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submitted by Creep (102 m) on 13 Jun 2009 23:49:44 IST
Most of us up grow up in a society that rarely allows us to show our true feelings. When we are angry or hurt we are supposed to hide it or to show it very little. I used to grow up in a particularly rigid parental environment and I didn–t dare expressing what I actually felt inside. This made a sick person of me.I was also tought to care so much about people–s opinion. What people could think about me was supposed to be the most important, so if they thought I was a loser, it was supposed to be right and I just had to accept it. I spent years doubting my own qualities, torturing myself and my relationships with people have always been complicated at thi
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1-A major research institution has announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet know to science - "governmentium." It has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons and 111 assistant deputy neutrons for an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons that are further surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like sub particles called peons.Governmentium has no electrons and is therefore inert. It can be detected however since it impedes every reaction it comes into contact with. A tiny amount of governmentium can take a reaction that normally occurs in seconds and slow it to the point where it take days.G
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A collection of famous quotes by Navjot Singh Sidhu(made during his commentary of the cricket matches):1. That ball went so high it could have got an airhostess down with it.2. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India,but it's that of an incoming train which will run themover.3. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.5. Sri Lankan score is running like an Indiantaximeter.7. Wickets are like wives - you never know which waythey will turn!8. He is like Indian three-wheeler, which will suck a lot of petrol but cannot go beyond 30! 9. The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let metell you, my friend, that
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Here is a news appeared in a Malayalam news paper 'Kerala kaumudi' dated 7.06.08. I am translating it for everyone’s information. LABOURER BOY GETS IIT ADMISSION VIJAYAWADA : Narasimha Rao, who used to work from morning to evening in order to find money for his studies, is preparing to join IIT Madras. This eighteen year old boy secured an AIR of 453 in JEE - 2008. He doesn’t have means to eat three times a day or electricity connection in his poor house at Garikapadu, a village in Khammam District of Andhra Pradesh. He used to get Rs 80 per day for working in Jawahar Rozgar Yojana Pro
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*A letter of Husband to Wife:* Dear Sweetheart, I can't send my salary this month, so I am sending 100 kisses... You are my sweetheart. Your husband *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
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submitted by Srujana (3900 m) on 3 Sep 2007 21:23:31 IST
Who You Are Makes a Difference A teacher in New York decided to honor each of her seniors in high school by telling them the difference they each made. She called each student to the front of the class, one at a time. First, she told each of them how they had made a difference to her and the class. Then, she presented each of them with a blue ribbon imprinted with gold letters, which read, "Who I Am Makes a Difference." Afterwards, the teacher decided to do a class project to see what kind of impact recognition would have on a community. She gave each of the students three more ribbons and instructed them to go out and spread this acknowledgment ceremony. The
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The temperature of Heaven and Hell? The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is the Bible: Isiah 30:26 reads, "Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sin shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the moon as much radiation as we do from the sun and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the earth does from the sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the moon is a ten-thousandth fo the light we receive from the sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation
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The Difference between FOCUSSING on PROBLEMS Vis-à-Vis FOCUSSING on SOLUTIONSCase # 1When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens would not work at zero gravity (ink will not flow down to the writing surface).Solution # 1To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.Solution # 2And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.Case # 2One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty so
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ek bar ek dehati mahila ek city me apne bete aur poti se milne aati hai...........vo mahila us village se hoti hai jaha na to koi tv ke bnare me janta hai aur na cinema.............ye tofir bhi dik hai.........unhone to fan tak nahi dekha hota........totally vo ek backward village hota hai...........jab vo city m aati hai to use sabkuch bahut ajib lagata hai.......shaam ko dinner ke vakt mahila ke pote mahla ko cinema dikhane ka promice karte hai........mahila ko kuch samaj me nahi aata ......lekin phir bhi vo unke sath chalne ko raji ho jati hai..................agle din puri family cinema jate hai..........aur film hoti hai sholey..........
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It's a little island in the Caribbean, half French and half Dutch, little pricey, but it's supposed to be amazing, plus the airport runway starts at one of the beaches and gives amazing close ups of incoming aircraft but considered as the most dangerous airport in the world, see for yourself.
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Trick 1 : Multiply any two numbers from 11 to 20 in your head. Take 15 x 13 for example..Place the larger no. first in your mind and then do something like this Take the larger no on the top and the second digit of the smaller no. in the bottom.153The rest is quite simple. Add 15+3 = 18 . Then multiply 18 x 10 = 180 ...Now multiply the second digit of both the no.s (ie; 5 x 3 = 15) Now add 180 + 15Here is the answer 180 + 15 = 195 .Think over it. This is a simple trick. It will help you a lot.Trick 2 : Multiply any two digit number with 11. This trick is much simpler than the previous one and it is more useful too. Let the number be 27 . Therefore 27 x 11Divide the
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Don't be a weight loss idiot. Do you follow the newest fad diets or buy the next great infomercial pill, potion or product?Weight loss doesn't have to be so hard, but if you make the following mistakes then it will be.What should I know to avoid mistakes?Well, you need to learn what silly things others are doing so that you can understand what really works and what doesn't, but most of all you can learn from their slip-ups. Some of the ridiculous things weight loss idiots commonly believe are: Carbohydrates are bad and will make you fatCarbohydrates aren't all bad, it's just that some of the High G.I ones are bad, but you shouldn't judge the
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OUR CONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS MINDSWe all have a small voice inside our head talking to us all the time. You probably just heard it say, “What small voice?” Every one of us is the result of what that little voice has been saying to us over the years. We are either the victim of, or the benefactor of those words.Tom Monahan was a very productive member of my sales staff a few years ago. During one of our Monday morning meetings, I asked Tom for the name of the prospect he was just describing, and his response was, “I don’t remember. I can never remember names.” I asked Tom if he thought it would help in his career if he could actually b
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The Brick!!! Read It. Read this today and don't delete it even if you are too busy!! You'l l see.THE BRICKA young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed downwhen he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door!He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver &nb
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Ever experienced this? You ask Google to look something up; the engine returns with a number of finds, but if you try to open the ones with the most promising content, you are confronted with a registration page instead, and the stuff you were looking for will not be revealed to you unless you agree to a credit card transaction first....The lesson you should have learned here is: Obviously Google can go where you can't.Can we solve this problem? Yes, we can. We merely have to convince the site we want to enter, that WE ARE GOOGLE.In fact, many sites that force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the G
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submitted by Che (1065 m) on 10 Jun 2009 16:01:28 IST
SYMBOL MISS ATOMIC WEIGHT HIGHLY VARIABLE ATOMIC NUMBER 420 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 1 BOILS VERY RAPIDLY 2 FREEZE VERY QUICKLY 3 MELTS QUICKLY ON RECEIVING GIFTS CHEMICAL PROPERTIES 1 VERY ACTIVE AND HIGHLY REACTIVE 2 POSSES GREAT AFFINITY FOR GOLD, SILVER & OTHER COSTLY ITEMS 3 VIOLENT REACTIONS IF MADE TO WAIT & LEFT ALONE 4 TURNS RED WHEN PLACED BESIDES BETTER LOOKING SPECIMEN OF SAME SPECIES OTHER PROPERTIES 1 STAINED OR OVER-STAINED WITH POWDER, LIPSTICK & ALL OTHER COSMETICS 2 NEVER AGES BEYOND SWEET 16 3 CRIES INSTANTANEOUSLY USES 1 A FAST MEDIUM OF SPREADING TOP SECRETS 2 BEST INCOME OR POCKET MONEY REDUCING AGENT CAUTION 1 HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE 2 HANDLE
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friends i have collected these....from different sites i included the links too. Top 27 unbelievable facts that most people don?t know [?although in some cases the use of the word fact may be debatable!] 27. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 26. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. 25. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf058/sf058b07.htm 24. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\?t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount. (Common Sense) 23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh P
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CIC asks IIT to disclose cut-offUmesh Kumar Singh[30 Apr, 2007 l 2010 hrs ISTlINDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK] NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission has directed IIT Kharagpur, which conducts the joint entrance exam for the engineering courses, to furnish all the details regarding cut-off marks and the procedure to reach to the cut-offs, the model answer sheet and so on by May 15 to a candidate, Eklavya's parents. The Information Commissioner has mentioned in the direction the judgement of the Delhi High Court, which upheld the judgement of the CIC in the UPSC exams case. The Commissioner asserted that now in the matter of exams there is no ambiguity, and the aut
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Musharraf wanted to raise money for his country andon being toldthatthere was a fortune in horse racing, decided topurchase one and enter it in the races.However at the local auction, the going price for ahorse was far toohigh. and he ended up buying a donkey instead.He figured that since he had the donkey he might aswell go ahead andenter it in the races.To his surprise, the donkey came in third!The next day the local paper headlinedMUSHARRAF'S ASS SHOWS.Mian Sahib was so pleased with the donkey that heentered it in therace again, and this time it won.The paper read:MUSHARRAF'S ASS OUT IN FRONT.His wife was so upset with this kind of publicitythat she order
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