Street Football

Absolutely brilliant foot work and moves - albeit reckless in some of the set ups. I guess boys will be boys!

The Paradox

              The paradox of our time in history is that :- 

              We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; 

              We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less; 

              We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; 

              We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness;

              We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values;

              We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often;

              We learned how to make a living, but not a life;

              We have added years to life, not life to years;

              We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour;

              We have conquered outer space, but not inner space; 

              We have have cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; 

              We have split the atom, but not our prejudice; 

              We have higher incomes, but lower morals; 

              We have become long on quantity, but short on quality;

              These are the times of tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships;

              These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition; 

              These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes;

              It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom.

What do you think? 

The Numa Numa Man

            His name is Gary Brolsma. Four years ago, he was nineteen.
            Now picture this:- A nineteen year-old-guy at home and bored. He decided to have some fun by ‘performing’ to the song Numa Numa. His webcam recorded his performance and he thought, “What the heck. I’ll put it up on You-tube, and see what happens.”
            That video is viewed over 14,500,000 times now, and counting. That’s what happened. On top of that, he got 2 movie deals, cut a CD, and appearances on talk shows, out of it. Not bad, is it?
            He found fame on the internet. Now why didn’t I think of that!?

Sunset

I think sunset is one of the most beautiful scenes of the day. I love watching the sun set. However, watching the sun set always brings about a mixed bag of emotions. 

Firstly, I am awed by the beauty of the sunset.

Secondly, as the setting sun diminished over the horizon, I get a feeling of sadness for not being able to hold on to the spectacular scene, a sense of helplessness as I watched the sun go down.

Thirdly, sunset signifies the passing of another day – never to return, a day in our life lost forever – made sadder, if we realized that we had not made good use of the day.

I know - silly me! 

Of course, for some people, the sunset could mean that the day, however long or hard is finally over, and they can take comfort that they have make it through another day. They can rest their cares for the time being, till the dawn brings about another day with its new tidings.

Here’s a quote which states the true, sad fact of the setting sun!

"The sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last time." - James Baldwin 

Always Remember Those Who Serve You

            

             In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him. “How much is an ice cream sundae?” he asked.

            “Fifty cents,” replied the waitress. The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied the coins in it. “Well, how much is a plain dish of ice cream?” he inquired.

            By now more people were waiting for a table and the waitress was growing impatient. “Thirty-five cents,” she brusquely replied.

            The little boy again counted his coins. “I’ll have the plain ice cream,” he said. The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and left.

            When the waitress came back, she began to cry as she wiped down the table. There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, were two nickels and five pennies. You see, the boy couldn’t have the sundae, because he had to have enough left to leave her a tip.

Corporate Lessons

Corporate Lesson 1

            A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day.

            A rabbit asked him, “Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day

long?”

            The crow answered: “Sure, why not.”

            So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested.

            A fox jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

            Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very high up.

Corporate Lesson 2

            A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp.

            They rub it and a Genie comes out.

            The Genie says, “I’ll give each of you just one wish.”

            “Me first! Me first!” says the admin. clerk.

            “I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.” Poof! She’s gone.

            “Me next! Me next!” says the sales rep. “I want to be in Hawaii,

relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of

Pina Coladas and the love of my life.” Poof! He’s gone.

            “OK, you’re up,” the Genie says to the manager.

            The manager says, “I want those two back in the office after lunch.”

            Moral of the story: Always let your boss have the first say.

Corporate Lesson 3

            There was a fly buzzing around a barn one day when he happened on a pile of fresh cow manure. Due to the fact that it had been hours since his last meal, he flew down and began to eat. He ate and ate and ate. Finally, he decided he had eaten enough and tried to fly away. He had eaten too much though, and could not get off the ground. As he looked around wondering what to do now, he spotted a pitchfork leaning up against the wall. He climbed to the top of the handle and jumped off, thinking that once he got airborne, he would be able to take flight. Unfortunately, he was wrong and dropped like a rock, splattering when he hit the floor. Dead.

            The moral of the story is: Never fly off the handle when you know you are full of shit.

Corporate Lesson 4

            A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her

shower, when the doorbell rings.

            The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs.

            When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbour.

            Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that

towel.”

            After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob.

            After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves.

            The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.

            When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, “Who was that?”

            “It was Bob the next door neighbour,” she replies.

            “Great!” the husband says, “did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?”

            Moral of the story: If you share critical information pertaining to

credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position

to prevent avoidable exposure.

Corporate Lesson 5

            A turkey was chatting with a bull.

            “I would love to be able to Get to the top of that tree,” sighed the

turkey, “but I haven’t got the energy.”

            “Well, why don’t you nibble on my droppings?” replied the bull. “They’re packed with nutrients.”

            The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree.

            The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.

            Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree.

            Soon he was spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

            Moral of the story: Bullshìt might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there.

Metaphor

Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if, at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle, he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.

- William Golding

Life is ... Quotes

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. - Joseph Campbell

Life is like a game of chess, in which there are an infinite number of complex moves possible. The choice is open, but the move contains within itself all future moves. One is free to choose, but what may follow is the result of one’s choice. - Unknown

Life is more than simply being born, growing up and maturing. If life’s meaning is to be discovered, it is intrinsic in each stage as we assume the challenge of actualising every moment of every day as we live it. - Leo Buscaglia

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. - Marion Howard

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts. - Denis Waitley

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy. - Jennie Jerome Churchill

Life is a dynamic process. It welcomes anyone who takes up the invitation to be an active part of it. - Leo Buscaglia

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. To get more out of life, give more of yourself. - Unknown

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned. - Unknown

Life has to be lived to be understood. Like a book, or movie, you have to read or see it to fully appreciate it. - Unknown

Life is unchartered territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. - Unknown

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a one-way street. You cannot u-turn. - Unknown

Life is like two cups of tea. One is bitter; the other sweet. You either choose to drink the bitter tea now and the sweet one later; or the other way round. - Unknown

Life is like a burning candle; you never know when it will end or what will cause it to end. - Unknown

Life is never-ending struggle where winnings and failures are not permanent occasions. - Unknown

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away! - Unknown

Life is like an onion. You peel it off a layer at a time and sometimes it makes you weep. - Unknown

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends upon what you are made of. - Unknown

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. - Unknown

Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away. - Unknown

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mould and chisel and complete a character. - Samuel Butler

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. - Sharon Salzberg

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. - Seneca

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. - Lillian Dickson

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Meaning of Life

Do you know the meaning of Life? Let us see what life means to some people and how others define the meaning of life.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. - Viktor E. Frankl

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. - Phillips Brooks

Life is a mystery. You cannot understand it unless you surrender, for your intellect cannot grasp its expansive and infinite nature, its real meaning and fullness. Bow down low and be humble; then you will know life's meaning. - Unknown

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until, nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. - Robert Luis Stevenson

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. - Joseph Campbell

What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens. - Lewis L. Dunnington

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. - Anais Nin

And your definition of the meaning of life is ....?

Art of living

All of us tend to put off living. Life’s concern is not with the future but with the present. When shall we live if not now? Relax and enjoy life. You will never live this day again. Make the best of everything in life. Do not waste life in doubts and fears.

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honour. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents; someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. - Unknown

No, life may not be easy, it can be lonely. Full of people we think we know, but barely comprehend. Yet we must always remember: it's the challenges that define us best, and the obstacles that illuminate what we're truly capable of. We must welcome adversity and embrace struggle, and no matter what we get from life, never give less than 100 percent. Of course, at the end of every battle weary day, we fold ourselves into peaceful darkness and find comfort in those gentle words . . . good night. - Jim Profit

In the game of life, it is a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieve you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. - Bill Vaughan

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or if it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. – Epictetus

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? - Richard Dawkins

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. - Harold V. Melchert

The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hand will stop. At late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in tomorrow for the clock may then be still. - Unknown

Everything in life is temporary. So if things are going good, enjoy it because it won't last forever. And if things are gong bad, don't worry because it won't last forever either. - Unknown

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Unknown

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - Richard L. Evans

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life. - Immanuel Kant

The whole of life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed the greatest tragedy in life was the fact that most human beings died before they were fully born. - Erich Fromm

Do not let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past nor for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life. - Unknown

Do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past nor for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life. - Unknown

Life is not a hundred yard dash, but more a cross-country run. If we sprint all the time, we not only fail to win the race, but never even last long enough to reach the finish line. - Unknown

Life is like walking across a suspended tightrope. If one does not concentrate on looking ahead, but keeps looking back instead, one will surely fall. - Unknown

You do not need all the answers to be successful in life. You only need to be adjustable as you cruise along. - Unknown

“Uncertainty” is the key word in our lives. We must live with uncertainty and steer our ship through life’s perilous paths. - Unknown

The art of life lies in constant readjustment to our surroundings; the wisdom of life consists of the elimination of nonessentials. Unknown

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. - Eileen Caddy

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candour. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. - Edward Verrall Lucas

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be live forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Unknown