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Tuesday Haiku
Fresh raindrops falling
You hold them in your bosom
Your heart shines like pearls
© copyright, skm, 7th May 2013
How is the mood today – Its friday!
Here are a collection of tweets with the hashtag #friday to capture the mood before the weekend!
If you need motivation today, think of your paycheck. #Friday
— Men’s Humor (@MensHumor) June 29, 2012
If you need motivation today, think of your paycheck. #Friday
If it’s Friday where you live, please share your #fridayreads.
— Bethanne Patrick (@TheBookMaven) April 26, 2013
Another day to be better. So help me God. #Friday
— Michael Mateo (@michaelmateo) April 26, 2013
If it’s Friday where you live, please share your #fridayreads.
— Bethanne Patrick (@TheBookMaven) April 26, 2013
22 Things Happy People Do Differently
This article is from Chiara Fucarino. Enjoy!
There are two types of people in the world: those who choose to be happy, and those who choose to be unhappy. Contrary to popular belief, happiness doesn’t come from fame, fortune, other people, or material possessions. Rather, it comes from within. The richest person in the world could be miserable while a homeless person could be right outside, smiling and content with their life.
Corruption in Sports: Is Sport losing its integrity ?
The Olympic motto reads: Citius, Altius, Fortius (faster, higher, stronger) and the Olympic creed reads: “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”
The creed and motto are meant to inspire the athletes to embrace the Olympic spirit and perform to the best of their abilities.
But today, with corruption seeping into the culture of sport, is sport losing its integrity?
In the multi-million dollar world of sports, political and private parties have a big play. Deals are signed behind closed doors allowing room for corruption.
The IOC holds a monopoly in Olympics decisions and a lot of palm greasing and power broking go behind decisions to select the city to host the Olympics. This became public when, Salt Lake City won the rights to host the 2002 Winter games via a series of bribes to the IOC. Infighting and corruption are endemic to other sports as well.
The lucrative Indian Premier League and Commonwealth Games exposed corruption in cricket. A series of scandals has tarnished the image of the cash-rich IPL, which boasts a host of celebrity owners including India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, spirits and airline magnate Vijay Mallya and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan. Five uncapped Indian cricketers have been provisionally suspended following allegations of corruption.
Match fixing is now a well-known part of soccer. Players and middle-men take bribes to fix matches. Club owners demand high sums of money to transfer high profile players. Before the start of events like the Commonwealth games, companies try to rig bids for construction contracts.
Recently, Singapore soccer players were identified to be behind many of the betting scandals that have dented soccer’s reputation. Money laundering takes place through sponsorship and advertising arrangements or through television rights, purchase of clubs and players. Complex techniques are used to launder money through football and other sports.
Apart from this, use of performance-enhancing drugs, anabolic steroids and recreational drugs have severely dented the credibility of athletes. With the exposure of Lance Armstrong who has topped the cycling circuit for decades, sport is beginning to lose its essence.
What are your views?
The beauty of metaphors
A metaphor is defined in the dictionary as a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance , in other words an implied comparison.
Some examples of metaphors are:
the apple of my eye
broken heart
rollercoaster of emotions
its raining men etc.
Metaphors allow us to think out of the box and compare one thing to another in a totally different context. They help us to get a break from structured thinking and think visually or creatively.
In the above examples , ‘apple of my eye’ is used to refer to someone dear or adorable. Similarly ‘rollercoaster of emotions’ suggests mood swings like the ups and downs of a rollercoaster ride.
A metaphor allows us to weave our words and use creativity to convey a better understanding. Instead of saying he is happy , when we say he is feeling above the moon – it signifies a feeling of being elated and excited. Metaphors create impactful statements which remain in the mind of readers. They make use of vivid imagery to convey to the reader a picture rather than a bland statement.
Other figures of speech like simile, hyperbole, alliteration etc also help us to add depth to the meaning of our words and create an impact on the reader.
Reflection
Pompous and grandiose
They claim to know all
Obnoxious and disparaging
They belittle you
Dishing out plans for you
Charting life’s course for you
An army of consultants
With no dearth of advice
Looking for perfection
Cloning all to their image
They build an army
Of sycophants
They build tall empires
And gleaming towers
And count their success
In dollars and cents
Freckles and frowns
Are all they can count
As they look at their reflection
Of a life gone by
© copyright skm, 22nd March, 2013
How To Take The Joy Out of Education
Heather of Becoming Cliche joins The Official How To Blog today to tackle the issue of super-duper education policy that has thankfully turned our public school students into bubbling machines. You've got a circle that needs to be colored in? By all means, grab your nearest eight-year-old cuz that kid knows what's up. Incidentally that same child might not know what's up in the sky because science is optional.
Life is not a rocket launch!
10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1….Blast-off…. The rocket ship takes off into space. Precision and accurate planning are vital for its launch into space. Now, does our life need this much planning?
I find people who love to plan to every minute detail , every small event, every small experience in their life. Doesn’t that sap the fun out of our lives? The quirky mannerisms, the failures, the jokes and impromptu behaviours make our moments fun. Rigorous discipline into everything can lead to monotony and boredom.
It is a different thing when we set out on a big endeavour, a project, a business , en enterprise etc. Here it is very important to look at risks, plan, organize etc so that we can arrive at our goal without making the same mistakes over and over again.
The problem with looking too much into the future is to make our plans realistic. Instead of living in the moment and putting all our focus on the job we tend to get caught up in worries about the future.
Can you plan for a bungy jump, a free-fall, death?
Numerous other factors come into play in any event. And that is what we under-estimate. I have a friend who prepared very well for her exams but forgot the timing and came in to write the exam in the afternoon after the exam was over. These events highlight the importance of everything coming together to make an event a success. After doing our part we have to let go, and pray that things work out best.
We can live in the moment, enjoying and not getting into the nitty-gritty of everything. Can we plan for everything? I would like to have your thoughts
20 Funny and Interesting Facts
A crocodile can’t stick it’s tongue out.
A shrimp’s heart is in it’s head.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
Rats and horses can’t vomit.
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
Guinea pigs and rabbits can’t sweat.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
Money isn’t made out of paper; it’s made out of cotton.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks – otherwise it will digest itself.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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