Winner of Human Race...

"I open my eyes… ah!The joy of a new day,

No matter what comes along… my happiness will stay,

I take a deep breath… I am glad I am alive,

The rest of the day is a bonus… no matter how hard I strive.

I’ll go for a walk… no matter what weather,

I’ll walk in the fields… smell the grass and the heather,

I know I am a winner… I see in the right vein,

To me all of life… is joy; a gain and a gain.

My work is just a game I like to play,

I love the hunt… the chase… the fray,

I welcome the challenge… I am a smiling gladiator,

Impossible to defeat… a laughing mediator.

When everyone says it can’t be done… just get on with and do it,

When things go loose… roll up your sleeves and screw it,

When things become old hat… think and new thought to renew it"

Remember!!

There are always two ways… the hard way, or the smart way to do it.


Source: Note Book last page

In distress dial...

If you are stressed and cannot bear it any more then please take help of experts than to do something worst with yourself. Life is to live and not to end.

Samaritans Mumbai : 32473267


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         Kersi Chavda : 9821031070


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Source: Hindustan Times

"ICE" (In Case of Emergency)

We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends.

If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know whom to call? Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? Hence this "ICE" (In Case of Emergency) Campaign

The concept of "ICE" is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As cell phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name "ICE" ( In Case Of Emergency).

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn't know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital Staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialing the number you have stored as "ICE."

For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc. A great idea that will make a difference!

Let's spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our Mobile phones today!

Source: e-mail

Don't draw conclusions...

One old man was sitting with his 25 years old son in the train. Train is about to leave the station. All passengers are settling down their seat. As train started young man was filled with lot of joy and curiosity. He was sitting on the window side. He went out one hand and feeling the passing air. He shouted, "Papa see all trees are going behind". Old man smile and admired son feelings.

Beside the young man one couple was sitting and listing all the conversion between father and son. They were little awkward with the attitude of 25 years old man behaving like a small child. Suddenly young man again shouted, "Papa see the pond and animals. Clouds are moving with train".Couple was watching the young man embarrassingly. Now it starts raining and some of the water drops touched the young man's hand. He filled with joy and he closed the eyes. He shouted again," Papa it's raining, water is touching me, see papa". Couple couldn't help themselves and ask the old man. "Why don't you visit the Doctor and get treatment for your son."

Old man said, “Yes, we are coming from the hospital as today only my son got his eye sight for the first time in his life".

Moral: "Don't draw conclusions until you know all the facts".


Source: e-mail

Matter of understanding

I was coming home from work & luckily got the city bus. I jumped in quickly as it was about to begin it’s ride. I occupied the second seat from the front gate. The very front seat is reserved for handicaps & senior citizens. The driver ignited the engine and the journey began. Few minutes later I saw an old man coming from back, he got in after me; he came shouting on the young man who occupied himself on the seat which was reserved for handicaps & senior citizens, the old man was handicapped as well, I noticed while he was walking in the front. His voice was sharp; he started complaining to the young man for getting himself occupied at the place which was reserved for people like him. The young man immediately got up & tried to offer him the seat. The bus was crowded by now. The old man was not convinced; his point was that even though it was clearly mentioned on the seat that it’s reserved then why he sat at that place? I was shocked with this complain of the old man as I remembered that I and that boy we boarded the bus almost together and there were only two seats available then, if he would have got before me then of course I would have sat at the place where he was now. People around were also not able to get the old man’s point. The young man in his favor argued that he understands that the seat is reserved one but since there was no candidate to occupy it, he preferred to get it for himself. He added that now that you acknowledged me about your right to get that seat I’m not denying you to get your seat, and that until someone specifies how could he ever come to know if there is any handicap person in the bus or not. His point was sounding valid to almost all of us. But old man was not ready to accept it. He was angrier for the young man arguing in spite of being wrong (according to him). The driver, conductor and few people standing nearby all were convincing the old man to sit down and that the young man isn’t at fault as much as he’s trying to prove. The driver also cleared that if no one is present the normal commuters can sit on the seat. The old man refused to sit, the young man was also high on his temper by now and he sort of gave the last call to the old man to sit or else he’ll sit back. The old man refused & the young man murmuring in his mouth for the old man not trying to understand things and just wasting time & energy of his and others sat on the seat. The old man kept standing. I thought of offering my seat to the old man but hesitated.

In all this what I felt was that of course the old man should have got convinced and as the young man was ready to give him the seat, without taking much pains he should have taken it. For young man he should have left it vacant but sitting back was not much modest of him.

Finally my stop came and I got down then I noticed that old man got down immediately after me, his leg got some problem, as he was stretching it after getting down and there was pain on his face.

I really don’t understand why people end up messing things like this? Where the point is clear they keep proving themselves for some reason which no one can understand. I agree that he was old, handicapped but then one should not try to over ride others in the name of sympathy!

One should always have a good understanding, it would be better for them as well as for people around.

Meet, Sindhu Tai Sapkal

TRUE GRIT A farmer's daughter, Sapkal was kicked out of her marital home at age 24, nine months pregnant. In a few months, she had found her mission: offering love, shelter and succour to orphans of all ages. She now runs four homes and was the subject of a recent award-winning documentary My family are those I adopt and those who support me. I think I will have to adopt the government next... they are yet to support me.
S I N D H U  TA I  S A P K A L , 6 2


In a hall lit by a glittering chandeier and carpeted with hand-woven rugs, Sindhutai Sapkal, 62, stands in her crumpled cotton sari. out in her crumpled cotton sari.She wears no jewellery, only a large black bindi and a warm smile.
Small, self-effacing, with a weathered face, she has travelled from Pune to the Indian Merchants' Chamber headquarters at Churchgate to accept the award for woman of the year from the IMC Ladies' Wing.
“Life is its own reward," she says, in colloquial Marathi, thanking the panel as she is handed the trophy and citation.
A farmer's daughter from Wardha, Sapkal was abandoned by her husband at age 24, when she was nine months pregnant. Over the intervening years, she went from beggar to fund-raiser to manager of four orphanages and beloved Mai to more than 1,000 orphans.
Along the way, Sapkal gave up her daughter so as to remain impartial to her other children, forgave and nursed her husband on his deathbed, then reconciled with her child after 20 years.
It is this remarkable journey that draws people to her everywhere she goes. At the IMC, the glittering socialites and industrialists' wives in the audience hurry forward to touch her feet and pose for photographs with her.
The following morning, as Sapkal steps out of her taxi in the middle-class Maharashtrian area of Shivaji Park, Dadar, for lunch, passersby stop to greet her and touch her feet; restaurant managers escort her through waiting crowds.
Some congratulate her on the success of Mee Sindhutai Sapkal, a film based on her life that won four National Awards this year. Others want to know how her children are doing.
To anyone who offers to help, her response is the same: Give what you can so I can continue my work.
Sapkal's orphanages all run on private donations -her one smiling complaint about her life is that the government has not stepped forward to help.

“Whenever I am invited to speak, I end my address with a plea for donations," she says, smiling. “Bhashan nahin toh ration nahin (Without speeches, there will be no groceries)."

And no groceries is not an option. “I decided early on that I would be a mother to any orphan," says Sapkal, “whether a child of a few days, a destitute woman or an old person."
The journey to that decision began in 1958, when Sapkal was married at age nine to a man 20 years older.
“At age 12, I was sent to my in-laws' home, where I was beaten, mistreated and overworked," Sapkal says, speaking with a calm, smiling simplicity.
“Then, at age 24, after a domestic dispute, I was thrown out of their home."
Sapkal, nine months pregnant, delivered her daughter in a cowshed soon after, cutting the umbilical chord with a sharpened stone. “To support us, I sang and begged on trains," she says. “I tried to commit suicide thrice, but now I know there was a reason why I survived."
Sapkal's adoption efforts began when she was still destitute and her baby still an infant. “I would see urchins living on railway platforms and try to take care of them," she says. “We would share what food and shelter I could find."
Then, six months after her daughter was born, she made her toughest -and some say most brutal -decision. “I left my daughter at a social welfare trust in Pune," she says, her brow furrowing. “I wanted to be sure I would never discriminate against another child because I loved my own more."
For the next 13 years, Sapkal cared for street children and urchins with what funds she could raise from her singing and begging and with donations she solicited through powerful speeches -Sapkal is a Class 5 dropout but loves poetry and has a natural oratorical skill.
In 1986, she finally registered her first orphanage, in Amravati.
As her movement grew, word spread and donations began coming from temples, trusts and well wishers.
Then, nearly two decades after her first orphanage was opened, Sapkal got word that her husband, then 75, was ailing and alone. “He was an old man and an orphan. I had to help him," she says. “I told him, I cannot be your wife but I can look after you as my child."
Ask about forgiveness and Sapkal says she actually attributes her success to her husband. “By deserting me, he gave me a chance to do noble deeds," she says.
But through the years of noble deeds, Sapkal worried constantly that her daughter would grow to hate her. “I worried that she would never understand why I had left her," says Sapkal, her brow furrowed again. “But now she is with me again and I believe I did the right thing."
Last year, Sapkal was invited to speak at a Marathi literary event in San Francisco. It was news coverage of this trip that brought her to the attention of filmmaker Anant Mahadevan.
“I read a headline that said `I have 157 sons-in-law' and it made me sit up,"Mahadevan. “We were destined to meet. She feels that the film has done her good and I feel the same. It made me a better filmmaker."
The film travelled to several international film festivals this year. “It has helped spread the word about my mission," says Sapkal, with a bright smile.
“People now come to me, offering to help. It has made my movement famous." 
NAMED WOMAN OF THE YEAR THIS MONTH BY THE IMC LADIES' WING Sindhutai Sapkal at a meet-the-press event held in a conference room at the IMC building in Churchgate earlier this month. Sapkal was in Mumbai to receive the IMC Ladies' Wing Woman of the Year award.

Source: Hindustan Times

An act of kindness

You never know which of the smallest or the tiniest act of yours can create an impact on someone, rather give happiness to someone.

The other day I forgot my umbrella at home and while coming back from office it was raining heavily, I had no option than to stand in the rain, though I wasn't in the situation to do so. After standing for nearly half an hour in search of a rick which can land me home, this is usual stuff for me these days to wait for an auto but the rain was unbearable. Finally there came a rick, there was one girl passenger already there, her stoppage was previous to mine but the rick driver agreed to go at my station, though it was quite away. Then as we moved there were two persons one amongst was an old man and other one may be his son they were also without umbrella, and their stoppage was also quite different, which need a long route to be taken and he agreed to them as well. Soon he dropped all of us, on our respective places safely, mine being the last and away from the others I was really touched by the persons kindness. He didn't think completely about his business but also about human.

I gave him Rs. 10/- instead of Rs. 7/- and thanked him. As I thought that greatness must be acknowledged in some way, not that money is the only thing which will encourage him but still I wished to do something in return. Finally personal satisfaction is every thing.

I'm still very impressed by the behaviour, thought & act. You can't expect kindness and modesty with all. But important thing is that a good and kind work will be recognised in one or the other way. It may not always be monetary but many a times emotional.

So be kind to as many people as you can you'll be happy and others will also be happy. :)

Spread happiness! :)

Best quotes by best people

1. If we cannot love the person whom we see,...

How can we love god, whom we cannot see ?

- Mother Theresa .

2. If you win you need not explain ...

But if you lose you should not be there to explain

- Adolph Hitler

3. If you start judging people you will be having no time to love them

- Mother Theresa

4. I'm not in competition with anybody but myself...

My goal is to beat my last performance

- Bill Gates

5. Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...

If you do so, you are insulting yourself

- Alen Strike .

6. Never explain yourself to anyone...

because the person who likes you does not need it...

and the person who dislikes you won't believe it

- author unknown

7. The dream is not what you see in sleep...

dream is which does not let you sleep.

- Dr. Abdul kalam

8. No man is rich enough to buy his past

- Oscar Wilde

9. If you want real peace,...

Don't talk to your friends,...

talk with your enemies

- Mother Theresa

10. Winning doesn't always mean being first,...

Winning means you're doing better than you've done before

- Bonnie Blair

11. Everyone thinks of changing the world,...

But no one thinks of changing himself .

- Leo Tolstoy

12. I will not say I failed 1000 times,...

I will say that I discovered. There are 1000 ways that can cause failure.

-Thomas Edison

13. Never break four things in your life,

a) trust,

b) promise,

c) relationship and

d) heart

Because when they break they don't make noise but pain a lot

- Charles

14. In a day, when you don't come across any problems you can be sure that you are traveling in a wrong path

- Swami Vivekananda

15. Three sentences for getting success:

a) know more than other

b) work more than other

c) expect less than other

- William Shakespeare

16. Love your job but never fall in love with your company because you never know when it stops loving you

- Dr. Abdul kalam

17. If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they had never tried a new thing in their life

- Albert Einstein

Source: An e-mail

Power of "S"

Read this quote and felt like sharing it:


"Serious Sincere Systematic Studies Surely Secure Supreme Success"


Source: ICAI Students Journal

Sham!

It’s all Sham. The world around is Sham. People around are Sham. 

Your emotions on the face are all Sham. Your words you speak are Sham.

You are only pretending to be what you aren’t.

Reasons could be any? But fact is Sham!

Journey!

Whenever I’m traveling let it be through any mode, though mostly it’s Train through which I travel, daily cumulatively almost 3hrs and few times even more than that when I’m to distant places for Audits and when I’m to my native place it’s even 24hrs or so. But still there is this strange feeling in me that I’m always unsatisfied with the journey. I just want the travel to keep going. I don’t want the train to stop; I don’t want the Journey to end. I don’t want the destination to come. I don’t want to halt at a place. I want it to continue. I want the Journey to keep going. I want to stay in there especially when there is peace in the environment and I could just gaze at the things moving besides me through the window. I want to stare at the things passing by. Sometimes I want few scenes to freeze but they just pass by like every other moment. I want to stay there forever.

 I love to Travel!

There is more meaning and feel behind these words than I could explain it into words and you could think of while reading this.

Every Balance Sheet Tallies

You may look Saint from outside but you know what you are actually?

How sinner you have been as on?

If you believe in the power which governs this whole system of universe; very well known as GOD! Then you should even know that he who created you knows you better than yourself. You can hide your deeds from the naked eyes of human beings but not from that invisible power watching out on you every moment. You may fool others, be fool yourself but your accounts are written there, UP!

Probably you may not be asked for an explanation to whatever you have done but verdict will be given based on it. So learn the DEBITs and CREDITs of your life.

Being Human

Be Human, don’t be Animal! Have a Character of your own. Be truthful at least to yourself. Have an idea of what you are up to! Know the pros and cons of things you do. Rather than regretting later on, be precautionary. Rather than explaining your mistakes accept the one! Rather than blaming on others take the onus of the results. Rather than cribbing about the situations try to bring in the change, take that extra effort. Rather than always changing try to be constant. Rather than exploiting, try to comfort others. Rather than hiding try to bring out the truth, accept it than to run away from it. Rather than fooling try to be loyal. Be something original. Be Unique. Be what you should be and not what others are. Be what you show off to others. Be yourself.

Why always Mummy? Daddy this time... :)

Very cute pictures of fathers with their children. It is something usual to see a mother with her child on a picture, but when you see a father so loving and caring, it is someway even cuter. And sometimes, when they play with their children, they also remind big kids themselves :

Here it goes, enjoy...

A Kiss!

The first sight

A Comfort

A Doze

A Walk to remember!

U & ME

A Touch

A Care

A Struggle

A Game

Wow! What beautiful eyes...

A Lift

Fun!

See that, yeah that one...

and

Craziest and cutest of All...

CHEERS!.... ;)

Happy Father's Day :)

A Piece about how a child thinks about his father at different ages:

At 4 Years: My daddy is great.

At 6 Years: My daddy knows everybody.

At 10 Years: My daddy is good but is short tempered

At 12 Years: My daddy was very nice to me when I was young.

At 14 Years: My daddy is getting fastidious.

At 16 Years: My daddy is not in line with the current times.

At 18 Years: My daddy is becoming increasingly cranky.

At 20 Years: Oh! Its becoming difficult to tolerate daddy. Wonder how Mother puts up with him?

At 25 Years: Daddy is objecting to everything.

At 30 Years: It's becoming difficult to manage my son. I was so scared of my father when I was young.

At 40 Years: Daddy brought me up with so much discipline. Even I should do the same.

At 45 Years: I am baffled as to how my daddy brought us up.

At 50 Years: My daddy faced so many hardships to bring us up. I am unable to manage A Single son.

At 55 Years: My daddy was so far sighted and planned so many things for us. He is One Of his kind and unique.

At 60 Years: My daddy is great.

Thus, it took 56 years to complete the cycle and come back to the 1st. Stage. Realize the true value of your parents before it’s too late!

Source: e-mail

Something is better than nothing…

I don’t understand this mentality. If there is a couple who are happily married (What a Paradox! ;)) and after few reasonable years of their marriage they are expected to have a new member in to their family. (I hope, you know what I mean to say?).

But if due to some reasons they are not able to have it and even after medical help they are not able to have a biological baby then all I could hear is “Even if they would have had a Baby Girl, it would be okay!”

Now what does that mean? :/ 

So you mean to say a child has to be a boy only, but if it’s that you don’t have any chances of having a child itself, then a girl will do.

Good thought…

Huh! Crap People…

Leopard cuddles Baby Baboon

 (: Amazing Video

Sometimes this, sometimes that!

Sometimes it so happens that you meet a person and you feel something strange about them. Sometimes some people give you a strange feel, feeling of insecurity in the sense that you don’t like something in them not that they are bad or something but you don’t like the expressions they give. For some odd reason their eyes give some odd signs, even if it’s been that you know them from some time but still you can’t resist that dislike feeling for some unexplainable reasons, may be you could explain it to yourself but not to others.

And sometimes you meet a completely stranger on a roadside or in train or a bus stop and still you get along with them easily you get that comfort with them. You get positive wiles from them; you share some common thoughts of things happening here and there in the surrounding or some general issues. You feel good having interacted with them. And you wave a good bye with a smile on your face; on the other hand you just try to avoid the person whom you don’t like in fact wish that they disappear from your sight soon possible.

Let's Begin! :)

After a long deep thought for a long gestation finally I came to the conclusion that yes, I’ll do it. I’ll do it not for anyone but for me. I was confused if I should bring it up or not as there were many criterion which were creating doubt in my mind about its existence in the manner I wanted it.

Time is the main factor which is creating hurdle and could still be a constrain. As these days I’m busy with so many things. My to-do-list is getting pile up day by day. There are so many things to read from general as well as professional front so many things to learn. My article-ship is keeping me busy for more than 7hrs then there is lots of traveling involved from home to office to class back to home. It’s difficult to find time in between to sit down and write something. Since it’s only difficult to write and not to think I thought I should go for it. Thoughts are the ones that are always flowing in my mind, and these days I would say they are simply overflowing.

My typing speed is also not so good, plus it involves lots of concentration. As the mind runs way ahead from my finger tips and to frame sensible sentences it’s important for hands and thoughts to go hand-in-hand. There should be perfect environment, peace when you are ready to think something and especially when you want to mould them into words for others to understand.

Writing has been one of the childhood freaks as well, whenever we had to write essays in exams I would end up writing more than required though meaningful but still they always expect abridged form of writing. Essays always formed part of 1st question though compulsory but I would dedicate more than the required time and fail in completing the rest of the paper. During teachers-parents meet my teachers would complain this unnecessary wastage of time by me. So I changed my habit by solving that question at last. I took part in almost all of the essay competitions irrespective of the language during School and Junior College days. But after my HSC the lure almost died as there were no opportunities where I would write something original out of my mind.

Then I came across this concept called Blogging! I met few people who blog. I then constantly kept track of their posts and for my fortune I met right persons,their writing is very fine and impressing. The command over language is awe-inspiring. It’s been almost 3 years since I’m reading their blogs and each post has been an all together different experience. Then I searched for more blogs and kept on reading. I also read many books and novels to get a better knowledge of how the flow of writing should go from start to end. After reading since so long the temptation for writing is now at its peak.


I made an attempt in the past for writing a blog but then some how failed in doing it the way I wanted to do. I believe in doing things a bit perfectly and not just do for the sake of doing. So now I’ve decided of starting from scratch but in a manner where I can enjoy it and write some sensible thoughts where others also enjoy reading it.

One of the reason for I want to blog is because I just love this phase of my life where I’m meeting so many people at different point in time and learning so much from them. Just want to freeze these learning for my future. Human tendency of forgetting things, we all know very well. So to keep some moments for back reference so that in near future I could just turn back these pages and go into a flashback I voted for YES!

Not yet sure about the specifications of the future posts and how It’ll go, the flow of my writing. But I’m surely going to share lots of things this time.

Hmm… sounds interesting.

For the time being signing off with the hope of coming back soon with some interesting thoughts.

Comments as feed backs are invited. Criticisms are most welcome as that would help me in improving my writing.

Till then...


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