THE KING, THE CROW, THE JACKAL and ……

The Lion, the King of the jungle had an entourage of the hangers-on – the crow, the jackal and a few others. One day a camel separated from a caravan strayed into the jungle. The crow intervened, "It's a good meal, to feast upon, Master. Just kill him".

The King roared, "We can't kill a guest. Introduce him to me"

The Camel bowed in respect and told his story to the Lion. The King ordered that the camel henceforth will be a member of our Kinfolk and can feed on the emerald green of the forest.

It so happened one day that the Lion got into a fight with a Tusker and got badly wounded. Helpless to go for a kill, he ordered his associates to bring an animal to his doorstep for a kill"

Unable to find one, the jackal tip-toed to the Lion, "Sir, there is none around we can lay our hands on. The Camel now is the only answer. Or else, we all will starve to death".

The Lion got furious, "You shameless scoundrel, how can I kill one whom I have given protection for life?"

But the cunning jackal tricked the lion into agreeing to the proposal, "Sir, what's our problem if the Camel willingly offers himself!"

And so the crow and the jackal and others contrived how to get the camel into the trap. They all appeared before the Lion. The crow made the first move to offer himself but the jackal rubbished the idea that he is too small to feed even a minor. The Jackal came in next before Lion with his eyes meeting with those of the Camel and tears rolling down with the rest of the clan crying. The Camel simply took pity on him and pushed him aside and offered himself, thinking the Lion as usual will spare him. The Lion simply pounced on him and all of them then had a great feast.

NOBLE UPRIGHT PEOPLE ARE NOT MEAN MINDED AND DO NOT LIVE DECEPTIVELY UNLIKE WICKED DESPICABLE INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE WHO DO.

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EVEN SOFT WATER DROPS FALLING PERSISTENTLY ON A ROCK WEAR IT AWAY:

SO TOO CONTINUOUS COMPLAINTS AGAINST SOMEONE ELSE POISON A MAN'S MIND

MAN AGeING PEOPLE

MAN AGeING PEOPLE

You are highly satisfied with the job of face-to-face field selling. But not with the pay and the incentives. You are too happy to be promoted to the next higher grade with a better status of a Manager and supposedly higher responsibility to manage a band of salesmen. You are now satisfied with the compensation but not the job.

They have converted a Specialist in his own trade to a Disaster of a glorified clerk lost in administrative jungle of paper work. Simply because the proletarian grade system will not permit to pay the Specialist he deserves more, whatever the role, than the manager who will manage him.

Just because someone is fantastic at doing something. simply doesn't mean he is equally as good at managing others to do that same thing. After all, the skill set required to practice a specific profession -- whether it's plumbing, hairdressing, engineering, selling, teaching, accounting or whatever -- is entirely different from the skill set required to manage people. Yet many a businesses persist in promoting "Doers" into management roles with promotions that come with better-sounding titles, more money, more perquisites, more prestige and... more responsibility on the assumption that a good doer will automatically make a good manager!

Logically it's a good assumption that a manager who used to do the work himself or herself should understand what his staff need to do the work now. And yes, there are many managers who are just as good, if not better, at managing others as they are performing the actual work. In a pyramidal organizational structure -- where the many are managed by the few – as a delegation or management structure, it works fine for many companies. But it's illogical that people will try to get, and will get, promoted into management roles -- regardless of whether they have the talent or passion to manage just because in such an organization, getting more pay and other rewards is contingent on becoming a manager only.

And should it happen more as a rule rather than an exception, the organization will have plenty of unhappy and ineffective managers. And plenty of frustrated people working for ineffective managers; An organization that will never perform at its optimum.

Doesn't it make more sense for people to do the work they enjoy and are good at? To reward them for getting better and better at that work, rather than only paying them more if they step "up" to management... where they may generate less value for the organization?

Isn't a top salesman better off staying in the field selling... than floundering in the office, struggling to organize and motivate his staff?

Fortunately, some organizations do tie greater rewards to greater responsibilities and greater performances, whatever the role, which generate more value for better productivity and better bottom line. The trend-setting needs to be more revolutionary than just evolutionary!

People do not like to be managed.

They like to be led.

Power that does not Empower

Power that does not Empower

FIGHT VAMPIRE POWER THAT HURTS UR WALLET

What's this Vampire Power on loose? And Where?

Right at every doorstep, your footstep in front of your nose! Omnipresent! The monster that this Vampire is hurts your wallet no end and harms the environment too.

The monster has many names - vampire power, standby power or phantom power and works day and night entirely through your electrical outlets. The only way and easy way to stop him eating into your pockets is to pull out quite a few plugs.

The waste of electricity with gadgets plugged in even when switched off is enormous. The vampire power cost for a city may run into millions. For home enough to hurt your pocket. Almost 25 percent of electricity use or more are accounted for as ghost load by your home electronic appliances while the products are off.

1. Cell phone charger when plugged in even if it is not charging.

2. Idle Microwaves and televisions when plugged in actually consume more electricity during the hours they're not in use than the times they are actually in use.

3. Computers with accessories are huge vampire power offenders. You may wish them off in Standby mode with less use of power, but that still hurts your pocket and you can't escape also the ghost of wasted electricity.

4. Many AC adapters waste as much as 50 percent of the power they use.

5. A certain amount of standby power is unavoidable, especially with major appliances or other devices that are impractical to turn off. But this doesn't mean vampire power can't be kept to a minimum.

VAMPIRE-FIGHTING TACTICS

If you're not using an electronic device, unplug it -- that's the blanket approach to fighting vampire power.

You can make this step even easier with a surge protector or power strip. Plug multiple items in the strip and simply turn it off when you're not using the devices. If the strip is off, you don't have to worry about leaking electricity.

Many electronic devices waste power in standby mode due to poor design. Purchase energy-efficient products and you'll waste less electricity on standby functions.

Some power strips such as the Smart Strip Power Strip feature a master-slave arrangement, similar to the set up of many electronic devices. If you aren't using your computer, why have power traveling to your speakers, printer and other accessories? The smart strip lets you designate one device as the "master" and several secondary devices as "slaves". If the master device is off or drawing only standby power, then the slave outlets don't get any power either.

HUMAN - ELECTRIC
TO KNOW THE PAINS OF POWER, WE MUST GO TO THOSE WHO HAVE IT; TO KNOW ITS PLEASURES, WE MUST GO TO THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING IT. >> THE PAINS OF POWER ARE REAL; ITS PLEASURES IMAGINARY ………Colton

Per Capita Goodness

The Samaritan before you in the queue gives way to you to go ahead to the counter before him. You run into problem of "Change" at the counter and he pays for you the change. By the time, you gather your wits and composure to thank him, he is gone.

Events like these don't typically make news. There's no Samaritan Index to say whether anonymous good deeds are up 11 percent or down 2 percent from last year, or whether our family or our community or our city ranks 7th or 77th in per-capita goodness. If we think anonymous acts of kindness are catching on, let's just be a contagious part of it.

I EXPECT TO PASS THROUGH LIFE BUT ONCE. -- IF THEREFORE THERE BE ANY KINDNESS I CAN SHOW OR ANY GOOD THING I CAN DO TO ANY FELLOW-BEING, LET ME DO IT NOW AND NOT DEFER IT OR NEGLECT IT , AS I SHALL NOT PASS THIS WAY AGAIN ......................... PENN

True Story of Forked Love

A long time ago, before man set foot on earth for the first time, vices and virtues kept floating around and were bored, not knowing what to do.

One day, all the vices and virtues held a get-together to liberate themselves from monotony. Creativity came up with an idea, "Let's play hide and seek!"

All of them liked the idea and immediately Madness shouted, "I will start counting and you all go hiding!" Madness leaned against a tree and started to count, "One, two, three..."

Tenderness hung itself on the horn of the moon... Treason hid in a pile of garbage... Fondness curled up between the clouds...and Passion went to the centre of the earth.... Lie said that it would hide under a stone, but hid at the bottom of the lake... whilst Avarice entered a sack that he ended up splitting!

And Madness continued to count: .... "seventy nine, eighty, eighty one..."

By this time, all the vices and virtues had already hidden - except Love. For undecided as Love is, he could not decide where to hide. And this should not surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is for Love to hide!

Madness: "...ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven..."

Just when Madness got to one hundred.........Love jumped into a rose bush where he hid.

And Madness turned around and shouted: "I'm coming, I'm coming!" Laziness was the first to be found, because it had no energy to hide. Then he spotted Tenderness in the horn of the moon, Lie at the bottom of the lake and Passion at the centre of the earth. One by one, Madness found them all - except Love.

Madness was getting desperate, unable to find Love. Jealous of Love, Envy whispered to Madness, "There you cannot see but Love is hiding in the rose bush."

Madness grabbed a wooden pitch fork and stabbed wildly at the rosebush. Madness stabbed and stabbed until a heartbreaking cry made him stop.

Love appeared from the rose bush, covering his face with his hands. Between his fingers ran two trickles of blood from his eyes.

Madness, so anxious to find Love, had stabbed out Love's eyes with a pitch fork. "What have I done? What have I done?" Madness shouted. "I have left you blind! How can I repair it?"

And Love answered: "You cannot repair my eyes. But if you want to do something for me, you can be my guide."

And so it came about that from that day on, Love is blind and is always accompanied by Madness as his guide.


PASSION MAY BE BLIND; BUT TO SAY THAT LOVE IS, IS A LIBEL AND A LIE ….H.Davis
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LOVE IS NEVER LOST.
IF NOT RECIPROCATED,
IT WILL FLOW BACK
AND SOFTEN AND PURIFY HEART
… Washington Irving

The House of 1000 Mirrors

THE HOUSE OF 1000 MIRRORS
A PLACE WHERE U WANT TO GO
A PLACE WHERE U DON'T WANT TO GO

Long ago in a small, far away village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little child learned of this place and was curious to visit the place. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway and to his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little children like him. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the house, he thought to himself, "This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often."

In this same village, another little child who was always grumpy, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and went up to look into the door. When he saw the 1000 grouchy looking children staring back at him, he sneered at them and was horrified to see 1000 little children sniping back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, "That's a horrible place, and I will never go back there again."

All the faces in the world are mirrors. You will see in them the kind of reflections you portray on your own face!

THERE IS ONE ART OF WHICH EVERY MAN SHOULD BE A MASTER - THE ART OF REFLECTION. - IF YOU ARE NOT A THINKING MAN, TO WHAT PURPOSE ARE YOU A MAN AT ALL? - Coleridge

I WILL CHIDE NO BROTHER IN THE WORLD BUT MYSELF, AGAINST WHOM I KNOW MOST FAULTS - Shakespeare

A Must Read Piece – J K Rowling’s Address

I would like to share this with you - A very Powerful and inspiring and straight from the heart address to Harvard Graduates in 2008 by the Author, J K Rowling, famous for her Harry Potter book series. Do take some time off to read it and give your comments. It is even worth a re-read often. I am sure you will instantly connect with her as I did.

Cheers,

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The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.

J. K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination," at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.

The first thing I would like to say is 'thank you.' Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I've experienced at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and fool myself into believing I am at the world's best-educated Harry Potter convention.

Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

You see? If all you remember in years to come is the 'gay wizard' joke, I've still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step towards personal improvement.

Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day and this.

I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 'real life', I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.

These might seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.

Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.

They had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents' car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.

I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.

At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.

I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.

However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of success, so high have you already flown academically.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above rubies.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned.

Given a time machine or a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working in the research department at Amnesty International's headquarters in London.

There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.

Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to think independently of their government. Visitors to our office included those who had come to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those they had been forced to leave behind.

I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness.

And as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since. The door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her. She had just given him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country's regime, his mother had been seized and executed.

Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.

Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power. I began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard and read.

And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.

Amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet. My small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's minds, imagine themselves into other people's places.

Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.

I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces can lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

What is more, those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing.

But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people's lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world's only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children's godparents, the people to whom I've been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I've used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.

So today, I can wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom:
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I wish you all very good lives.

Thank you very much.

16 Famous Sayings by Chanakya

1) "Learn from the mistakes of others... you can't live long enough to make them all yourselves!!" - Chanakya

2)"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first." - Chanakya

3)"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous." - Chanakya

4)"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you." - Chanakya

5)"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth." - Chanakya

6)" Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead." - Chanakya

7)"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it." - Chanakya

8)"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman." - Chanakya

9)"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest." - Chanakya

10)"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction." - Chanakya

11)"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple." - Chanakya

12) "A man is great by deeds, not by birth." - Chanakya

13) "Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness." - Chanakya

14) "Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends." - Chanakya

15) "Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person." - Chanakya

16) "Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth." -Chanakya

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Some of the Inspiring Quotes which tell not to give up in life so you can learn something from these Quotes

1) Never expect things to happen, struggle and make them happen. Never expect yourself to be given a good value, create a value of your own.

2) If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity.But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shine like a pearl.so choose the best place where you would shine..

3) Falling down is not defeat...defeat is when your refuse to get up...

4) Ship is always safe at shore... but is is not built for it

5) When your successful your well wishers know who you are when you are unsuccessful you know who your well wishers are.

6) It is great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him/her

7) "To the world you might be one person,but to one person you just might be the world

8) "Even the word 'IMPOSSIBLE' says 'I M POSSIBLE' "

9) Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes all the difference.

Never take some one for granted,Hold every person Close to your Heart because you might wake up one day and realize that you have lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones." Remember this always in life.

You & You Alone

As much as you have to take from this universe, you have much to give also. Have courage to give.

As much as you want to remain closeted within your four walls, you have the whole earth under the sky to open up. Have strength of mind to launch yourself!

As much you need this world to exist, this world needs you too to exist.

Do not be afraid to give out your best. You are so Personally Precious and Characteristically Unique.

Crave, don't cry, for the appetite within you to reach the best in you.

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Better muster power latent in you and take control of a crisis situation, as no amount of brooding or resignation has ever helped anyone!.

REMEMBER, THE FINEST STEEL GETS SENT THROUGH THE HOTTEST FURNACE.

Somebody somewhere believes in you! If you have not yet recognized him,it's time you do!! He is neither branded nor celebrated!

This somebody could be You and You alone!

Don't Waste your Life Believing You Can't

In 1977, in Tallahassee, Florida, Laura Shultz, who was 63 then, picked up the back end of a Buick to get it off her grandson's arm. Before that time, she had never lifted anything heavier than a 50-pound bag..

Dr. Charles Garfield, author of Peak Performance, interviewed her and got her to talk about "the event." She said she didn't like to think about it because it challenged her beliefs about what she could and couldn't do. She said, "If I was able to do this when I didn't think I could, what does that say about the rest of my life? How have I wasted it?"

Charlie convinced her that her life was not yet over and that she could still do whatever she wanted to do. He asked her what she wanted to do, what her passion was. She said she had always loved rocks. She had wanted to study geology, but her parents hadn't had enough money to send both her and her brother to college, so her brother had won out.

At 63, with a little coaching from Charlie, she decided to go back to school to study geology. She eventually got her degree and went on to teach at a local community college.

Don't wait until you are 63 to decide that you can do anything you want. Don't waste years of your life. Decide that you are capable of doing anything you want and start working toward it now.

From "The Success Principles" by Jack Canfield:
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity not to know what can't be done.

– Henry Ford

Mathemajics & Memory

The speed, capacity and efficiency of our memory depend, to a degree, on our mental make-up and the knowledge of divergent fields. Man's mind once stretched by new exercises as the ones below never goes back to its original dimensions.

SUM OF ALL DIGITS UPTO 10

1 to 10 i.e. 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10

Multiply last number by a number next to it and divide by 2 : i.e. (10x11) /2 = 55

For 1 to 20, Add 100 to 55 , for 21 to 30, add 200 to 55, and like wise >>>>

11 to 20 >> 155

21 to 30 >> 255

31 to 40 >> 355 and carry on likewise.

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Multiplication of 2 nos whose diff is 2. >>> Say 14 x 16

1. Take Middle No. >>> 15

2. Squre it >>>> 225

3. Minus 1 >>>>> 224

4. Answer is 224.

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Multiplication of two 2 digit numbers whose 'ten' digits are same and 'unit' digits' sum is 10. Like 47 x 43 >>>>> 4 same 7+3 =10.

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1. Multiply Ten Digit Number by next whole no >>> 4 x 5 = 20

2. Multiply Unit Digit Nos together >>> 7 x 3 = 21

3. Answer is 2021

MEMORY TEMPERS PROSPERITY MITIGATES ADVERSITY, CONTROLS YOUTH AND DELIGHTS OLD AGE... LACTANTIUS

Peace Invades

A king once offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. There were only two from the many which he really liked. But the choice was difficult.

One picture was of a calm lake, a perfect mirror for towering mountains all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. A perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had mountains too but rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky with lightening and thunder and it poured furiously! Down the mountain side, a foaming waterfall hammered on rocks below.

The king had a close look at both the pictures. He chose the second to the surprise of all.

The close quick look saw behind the intimidating waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush, a mother bird had built her nest where she sat in perfect peace nursing the babies.

The King explained his choice, "Peace does not mean just a quiet place where there is no noise, danger or hard work. Peace found by the bush and the bird in the depth of their hearts in the midst of all that lightening and thunder and the rock-and-roll water fall has also true meaning of Peace.

Peace does not dwell in the outward things but within the soul. We may preserve it in the midst of bitterest pain if our will remain firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in an exemption from suffering…. Fenelon

Reduce the Load on Knees

To keep our mobility intact beyond Sixties into our Nineties, we need to start building up quadriceps (Front of thigh) and hamstring muscles (Back of thigh) right from childhood. To keep them in trim with age, we need to do the following exercises regularly within the framework of staying power and comfort levels.

Weak Inflexible Sluggish Quadriceps and Hamstring Muscles will increase the load on Knees for worse.

SQUATTING for QUADRICEPS AND HAMSTRING MUSCLES

1) Stand upright with feet slightly apart and hands stretched upwards.

2) With straight back in line with head, slowly bend knees (not waist) controlling movement down within comfort level.

3) Ensure that knees follow the same line as toes.

4) Return smoothly to starting position with ease.

5) Breathe in as you go down, out as you come up.

6) Graduate slowly to 5-10-15… ups and downs.

7) Graduate slowly keeping feet raised on toes both ways.

FOR HAMSTRING MUSCLES ONLY

1) Lie flat on your back with stretched legs.

2) Bend right knee with bottom of foot flat on the floor.

3) Raise left leg straight in air supported by hands if need be.

4) Softly straighten left leg from knee.

5) Feel the hamstring stretch within comfort limit.

6) Repeat exchanging legs.

Quick Beer on a Full Belly

The class was amazed to see on the Lecturer's desk a bag of sand, a bag of pebbles, some big rocks and a bucket. It was time for a pre-exam lecture on time management. He beacons an undergraduate to come on the platform and fill up the bucket.

A thoughtless novice starts with the sand, then the pebbles, then wastes lot of time pushing in the rocks, which not all fit in the bucket and makes a mess.

"Isn't that poor time and thought management" shrills the lecturer, "If you'd have put the rocks first, then the pebbles, then the sand, all three would have fit to the full. This is much like time management, in that by completing your biggest tasks first, you leave room to complete your medium tasks, then your smaller ones in given time. By getting lost into your smallest tasks first, you spend so much time on them, you leave yourself unable to complete either medium or large tasks satisfactorily.

And the lecturer re-fills the bucket, big rocks first, then pebbles, then sand, shaking the bucket between each so that everything fits. And heaves a sigh of anticipation of thunderous clapping.

"But Sir," Walks in one student, slouched at the back of the class, "you've forgotten one thing…..."

At which the student approaches the bucket, produces a can of lager, opens it, pours into the bucket and quips with a smile, "No matter, Sir, how much full, your bucket or belly is, there's always time, space and thought for a quick beer."

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A Health Officer drives into a village to check what precautions the villagers are taking for pure drinking water.

The Village Head assures the Bureaucrat that they chlorinate the village Pond, discourage activities like swimming, washing in the pond, collect water from the pond in clean utensils and boil water. Even then for the sake of safety, they drink beer only!

TOO MUCH "I" TROUBLE

The renowned business consultant Peter Drucker said, "The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I.' They think 'We.' They think 'Team.' They understand their job is to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'We' gets the credit…This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done."

A Leader Should :

1) Provide vision for the future.
2) Provide inspiration.
3) Make other people feel important and appreciated.
4) Live your values. Behave ethically.
5) Set the pace through your expectations and example.
6) Establish an environment of continuous improvement.
7) Provide opportunities for people to grow, both personally and professionally.
8) Care and act with compassion.

NATURE OR NURTURE

Nature or Nurture is a question often asked about leadership. The combination of innate natural leadership skills and nurture through leadership development defines one's leadership style.

Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right things."

How do leaders emerge?

1) Some personality traits may lead people naturally into leadership roles.

2) A crisis or important event may cause a person to rise to the occasion, which brings out extraordinary leadership qualities in an ordinary person.

3) People choose to become leaders, learning leadership skills through a transformational attitude/approach.

The first and the most important characteristic of a leader is the decision to become a leader - the decision to provide others with vision, direct the course of future events and inspire others to success.

Leadership requires the individual to practice dominance and take charge, formulating the appropriate mix of traits, skills and ambition. Exhibiting a unique blend of charisma, vision and character traits that attract people to follow them.

The power of an organization's leaders in creating the organization's values, environment, culture and actions is immeasurable.

As an organization leader, manager or supervisor, you are responsible for creating a work environment that enables people to thrive.

SUGAR FREE ??? We are being Cheated..

Most crash diet programs are high in proteins and low in carbohydrates. Water in the body attaches itself to a substance called glycogen, and the level of glycogen in the body is controlled by carbohydrate intake. Thus when a crash diet reduces drastically intake of carbohydrates, body's level of carbohydrates drops and so also level of body's water/fluid level. Once the normal diet of carbohydrates is resumed, body regains.

we are cheated into believing that weight loss was fat? As a matter of fact, loss in weight was due to loss of water in body and/or muscle tissue and not because of loss of fat. Once the crash program is over, water replaces itself automatically with body getting back its weight.

If crash diet is continued for long, may be some fat too is lost. But along with that is lost also lean tissue of some vital body muscles and organs. And that is dangerous. After the crash diet program is over, fat tissue will be regained but not lean tissue. Hence it is paradoxical that a person will gain more weight once the crash diet program is over.

Better to follow our instinctive basicS > balanced staple meals-program with balanced intake of protein, carbohydrates and fiber augmented by Daily Walks, Free Arms/Aerobic Exercise, Deep Breathing and Yoga which should account for loss of fat. And strengthen immune system. Why lose organ / muscle tissue through crash dieting? Diet programs do not highlight these facts as they would want to play on our sentiments of embarrassment, sense of helplessness and lack of strength of will and thus win us over to their crash calculations.

1) Anything labeled at the grocery store as "low fat", "sugar free", "low-carb", or "whole grain" are no good for you as you're being regularly deceived by the clever marketing of huge multi-million food corporations...

2) Most foods labeled as "sugar free" or "low-carb" actually contain artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols, and other additives that create a hormonal mess inside your body, actually stimulating your body to STORE more belly fat and stimulate cravings!

3) In fact, doing excessive exercises also actually works against your results because you are stimulating excessive cortisol production in your body and breaking down lean muscle tissue... all of which leads to the slowing down of your metabolic rate over time and deposition of even more belly fat on top of what you already have.

deBARred POWER of a PRAYER

In a small town in India, an enterprising fellow decided to open a Bar right opposite the Temple. The Temple priest and local community were outraged and started a campaign to block the coming up of the Bar with daily congregation and prayers against the evils of a Drinking Hole. They even filed a petition in the local court.

Work however continued to progress. By the time the whole structure came up, a lightning struck the edifice and it was razed to the ground.

The temple folks and devotees were simply delighted by the benevolent act of God. The Bar owner filed a counter petition now in the same court and sued the Temple authorities for the damage and destruction caused to his property on the grounds that but for their congregations and prayers, God would not have come down mercilessly on his fate.

Scared of heavy compensation in case so decreed by the court, the temple authorities vehemently denied any responsibility for the kind act of God through their prayers.

As the case progressed, the Judge remarked, "I don't know how I'm going to decide this case, but it appears from the proceedings conducted so far that we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire temple and its devotees who don't.!"

The Waiter who will be an IAS Officer

Inspired by the spider, the Scottish king Robert the Bruce told his men, 'If you don't succeed the first time, try, try and try again'

K Jayaganesh's story is similar. He failed the civil service examination six times but never lost heart. The seventh time - his last chance - he passed with a rank of 156 and has been selected for the Indian Administrative Service.
Jayaganesh's story is inspiring not because he did not lose heart but also because he comes from a very poor background in a village in Tamil Nadu, and though he studied to be an engineer, he worked at odd jobs, even as a waiter for a short while, to realize his dream of becoming an IAS officer.

How Anshuman of Bankura got into MIT. Read on for Jayaganesh's inspiring achievement, in his own words:

Childhood in a remote village

I was born and brought up in a small village called Vinavamangalam in Vellore district. My father Krishnan, who had studied up to the tenth standard, worked as a supervisor in a leather factory. My mother was a housewife. I am the eldest in the family and have two sisters and a brother. I studied up to the 8th standard in the village school and completed my schooling in a nearby town.

I was quite good at studies and always stood first. Coming from a poor family, I had only one ambition in life -- to get a job as fast as I could and help my father in running the family. My father got Rs 4,500 as salary and he had to take care of the education of four children and run the family, which you know is very difficult.

So, after my 10th standard, I joined a polytechnic college because I was told I would get a job the moment I passed out from there. When I passed out with 91 per cent, there was a chance for me to get entry to a government engineering college on merit. So I decided to join the Thanthai Periyar Government Engineering College to study mechanical engineering. My father supported my desire to study further.

Even while doing engineering, my ambition was still to get a job. If you look at my background, you will understand why I didn't have any big ambitions. Most of my friends in the village had studied only up to the 10th standard, and many did not even complete school. They worked as auto drivers or coolies or masons. I was the only one among my friends who went to college.

I understood the importance of education because of my parents. My father was the only one in his family to have completed school, so he knew the value of education. My parents saw to it that we children studied well.

In search of a job

Four days after I completed my engineering in 2000, I went to Bangalore in search of a job and I one without much difficulty. My salary was Rs 2,500 at a company that reconditioned tools.

It was in Bangalore that I started thinking about my village and my friends. I wondered sadly why none of them studied and worked in good companies. Because they had no education, they always remained poor. There was not enough money to buy even proper food. There was no opportunity there; the only place they could work was the tannery in the nearby town. If they didn't get work at the tannery, they worked as auto drivers or coolies. In short, there was no one in my village to guide the young generation.

I thought would I be able to help my villagers in any way?

Getting interested in the civil service examination

Till then, I had not even heard of something called the civil services examination. It was only after I went to Bangalore and saw the world that I was exposed to many things. I came to know that a collector in a small place could do a lot. At that moment, I decided that I wanted to be an IAS officer.

I resigned and went home to prepare for the examination. I never thought resigning was risky because I had the confidence and knew I would do well.

My father also supported me wholeheartedly. He had just got a bonus of Rs 6,500 and he gave me that money to buy study material. I sat in my village and studied from the notes I received by post from Chennai.

Failed attempts

In my first two attempts, I could not even clear the preliminary examination. I had no idea how to prepare for the exam, what subjects to opt for and how to study. There was nobody to guide me.

I had taken mechanical engineering as my main subject. That's when I met Uma Surya in Vellore. He was also preparing for the examination. He told me that if I took sociology as an option, it would be easy.

Even with sociology as the main subject, I failed in the third attempt. But I was not disappointed. I knew why I was failing. I didn't have proper guidance. I started reading newspapers only after I started preparing for the examination! So you can imagine from what kind of background I came from.

To Chennai for coaching

When I came to know about the government coaching centre in Chennai, I wrote the entrance examination and was selected. We were given accommodation and training.
Because I got tips from those who passed out, I passed the preliminary in my fourth attempt. We were given free accommodation and food only till we wrote the main examination. After that, we had to move out. I didn't want to go back to the village but staying in Chennai also was expensive.

I tried to get a job as an engineer but my efforts turned futile. I then decided to look for a part time job so that I would have time to study.

Working as a waiter in Chennai

I got a job as a billing clerk for computer billing in the canteen at Sathyam Cinemas. I also worked as the server during the interval. It never bothered me that I, a mechanical engineer, preparing for the civil services, had to work as a server. I had only one aim -- to stay on in Chennai to pass the examination.

Attending the interview in Delhi

After I got the job at the Sathyam Cinemas, I was called for the interview. As counselling was my hobby, a lot of questions were asked about counselling. I was not very fluent in English but I managed to convey whatever I wanted to. Perhaps I did not articulate well. I failed in the interview.

Preliminary again, the 5th time

Once again, I started from the beginning. Surprisingly, I failed in the preliminary itself. On analysis, I felt I did not concentrate on studies as I was working at Sathyam Cinemas.

I quit the job and joined a private firm to teach sociology to those preparing for the UPSC examinations. While I learnt the other subjects there, I taught sociology. Many friends of mine in Chennai helped me both financially and otherwise while I prepared for the examination.

Sixth attempt

I passed both the preliminary and the main in the sixth attempt but failed at the interview stage.

While preparing for the interview, I had written an examination to be an officer with the Intelligence Bureau and I was selected. I was in a dilemma whether to accept the job. I felt if I joined the IB, once again, my preparation to be an IAS officer would get affected. So, I decided not to join and started preparing for one last time.

Last attempt

I had to give the last preliminary just a few days after the previous interview. I was confused and scared. Finally, I decided to take the last chance and write the examination. Like I had hoped, I passed both the preliminary and the main.

The interview was in April, 2008 at Delhi. I was asked about Tamil Nadu, Kamaraj, Periyar, Tamil as a classical language, the link between politics and Tamil cinema etc. I was upset since I did not wish the interviewers at the start and they did not respond when I said thanks at the end. Both the incidents went on playing in my mind. I just prayed to God and walked back.

The day the results were out

I was extremely tense that day. I would know whether my dreams would be realised or not. I used to tell God, please let me pass if you feel I am worthy of it.

I went to a playground and sat there meditating for a while. Then, I started thinking what I should do if I passed and what I should do if I didn't.

I had only one dream for the last seven years and that was to be an IAS officer.

156th rank

Finally when the results came, I couldn't believe myself. I had secured the 156th rank out of more than 700 selected candidates. It's a top rank and I am sure to get into the IAS.

I felt like I had won a war that had been going on for many years. I felt free and relieved.

The first thing I did was call my friends in Chennai and then my parents to convey the good news.

Warm welcome in the village

The reception I got in my village was unbelievable. All my friends, and the entire village, were waiting for me when I alighted from the bus. They garlanded me, burst crackers, played music and took me around the village on their shoulders. The entire village came to my house to wish me. That was when I saw unity among my villagers. It was a defining moment for me.

What I want to do

I worked really hard without losing faith in myself to realise my dream. My real work starts now. I want to try hard to eradicate poverty and spread the message of education to all people. Education is the best tool to eradicate poverty. I want Tamil Nadu also to be a literate state like Kerala.

Just take my example. I could come out of a poor background to this level only because of education. I didn't get any guidance when I was young. So I want to give proper guidance to the youth in the villages. They have the ability to go up but there is nobody to guide them. I want to be a guiding force to such youngsters. As I come from that background, I understand them best.

Reservations

I strongly feel that reservations are needed to uplift the section of society that is at the bottom. Unless you lift them up, they can't come up. As they had been at the bottom for thousands of years, they are not equipped to compete with the higher sections of society.

Now that I am going to be an IAS officer, I will move to the creamy layer in reservations. My children would be from a background that is totally different from what mine was. If I continue taking the benefits of reservation, I would be doing injustice to society. So, I will not take the benefits again.

Courtsey : rediff NEWS

Online Survey

Today, while glancing through Caerberu's Blog, I saw a link which is offering money for doing their surveys. I could earn $20 within half an hour for doing surveys. Here's the link for a free sign up.

I now look forward for more such surveys!

I like playing with Children

Dear Children,

I like being with children and talking to them and, even more, playing with them. For the moment I forget that I am pretty old and it is very long ago since I was a child.

But when I sit down to write, I cannot forget my age and the distance that separates you from me. Old people have a habit of delivering sermons and good advice to the young.

I remember that I disliked this very much long ago when I was a boy. So I suppose you do not like it very much either. Grown-ups also have a habit of appearing to be very wise, even though very few of them possess much wisdom. I have not yet quite made up my mind whether I am wise or not.

What then shall I write about? If you were with me, I would love to talk to you about this beautiful world of ours, about flowers, trees, birds, animals, stars, mountains, glaciers and all the other beautiful things that surround us in the world. We have all this beauty all around us and yet we, who are grown-ups, often forget about it and lose ourselves in our arguments or in our quarrels. We sit in our offices and imagine that we are doing very important work.

Grown-ups have a strange way of putting themselves in compartments and groups. They build barriers... of religion, caste, colour, party, nation, province, language, customs and of rich and poor. Thus they live in prisons of their own making. Fortunately, children do not know much about these barriers, which separate. They play and work with each other and it is only when they grow up that they begin to learn about these barriers from their elders. I hope you will take a long time in growing up.............

Jawaharlal Nehru December 3, 1949

In Strict Confidence, Please! Do not tell Anybody….

"Don't tell to anybody else. I am telling you in strict confidence." someone close to you confides in you. You then confide to someone else close to you. The chain is complete when the same statement is repeated at each link till it reaches the originator back. Great going!!

No need to feel guilty to be a party to the proliferation of the rumours! They are the symptoms of the group or the family or the organization of which you are a part being unstable and in a state of flux characterized by some sudden changes. Such rumours are not bad as the symptoms put you on alert for remedial action in time. Use them as tools in your hands to correct the distortions that had set in – whatever the Institution!

Just keep in mind that the gossip is directly proportional to the product of importance and ambiguity of the topic and inversely proportional to the critical sense of the Recipient.

Did you say, “you feel sick today”

Did you say, "you feel sick today"!

Do you know Why?

You get a cut and all sorts of bacteria and viruses enter your body through the break in the skin. Often the skin heals itself and seals the puncture. Each day you inhale thousands of germs (bacteria and viruses) that are floating in the air. And you do not keep falling sick every day. Why?

Coz, your immune system responds and eliminates the invaders.

But in rare cases, the immune system misses something. So you will get inflammation and pus as side-effects as the cut gets infected. The mosquito bite will get you a red, itchy bump. Occasionally a germ gets past the immune system and you catch a cold, get the flu or still worse.

Deficiency of vitamin or mineral – like lack of Vitamin D and you have rickety bones: Lack of Vitamin C and you have swollen and bleeding gums? Iron deficiency and you are declared anemic? So you know to what extent the vitamins and minerals strengthen your immune system! Or weaken it!

What is this marvel Inside your body that gives you amazing protection mechanism? This phenomenon - called the immune system. It is designed to defend you against millions of bacteria, microbes, viruses, toxins and parasites that would love to invade your body.

Get knowledgeable about your body's immune system. It is complex, intricate and interesting. Your immune system works round the clock in thousands of different ways, but it does its work largely unnoticed. One thing that causes us to really notice our immune system is when it fails for some reason. We also notice it when it does something that has a side effect we can see or feel.

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Does Humour enhance your Immune System?

The funny thing about humor is that it does a lot more than make people laugh.

Humour and Laughter strengthen immune system.

In Patch Adam's words, "Choose humour in the public place, with a smile on the face, or a twinkle in the eyes, and a willingness to greet each person!"

In the process, you would have strengthened the immune system – not only yours but also the other person's.

The Baker and the Farmer

A baker in a little country town bought the butter from a nearby farmer. One day he suspected something wrong with its correct weight.

He weighed it and found out that he was right. It was short weight, and he had the farmer arrested.

At the trial, the judge said to the farmer, "I presume you have scales?"

"No, your honor."

"Then how do you manage to weigh the butter you sell?" inquired the judge.

The farmer replied, "That's easily explained, your honor. I have balances and for a weight I use a one-pound loaf I buy from the baker."

The baker was arrested.

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Don't complain about the grime on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Instant Mix of Lateral Thinking

This is how this simple village beauty in her twenties got her aged father out of the debts to the Village Headman by her instant recipe of lateral thinking and wit.

The father was neck deep in debts to the Village headman who proposed for his daughter for marriage and in reward waive off all debts. The father was furious as also his folks.

The shrewd moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty bag. The girl would then have to pick one pebble from the bag. If she picked the black pebble, she would become the moneylender's wife and her father's debt would be forgiven. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father's debt would still be forgiven. And that she cannot refuse to pick a pebble or else ????

They assembled on a pebble strewn path in the merchant's garden. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick her pebble from the bag.

The girl chose not to show that there were two black pebbles in the bag and expose the moneylender as a cheat.

The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.

"Oh, how clumsy of me," she said. "But never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked."

Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had picked the white one. And since the moneylender dare not admit his dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one.

By an instant mix of lateral thinking and wit. The traditional logical thinking could not have found a logical answer .

Most complex problems do have a solution, sometimes we have to think about them in a different way.

Raindrops - All about my Dreams

Welcome to my new blog - Raindrops. Each and every person has Dreams. One of the reason to start this blog is to achieve my Dreams!

I had started my malayalam blog on Monday the July 17, 2006 and later on I have designed a new blog with the help of my friend Sumesh Chandran on Friday the March 9, 2007. Since then I continuously write blogs on different topics such as poems, stories, social issues, travelogues, comedy etc.

Recently I saw an attractive blog site through google search engine named Caerberu's Blog. It really attracted me and I decided to make an English blog. I immediately put a chat dialogue in the Shout Mix Chat box and I immediately got a reply from him explaining about various advantages of an English Blog. So, today I started my blog and my first post is now ready to publish!

Thanks a lot my Friend Caerberu from Philippines!