Saturday, June 28, 2008

Women Drivers Award

Don't be angry, ladies.

The Top 10 Contestants For
The 2007 Women Drivers Award

10th Place Goes to:

9th Place Goes to:

8th Place Goes to:

7th Place Goes to:

6th Place Goes to:

5th Place Goes to:

4th Place Goes to:

The Bronze Medal Winner :

The Silver Medal Winner :

Her helmet is being worn backwards

..... and finally, here is our 2007 Women Drivers Awards
*** Gold Medal Winner ***


WOW ! ! How the heck...?!?
Oh never mind... CONGRATULATIONS ! !

This concludes the
2007 Women Drivers Awards Ceremony.
Thank you to all contestants for giving
us all a reason to laugh & smile.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Ibu

Ibu..
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Ini adalah tulisan yang sangat indah.
Bacalah dengan lambat, cernalah setiap kata dan nikmati lah
Jangan tergesa. Ini adalah harta karun.

Bagi yang beruntung masih mempunyai ibu, ini indah
Bagi yang sudah tidak punya, ini lebih indah lagi
Bagi para ibu, kamu akan mencintainya




Sang ibu muda, melangkahkan kakinya di jalan kehidupan.
’Apakah jalannya jauh?’ tanyanya.
Pemandunya menjawab: ’Ya, dan jalannya berat.
Kamu akan jadi tua sebelum mencapai akhir perjalanan ini...
Tapi akhirnya lebih bagus dari pada awalnya.’




Tetapi ibu muda itu sedang bahagia. Ia tidak percaya bahwa akan ada yang lebih baik dari pada tahun-tahun ini. Karena itu dia main dengan anak-anaknya, mengumpulkan bunga-bunga untuk mereka sepanjang jalan dan memandikan mereka di aliran sungai yang jernih. Mata hari bersinar atas mereka. Dan ibu muda itu berseru:
‘Tak ada yang bisa lebih indah daripada ini.’



Lalu malam tiba bersama badai.
Jalannya gelap, anak-anak gemetar ketakutan dan ketakutan.
Ibu itu memeluk mereka dan menyelimuti mereka dengan mantolnya.
Anak-anak itu berkata: ’Ibu, kami tidak takut, karena ibu ada dekat.
Tak ada yang dapat menyakiti kami.’




Dan fajar menjelang. Ada bukit menjulang di depan mereka. Anak-anak memanjat dan menjadi lelah. Ibunya juga lelah. Tetapi ia terus berkata kepada anak-anaknya:
’Sabar sedikit lagi, kita hampir sampai.’ Demikianlah anak-anak itu memanjat terus.
Saat sampai di puncak, mereka berkata: ’Ibu, kami tak mungkin melakukannya tanpa ibu.’



Dan sang ibu, saat ia berbaring malam hari dan menatap bintang-bintang, berkata:
’Hari ini lebih baik dari pada yang lalu. Karena anak-anakku sudah belajar daya tahan menghadapi beban hidup. Kemarin malam aku memberi mereka keberanian. Hari ini saya memberi mereka kekuatan.



Keesokan harinya, ada awan aneh yang menggelapkan bumi.
Awan perang, kebencian dan kejahatan.
Anak-anak itu meraba-raba dan tersandung-sandung dalam gelap.
Ibunya berkata: ‘Lihat keatas. Arahkan matamu kepada sinar.’
Anak-anak menengadah dan melihat diatas awan-awan ada kemuliaan abadi
Yang menuntun mereka melalui kegelapan.
Dan malam harinya ibu itu berkata: ’Ini hari yang terbaik.
Karena saya sudah memperlihatkan Allah kepada anak-anakku.



Hari berganti minggu, bulan, dan tahun.
Ibu itu menjadi tua, dia kecil dan bungkuk.
Tetapi anak-anaknya tinggi dan kuat dan berjalan dengan gagah berani.
Saat jalannya sulit, mereka membopongnya; karena ia seringan bulu.
Akhirnya mereka sampai ke sebuah bukit. Dan di kejauhan mereka melihat
Sebuah jalan yang bersinar dan pintu gerbang emas terbuka lebar.
Ibu berkata: ’Saya sudah sampai pada akhir perjalananku.
Dan sekarang saya tahu, akhir ini lebih baik dari pada awalnya.
Karena anak-anakku dapat berjalan sendiri dan
anak-anak mereka ada di belakang mereka.’



Dan anak-anaknya menjawab: ”Ibu selalu akan berjalan bersama kami...
Meski ibu sudah pergi melewati pintu gerbang itu.’
Mereka berdiri, melihat ibu mereka berjalan sendiri...
dan pintu gerbang itu menutup sesudah ia lewat.
Dan mereka berkata: ”Kita tak dapat melihat ibu lagi.
Tetapi dia masih bersama kita.
Ibu seperti ibu kita, lebih dari sekedar kenangan.
Ia senantiasa hadir dan hidup.



Ibumu selalu bersamamu….
Ia adalah bisikan daun saat kau berjalan di jalan
Ia adalah bau pengharum di kaus kakimu yang baru dicuci
Dialah tangan sejuk di keningmu saat engkau sakit.
Ibumu hidup dalam tawa candamu.
Ia terkristal dalam tiap tetes air mata.
Dia lah tempat engkau datang, dia rumah pertamamu.
Dia adalah peta yang kau ikuti pada tiap langkahmu/
Ia adalah cinta pertama dan patah hati pertamamu.
Tak ada di dunia yang dapat memisahkan kalian.

Tidak waktu, ruang, bahkan tidak juga kematian!

Teruskan pada semua ibu dan anak-anak yang kau kenal.
Semoga kita tidak pernah mengandaikan begitu saja ibu kita…

Teruskan juga pada para laki-laki…. Karena mereka juga punya ibu.

Come Unto Me

Monday, June 23, 2008

Childhood

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When we say… "We'll never get those days back"…
There is something uncomfortable going on, inside our hearts…
Childhood…
Where have we lost it???












Be a child…

Enjoy the beauty of the world…
Good morning!!!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

For Once in My Life




Good Grief


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by Rabbi Kenneth L. Cohen

We often hear people speak of birth as a miracle. Seldom do we hear of death spoken of in the same way. But if there is something miraculous about life coming into existence, certainly the same holds true for death. To watch an active person reduced into inorganic nothingness before our very eyes is also a miracle, albeit a terrible one.
But if death is the other side of the coin which we call life, then grief is the other side of love. Bereavement is love not wanting to let go. Each tear we shed is a midwife which helps bring us into a new world. We mourn our loss. Then we face a new day. We turn a new page. We start a new chapter. We begin our own new life.
We are all terminal. From the moment we are born, we are destined to die. Our happiness is bound up in our ability to accept death as a fact of life. Acceptance of our mortal end is not something which comes easily. Such growth takes work. None of us have time to lose in accepting this reality.
How do we die? Each death, like each life, is unique. Some deaths are noble. Some are petty. Some are loving. Some are angry. Most are a combination of these things. But just as our lives are, to a great extent, at our command, so too are our deaths. Although we cannot determine precisely the day and hour of our passing or its ultimate cause, we can often orchestrate how we want our last days to be. We can live until we die.
Death is not entirely tragic. Our loved ones can bask in the afterglow of something that was once wonderful and be grateful that they once shared something beautiful with us.
As a rabbi, you might expect me to tell you that everything in the Bible is true. But I would be lying if I told you I believe that. We are taught "the Lord gives and the Lord takes away." But, in truth, not everything is taken from us. Memory is ours as long as we live.
Every person is like a snowflake. Every person, like every snowflake is unique. Both people and snowflakes have intricate patterns which have never been replicated and never will. Yet both people and snowflakes melt away before our eyes. Each is frail. Each is, in its own way, something beautiful. Each is so very delicate and vulnerable. Each is precious beyond words.
Literature is full of "famous last words" by celebrated individuals. (It is simply amazing how loquacious some of these people were considering the state they were in.) Nowadays, dues to improvements in palliative care, it is highly unlikely that we will be conscious enough to have that kind of lucidity. In all likelihood we will be tethered to all kinds of devices which are intended to ease our passing. While these improvements will make our deaths more comfortable, it will be at the expense of mental clarity. The time to express one's thoughts and wishes is now.
When my mother died I inherited her needle point tapestries. When I was a little boy I used to sit at her feet as she worked on them. Have you ever seen needle point from underneath? All I could see was chaos, strands of thread all over with no seeming purpose. As I grew, I was able to view her work from above. I came to appreciate the intricate patterns. What is more, I learned that the dark patterns were every bit as essential to the success of the work as the bright and gaily colored ones. Sometimes I think that life is like that. From our human perspective, we cannot see the whole picture. We have a limited view of reality. Nevertheless, we should not despair that there is an explanation, meaning and purpose.
The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas wrote a poem reflecting on the death of his father: "Do not go gentle into that good night/ Old age should burn and rage at close of day/ Rage, rage against the dying of the light." But in the end all rage and anger will pass. We will enter an realm of peace where nothing can hurt us, ever.
We are the people of the book. Each of us is an author writing the book of his or her life. Authors dream of their work becoming a classic, but few ever do. Whether or not the book of our lives becomes a classic depends on us, but not only on us. To an even greater extent it depends on those who remain behind. For what is a classic but a work to which others make reference after it is finished? It is not for us to finish the task.
Franz Rosenzweig concluded his classic, THE STAR OF REDEMPTION with these words "To walk humbly with thy God--the words are written over the gate, which leads out of the mysterious-miraculous light of the divine sanctuary in which no person can remain alive. Whither, then, do the wings of the gate open? Thou knowest it not? INTO LIFE."

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Always Something Sings



Let me go where I will
I hear a sky-born music still
It sounds from all things old
It sounds from all things young

From all that’s fair
From all that’s foul
Peals out a cheerful song

It is not only in the rose
It is not only in the bird
Not only where the rainbow glows
Nor in the song of woman heard
But in the darkest, meanest things

There always, always something sings
Always something sings
Always, always something sings

'Tis not in the high stars alone
Nor in the cups of budding flowers
Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone
Nor in the bow that smiles in showers

But in the mud and scum of things
There always, always something sings

There always something sings
Something sings

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Wimbledon 2008





I think these two will meet in the final

But this time the trophy goes to ..........

The Beauty of Mathematics

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Absolutely amazing! Well..... I do not have time yet to double check the truth but I think this had set from the owner of this earth.


Beauty of Mathematics !!!!!!!

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn't it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321



Now, take a look at this...


101%



From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:



What Equals 100%?
What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than
100%?

We have all been in situations where someone wants you to
GIVE OVER 100%.

How about ACHIEVING 101%?


What equals 100% in life?


Here's a little mathematical formula that might help
answer these questions:


If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.


If:


H-A-R-D-W-O- R- K

8+1+18+4+23+ 15+18+11 = 98%


And:

K-N-O-W-L-E- D-G-E

11+14+15+23+ 12+5+4+7+ 5 = 96%


But:

A-T-T-I-T-U- D-E

1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5 = 100%



THEN, look how far the love of God will take you:



L-O-V-E-O-F- G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+ 6+7+15+4 = 101%


Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:

While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will
get you there, It's the Love of God that wi ll put you over the top!

It's up to you if you share this with your friends & loved ones just
the way I did..

Have a nice Sunday & God bless you all !!

HAVE A NICE DAY!!!

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Love and Marriage















Track Title: Love and Marriage

Album Title: Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Years, Disc 1
Prime Artist: Frank Sinatra
Written by: Sammy Cahn
Written by: Jimmy Van Heusen (b. Edward Chester Babcock)

From: Our Town 1955 (Tv)

Lyrics:

Love and marriage, love and marriage,
Go together like a horse and carriage.
This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other.

Love and marriage, love and marriage,
It's an institute you can't disparage.
Ask the local gentry and they will say it's elementary.

Try, try, try to separate them, it's an illusion.
Try, try, try and you only come to this conclusion:

Love and marriage, love and marriage,
Go together like a horse and carriage.
Dad was told by mother you can't have one
You can't have none.
You can't have one without the other.

(Musical interlude)

Try, try, try to separate them, it's an illusion.
Try, try, try and you only come to this conclusion:

Love and marriage, love and marriage,
Go together like a horse and carriage.
Dad was told by mother you can't have one
(You can't have none.)
You can't have one without the other.

Transcribed by: Samantha Stevens
sammi_s_1998@yahoo.com


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