Still Got it At 86!
Age isn’t the boundary, its your mind. Where there is a will, there is a way. Even at the age of 86!
source:::::babamailnet
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Interesting read
Seven Month Old Baby Learns to Water Ski !!!!
He’s found his sea legs: Seven-month-old baby too young to walk learns to water ski
Seven-month-old Ryder Blair seems to be having a whale of a time
Filmed on the back of learner ski in Lake Dyer, Queensland
But he is being pulled along shoreline, rather than being attached to boat.
He may be too young to walk, but it seems he may have already found his sea legs.
Seven-month-old Ryder Blair seems to be having a whale of a time as he ‘learns to water ski’.
The smiling baby can be seen gripping on tightly to the learner ski in Lake Dyer, Queensland.
Holding on tightly , 7.5-month-old Ryder water skiing Lake Dyer in Queensland, Australia
And he’s off. The baby looks the picture of calm as he holds on to the learner ski.
His mother Tamara runs alongside the ski in a wetsuit.
The little boy seems to have attracted a few female admirers as he takes to the waves like a natural surfer..
The budding adrenaline junkie looks the picture of cool as he speeds along, apparently securely fastened to the frame.
source::::news.com.au
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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats !!!!!….In Pictures !!!!
The Bainton family from Wiltshire in the UK, who spend around £160 on their weekly food
The Aboubakar family from Darfur, Sudan, in the Breidjing refugee camp in Chad. Their weekly food, which feeds six people, costs 79p
The Matsuda family from Yomitan, Japan, who spend £143 a week on groceries
The Aymo family of Tingo, Ecuador, with a week’s food that costs £19
The Dudo family in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Their weekly shopping costs £107
The Namgay family from Shingkhey, Bhutan, with a week’s worth of food that costs them around £3.20
The Patkar family from Madhya Pradesh in India with a week’s worth of food, costing £25
The Revis family from Raleigh in North Carolina. Their weekly shopping costs £219
The Natomo family from Kouakourou, Mali, who spend £16 a week on food
The Melander family from Bargteheide, Germany, who spend around £320 on a week’s worth of food
Californian photographer Peter Menzel visited 24 countries for the book Hungry Planet. From the Aboubakar family, from Darfur, Sudan, who spend 79p feeding four generations, to a German family who spend around £320, his work shows how much the world’s weekly groceries cost…
source::::guardian.co.uk
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Think Before You Spend !!!!
AKBARS GOLD COINS
The wisdom of Birbal was unparalleled during the reign of Emperor Akbar. But Akbars brother in law was extremely jealous of him. He asked the Emperor to dispense with Birbals services and appoint him in his place. He gave ample assurance that he would prove to be more efficient and capable than Birbal. Before Akbar could take a decision on this matter, this news reached Birbal.
Birbal resigned and left. Akbars brother in law was made the minister in place of Birbal. Akbar decided to test the new minister. He gave three hundred gold coins to him and said, Spend these gold coins such that, I get a hundred gold coins here in this life; a hundred gold coins in the other world and another hundred gold coins neither here nor there.
The minister found the entire situation to be a maze of confusion and hopelessness. He spent sleepless nights worrying over how he would get himself out of this mess. Thinking in circles was making him go crazy. Eventually, on the advice of his wife he sought Birbals help. Birbal said, Just give me the gold cons. I shall handle the rest.
Birbal walked the streets of the city holding the bag of gold coins in his hand. He noticed a rich merchant celebrating his sons wedding. Birbal gave a hundred gold coins to him and bowed courteously saying, The Emperor Akbar sends you his good wishes and blessings for the wedding of your son. Please accept the gift he has sent. The merchant felt honoured that the king had sent a special messenger with such a precious gift. He honoured Birbal and gave him a large number of expensive gifts and a bag of gold coins as a return gift for the king.
Next, Birbal went to the area of the city were the poor people lived. There he bought food and clothing in exchange for a hundred gold coins and distributed them in the name of the Emperor.
When he came back to town he organized a concert of music and dance. He spent a hundred gold coins on it.
The next day Birbal entered Akbars darbar and announced that he had done all that the king had asked his brother-in-law to do. The Emperor waited to know how he had done it. Birbal repeated the sequences of all the events and then said, The money I gave to the merchant for the wedding of his son �you have got back while on this earth. The money I spent on buying food and clothing for the poor �you will get it in the other world. The money I spent on the musical concert �you will get neither here nor there.
This is true even today.
The money you spend on friends is returned or reciprocated in some form or the other.
Money spent on charity gets converted into blessings from God which becomes your eternal property.
Money spent on pleasures is just frittered away!
So when you spend money, think a little, if not a lot!
source::::input from a friend of mine..
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Message For The Day….Do Not Waste Time and Be Ever Active !!!!
All beings have to do actions (Karma), it is an universal inescapable obligation. Some feel that only meritorious acts or sinful acts are entitled to be called karma, but your very breathing is karma. There are physical, mental and spiritual karmas and doing each one of these for the good of the Self is called dedication. Do not waste a single moment of your life, for time is the body of God. He is known as Kaalaswarupa (of the Form of Time). It is a crime to misuse time or to waste it in idleness. Like the force of gravitation which drags everything down, the pull of sloth (Thamoshakthi) will drag you relentlessly down. So you must be ever on the watch, be ever active.
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Stuck in A Very Tight Spot!!!! ….Who is To Be Blamed !!!!
Stuck in a very tight spot: Chinese builders give up waiting for driver and demolish multi-storey around his parked car
Demolition of Taiyuan car park goes ahead around the one parked car left in bay used by local company
Builders held off for ten days for owner to return to vehicle but couldn’t delay street-widening project any longer.
It is not the only example of Chinese authorities pushing ahead with building projects before all obstacles are out of the way.
Residents have been pushed out of their homes by builders digging moats around their properties and ripping out their staircases.
But in the case of this part-demolished Taiyuan car park, it is a driver who has been backed into an impossible corner.
The lone car is parked in a bay, surrounded by the debris of the flattened car park.
It is said that the car park in Taiyuan, Shanxi was scrapped as part of a street-broadening project.
Stranded: The parking bad is perfectly intact, but the piles of rubble surrounding the car mean it will have to be removed with a crane
Strange sight: A woman and baby survey the bizarre view. The car is facing a row of shops and is though to be owned by someone working for a local company
The site was used as for parking by a local company.
Builders went ahead with demolishing the area after waiting for the car to be moved for ten days. When the owner failed to return to the car, workers were told they couldn’t wait any longer.
The bizarre sight of the white vehicle stranded in a sea of stone has stopped passers-by in their tracks. The piles of rubble and large chunks of concrete leave no clear path for the car to be driven out.
It is not known whether drivers were informed of when the car park was to be flattened, but the owner of this vehicle seems to be none-the-wiser.
Anyone in there?: A security guard peers into the abandoned car. its owner had not claimed it in the 10 days before the demolition. Builders were ordered to go ahead with their work as the project couldn’t be delayed further
source::::mailonline
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Animal Photos Of The Week !!!!
Relaxing at the Walter Zoo in eastern Switzerland, Brigitte the chimp begins to monkey around when she sees passers-by and sticks out his tongue in an almost human expression
A baby monkey, a lion cub and tigers cubs play at the Guaipo Manchurian Tiger Park in Shenyang, China
Tortoise-lover Katie Bradley has been crocheting wooly designs for her seven pet tortoises. But after posting pictures of the cosy critters on her tortoise blog, she was soon inundated with requests to make them for tortoises around the globe. And now, dozens of tortoises around the world are being decked out dressed as dinosaurs (above), sharks, pumpkins – or just in pretty patterns.
A 7-year-old white tiger sits with one of her cubs at Tobu Zoo in Miyashiro, near Tokyo. Four newborn white tiger cubs made their first public appearance at the zoo.
Wildlife photographer Dale Morris created this multiple exposure photo of a lemur scampering across the ground in Madagascar, Africa
A Jezebel (Delais Eucharis) butterfly in Sri Lanka’s Dimah Conservation Butterfly Garden, home to some 125 species of butterfly
Orangutans find shelter from the sun at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Park in Jersey, Channel Islands.
Photographer Sergey Gorshkov watched theis grizzly bear tire herself out fishing for salmon in a river before taking a well-deserved break in the Kronotskiy Reserve, Kamchatka, Russia
A giant panda rests on a tree ‘panda kindergarten’, a refuge for baby pandas, inside Bifengxia giant panda base in Ya’an, Sichuan province after an earthquake hit Lushan last weekend. According to local reports, more than half of the pandas in Bifengxia were resettled from Wolong panda base after an 7.9 earthquake in 2008 killed nearly 70,000 people.
source::::The Telegraph UK
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Yakutsk: The Coldest City on Earth!!!!
Yakutsk, a remote city in Eastern Siberia along the Lena River, is the coldest city in the world. Located 1840 km away from Irkoustk and 5000 km away from Moscow, this city founded in 1632 by the Cossacks imposes upon its inhabitants an extreme way of life. And yet, despite particularly harsh conditions, Yakutsk boasts a population of 270,000, or a quarter of the entire population of Siberia. No other place on the planet experiences the temperature extreme found here: in winter, the temperatures regularly fall to minus 40° (the coldest temperature recorded was –64°C) and in summer often reaches temperatures above 30°C. Photos: January 2013. A scene in Yakutsk, Siberia, the coldest city in the world.
source:::avaxnews.com
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மாமுனிவர் குறிப்பிட்ட ” தர்பார் ” !!!!
காஞ்சிப்பெரியவர் பக்தர்களுக்கு ஆசியளிக்கும் போது, நகைச்சுவையாக பேசுவதும் உண்டு.
ஒரு சமயம், காஞ்சி காமாட்சியம்மன் கோயிலில் நவராத்திரி விழா நடந்து கொண்டிருந்தது. அதில் தினமும் வித்வான்கள் பாடுவர்.விழாவின் ஒருநாள் மாலையில், பெரியவரை தரிசிக்க பக்தர் ஒருவர் வந்தார். எழுத்தாளரான அவர், தன் புத்தகங்களை பெரியவரிடம் காட்டி விளக்கம் அளித்துக் கொண்டிருந்தார். பக்தர்கள் பலர் தரிசனத்திற்காக காத்திருந்தனர். அவர்களைக் கண்டதும் பெரியவர் எழுத்தாளரிடம், “”இப்போது நீ காமாட்சியம்மனைத் தரிசித்து விட்டு வா. அங்கு தர்பார் நடக்கிறது. சீக்கிரம் முடிந்து விடும், வேகமாகச் செல்,” என்றார்.
எழுத்தாளர் சென்றபோது, அம்மன் தர்பார் அலங்காரத்தில் இல்லாமல் வேறு அலங்காரத்தில் காட்சியளித்தாள்.
“”பெரியவர் “தர்பார் அலங்காரம்’ என்று சொன்னாரே!. இங்கு வேறு அலங்காரத்தில் அம்பாள் இருக்கிறாளே!” என்று குழப்பமடைந்தார்.
அப்போது, இனிய கானம் காற்றில் மிதந்து வந்தது. தர்பார் ராகத்தில், “”லோசனா.. கமல லோசனா” என்று பிரபல பாடகி எம்.எஸ். சுப்புலட்சுமி பாடிக்கொண்டிருந்தார்.
“”அடடா..நாமோ தர்பார் அலங்காரம் என்று நினைத்து வந்தோம். இங்கே தர்பார் ராக பாடல் அல்லவா பாடப்படுகிறது! பெரியவர் சொன்னதை இப்படி புரிந்து கொண்டோமே! அவருடைய நகைச்சுவை உணர்வு தான் என்னே!” என்று சிரித்தபடியே, மற்றவர்களிடமும் இந்த நிகழ்வைப் பகிர்ந்து கொண்டார்.
மற்றவர்களும் இதுகேட்டு சிரிக்க, “”அது சரி…தர்பார் ராகத்தில் எம்.எஸ்., பாடுவார் என்பது முன்கூட்டியே எப்படி பெரியவருக்குத் தெரிந்தது! முக்காலமும் உணர்ந்த ஞானி என்று சொல்வது இதனால் தானோ என்று பரவசமும் அடைந்தனர்.
-“நீலக்கல்’ ராமச்சந்திர சாஸ்திரிகள்
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Message For The Day….Mother is God …
Respect your mother, obey her commands. Give her the utmost importance in human life. There may be a wicked son, but not a wicked mother. It is because of the noble feelings of the mothers that children become virtuous, intelligent, attain exalted positions and earn name and fame. The mother fosters you, nourishes you, knows your choices, preferences and fulfils all your needs. So, be grateful to your mother always. Mother protects and helps her children always, in many ways and even after her death. Never disrespect your mother or disappoint her or hurt her feelings. Try to satisfy her in all respects. Only then will the seed of devotion sprout in you. Everyone should follow the dictum, Mathru Devo bhava (Mother is God) in letter and spirit and receive their mother’s love. Also never look down upon women. They are embodiments of Nature and most virtuous. With all the sacred feelings in your heart, respect women and be respected.
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