Permanent Calender

subtract 28 for years not shown here and get a year from this table the calender is same for 1982 and 2010

CAR AC-Important

Please do not turn on AC immediately as soon as you enter the car.Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the air-conditioning after a couple of minutes

According to a research done, the car dashboard, sofa, air fresheneremits Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen - take note of the heated  plastic Smell in your car). In addition to causing cancer, it poisons your bones, causes anemia, and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia,increasing the risk of cancer. May also cause miscarriage.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft... A car parkedindoors with the windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene. If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level... & the people inside the car will inevitably inhale an excess amount of the toxins.

It is recommended that you open the windows and door to give time for the interior to air out before you enter. Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver, and is very difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.

મનની ખીંટી

અમારાં ઘરમાં રિપેરકામ માટે એક સુથારને બોલાવેલો. એના કામના પહેલા દિવસની આ વાત છે..  કામ પર આવતાં રસ્તામાં ટાયર પંક્ચર થયું એમાં એનો એક કલાક બગડ્યો. કામ શરૂ કર્યા પછી  અધવચ્ચે એની ઈલેક્ટ્રિક કરવત બગડી ગઈ. દિવસ પૂરો થયા પછી ઘરે પાછા જતી વખતે એની નાની  ટ્રક ચાલી નહીં. હું એને મારી ગાડીમાં એના ઘેર મૂકવા ગયો. રસ્તામાં એ એક પણ શબ્દ બોલ્યો  નહીં. અમે એના ઘેર પહોંચ્યા ત્યારે એણે કહ્યું : 'ઘરમાં થોડી વાર આવો ને ! મારાં પત્ની અને  બાળકોને તમને મળીને આનંદ થશે.'

 ઘરમાં દાખલ થતાં પહેલાં નાના ઝાડ પાસે એ રોકાયો. બન્ને હાથ એણે ઝાડ પર મૂક્યા. બારણામાં  દાખલ થતી વખતે મેં એનામાં અજબનો ફેરફાર થતો જોયો. એના થાકેલા ચહેરા પર સ્મિત ફરી વળ્યું.  એનાં બે બાળકોને વહાલથી ભેટ્યો અને પત્નીને ચૂમી આપી. મને એ કાર સુધી મૂકવા આવ્યો. અમે પેલા  ઝાડ પાસેથી પસાર થયા ત્યારે મારું કુતૂહલ હું રોકી શક્યો નહીં. મેં એને પૂછ્યું : 'ઘરમાં દાખલ  થતાં પહેલાં તમે ઝાડને શા માટે અડ્યા ?'

 'અરે, હા. આ ઝાડ તો મારા મનની ખીંટી છે. હું કામે જાઉં ત્યાં કોઈ ને કોઈ તકલીફ તો આવવાની, પણ એક વાત નક્કી કે ઘરે મારાં પત્ની અને બાળકોને એની સાથે શું લેવાદેવા ? એટલે,  જ્યારે સાંજે કામ પરથી ઘરે પાછો આવું છું ત્યારે તકલીફો આ ઝાડ પર લટકાવી દઈ ઘરમાં દાખલ  થાઉં છું. સવારે કામ પર જતાં આ ઝાડ પરથી તકલીફો પાછી લઈ લઉં છું. પણ નવાઈની વાત તો એ  છે કે રાતે મૂકેલી તકલીફોમાંથી ઘણીખરી સવારે ત્યાં હોતી નથી. [ref p shah]

16 Famous Sayings by Chanakya

1. "Learn from the mistakes of others... you can't live long enough to make them all yourselves!!"
2. "A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first."
3. "Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."
4. "The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."
5. "There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
6. " Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
7. "As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
8. "The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."
9. "Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."
10. "The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
11. "God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."
12. "A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
13. "Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."
14. "Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
15. "Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."  
16. "Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."

Interesting Facts

1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears.
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe .
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay  in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than rightfoot, left foot .
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually thesound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

mathematical formula for life

Here is a little something someone sent me that is indisputable mathematical logic.This comes from 2 math teachers with a combined total of 70 yrs. experience. This is a strictly mathematical viewpoint... it goes like this:

What makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%.  What makes up 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:


If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Then:
H-A-R-D-W-O- R-K
8+1+18+4+23+ 15+18+11 = 98%


and
K-N-O-W-L-E- D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96%


But,

A-T-T-I-T-U- D-E
1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5 = 100%

Spring is in the Air.

Amazingly this is all begonias!
What looks like a rug is actually flowers.

Never Argue with a Woman

One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and reads her book.

Along comes a Game Warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, 'Good morning, Ma'am. What are you doing?'  'Reading a book,' she replies,

( thinking , 'Isn't that obvious ? ')
 
'You're in a Restricted Fishing Area,' he informs her. 'I'm sorry, officer, but I'm not fishing. I'm reading'
 
'Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I'll have to take you in and write you up.'
 
'For reading a book,' she replies .

 

'You're in a Restricted Fishing Area,' he informs her again, 'I'm sorry, officer, but I'm not fishing. 

 

I'm reading' 'Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I'll have to take you in and write you up.'

'If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault ,'

says the woman.
 

'But I haven't even touched you,' says the game warden.

'That's true, but you have all the quipment. For all I know you could start at any moment.'
 
'Have a nice day ma'am,' and he left.  

MORAL :

Never argue with a woman who reads.

It's likely she can also think. 

Dont Copy if you cant paste

A popular motivational speaker was entertaining his audience. He Said: "The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn't my wife!" The audience was in silence and shock. The speaker added: "And that woman was my mother!"


Laughter and applause.

A week later, a top manager trained by the motivational speaker tried to crack this very effective joke at home. He was a bit foggy after a drink. He said loudly to his wife who was preparing dinner, "The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who was not my wife!"

The wife went; "ah!" with shock and rage. Standing there for 20 seconds trying to recall the second half of the joke, the manager finally blurted out "....and I can't remember who she was!"

By the time the manager regained his consciousness, he was on a hospital bed nursing burns from boiling water.

Moral of the story: Don't copy if you can't paste!

[from my mails agb]

Welcome 2010 - HNY

Welcome 2010.
Wish you all a very 
Happy New Year 2010.