Change the name and changed the fortune
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Sir Ghulam Noor, MBE, the billionaire, Ex-president of London Chamber of commerce, a rare honour for an Asian origin, has had a long journey to success.
Ghulam Noor was born in a chawl (one room house) in Mohammed Ali Road, Mumbai. He lost his father when he was barely 8 years old. His father was running a small sweet shop known as “Kamaridun Ebrahim Jee Mithaiwala,” named after his grandfather. He had a loving mother who worked tirelessly to keep the wolf away from the door after the demise of her husband. However, the Young boy Noor too was extending his helping hand. The business was slow, not very remunerative and hence life was dull for the members of the family. But Noor made no bones about his desire to be rich. So it was little surprising when one day he decided to change the name of the shop from “Kamaridun Ebrahim Jee Mithaiwala” to “Royal Sweets.” The elders and other members of the family opposed the idea. But Noor did not listen to any of them. He refused to yield and changed the name of his shop. Within a couple of weeks, the whole scenario changed. It paved for the Diwali customers and all other in an unprecedented way. The business jumped by leaps and bounds. He not only redesigned the logo but also spend on advertisements. Money started pouring in and the persons who had opposed the idea of changing the name, congratulated him for his imagination and thought.
In 1964, Noor went to London and decided to settle there. There too his struggle began like any other immigrant. He wanted to start Royal sweets abroad and soon, with his efforts and imagination, started it with a partnership of 50 percent, with persons of his community.
Despite racial slur, Noor not only established himself in Royal sweets, he diverted his Business and by 1988 he launched “Noor products Ltd.,” an empire that now comprises high-tech aviation supply deals and supermarkets tie-ups to provide chilled and frozen Indian meals. His Gulab Jamuns and Dal Makhanees are sold at the best super markets. Money and honours have been chasing him since then.
You will admit that imagination and thought play a great role in changing the destiny of a man or woman. Imagination along with the will to take risk is the key to success in life.
Acres of diamonds lying within you
Man looks into the external circumstances for his success. Success is in-built. Unlimited talent and energy is hidden within you. You have unlimited wealth lying inside. It is waiting for your exploration and exploration. It is waiting to be harnessed. It is waiting to come outside. Don’t look into the external world for your success like the African who went out in search of diamond though it was lying in his backyard.
It is a true story of a poor farmer of Africa. The farmer had some rocky land where practically no crop was grown. Despite that he was quite happy with his living conditions. One day a wise man came to see him. He holds him about the value of diamonds. He said, “If you had a diamond the size of your thumb you could have your own city.” “If you had a diamond the size of your fist you could own your own country.” The farmer heard him carefully and thought over the matter. After the wise man left, the farmer became restless in the night, all the while thinking how to acquire a diamond. The next morning he sold out all his farm, farmhouse and the entire property and went in search of a diamond. He went from one country to anther in Africa and Europe but did not find any diamond. By the time he reached Spain he was almost broken, psychologically down, so he decided to end his life. He threw himself away in the Barcelona River and committed suicide.
In his native place, the man who had purchased his land, one day saw across the stream, the rays of the morning sun hit a stone and made it sparkle like a rainbow. He picked up the stone and kept it in his living room. The same wise man, after a long time, again appeared and came to the old house and shouted “Hay Hafiz, are you in?” “Are you back?” The wise man entered the living room and saw the dazzling stone. The new owner of the house did not recognize the wise man and asked, “what is the matter? I see you for the first time.” The wise man said, “ That stone is not an ordinary stone, that is a piece of diamond.” The farmer innocently said, “No, No, that is just a stone I picked up from the stream. Come, I will show you there are many more like that.” They went and picked up a few more and picked up a few more stones like that and sent them for analysis. And as expected, they were found to be diamonds. It was later found that the farm was replete with acres and acres of diamonds.
But wait! Mere knowledge of diamond inside acres of land may be a necessary condition for richness but not a sufficient condition, as it happened in the village of Palikhan in Chhattisgarh(India). One barnu ram, a wizened old man’s son one day found a stone in his field some 10 years ago. It so happened that his son, while preparing the soil for planting, saw a stone, which he picked up. The father said to his son, “This looks like a different variety of stone. What shall we do with it?” The old man went to the nearest market and sold it to a shopkeeper for Rs.3000/- and 5 kg of rice. The old man had no idea of what the actual value of that stone was. However, since that day the news had spread that the whole area was full of diamonds and diamond mines could be reckoned among the top 22 in the world. But how about the old man, he is still poor, still starving. His 2.22 acres of land have been fenced off and soil samples taken. He is waiting for the day when some company would come and dig diamonds from his land. He hopes that this will solve his problem of poverty. So more important is exploitation than mere knowledge of the existence of something under the land.
You too have acres of diamond within you. You have immense potentiality, unlimited talent waiting for exploitation. According to William James “The human being uses only 10-12% of their potentiality.” It is really sad that our abilities and capabilities are abysmally underutilized. All we need is to explore and exploit them more vigorously. Reading Heads You Win and Tails You Win will surely help you have access to the diamonds lying within you and inspire you to exploit and harness your talent.
Kids Jokes
Monday, March 12, 2007
A. He wanted cold hard cash!
Q. What did the porcupine say to the cactus?
A. "Is that you mommy?"
Q. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
A. Frostbite.
Q. How do crazy people go through the forest?
A. They take the psycho path.
Q. What do prisoners use to call each other?
A. Cell phones.
Q. What do you get from a pampered cow?
A. Spoiled milk.
Q. Where do polar bears vote?
A. The North Poll
Q. What did Geronimo say when he jumped out of the airplane?
A. ME!!!
Q. Where do snowmen keep their money?
A. In snow banks.
Q. What's brown and sticky?
A. A stick.
Q. Why do sea-gulls fly over the sea?A. Because if they flew over the bay they would be bagels!
Q. What dog keeps the best time?
A. A watch dog.
Q. Why did the tomato turn red?
A. It saw the salad dressing!
Q. What did the grape do when it got stepped on?
A. It let out a little wine!
Q. How do you make a tissue dance?
A. Put a little boogey in it!
Q. Where do bees go to the bathroom?
A. At the BP station!
Q. What did the judge say when the skunk walked in the court room?
A. Odor in the court.
Q. What did the water say to the boat?
A. Nothing, it just waved.
Q. What did the fish say when he swam into the wall?
A. Dam!
Q. Why don't skeletons fight each other?
A. They don't have the guts.
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Top 10 woman over the past 1000 years
Saturday, March 10, 2007
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students' revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained Licenciateships in Physics and the Mathematical Sciences. She met Pierre Curie, Professor in the School of Physics in 1894 and in the following year they were married. She succeeded her husband as Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained her Doctor of Science degree in 1903, and following the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences, the first time a woman had held this position. She was also appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, founded in 1914.
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I - the last Tudor monarch - was born at Greenwich on 7 September 1533, the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Her early life was full of uncertainties, and her chances of succeeding to the throne seemed very slight once her half-brother Edward was born in 1537. She was then third in line behind her Roman Catholic half-sister, Princess Mary. Roman Catholics, indeed, always considered her illegitimate and she only narrowly escaped execution in the wake of a failed rebellion against Queen Mary in 1554.
Elizabeth succeeded to the throne on her half-sister's death in November 1558. She was very well-educated (fluent in six languages), and had inherited intelligence, determination and shrewdness from both parents. Her 45-year reign is generally considered one of the most glorious in English history. During it a secure Church of England was established. Its doctrines were laid down in the 39 Articles of 1563, a compromise between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. Elizabeth herself refused to 'make windows into men's souls ... there is only one Jesus Christ and all the rest is a dispute over trifles'; she asked for outward uniformity.
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) was the only child of Kamla and Jawaharlal Nehru. She spent part of her childhood in Allahabad, where the Nehrus had their family residence, and part in Switzerland, where her mother Kamla convalesced from her periodic illnesses. She received her college education at Somerville College, Oxford. A famous photograph from her childhood shows her sitting by the bedside of Mahatma Gandhi, as he recovered from one of his fasts; and though she was not actively involved in the freedom struggle, she came to know the entire Indian political leadership. After India's attainment of independence, and the ascendancy of Jawaharlal Nehru, now a widower, to the office of the Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi managed the official residence of her father, and accompanied him on his numerous foreign trips. She had been married in 1942 to Feroze Gandhi, who rose to some eminence as a parliamentarian and politician of integrity but found himself disliked by his more famous father-in-law, but Feroze died in 1960 before he could consolidate his own political forces.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Ashy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved--and for some years one of the most revered--women of her generation.
She was born in New York City on October 11, 1884, daughter of lovely Anna Hall and Elliott Roosevelt, younger brother of Theodore. When her mother died in 1892, the children went to live with Grandmother Hall; her adored father died only two years later. Attending a distinguished school in England gave her, at 15, her first chance to develop self-confidence among other girls.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
La detención de Suu Kyi ha causado fuertes criticas por la comunidad internacional.
El Departamento de Estado estadounidense informó que la líder pro democracia birmana, Aung San Suu Kyi, comenzó una huelga de hambre en protesta por su detención, llevada a cabo hace varios meses por la dictadura militar.
Desde mayo, Aung San Suu Kyi, permanece incomunicada.
El Departamento de Estado manifestó profunda preocupación por la seguridad y bienestar de la líder pro democracia y ha reiterado su petición para que sea liberada de inmediato.
El secretario general de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU), Kofi Annan, advirtió el pasado mes a las autoridades de Birmania que la comunidad internacional les responsabilizaría por cualquier cosa que pudiera ocurrirle a Aung San Suu Kyi.
El gobierno birmano ha esgrimido que se trata de una detención preventiva, acometida con el fin de evitar que se repitan enfrentamientos como el que los seguidores de Suu Kyi y los del gobierno sostuvieron a finales de mayo.
¿Democracia sin Auu Kyi?
Líderes de oposición afirman que la militante pro democracia ha sido suplida de ropa, libros y medicinas.
Este sábado, el nuevo primer ministro birmano, general Khin Nyunt, dijo que el gobierno reiniciará una convención nacional para escribir una nueva constitución.
La noticia de la huelga de hambre se supo justo luego que el gobierno birmano anunció su propio plan de transición para retornar hacia la democracia.
El partido de Aung Saan Auu Kyi, Liga Nacional para la Democracia, ganó las últimas elecciones, en 1990, pero el estamento militar se negó a hacer la transmisión de mando.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst (July 4, 1858 – June 14, 1928) was one of the founders of the British suffragette movement. It is the name of "Mrs Pankhurst", more than any other, which is associated with the struggle for the enfranchisement of women in the period immediately preceding World War I.
She was born Emmeline Goulden in Manchester, England to abolitionist Robert Goulden and feminist Sophia Crane, and married Richard Marsden Pankhurst, a barrister, in Salford in 1879. Richard Pankhurst was already a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and had been the author of the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882.
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée in Domrémy, a village which was then in the duchy of Bar (and later annexed to the province of Lorraine and renamed Domrémy-la-Pucelle). Her parents owned about 50 acres (0.2 square kilometers) of land and her father supplemented his farming work with a minor position as a village official, collecting taxes and heading the local watch. They lived in an isolated patch of northeastern territory that remained loyal to the French crown despite being surrounded by Burgundian lands. Several local raids occurred during her childhood and on one occasion her village was burned.
Joan said she was about nineteen at her trial, so she was born about 1412; she later testified that she experienced her first vision around 1424. She would report that St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret told her to drive out the English and bring the Dauphin to Reims for his coronation.
At the age of sixteen she asked a kinsman, Durand Lassois, to bring her to nearby Vaucouleurs where she petitioned the garrison commander, Count Robert de Baudricourt, for permission to visit the royal French court at Chinon. Baudricourt's sarcastic response did not deter her. She returned the following January and gained support from two men of standing: Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy. Under their auspices she gained a second interview where she made a remarkable prediction about a military reversal near Orléans.
Margarent Thatcher’s Eulogy for Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan’s life was rich not only in public achievement, but also in private happiness. Indeed, his public achievements were rooted in his private happiness. The great turning point of his life was his meeting and marriage with Nancy.
On that we have the plain testimony of a loving and grateful husband: `Nancy came along and saved my soul’. We share her grief today. But we also share her pride - and the grief and pride of Ronnie’s children.
For the final years of his life, Ronnie’s mind was clouded by illness. That cloud has now lifted. He is himself again - more himself than at any time on this earth. For we may be sure that the Big Fella Upstairs never forgets those who remember Him. And as the last journey of this faithful pilgrim took him beyond the sunset, and as heaven’s morning broke, I like to think - in the words of Bunyan - that `all the trumpets sounded on the other side’.
We here still move in twilight. But we have one beacon to guide us that Ronald Reagan never had. We have his example. Let us give thanks today for a life that achieved so much for all of God’s children.”
EVERY WOMEN
Baby Doll Poem
You're a one of a kind
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Julian Beever (Amazing Street Drawing)
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Julian Beever is an English chalk artist who has been creating chalk drawings on pavement since the mid-1990s that create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the right location. These trompe-l'oeil drawings are created using a projection called anamorphosis and appear to defy the laws of perspective.
Besides the 3D art, Beever paints murals and replicas of the works of masters and oil paintings, and creates collages. He is often hired as a performance artist and to create murals for companies. Beever is interested in advertising and marketing, as well. He has worked in the UK, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Denmark, the USA and Australia.
Since 2004 a chain letter containing his art (sometimes mixed with similar art by Kurt Wenner) has been circulating on the Internet.
Julian Beever is an English Artist who's famous for his art on the pavements of England, france, Germany, Usa, Austrialia and Beligium. Beever gives to his drawing an anamorphous look. His images are drawn completely deformed which give a 3D image when viewed at the right angle. see for youself kool it is......
The image below has been taken as you see it from the wrong angle.
See what it looks like from the wrong angle?
This is the same one viewed at the correct angle…
Remember his foot is really flat on the pavement with the other foot.
Labels: Amazing street Drawing
TORA TORA TORA....
Thought you might find these photos very interesting; what's quality from 1941. Pearl Harbor photos found in an old Brownie, stored in a foot locker..
I THINK THEY'RE SPECTACULAR! PEARL HARBOR
On Sunday morning there were commands: "TORA TORA TORA"Pearl Harbor was attacked
On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii . By planning his attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft Carriers and one of the Battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island, where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States .)
In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu, he launched the first wave of a two-wave attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715 hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.
At 0753 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 "Val " dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor Within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack. When it was over, the U.S. losses were:
CasualtiesUSA 218 KIA, 364 WIA. USN: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA. USMC: 109 KIA, 69 WIA. Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA. TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.-
----------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Battleships
USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine. USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the harbor. USS California (BB-44) - Sunk
at her berth. Later raised and repaired. USS West Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired. USS Nevada - (BB-36) Beached to prevent sinking. Later repaired. USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - Light damage. USS Maryland (BB-46) - Light damage. USS Tennessee (BB-43) Light damage. USS Utah (AG-16) - (former battleship used as a target) - Sunk.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -- Cruisers USS New Orleans (CA-32) - Light Damage.. USS San Francisco (CA38) - Light Damage. USS Detroit (CL-8) - Light Damage. USS Raleigh (CL-7) - Heavily damaged but repaired. USS Helena (CL-50) - Light Damage. USS Honolulu (CL-48) - Light Damage..------------ --------- ----
----- --------- --------- -------- ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------ Destroyers USS Downes (DD-375) - Destroyed. Parts salvaged. USS Cassin - (DD-37 2) Destroyed. Parts salvaged. USS Shaw (DD-373) - Very heavy damage. USS Helm (DD-388) - Light Damage.------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -------
Mine l ayer USS Ogala (CM-4) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------- Seap l ane TenderUSS Curtiss (AV-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- Repair ShipUSS Vestal (AR-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired. ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- Harbor TugUSS Sotoyomo (YT-9) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -------- Aircraft188 Aircraft destroyed (92 USN and 92 U.S. Army Air Corps.)
