Faith — No comments
01
Feb 11

Back yourself

I used to think (and still do) that it was a cop-out statement when a Christian friend told me that instead of putting our faith in people, because it inevitably led to disappointment, we should put our faith in God. I mean, who else do we have apart from the people around us?

However, for me, the caveat is that the trust needs to be earned. Nevertheless, most importantly I think it’s necessary to back yourself in your own convictions, rather than depending on opinions or assistance from others. After all, you alone have the most stake in how you turn out, no?

Popularity: 7%

Personal Computing — No comments
31
Jan 11

Honeycomb

The official preview of Android goodness (Honeycomb or Android 3.0) to come in, not months, but weeks!

Now I am really looking forward to get my hands on a good-ol 7″ Android tablet sometime this year.

Unless the 9″/10″ tablets including the iPad are going to have significant weight reductions, they won’t be on my shopping list any time soon because in my opinion, they are currently too heavy to carry in one hand for any extended period of time.

Popularity: 8%

Internet — No comments
31
Jan 11

What is the internet?

A quaint clip from yesteryears! I really like the “innocent” discussions about internet and email. :-)

I really like that duo of Gumble and Couric. Of course, for me it was late-night TV (Australian time) instead of the morning show in USA.

Popularity: 6%

Inspirational — No comments
16
Dec 10

Adversity

Something that I can relate to personally, in recent time.

At a certain moment in Nietzsche’s life, the idea came to him of what he called ‘the love of your fate.’ Whatever your fate is, whatever the heck happens, you say, ‘This is what I need.’ It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment – not discouragement – you will find the strength is there. Any disaster that you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not.

Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987
American Mythology Professor and Author

Popularity: 17%

Inspirational — No comments
15
Dec 10

The beauty within

A lovely story.

The public relations department of a beauty products company asked its customers to send pictures along with brief letters, describing the most beautiful women they knew.

Thousands of letters came in. One caught the attention of the employees and was passed on to the president. It was written by a boy from a broken home who lived in a run-down neighbourhood. With lots of spelling errors, an excerpt from his letter read: ‘A beautiful woman lives down the street from me. I visit her every day. She makes me feel like the most important kid in the world. We play checkers and she listens to my problems. She understands me. When I leave she always yells out the door that she’s proud of me.’ The boy ended his letter saying, ‘This picture shows you that she is the most beautiful woman in the world, and one day I hope to have a wife as pretty as her.’ Intrigued, the president asked to see the woman’s picture. His secretary handed him a photograph of a smiling, toothless woman, well advanced in years, sitting in a wheelchair. Sparse grey hair was pulled back in a bun. The wrinkles that formed deep furrows on her face were somehow diminished by the twinkle in her eyes. ‘We can’t use this woman,’ said the president, smiling. ‘She would show the world that our products aren’t necessary to be beautiful.’

Popularity: 13%

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