Which one to choose

OK now this is very common mail circulating now days..... i liked this one...do read it hope u like it too!!!

A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said 'I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.'

'Is the man of the house home?', they asked.
'No', she replied. 'He's out...'

'Then we cannot come in', they replied.
In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened...
'Go tell them I am home and invite them in!'
The woman went out and invited the men in'

'We do not go into a House together,' they replied.

'Why is that?' she asked.

One of the old men explained: 'His name is Wealth,' he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, 'He is Success, and I am Love.' Then he added, 'Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home.'

The woman went in and told her husband what was said.

Her husband was overjoyed. 'How nice!!!' he said. 'Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth… Let him come and fill our home with wealth!'



His wife disagreed... 'My dear, why don't we invite Success?'


Their daughter was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: 'Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!'


'Let us heed our daughter's advice,' said the husband to his wife.
'Go out and invite Love to be our guest.'
The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, ' which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest.'

Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also got up and followed him. Surprised, t he lady asked Wealth and Success: 'I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?'

The old men replied together: 'If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!!!!! !'

Just for you

Hey im back…any one reading my posts???? He he he he he he just checking…

Just for you

Want to know u....
All my emotions I want to show u...
Expecting endless love from u....
Nothing more I want its just u...
You see me, but it’s something more I want to show u....
The love inside me that you couldn’t see through....
Its u n only u, I want to say...
Hope u not just see me but see through...
You’ll find something that u never seen n it's truly true....

No no I am not a poet at all. And I have not written this either… A friend of mine showed me it to me I really liked it so thought to share with everyone. I would thus like to acknowledge my friend and thank my friend for allowing me to borrow it and post it…Thanks buddy

Yahooo… Indian National Anthem is best Anthem in World announced by UNESCO.

Jaana Gaana Maana Adhinayaka Jayehe

Bharata bhagya vidhata;

Punjaba Sindhu Gujarata Maratha,

Dravida Utkala Banga,Vindhya, Himachala, Jamuna, Ganga,Ucchhala Jaladhitaranga;

Taba Shubha Naame Jaage

Taba Shubha Ashish Maage

Gaye taba jaya gaatha.

Jana gana mangala dayaka jaya he

Bharata bhagya vidhata.

Jaya he, jaya he, jaya he,

Jaya jaya jaya, jaya he!

Translation of Indian National Anthem in English.

Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people,

Dispenser of India's destiny.

Thy name rouses the hearts of the

Punjab,Sind, Gujarat, and Maratha,

Of the Dravid, and Orissa and Bengal.

It echoes in the hills of Vindhyas and,

Himalayas, mingles in the music of the

Jamuna and the Ganges and is chanted by

the waves of the Indian sea.

The pray for the blessings,and sing by the praise,

The saving of all peoplewaits in thy hand.

Thou dispenser of India's destiny,Victory, victory, victory to thee.

So few days’ back I got an SMS claiming “Indian National Anthem has been announced best Anthem in World by UNESCO. Congrates to all Indians. Pass this to all your friends”. ‘Now what was this???? Are countries going to fight for the best national anthems??? Each countrymen love their country and their anthems no one can actually rank anthems this way. Till now ugly man/women, beauty pageants, 7 wonders etc., had hit the news and this is something new.’ These were my 1st thoughts. Of course this is the best news for me too as an Indian. But I wanted an authentication before celebrating or just being happy about it.

So I approached our friendly Google for the same. Google denied showing me any such confirmation. Although there were many blogs that had same news written on it. Many claimed that we got this honour on September 2008. So I approached UNESCO official website and guess what??? No such news over there. Nothing of such pageant awarded to any country. So probably many people got a mail saying so or an SMS (as I got), they simple posted an article with out searching for evidences regarding the news. Many of the comments on such posts did asked the writer proof; few even claim this as another Internet hoax.

Probably this comment is right. As in the absence of any verification and no news on UNESCO website I would also like to ignore the news. These SMS or emails usually make profits per click or per SMS. These may even forward messages or viruses through these mails. So we must confirm any news before forwarding such things to other friends. If any one as evidence of such thing that should be accompanied by these mails or messages. If any one has any article proving the news plz do leave a comment on this post.

Till then, we consider our nation, as our mother and mother’s are always best, whether she is ours or any one else’s. Mother’s don’t need pageants to be declared the best.
Jai Hind

How can I live without.......

Have you ever thought what are the things you just cant live without.....hmm lets say list out 5 things you just cant live without...

Let's do....think about it....

done????did you do that?

ok then let me tell you my list..
1. oxygen
2. water
3. mobile
4. music
5. food
(in no particular order).

I am sure something similar if not same...hmmm most of us think of mobile phones...music...food etc...

can u really not live without these...

well we can...
life goes on there is nothing on this earth without which we can't survive....living body has the tendency to struggle through bad times....

Nothing means nothing??????? (ya ya ya few things like our healthy BODY. heart lungs liver stomach and brain etc etc etc......). But we just tend to move ahead. We see a accident on road we feel bad for some time...feel like helpless and low but then we get back to our work.

Lately I have been thinking what in life is most important for any human been or for that matter any living body. Loved ones, friends, hobbies, food, work...... but somehow I was not satisfied with what answer came out of my head. Wanted something like hmm much deeper thought....

I found my answer when one day while I was driving my car back to home... on the traffic signal I saw a small kid carrying a young guy on her shoulder... the guy couldn’t walk and had only 1 hand... the little girl was in a torn frock and couldn’t talk. The guy on her back did the talking while the girl was a transport for him. When they came near my car I could think of nothing… Nothing at all not even to give them money but I was thinking only one thing... no actually I was busy thanking God that he made me perfectly normal with no disability at all.... that was the time I remembered a saying.

"I cried for a pair of fancy sandals until I saw a girl with no footwear...
I cried for a pair of chappals until I saw a man with no foot.".

Other day I received a mail (a very common mail sure many of us must have received and fwd it). It was a mail of UNICEFF about comparing the kids of South Africa and kids of well off families... when our kids played with beautiful toys they have skulls and bones to play with, when our kids have beautiful sandals they have made chappals out of plastic water bottles, when we feed our kids so much they have nothing to feed their kids at all, when we are abut about our kids over weight their kids have only their skeleton to support... well there is not so much that we can do just feeling sad about. Because we are busy making ourselves so called settled and building a secured future. Thankfully there are people working for such people.

But it made me realise what I cant live without... eyes, speech, proper functioning ears, hands and legs -- in all healthy body is all we need to live...

With out this how will I talk on my phone how will I watch movies, how will I hear my ipod and how will I survive even without one of them......its not that people who are disabled don’t live but it makes life tougher than what we live... now that I know and I have experienced these abilities like seeing, talking, hearing etc., I cant think of living without........

In the end of every day I never forget to thank my dear God who gave me a fantastic life and healthy body...with which I can live like happy... now I have no complaints from my life...its gr8 what ever it is...

God bless....

My Salary

Ok so this one should hv been long back.....but its

better late than never.....

I got my firest salary in the month of june 2008...but I didnt withdraw any till July when i got my ATM card...ah what a feeling its in my name....written on it Neha Shrivastava in bold letters (atleast i could see in bold letters)...to check my card i withdrew 100 rupee and gave it to my mother as my first salary........ I think mom has it inside a plastic bag (bus lamination karna baki hai lol) and kept it safe...I wrote my name on it so that she remembers its her gift and she is not suppose to use it...

Ya ya ya i know i am not the 1st one to get a salary but thats my 1st salary ever....

When some one encourages...

It happens to all. Many times we take a criticism extra seriously. May be that was a positive and good for us but it hurts and we tend to follow it blindly in order to be perfect. Well there have been many instances in my life, which has encouraged me tremendously. But alas the motivation lasted only for sometime and I get back to normal again.

However some time back I was criticized about something. Something I do and was suggested by few of my folks to change the way I do perhaps for better. Yes yes yes… probably they all were right. But my mind was not tuned to follow their suggestions and bright ideas. Still I tried to follow their advice landing nowhere as my heart was not with it.

I know its so confusing to understand the above without actually knowing the story. But for the first time I don’t feel like sharing the incident and just acknowledge the person I had a nice chat yesterday. Without those spur and good words I would still be standing in the same position heading nowhere. Those might be just words for you but for me where a kick start.

This article is for that person who motivated me to write more...
Actually just want to thank my friend to be with me stand by me... I hope you read this….

Friendship is the precious gift GOD gave to us…so that we can move on and on and on… May we all get best of friends and we become the best of friends to others too…

Take care…

Shock of the year

Well yesterday I got Shocked when I switched on my Television for the morning news...Ishmeet Singh is dead. I couldn’t believe the new for few minutes. He was the rising star with perfect voice. Only last year we saw him on star plus as one of the contestant and later winning the title "Amul star voice of India 2007". In the age 18 he had achieved so much. I am really sad for the mother and the father who lost their young talented boy.

How unpredictable life could be. Ishmeet's death, who gave up his studies to be a shinning star in music industry, came as a complete shock for whole nation. According to his relatives he had always prioritize his work. A dedicated young chap would be no more among us we all gonna miss him for ever.

I even heard in the news channel that he had enrolled for swimming classes in his home town and was going to start taking his swimming lessons once he returned from Maldives tour. But he could never return for the same.

Ishmeet could enter to the fame that whole country is grieving today. I pray to God "may his soul rest in peace"

any one reading

hey!!!!!!

thanks for visiting my blog dude....i think its gonna take some time till my next blog so i thought let me see if any one read my blog atall...
plz plzzz plzzz leave a comment if u r reading this blog.....just say "hi" or "I" or just anything...any number of times...

will make me feel good
plz do it
thanks in advance

How life changes

Well when i was writing my earlier post about the cars i just started thinking as to how life changes...whether its good or bad it just keep on changing...
I am a techno savvy person and love to have lots of gadgets handy...but alas my pocket don't support my wish.... any Way I'm lucky that my managed to provide me all the great things...all basic requirements like music system in my room, computer, phone, Ipod, huge collection of Cd's and books, and yes a mobile.

I got a mobile for my self when i was in first year graduation...
It was a Motorola some model but it looked like this....huge cordless types...but this was in fashion those dayz people used to carry these in hand purposely to showoff.....i was the only one in my class to have a mobile so was proud..at the same time sad as had no one to chat with....any way those days in coming was charged good no one else had it....

Next i got a Sony Ericson's T100 as the big mobile fashion was going down i needed a new model for myself.

This was a cute handy set...loved by all my frndz n of course me too....i used it for next 2 years.....after completing my graduation it started giving trouble...so before my postgrad i had to have a new mobile...by this time FM radio was in...so i wanted a radio phone...the most reliable was nokia 2300

for three complete years i have used it and i loved it...only thing missing was camera...radio stations play nice music hence i didn't feel the need to have a memory card to save my songs.....

a year before i mean last year my dad brought a new mobile 'HTC' for himself so i inherited his old mobile...

although it was my fav but my 2300 was getting old and was troubling me now...so switched to this cool 6670..."i knw i knw out of fashion but still at least a camera"..was my first thought so now im using this...it will take me sometime to chage another but i have changed every thing about it...changed the panel from traditional silver to my fav black...got a 1gb memory card for it (this model cant take more than this)bought a new headphones...so its changed....

still there is 1 biggggggggggg probs it has no radio...dad didn't require a radio so he bought this model but what about me...so i have this 1gb thing and as many songs as possible in it...soon or later ill have a better phone than what i have 2day but no regrates for present one too.....

lets see how much more my life changes...

neha 16 MAr 09: OK a Quick update...some one just reminded me that i should update this post as well.

now i have changed my cellphone and again switched back to Sony ericson a handsome cool piece...sleek stylish n very light weight.....im njoying life with it....

so this is the view of my new phone i have this brown one.....

:)

Our new car

HOME!!!!! It’s the most Happening place on this earth…what’s new going on in my home…….We trying to figure out which car should we buy that fits our budget…..

For that bahut mahanat kiya….went to car dealers, consult friends, car mechanic se poocha…but the best we all went together for each and every thing. So every one was excited…..

It so happened that we had different choices…mom’s choice, my bro’s choice my papa’s choice and my choice. But 3 cars finalized which were common choice. Maruti Suzuki SX4…, Hyundai Verna and lastly my fav Honda City ZX….

Our first car was a fiat very common those days our 2nd car was Daewoo Matiz coolest car….both were white in color. So mom said we need a big car now…enough of small cars and I was sure no white any more…..

Test drive kiya SX4 and City ZX ki……Both are fantastic cars… we don’t know but slowly we removed Verna from the list and only 2 remained in the end……

Every day when I and dad came home for a week we discussed which car is better. All four of us in tensed up. We are looking out for a long term car…we are not the once who keep changing cars in 2-3 years we want our car to run good 5-6 years…ha ha ha

Finally! ITS MY FAVORITE CAR HONDA CITY ZX….ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I just love it…the day it was lauched from that day I wanted to drive this beautiful car. It may have flaws but somehow I am fond of this car. I actually like black color but this shade car needs lot of maintenance…so its cool to have other lighter shade

Luckily every one liked it…dad found it drivers pleasure and hence wanted to opt for this….mom found it good too and my bro also agreed finally (he wanted 4 though but had no probs with city also). All of liked copper-bronze color…..different from that silver and golden common shades naaa but this is also a running color…. Now things are good…we are calm….few days payment and then registration and then zoooooooooom car will be ours…


I am eagerly waiting for my car…im sure its going to be fun to drive this brand new car of mine…….

Hoping for the best……….

meri matiz...its gr8 car...well now its 8 yeasrs old but still moves fantastic

something like this is goin to be my new car

My first Public Talk

My first Public Talk

Ok so this is one blunder I made on my first public talk...actually it was a seminar....I never want to remember.

Few days back I wrote about Getting a new job.....yeah so i joined and came to know about this workshop gonna conducted by the department.....now in this workshop people from different places of India were supposed to participate. I was new so minimal work for me...haaaaa....but deep inside I wanted o actively participate in arranging and helping out the participants.....

Before going further i mean writing further as to what I did.....i was just thinking how many times I have given a public talk......In school i have been giving speeches...but there i knew most of my teachers and the schoolmates were also not new. in Graduation or post grad....there use be class seminars...there also professors as well as classmates were close to me....I knew any mistakes no one will criticize me no one going to catch and point out my mistakes.....I always gave good presentation and thought i am good at it until this day......

so just 3 days before the workshop at my institute.....i was asked to prepare a seminar.....well my boss is a sweetheart she wanted me to feel good and that i should not feel left out that’s the reason she asked me to present.....well i was happy cause the topic given to me....oh i was familiar to it...I happily prepared a tutorial for the participants and made it as simple as possible with all the snapshot of the steps they have to follow...... made a presentation for my self....showed it to a colleague.....minute changes were suggested and things were great....

This was a 3 day workshop my seminar was supposed to be on the 3rd day...great i was prepared before the 3rd day......

So here comes the D-Day. As I was not sooo familiar with the topics on that day i could hardly help out people on the 1st day.....Then came the 2nd day...good day… until madam asked me to present today...hey but my presentation was on the 3rd day na.....ya ya ya...but ma’am wanted to finish of the third day early...so it was decided ill present today but tutorials will be held next day..."is it fine with you neha????" "Yes ma’am I can handle it...no probs ma’am"........... 'Damn what a fool I am y i nodded to it...'

Well I had an hour to go through what I have...well i knew I can do it...

But i think here i was wrong I tried my best to prepare in the time left.....

Time flew so fast and 1 hour was gone....I found my self standing on the dice in front of 15-17 people who were specialist in their own field. My co workers were new to me (except 1-my classmate) and audiences were new. I cleared my throat and hey where my voice i kept staring the board and my presentation displayed on it. ha for 1st 2 minutes for the very first time in my life i could speak nothing....

Slow words came in and i started my talk on databases. I kept reading the slides looking at my laptop and not the audience. I forgot every question that i decided to ask the participants in order to interact with them. All I knew was to get out of this dice. I didn’t care whether they understood anything or not. Slowly and slowly i became normal....my shivering was reducing...words came out were now steady and now I could look into the eyes of the audience...

ha ha ha ha ha to my surprise I found half of them sleeping... mine was the last lecture of the day just before lunch...some were not bothered some were too hungry to listen and some were enjoying their sleep in the dark AC hall.....

Any ways I completed the talk somehow
I know very well mine was the worst a ‘bad impression’ on the staff of my new office. Luckily my boss was out for some work she entered the hall when my lecture’s question-answer session was about to end. She helped me answering few doubts and was there for my rescue.....

But still if she would have been listening to my talk she would have fired me immediately….

I have never been sooooo bad in life…I don’t know how many of them were interested or rather listening….i don’t how many understood and how much they understood…but I was glad its all over…I thought next day my tutorials will rock….they will need no support no help…I had made it sooo damn simple each step screenshots and very easy words…….so was thinking next day will be impressive

I think you guessed it right next day was worse. They asked sooo many doubts sooo many…they never so hyperactive in other tutorials as they were in mine….each second a hand raised and they called….finally in the end few people gathered me and asked me to show whats going on in the tutorials…bang!!!!!!!! This was my worst moment……

and then some 1 wispered “if she does it will get over soon this is the last tutorial of the workshop…I wish this gets over soon yaar” So now I realized they were not interested in computers at all…..this databse making was boring and not happening for them….they didn’t have to use it in future so they didn’t want it……sahi hai whats wrong in that

Par in sab main
1> mera popat hua
2> impression down hua
3> frustration hua
4> and……and…. My topic was not what they wanted….

Ha it’s all done…hope I do wel next time……at least I learnt that I need more public exposure to be confident speaker.
Ha ha ha ha aha ha ha aha ha…..yeah hai meri kahani

वक्त नहीं

वक्त नाहिं

yeah meri kavita nahi hai. aur nahi isse maine likha hai...mujhe ek dost ka mail aya aur mujhe yeah kavita achi aur sachi lagi so main publish kar diya

हर खुशी है लोगों के दामन में,

पर एक हँसी के लिए वक्त नहीं

दिन-रात दौड़ती दुनिया में,

ज़िंदगी के लिए ही वक्त नहीं

माँ की लोरी का एहसास तो है, पर माँ को माँ कहने का वक्त नहीं

सारे रिश्तों को तो हम मार चुके,

अब उन्हें दफनाने का भी वक्त नहीं

सारे नाम मोबाइल में हैं,

पर दोस्ती के लिए वक्त नहीं

गैरों की क्या बात करें, जब अपनों के लिए ही वक्त नहीं

आंखों में है नींद भरी,

पर सोने का वक्त नहीं

दिल है ग़मों से भरा हुआ,

पर रोने का भी वक्त नहीं

पैसों की दौड़ में ऐसे दौड़े, कि थकने का भी वक्त नहीं

पराये एहसासों की क्या कद्र करें,

जब अपने सपनों के लिए ही वक्त नहीं

तू ही बता ऐ ज़िंदगी,

इस ज़िंदगी का क्या होगा,

कि हर पल मरने वालों को, जीने के लिए भी वक्त नहीं!

I wonder if I could write such meaningful and beautiful peoms. But iI guess in this poem, poet has given true meaning of being busy. What v miss in our life when we are busy

Rain Rain you came again!!!!!!!!!!!!

This rain's shadow on the dashboard of my car

Hey its Rainy season again. This is said to be pre-monsoon still but what condition it has made of my Mumbai. Every where water, water and more of water. Potholes have started making its appearance, definitely which is not visible when its raining. Ha it has because it’s full of water in them. So what do you think rains are good or have more disadvantages. Of course advantages are more. It’s impossible to live with peace the whole year if no rains in these 3-4 months occur. They play vital role in life.

If we try to analyze rains make nature happy. Trees turn greener and beautiful, small grasses grow which gives the whole environment a new fresh look. So if nature is happy we can’t complain about the season.

I just love rains when
1. I am at home with whole of my family and its raining outside. From my balcony the site is breath-taking during rains.
2. When I am in office. Well no site view from there but I feel safe he he he
3. When I am on a hill station in natures lap.

Well this is picture taken from net...not my creation
And I hate it
1. When I am traveling…in trains, bus so much of delays and traffic every where yaar.
2. When I am driving my car its so risky

But any ways rains are a big relief after bad summers in Mumbai and it gives us water to drink and other purpose the whole year, so better reasons love you rain.

Just hopping this year rains are better than past….

From Home to Work.....

Well its been long since i have filled my blog...
hmm things have changed drastically since my last entry...My Post graduation is complete and my training is done...for 8months i was at home...no job n just searching for it....got call for few interviews and went for interview for some...but no luck

Worst of all were those neighbors who kept nagging .. “you still didn't get any job...you are home???? going to do a job or not???? and the worst shadi vadi ho rahi hai kya?????”

Ha those were my worst days...I started hating those people and started avoiding any conversation with them. I was successful but my parent were not. They frequently met people who kept on asking them the same questions. They came back home irritated and tell me the whole thing. Ah that was painful.....My brother started irritating soon. He is younger to me but he kept bothering me with his questions and curiosity...may be he was concerned but i was frustrated....

Though I was all baffled I had one thing to enjoy.....sleeping and the freedom to go anywhere any time.....
I usually go out with my mom...occasionally with my friends. It used to be fun I could enjoy...

All my friends tried to console me.... “are its good yaar enjoy urself now later you will have to suffer for a free day once you get a job....” I did felt they were kind and may be right but that time i just wanted to work....by the end of 5th month i was used to the home environment. I started liking what ever i did at home and even almost stopped searching for a new job...Strangely i started enjoying at home.....and suddenly i realized it ...I started asking myself “whats going on”. It was like as if i am made to b at home. I felt bad for myself I always wanted to work and earn own my own, be independent and live life.

11 march'08 I and one of my classmate gave an interview in an research institute for my subject department. One of our classmates was working in the same institute. Before the co mince of the interview, this friend came to us to wish good luck. Sweet of her. She advised and actually forced me to give this interview.
The interview was done but still i had no clue whether it was good or not. I was just was waiting for the next day to come because they were going to call if selected.

The next day at every phone ring I ran to pick it up, but no calls came for me the whole day. Next few days i didn't move out of my house with a hope that call will come. Within few I came to know that 3 people have been selected and have joined the inst. I was the 4th int he list of selected candidates. That was really painful. Somehow things carried on. I was sad for missing a good opportunity the whole next month. Not a single day passed that i was not doleful about it.

By the 2nd week of may I had given few interviews but not from my field. Some didnt like me. Some didnt like. So life was only at home. All my classmates started doing something, whether in the same field or switched to IT industries. Few girls even got married or engaged. And here I was the only one doing nothing.

My friends talked about their schedule and how much less time they get for themselves and i simply had nothing to talk about. Life was moving.

Finally I got a call from the same inst in 2nd week of may. They asked if I could join them. That was the only thing I wanted to hear. I then contacted head of dept and fixed a date to meet her in the lab.

I went to office on the decided date and started doing all the formalities required. And today i am working in the lab. Its been only 15 days since I am working, I feel its only tomorrow I felt helpless and bad about myself.

I have left all the negativity behind and looking forward to new challenges in my life. My career has at last started and I have lots to learn.

May be this article has no meaning but this is very important writeup for me.
Without forgetting i should thank my dearest classmate (who was working in the inst)who forced me to attend the interview. I will always be thankful to her for this opportunity.
God bless her.

40 rules to be happy

i just saw these rules some where on net....just go through....

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.


2. Memorise your favourite poem.

3. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want. Good luck poem

4. When you say 'I love you', mean it.

5. When you say 'I'm sorry', look the person in the eye.

6. Be engaged for at least 6 months before you get married.

7. Believe in love at first sight.

8. Never laugh at anyones dreams.

9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.

10. In disagreements fight fairly, no name calling.

11. Don't judge people by their relatives.

12. Talk slowly but think quickly.

13. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"

14. Remember that great love and great acheivements involve great risk.

15. Call your mum.

16. Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.

17. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

18. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibilities for all your actions.

19. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

20. When you realise you've made a mistake take immediate steps to correct it.

21. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

22. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

23. Spend some time alone.

24. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

25. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

26. Read more books and watch less TV.

27. Live a good honourable life. The when you get older and think back, you'll get to enjoy it a second time.

28. Trust in god but lock your car.

29. A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.

30. In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

31. Read between the lines.

32. Share your knowledge, it's a way to acheive immortality.

33. Be gentle with the earth.

34. Pray. There's immeasureable power in it.

35. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.

36. Mind your own business.

37. Don't trust a man or woman who doesn't close his/her eyes when you kiss.

38. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

39. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others whilst you are living. That is wealth's greatest satisfaction.

40. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.

41. Learn the rules then break some.

ooops these are 41 rules......