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For the benefit of the fun and laughter. its today's special. Only today and i only mean TODAY.   THE POSTER FOR NERDY ZUL DAY. TADA.  Long WHITE socks. Colourful shoes. Tucked in shirt. Specs. Geeky cap. Messed up hair. Nerd up face. The fashion of tomorrow. Hot or Not? you decide. =)
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Human beings like you and me are the same. What's the similarity?
The things that we want.
What do you want? Not many things, but the few things that you do wish, you crave with an insistence that will not be denied. Some of the things most people want include: 1. Health and the preservation of life 2. Food 3. Sleep 4. Money and the things money will buy 5. Sexual graification 6. Life in the hereafter 7. The well-beings of our children 8. A feeling of importance
Almost all these wants are usually gratified - all except one. But there is one longing - almost as deep, almost as imperious, as the desire for food or sleep - which is seldom gratified, heck, even known to us. It's the desire to be great. The desire to be important. The deepest principle in human nature is the cravin to be appreciated. The desire for a feeling of importance is one of the chief distinguishing differences between mankind and animals. If our ancestors hadn't had this flaming urge for a feeling of importance, civilisation would have been impossible. Without it, we should have been just about like animals.
What the hell is 'the desire to be important'? It means, you would want to be superior from others. This desire makes you want to wear the latest styles, drive the latest cars and talk about your brilliant children. Ok, let me give you one example so that you will understand what i'm trying to potray. When you see a group photograph that you are in, whose picture do you look for first? Your bestfriend? Bullshit. You look at your picture first. So doesnt that mean that you have the desire to be important? To look nice in the photograph. Maybe better looking from your friend. When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95% of our time thinking about ourselves.
In life, the average person is more interested in his or her own name than in all the other names on earth put together. Let me paint a picture. Whose name do you try to find in a list of top student? Whose name would you happy to see if you read the newspaper?(if its a good one) Most people are interested on themselves. its ok. it may be called selfish, but it doesnt merely mean the same. Its just a characteristics for you to try to be known in this vast world we live in.
So if you find someone who thinks more of other people beside themselves, you're the luckiest person on earth. This are the people who would bound to have a boundless life. Life full of love and friendship from thousands, millions even billions of friends. Here is a gnawing and unflatering human hunger, and the rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart hunger will hold people in the palm of his or her hand and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
So, honour your friend. Appreciate them for what they've done. Give them the feeling of importance. And for my case, and the point of this entry is to appreciate the kind of appreciation on person should get. After alot of sacrifice. After being in the receiving end of minunderstanding from friends. And its for the person who's reading this.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
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There's this story which I stumbled upon. A story worth printed on the frontpage of magazines and newspapers. A story rich with knowledge. Knowledge that is priceless. No money can buy the kind of morale its trying to reach to those out there.
Here's how it goes.
"Bob Hoover, a famous test pilot and frequent performer at air shows, was returning to his home in Los Angeles from an air show in San Diego. At three hundred feet in the air, both engines suddenly stopped. By deft manoeuvering he managed to land the plane, but it was badly damaged although nobody was hurt.
Hoover's first reaction after the emergency landing, like all pilots would do, was to inspect the aeroplane's fuel. Just as he suspected, the WWII propeller plane he had been flying had been fuelled with jet fuel rather than gasoline.
Upon returning to the airport, he asked to see the mechanic who had serviced his aeroplane. The young man was sick with the agony of his mistake. Tears streamed down his face as Hoover approached. He had just caused the loss of a very expensive plane and could have caused the loss of three lives as well.
You can imagine Hoover's anger. One could anticipate the tongue-lashing that this proud and precise pilot would unleash for that carelessness. But Hoover didn't scold the mechanic; he didn't even criticise him. Instead, he put his big arm around the man's shoulder and said, "To show you I'm sure that you'll never do this again. I want you to service my F-51 tommorrow.""
What's so big-a-deal is that story? Its just a story. Words stringed together to form sentence. Sentence joined together to form a story. Typical.
What I'm trying to say is that we, human beings, have been using the wrong concept in life. We criticise and scold the other party if they have done wrong. But is that worth it? Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Even a great man like Hoover, still doesnt criticise the mechanic. 'A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.'
It is usual to everyone to criticise someone if he/she had done something wrong. A father scold his child when they cant't stop crying. A teacher scolds his students if they don't do their work properly.
Sharp criticisms and rebukes almost invariably end in futility. By criticising, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment. Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
Take for example animals. An animal rewarded for good behaviour will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for a bad behaviour.
As much as we thrist for approval, we dread condemnation. This must be changed!
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