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July 08 FAREWELL LETTER FROM A GENIUSFAREWELL LETTER FROM A GENIUS Gabriel Garcia Marquez, famous writer from Colombia, and Nobel Peace prize winner for literature, has retired from public life for reasons of health. He has a form of cancer which is terminal. He has sent a farewell letter to his friends and it has been circulated around the Internet. A GENIUS SAYS GOODBYE FOR GOOD It is recommended reading because it is moving to see how one of the best and most brilliant of writers expresses himself & with sorrow. He says: If God, for a second, forgot what I have become and granted me a little bit more of life, I would use it to the best of my ability. I wouldn't possibly, say everything that is in my mind, but I would be more thoughtful of all I say. I would give merit to things not for what they are worth, but for what they mean to express. I would sleep little, I would dream more, because I know that for every minute that we close our eyes, we waste 60 seconds of light. I would walk while others stop; I would awake while others sleep. If God would give me a little bit more of life, I would dress in a simple manner, I would place myself in front of the sun, leaving not only my body, but my soul naked at its mercy. To all men I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love. I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves. To old people I would say that death doesn't arrive when they grow old, but with forgetfulness. I have learned so much with you all, I have learned that everybody wants to live on top of the mountain, without knowing that true happiness is obtained in the journey taken & the form used to reach the top of the hill. I have learned that when a newborn baby holds, with its little hand, his father's finger, it has trapped him for the rest of his life. I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground. Say always what you feel, not what you think. If I knew that today is the last time that that I am going to see you asleep, I would hug you with all my strength and I would pray to the Lord to let me be the guardian angel of your soul. If I knew that these are the last moments to see you, I would say "I love you". There is always tomorrow, and life gives us another opportunity to do things right, but in case I am wrong, and today is all that is left to me, I would love to tell you how much I love you & that I will never forget you. Tomorrow is never guaranteed to anyone, young or old. Today could be the last time to see your loved ones, which is why you mustn't wait; do it today, in case tomorrow never arrives. I am sure you will be sorry you wasted the opportunity today to give a smile, a hug, a kiss, and that you were too busy to grant them their last wish. Keep your loved ones near you; tell them in their ears and to their faces how much you need them and love them. Love them and treat them well; take your time to tell them "I am sorry";" forgive me"," please" "thank you", and all those loving words you know. Nobody will know you for your secret thought. Ask the Lord for wisdom and strength to express them. Show your friends and loved ones how important they are to you. Send this letter to those you love. If you don't do it today...tomorrow will be like yesterday, and if you never do it, it doesn't matter, either, the moment to do it is now. For you, With much love, Your Friend, Gabriel Garcia Marquez May 21 Jalan BB Story....A Sikh man is walking along Jalan Bukit Bintang, in Kuala Lumpur one night and a very gorgeous girl catches his eye. He strikes up a conversation with her, and quickly discovers that she is one of those "exclusive" ladies-of-the-trade. Candy replies, "It starts at 500 ringgit for a hand-job." Gerdial then exclaims, "What the hell? You only live once. I'll give it a try ." of 500 ringgit . "I wouldn't pay that for a blow-job!" I own that bank outright. And I own it because I give a blow-job that's worth every more glorious and unforgettable experience. show you something. business houses ..... and big-&-small shops and places ?"
February 04 The fact about men & Women Men:
Women: The Secret Of Happy MarriageOnce upon a time a married couple celebrated their 25 th marriage anniversary. They had become famous in the city for not having a single conflict in their period of 25 years. Local newspaper editors had gathered at the occasion to find out the secret of their well known "happy going marriage". Editor: " Sir. It's amazingly unbelievable. How did you make this possible? " Husband recalling his old honeymoon days said: " We had been to Shimla for honeymoon after marriage. Having selected the horse riding finally, we both started the ride on different horses. My horse was pretty okay but the horse on which my wife was riding seemed to be a crazy one. On the way ahead, that horse jumped suddenly, making my wife topple over. Recovering her position from the ground, she patted the horse's back and said " This is your first time ". She again climbed the horse and continued with the ride. After a while, it happened again. This time she again kept calm and said " This is your second time " and continued. When the horse dropped her third time, she silently took out the revolver from the purse and shot the horse dead !! I shouted at my wife: " What did you do you psycho. You killed the poor animal. Are you crazy ?". She gave a silent look and said: " This is your first time!!! ". " Husband: "That's it. We are happily married ever after. " December 20 Interesting......A man feared his wife wasn't hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family Doctor to discuss the problem. The Doctor told him there is a simple informal test the husband could perform to give the Doctor a better idea about her hearing loss. Here's what you do," said the Doctor, "stand about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal conversational speaking tone see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you get a response." That evening, the wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he was in the den. He says to himself, "I'm about 40 feet away, let's see what happens." Then in a normal tone he asks, 'Honey, what's for dinner?" No response. So the husband moves to closer to the kitchen, about 30 feet from his wife and repeats, "Honey, what's for dinner?" Still no response. Next he moves into the dining room where he is about 20 feet from his wife and asks, Honey, what's for dinner?" Again he gets no response so, he walks up to the kitchen door, about 10 feet away. "Honey, what's for dinner?" Again there is no response. So he walks right up behind her. "Honey, what's for dinner?" ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; "James, for the FIFTH time I've said, CHICKEN!" Moral of the story: The problem may not be with the other one as we always think, could be very much within us..! July 28 What is WIFE mean to you?For those who are married !!! David Bissonette When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. Hemant Joshi By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. Dumas The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want? Sigmund Freud I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Anonymous "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A candlelight dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays." Henny Youngman "I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years." Sam Kinison "There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage." James Holt McGavran "I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't." Patrick Murray Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it, 2. Whenever you're right, shut up. Nash The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once... Anonymous You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to. Henny Youngman My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. Rodney Dangerfield A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. Milton Berle Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy. Anonymous A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received hundreds of letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine." Anonymous First guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!" Second guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive." March 24 THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO TOILET SEX
March 12 Murphy LawIt is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first. Every solution breeds new problems You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence All great discoveries are made by mistake. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches The only perfect science is hind-sight. Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling. When all else fails, read the instructions. Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it. The qualities that most attract a woman to a man are usually the same ones she can't stand years later. Love your neighbor, but don't get caught. Sex is a three-letter word which needs some old-fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning. You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. No matter how many times you've had it, if it's offered take it, because it'll never be quite the same again. Sex has no calories. Sex takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. There is no remedy for sex but more sex. Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got. If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question. When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race If it can break, it will, but only after the warranty expires. When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch. In God we trust; all others pay cash If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it. March 06 Princess Melt Once upon a time there lived a king. Anything she touched would melt. Question: What was in the prince's pants?
February 14 HaPpY VaLenTine Day ~ 2/14/07To My Friends Who Are...........SINGLE Love is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you just let it fly, it will come to you when you least expect it. Love can make you happy but often it hurts, but love's only special when you give it to someone who is really worth it. So take your time and choose the best. To My Friends Who Are............NOT SO SINGLE Love isn't about becoming somebody else's 'perfect person.' It's about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be. To My Friends Who Are............PLAYBOY/GIRL TYPE Never say 'I love you' if you don't care. Never talk about feelings if they aren't there. Never touch a life if you mean to break a heart. Never look in the eye when all you do is lie. The cruelest thing a guy can do to a girl is to let her fall in love when he doesn't intend to catch her fall and it works both ways... To My Friends Who Are............MARRIED Love is not about 'it's your fault', but 'I'm sorry.' Not 'where are you', but 'I'm right here.' Not 'how could you', but 'I understand.' Not 'I wish you were', but 'I'm thankful you are.' To My Friends Who Are............ENGAGED The true measure of compatibility is not the years spent together but how good you are for each other. To My Friends Who Are............HEARTBROKEN Heartbreaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to go. The challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but to learn from them. To My Friends Who Are............NAIVE How to be in love: Fall but don't stumble, be consistent but not too persistent, share and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand, and get hurt but never keep the pain. To My Friends Who Are............POSSESSIVE It breaks your heart to see the one you love happy with someone else but it's more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you. To My Friends Who Are............AFRAID TO CONFESS Love hurts when you break up with someone. It hurts even more when someone breaks up with you. But love hurts the most when the person you love has no idea how you feel. To My Friends Who Are............STILL HOLDING ON A sad thing about life is when you meet someone and fall in love, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and that you have wasted years on someone who wasn't worth it. If he isn't worth it now he's not 'going to be worth it a year or 10 years from now Let go..... TO ALL MY FRIENDS....... My wish for you is a man/women whose love is honest, strong, mature, never-changing, uplifting, protective, encouraging, rewarding and unselfish. January 27 REAL FRIENDA simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest. A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself. A simple friend has never seen you cry. A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears. A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book. A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party. A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean. A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed. A real friend asks you why you took so long to call. A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems. A real friend seeks to help you with your problems. A simple friend wonders about your romantic history. A real friend could blackmail you with it. A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument. A real friend calls you after you had a fight. A simple friend expects you to always be there for them. A real friend expects to always be there for you!    January 18 Discover the 10/90 Principle
Author: Stephen Covey
How to stay young
HOW TO STAY YOUNG 3. Keep learning: 5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. January 09 What's That Sound....?A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, "My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?" The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound. The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk." The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry way. Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same monastery. The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fix his car. That night, he hears the same strange noise that he had heard years earlier. The next morning, he asks what it is, but the monks reply, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk." The man says, "All right, all right. I'm dying to know. If the only way I can find out what that sound was is to become a monk, how do I become a monk?" The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When you find these numbers, you will become a monk." The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he returns and knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, "I have traveled the earth and have found what you have asked for. There are 145,236,284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth." The monks reply, "Congratulations. You are now a monk. We shall now show you the way to the sound." The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, "The sound is right behind that door." The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked. He says, "Real funny. May I have the key?" The monks give him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man demands the key to the stone door. The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. He demands another key from the monks, who provide it. Behind that door is another door, this one made of sapphire. So it went until the man had gone through doors of emerald, silver, topaz, amethyst. Finally, the monks say, "This is the last key to the last door." The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and behind that door he is amazed to find the source of that strange sound. But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.  December 20 The Army of the LordThe Army of the Lord friend was in front of me coming out of church one day, and the preacher was standing at the door as he always is to shake hands. He grabbed my friend by the hand and pulled him aside. The Pastor said to him, "You need to join the Army of the Lord!" My friend replied, "I'm already in the Army of the Lord, Pastor." Pastor questioned, "How come I don't see you except at Christmas and Easter?" He whispered back, "I'm in the secret service." December 16 IQ TestI CAN READ IT! CAN YOU fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it. December 09 It is the time of year again!
November 28 EASY Vs. DIFFICULT of others
November 07 Inspiring quotes~Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ~Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward, they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ~To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ~Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. ~If you want to succeed, you have to forge new paths and avoid borrowed ones that promise success. ~If you only look at what is, you will never attain what could be. ~If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. ~I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Invest in yourself, it will pay you for the rest of your life ~One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you will have no certainty until you try. ~Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.. ~There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. ~Learn from the mistakes made by others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself. ~A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. ~Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. ~We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.. ~The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ~Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. ~The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life. ~Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. ~Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is possible for you to do. ~An essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail. ~The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. ~If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. ~One that would have the fruit must first climb the tree. ~Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you. ~Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~Vision is the art to see the invisible. ~If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. ~Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising everytime we fall. ~Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and is thinking something different. ~Tell me and I'll forget. Teach me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll learn. ~The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts, but of values. ~To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ~I feel the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. ~I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come. ~We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ~A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. ~It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. ~Better get a stiff neck from aiming too high than a hunchback for aiming too low. ~Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. ~The biggest obstacle to innovation is thinking it can be done the old way. ~For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. ~Don't just learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade. ~Nothing great in this world has ever been accomplished without passion.. ~A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~It is often what we think we know already that prevents us from learning. ~Our lives are what our thoughts make of it. ~The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. ~We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. ~The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes of it. ~Even when you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~Love deeply and passionately. You may get hurt, but that's the only way to live life completely. ~Don't limit your challenges, challenge your limits. ~You get out of life what you put in. ~The world is but a canvas to our imagination. ~If you can dream it, you can do it. ~Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. ~Nothing great in this world has ever been accomplished without passion.. ~There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Teachers open the door. You enter yourself. ~Go the extra mile; it's never crowded there. ~There can be no improvement when there are no standards. ~Man is born a genius; and buried an idiot. ~Knowledge not put into practice soon dissipates. ~The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. - Mark Twain Fun Quotes ~Women have PMS. Men have ESPN ~Don't like my driving? Call 1-800-FUCK YOU! ~If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out. ~Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. ~If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before. ~Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. ~A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. ~Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. ~Opportunities always look bigger going than coming. ~Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it. ~Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it. |
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