BLOGGING TO SOOTHE THE NERVES.

after all these mad scribblings are about good bad and searches! Well this friend at twitter has a rich experience. See his profile: Denny Griffin http://twitter.com/wipoolplayer Retired computer tech , Pool Player, Jazz and dragon fan. Cat lover, NASCAR fan. Served US Navy airwing on board USS Forrestal CVA-59. We think @wipoolplayer lives in Madison, Wi. USA. He has got passions...simple and rich! wipoolplayer   - I could get his rich tweets in my time line recommended by  my first twitter friend @cgiridhar. The tweets are simple, selects his quotations from a rich source of tweeps. I admire his lists: cars, spiritual to name a few. Here is a link to his fantastic links: http://twitter.com/wipoolplayer/lists Would like to make this blog simple by selecting three tweet screen shots from wipoolplayer's time line: The trait I should follow taking wipoolplayer as the lead, is to have a word with the fellow tweeps: profusely thank the RTs, have a short fu...

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 ...

Emasculated:  Deprived of strength, weakened, Disrupted: Broken asunder; torn entirely apart. Avowed: Acknowledged; openly declared. Arraigned: called upon to answer a charge Scourge: To punish severely Dominate: Exercise control over Desecrated: diverted from a sacred to a common use. Mulct: deprive of something by deceit. words are the dress of disparage thoughts - chesterfield.   

after all these mad scribblings are about good bad and searches! I love Mallus for their simplicity and for leading a practical life with timely humour. Who are Mallus? Answer please see the connected blog: Let me connect the blog: Hungry Mallus As a twitter fan I try to read,see and converse about twitter whenever I can. So, some months back CBN-IBN aired a program on twitter, apart from learning about spreadsheets and some doyens in the twitterdom, I tweeted proudly that I watched the program. There, as a reply to this I met a tweep: @ameenmaj. This friend likes to talk and always has a say whenever a tweet a tweet to him. I shared a tweet with him when I was obsessed with getting a reply from @SrBachchan, lucky he was and as I tweeted with @ameemaj....@SrBachchan replied.....to one question. @Ameenmaj likes to sing and got a good voice too. He shared with me a Tamil song. He shared the video clipping at you tube. He has good comments on the soccer and I am thin...

Smile mantra Speak to your father to strike the chord of happiness London, June 18, PTI Do you want to know the secret to happiness? Well, just talk to your dad, says a study. Researchers at the University of York have found that children who regularly talk to their fathers are happier than those who do not — the findings are based on an analysis of the British Household Panel survey into 1,200 young people all aged between 11 and 15 years. Young people who said they talked seriously to their dads “most days” gave themselves an 87 per cent score on a happiness scale compared with 79 per cent for those who said they hardly ever spoke to their fathers in this way. Nearly half of young people — 46 per cent — said that they “hardly ever” spoke to their fathers about important topics compared with 28 per cent who hardly ever spoke to their mothers about the things that matter most. Only 13 per cent confided in their father “most days”. The study, commissi...

Language tips II South African slang guide JOHANNESBURG, June 10, Reuters: In the second part of this visitor-friendly guide on the A-Z of slang (the first part appeared on Thursday), we run through the I-Z possibilities. I: Izzit. Another product of the same linguistic mangle as "Howzit", the abbreviation of "Is it?" signifies vague disbelief or surprise as in: "My girlfriend is something of a soccer fundi." Reply: "Izzit?" J: Jol. Afrikaans for "party", a surprisingly widespread term given the former Dutch settlers' puritan reputation. K: "Ke Nako". Sesotho for "It's time", and the expression that helped convince FIFA bosses in 2004 to award Africa its first World Cup. L: Lekker. Pronounced "lacquer" but has nothing to do with furniture polish and everything to do with "good". Likely to be heard in conjunction with another L, "Laduma" –– Zulu for "He scores" –– if the...

Language tips Key to unlock the African lingo! JOHANNESBURG: Even though English is South Africa's official first language, many World Cup visitors may find it hard navigating the local lingo, a bewildering mixture of Afrikaans, Zulu and nine other native tongues. The first part of the A-Z of slang, featuring A to H offers a rough guide for soccer fans worried about getting lost in South Africa's linguistic jungle. A: Ayoba. A made-up word meaning "cool", and given continent-wide currency after its appropriation as a World Cup slogan by MTN, Africa's biggest mobile phone company. B: Braai. Cooking meat on a fire is one of the few things that appeals equally to all South Africans, no matter their colour. Expect to go hungry if you refer to it as a barbecue. C: China. No, not the country, which failed to qualify for the World Cup. China, as in "Howzit, my old China?", means "friend", much as it does in London's East End, its probable port of ...