Path to Peace

A Man asked God, "I Want Peace"

God replied, Remove the 'I',that is Ego.,

Remove the 'Want' that is desire,

and 'Peace' will be automatically Yours.

Banana Test

Answer the following Question in 20 Seconds.

Guess Who will win this test!!

There is a very, very tall coconut tree and there are 4 animals,
a Lion, a Chimpanzee, a Giraffe and a Squirrel, who pass by.


They decide to compete to see who is the Fastest to get a Banana off the tree.


Who do You guess will Win?

A. A Lion

B. A Squirrel

C. A Chimpanzee

D. A Giraffe




Your answer will reflect Your Personality.

So think carefully . . .




Got Your answer?

Now scroll down to see the analysis.

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If Your answer is:

A. A Lion - You are a bit slow on the uptake.

B. A Squirrel - You are just hopelessly stupid.

C. A Chimpanzee - You are dumb.

D. A Giraffe - You are a complete idiot.

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A COCONUT TREE DOESN 'T HAVE BANANAS.

The reason Obviously, You are Stressed and Overworked.

You should take some time off and relax!

A Quote for Lifestyle

"Extending One Hand to Help Somebody has More Value,

rather than joining Two Hands for Prayer".

Being Martha's Daughter

Mothers and daughters have complicated relationships - period. Here's a fun article on Alexis Stewart and her mum, Martha.

Who understands LOVE?

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived;
happiness, sadness, knowledge, and all the others, including love.

One day, it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink
to the bottom of the ocean. So all the feelings prepared their boats to leave.

Love was the only one that stayed. She wanted to preserve the island paradise until
the last possible moment. When the island was almost totally under,
love decided it was time to leave.

She began looking for someone to ask for help.

Just then Richness was passing by in a grand boat.
Love asked,"Richness, Can I come with you on your boat?"

Richness answered, "I'm sorry, but there is a lot of silver and gold on my boat and
there would be no room for you anywhere."

Then Love decided to ask Vanity for help who was passing in a beautiful vessel.
Love cried out, "Vanity, help me please."

"I can't help you", Vanity said, "You are all wet and will damage my beautiful boat."

Next, Love saw Sadness passing. Love said, "Sadness, please let me go with you."

Sadness answered, "Love, I'm sorry but I just need to be alone now."

Then, Love saw Happiness. Love cried out,"Happiness, please take me with you."
But, Happiness was so over overjoyed that he didn't hear Love calling to him.

Love began to cry. Then she heard a voice say, "Come Love, I will take you with me."
It was an elder.
Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that she forgot to ask the elder his name.
When they arrived on land the elder went on his way.
Love realized how much she owed the elder.

Love then found Knowledge and asked. "It was Time", Knowledge answered.

"But why did Time help me when no one else would?",Love asked.

Knowledge smiled and with deep wisdom and sincerity, answered,

"Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."

Snowing again

The Smallest Calendar

Start your new year with a paper gadget - high style, low tech and very small. This diminutive treat offers the entire year in less than 2 1/2 inches by 3 1/4 inches. Click here for the free download from an Italian graphic designer at Grafish Design.

Vahina Giocante - Paris

Vahina Giocante is a french actress

Bad Boy - Rivoli - Paris

Astounding Facts

I. Longest English Word:
Praetertranssubstantiationalistically has 37 letters.


II. Book Without Letter "e":

GADFY, written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book,
which doesn't contain a single word with 'e' in it


III. Word without Vowel:

Rhythm

Sky

Fry

Cry


IV. Human Brain:

Organ of body which has no sensation when cut.


V. Crocodile:

Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating.


VI. No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS:

They are

** **B* Bee *
** **C* Sea*
** **G* Zee*
** **I* Eye *
** **Q* Queue*
** **R* Are *
** **S* Yes *
** **T* Tea* **
** **U* You *
** **Y* Why

Sardar Jokes

! Teacher: Students, whether Ant is bigger than Elephant?

Sardar's Son: I am not able to answer for this question without Date of Birth.


! Sardar sent an sms to his two months pregnant wife.

A couple of seconds later Sardar received a report on his phone and he satarted Dancing.
The report said: "DELIVERED".


! A Students attached 100 Rupees Note to his Exam Paper and wrote " Re.1 for 1 mark".

Paper checker was a Sardar.

Sardar sent him Rs.81/- back and wrote "You got 19 Marks".
Keep the Change.


! Sardar declares "I will never Marry in My Life and
I will give the same advice to my childrens also.

The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ

The Christmas of the Antique Apple

It was an old-fashioned Christmas, with old-fashioned applie pie, and this year, it even featured old-fashioned apples.
Here's the story: A number of years ago - I'm trying to picture the kitchen where I first tried the recipe, and it's not coming to me - I ran across the basic recipe for Dad's Extreme Apple Pie. That wasn't what it was called, of course, but that's how it's known today.
Extreme? A single pie requires five pounds of apples.
When I was growing up, Mom made apple pies fairly often. She always looked for a particular type of apple - the Northern Spy. Even 40 years ago, they were hard to find, and today, they're extremely hard to locate in grocery stores.
They don't sell well in 21st century superstore produce departments, where the visual presentation is paramount. Frankly, they're not pretty. They look like beat-up old farm apples. And they don't travel well.
But this antique breed of apple is fabulous for pies, with firm flesh, and just the right mix of sweet and tart.
And on Christmas Eve, like a Christmas present, there they were - one 10-pound bag - in the produce section at Meijer. Kissy Missy snapped them up.

And the perfect version of Dad's Extreme Apple Pie was made on Christmas Day 2009.

For the second time in a month, the whole gang was here. Matthew slid up from Grand Rapids - literally. Andrew's back from Tech, settling in for a new adventure. Miranda was here. Katherine, and Robert and Jamie, and Kissy Missy and I all shared the kind of Christmas I'd always envied other people having. What we had: "Miracle on 34th Street" on the babble box, and on the table, pot roast, mashed potatoes, corn, carrots, asparagus (from Peru - ya gotta love the 21st century), with Dad's Extreme Apple Pie, a Sarah Lee sweet potato pie and Sleeping Bear made-in-Michigan ice cream for dessert.
And gifts, given from the heart.
What we didn't have: Relatives who sit with silent disapproval, adults playing adolescent mind games, and underwear for Christmas.

Christmas in Comanche

Tanya Dziahileva - Paris

Tanya and me, we wish you a Happy Christmas !
Thanks for your visits !
Fred

Come, thou long expected Jesus

Not just dreaming of a white Christmas

Green Christmas Trees

Again this year we struggled with the concept of a green Christmas Tree and what it should be. As much fun as it sounds to find a vintage white or aluminum tree that we can save and make our own - it's just not happening in time this year. We couldn't find that old artificial tree looking for a good home. But we did enjoy the hunt. Instead of a tree, we happened upon some fabulous retro vintage ornaments and dazzling decorations long forgotten and still quite fabulous. But I digress.

We toyed with a living tree, root ball intact, but it seemed harsh to subject it to our indoor climate, then expect it to adapt again to a garden and thrive after all that excitement.

A tree of recycled paper seems environmentally thoughtful. And some may argue a tree of green bottles is sort of responsible, too.


We're still most enchanted with the trees we featured here last year and think they offer the eco-conscious style and classic beauty we admire and respect in a green holiday tree.

La petite robe noire - Castiglione - Paris

A happy Christmas
to all the visitors of Easy Fashion in Paris !

Très joyeux Noël
à tous les visiteurs de Easy Fashion Paris !

Belted Shoes - Trocadéro - Paris

Delfina Delettrez Fendi - Louvre - Paris

Alone in the crowd - Rivoli - Paris

Eighteen

She's 18.


Friday was Katherine's 18th birthday. I keep calling her my "mature, responsible adult daughter." She doesn't know that I (mostly) really mean it.

I always joked that she was the one who was born with a champagne glass in one hand, cigarette in the other, wanting to know who was in charge, baby. Actually, she objects to both ideas, but she still has the attitude she was born with. She is, after all, a ginger.

Sometimes she's an airhead. Sometimes she's a blonde. But along the way she found a fierce dedication to doing things right, and working hard enough to make them happen.

I greeted her on her birthday morning with Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" at a tooth-rattling volume. She just shook her head. Her friends gave her, among other things, "Pride, Prejudice and Zombies." If you have to ask, you won't get it.
After school, I took her to register to vote. Then she went, for the first time, to the casino. Go there on your 18th birthday and the Soaring Eagle will give you $30 on a Players Club card.
She played, and came home with a pocket full of cash.
She says she'll put it in the bank. My mature, responsible, adult daughter.
(Photos by Lisa Yanick-Jonaitis)

Green Wrapping from Japan

Ms. Yuriko Koike, former Japanese Minister of the Environment, recommends the Japanese practice of wrapping things in a furoshiki, a large piece of fabric, to transport purchases and gifts and help reduce waste from plastic bags and wrapping papers.

"It would be wonderful if the furoshiki, as a symbol of traditional Japanese culture, could provide an opportunity for us to reconsider the possibilities of a sound-material cycle society. As my sincere wish, I would like to disseminate the culture of the furoshiki to the entire world."

The furoshiki can be used to wrap purchases and gifts of almost any shape and size. Here are some traditional folding and wrapping styles. Click here and here for more instructions.

Skater - Rivoli - Paris

RedHead Girl - Rivoli - Paris

Color of the Year

It's not surprising that the color Pantone, the professional color standard, has selected for its 2010 color of the year is: sort of green. But it's green made better, with a blend of blue and called Turquoise or 15-5519. It evokes the calm image of tropical waters and the vacation we so desperately need at this time of year. (Okay, well maybe I should only speak for myself).

For more info on this or any color, visit Pantone.

Bhima's Son Gadotkach- like Skeleton found

Student's Sayings in the School.

Here are some Funny Locutions from School.


01.
Teacher: 'What is your name?'

Student: 'Mera naam Suraj Prakash hai.'

Teacher: 'When I ask a question in English, answer it in English.'

Student: 'My name is Sunlight.

Teacher: 'What is your name?'

Student: 'My name is Beautiful Red Underwear'

Teacher: 'What kind of a name is this? Don't joke tell me the right name'

Student: 'My name is Sunderlal Chadda."


02.
Teacher: What happened in 1869?

Student: Gandhiji was born.

Teacher: What happened in 1873?

Student: Gandhiji was four years old.


03.
Teacher: What is the full form of MATHS?

Student: Mentally Affected Teachers Harassing Students.


04.
Teacher:Now children, if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped him
then what virtue would I be showing?

Student: BROTHERLY LOVE


05.
Teacher: Because of Gandhiji's hard work what do we get on 15th August of every Year?

Student: A Holiday.


06.
Teacher: 'Can anyone give me an example of Coincidence?

Johnny: 'Sir, my mother and father got married on the same day same time.'


07.
Teacher:How old is Your father?

Sunny: As old as I am.

Teacher: How is it possible?

Sunny: He became father only after I was born.

NOKIA Code Tips

01. To check the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)

Type:

*#06#


Information you get from the IMEI-

XXXXXX XX XXXXXX X
TAC FAC SNR SP


TAC = Type approval code

FAC = Final assembly code

SNR = Serial number

SP = Spare


02. To check the phones Software Revision :

Type:

*#0000#

Information you get from the Software Revision-

V 00.00

00-00-00

ZZZ-0


1ST Line = Software Revision

2ND Line = The Date of the Software Release

3RD Line = Phone Type


03. To enter the Service Menu :

Type:

*#92702689# (*#WAR0ANTY# )

Serial Number (IMEI)

Production Date (MM/YY)

Purchase Date (MM/YY) You can only enter the Date Once.

Date of last repair (0000=No repair)

Transfer user data to another Nokia phone via Infra-Red

Attitude - A Moral Story

One day, a Farmer's donkey fell down into a Well.

The Animal cried piteously for hours as the Farmer tried to figure out what to do.

Finally, he decided the Animal was old, and the Well needed to be covered up anyway;
it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbours to come over and help him.

They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the Well.
At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly.

Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the Farmer finally looked down the Well.
He was astonished at what he saw.

With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing.

He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the Farmer's neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,
he would shake it off and take a step up.

Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the
well and happily trotted off!

Moral:
Life is going to shovel dirt on You, all kinds of Dirt.
The trick to getting out of the Well is to shake it off and take a step up.
Each of our troubles is a steppingstone.
We can get out of the deepest Wells just by not stopping, never giving up!
Shake it off and take a step up.
Thats the Attitude to be.

Julie & Jean - Etienne Marcel - Paris

Julie is a "Burlesque dancer" (A kind of French Dita VT)
Jean is the Guitarist-Singer in a group called "MUSTANG"

Kissers and Smashers

Here's a nice little article on iconoclasm from Christian History. I just have one question: If you are not a smasher, why aren't you a kisser?

For many in the West today, Orthodox devotion to icons seems odd, especially the practice of kissing them. And when we learn that for a hundred-plus years in the early Middle Ages arguments raged over pictures of Jesus, causing one of the greatest political, cultural and religious upheavals in Christian History—well, we just don't understand it. What is it about icons that created such a stir, and what do they represent to the Orthodox?

Read the rest here.

Green Wrapping with Paper

Looking for green wrapping solutions often brings me to patterns in eco-friendly inks on recycled paper or tote bags that can be used again. For sources closer to home, recycling a sheet of newspaper or a map works nicely as an eco-wrapping choice, especially when it's brightened with a colorful bow made from a magazine.

Jessica Jones of How about orange... shares her brilliant and green (well, orange) bow made from a magazine page in a tutorial here.

May your wrapping be inspired and fun!

Is it worth the cost?

I captured this image at 1:30pm this afternoon. Check USDebtClock.org to see what it is now. Let us all consider whether we want to see this trend continue.

The legs - Rue Scribe - Paris

Using Reported Speech.

"Acrobat on a Ball", by Pablo Picasso

















Change the following direct quotes to reported speech. Follow the "Sequence of Tenses" rule.

1. She said, "I watch TV everyday."

She said she watched TV everyday.

2. Bob said, "I will help you."

Bob said he would help me.

3. Jennifer asked, "What do you want?"

Jennifer asked me what I wanted.

4. Sid asked, "Are you hungry"

Sid asked me if I was hungry.

5. Bruce said, "I'm going to move to Ohio."

Bruce said he was going to move to Ohio.

6. Connie asked, "Did you enjoy your trip?"

Connie asked me if I had enjoyed my trip.

7. Dick asked, "What are you talking about?"

Dick asked me what I was talking about.

8. Nancy asked, "Have you seen my grammar book?"

Nancy asked me if I had seen her grammar book.

9. Susan said, "I don't want to go with you."

Susan said she didn't want to go with me.

10. David asked, "Can you come to my party?"

David asked me if I could come to his party.

11. Mike said, "I may be late. I have a lot to do."

Mike said he might be late. He had a lot to do.

12. My daughter often asked, "Why is the sky blue?"

My daughter often asked me why the sky was blue.

13. My mother asked, "Why are you so tired?"

My mother asked me why I was so tired.

14. "I will come to the meeting," Juan said.

Juan said he would come to the meeting.

15. "The sun rises in the East," Mr. Ross explained.

Mr. Ross explained that the sun rose in the East.

16. She said, "I need a vacation."

She said she needed a vacation.

17. Mr. Clark asked me, "Where are you going?"

Mr. Clark asked me where I was going.

18. She asked me, "When will you get back from your trip?"

She asked me when I would get back from my trip.

19. He asked me, "Does it take longer to go there by bus?"

He asked me if it took longer to go there by bus.

20. Our son said to us, "Please, send me more money right away."

Our son told us to send him more money right away.

21. He asked us, "Please, sit down for a few minutes."

He asked us to sit down for a few minutes.

22. The police officer said to me, "Don't make so much noise."

The police officer told me not to make so much noise.

23. The teacher said to us, "Don't expect to learn English in one year."

The teacher told us not to expect to learn English in one year.

24. My doctor said to me, "Don't worry about your blood test."

My doctor told me not to worry about my blood test.

25. Mario said, "I can't understand the teacher."

Mario said that he couldn't understand the teacher .

26. Sally said, "I must leave class early today."

Sally said that she had to leave class early today.

27. Steve said, "I'm sorry I haven't been in class."

Steve said that he was sorry he hadn't been in class.

28. "Where did the teacher go yesterday?" Maria asked.

Maria asked where the teacher had gone yesterday.

29. "Have your students all been registered?" Lisa asked me.

Lisa asked me if all my students had been registered.Lisa asked me whether all my students had been registered.