thus spake me...

As Time Goes By

2007-04-26T22:42:00.000-05:00

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is still (just) a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by

And when two lovers woo
They still say: "i love you"
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by

Moonlight and love songs - never out of date
Hearts full of passion - jealousy and hate
Woman needs man - and man must have his mate
That no one can deny

It’s still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

- From 'Casablanca'

Blogging it is!

2007-04-26T22:24:00.000-05:00

Now doesn't he look sorry?

2007-02-20T20:50:00.000-06:00

Thought 4 - Words of Wisdom!

2006-08-28T11:19:00.000-05:00

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there...to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be but you lock eyes with them, you know that very moment that they will affect your life in some profound way. There may be times when they may disappoint you … but balance that against the times they have delighted you.

The people you meet affect your life. The successes and downfalls that you experience can create whom you are, and the bad experiences can be learned from. In fact they are probably the most poignant and important ones. If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart, forgive them because they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart.

If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but also because they are teaching you to love and open your heart and eyes to little things.

-- Words from a friend

Wonder if this makes sense....

2006-08-27T22:30:00.000-05:00

"Friends betray... because it is easier to betray people you trust than it is to a stranger!

That's why it's easier to forgive a stranger than to forgive a friend."

Well probably it does.

Success

2006-08-27T21:36:00.000-05:00

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought 3 - Connecting...

2006-06-16T08:25:00.000-05:00

It is so strange and amazing how you connect with people in your life. People, who you have known not more than few hours... people who might not hold anything in others lives, people who might not be even given second thoughts...people who have never expected much from others, people who have always lived their lives not yearning for recognition... and people, you might not even actually remember a few days/hours from now? Yet even for a few hours or even minutes today, you still stop to think about them....They have certainly touched some chord in you, some dormant emotion in you from amongst the unthinkable plethora of emotions.

Yet another :)

2006-05-12T11:55:00.000-05:00

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

Quote!

2006-05-11T17:04:00.000-05:00

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

-Pablo Picasso

Clever :)

2006-05-11T11:35:00.000-05:00

What say?

2006-04-27T21:17:00.001-05:00

WOW!

2006-04-27T21:17:00.000-05:00

Squeeky!

2006-04-25T21:04:00.000-05:00

Predictable Prediction eh?

2006-04-25T20:47:00.000-05:00

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

- George Carlin

My Name

2006-04-25T20:41:00.000-05:00

One night when the lawn was a golden green
and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials
in the scented air, and the whole countryside pulsed
with the chirr and murmur of insects, I lay in the grass
feeling the great distances open above me, and wondered
what I would become -- and where I would find myself --
and though I barely existed, I felt for an instant
that the vast star-clustered sky was mine, and I heard
my name as if for the first time, heard it the way
one hears the wind or the rain, but faint and far off
as though it belonged not to me but to the silence
from which it had come and to which it would go.

-- Mark Strand

A Perfect Guy would...

2006-04-24T21:01:00.000-05:00

Know how to make you smile when you are down
Try to secretly smell your hair, but you always notice
Stick up for you, but still respects your independence
Give you the remote control during the game
Come up behind you and put his arms around you
Play with your hair
His hands always find yours
Be cute when he really wants something
Offer you plenty of massages
Dance with you, even if he feels like a dork
Never run out of love
Be funny, but know how to be serious
realize he’s being funny when he needs to be serious
Be patient when you take forever to get ready
React so cutely when you hit him and it actually hurts
Smile a lot
Plans a romantic date full of cheesy things he wouldn’t normally like to do just because he knows it means a lot to you
Appreciate you
Help others out
Drive 5 hours just to see you for 1
Always give you a peck on the cheek when you depart from each others company, even when his friends are watching
Sing, even if he can’t
Have a creative sense of humor
Stare at you
Call for no reason
Quit smoking, chewing, drinking or drugs just because he loves you that much to quit it.

And the list goes on and on and on.....

(Courtesy a fwd!)

Awww...

2006-04-13T22:58:00.000-05:00

Thought 2 - Beauty!

2006-04-13T22:22:00.000-05:00

Physical beauty is more or less related to 'symmetry' which could again vary depending on the person evaluating while the character, attitude, behaviour and thinking are what define the inner spiritual beauty.

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
-Hellen Keller

Thought 1

2006-04-01T16:46:00.000-06:00

There are some things which actually make you reconsider your opinions and leave such deep impressions on your mind.
This friend of mine at work said this one line '"When you keep whining about something, and feel that it sucks, remember ... it could suck more!!!"

Though she said that in lighter vein, if you actually think, it is so true!

The Moon

2006-03-28T19:17:00.000-06:00

After writing poems all day,
I go off to see the moon in the pines.
Far in the woods I sit down against a pine.
The moon has her porches turned to face the light,
But the deep part of her house is in the darkness.

- Robert Bly

"Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"

2006-03-21T22:07:00.000-06:00

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but now it's come to distances and both of us must try,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time,
walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme
you know my love goes with you as your love stays with me,
it's just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea,
but let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

-- Leonard Cohen

From Calvin...

2006-03-21T21:57:00.000-06:00

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want!

Tear

2006-03-20T22:17:00.000-06:00

One little drop of salty water,

So many of them are preserved in two eyes.

Come rolling down, they totter,

Losing them, one feels so nice.

Infact it’s not a mere drop,

It’s a pearl that each one was gifted by God.

Miseries of life made a million pop,

Dam like eyes holding them are as if a pod.

God gave just one, to each man,

Emotional fool that he is, used up the first one.

And started wanting more of its clan,

Growing his miseries and grievances to a ton.

When tomorrow starts without me

2006-03-02T08:27:00.000-06:00

When tomorrow starts without me, and I'm not here to see
if the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me
I wish so much you wouldn't cry the way you did today.
While thinking of the many things we didn't get to say
I know how much you love me as much as I love you.
And every time you think of me, I know you'll miss me too.
But when tomorrow starts without me, please try to understand
That an angel came and called my name and took me by the hand
And said my place was ready in heaven far above
And that I'd have to leave behind all those I dearly love
But as I turned to walk away, a tear fell from my eye
For all my life, I'd always thought I didn't want to die.
I had so much to live for and so much yet to do
It seemed almost impossible that I was leaving you
I thought of all the yesterdays, the good ones and the bad.
I thought of all the love we shared and all the fun we had.
If I could relive yesterday, I thought, just for a while,
I'd say goodbye and kiss you and maybe see you smile
But then I fully realized that this could never be,
For emptiness and memories would take the place of me.
And when I thought of worldly things that I'd miss come tomorrow
I thought of you, and when I did, my heart was filled with sorrow
But when I walked through Heaven's gates, I felt so much at home
When God looked down and smiled at me, from his great golden throne
He said, "This is eternity and all I've promised you
Today your life on earth is past, but here it starts anew.
I promise no tomorrows, but today will always last,
And since each day's the same day, there's no longing for the past,
But you have been so faithful, so trusting and so true.
Though there were times you did some things you knew you shouldn't do,
But you have been forgiven and now at last you're free,
So won't you take my hand and share my life with me?"
So when tomorrow starts without me, don't think we're far apart,
For every time you think of me, I'm right here in your heart.

- Anonymous

A.m.a.z.i.n.g!

2006-01-05T00:54:00.000-06:00

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/02/rare.snake.two.ap/index.html

I am...

2006-01-01T14:42:00.000-06:00

I am - yet what I am, none cares or knows:
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes --
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love's frenzied stifled throes
And yet I am, and live-like vapours tost

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life or joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteem:
Even the dearest that I love the best
Are strange-nay, rather, stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
there to abide with my creator God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

-- John Clare

Now this is a good lesson!

2005-12-30T14:04:00.000-06:00

Unless you're some kind of saint, you've probably at one time or another said or done something unkind. Out of envy, fear, greed or pettiness, you dumped on somebody you shouldn't have. Or, through an honest mistake, you cost a client a lot of money or a co-worker a weekend of extra work.

What can you do to own up to your misstep without making things worse? How can you repair the damage you caused and win back your credibility?

Here is the answer...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/Careers/12/30/cb.apology/index.html

Current Mood :(

2005-12-18T02:13:00.000-06:00

Sorrows are never wished nor granted by the Lord,
He blesses all only with happiness and peace;
The sheer foolishness of man without whose own accord,
Would the grief camouflaged as tears release?

INDIAN ENGLISH: IT VILL BE WERY HELPFUL, YAAR!

2005-11-02T15:33:00.000-06:00

It is the year 2020 and call centers are opening all over
the West, as the new economic power India outsources work to
the countries where many jobs originated. Millions of
Americans, still struggling to adapt to a global economy,
are willing to accept jobs that pay them in a new currency
sweeping much of the world: EuRupees.

Some of them, eager to land one of the customer service jobs
from India, are attending special training sessions in New
York City, led by language specialist Dave Ramsey, who goes
by a simpler name for his Indian clients: Devendra
Ramaswaminathan.

On this warm afternoon, the professor is teaching three
ambitious students how to communicate with Indian customers.

Professor: "Okay, Gary, Randy and Jane, first we need to
give you Indian names. Gary, from now on, you'll be known to
your customers as Gaurav. Randy, you'll be Ranjit. And Jane,
you'll be Jagadamba. Now imagine yo! u just received a call
from Delhi. What do you say?"

Gary: "Name as tea?"

Professor: "I think you mean 'namaste.' Very good. But what
do you say after that?"

Gary: "How can I help you?"

Professor: "You're on the right track. Anyone else?"

Jane: "How can I be helping you?"

Professor: "Good try! You're using the correct tense, but
it's not quite right. Anyone else?"

Randy: "How I can be helping you?"

Professor: "Wonderful! Word order is very important. Okay,
let's try some small talk. Give me a comment that would help
you make a connection with your Indian customers."

Randy: "It's really hot, isn't it?"

Professor: "The heat is always a good topic, but you haven't
phrased it correctly. Try again."

Randy: "It's deadly hot, isn't it?"

Professor: "That's better. But your tag question can be
greatly improved."

Randy: "It's deadly hot, no?"

Professor: "Wonderful! You can ! put 'no?' at the end of
almost any statement. You are understanding me, no?"

Jane: "Yes, we are understanding you, no?"

Professor (smiles): "We may need to review this later. But
let's move on to other things. Have you ever heard Indians
use the word 'yaar'?"

Randy: "Yes, my Indian friends use it all the time. Just
last night, one of them said to me, 'Randy, give me yaar
password. I am needing it to fix yaar computer."

Professor (laughs): "That's a different 'yaar,' yaar. The
'yaar' that I'm talking about means friend or buddy. You can
use it if you've developed a camaraderie with a customer.
For example, you can say, 'Come on, yaar. I am offering you
the best deal.' Do you understand, Jagadamba?"

Jane: "Yaar, I do."

Professor (smiles): "Okay, let's talk about accents. If your
client says 'I yam wery vorried about vat I bought for my
vife,' how would you respond?"

Randy: "Please don't be vorrying, yaar.! She vill be wery
happy and vill give you a vild time tonight."

Professor: "Vunderful! I mean, wonderful. You have a bright
future, Ranjit. And so do you, Jagadamba. But Gaurav, you
haven't said anything in a while. Do you have any questions
about what we've just learned?"

Gary: "Yes, Professor, I do have one question: Wouldn't it
be simpler to learn to speak Hindi?"

-Melvin Durai

Calvin, the Genius

2005-10-30T19:59:00.000-06:00

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius.
Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you?
Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

All love can be

2005-10-28T13:06:00.000-05:00

I will watch you in the darkness
Show you love will see you through
When the bad dreams wake you crying
I'll show you all love can do
All love can do

I will watch through the night
Hold you in my arms
Give you dreams where no one will be
I will watch through the dark
Till the morning comes

For the lights will take you
Through the night to see
All love, showing us all love can be

I will guard you with my bright wings
Stay till your heart learns to see
All love can be

Dreams

2005-10-28T12:40:00.000-05:00

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -- John Updike

Amoeba...

2005-10-24T17:12:00.000-05:00

hello amoeba I wish you were my pet
but you're not really big enough to be seen by the vet
are you?
you're a little blob of jelly
you've got no skin and bone
you're not a boy you're not a girl
and you're not on the telephone
I cannot get in touch with you
I cannot pull your leg
you look a bit like a fried egg
you're a long way down the ladder
that evolution trod
but you can eat with your feet
or to be more discreet
obtain food with your pseudopod
and you don't have to have a partner
to start a family
you can multiply by dividing
tra-la-la-la-lee
you don't get up in the morning
because you never go to bed
you've not got any genitalia
but you've got other bits instead
I saw you down the microscope
when I was just a lad
I told my mum about you
and then I told my dog
you're not heterosexual bisexual
transvestite transsexual
lesbian or gay
but you seem to do okay
it isn't rude to be an amoeba
in the nude
is it eh?
you're not so simple
you little protoplasmic pimple

John Hegley

Me Debutante...

2005-10-23T21:07:00.000-05:00

My first time here!