A young man, a student in one of the universities, was one day taking a walk with a professor, who was commonly called the students' friend for his kindness to those who waited on his instructions.


As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, which were supposed to belong to a poor man who was working in a field close by, and who had nearly finished his day's work . . .


Student turned to the professor, saying: "Let us play the man a trick:


We will hide his shoes, and hide ourselves behind those bushes, and wait to see his perplexity when he cannot find them ..."


"My young friend," answered the professor, "We should never amuse ourselves at the expense of the poor . . . But you are rich, and may give yourself a much greater pleasure by means of this poor man.


Put a coin in each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how this affects him." Visit: The student did so and they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by. The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes . . .


While putting on his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes, but feeling something hard, he stooped down to feel what it was, and found the coin. Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his countenance.


He gazed upon the coin, turned it around and looked at it again and again.


He then looked around him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and proceeded to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was doubled on finding the other coin . . .


His feelings overcame him . . . He fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered aloud a fervent thanksgiving in which he spoke of his wife, sick and helpless, and his children without bread, whom this timely bounty, from some unknown hand, would save from perishing . . .


The student stood there deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears.


"Now," said the professor, are you not much better pleased than if you had played your intended trick?"


The youth replied, "You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget. .. I feel now the truth of these words, which I never understood before: "It's more blessed to give than to receive."

Labels: Meaningful story

When I woke up in the morning lying in bed, I was asking myself;

What are some of the secrets of success in life?

I found the answer right there, in my very room.

Carry a Heart that Never Hates.

Carry a Smile that Never Fades.

Carry a Touch that Never Hurts.

HAVE A PURPOSEFUL AND BLESSED DAY!

Labels: quotes

Ablutophobia - Fear of bathing
Amaxophobia Fear of riding in a car
Androphobia - Fear of men
Anginaphoi - Fear of angina or choking
Anthophobia - Fear of flowers
Athropophobia- Fear of people or society
Arithmophoba - Fear of numbers
Astapobia - Fear of thunder and lightning
Barophobia - Fear of gravity
Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes
Beloneoa - Fear of pins and needles
Bibliophobia - Fear o ooks
Botanophobia - Fear of plants
Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness
Catoprophobia - Fear of mirrors
Chionophobia - Fear of snow
Chromophobia - Fear of snow
Chronomentrophobia Fear of clocks
Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed
Dendrophobia - Fear of trees
Domatopobia - Fear of houses
Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents
Eccesiophobia - Fear of churches
Ecopobia - Fear of home
Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers
Genuphobia - Fear of knees
Gynophobia - Fear of women
Heliophoba - Fear of the sun
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number 666
Iatrophobia -Fear of doctors
Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms
Leukophobia - Fear of colour white
lockiophobia Fear of childbirth
Magerocophobia - Fear of cooking
Megalophobia - Fear of large things
Melanophobia - Fear of the colour black
Microphobia - Fear of small things
Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8
Ombrophobia - Fear of rain
Omphalophobia - Fear of belly buttons
Papyrophobia - Fear of paper
Pathophobia - Fear of disease
Phobophobia - Fear of phobias
Podophobia - Fear of feet
Porphyrophobia - Fear of the colour purple
Pterdophbia - Fear of ferns
Scolionophobia Fear of school
Selenophobia - Fear of the moon
Sociophobia - Fear of socialising
Somniphobia - Fear of sleep
Tachophobia - Fear of speed
Technophobia - Fear of technology
Triskidekahobia - Fear of the number 13
Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft
Xenophoia - Fear of strangers or foreigners
Zoophobia - Fear of animals

And the best one so far
Venustraphobia - Fear of BEAUTIFUL women!

Labels: information

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused.Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track.

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange.

You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids.

However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed.

Or would you rather let the train go its way?


Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make........



Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child.

You might think the same way, I guess.

Exactly, to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision
most people would make, morally and emotionally.

But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact
made the right decision to play at a safe place?

Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was.

This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday.

In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society,
the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority,
no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are.

The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined.

And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.


The great critic Leo Velski Julian who told the story said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens..

If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track!

Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe.

If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake!

And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.

While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made,
we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.

'Remember that what's right isn't always popular... and what's popular isn't always right.'
Everybody makes mistakes; that's why liquid papers and erasers sell well.

Labels: Meaningful story

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Labels: wishes

Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey.. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that I thought we could so she dictated these words:


Dear God,


Will you please take care of my dog? She died yesterday and is with you in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you let me have her as my dog even though she got sick.I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls and to swim. I am sending a picture of her so when you see her You will know that she is my dog. I really miss her.


Love,

Meredith


We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey and Meredith and addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it. Then Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven. That afternoon she dropped it into the letter box at the post office. A few days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.

Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch addressed, 'To Meredith' in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith opened it. Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, 'When a Pet Dies..' Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope. On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey & Meredith and this note:

Dear Meredith,

Abbey arrived safely in heaven. Having the picture was a big help. I recognized Abbey right away. Abbey isn't sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in your heart. Abbey loved being your dog. Since we don't need our bodies in heaven, I don't have any pockets to keep your picture in, so I am sending it back to you in this little book for you to keep and have something to remember Abbey by.. Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother you have. I picked her especially for you. I send my blessings every day and remember that I love you very much.By the way, I'm easy to find, I am wherever there is love.


Love,

God

Labels: Meaningful story

Year 1 in Monash University has concluded with the ending of my last paper yesterday! I wouldn't say university was particularly eventful...Maybe because i have no life...>< But there's a reason to rejoice as I will be on holiday for 3 months till March next year...So, ask me out! ;)

Labels: rantings

Labels: frisbee

Just a short update before I hit the books...Went to my grandfather's house for our usual family lunch and found an unexpected visitor in the house...The maid and my cousin managed to put it in the cage...It was really huge, notice the very long tail...This isnt the first one we've caught but it is so far the biggest...

Fate of the monitor lizard: It's been eaten...Cruel as it is, I had nothing to do with it...And it definitely wasn't eaten by me...

Labels: rantings

A young man, a student in one of the universities, was one day taking a walk with a professor, who was commonly called the students' friend for his kindness to those who waited on his instructions.


As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, which were supposed to belong to a poor man who was working in a field close by, and who had nearly finished his day's work . . .


Student turned to the professor, saying: "Let us play the man a trick:


We will hide his shoes, and hide ourselves behind those bushes, and wait to see his perplexity when he cannot find them ..."


"My young friend," answered the professor, "We should never amuse ourselves at the expense of the poor . . . But you are rich, and may give yourself a much greater pleasure by means of this poor man.


Put a coin in each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how this affects him." Visit: The student did so and they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by. The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes . . .


While putting on his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes, but feeling something hard, he stooped down to feel what it was, and found the coin. Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his countenance.


He gazed upon the coin, turned it around and looked at it again and again.


He then looked around him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and proceeded to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was doubled on finding the other coin . . .


His feelings overcame him . . . He fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered aloud a fervent thanksgiving in which he spoke of his wife, sick and helpless, and his children without bread, whom this timely bounty, from some unknown hand, would save from perishing . . .


The student stood there deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears.


"Now," said the professor, are you not much better pleased than if you had played your intended trick?"


The youth replied, "You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget. .. I feel now the truth of these words, which I never understood before: "It's more blessed to give than to receive."

Labels: Meaningful story

When I woke up in the morning lying in bed, I was asking myself;

What are some of the secrets of success in life?

I found the answer right there, in my very room.

Carry a Heart that Never Hates.

Carry a Smile that Never Fades.

Carry a Touch that Never Hurts.

HAVE A PURPOSEFUL AND BLESSED DAY!

Labels: quotes

Ablutophobia - Fear of bathing
Amaxophobia Fear of riding in a car
Androphobia - Fear of men
Anginaphoi - Fear of angina or choking
Anthophobia - Fear of flowers
Athropophobia- Fear of people or society
Arithmophoba - Fear of numbers
Astapobia - Fear of thunder and lightning
Barophobia - Fear of gravity
Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes
Beloneoa - Fear of pins and needles
Bibliophobia - Fear o ooks
Botanophobia - Fear of plants
Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness
Catoprophobia - Fear of mirrors
Chionophobia - Fear of snow
Chromophobia - Fear of snow
Chronomentrophobia Fear of clocks
Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed
Dendrophobia - Fear of trees
Domatopobia - Fear of houses
Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents
Eccesiophobia - Fear of churches
Ecopobia - Fear of home
Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers
Genuphobia - Fear of knees
Gynophobia - Fear of women
Heliophoba - Fear of the sun
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number 666
Iatrophobia -Fear of doctors
Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms
Leukophobia - Fear of colour white
lockiophobia Fear of childbirth
Magerocophobia - Fear of cooking
Megalophobia - Fear of large things
Melanophobia - Fear of the colour black
Microphobia - Fear of small things
Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8
Ombrophobia - Fear of rain
Omphalophobia - Fear of belly buttons
Papyrophobia - Fear of paper
Pathophobia - Fear of disease
Phobophobia - Fear of phobias
Podophobia - Fear of feet
Porphyrophobia - Fear of the colour purple
Pterdophbia - Fear of ferns
Scolionophobia Fear of school
Selenophobia - Fear of the moon
Sociophobia - Fear of socialising
Somniphobia - Fear of sleep
Tachophobia - Fear of speed
Technophobia - Fear of technology
Triskidekahobia - Fear of the number 13
Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft
Xenophoia - Fear of strangers or foreigners
Zoophobia - Fear of animals

And the best one so far
Venustraphobia - Fear of BEAUTIFUL women!

Labels: information

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused.Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track.

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange.

You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids.

However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed.

Or would you rather let the train go its way?


Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make........



Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child.

You might think the same way, I guess.

Exactly, to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision
most people would make, morally and emotionally.

But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact
made the right decision to play at a safe place?

Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was.

This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday.

In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society,
the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority,
no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are.

The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined.

And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.


The great critic Leo Velski Julian who told the story said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train's sirens..

If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track!

Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe.

If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake!

And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.

While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made,
we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one.

'Remember that what's right isn't always popular... and what's popular isn't always right.'
Everybody makes mistakes; that's why liquid papers and erasers sell well.

Labels: Meaningful story

Labels: frisbee

Labels: wishes

Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey.. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that I thought we could so she dictated these words:


Dear God,


Will you please take care of my dog? She died yesterday and is with you in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you let me have her as my dog even though she got sick.I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls and to swim. I am sending a picture of her so when you see her You will know that she is my dog. I really miss her.


Love,

Meredith


We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey and Meredith and addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it. Then Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven. That afternoon she dropped it into the letter box at the post office. A few days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.

Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch addressed, 'To Meredith' in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith opened it. Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, 'When a Pet Dies..' Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope. On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey & Meredith and this note:

Dear Meredith,

Abbey arrived safely in heaven. Having the picture was a big help. I recognized Abbey right away. Abbey isn't sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in your heart. Abbey loved being your dog. Since we don't need our bodies in heaven, I don't have any pockets to keep your picture in, so I am sending it back to you in this little book for you to keep and have something to remember Abbey by.. Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother you have. I picked her especially for you. I send my blessings every day and remember that I love you very much.By the way, I'm easy to find, I am wherever there is love.


Love,

God

Labels: Meaningful story

Year 1 in Monash University has concluded with the ending of my last paper yesterday! I wouldn't say university was particularly eventful...Maybe because i have no life...>< But there's a reason to rejoice as I will be on holiday for 3 months till March next year...So, ask me out! ;)

Labels: rantings

Labels: frisbee

Just a short update before I hit the books...Went to my grandfather's house for our usual family lunch and found an unexpected visitor in the house...The maid and my cousin managed to put it in the cage...It was really huge, notice the very long tail...This isnt the first one we've caught but it is so far the biggest...

Fate of the monitor lizard: It's been eaten...Cruel as it is, I had nothing to do with it...And it definitely wasn't eaten by me...

Labels: rantings