Finding the person

Love isn't always about finding the person you can just live with.. Its about finding the person you just don't want to live without.

I always find this saying sweet. And now I can relate to it

Footprints in the Heart

Every love you have leaves a footprint in your heart. There will be other loves but no one will be able to fill that footprint the same way.

I agree. But that doesn't mean that that love is greater than your one true love. Nor is it reason enough to be jealous of the old love. Old love only helped mold your current love to be a better person and love that will fit you

Essay

A college class was told to write a short story in as few words as possible. The instructions were: The short story must contain three elements: Religion, Sexuality, and Mystery.

In the entire class, only one charming coed got the top grade of A+ with this masterpiece:

“Good God, I’m pregnant. I wonder who did it.”

Cursor Bug

Just found this in one of my FB friend's stats, I think it's surely a sign of over using the computer lol

a bug just landed on my computer screen and my first reaction was on try and scare it away with the cursor...

John James Audubon - Naturalist Painter

Today is John James Audubon's birthday. As a tribute, Google, has this very nature inspired logo

Eat healthier just by picturing this . . .

I am subscribed to Nestle's Real Age Health Tips email and I saw this email subject from them and the first image that came to my mind is something close to this

new life

A man is driving along a highway and sees a rabbit jump out across the middle of the road.

He swerves to avoid hitting it, but unfortunately the rabbit jumps right in front of the car.

The driver, a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulls over and gets out to see what has become of the rabbit.

Much to his dismay, the rabbit is the Easter Bunny, and he is DEAD . The driver feels so awful that he begins to cry. A beautiful blonde woman driving down the highway sees a man crying on the side of the road and pulls over. She steps out of the car and asks the man what's wrong.

"I feel terrible," he explains, "I accidentally hit the Easter Bunny with my car and KILLED HIM."

The blonde says,"Don't worry."

She runs to her car and pulls out a spray can. She walks over to the limp, dead Easter Bunny, bends down, and sprays the contents onto him. The Easter Bunny jumps up, waves its paw at the two of them and hops off down the road.

Ten feet away he stops, turns around and waves again,he hops down the road another 10 feet, turns and waves, hops another ten feet, turns and waves, and repeats this again and again and again and again, until he hops out of sight.

The man is astonished. He runs over to the woman and demands,

"What is in that can? What did you spray on the Easter Bunny?"

The woman turns the can around so that the man can read the label. It says,



"Hair Spray:
Restores life to dead hair,
and adds permanent wave."

I love eggs

I love eggs, I really do. It's my favorite food. I can it eat everyday and not get tired of it. I used to have an egg everyday as my lunch to school. I just heard from the news that eggs are a meal in itself. This is also what my natural doctor friend told me. And that's also what I found here.

Something noteworthy is that the cholesterol in egg yolks can be made into healthy fatty acids.

Healthier Eggs - the Omega-3 Eggs
Chickens that are fed healthier feeds with seeds containing omega-3 fatty acids actually lay eggs with healthier fats in the yolks. In fact, eating these enriched eggs may improve your cholesterol and blood lipids.

Egg hunt

Found this excerpt on one of FB friend's walls. Her daughter is like my nephew. Good thing we dont celebrate easter lol

Easter Egg Hunt
Mommy: Nicole go look for the eggs
Nicole: I found one! I found one!!
Mommy: Go get it.
Nicole: No, mommy! You get it! It's on the soil!
Mommy: How can you get prizes if you don't get the eggs?
Nicole: But why are they on the soil? It's gonna be so yucky!

Psalm 119:133

I've heard this verse on Thursday's worship service and I really like it, though I like the translation used in the service better.

Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.
Psalm 119:133

A true friend

A friend is one who knows us but loves us anyway.

And I'm lucky to have friends like that.

God Save The Queen

The Queen of England was showing the Archbishop of Canterbury around the Royal Stables when one of the stallions close by farted so loudly it couldn't be ignored.

'Oh dear,' said the Queen, 'How embarrassing. I'm frightfully sorry about that.'

'It's quite understandable,' said the archbishop, and after a moment added, 'as a matter of fact I thought it was the horse.'

Coffee Flavored Vodka

Ok, now I wonder if this will make you sleepy or awake lol

Google Earth Day Logo

One of the things I love from Google is the way they make their logos on special occasions. Today, as we celebrate Earth Day, the Google Earth Day logo looks awesome.

And it's more awesome on the site when they add all the javascripts and make it interactive.

Life's trials

There's always a rainbow at the end of every storm. And a beautiful picture outside of every negative

Husband and Wife Week

I like this kind of FB statuses and mine would be

Husband and Wife Week -- If your spouse is your best friend, who works hard for you, who has been with you through thick and thin, who loves you when you're at your worst, and whom you are PROUD to be married to, copy and paste this with the year you were married - 201_.

Extreme weddings

Since Prince Charles and Princess Diane... oooppss.. I mean Prince William's wedding is near, I found this interesting article in BBC.

Family

Family is more than those who you are related to. Family are those who loved you when you needed it the most, and don't ask for nothing in return.

And unfortunately, some friends are better suited to be called family than those related to you.

Man and Woman

Q: Why did God make man before woman?
A1: Because you need a rough draft before you create a master piece
A2: Practice makes perfect

Trust

Read this in one of my friend's Skype status:

It's nice to be trusted

and I definitely agree. And if that trust is broken, I can see no point in continuing the relationship. For me, any relationship is built on trust and with trust comes respect.

Why Employees Leave Organizations?

This article is written a very long time ago, and I had read similar articles in the past too, but unfortunately, the problem still exists.

This article was written by Azim Premji, CEO, Wipro Technologies

Every company normally faces one common problem of high employee turnout ratio. People are leaving the company for better pay, better profile or simply for just one reason’ pak gaya ‘. This article might just throw some light on the matter….

Early this year, Arun, an old friend who is a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer. He had heard a lot about the CEO of this company, charismatic man often quoted in the business press for his visionary attitude.

The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office, and the very best technology, even a canteen that served superb food. Twice Arun was sent abroad for training. “My learning curve is the sharpest it’s ever been,” he said soon after he joined. “It’s a real high working with such cutting edge technology.” Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Arun walked out of the job. He has no other offer in hand but he said he couldn’t take it anymore. Nor, apparently, could several other people in his department who have also quit recently. The CEO is distressed about the high employee turnover. He’s distressed about the money he’s spent in training them. He’s distressed because he can’t figure out what happened. Why did this talented employee leave despite a top salary? Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called First Break All The Rules. It came up with this surprising finding:

If you’re losing good people, look to their immediate supervisor. More than any other single reason, he is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he’s the reason why they quit, taking their knowledge, experience and contacts with them. Often, straight to the competition.

”People leave managers not companies,” write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. “So much money has been thrown at the challenge of keeping good people – in the form of better pay, better perks and better training – when, in the end, turnover is mostly manager issue.” If you have a turnover problem, look first to your managers. Are they driving people away?

Beyond a point, an employee’s primary need has less to do with money, and more to do with how he’s treated and how valued he feels. Much of this depends directly on the immediate manager. And yet, bad bosses seem to happen to good people everywhere. A Fortune magazine survey some years ago found that nearly 75 per cent of employees have suffered at the hands of difficult superiors. You can leave one job to find – you guessed it, another wolf in a pin-stripe suit in the next one. Of all the workplace stressors, a bad boss is possibly the worst, directly impacting the emotional health and productivity of employees.

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find public humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave, but a thought has been planted. The second time the thought gets strengthened. The third time, he starts looking for another job. When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: “If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don’t have your heart and soul in the job.”

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways – by being too controlling, too suspicious, too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit – often over seemingly trivial issue.

It isn’t the 100th blow that knocks a good man down. It’s the 99 that went before. And while it’s true that people leave jobs for all kinds of reasons- for better opportunities or for circumstantial reasons, many who leave would have stayed – had it not been for one man constantly telling them, as Arun’s boss did: “You are dispensable. I can find dozens like you.” While it seems like there are plenty of other fish especially in today’s waters, consider for a moment the cost of losing a talented employee. There’s the cost of finding a replacement. The cost of training the replacement. The cost of not having someone to do the job in the meantime. The loss of clients and contacts the person had with the industry. The loss of morale in co-workers. The loss of trade secrets this person may now share with others. Plus, of course, the loss of the company’s reputation. Every person who leaves a corporation then becomes its ambassador, for better or for worse.

We all know of large IT companies that people would love to join and large television companies few want to go near. In both cases, former employees have left to tell their tales.

“Any company trying to compete must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee,” Jack Welch of GE once said. Much of a company’s value lies “between the ears of its employees”. If it’s bleeding talent, it’s bleeding value.

Unfortunately, many senior executives busy traveling the world, signing new deals and developing a vision for the company, have little idea of what may be going on at home. That deep within an organization that otherwise does all the right things, one man could be driving its best people away.

Source, and the comments are worth reading too

20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web

Actually, this isn't a technews but more of a tech reading suggested to the un-geek who loves the internet

20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web

Getting through life

I've read this a lot of times and every time I encounter it, I can't help but remember He'll always be there to guide and protect me.

If God brings you to it, He can get you through it.

Do it all in love

I love this verse

Let all that you do be done in love

1 Cor 16:14

me without you

Found this on best friend's wife FB status. Cheesy! lol


Me without you is like a geek without glasses, a shoe without laces, thunder without lightning, a shoe without a foot, or asentencewithoutspaces. ♥

School and Life

At school, we are taught first the lessons before giving us the test. In life we are given the tests first before teaching us a lesson.

No Sleep

I found this in one of my FB friend's Status Shuffle

It was one of those long, not able to sleep kind of nights which means it's going to be one of those long, not able to stay awake kind of days!

And I definitely agree!

We should be loved

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Have You Ever Danced?

An old prospector shuffled into town leading an old tired mule.

The old man headed straight for the only saloon to clear his parched throat.

He walked up and tied his old mule to the hitch rail. As he stood there, brushing some of the dust from his face and clothes, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other.

The young gunslinger looked at the old man and laughed, saying, "Hey old man, have you ever danced?"

The old man looked up at the gunslinger and said, "No, I never did dance... never really wanted to."

A crowd had gathered as the gunslinger grinned and said, "Well, you old fool, you're gonna dance now," and started shooting at the old man's feet.

The old prospector --not wanting to get a toe blown off-- started hopping around like a flea on a hot skillet. Everybody was laughing, fit to be tied.

When his last bullet had been fired, the young gunslinger, still laughing, holstered his gun and turned around to go back into the saloon.

The old man turned to his pack mule, pulled out a double-barreled shotgun, and cocked both hammers.

The loud clicks carried clearly through the desert air.

The crowd stopped laughing immediately.

The young gunslinger heard the sounds too, and he turned around very slowly. The silence was almost deafening.

The crowd watched as the young gunman stared at the old timer and the large gaping holes of those twin barrels.

The barrels of the shotgun never wavered in the old man's hands, as he quietly said, "Son, have you ever licked a mule's ass?"

The gunslinger swallowed hard and said, "No sir..... but... I've always wanted to."

There are a few lessons for us all here:

Never be arrogant.
Don't waste ammunition.
Whiskey makes you think you're smarter than you are.
Always, always make sure you know who has the power.
Don't mess with old men, they didn't get old by being stupid.
I just love a story with a happy ending, don't you!

Comparing Yourself

This is a good one I found on one of my FB friend's status..

whenever you compare yourself with others, you will only be vain or bitter because according to Desiderata, "there will always be a greater and a lesser person than yourself." so never compare yourself with others.... compare yourself only with yourself.

On life

Life is full of chances. Some may break your heart. Don't allow any to break your spirit.

~Kandi Bastianelli~

And I say, Life is full of choices. If you dont have a choice, you dont have a life.

Math

In math, there is always one answer. False cannot be true and true cannot be false.

Maybe that's why I love Math, no gray areas. No or. No maybes. Only final correct answers.

Experts are not perfect

Found this article in one of my subscriptions and I really like this line

"If you're turning to a product expert for advice," says Hoegg, "it's important that they have access to all of the information they need to make their decisions, and that you let them know that it won't be the end of the world if they make a mistake."

Marks

In the end no one will care how clean your house was or how long the grass was, they will remember only the mark you left on their life and their heart.

On Girls

Girls are like phones.

We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you’ll be disconnected!

Guiding quote -- never too much

This is one of my favorite quotes that I try to follow

Too much of anything is bad

Torn in love

if you are in love with two people simultaneously, go for the second one because if you really loved the first person, the second one would not have been there!

Upgrade Your Life: Amazing free softwares

As someone who is into the computer and gadget world, I'm not good in searching for technews but found this link courtesy of a colleague.

There are two things featured in that article that I really love.


Dropbox - FREE for up to 2 GB of storage ($9.99 a month for up to 50 GB)

Compare to: Verbatim 2 GB USB Flash Drive ($11), Fetch FTP software ($29)

Instead of emailing yourself files or carrying a fiddly USB key around, try Dropbox! It's just like a folder on your computer, except that you can access that same folder from any other computer. Download the free software to your Mac, Windows or Linux computer, and it creates a central Dropbox folder. Then drag files there, and you can access them from any device with a web connection. You can even invite friends or coworkers to your Dropbox, and share files with them that are too big to email.

Free Dropbox apps are available for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry, so you can also access your files on the go.

Kindle Reader - FREE

Compare to: Amazon Kindle ($139)

You probably already know about Amazon's Kindle ebook reader, and its competitors, Kobo and Nook. But did you know you can access the same Kindle ebooks and bookstore from your laptop or smartphone? The free Kindle software is available for Macs and Windows PCs, with mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Phone.

Once installed, you sign in with your Amazon login (or create one if you haven't already got an account) and then you can choose from thousands of bestselling books, for less than the cost of a paperback and with no shipping charges. Plus, Amazon has over 16,000 free Kindle ebooks, just waiting to be downloaded.

FB Virus Warning - Hazardous to Health

One of the things I like about FB is that there are funny statuses from friends (real or virtual) that just make me laugh.

WARNING!!!! THIS IS THE WORST VIRUS EVER TO HIT FACEBOOK*** New virus on FB!!!...The ASTC Virus ( Arse Stuck to Chair) The virus glues you to your chair for several hours! No housework will be done, children will starve and the dog will not get it's walk. You're likely to lose all contact to the outside world. Put this on your status - It may be too late for most but you might save a few neighbours!!

Happy 57th Birthday Jackie

Today marks the 57th birthday of one of my favorite actors, Jackie Chan. He's not only well-known as an actor and producer but he's also active with charity works. Check out his official page

Ozone layer faces record 40 pct loss over Arctic | Home >> Other Sections >> Breaking News

This is real scary.

Ozone layer faces record 40 pct loss over Arctic
(philstar.com) Updated April 06, 2011 09:48 AM Comments (0) View comments

GENEVA (AP) – The protective ozone layer in the Arctic that keeps out the sun's most damaging rays — ultraviolet radiation — has thinned about 40 percent this winter, a record drop, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.

The Arctic's damaged stratospheric ozone layer isn't the best known "ozone hole" — that would be Antarctica's, which forms when sunlight returns in spring there each year. But the Arctic's situation is due to similar causes: ozone-munching compounds in air pollutants that are chemically triggered by a combination of extremely cold temperatures and sunlight.

The losses this winter in the Arctic's fragile ozone atmospheric layer strongly exceeded the previous seasonal loss of about 30 percent, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization in Geneva said.

It blamed the combination of very cold temperatures in the stratosphere, the second major layer of the Earth's atmosphere, just above the troposphere, and ozone-eating CFCs from aerosol sprays and refrigeration.

"This is pretty sudden and unusual," said Bryan Johnson, an atmospheric chemist who works in the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.

Atmospheric scientists concerned about global warming focus on the Arctic because that is a region where the effects are expected to be felt first.

"The Arctic stratosphere continues to be vulnerable to ozone destruction caused by ozone-depleting substances linked to human activities," the U.N. weather agency's secretary-general Michel Jarraud said.

Although the thinner ozone means more radiation can hit Earth's surface, the ozone levels in the Arctic remain higher than in other regions such as in the equatorial regions, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose recent Arctic findings mirror those of the U.N. agency.

Ozone losses occur over the polar regions when temperatures drop below -78 degrees Celsius (-108 Fahrenheit) and iridescent ice clouds form. Sunlight on icy surfaces triggers the ozone-eating reactions in chlorine and bromine that comes from air pollutants such as chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, once widely used as refrigerants and flame retardants in household appliances.

"As sunlight returns, it all comes together to trigger significant thinning of the ozone," Johnson explained.

"Mostly the concern, for the Arctic ozone depletion, is for people that live in northern regions, more towards Iceland, northern Norway, the northern coast of Russia," he added, saying they should be more careful outside, wearing sunscreen and sunglasses.

As of late March, the U.N. said, the thinning ozone was shifting away from the pole and was covering Greenland and Scandinavia.

For the planet, Johnson said, there's the concern that "if this were to happen every year — even though the ozone naturally regenerates itself — you might see a trending downward of the atmospheric ozone layer."

After scientists raised warnings in the early 1970s — later earning a Nobel Prize — virtually all the world's nations agreed to the 1987 treaty called the Montreal Protocol to cut back on CFCs used in air conditioning, aerosol sprays, foam packaging and other products.

But the compounds have long atmospheric lifetimes, so it takes decades for their concentrations to subside to the pre-1980 levels agreed to in the Montreal Protocol. The ozone layer outside the polar regions isn't expected to recover to pre-1980 levels until sometime between 2030 and 2040.

The ozone treaty also encourages industries to use replacement chemicals less damaging to ozone.

Some scientists say if that treaty hadn't been adopted, two-thirds of the world's protective ozone layer would be gone about a half-century from now and the CFCs, which also are long-lived potent greenhouse gases, would have pushed the world's temperature up an extra few degrees.

Arctic ozone conditions vary more than the seasonal ozone "hole" that forms high in the stratosphere near the South Pole each winter and spring, and the temperatures are always warmer in the Arctic than over Antarctica.

Because of the changing weather and temperatures that some Arctic winters experience, there have been times where there is almost no ozone loss, and others when the exceptionally cold stratospheric conditions has led to substantial ozone depletion, U.N. scientists say.

This year, the Arctic winter was warmer than average at ground level but colder in the stratosphere than normal. Average Arctic temperatures in January range from about -40 to 0 C (-40 to 32 F) and in July from about -10 to 10 C (14 to 50 F).

U.N. officials say the latest losses — unprecedented, but not entirely unexpected — were detected in satellite observations and weather balloons that show at what altitudes the ozone loss is occurring.

Source

from an FB friend - hand sanitizer

I'm developing a hand sanitizer that only kills the 0.01% of the germs that the others don't........ I'm gonna make a fortune !!!!!

Destiny

Destiny is not a matter of chance,it is a matter of choice, it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved

On Helping Others

To help yourself, help others. Whatever good you do travels a circle and returns to you many times over, but remember, life isn't about what you get, it's about what you become