Friday, August 15, 2014

Chinese proverb.

email from Daya Jayasinghe.

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb

Gangnam bear.

Now it's a brown bear dancing to Psy's hit
The large predator was spotted doing the signature moves associated with the 2012 party plague in Katmai National Park in southern Alaska.
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16 August 2014

Triplet troubles.

Meet the triplets whose parents have to colour code their toes
Karen and Ian Gilbert, from Pontypool, South Wales, have to colour code the toes of their one-year-old identical triplets, Ffion, Maddison and Paige, to tell them apart.
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16 August 2014

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Smartphone" Today's Opium .....That day has arrived !

email forwarded by Kamalini Kanapathippillai.
Today’s Opium ...............  
People are addicted these days ! One CafĂ© shop sign says : We do not have WIFI. Converse with your loved ones.   The major cause of divorce in 2018 will be the smartphone. Your friends and family members are so close and yet so far. The smartphone today is not dissimilar to opium in the last century. It kills off our communication skills, and poisons our hearts and souls. You don’t have to wonder any more why so many young people don’t read, can’t spell or write decently and are often inarticulate.   
 







So... What Do You Think?    


Devices VS Family

Put down the devices and pay attention to your family

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Great brains.

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai :-

One Sunday morning, a wealthy man sat in his balcony enjoying the sunshine and his coffee when a little ant caught his eye which was going from one side to the other side of the balcony carrying a big leaf several times more than its size. The man watched it for more than an hour. He saw that the ant faced many impediments during its journey, paused, took a diversion and then continued towards its destination.

At one point the tiny creature came across a crack in the floor. It paused for a little while, analyzed and then laid the huge leaf over the crack, walked over the leaf, picked up the leaf on the other side then continued its journey.

The man was captivated by the cleverness of the ant, one of God’s tiniest creatures. The incident left the man in awe and forced him to contemplate over the miracle of Creation. It showed the greatness of the Creator. In front of his eyes there was this tiny creature of God, lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to analyze, contemplate, reason, explore, discover and overcome. Along with all these capabilities, the man also noticed that this tiny creature shared some human shortcomings.

The man saw about an hour later the creature had reached its destination – a tiny hole in the floor which was entrance to its underground dwelling. And it was at this point that the ant’s shortcoming, that it shared with the man, was revealed. How could the ant carry into the tiny hole the large leaf that it had managed to carefully bring to the destination? It simply couldn't !

So the tiny creature, after all the painstaking and hard work and exercising great skills, overcoming all the difficulties along the way, just left behind the large leaf and went home empty-handed.

The ant had not thought about the end before it began its challenging journey and in the end the large leaf was nothing more than a burden to it. The creature had no option, but to leave it behind to reach its destination. The man learned a great lesson that day.

Isn’t that the truth about our lives?

We worry about our family, we worry about our job, we worry about how to earn more money, we worry about where we should live – 5 bedroom or 6 bedroom house, what kind of vehicle to buy – a Mercedes or BMW or a Porsche, what kind of dresses to wear, all sorts of things, only to abandon all these things when we reach our destination – The Grave. We don’t realize in our life’s journey that these are just burdens that we are carrying with utmost care and fear of losing them, only to find that at the end they are useless and we can’t take them with us.

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·         IT IS NICE TO BE IMPORTANT;  BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE NICE !
·         TO ERR IS HUMAN;  BUT WHEN THE ERASER WEARS OUT AHEAD OF THE PENCIL, YOU'RE OVERDOING IT ! 
·         NEVER APPROACH A HORSE FROM BEHIND !  NEVER APPROACH A GOAT FROM FRONT !   AND AN IDIOT FROM NOWHERE !
·         PROGRESS IS LIKE CYCLING !  IF YOU DO NOT PEDAL, YOU FALL !
·         LOVE IS LIKE THE MOON;  IF IT DOES NOT INCREASE, IT DECREASES !
·         Do not make a promise when you are in joy;  do not reply when you are sad;  do not take a decision when you are angry.  Think twice, Act wise.
·         Time is like a river.  You cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again.  Enjoy every moment of life. 
·         Don't let someone become a priority in your life, when you are just an option in their life.....  Relationships work best when they are balanced !
·         Nothing is impossible in this world. Because 'impossible' itself says:  I ' M POSSIBLE !
·         Making a million friends is not a miracle; the miracle is to find a friend who will stand by you when a million are against you !
·         WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE OVERPOWERS THE LOVE OF POWER, THERE WILL BE PEACE !
·         FRIENDSHIP is like a BOOK. It takes a few seconds to burn but it takes years to write !
·         Give a THOUSAND chances to your enemy to become your friend, but don't give a single chance to your friend to become your enemy !
·         Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Just walk beside me and be my friend 

                                         FR. WILLIE