ROADBLOCKS 2 SUCCESS

THE SEVEN DEADLY ROADBLOCKS TO SUCCESS


When traveling down the road it is always good to beware of roadblocks! You
don't want to crash and burn do you? The same is true in our journey toward
success. We need to beware of those things that will keep us from our
destination!

What are the most common? Here they are:


1. Fear. Fear is one of the worst enemies of success. When fear wraps its
tentacles around you and keeps you in bondage, you will never be able to reach
for your dreams. We must confront our fears, see them for what they are, toss
them to the side, and pursue our dreams with relentless passion. Conquering fear
and stepping forward to reach new lands and new ideas is what makes success
possible. What are you afraid of today? What fear must you conquer to be able to
achieve your dream? When you realize what it is, take an action that is
diametrically opposed to that which you fear. This will confront and conquer the
fear by giving you the first step in the right direction.


2. Lethargy. Quite frankly, what keeps most people from success is that they
simply don't have the energy, or make the energy, to do what it takes to move to
the next level. They get to a point that is comfortable and then they settle in
for a nice, life-long nap! Don't get lethargic; get going! Force yourself to
wake up from the slumber and move!


3. Lack of perseverance. Often times the race is lost because the race is not
finished. Success is often just around the sharpest corner or the steepest hill.
Persevere. Keep going. One more hill. One more corner! In real estate they say
the three most important things are "location, location, location." In success
the three most important things are "perseverance, perseverance, perseverance."


4. Pessimism. The saying is that you can achieve what you believe. Ask yourself
what kinds of beliefs you hold. Are you an optimist or a pessimist? If you don't
believe that you can achieve than you won't. Your pessimism will prove yourself
right every time. You will find that you subconsciously undermine yourself.
Develop your optimism. Look for ways to believe that you can achieve success.


5. Not taking responsibility. I am the chaplain for the local police department.
The other day I went with an officer as he took two prisoners to court. Time
after time the prisoners made excuses as to why they hadn't yet done what the
judge had ordered (she didn't buy it, by the way). After dropping the prisoners
off, I said to the officer that unsuccessful people and prisoners have the same
bad habit - they won't accept responsibility for their lives. You are
responsible. When you
accept that, you are on the road to success.


6. Picking the wrong people to hang out with. We can easily become products of
our environment. This is why it is essential to hang around people who will spur
you on not hold you back! What about the people you have surrounded yourself
with? Are they quality people who will encourage you and strengthen you in your
quest for success? If not, move on!


7. No vision. Those who succeed always see their success months and years before
they live it. They have the ability to look ahead, see the future, imagine the
good that can and will come from their lives, families and work. To not have
vision is a tremendous roadblock. Sit down and work on seeing the future - and make it good!

A WALK IN THE MOUNTAINS

A son and his father were walking in the mountains.
Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh! !!"
To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain:
"AAAhhhhhhhhhhh! !!"
Curious, he yells: "Who are you?"
He receives the answer: "Who are you?"
Angered at the response, he screams: "Coward!"
He receives the answer: "Coward!"
He looks to his father and asks: "What's going on?"
The father smiles and says: "My son, pay attention."
And then he screams to the mountain: "I admire you!"
The voice answers: "I admire you!"
Again the man screams: "You are a champion!"
The voice answers: "You are a champion!"
The boy is surprised, but does not understand.
Then the father explains: "People call this ECHO, but really this is LIFE.


It gives you back everything you say or do.
Our life is simply a reflection of our actions.
If you want more love in the world, create more love in your heart.
If you want more competence in your team, improve your competence.
This relationship applies to everything, in all aspects of life;
Life will give you back everything you have given to it."

YOUR LIFE IS NOT A COINCIDENCE. IT'S A REFLECTION OF YOU!

DESIRE

Give In To Desire

Most New Year resolutions are about taming temptations. “Have ice-cream!” “No thanks!” This New Year, yours truly resolved to abstain from sugar and cream. And wondered how long it would last. Well, most New Year resolutions don’t last long. Mostly. Mercifully, as the year wears off so does our resolve until one day we forget about the resolutions as we do an out-offashion piece of garment. Mercifully, because holding on to a self-binding declaration beyond a period betrays an annoying infallibility. To be human is to be vulnerable, after all. One wonders why we use this great tradition to pander to the ascetic lurking inside us. Perhaps it’s because we get a kick out of kicking ourselves. Ergo, “one shall not’’ is how most New Year commandments begin and the most popular of them are about giving up one or the other good thing of life. In other words, we turn it into an exercise in self-denial. But, hey, self-denial is an overrated virtue. Indeed, one wonders if it is virtue at all. It’s the most wretched rationalisation for lack of purushartha or vigour.
Spiritual leaders who preach the virtues of self-denial themselves live in the lap of luxury. Others who advocate it are those who have either had their share of fun or who have no clue as to what fun is all about. For the man on the street, such preaching serves little purpose. At best it makes him smug and at worst, it burdens him with guilt about enjoying the few luxuries to which he has access. Needless to say, it adds to one’s stress levels. More often than not, one finds oneself being chased by the very thing that one wishes to run away from. Also, taking a broader look, self-denial is the roadblock to human progress. Cravings and desires have spurred growth and development. Whoever discovered anything without first desiring it intensely? Curbing one’s legitimate temptations is, therefore, hardly the best way to welcome the New Year. Rather one should use it as an opportunity to liberate oneself from the middle-class squeamishness that blights pure pleasure. A wise wag has said, “Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again”. Why not, then, make this New Year resolution: One shall not deny oneself anything from now on.

O-zone

There’ll never be a
first night again…

If the pleasure is more in the hunt than in acquisition, and anticipation is far more exciting than fulfilment, why does one seek a culmination of desire at all?

Afriend was most flustered when after the first night of honeymoon, she found her new husband reflective and somewhat depressed. Upon prodding, his answer was, “I love you more than ever, but it upsets me that there will never be a first night with you ever again…”
He explained to her how he had anticipated and looked forward with great intensity to their first time together. And now that it was behind them, he felt a bit lost … almost as if he had lost something precious. Weird? Romantic? Yes, a bit of both, but doesn’t it happen to all of us at some point or other? We tend to get so caught up in the anticipation that not only do we forget to enjoy present moments but are at a total loss once we achieve what we desired!
It is true that the thrill of anticipation never does quite match the realisation. And, some of the most powerful experiences in life are those that never met fruition. In fact, according to a theory called the Zeigarnik effect, there is a psychological tendency to more vividly remember an uncompleted rather than a completed task. Memories are more vivid where the agenda has not been completed.
A gaze frozen in time can rekindle romantic memories through a lifetime, far more than if it had become a tangible reality. Indeed I do still recall the thrill of the furtive glances sent my way by an unnamed boy way back in the school bus. In that entire year of going back and forth from school, we looked but never exchanged a word with each other, nor knew each other’s names!
Think of when you receive a gift. The highpoint is the moment just before the wrapping comes off. And most of us like to prolong that moment. Once opened, the gift becomes a mundane part of life.
Or, the act of lovemaking. All the pleasure, the trembling excitement is part of the anticipation. Poised on the edge of the precipice, fevered passion can only possibly take a downswing from here onwards…
All your life you hanker after those solitaires, enjoying plenty pleasurable moments anticipating the moment you will own them. The moment comes and goes -- and suddenly those solitaires are a possession, a reality of your everyday existence. What then? Soon enough you hanker after something else! For it’s that hankering that gives you your adrenaline shots more than the acquisition.
If the pleasure is more in the hunt than in acquisition, and anticipation is far more exciting than fulfilment, why does one seek a culmination of desire at all? It is at the point when we are poised on the brink of fulfilment that life’s most intensely pleasurable moments reside -- when our desire is just about to be fulfilled. Chocolate tastes the best between first bite and just the moment before we swallow it — and then…it’s over, leaving behind a lingering guilt! There is a deep intensity in that one moment just before anticipation takes the shape of reality. Were it possible to string together those moments, the awesome intensity would be unbearable!
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,” said Robert Louis Stevenson. Living on the edge of discovery, to be poised on the verge is far more thrilling than the plunge itself.
But so focused are we on the destination, and so conditioned to be goal-oriented that we forget to enjoy the moments of expectation that await us on the brink of fulfilment. Right from childhood we are taught the importance of focusing on and achieving our goals. We are never told that what matters is excellence — not perfection or culmination. Seldom is a child taught to enjoy the journey as he goes along. Living on the edge of discovery, standing poised on the verge of achievement is always far more pleasurable than the achievement itself. That’s the lesson we all come across again and again in life….
Would that love forever retained the thrill of anticipation and never became a harsh reality; would that the moment just before those solitaires are touched remained frozen in time; would that the gift remained just one fold beyond the wrapping paper…

MYTHOLOGICAL VERSION OF INFORMATION TECH WORLD

Roles in Heaven


Brahma
Systems Installation


Vishnu
Systems Administration & Support


Lakshmi
Finance and Accounts consultant


Saraswati
Training and Knowledge Management


Shiva
DBA (Crash Specialist)


Ganesh
Quality Assuarance & Documentation


Narada
Data transfer


Yama
Reorganization & Downsizing Consultant


Chitragupta
IDP & Personal Records


Apsaras
Downloadable Viruses


Devas
Mainframe Programmers


Surya
Solaris Administrator


Rakshasas
In house Hackers


Ravan
! ;Internet Explorer WWWF


Lakshman
Support Software and Backup


Hanuman
ICM


Jatayu
Firewall


Dronacharya
System Programmer


Vishwamitra
Sr. Manager Projects


Valmiki
Technical Writer (Ramayana Sign off document)


Krishna
SDLC ( Sudarshan Wheel Development Life Cycle )


Arjun
Lead Programmer (all companies are vying for him)


Abhimanyu
Trainee Programmer


Draupadi
Motivation & Team building


Bhima
MAINFRAME LEGACY SYSTEM


Duryodhana
Microsoft product Written in VB


Karna
Contract programmer


Dhrutarashtra
Visual C++


Gandhari
Dreamweaver


100 Kauravas
Microsoft Service Packs and patches

-Thoughts To Ponder-:-

The gem cannot be polished without friction,

nor man perfected without trials.

-Confucius-

It's not too late!

If it weren't for the last minute,

a lot of things would never get done.

Be patient with the faults of others;

they have had to be patient with yours!

Never let yesterday use up today.

INSPIRATION FROM TREE

"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree."

Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918), "Trees" (poem), 1914

"Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe
before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon moving me to the
depths, touching my heart, and stirring up within my soul a yearning
to give my all."
Macrina Wiederkehr, A Tree Full of Angels (1988)


I can pretty safely guess that we've all seen a tree or two in our
time. But can we say we've actually met a tree? Trees are incredibly
beautiful living beings. We can learn so much from their inherent
wisdom. My teacher, Louise Taylor, used to say that spirituality is
like the trunk of a tree. From there strong branches can grow, our
career, health, relationships and everything else. But if we get
caught out on a limb, we become off balance. Our spirituality is our
strength, our core.



Intuitive Sympathy

"She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy
with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins
was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap."
Mary Webb, Gone to Earth (1917)


Some people have this innate connection with the plant world. I
guess those would be the same people who have "green thumbs." There
is a definite communication that goes on between plants and animals,
whether we are aware of it or not. We can find peace in nature. We
can find ourselves in that peace.



Resilient

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have
to live than other things do."
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)



Trees are patient. They are resilient. They don't try to be
something they're not. They don't get jealous of faster growing
varieties. They bloom where they are planted, and make the best of
it. They don't make any demands. There is a children's book
called "The Giving Tree" which really explains generosity. We can
learn a lot from trees.



Look Up

"When you look up from your typewriter, look at the trees, not the
calendar."
Mary Virginia Micka, The Cazenovia Journal (1990)



That's good advice for all of us these days! We're on the computer
so much. When we get a moment's break, what do we do? If we can just
take some time to re-connect with nature, to remember the beauty
that surrounds us, we will be so much more natural and relaxed.
There is a tree right outside my office window. It looks so calm,
and it makes me feel calm to just sit and look out the window for
awhile.



Lungs Of The Earth

Trees are the lungs of the earth. Just as we breathe oxygen into our
lungs and exhale carbon dioxide, so trees breathe carbon dioxide
into their leaves and exhale oxygen."
Helen Caldicott, If You Love this Planet (1992)



Reciprocity. There is a science to it. We're here for a reason.
Trees are here for a reason. We can learn from each other, grow with
each other, help each other breathe!



Benefit another Generation

"He plants trees to benefit another generation."
Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC), Synephebi



What a legacy we can leave for the future if we plant a tree!
Consider the Oak, for example. It stands for hundreds of years,
bringing joy to all who see it or stand beneath its branches. The
ancient Druids held it as sacred, and well we can understand this
for, I believe, it is the most majestic of trees.

"He that plants trees loves others beside himself."
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732


The Best Fruit

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere (1622 - 1673)

Often in todays hurried life we look to reap a harvest before it is
ready. If we are prepared to be patient and give Time its due we
will find that the plentiful harvest will come in and our lives will be truly fruitful.

What will happen if 1 rupee = 40 dollars...!!!

Scene 1

Venue: Microsoft Corporation, New York, US some s/w engineers are seeing some photographs.

S/w engg 1: What's that?

S/w engg 2: Bob's photographs from India.

S/w engg 1: Wow. Let me see. Which is this place?

S/w engg 3: (Sees the photo) this is Kalyaninagar, Pune

s/w engg 1 : Fundo yaar! And what is this? He got Bajaj Pulsar also.

s/w engg 2 : Let me see (sees). This guy enjoys life man...

s/w engg 3: You know how much an Bajaj Pulsar costs? Nearly 60K......
Say it in dollars... (60000*45 = 27,00,000 dollars)

s/w engg 2: Oops. We can't dream of such a thing here.

s/w engg 1 : Let's go to India & try for a job.

[Everybody excited.]

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SCENE 2

Venue: Sun Microsystems, SanFrancisco , California , US

s/w engg 1: I'm with you man. My Visa is expected anytime. Soon I will fly to India

s/w engg 2 : Ohhh.... When is the party?

s/w engg 1: When I get it on hand.

s/w engg 2: Where will you be working?

s/w engg 1 : I'll be working in a company in Sadashiv Peth there....

s/w engg 2 : Oh! Sadashiv Peth. Great yaar. where it is...

s/w engg 1 : It is in Pune.

s/w engg 3 : Fundoo place yaar. Nice climate Not like
California ..
You'll love the weather yaar. One of my friends is in Budhwar Peth...He
says it's the ultimate place to live in. Cool maan.

s/w engg 2 : Who is the client yaar?

s/w engg 1: You know Municipal Corporation of Pune ?

s/w engg 3 : Yeah. MCP. One of my friends is there in the Road Repair & Cleaning Division. Most challenging job yaar. People are working in the cutting edge of technology there.

s/w engg 1 : I'll be writing software for the accounts
department of the GCU.

s/w engg 2: GCU? what it means...?

s/w engg 1 : that is Garbage Collecting Unit.

s/w engg 3 : : Great yaar. That's what I like about that country. You can get a job which requires all your skill. Not like here. See I'm
writing software for the space shuttle remote control.
I hate this.

s/w engg 1 : Don't worry guys. I'll give you my
Hotmail id. You can send your resume to me and I'll forward it to the HRD.

[Everybody takes down his Hotmail id.]

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SCENE 3

Venue: IBM, New York , US

(Conversation between a Male s/w engg. and Female s/w
engg.)

Male : Hi!

Female: Hi. You know. I'm planning to settle in India
soon.

Male : What??

Female : Yeah. My marriage will be here in America
only. He is doing
his
Ph.D in J.N.T.U and he's coming here for a month. His
study
will be over in 2 months. He's already got a job in MSEB. We planned to
settle in Pune itself... I'm also planning to work there. Let's see...

Male: Good luck... dont forget us & US...

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SCENE 4

Venue: Intel Corp. US

s/w engg 1: Great news guys. Our George has got
admission in the IGNOU with scholarship for B.A History. A great new field yaar...

All are excited...

George : Got my Visa yesterday. It's all finalized now.

s/w engg 2 : Congrats yaar. So you are out of this country.

s/w engg 1 : B.A in Histroy...ohh. ..man, enjoy your life there?

s/w engg 2 : : Got full aid, eh?

George : Yeah. Got the UGC scholarship That will be
1200 Rupees per Year.

s/w engg 1 : Great. Enjoy.

s/w engg 2 : (Thinking loud): 1200 Indian Rupees...!

that means 1200 * 45 = 54000 Dollars... with that amount I can buy an
three bed-room flat & a Mercedes here...(US) !!!

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SCENE 5

A foreigner working in Pune as Software Engg gets a call from his
Home ..

Father : What are you doing son ?

S/w Eng : Having breakfast ?

Father : what are you eating ?

S/w Eng: Beans with gravy and Bread and a local desert....

ie (Puneri Misal Pav and Mastani :-) )...

Father : enjoy...dear!!

TECHNICAL SHAYRI

mere... Company kee ladkiyaan sunder hain Aur lonely hain...
Problem ye hai ki bus voh READ-ONLY hain...

Shayad mere pyar ko taste Karna bhool gaye...
Dil sey aisa CUT kiya ke PASTE karna bhool gaye..

Tumhare samne hain itney items Kabhi hame bhi pick karo...
Hamare pyar ke ICON pe Kabhi to tum DOUBLE-CLICK karo...

Roz subha hum karte hai Itne pyar se unhe good morning...
Woh humhe ghoor kar dekhte hain Jaise 0 ERRORS but 5 WARNINGS...

Ho gayi galti humse, Click ho gaya mouse
Duniya ki parwaah chhodo, ban jaao meri spouse!

Tumse mila main kal to, Mere dil mein hua ek sound,
Lekin aaj tum mili To kehti ho: Your file not found!

Ab aur kaho na tum, "but" ya "if"
Tum ho meri zindagi ki animated gif

Aysa bhi nahin hai ke, I don't likeyour face
Par dil ke computer mein, Nahin hai enough disk space

Ghar se nikalti ho tum jab, Pehen ke evening gown
Too many requests se, Ho jaata hai server down

Tumhaare liye pyaar ki application, Create main karoonga
Tum usse debug karna, Wait main karoonga

Tumhaara intezaar karte karte, Main so gaya
Yeh dekho mera connection, Time out ho gaya

Kya chaal hai tumhaari, Jaise chalti hai koi cat
What is your ICQ number, Aao karein chat

Tum jabse meri zindagi, mein aayi ho banke female,
Yaad raha na ab kuch, Na postman , Na e-Mail

Joh sadiyaon se hota aaya hai Woh repeat kar doonga...
Tu naa mili to tujhko dil sey Ctrl+Alt+Delete kar doonga...

Humse Kya Khata Hui Ki message Aanna Band Hai.......
Aap hi humse naraz hain ya Web Server band hai.......

Badli hai duniya , kuchch mein bhi badal gaya hoon
Pahle bekaar tha ab S/W Programmer ban gaya hoon

VC aaye to VB mein daal do,
VC aaye to VB mein daal do
seedhe seedhe sabko museebat mein daal do

Project extend ho gaya to kya ho jaata hai?
Are Tankha milti hai aur timepass ho jata hai..

teri yaad me sanam raat bhar humne to wine piya
teri yaad me sanam raat bhar humne to wine piya
kabhi offline to kabhi online piya

Pyar ke sitaare jab gardish mein hote hai
Pyar ke sitaare jab gardish mein hote hai
Laila ghar mein aur majnoo project testing kar rahe hote hai

INDIA~COUNTRY OF PARADOXES

It has become a cliche to speak of India as a land of paradoxes. The old joke about our country is that anything you say about India, the opposite is also true. We like to think of ourselves as an ancient civilisation but we are also a young republic; our IT experts stride confidently into the 21st century but much of our population seems to live in each of the other 20 centuries. Quite often the opposites co-exist quite cheerfully. One of my favourite images of India is from the last Kumbha mela, of a naked sadhu, with matted hair, ash-smeared forehead and scraggly beard, for all the world a picture of timeless otherworldliness, chatting away on a cellphone. I even suggested it to the publishers of my newest book of essays on India as a perfect cover image, but they assured me it was so well-known that it had become a cliche in itself.
And yet, cliches are cliches because they are true, and the paradoxes of India say something painfully real about our society. How does one come to terms with a country whose population is still nearly 40% illiterate but which has educated the world’s second-largest pool of trained scientists and engineers, many of whom are making a flourishing living in Silicon Valley? How does one explain a land where peasant organisations and suspicious officials once attempted to close down Kentucky Fried Chicken as a threat to the nation, where a former prime minister bitterly criticised the sale of Pepsi-Cola since 250 million of our countrymen and women don’t have access to clean drinking water, and which yet invents more sophisticated software for the world’s computer manufacturers than any other country on the planet? A place where bullock carts are still an indispensable mode of transportation for millions, but whose rocket and satellite programmes are amongst the most advanced on earth?
The paradoxes go well beyond the nature of our entry into the 21st century. Our teeming cities overflow while two out of three Indians still scratch a living from the soil. We have been recognised, for all practical purposes, as a leading nuclear power, but 600 million Indians still have no access to electricity and there are daily power cuts even in the nation’s capital. Ours is a culture which elevated non-violence to an effective moral principle, but whose freedom was born in blood and whose independence still soaks in it. We are the world’s leading manufacturers of generic medication for illnesses such as AIDS, but we have three million of our own citizens without access to AIDS medication, another two million with TB, and tens of millions with no health centre or clinic within 10 kilometres of their places of residence. Bollywood makes four times as many movies as Hollywood, but 150 million Indians cannot see them, because they are blind. India holds the world record for the number of cellphones sold (8.5 million last month), but also for the number of farmer suicides (4000 in the Vidarbha district of Maharashtra alone last year).
This month, in mid-November, the prestigious Forbes magazine list of the world’s top billionaires made
room for 10 new Indian names. The four richest Indians in the world are collectively worth a staggering $180 billion, greater than the GDP of a majority of member states of the United Nations. Indian papers have reported with undisguised glee that these four (Lakshmi Mittal, the two Ambani brothers, and DLF chief K P Singh) are worth more than the 40 richest Chinese combined. We seem to find less space in our papers to note that though we have more dollar billionaires than in any country in Asia — even more than Japan, which has been richer longer — we also have 260 million people living below the poverty line. And it’s not the World Bank’s poverty line of $1 a day, but the Indian poverty line of Rs 360 a month, or 30 cents a day — in other words, a line that’s been drawn just this side of the funeral pyre.
Last month, the Bombay Stock
Exchange’s Sensex crossed 20,000, just 20 months after it had first hit 10,000; but on the same day, some 25,000 landless people marched to Parliament, clamouring for land reform and justice. We have trained world-class scientists and engineers, but 400 million of our compatriots are illiterate, and we also have more children who have not seen the inside of a school than any other country in the world does. We have a great demographic advantage in 540 million young people under 25 (which means we should have a dynamic, youthful and productive workforce for the next 40 years when the rest of the world, including China, is ageing) but we also have 60 million child labourers, and 72% of the children in our government schools drop out by the eighth standard. We celebrate India’s IT triumphs, but information technology has employed a grand total of 1 million people in the last five years, while 10 million are entering the workforce each year and we don’t have jobs for them. Many of our urban youth rightly say with confidence that their future will be better than their parents’ past, but there are Maoist insurgencies violently disturbing the peace in 165 of India’s 602 districts, and these are largely made up of unemployed young men.
So yes, we are a land of paradoxes, and amongst those paradoxes is that so many of us speak about India as a great power of the 21st century when we are not yet able to feed, educate and employ our people. And yet, India is more than the sum of its contradictions. It may be a country rife with despair and disrepair, but it nonetheless moved a Mughal Emperor to declaim, ‘‘if on earth there be paradise of bliss, it is this, it is this, it is this...’’ We just have a lot more to do before it can be anything like paradise for the vast majority of our fellow citizens.

WEIRD,AMAZING,YET USEFUL FATCS

[1] If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

[2] If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

[3] Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

[4] The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts', meaning 'the best or nothing.

[5] The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

[6] The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

[7] The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

[8] Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

[9] The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

[10] Dalmatians are born without spots.

[11] The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

[12] Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

[13] Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

[14] When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

[15] When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

[16] The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

[17] Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

[18] Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

[19] It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

[20] The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

[21] The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting

[22] It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole
body.

[23] Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

[24] The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

[25] In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and make it look like it is smiling.

[26] Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

[27] The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

[28] Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

[29] Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:
Mizaru (See no evil),
Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and
Mazaru (Speak no evil).

[30] Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

[31] German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

[32] Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

[33] A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

Why Men Are Never Depressed - Ultimate

WHY MEN ARE NEVER DEPRESSED:

Men Are Just Happier People ..

What do you expect from such simple creatures?

The reasons are: à

...Your last name stays constant.

...The garage is all yours.

...Wedding plans take care of themselves.

...Chocolate is just another snack .

Sex is great .!

...You can be President.

You can never be pregnant.

You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.

You can wear NO shirt to a water park.

Car mechanics tell you the truth.

The world is your urinal.

You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.

You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.

Wrinkles add character.

Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.

People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them.

New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.

One mood all the time ...

You can smoke cigars ...

Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.

You know stuff about tanks.

A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.

You can open all your own jars.

You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.

If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.

Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.

Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.

You only have to shave your face and neck.

You can play with toys all your life.

One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color for all seasons.

You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.

You can "do" your nails with a pocket knife.

You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.

You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.

No wonder men are happier.

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