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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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- Dreamy Idealist
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- Given up on discipline-it's not for everyone.
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In my heart, you will always be.....
"It's your basic training." my consultant said. "You tend to internalize certain things, which will stay with you throughout your career. Things like correct procedures, ways of communication, sterility etc. We pick up other things as we go on but that depends on what we already have come to accept. "
I couldn't agree more. Because no matter what everybody says, I won't change my opinion/v… Continue
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 11:19am — 1 Comment
I didn't see it coming, but..
That made me think again about the past few days. My best friend has taken one week's leave and the two of us chat every evening, for hours. So, my project report had to wait-still waiting; reading books had to wait; my consultant's job had to wait; packing up had to wait. I didn't do anything other than what… Continue
Posted on July 31, 2009 at 4:00pm —
Good Timing!
One month back, I had come down on an exam, and was so unhappy over it for the first ti… Continue
Posted on July 22, 2009 at 8:14pm — 2 Comments
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4:00 to 5:00 - Stretching Exercise, Army Dozen, Physical Exercise
6:00 t0 8:00 - Jogging around the oval then jog outside the camp
8:00 to 9:00 - Breakfast
9:00 to 11:00 - Marching, Drilling and Silent Drill
11:00 to 12:00 - Lunch Break
13:00 to 17:00 - Classroom Instructions
17:00 to 19:00 - Practice Hand to Hand Combat, Combat Karate, Judo, Aikido, Arnis and Knife Fighting
19:00 to 20:00 - Dinner
20:00 to 22:00 - Hazing Rituals and Initiation
22:00 to 00:00 - Study in the Library
* The Schedule Changes Daily *
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A woman used two large pots slung on a pole to haul water to the village where she lived. One pot was in good condition and stored water faithfully while the other pot had a crack in it. As expected, the water in the cracked pot would seep through the cracks so that it was only half full by the time the woman reached her house.
The first pot was naturally proud of its accomplishments, but the cracked pot felt ashamed and miserable due to its imperfection. " I am ashamed of myself, " the cracked pot told the woman one day, " Because this crack causes water to leak out leaving me only half full. "
The old woman smiled back at the poor pot. " Don't you see all those beautiful flowers sprouting on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side ? "
" I have always known about your crack, " she continued, " so two years ago, i decided to plant some seeds on your side of the path, so that every day while we walk back, you could water them. That is why i always have beautiful flowers in my house. "
* Hi ... Nalini ... Hoping you like my short story and happy reading it there and always keep smiling because you looks lively and pretty when you are smiling anyways take care and God Bless You and i will shared this story to some of my good friends here and besides i don't know the title of this story and hoping some of my good friends here could invent the title of this story *
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* ... Plant Your Seeds ... *
I worked in a mission in southern Mindanao. As our plane landed at the Davao International Airport, I peeked through the window and saw rows and rows of tiny houses. I felt so excited to live in a new place and make new friends. One month later, my excitement had dissolved; I felt i had made a mistake in volunteering.
The community i worked with mush have come straight out of a soap opera with all its nasty, tell-all episodes. We encountered mothers who would hurl books at each other, youngsters who would wrestle with kitchen knives, and senior members who would walk out of services when somebody they disliked started to speak. One time, we even had to settle a quarrel that nearly ended in bloodshed.
At the end of one day, I lay down in bed, tired and dejected after what seemed to be a fruitless day. Through the open bedroom door, I could see our cook, an old lady who did the housework with mechanical precision, silently stirring soup over the kitchen stove. I told myself, what a lucky lady! There i was facing rejection and ridicule, and she was just doing her work without all that trauma. I wished i could just be the cook!
Well, now as i look back, I'm so glad that wish never came true. You see, things started to change when we got a new local leader, a young man named David. No, i don't mean the book hurling or the kitchen knives or the walkouts --- just the way i looked at things.
One boring rest day, David told me, " Let's go to the meetinghouse and tidy it up. " We went there in slippers and shorts and started planting big - leaved tubers along the walkway. Despite constant care, the plants died after a week. Another useless job, i thought. But the community members saw it, and related to others what we had done. We had actually planted something more than tubers!
We did other things that seemed thankless --- at first. Despite being so tired one night, we managed to pay a visit to a couple and their three very young kids who were all expecting us. We responded to the invitation of a community leader who was trying to organize a town event --- and discovered that we had been one of only two organizations that had responded and fully cooperated! David even had a jobless father come to our quarters everyday and paid him to shine our shoes, this despite the fact that the dusty, rocky town roads made shoe - shining seem foolish.
I realized i had been complaining because i was looking only at myself, my own comfort, my own expectations. But David was thinking not of himself but of others. Through his service, he was planting seeds that he knew in due time would grow and bear fruit. People can change if somebody makes them feel they are special, that they are good people.
Know what? I tasted the fruit myself. Years later, when i was back in Metro Manila, I met the three kids, then already grown up, and their mother. Her husband had abandoned the family, but their faith was so strong that they stuck together and survived, strengthened by the memories of David's unselfish service. One son even decided to follow in our footsteps.
I learned that the membership of our organization had grown so rapidly in the area that another community was organized. The mothers were hurling no longer books but kind words at each other. the wrestling teenagers became parents whose children got along well with each other. And the walkout specialists? Some of them became the new community leaders.
When i heard all this, I was happy, very happy. David and I had planted something out there, and whatever it was, it grew in spite of the hostile ground. I learned a lot of things from him that have guided me and yes, I'm happy for it ... THE END OF THE STORY ...
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