Wednesday, October 28, 2009

REASONS WHY WE LOVE A WOMAN‏

1. You can feel her Care in form of a Sister...

2. You can feel her Warmth in form of a Friend...

3. You can feel her Passion in form of a Beloved...

4. You can feel her Dedication in form of a Wife...

5. You can feel her Divinity in form of a Mother...

6. You can feel her Blessing in form of a Grandmother...

7. Yet she is so Tough too...

8. Her heart is so Tender...

9. So Naughty...

10. So Charming...

11. So Sharing...

13.  So Melodious...

14. She is a Women...

15. She is Life...

Next Time if You Think Life is Hard...Think Again!‏

Truly inspirational. 



Next Time You Think Life is Hard...Think Again!.... 



  




 


My name is Nick Vujicic 

and I was born without limbs and doctors have no medical explanation for this birth 'defect'. As you can imagine, I was faced with many challenges and obstacles. 

Their firstborn son had been born without limbs! There were no warnings or time to prepare themselves for it.... The doctors were shocked and had no answers at all! There is still no medical reason why this had happened and Nick now has a Brother and Sister who were born just like any other baby. 


 


 


I know that there is no such thing as luck, chance or coincidence that these 'bad' things happen in our life. 


I had complete peace knowing that God won't let anything happen to us in our life unless God has a good purpose for it all 


 I am now twenty-three years old and have completed a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Financial 

Planningand Accounting. I am also a motivational speaker and 

love to go out and share my story and testimony wherever opportunities become available. I have developed talks to relate to and encourage students through topics that challenge today's teenagers. I am also a speaker in the corporate sector. 

   


I have a passion for reaching out to youth and keep myself available for whatever God wants me to do, and wherever He leads, I follow. 


Writing several best-selling books has been one of my dreams and I hope to finish writing my first by the end of the year. 





It will be called 'No Arms, No Legs, and No Worries!' 


  


I believe that if you have the desire and passion to do something, and if it's God's will, you will achieve it in good time. As humans, we continually put limits on ourselves for no reason at all! What's worse is putting limits on God who can do all things. We put God in a 'box'. The awesome thing about the Power of God, is that if we want to do something for God, instead of focusing on our capability, concentrate on our availability for we know that it is God through us and we can't do anything without God 




Once we make ourselves available for God's work, guess whose capabilities we rely on? God's!
 
 
 

A poem by a Father....(please do read!!!)‏

FOR ALL PARENTS !!

 

A beautiful poem written by a Father to save his Daughter !!!
Do read it once...........I am sure u also won't be left untouched by the words and the feelings that they depict. 

 

The last stanza, after reading from the beginning, suddenly slows down the heart-beats

 


 

A sad Dad's poem... 
This is a beautiful poem. There is an appeal from a Zimbabwean couple at the bottom of message, not asking for anything more than that you hand the poem on............ 
The husband wrote the poem. 


TO MY CHILD 


Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I see your face and laugh when I feel like crying. 

Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear, and smile and say how perfect it is. 


Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry and pick you up and take you to the park to play. 


Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let you teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together. 


Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off, and sit with you in the backyard and blow bubbles. 


Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumble when you scream and whine for the ice cream truck, and I will buy you one if he comes by. 


Just for this afternoon, I won't worry about what you are going to be when you grow up, or second guess every decision I have made where you are concerned. 


Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and I won't stand over you trying to fix them. 


Just for this afternoon, I will take us to McDonald's and buy us both a Happy Meal so you can have both toys. 


Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you a story about how you were born and how much I love you. 


Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the tub and not get angry. 

 

Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch and count all the stars. 

 

Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside you for hours, and miss my favourite TV shows. 

Just for this evening when I run my finger through your hair as you pray, I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever given. 


I will think about the mothers and fathers who are searching for their missing children, the mothers and fathers who are visiting their children's graves instead of their bedrooms. The mothers and fathers who are in hospital rooms watching their children suffer senselessly and screaming inside that little body 

And when I kiss you goodnight I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer. It is then, that I will thank God for you, and ask him for nothing, except one more day.............. 
 


Hi! I am a 29-year-old father. My wife and I have had a wonderful life together. God blessed us with a child too. Our daughter's name is Rachel and she is 10 months old. Not long ago did the doctors detect brain cancer in her little body. 

There is only one way to save her and that is an operation. Sadly we don't have the money for the operation. AOL and Zdnet (in Zimbabwe ) have agreed to help us. 

The only way they can help is this: If you send this email to other people<>AOL will track this email and count how many people get it. Every person that opens this email and sends it to at least 3 people will give us 32c. (in Zimbabwe dollars) Please help us. 
 

 

 



It hardly takes a minute for you to forward this to your friends, Please do it.

God Bless You!!
 
 
 

Golden words are not Repeated‏

 Golden words are not Repeated 



Love your job but don't love your Company because you may not know 
when your company stops loving you.  
Dr. ABDUL KALAM  

What is the Secret of SUCCESS... ? "RIGHT DECISIONS"
How do you make Right Decisions...? "EXPERIENCE"
How do you get Experience... ? "WRONG DECISIONS 
Dr. ABDUL KALAM 
  
Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.  
Dr. ABDUL KALAM 

You are not responsible for what people think about you. 
But you are responsible for what you give them to think about you.  
STANLEY FERRARD 

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a Woman. 
A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.  
CHARLES DICKENS 

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.  
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 

Behind every successful man, there is an untold pain in his heart.  
BILL JACOBS 


It's better to lose your Ego to the one you Love, 
than to lose the one you LOVE because of EGO.  
JOHN KEATS 
  
  

Don't make promise when you are in JOY . Don't reply when you are SAD. 
Don't take decisions when you are ANGRY. Think twice, Act wise. 
BE happy...! 

Author Unknown

 
 

 

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XEm sen__,_._,___ 

 

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Gandhi's Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World‏

Gandhi's Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World: 

 

'You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is 
an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become 
dirty..'

 

1. Change yourself.

 

'You must be the change you want to see in the world.'

 

If you change yourself you will change your world.


2. You are in control.


 

'Nobody can hurt me without my permission.'

 

What you feel and how you react to something is always up 
to you..

 

 

3. Forgive and let it go.

 

'The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.'

 

'An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.' 

 

 

4. Without action you aren't going anywhere.

 

'An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.'

 

Taking action is hard and difficult. You have to take action and translate the knowledge into results and understanding.



 

 

5. Take care of this moment.

 

'I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment 
following.'

 

When you are in the present moment you don't worry about the next moment that you can't control anyway.

 

6. Everyone is human.

 

'I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.'

 

'It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.'

 

It's important to keep in mind that everyone is just a human being no matter who they are and that we are all human and prone to make mistakes.

 

Be able to see with clarity where you went wrong and what you can learn from your mistake. 

 

7. Persist.

 

'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they 
fight you, then you win.'

 

Be persistent. In time the opposition around you will fade and fall away.

 

Find what you really like to do. Then you'll find the inner motivation to keep going, going and going. 

 

8. See the good in people and help them.

 

'I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.'

 

'Leadership means getting along with people.'

 

There is pretty much always something good in people. And things that may not be so good. But you can choose what things to focus on.

 

And when you see the good in people it becomes easier to motivate yourself to be of service to them.

 

9. be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

 

'Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.'

 

'Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.'

 

One of the best tips for improving your social skills is to behave in a congruent manner and communicate in an authentic way. People seem to really like authentic communication. And there is much inner enjoyment to be found when your thoughts, words and actions are aligned you feels powerful and good about yourself. 

 

10. Continue to grow and evolve.

 

'Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.' You can pretty much always improve your skills, habits or re-evaluate your evaluations. You can gain deeper understanding of yourself and the world.

 

Thank you
And
Regards

 

 

XEm sen

Santa Banta Jokes‏

Titanic was sinking. 
An Englishman asked Santa, "How far is land"? Santa: 2 KMs. 
Englishman jumped into sea. Englishman: Now, which direction? 
Santa: Downwards ! 
 
**********

Two days of powercut in Delhi had made life miserable. Worst affected was Delhi Metro station where families of Santa & Banta were struck for 48 hrs on escalators. 
 
********** 
 
How did Santa tried to kill a bird?? 
He took it to the top of a building and dropped it from there to die. 
 
*********

Santa: I have swallowed a Kay. 
Doctor: When? 
Santa: 3 months back! 
Doctor: What were you doing till now? 
Santa: I was using duplicate key, now I have lost it too. 
 
*********

Santa was drawing money from ATM. Banta, who was just behind him in the line said: I've seen ur password. It's ****. Santa: U r wrong. It's 1394. 
 
*********

Santa falls in love with a nurse... After much thinking, he finally writes a love letter to her: "I luv u sister ." 
 
*********

Santa asked Banta: Why Manmohan Singh goes for a walk in evening? 
Banta: Very simple, because he is PM not AM. 
 
*********

A lady calls Santa for repairing door bell. 
Santa doesn't turns up for 4 days. 
Lady calls again, Santa replies: I'm coming daily since 4 days, I press the bell but no one comes out. 
 
********* 
 
Lady to inspector Santa: My husband went to buy potatos 5 days ago, he hasn't came back yet! 
Santa: Why don't u cook something else? .
   
***********

Santa opened a petrol pump, but not even one customer went there. You know why? 
Because he opened petrol pump on second floor.. 
 
***********

Ultimate answer while changing the job. 
Interviewer: Why did you changed your last job? 
Santa: Because the company shifted and didn't tell me where. 
 
************

Santa and Banta went for a drive. 
Santa: Hey, look out from the window, are the indicators working or not? 
Banta puts his head out & says "Yes-No, Yes-No, Yes-No, Yes-No!!!" 
 
************

Santa's wife dies. He is calm, but his wife's lover is crying furiously... 
Finally, Santa consoles him: Don't worry buddy, I will marry again. 
 
************

Why did Santa keep the door open while bathing? 
Because he was afraid that someone might watch him from the key hole. 
 
************

Santa phoned his wife: I am not coming home . The steering, dash board, gears of car have been stolen. 
After sometime he calls again: I am coming , earlier I sat on the back seat. 
 
 
 
 
 

Some of the best lines I've read......‏

Some of the best lines I've read......u will also love them too......... 

 

1. Keeping a smile on your face,

When inside you feel like dying,

For the sake of suppoeting other,

      ........ means Strength

2. Stopping at nothing,

And doing what's in your heart,

You know is right,

... means Determination

3. Doing more than expected,

To make another's life a little more  bearable,

Without uttering a single complaint,

... means  Compasssion

4. Helping a friend in need,

 No matter the time or effort,

To the best of  your ability,

... means Loyalty

5. Give more than you have,

And excepting nothing,

But nothing is return,

... means Selfessness

6. Holding you head high

And being the best you know you can be

When life seems to fall apart at your feet,

Facing each difficulty with the confidence

That time will bring you better tommorrow's,

And never giving up,

... means Confidence

7. To the question of your Life,

you are the only Answer.

To the problem of your life,

you are the only Solution.

Treat your Tasbih like a Cell Phone‏

Treat your Tasbih like a Cell Phone

Ever wonder what would happen if we treated our Tasbih like we treat our cell phone?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?


What if we used it as many times as we use the cell?


What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?


What if we used it to receive Blessings?

What if we used it to offer gratitude?

What if we used it to ask for forgiveness?

What if we used it when we need comforting?


What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?


What if we gave it to kids and loved ones as gifts?

What if we used it when we travel?


What if we used it in case of emergency?


This is something to make you think....hmm...where is my TASBIH?

Oh, and one more thing.
 Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Tasbih /Du'a being disconnected. And no dropped calls!


Makes you stop and think 'where are my priorities?
 

Remarkable Bilaal Rajan - Lofty Goals, Noble Achievements at Age Twelve‏

♦ Voices: Remarkable Bilaal Rajan - Lofty Goals, Noble Achievements at Age Twelve
In this heart warming and inspiring interview, Bilaal Rajan of Toronto, Canada, discusses his vision for change that he set out to accomplish when he was only four, and explains how he balances his activities to help humanity with his busy school schedule. He also shares his personal interest in sports, food, movies and books. In his trips abroad, he has come across kids who have lived through the worst of circumstances and yet have the courage to “make the most of life”. 



Bilaal Rajan

Simerg: Bilaal, thank you for this opportunity to interview you. Your life appears to be full of action. It is therefore very exciting to be interviewing you. How old are you, Bilaal? 

Bilaal: I am presently12 years old. 

Simerg: “Making Change”, this initiative started when you were four. You must have found a lot of support at home from your parents to launch this incredible phenomenon that is taking place today. Tell us something about how you first realized that you wanted to “Make Change”. 

Bilaal: I was eating a clementine at the age of four when I found out about the India earthquake in the province of Gujarat (in January 2001). My family and I were reading a newspaper report describing the devastation and we then found out that a Mukhisaheb there died from this earthquake when he got buried in the rubble. I thought to myself how his family and the Jamat must have felt, and because my own dad was the Kamadia at the Richmond Hill Jamatkhana at that time this news of the Mukhi’s death prompted me to ask myself how I could “Make Change” and raise funds to help people there. Since I was eating one at the time, the easiest way was to sell clementines! 

Simerg: What did you do? 

Bilaal: I sold the box we had at home and went through nine more boxes and raised $350 which was quite a fortune to a four year old! 



Bilaal's first fundraiser - selling boxes of clementines

Simerg: By 2005 you were already UNICEF’s youngest “advocate and spokesperson”, as mentioned on their web site. All this at the age of 9? 

Bilaal: I was actually eight years old when I was given this honour. After raising funds for UNICEF for the hurricanes in Haiti in the fall of 2004 and then goods, then hand made acrylic plates for HIV/AIDS soon after that, and finally issuing the Canada Kids Earthquake Challenge which raised millions for the tsunami relief in early 2005, UNICEF made me their child ambassador. 

Simerg: The UNICEF web site has a number of articles about you - including one from 2005 where you are seeing playing with children in Thailand who were affected by the Tsunami. You appear to have brought joy and happiness into the children’s lives, as can be seen from the picture. What did you see when you got there? Were you saddened by what you saw? Tell us something that touched you? 

Bilaal: Based on what I had seen through the media before I went there, I felt that I was prepared for what I was to see. But it was actually worse than I thought when I saw destroyed schools with their concrete walls dangling and swaying in the wind, and ships and boats washed inland as far as 2 kms. I felt that a giant hand had wiped out everything there and left only rubble and lots of destruction. 

The interesting part I saw was that generally in whichever country I went, the religious buildings (mosques, temples, shrines) were barely touched while all around them the was nothing left. You can interpret that any way you want to. 

Throughout the trip, I was very sad for the kids who had lost their parents and siblings. I was really touched by a story of a young boy I met in a town near Phuket, in Thailand. He sadly told me about watching his parents being washed away by the Tsunami and how he could not do anything to help them as he was clinging to a tree. He was very sad that he was not able to pull them out and I really felt that same emotion I had when eating the clementine years ago. 

Simerg: And what about those lovely happy faces of children a lot younger than you playing with you? 



Bilaal in Thailand after the tsunami

Bilaal: It was amazing to see that these kids, no matter what the circumstance they were in, made most of life. They had nothing yet they played with what they had, had started going to school even if these were in make shift shelters. They were happy even though they were in displaced camps! 

Simerg: Do you still keep in touch with those victims? 

Bilaal: I have lots of children write to me from different parts of the world. There is one youth I met in Malawi who has now finished high school and was looking for school fees to go to accounting school. I am supporting him through Hands for Help. I met him in 2005, and after 4 years we are still in touch. He is one of the kids I met and played soccer with. The soccer ball was made from a pig’s stomach stuffed with paper and then wrapped in plastic bags and held together with string. The kids in these countries improvise and make the most of life. 

Simerg: Many kids of your age and even adults might just think when they see children afflicted with illnesses or suffering from disasters, that they are better off supporting through material means, such as making donations rather than being in the front-line. How can you sustain this energy level? Do you ever get discouraged or does anything hold you from doing your work? 

Bilaal: I keep one phrase in my mind as my motivation and that is: “Why shouldn’t children in other parts of the world have exactly what we have here and what we take for granted!” 

It keeps me going and the only discouraging part I feel at times is when I see and talk to kids that just don’t see and feel what is going on outside their world and perhaps their four walls. That’s why I wrote my book for them to realize that if I can do it, so can they. 

Simerg: An adult member who read the book just a couple of days ago was absolutely struck by your book’s contents and the ideas therein. I hope the children and youth read it. You must be extremely happy that Chapters, Canada’s largest book chain, invited you for a book signing on March 21, 2009 - the day being Nawruz - the Persian New Year. How did this event go? 

Bilaal: The book signing at Chapters went really well. There were some kids who had come especially to meet me and discuss their initiatives they have started and how they could move forward with them. Other people who were not aware of me being there were very surprised to see a youth author and were very supportive as well. A lot of other people had either heard about me, seen me on TV, or read about me somewhere, which really surprised me. All in all it was a very humbling experience. I was surprised to see that a lot of older people were very interested in hearing about how children can make a difference. One woman bought the book to give to her two year old grandson to make sure that when he grows up to read, this will be one of the books he can get inspiration from. 



Bilaal in earnest conversation at Chapters, March 21, 2009

Simerg: Congratulations on a great New Year beginning. What other places have you visited to help children out? 

Bilaal: I have visited children in Tanzania, Malawi, Ecuador, and South East Asian countries like The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Thailand. 

Simerg: How do you make people, especially children show their support for you? Tell us some of the incredible ways in which you have received support. 

Bilaal: For example, the Canada Kids Earthquake Challenge was incredible. This initiative got kids across Canada involved and participating to help kids from the other parts of the world who they will never meet. It felt like the whole country’s children were coming together for one purpose - to help children in whatever way they could. I get a lot of emails daily from youth from all over the world asking for ideas and sharing their ideas as well. 



Bilaal on an Atlanta Show, a few days before the book signing at Chapters

Simerg: What grade are you in? 

Bilaal: I am presently in Grade 8 at St. Andrew’s College in Aurora, Ontario. My school has been very supportive of me and I would not be able to do all this without this support since I do tend to miss school because of all my activities and events. 

Simerg: How do you find the time to balance your studies with your activities to improve the lives of millions of children? 

Bilaal: It is very difficult at times but I study hard and do my work while on the road, in the plane and late at night. I try to work ahead as much as I can. All my homework and assignments are posted online so I am able to see a couple of weeks ahead and try to finish whatever I can so that I don’t fall behind. 



Bilaal with children in Malawi

Simerg: You are a member of the Ismaili Muslim community? How have the youth in the community reacted to your noble goals that you set out to do many years ago? 

Bilaal: I see a good movement of Ismaili youth getting involved. Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness The Aga Khan, our spiritual leader, has always emphasized the importance of giving back and helping others so I believe it is in our very nature to think of others in need. This is very apparent with our World Partnership Walk (WPW) as I see many youth get involved each and every year and you see lots of community teams as well as school teams. This year in fact is the twenty fifth anniversary of the WPW in Canada. Also it is held in many cities across Canada and in the United States. The Walk is ALL volunteer run and 100% of all the funds collected go to eliminate global poverty which by the way is also a UN Millenium goal. In Canada, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) matches up all funds collected. 

Simerg: Are you actively engaged with community institutions or various AKDN agencies such as the Aga Khan Foundation? 

Bilaal: Yes I am. I am a Junior volunteer in my Jamatkhana and do my duty when I am in town and have been fundraising for the WPW for the last 8 years. I have personally raised over $50,000 to date for WPW and I participate each and every year. My goal is to raise $5,000 personally and $15,000 as a team. I encourage and urge each student to go to their principal or head of school and get a school team involved. We have to reach outside our community to get others involved in solving the problem of poverty. Last year, I brought two friends from school, Justin Ford and Jonathan Tse, and their families to the Walk. This year Justin is captain of my team because he was so impressed with the work and effort of our volunteers and the cause we support. Furthermore, his sister is getting her school involved to bring and captain a WPW team at her own school! 

Simerg: You know, the Imam of the Ismailis once noted “do not let time pass without being aware that once it has passed it has gone for ever”. Does this advice hold for you? 

Bilaal: Certainly it does as I tell everyone to take action now - not next year, next month, next week, or even tomorrow. Take action now! Once the time has gone, it is a lost opportunity. It is something I live by everyday of my life. 

Simerg: Is the Aga Khan your inspiration in the work that you do? 

Bilaal: Yes he is. I have dedicated my book, Making Change - Tips From An Underage Overachiever, to him for his tireless effort for humanity for the past 50 years and I try to lead my life by his teachings. He has said that in the Islamic context “we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it”. Another quote by the Aga Khan that is remarkable is when he speaks of people who enter the world in utter poverty. Tha Aga Khan ask us - those more fortunate - to provide them the spark which will ignite their spirit of determination and individual enterprise. That spark of hope will prevent them from sinking into even deeper apathy and despair. 

Simerg: How did you celebrate the Golden Jubilee of his Imamat? Are you carrying forward memories from the Golden Jubilee? What are your most special memories from the Golden Jubilee Year? 



The Aga Khan, pictured with Canada's Governor General in 2008, is Bilaal's inspiration. Photograph: John MacDonald, Ottawa

 Bilaal: When Hazar Imam started the Golden Jubilee celebration visits in Nairobi, Kenya, in the summer of 2007, I was actually in Tanzania volunteering there for a month to educate communities of rural people in the outskirts of Arusha about HIV and AIDS as well as conducting rapid AIDS tests graciously donated by a Canadian company called Medmira (www.medmira. com). Furthermore, I conducted many workshops on my eight success principles to numerous schools there. After that, we went for didar in Nairobi before heading back home. 

Simerg: What are your immediate challenges? 

Bilaal: I don’t have any immediate challenges but I do want to urge each and every one to help spread this message of change because my goal is to inspire 1 million children in the next three years to make a difference in this world. I believe that together, we can make a difference. 

Simerg: And yes, do you play sport or do you have a favourite sport or favourite sport team? 

Bilaal: I play tennis and alpine ski race. In fact this year my K1 team won the Ontario Championships in our division. 

Simerg: Are you disappointed about the progress of the Raptors or the Maple Leafs? Do you think any of the team will make it for the play-offs this year? 

Bilaal: Sorry, but I really don’t have time to follow these teams but am aware that they are having problems but that’s nothing new to either team. 

Simerg: Tell us about one or two happy moments from your life. 

Bilaal: Some of the happiest moments in my life are always with my family on vacation. I love spending time with my parents and having a great time. 

Simerg: Do you enjoy good food, and where do you most often go with your parents or friends? 

Bilaal: I love pizza with pineapple and I love homecooked meals - especially pilau and butter chicken with naan. My favourite restaurant is Richtree Marche in downtown Toronto because everyone can get what they want and they have amazing desserts like the crepes and waffles. 

Simerg: What is your favourite book and movie? 

Bilaal: I have lots of favourite books and movies. One non-fiction book that stands out for me is Heart Matters; and the movie is Slumdog Millionaire. My favourite fiction authors are Eric Walter’s and J.K. Rowling. I read a lot, I find it very relaxing. In terms of movies, we watch a lot of documentaries- War Child is amazing. There is a list of suggested reading and movies on my website www.makingchangenow .com 



Bilaal selling cookies to aid the Haiti hurricane victims

Simerg: Do you keep a pet? 

Bilaal: I have a dog called Bobby who is 6 years old. He is a Scottish Terrier. 

Simerg: What is your message to the children, youth and adults? 

Bilaal: Be an agent of change and take action now. As Mahatma Ghandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in this world.” 

Simerg: Thank you, Bilaal, and all the best in your incredible and astonishing work. Would you like to add anything more? 

Bilaal: Just that you need to take action. It maybe the first and hardest step but it’s no doubt the most important. Without taking action, you are not doing anything, you are not making change.

 Learn from a child. You all can make a difference!!!

Perfect Women!!‏

The perfect womanJ

 

Nasrudin was talking to a friend, who asked him:

'Have you never considered getting married, Mullah?'

 

'I have,' replied Nasrudin. 'In my youth, I resolved to find the perfect woman. I crossed

the desert and reached Damascus, and I met a lovely, very spiritual woman, but she knew

nothing of the world. I continued my journey and went to Isfahan; there I met a woman who

knew both the spiritual and the material world, but she was not pretty. Then I decided to go to

Cairo, where I dined in the house of a beautiful woman, who was both religious and a

connoisseur of material reality.'

 

'Why didn't you marry her, then?'

 

'Alas, my friend, she was looking for the perfect man.'  

 

 

 

 

 

XEm sen

The Fact!!!‏

The fact

 

Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Everest, the highest mountain in the world. His

success coincided with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, to whom he dedicated the

conquest and from whom he received a knighthood.

 

Hillary had made another attempt the year before, but had failed completely. Nevertheless,

the English had recognized his efforts and invited him to speak to a packed audience.

Hillary began by describing his difficulties and, despite the applause, said that he felt

frustrated and inept. At one point, however, he moved away from the microphone, went over

to the enormous drawing illustrating his route and shouted out:

 

'You may have beaten me this time, Mount Everest, but I'll conquer you next year for the

simple reason that you've got as tall as you're going to get, but I'm still growing!'

 

 

 

Regards,

 

XEm sen

Pleasure!!!.‏

Pleasure

 

A Zen master was resting with one of his

disciples. At one point, he took a melon out of

his bag and cut it in two so that both could eat

it.

 

While they were eating, the disciple said:

'Wise master, since everything you do has a

meaning, perhaps your sharing this melon with

me is a sign that you have

something to teach

me.'

 

The master continued eating in silence.

'Your silence obviously conceals a

question,' the disciple insisted, 'and it must be

this: does the pleasure I am experiencing in

eating this delicious fruit reside in the melon or

in my tongue?'

 

The master said nothing. The disciple went

on excitedly:

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'And since everything in life has meaning, I

think I am close to finding the answer to that

question: the pleasure is an act of love and

interdependence between us, because without

the melon there would be no object of pleasure

and without my tongue…'

 

'That's enough!' said the master. 'The real

fools are those who think themselves terribly

intelligent and spend all their time trying to

interpret everything. The melon is delicious, and

that's enough, now let me eat in peace!

Aga Khan becomes sixth person in history to become honorary Canadian citizen‏

Aga Khan becomes sixth person in history to become honorary Canadian citizen
 

June 09, 2009 8:32 p.m.

   

OTTAWA - Canada will grant the Aga Khan honorary citizenship for what Prime Minister Stephen Harper describes as his exemplary humanitarianism and long friendship with Canada.

Born in Geneva, Shah Karim al-Hussayni is the 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and is widely recognized for his work against poverty and his promotion of tolerance.

Now 72, he is the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, which works in Asia and Africa and is one of the world's largest private development networks.

Harper told the House of Commons the Aga Khan is "a beacon of humanitarianism, of pluralism and of tolerance throughout the entire world."

The Aga Khan was in Edmonton on Tuesday to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Alberta.

He gave an impassioned speech that touched on several global issues, including what he described as "faltering instruments of government in many countries of Asia and Africa."

"We have learned that simplistic systems don't work, whether built around the arrogance of colonialism, the rigidities of communism, the romantic dreams of nationalism or the naive promises of untrammeled capitalism."

The Aga Khan also spoke at length about ethics, not only in government but in all areas of society and the need for leaders and academics to provide an ethical example for people to follow.

"We know from recent headlines about scoundrels from the American financial scene to the halls of European parliaments - and we can certainly do without either," he said.

"When a construction company cheats on the quality of materials for a school or a bridge, when a teacher skimps on class work in order to sell his time privately, when a doctor recommends a drug because of incentives from a pharmaceutical company, when a bank loan is skewed by kickbacks, or a student paper is plagiarized from the Internet - when the norms of fairness and decency are violated in any way, then the foundations of society are undermined."

The Aga Khan also mentioned last week's landmark speech in Cairo by U.S. President Barack Obama who reached out for a fresh start with the Islamic world.

"It continually amazes me...how little is understood about the Muslim civilizations and cultures in the non-Islamic world and how little is taught," he said.

"When President Obama described the richness of that history in his Cairo speech, he was telling a story which is unfamiliar to many in the West.

"As the world shrinks and as contact among diverse peoples increases, some would argue that we face an inevitable clash of civilizations. My own conviction, however, is that we face today a clash of ignorances."

Honorary Canadian citizenship is bestowed by the governor general and requires the unanimous approval of all voting MPs.

It has been given to four others: Swedish diplomat and Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg (posthumously in 1985); former South Africa president and Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela (2001); the Dalai Lama (2006); and pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (2007), a Nobel laureate who has spent most of the last 20 years under house arrest in her native Myanmar.

-With files from Jim Macdonald in Edmonton


 



 

Hold a True Friend and Don't Let Go‏

Friends..... ...
They love you,
but they are not your lover
They care for you, 
but they are not from your family
They are ready to share your pain, 
but they are not in your blood relation. 
They are........FRIENDS! !!!! 
True friend...... .. 
Scolds like a DAD.. 
Cares like a MOM.. 
Teases like a SISTER... 
Irritates like a BROTHER.. 
And finally loves U more than a LOVER. 
Send 2 all ur good friends even me if I am 1 of them.. 
C how many u get back....

 




 


With Love
XEm sen

" Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day."


 
BECAUSE YOU READ THIS YOU NOW HAVE INCREDIBLY GOOD LUCK THIS MONTH!!! YOU WILL GET A BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND OR IF YOU HAVE ONE YOU WILL GET KISSED AND BE TOLD THAT THEY LOVE YOU!!! YOU HAVE TO READ THIS WHOLE THING AND DONT SKIP ANYTHING OR YOU WILL HAVE THE WORST LUCK!! GOOD LUCK!

Boy: baby we need to talk

Girl: kyle, wat do u mean?

Boy: sumthin has come up...

Girl: wat? Wuts wrong? Is it bad?

Boy: i dont want to hurt u baby

Girl: *thinks* omg i hope he doesnt break up with me.... I love him so much

Boy: baby are you there??

Girl: yea im here wut is so important??

Boy: im not sure if i should say

Girl: well u already brought it up, so please just tell me.

Boy: im leaving....

Girl: baby wut are u talking about?? I dont want u to leave me, i love you

Boy: not like that, i mean im moving far away

Girl: why? All of ur famliy lives over here.

Boy: well my father is sending me away to a boarding skool far away.

Girl: i cant believe this.

[FATHER: (picks up tha other fone, interrupts & yells furiously) ERiKA, wat did i tell you about talking to boys?!!!!!....Get off the damn fone!! (And hangs up)]

Boy: wow ur father sounds really mad

Girl: u know how he gets, but anywayz i dont want you to go

Boy: would you run away with me?

Girl: baby, u know i would, i would do anything for u, but i cant... U dont know wut would happen if i did. My dad would kill me !!

Boy: *sad* its ok i understand i guess..

Girl: *thinking* i cant believe wuts going on

Boy: i need to give u sumthing 2nite b/c i am leaving on flight 1-80 in tha morning, so i need to see you now.

Girl: ok i will sneak out & meet u at tha park

Boy: ok ill meet u there in 20min

[They meet at a nearby park, they both hug eachother. And he gives her a note.]

Boy: here u go, this is for you i gotta go.

Girl: *tear* (begins to cry)

Boy: baby dont cry, u know i love you...but i have 2 go

Girl: ok (begins to walk away)

[They both go back home. And erika begins to read tha letter he gave her]

It says.....

Erika,

U probably already know that im leaving, i knew this would be better if i wrote a letter explaining tha truth about how much i care about you. The truth is, is that i never loved you, i hated you so much, u are my bitch and dont u ever forget that. I never cared about you, and never wanted to talk to you, n be around u. U really have no clue how much i hate you. Now that im leaving i thought u should know that i hate you bitch, u never did tha right thing, and u were never there. I didnt think i could hate someone as much as i hate you. And i never want to see you, for the rest of my life, i will never miss kissing you like before, i never want to cuddle up, how we used to. I will not miss you and thats a promise. U never had my love, and i want you to remember that. Bitch u keep this letter bcuz this may be tha last thing u have from me. I hate you so much. i will not talk to you soon bitch.... Goodbye
- Kyle

[ erika begins to cry, she throws tha paper in tha garbage & crys for hours ]

....A day passes, she is sad, depressed and she feels so lonely.... Then she gets a fone call....

Friend: how are u feeling?

Girl: i just cant believe this happend i thought he loved me.

Friend: o, about that. Kyle left me a msg. A few days ago. He told me to tell u to look in ur jacket pocket or something...

Girl: ummm ok

[She finds a piece of paper in tha jacket, It says...]

Baby i hope u find this before u read my letter. I knew ur dad might read it, so i switched a few words...

Hate = Love

Never = Alwayz

Bitch = Baby

Will not= will

........ I hope u didnt take that seriously because i love you with all my heart, and it was so hard to let you go thats y i wanted u to run away with me...

-Kyle]


Girl: omg its a letter, Kyle does love me!!, he must of slipped it into my pocket when he hugged me. I cant believe how stupid I am!!

Friend: lol ok but i g2g... Call me later

Girl: *happy*ok bye, i'll be at home waiting for my baby to call me !!

...... Erika turns tha T.V. on......

[Breaking news] 'An airplane has crashed. Over 47 young boys died, we are still searching for Survivors...This is a tragedy we will never forget, this plane was flight 1-80...it was on its way to an all boys boarding school...' Reporter says.

[ she turns off the tv....3 days later, she kills herself, because of tha fact that Kyle was dead & she had nothing to Live for... ]

....A day after that the fone rings. Nobody answers. It was Kyle, he called to leave a msg. 'Its Kyle, i guess ur not home so, I called 2 let u know that im alive, i missed my flight b/c i had 2 see u one last time. So i hope ur not worried. I am staying for good. Sorry if u got scared, i promise 2 make it up 2 u everything will be a be ok i love you so much...call me asap bye!
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NOW IF YOU REPOST THIS IN 276 SECONDS your wish will come true and you will get good incredibly good luck

When you repost this repost saying 'IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE READ







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 So guess what...
This is not your normal chain letter!
When I 1st got it I didn't believe it so I Deleted it. Then the next day my boy friend DUMPED ME FOR NO REASON AT ALL!!!
So I rushed home &I restored it &sent it.
Then my boyfriend &I made-up and he's still my Boyfriend. 

Step 1. Say your Crush's name until I say stop.
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Step 2. Say how much you love your crush until I say stop. 
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Step 3.
Do exactly as I say
Send this to 5 people 
your crush will forget you until the day you die 
Send this to 10 people 
your crush will kiss you on you cheek 
Send this to 15 people
your crush will kiss you on the lips 
Send this to 20 people 
your crush will date you 
Send this to 25 people 
Your crush will say 'I love you'& mean It. 
Send this to 30 people 
Your crush will marry you. 
Don't be stupid like I was!!! 
You have 15 minutes
start sending!!!
Good Luck! ! 

A Wonderful Speech at Harvard by Bill Gates (must read)‏

A wonderful & thought provoking speech at Harvard by Bill Gates 


Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivers the Commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
Photo: Brian SnyderJune 8, 2007 - 12:36PM 

Text of the speech given by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates at Harvard University on June 7, 2007. 
President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates: 
I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree." 
I want to thank Harvard for this timely honour. I'll be changing my job next year ... and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume. 
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard's most successful dropout." I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class ... I did the best of everyone who failed. 
But I also want to be recognised as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. I'm a bad influence. That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today. 
Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning. That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people. 
Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn't guarantee success. 
One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world's first personal computers. I offered to sell them software. 
I worried that they would realise I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said: "We're not quite ready, come see us in a month," which was a good thing, because we hadn't written the software yet. From that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft. 
What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence. It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging. It was an amazing privilege - and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made, and the ideas I worked on. 
But taking a serious look back ... I do have one big regret. 
I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world - the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair. 
I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. 
But humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries - but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity - reducing inequity is the highest human achievement. 
I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country. And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries. 
It took me decades to find out. 
You graduates came to Harvard at a different time. You know more about the world's inequities than the classes that came before. In your years here, I hope you've had a chance to think about how - in this age of accelerating technology - we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them. 
Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it? 
For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have. 
During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country. Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever. One disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year - none of them in the United States. 
We were shocked. We had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them. But it did not. For under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just weren't being delivered. 
If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving." 
So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it. We asked: "How could the world let these children die?" 
The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidise it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system. 
But you and I have both. 
We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism - if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. We also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes. 
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world. 
I am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope. They say: "Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end - because people just ... don't ... care." I completely disagree. 
I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with. 
All of us here in this Yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts, and yet we did nothing - not because we didn't care, but because we didn't know what to do. If we had known how to help, we would have acted. 
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. 
To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps. 
Even with the advent of the Internet and 24-hour news, it is still a complex enterprise to get people to truly see the problems. When an airplane crashes, officials immediately call a press conference. They promise to investigate, determine the cause, and prevent similar crashes in the future. 
But if the officials were brutally honest, they would say: "Of all the people in the world who died today from preventable causes, one half of one percent of them were on this plane. We're determined to do everything possible to solve the problem that took the lives of the one half of one percent." 
The bigger problem is not the plane crash, but the millions of preventable deaths. 
We don't read much about these deaths. The media covers what's new - and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it's easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it's difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It's hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don't know how to help. And so we look away. 
If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting through the complexity to find a solution. 
Finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of our caring. If we have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks "How can I help?," then we can get action - and we can make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted. But complexity makes it hard to mark a path of action for everyone who cares - and that makes it hard for their caring to matter. 
Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bed net. 
The AIDS epidemic offers an example. The broad goal, of course, is to end the disease. The highest-leverage approach is prevention. The ideal technology would be a vaccine that gives lifetime immunity with a single dose. So governments, drug companies, and foundations fund vaccine research. But their work is likely to take more than a decade, so in the meantime, we have to work with what we have in hand - and the best prevention approach we have now is getting people to avoid risky behaviour. 
Pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again. This is the pattern. The crucial thing is to never stop thinking and working - and never do what we did with malaria and tuberculosis in the 20th century - which is to surrender to complexity and quit. 
The final step - after seeing the problem and finding an approach - is to measure the impact of your work and share your successes and failures so that others learn from your efforts. 
You have to have the statistics, of course. You have to be able to show that a program is vaccinating millions more children. You have to be able to show a decline in the number of children dying from these diseases. This is essential not just to improve the program, but also to help draw more investment from business and government. 
But if you want to inspire people to participate, you have to show more than numbers; you have to convey the human impact of the work - so people can feel what saving a life means to the families affected. 
I remember going to Davos some years back and sitting on a global health panel that was discussing ways to save millions of lives. Millions! Think of the thrill of saving just one person's life - then multiply that by millions. ... Yet this was the most boring panel I've ever been on - ever. So boring even I couldn't bear it. 
What made that experience especially striking was that I had just come from an event where we were introducing version 13 of some piece of software, and we had people jumping and shouting with excitement. I love getting people excited about software - but why can't we generate even more excitement for saving lives? 
You can't get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the impact. And how you do that - is a complex question. 
Still, I'm optimistic. Yes, inequity has been with us forever, but the new tools we have to cut through complexity have not been with us forever. They are new - they can help us make the most of our caring - and that's why the future can be different from the past. 
The defining and ongoing innovations of this age - biotechnology, the computer, the Internet - give us a chance we've never had before to end extreme poverty and end death from preventable disease. 
Sixty years ago, George Marshall came to this commencement and announced a plan to assist the nations of post-war Europe. He said: "I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation." 
Thirty years after Marshall made his address, as my class graduated without me, technology was emerging that would make the world smaller, more open, more visible, less distant. 
The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed opportunities for learning and communicating. 
The magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and makes everyone your neighbor. It also dramatically increases the number of brilliant minds we can have working together on the same problem - and that scales up the rate of innovation to a staggering degree. 
At the same time, for every person in the world who has access to this technology, five people don't. That means many creative minds are left out of this discussion -- smart people with practical intelligence and relevant experience who don't have the technology to hone their talents or contribute their ideas to the world. 
We need as many people as possible to have access to this technology, because these advances are triggering a revolution in what human beings can do for one another. They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, corporations, smaller organisation, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches, and measure the impact of their efforts to address the hunger, poverty, and desperation George Marshall spoke of 60 years ago. 
Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the world. 
What for? 
There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and the benefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the world. But can we do more? Can Harvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name? 
Let me make a request of the deans and the professors - the intellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please ask yourselves: 
Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems? 
Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world's worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty ... the prevalence of world hunger ... the scarcity of clean water ...the girls kept out of school ... the children who die from diseases we can cure? 
Should the world's most privileged people learn about the lives of the world's least privileged? 
These are not rhetorical questions - you will answer with your policies. 
My mother, who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here - never stopped pressing me to do more for others. A few days before my wedding, she hosted a bridal event, at which she read aloud a letter about marriage that she had written to Melinda. My mother was very ill with cancer at the time, but she saw one more opportunity to deliver her message, and at the close of the letter she said: "From those to whom much is given, much is expected." 
When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given - in talent, privilege, and opportunity - there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from us. 
In line with the promise of this age, I want to exhort each of the graduates here to take on an issue - a complex problem, a deep inequity, and become a specialist on it. If you make it the focus of your career, that would be phenomenal. But you don't have to do that to make an impact. For a few hours every week, you can use the growing power of the Internet to get informed, find others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cut through them. 
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives. 
You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had. You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have. And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little effort. You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer. 
Knowing what you know, how could you not? 
And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities ... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity. 
Good luck.
 

Concentrate on this Sentence‏

Concentrate on this Sentence

'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.'  
 
When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. 
 
Concentrate on this sentence... 
 
'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'  
 
Something good will happen to you today; something that you have been waiting to hear. 

This is not a joke; someone will call you by phone or will speak to you about something that you were waiting to hear. Do not break! 

Send it to a minimum of 2 people... JUST DO IT!  




There comes a point in your life when you realize: 

Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore...
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past,
there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
Give these flowers to everyone you don't want to lose in 2009 
including me, if that's what is in your heart.
Try to collect 12; it's not easy!
 
 
 


 
 

Famous Inspirational Quotes‏

Famous Inspirational Quotes 



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Famous Quote #1




People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.


Abraham Lincoln
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Famous Quote #2



Everyone has problems, some are just better at hiding them.


Unknown
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Famous Quote #3




If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.


Thomas Edison
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Famous Quote #4



Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.


Dennis P.. Kimbro
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Famous Quote #5



Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.


Thich Nhat Hahn
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Famous Quote #6



Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. 


Stephen Vincent Ben�t
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Famous Quote #7



Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go.



Jon dyer
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Famous Quote #8



People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Famous Quote #9



Don't be afraid to fail because only through failure do you learn to succeed.

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Famous Quote #10




It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.




Famous Quote #11

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself 

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Famous Quote #12

The tongue weighs practically nothing,
But so few people can hold it.
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Famous Quote #13

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone- but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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Famous Quote #14

Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.
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Famous Quote #15

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
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Famous Quote #16

Many people will walk in and out or your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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Famous Quote #17

To handle yourself, use your head, To handle others, use your heart.
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Famous Quote #18

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all. 
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Famous Quote #19

If someone betrays you once, it's his fault.
If he betrays you twice, it's your fault. 
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Famous Quote #20

God Gives every bird it's food,
But he does not throw it into it's nest. 

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Scholarships for the study of the IB Diploma Programme in 2010-2011

The aim of the IB Scholarship is to enable outstanding students who will enrich the school community to benefit from its education regardless of financial means. Hence, we are looking for outstanding students who have excellent quality of mind, active participation in non-academic activities, positive personal qualities and strong communication abilities.


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Application Deadline: 

Forms should reach SJI International by 18 September 2009.

 

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Drinking water on empty stomach‏

DRINKING WATER ON EMPTY STOMACH 

  

DRINK WATER ON EMPTY STOMACH 
 It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven its value. We publish below a description of use of water for our readers. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical society as a 100% cure for the following diseases: 
Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases. 
 إشرب الماء على معدة خالية 

أصبح من المعتاد اليوم في اليابان شرب الماء مباشرة بعد الاستيقاظ صباحا. وفوق ذلك فقد أثبتت الاختبارات العلمية قيمتها. وننشر أدناه وصفة استخدام الماء لقرائنا الأعزاء. وقد اكتشفت جمعية طبية يابانية نجاح العلاج بالماء لأمراض مزمنة وخطيرة وكذلك للأمراض المتوسطة كعلاج ناجح 100% للأمراض التالية: 

الصداع ، آلام الجسم ، أمراض القلب ، التهاب المفاصل ، ضربات القلب السريعة ، الصرع ، السمنة أو البدانة المفرطة ، التهاب القصبات ، الربو ، السل ، التهاب السحايا (السحائي) ، أمراض الكلية والجهاز البولي ، التقيؤ ، التهاب المعدة ، الاسهال ، الخوازيق (البواسير) ، مرض السكري ، الإمساك ، جميع أمراض العيون ، الرحم ، السرطان ، الإضطرابات الحيضية ، أمراض الأذن والأنف والحنجرة. 
 
METHOD OF TREATMENT
1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml glasses of water
2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minute
3. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal. 
4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for 2 hours
5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day. 
6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life. 
 أسلوب المعالجة: 

1. فور استيقاظك في الصباح وقبل تفريش أسنانك ، إشرب 4 أقداح من الماء (سعة 160 مللتر) 

2. فرش أسنانك ونظف فمك ولكن لا تأكل أو تشرب أي شيء قبل مرور 45 دقيقة. 

3. بعد مرور ال_45 دقيقة بإمكانك أن تأكل وتشرب كالمعتاد. 

4. بعد 15 دقيقة من الإفطار ، وكذلك الغداء ، والعشاء ( لا تأكل أو تشرب أي شيء لمدة ساعتين). 

5. بالنسبة لكبار السن أو المرضى والذين لا يستطيعون شرب 4 أقداح من الماء في البداية يمكنهم شرب القليل من الماء وتدريجيا يزيدون الكمية إلى أن تصل إلى 4 أقداح كل يوم. 

6. إن أسلوب العلاج المبين أعلاه يشفي أمراض أولئك الذين يعانون منها بإذن الله أما الناس الاعتياديين فسيتمتعون بحياة صحية سليمة وجيدة إن شاء الله . 
 
The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to cure/control/reduce main diseases: 
1. High Blood Pressure (30 days) 
2. Gastric (10 days) 
3. Diabetes (30 days) 
4. Constipation (10 days) 
5. Cancer (180 days) 
6. TB (90 days) 
7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwards – daily. 
  
This treatment method has no side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times. 
 وتبين القائمة أدناه عدد الأيام اللازمة للعلاج المطلوب للتداوي أو السيطرة على الأمراض أو تقليل أثرها: 

1.. ضغط الدم العالي (30 يوما) 

2. أمراض المعدة والحموضة (10 أيام) 

3. مرض السكري (30 يوما) 

4. الإمساك (10 أيام) 

5. السرطان (180 يوما) 

6. السل (90 يوما) 

7. المرضى المصابين بالتهاب المفاصل يجب أن يتبعوا العلاج أعلاه فقط لمدة 3 أيام في الأسبوع الأول ، ثم يومياً من الأسبوع الثاني فصاعداً. 

إن أسلوب العلاج أعلاه لا يشكل أي أضرار جانبية ، ومع ذلك ففي بداية العلاج قد تضطر إلى التبول عدة مرات . 
 
It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a routine work in our life. Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active. 
  
 من الأفضل الاستمرار بهذا الأسلوب في العلاج وجعل هذا الإجراء واجب روتيني في حياتنا . 

تعود على شرب الماء بانتظام وتمتع بصحة ولياقة ونشاط . 



  
 
This makes sense .. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals ..not cold water. Maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain... 

  
 هذا الأمر يبدو معقولا تماما .. إن الصينيين واليابانيين يشربون الشاي الساخن مع تناول وجباتهم الغذائية. ربما أصبح اليوم الوقت المناسب إتباع طريقة أسلوبهم وعادتهم في تناول الطعام !!! لن تخسروا شيئا ، فقط الكسب . 


  
 
For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.
It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. 

  
 بالنسبة لأولئك الذين يحبون شرب الماء البارد ، ينطبق عليكم هذا الموضوع فانتبهوا لطفاً قد يكون لذيذاً أن تتناول قدحاً من المشروب البارد بعد الوجبة الغذائية وعلى أية حال ، فالماء البارد سوف يصلِّب المادة الزيتية التي استهلكتها تواً ، وسوف تبطئ عملية الهضم . 


  
 
Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. 
Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal. 

  
 وحالما يتفاعل هذا الراسب مع الحامض ، فسوف يتكسر وتمتصه الأمعاء أسرع من الطعام الصلب ... وسوف يبطِّن الأمعاء . 
وبعد مدة وجيزة سوف يتحول إلى دهون وتقود إلى السرطان . من الأفضل شرب شوربة ساخنة أو ماء دافئ بعد وجبة الطعام 


  
 
A serious note about heart attacks: 
· Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting, 
· Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. 
· You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. 
· Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 
· 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. 

· Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive... 
 ملاحظة مهمة وجدية حول الهجمة القلبية أوالأزمة القلبية: 

· على النساء أن يعلموا أنه ليس كل أعراض الأزمة القلبية تكون ألم الذراع الأيسر . 

· انتبهوا إلى الألم الشديد في خط الفك السفلي 

· قد لا تشعر بألم الصدر أولا خلال فترة الهجمة القلبية . 

· الغثيان والتعرق الشديد أيضاً من الأعراض الاعتيادية . 

· 60% من الأشخاص الذين يصابون بالأزمة القلبية بينما هم نائمون لا يستيقظون . 

· قد يوقظك الألم في الفك من نومٍ عميق .. يجب أن نكون حريصين ومدركين . كلما تعلمنا وعرفنا أكثر ، كلما كانت فرصة النجاة أفضل بإذن الله. 
 
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to everyone they know, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life. 
  
 يقول الطبيب الأخصائي بأمراض القلب لو أن كل من استلم هذه الرسالة وأعاد إرسالها إلى كل شخص يعرفه ، من المؤكد بإذن الله أننا قد نستطيع إنقاذ حياة إنسان واحد على الأقل . 


  
 
Please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends you care about 

Monday, October 19, 2009

Wakhi

Wakhi
A language of Pakistan

ISO 639-3: wblPopulation 9,100 in Pakistan. Population includes 4,500 to 6,000 Gojal, 2,000 Ishkoman, 200 Yasin, 900 Yarkhun (1992), plus refugees. Population total all countries: 31,666.
Region Northeasternmost part of Chitral, called Baroghil area; in glacier neighborhood. Gojal is in the upper Hunza valley from Gulmit to the Chinese and Afghanistan borders, and the Shimshal and Chupursan valleys; also in upper Yarkhun valley of Chitral, and upper Ishkoman valley. Also spoken in Afghanistan, China, Tajikistan.
Alternate names Wakhani, Wakhigi, Vakhan, Khik
Dialects Gojal, Ishkoman, Yasin, Yarkhun. Dialect intelligibility is reported to not be a problem even of those in other countries. Lexical similarity 84% between Ishkoman and Gojal, 89% between Yasin and Gojal, 91% between Ishkoman and Yasin.
Classification Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Eastern, Southeastern, Pamir
Language use Positive language attitude. Men and young people have routine proficiency in Urdu. Fewer than half the women, and few older people in remote areas speak Urdu. Older people and those who live in mixed villages in Gojal can use Burushaski.
Comments The people are called 'Guhjali' in upper Hunza, but call themselves 'Khik'. SOV. Valleys. Pastoralists: sheep, goats, cattle, yak, camels; agriculturalists: barley. Ismaili Muslim.

Also spoken in:
AfghanistanLanguage name Wakhi
Population 9,566 in Afghanistan (2000 WCD). Ethnic population: 18,000 in Afghanistan (1990 A. E. Kibrik).
Region East of Ishkashim, Pamir Mountains, in 64 villages on the left bank of the Panj River in the Wakhan Corridor, as far as Sarhad village (about 73E). Center is Khandud. Most have scattered as refugees in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
Alternate names Wakhani, Wakhigi, Vakhan, Khik, Guhjali
Language development Literacy rate in first language: below 1%.
Comments People are called 'Guhjali'. There may be none in Afghanistan now. Muslim.
 

ChinaLanguage name Wakhi
Population 6,000 in China. Ethnic population: 15,000 in China (A. E. Kibrik).
Region Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County (especially Daftar), and in the mountains south of Pishan, Xinjiang.
Alternate names Vakhan, Wakhani, Wakhigi, Khik
Dialects Eastern Wakhi.
Language use Speakers also use Mandarin Chinese.
Comments Part of the Tajik nationality. Pastoralists: sheep, cattle; agriculturalists: barley, wheat, peas. Ismaili Muslim.
 

TajikistanLanguage name Wakhi
Population 7,000 in Tajikistan (1993 UBS). Ethnic population: 20,000 in Tajikistan (1990 Kibrik).
Region Gorno-Badakhshan, Pamir Mountains.
Alternate names Vakhan, Wakhani, Wakhigi, Guhjali, Khik
Dialects Western Wakhi, Central Wakhi, Eastern Wakhi.
Language use 70% of the ethnic group speaks Wakhi. Not a written language. Some key domains. 60% of children speak Wakhi. Positive language attitude. Tajiki is used as a literary language.
Comments Speakers are called 'Guhjali'. Ismaili Muslim

ENJOY EACH OTHER

How To Be A Better Couple Apr 10, '07 6:51 PM
by willie wong for group happygarden


10 steps to enjoying each other better... 

 1. Be realistic about each other.
Don't try to turn ur partner into something he or she is not. Let's face it, guys-there's only 1 Pamela Anderson in the world, and even she has had her implants removed! Give ur gal a break and understand that her physical appearance is NOT going to change overnite with the help of a few facials or treatments. And ladies, Brad Pitt has already been taken, so u're gonna have to do with what ur guy is like! Chill out, love each other for what u are. There is more to ur partner than what meets the eye. 

2. Always talk things out.
Now guys, I know this is not ur fave pastime or mode of resolving issues, but u know what? This works with the gals. Don't make assumptions about each other's feelings. Learn to xpress urself better so that ur partner undrstands what u're angry about, or hurt about, or even happy about! When u stop talking to each other from the heart, it's the beginning of the end. 

3. Do stuff together.
Make an effort to do t hings together. Do some sports or involve urselves in some shared activities; something both of u enjoy or are interested in. It could be as simple as watching movies together, or jus strolling hand-in-hand down Orchard Road. Watch soccor with him once in a while though the green patch on TV puts u to sleep in 3 seconds. And guys, do give in if ur gal asks for another day at window-shopping, rather than suggest that she go out with her girlfriends for "that sort of activities" instead. If u're spending more time with ur friends rather than with ur partner, it's a warning sign that u're drifting apart!!! 

4. Meet each other halfway.
If he agrees to throw out that rotten T-shirt with the "The_Rock" print, u shouldn't kick up much of a fuss if he asks u to keep ur room tidy... There's gotta be a little giving and taking in a relationship, so learn to meet each other halfway. 

5.Show ur love
Buy her flowers or candy or perfume everynow and then, even if u have been together for 5years. It's wonderful to continue showing someone that u care for him or her. Cook him a special meal, paint him a Valentine's Day card. Knit him mini-socks he can't wear ( like for decoration purposes => ), buy him a packet of milk for breakfast, or pack his wardrobe for him...so he knows u can still be romantic and loving despite having been together for quite a while. 

6. Respect each other.
Stop making jokes about her hair or skin, or whatever it is u love to laugh at. Ask urself if she thinks if its funny. And if he has an inferiority complex about his height, stop ogling at tall guys and make him feel worse! Love is about respecting each other's feelings and being sensitive to each other at all times. 

7. Bury the past.
Stop bringing up the past. Gals..don't bring up the happy things about u and ur ex to ur guy, it would jus make him jealous or unhappy. And guys, don't talk about the happy times that u had with ur ex or mention about her in ur every other sentence as it would make ur gal feel un-happy and she might think that u saying all this b'cos u are gonna get back with ur ex or not interested in her anymore. 

8. Sit on ur jealousy.
All of us go thru' spells of insecurity at the beginning of the relationship, but don't translate that insecurity into jealousy. If u're gonna go through ur partner's mail and cupboard, and eavesdropping on conversations, u know something is wrong - with u!!! Jealousy is like a poison that slowly spreads thru' the relationship before finall y killing it. Trust ur partner; love has to have trust in it. 

9. Keep ur commitments to each other.
If ur partner is standing u up all the time and cancelling dates and breaking promises, u need to talk! If u're in a relationship, make ur partner ur priority and don't disappoint them if u can help it. It's really terrible when someone promises to take u to dinner, and then calls to cancel it. Don't make promises u can't keep. If ur partner starts to feel that he/she is not important enough to u, u may jus lose him/her. 

10. Be honest.
Honesty is not scowling at how awful she looks first thing in the morning, or telling him that he has the biceps of a fly~! When we say "be honest", we mean expressing ur feelings clearly, not being bitingly cruel. When u're hurt, say so, and when u're angry, tell him/her, w/o getting hysterical. If u can't be honest with ur partner, who can u be honest with? Love is also about honesty, and a relationship where no honesty exists probably isn't worth it!

How to Treat Pimples

Introduction

Although many people suffer from this condition only during the teenage years, pimples can occur throughout adulthood, depending on your hormonal activity, heredity and hygiene. 

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy 

Steps

1

Step One

Resist the urge to attack when these plugged sebaceous glands pop up. In other words, don't pop your pimples'this can cause infections and even scarring. 

2

Step Two

Keep in mind that a combination of hormonal activity, a buildup of bacteria and the shedding of dead skin cells causes pimples. Do what you can to prevent a breakout by establishing a skin-care routine appropriate for your skin type. 

3

Step Three

Have patience. It could take up to one month for a blemish to disappear completely. The less you poke at it, the better. 

4

Step Four

Buy an antibacterial, oil-free concealer that can blend the redness of the pimple into your own skin color. Green shades tend to offset redness the best. (This might not be an option for those who don't wear makeup.) 

5

Step Five

Try a facial mud mask. This may shrink a pimple. 

6

Step Six

Realize that despite the happy teens in the commercials, 'zit zapping' solutions'medications you apply directly to pimples'don't do much more than dry out the top layer of skin covering the pimples. These medications don't provide a long-term cure. 

7

Step Seven

If you are going to break the rules by "extracting the blemish,"aesthetician-speak for popping your pimple, wash your hands, then lightly squeeze the top of the pimple with a tissue or cotton swab. Clean the area thoroughly when you're done. If nothing happens, leave the pimple alone until it's ready to pop. 

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Step Eight

Apply a benzol peroxide acne medication to the pimple and avoid applying medication to the surrounding area. 

Tips & Warnings

· If you're desperate (you get an unsightly blemish two days before your wedding, perhaps), consult a dermatologist about receiving a shot of cortisone to eliminate a pimple. 

· Pimples can indicate the presence of acne, a chronic skin disease. If you have recurring pimples, talk to a dermatologist about acne medication. Your dermatologist may prescribe antibiotics, certain brands of birth control pills, or even Accutane for severe acne. 

· Consider carefully before using Accutane. Although this is the only truly long-term solution for severe acne, it can have serious side effects and is known to cause serious birth defects when taken during pregnancy. Sexually active women who use Accutane should use two forms of birth control.

LAUGH

Latter from husband ( who is abroad) to wife 

Dear Sweetheart: 

I can't send my salary this month, so I am sending 100 kisses. 

You are my sweetheart 

Your husband 
Allen 

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His wife replied back after some days to her husband: 

Dearest sweetheart, 

Thanks for your 100 kisses, I am sending the expenses details. 

1. The Milk man agreed on 2 kisses for one month's milk. 

2. The electricity man only agreed after 7 kisses. 

3. Your house owner is coming every day and taking two or three 
kisses 

Instead of the rent. 


4. Supermarket owner did not accept kisses only, so I have given 
him Some other items....... .... 

5. Other expenses 40 kisses 

Please don't worry for me, I have a remaining balance of 35 
kisses and I hope I can complete the month using this balance. 

Shall I plan same way for next months, Please Advise!!!

SPIRIT AND LIFE EXHIBITION, Speech by Hazir Imam

Remarks by His Highness the Aga Khan at the "Spirit and Life" Exhibition 

Your Royal Highnesses
Your Excellencies
Mr. Mayor
My Lord
Ladies and Gentlemen

I am deeply pleased all of you are here today, for the opening of our 'Spirit and Life' exhibition. And I know you share the special sense of honour I feel in welcoming the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, and so many other distinguished guests. Their Royal Highnesses have, in the past, visited the Azhar Park in Cairo and the restoration of the Altit Fort on the Silk Route in Northern Pakistan, both projects sponsored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. I am delighted by Their Royal Highnesses’ support for the work being done by the Trust. 

This exhibition is designed to give us a glimpse into the future. What we see here today is the nucleus of the Islamic art collections of the future Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. This museum, which is being designed by the renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, is conceived as a primarily educational institution in the field of Islamic art and culture, a specific mandate that is not fulfilled so far by other North American museums. We hope and trust it will contribute to a deeper understanding among cultures - to the strengthening of true cultural pluralism - which is increasingly essential to peace, and to progress, in our world. 

This is an appropriate place for us to share in this vision - and to talk about that objective. Britain, through its centuries of history, has been one of the world’s countries that has been most exposed to the cultures of other societies. London, in particular, is a crossroads for widely diverse peoples - from every corner of the planet. 

We can see the evidence of that in the impressive range of artworks found in places such as the British Museum or the Victoria and Albert Museum just across the road - where Your Royal Highness recently inaugurated the impressive new Islamic Art Gallery. We see our comparatively modest exhibition here at the Ismaili Centre as a complement to that and other venues in this country which house Islamic Art, and which spotlight both its richness and its diversity. 

I am also very pleased that you are today in a building of which we are very proud, our Ismaili Centre. We hope that this exhibition will help bring many more Londoners into this place, the centre of spiritual life for our community in Britain. 

Certainly one of the lessons we have learned in recent years is that the world of Islam and the Western world need to work together much more effectively at building mutual understanding – especially as these cultures interact and intermingle more actively. We hope that this exhibition - and the museum which it anticipates - will contribute to a better Western understanding of the peoples of Islam: in all of their religious, ethnic, linguistic and social diversity. 

As you know, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, in particular, and the Aga Khan Development Network, in general, are working toward this goal in a wide variety of ways. I am especially pleased to take this occasion to thank an important partner in our efforts, the Prince of Wales - along with 18 organisations which make up the Prince’s Charities, for their special cooperation and support. Our collaboration ranges from the world of corporate social responsibility to the challenges of economic development, from public health projects to creative educational initiatives, from environmental and architectural concerns to artistic and cultural workshops. We hope and we trust that the beginnings we have realized in our work together, can continue to flourish - and to multiply. 

If I could express one hope for all of you, as you leave this place today, it is that you will appreciate even more deeply how much culture matters in Muslim societies, and how deeply culture is entwined for Muslims with matters of faith. This is why we call this exhibition: 'Spirit and Life'. At a time when the forces of exclusion, alienation, and separation can often seem so threatening in our world, I am convinced that our ability to honor authentic symbols of pride and identity - and to share their beauty and their power with one another - can be a tremendous force for good. I hope you will feel the same way - let me thank you, most sincerely, once again, for sharing with us in this important moment. 

Thank you.