Relevant skill The one skill that will probably never go out of fashion is the skill to be able to acquire new skills BY VARALOTTI RENGASAMY "Ma, why do we have such long legs?" a baby camel once asked his mother. "So that we can keep our legs firmly in the desert sand and walk with ease," the mother replied. "And why the big hump at the back?" "We walk in deserts and may go days on end without water. We store our water there in that hump, dear." "And what are these thick, long eye-lashes for?" "To prevent the desert sand from hurting our eyes especially when there are sand storms." Another dozen questions in the same vein were rationally answered by the mother camel. And then came the unanswerable last question: "Then what the hell are we doing in the Mysore Zoo?" Most of our students, especially those coming out of engineering colleges, are like these camels — imprisoned in the wrong place with irrelevant skill-set...
after all these mad scribblings are about good bad and searches! Reading too many quotations sometimes is like over eating. The mind becomes unclear and wanders restless...(sometimes becoming very blank) It is the stage when I feel: 'reading quotations is useless' Some time ago I made an attempt to have just four quotations ready - just like some instant energy giver - to motivate me any time. Searching quotations, with the aim to short list for instant energy giving - the mind was blocked - making myself to quote: "reading quotations is of no benefit" At this stage I thought, let me have one quotation - just one - to motivate me any time....... I got this one: Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. (This one is from twitter and can attribute the credit to http://twitter.com/StephenRPohlit/status/18170516543 and http://twitter.com/wipoolplayer/status/16918252401 ) At this stage, I get an idea why not make some subsidiary ...
GABRIELS HOUSE Gabriel at length conversed with his experiences of building his house. He said about the madhura flat he sold. He told about the independent house with Ashoka and Badam trees at Chethana colony. He said that he warmed his house on 9.9.99 at 9AM. Continuing his conversation he said that he entered his new house at 1 PM on 01.01.01. He also added that there would be a family get together on 02.02.2002 (at 2 PM or 2AM?) The journey by Haripriya on 17.10.2001 Wednesday, started with Gabriel Pillai, Assistant Personnel Officer Hubli as my company. The train started at Hubli at 20.50 hrs(late). I complimented him for the motivation talk he gave the other day at LIC. In his talk on that day he said that Mother Theresa has won 17 world reknowned awards including Nobel prize.(click mother Theresa and browse a good site on Mother Theresa ) Andhra cyclone was the weather prevailing at the time of this journey. Again, this trip is to the Controller of Stores Offic...
I love the above quote, Balu. This is just lovely!!!:*) BigHugz.
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