm by sunita thakurRED MARBLES
I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes. I noticed a
small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily
apprising a basket of freshly picked green peas.
I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green
peas. I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes.
Pondering the peas, I couldn’t help overhearing the conversation between
Mr. Miller (the store owner) and the ragged boy next to me.
‘Hello Barry,
how are you today?’
‘H’lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Jus’ admirin’ them peas. They sure look
good.’
‘They are good, Barry. How’s your Ma?’
‘Fine. Gittin’ stronger alla’ time.’
‘Good. Anything I can help you with?’
‘No, Sir. Jus’ admirin’ them peas.’
‘Would you like to take some home?’ asked Mr. Miller.
‘No, Sir. Got nuthin’ to pay for ‘em with.’
‘Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?’
‘All I got’s my prize marble here.’
‘Is that right? Let me see it’ said Miller.
‘Here ’tis. She’s a dandy.’
‘I can see that. Hmm mmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go
for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?’ the store owner
asked.
‘Not zackley but almost.’
‘Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip this
way let me look at that red marble’. Mr. Miller told the boy.
‘Sure will. Thanks Mr.
Miller.’
Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me.
With a smile she said, ‘There are two other boys like him in our
community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to
bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or whatever. When they come
back with their red marbles, and they always do, he decides he doesn’t
like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a
green marble or an orange one, when they come on their next trip to the
store.’
I left the store smiling to myself, impressed with this man. A short time
later I moved to Colorado , but I never forgot the story of this man, the
boys, and their bartering for marbles.
Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one. Just
recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community
and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died. They were
having
his visitation that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed
to accompany them. Upon arrival at the mortuary we fell into line to meet
the relatives of the deceased and to offer wh atever words of comfort we
could.
Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army uniform and
the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white shirts…all very
professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller, standing composed and
smiling by her husband’s casket. Each of the young men hugged her, kissed
her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the casket.
Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one, each young man
stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in
the casket. Each left the mortuary awkwardly, wiping his eyes.
Our turn came to meet Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and reminded her
of the story from those many
years ago and what she had told me about her
husband’s bartering for marbles. With her eyes glistening, she took my
hand and led me to the casket.
‘Those three young men who just left were the boys I told you about.
They just told me how they appreciated the things Jim ‘traded’ them. Now,
at last, when Jim could not change his mind about color or size….they
came to pay their debt.’
‘We’ve never had a great deal of the wealth of this world,’ she confided,
‘but right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho .’
With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased
husband. Resting underneath were three exquisitely shined red marbles.
The Moral : We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds.
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take
our breath away.
Today I wish you a day of ordinary miracles ~ A fresh
pot of coffee you
didn’t make yourself…An unexpected phone call from an old friend…Green
stoplights on your way to work…The fastest line at the grocery store…A
good sing-along song on the radio…Your keys found right where you left
them.
IT’S NOT WHAT YOU GATHER, BUT WHAT YOU SCATTER THAT TELLS WHAT KIND OF
LIFE YOU HAVE LIVED!
AMUSING NEWSPAPER HEADLINES
Posted in Science on 09/29/2009 11:05 am by sunita thakurTHIS JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW CARELESS SOME PEOPLE CAN GET.PROOF READING SEEMS TO BE DISAPPEARING.
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Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter'
one I caught in the SGV Tribune the other day and called the Editorial
Room and asked who wrote this.' It took two or three readings before
the editor realized that what he was reading was impossible!!!' They
put in a correction the next day.''' '
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THE VICTOR
Posted in Philosophy on 08/08/2009 01:43 pm by sunita thakurI would like to share this lovely poem with all my friends.
Poet: C.W. Longenecker
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't
If you like to win but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost.
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are.
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win the prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
THE VICTOR
Posted in inspirational on 08/08/2009 01:37 pm by sunita thakur
Poet: C.W. Longenecker
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't
If you like to win but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost.
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are.
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win the prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
ISN’T THIS A LOVELY POEM.I LIKED IT &THERFORE WANTED TO SHARE IT WITH YOU ALL.
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Posted in Humour on 02/28/2009 05:29 pm by sunita thakur
TO THE SPOILED
UNDER-30 CROWD:
(If you are 30 or older you will think this is
hilarious!!!!)
When I
was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious
diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with
walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ...
Uphill… BOTH ways… Yadda, yadda,
yadda…
And I remember
promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to
lay a bunch of crap
like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got
it!
But now that… I’m over the ripe old age of
thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of
today.
You’ve got it so
easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in
a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it
but you kids today you don’t know how good
you’ve got it!
I mean, when I was a
kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to
the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card
catalogue!! !
There was no email!!
We had to actually write somebody a letter,
with a pen! …Then you had to
walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take
like a week to get there!
There were no MP3’s
or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record
store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait
around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ’d usually talk over the
beginning and @#*% it all up!!!!
We didn’t have fancy
crap like ”Call
Waiting!” If you were on the phone and
somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it!
And we didn’t have
fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It
could be your school, your mom, your boss,
your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn’t know!!!
You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn’t have
any fancy Sony Playstation video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics!
We had the Atari
2600! With games like “Space Invaders” and
“Asteroids.” Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use
your imagination!! And
there were no multiple levels or
screens, it was just
one screen forever!
And you could never
win. The game just kept getting harder and harder
and faster and faster
until you died! Just like LIFE!
Sure, we had cable
television, but back then there was only one
real movie channel (HBO), no on screen menu and no remote control!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to
find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had
to get off your ass and walk
over to the TV to change the channel!
And
we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to
use the stove … Imagine that! If we wanted Popcorn, we had to use that
stupid Jiffy Pop pan thing and shake it over the
stove forever like an idiot.
That’s exactly
what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too
easy. You’re spoiled. You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in
1980!
Regards,
The Over-30
Crowd
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Posted in Humour on 02/28/2009 05:26 pm by sunita thakur
blondes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CAR
TROUBLE
A blonde pushes her BMW into
a gas station. She tells the
mechanic it died. After he
works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly.
She
says, ‘What’s the story?’
He replies, ‘Just crap in the
carburetor’
She asks, ‘How often do I have to do
that?’
SPEEDING
TICKET
A police officer stops
a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see
her license.
She replied in a huff, ‘I wish you guys would
get your act together.
Just yesterday you take away my
license and then today you expect me to show it to you!’
RIVER
WALK
There’s this blonde out for a walk.
She comes to a river and sees another blonde on the opposite
bank ‘Yoo-hoo!’ she shouts, ‘How can I get to the other side?’
The second blonde looks up the river then down the river and
shouts back, ‘You ARE on the other side.’
AT THE DOCTOR’S
OFFICE
A gorgeous young redhead goes into the doctor’s
office and said that her body hurt wherever she touched
it.
‘Impossible! ‘ says the doctor. ‘Show me.’
The
redhead took her finger, pushed on her left shoulder and
screamed, then she pushed her elbow and screamed even more. She
pushed her knee and screamed; likewise she pushed her ankle and
screamed. Everywhere she touched made her scream.
The doctor
said, ‘You’re not really a redhead, are you?
‘Well, no’ she
said, ‘I’m actually a blonde.’
‘I thought so,’ the doctor
said, ‘Your finger is broken.’
KNITTING
A highway
patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway.
Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the blonde
behind the wheel was knitting! Realizing that she was oblivious
to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his
window, turned on his bullhorn and yelled, ‘PULL OVER!’
‘NO!’ the blonde yelled back, ‘IT’S A SCARF!’
BLONDE
ON THE SUN
A Russian, an American, and a Blonde were
talking one day. The Russian said, ‘We were the first in space!’
The American said, ‘We were the first on the moon!’
The
Blonde said, ‘So what? We’re going to be the first on the sun!’
The Russian and the American looked at each other and shook
their heads. ‘You can’t land on the sun, you idiot! You’ll burn
up!’ said the Russian.
To which the Blonde replied, ‘We’re
not stupid, you know. We’re going at night!’
IN A
VACUUM
A blonde was playing Trivial Pursuit one
night.. It was her turn. She rolled the dice and she landed on
Science & Nature. Her question was, ‘If you are in a vacuum
and someone calls your name, can you hear it?’ She thought for a
time and then asked, ‘Is it on or off?’
FINALLY,
THE
BLONDE JOKE TO END ALL BLONDE JOKES!
A girl was visiting
her blonde friend, who had acquired two new dogs, and asked her
what their names were. The blonde responded by saying that one
was named Rolex and one was named Timex. Her friend said,
‘Whoever heard of someone naming dogs like that?’ ‘HELLLOOOOOOO.
….,’ answered the blonde. ‘They’re watch
dogs’!
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Posted in reflection on 02/04/2009 02:04 pm by sunita thakur
NO TIME FOR GOD
I KNELT TO PRAY BUT NOT FOR LONG,
I HAD TOO MUCH TO DO.
I HAD TO HURRY' AND GET TO WORK
FOR BILLS WOULD SOON BE DUE.
SO I KNELT AND SAID A HURRIED PRAYER,
AND JUMPED OFF MY KNEES.
MY RELIGIOUS DUTY WAS NOW DONE
MY SOUL COULD REST AT EASE.
ALL DAY LONG I HAD NO TIME
TO SPREAD A WORD OF CHEER,
NO TIME TO SPEAK OF GOD TO FRIENDS
THEY”D LAUGH AT ME I’D FEAR.
NO TIME , NO TIME, TOO MUCH TO DO,
THAT WAS MY CONSTANT CRY.
BUT AT LAST CAME THE THE TIME,
THE TIME TO DIE.
I WENT BEFORE GOD,
I STOOD WITH DOWNCAST EYES.
IN HIS HANDS GOD HELD A BOOOK
IT WAS ‘THE BOOK OF LIFE’
GOD LOOKED INTO HIS BOOK AND SAID,
“YOUR NAME I CANNOT FIND”,
I ONCE WAS GOING TO WRITE IT DOWN……
BUT NEVER FOUND THE TIME”.
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Posted in wisdom on 01/27/2009 04:45 pm by sunita thakur
TREES OR PLANTS IN GENERAL ARE ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE TO SURVIVE ON THIS EARTH. THEY GIVE US FOOD TO EAT, OXYGEN RICH AIR TO BREATHE AND THE MATERIAL TO BUILD HOUSES FOR US TO LIVE IN. APART FROM THIS THERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHER LESSONS WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM.
SOME OF THE LESSONS ARE:
1. ITS IMPORTANT TO HAVE ROOTS. THERE IS NO SURVIVAL WITHOUT THEM.
2. IN TODAY’S WORLD IT PAYS TO BRANCH OUT.
3. DON’T PINE AWAY OVER OLD FLAMES.
4. IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN SOMETHING, DON’T BE AFRAID TO GO OUT ON A LIMB FOR IT.
5. BE FLEXIBLE.IT WILL PREVENT YOU FROM BREAKING WHEN THERE IS A HARSH WIND.
6. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SHED YOUR OLD BARK IN ORDER TO GROW.
7.IF YOU WANT TO MAINTAIN ACCURATE RECORDS, KEEP A LOG.
8. GROW WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED.
9. ITS PERFECTLY FINE TO BE A LATE BLOOMER.
10. AVOID PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE TO CUT YOU DOWN.
11. GET ALL SPRUCED UP WHEN YOU HAVE A HOT DATE.
12. IF THE PARTY GETS BORING, JUST LEAF.
13. YOU CAN’T HIDE YOUR TRUE COLOURS AS YOU APPROACH THE AUTUMN OF LIFE.
14. ITS MORE IMPORTANT TO BE HONEST THAN POPLAR.
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Posted in Humour on 01/25/2009 11:43 pm by sunita thakur
JOKES
·Wife:
U know, husband & wife aren’t allowed to be together in heaven!
Husband: Yes, I do. That’s why it’s called heaven!
· Santa
had a dream in which someone murdered him. Next day he closed his bank account.
Know why?
Because the bank’s slogan was: We make your dreams come true…
· A
teenage boy to his father: Here’s my report card and a list I’ve compiled of
entrepreneurs who never finished their High School.
· Two
friends,who hadn’t seen each other in several years, met on the street.
1st: Who are u working 4 now?
2nd: Same people, My wife & 4 children.
· Three
dreams of a man:
To be as handsome as his mother thinks.
To be as rich as his child believes.
To have as many women as his wife suspects…
· What’s
the difference between Poetry n Essay?
Any Word uttered by a Girlfriend is Poetry while anything said by a Wife is an
ESSAY!
· A
husband was returning home after cremating his wife. He sees heavy lightning
& thunderstorm. He thinks: She must have reached there.
· I
asked my uncle if he knew the best way to see flying saucers.
He said: Yes, pinch the waitress.
· Girl
to Boyfriend: Now it’s time we should marry.
Boy: That’s ok, but who’ll marry us.
· Men
want 3 qualities in wives: Economist in kitchen, artist in home & devil in
bed.
But they get artist in kitchen, devil in home & a economist in Bed.
· Girl
announced her engagement to her father.
Father: Does this fellow has any money?
Girl: U men r all alike, that’s exactly what he asked me about u.
· Banta:
Give me a bag full of money, job and a vehicle full of girls
God: So it be, my son and made him a bus conductor of ladies special bus!
· How
do u identify a true music lover?
A man when hears a woman singing in the bathroom, puts his ear to the keyhole
instead of his eye!
· A
genuine reason for having two girlfriends at a time: Monopoly is always
damaging & Competition improves service!
· Santa:
I got married because I was tired of cooking, cleaning home and washing
clothes.
Banta: Amazing, I got divorce for the same reason.
· Angry
Santa to his son: Have you ever seen an owl?
Pappu: (Luking down) No…
Santa: Don’t look down. Look at me.
·
· A women’s prayer: Dear Lord, I pray for Wisdom
to understand my man; Love to forgive him and Patience for his moods. Because
Lord, if I pray for strength, I’ll beat him to death!
· Ek
shrabi sadhu se takra gaya. Sadhu: Oh murkh, mein tuje shrap deta hoon'
Sharabi: Ruko, me glass leke ata hoon.
· Sometimes
you might catch me staring at you. It’s not because you are cute but bcoz my
mom told me that devils have tails and I’m just wondering where’s yours?
· Wife:
I Have Changed My Mind.
Husband: Thank God ! Does The New One Work Now?
· A
boy goes to a strip club. His mom gets angry & asks him: Did u see anything
there that u were not supposed to see?
Boy: Yes, I saw dad!
· Aftr
robbing d Bank, robber 2 clerk: Did u see me robbing?
Clerk: Yes.
Robber shot him dead & asked d next clerk: Did u?
2nd clerk: No, But my wife saw u!
· · Why
are Egyptian Children always confused?
Because after death, their DADDY becomes a MUMMY.
· Everything
about you is perfect - your lips, your skin, your eyes, your body. Perfect!
You’re lucky to be born beautiful, not like me, who was born to be a big liar.
· Marry
and make a woman happy OR remain a bachelor and make several women happy!
· Do
you believe that getting married on a Friday brings bad luck ?
“Of course, why would Friday be an exception?”
· A
pregnant lady went to an astrologer. · At a party, someone yelled:
All married guys plz stand next to one person who has made ur life worth
living.
The bartender was almost crushed to death.
· Most
of my friends are normal, sane, cultured, decent, intellectual &
well-behaved persons… Just wanna thank you for breaking the monotony!