Secret to Happy Life

Let others do whatever they like to do. You keep your mouth & ___________ shut. Mind your own business. Trust me, this is the secret to happy life. Let Happiness Flourish in Your Life!😇😁

Water! Water!! Water!!!

I have been religiously following water harvesting, saving, managing, and reusing techniques at my house for the last five years.

Actually, my thirst for water management has come from my childhood thanks to Kamuthi, Ramanathapuram District, the place i was born, brought up, studied, and spent almost first 25 years of my life.

Ramanathapuram District is known for its Aruva, Caste Riots, Rameswaram, Dry fish, Dry Lands, and of course water scarcity.  

Here Comes Yeni!!! Watch Out Nano!!!!

Have a peek at Yeni, a cute competitor to Tata Nano, from Renault-Mahendra. They say it cost you around Rs. 1.3 lakhs. Yes, baby. You got to believe this!!!

Uncle Sam, John Bull & Others

Uncle Sam rose to the prominence in the World Street when Mr. aging John Bull slowly accepted his fate after the second Big Street Fight. Actually, Uncle had helped Mr. Bull and allies during the street fight, thus earning huge amount. Now, as Uncle is a bullying don, he has started commanding and ruling the street called World. Mr. Bull and his allies and others in the street have accepted Uncle’s leadership. Uncle Sam has asked everybody else to seek permission to do business among themselves. All Uncle does is just printing green bags making the valid common transaction note for business among other inhabitants of the World street. Other streetwalas have to give equal amount of gold to print their own notes. So all Uncle has to do is to print his green bags and sell it to his subjects. Hence, his appetite for larger things has grown. So he ordered many things, from toys to cars, from the street inhabitants. The other street inhabitants produced and sell it back to the Uncle, and more interestingly invested their earnings with the Uncle. Strange people, nah! As long as everything has gone well, Uncle could give them enough returns and interest and also feeding its subjects by giving them business orders. Uncle’s sons and daughters, during the all-is-going-well time have started constructing and bought many houses. So orders from them to his street subjects increased manifolds. As long as the good times have continued the value of the houses increased. Trusting the increasing value of the properties World street fellows have put their monies in Uncle Sam’s houses. Suddenly, the particular time has come when no body has been there to rent Uncle Sam’s number of houses. Hence, the prices of the houses have come down. Uncle tried to sell his houses. As value has come down very low, no body has been ready to buy. Suddenly, the value of world street fellows’ investments in Sam’s houses has come down drastically. Uncle Sam has had no idea and stopped ordering things from his fellows. He could not go anybody else as his subjects have also lost money. So, seeing his richest sons and daughters have gone bankrupt, poor Sam (now an African American) started helping his sons and daughters by taking care of their debts. Witnessing this, his subjects (inhabitants of World Street) have started hoping for the revival of order from ‘The Uncle Sam’.

Tubing Modern Day Narcissuses

Individualism and pampering oneself have touched their zenith in this YouTube and Facebook era. Gone are the days people like to read and know about their favourite movie stars and popular figures on newspaper, magazines, TV and movies. Now, every individual is madly in love with themselves. Yes, they pamper their individuality by lavishly spending on dress, cosmetics to look good especially different and unique from others as well. To cash in on this ever rising personal grooming trend, the companies have come up with a lot of expensive vain branded items to serve every customer’s unmet urge of individuality. If traditional companies can thrive on, can virtual companies, which provide pan global access to all, be far behind? This dynamic trend and the potential billion bucks give birth to the idea of creating social network on ever expanding world wide web (www). True, social networking has further strengthened the www’s far reaching tentacles.

Of late, it has become a status symbol of having a page on popular social networking sites. The 21^st century tech savvy youth and kids prefer virtual contact to face-to-face contact. Modern gadgets have brought relationships so near yet so far. Sometimes, youths get depressed for not getting a message from their virtual friends.

We have read the Greek mythology story of Narcissus, a man who fatally fell in love with himself. If you think there was only one mythological Narcissus, please think over it again. You can find YouTube era Narcissus in everyone who is equipped with mega-pixel digital cameras and mobile phone cameras, shooting and posting everything under the sun and carpet as well on free hosting video websites whatever they like to.

Not only have these modern day Narcissuses exposed themselves but also who ever they have come across. These days, it has become daily news about young and innocent girls taking extreme step of ending their lives because of being exposed on the popular social networking websites. They fall prey to satanic nexus of world wide web. For instance, a guy in Mumbai murdered a girl that he had made met on one of the popular social networking websites. Millions of fake young and innocent girls’ profiles are posted with nasty details are posted to deliberately spoil their lives.

To make things more graphic and lively, came free video hosting websites Bye bye Orkut and Facebook type social networking websites. Here come lively millions and millions of video networking sites to boast off you and your videography skills. Shoot and upload on YouTube types to be watched by millions and stored forever on the content hungry and megawatt power guzzling terabyte servers located on the highly secured mysterious places.

The YouTube type websites pamper and viciously encourage narcissistic attitude in every individual a lot. They are encouraged to shoot whatever they do and more dangerously others do also. They host whatever their visitors or members like to upload or post. Hence, we can see millions and millions of videos, from very innocent attempt to sing a song to adventurous exploration of all sexual vulgarities on the net. It is a fade among youth to post videos shot with their cheap and ubiquitous mobile phone and digital cameras. The web 2.0 sites provide an interactive platform to post visitors’ comments on the videos, and encourage rating them too.

Perversion knows no boundaries these days. Recently, a boy from Andhra who was doing his medical course hanged himself while his girl friend in Mumbai watching his foolish sinful final minutes of his life lively via web camera. This once again proves that the technology can be deadly. Imagine the plight of the girl, she may not recover from the shock of witnessing deadly act by her beloved one. Worse, the pedophiles abuse net surfing innocent kids in many ways. Terrorists also take this dotcom route to horrify people and governments.

To guard your privacy and conscience against those exploitable temptations and consequences, we have to remember that videos have the possibilities of reaching billions of homes and minds across the globe within a millisecond. We have to an important question, “Are we going to spread good news or everlasting shame through this powerful far reaching media?”

Kung Fu Panda – Fighting to Believe

Kung Fu Panda – Fighting to Believe

Cast:

Jack Black (Po)

Dustin Hoffman (Shifu)

Angelina Jolie (Tigress)

Ian McShane (Tai Lung)

Jackie Chan (Monkey)

Lucy Liu (Viper)

Randall Duk Kim (Oogway)

James Hong (Mr. Ping)

Directors: Mark Osborne and John Stevenson

A 3-D Animation Film from DreamWorks Studio

Dreams are meant to bring wholeness into our lives, but millions of them end prematurely due to what people call ‘ground realities’. Heroes of life often defy all those southward pulling realities and rise above all difficulties to be successful. This unusual story is interestingly told in an animation film called Kung Fu Panda.

Po, ‘THE big fat’ noodle restaurant waiter panda, is a kung fu fanatic. He wants to learn the martial art from the best master in the world Shifu, red panda, in the monastery high above. But Shifu has ‘furious’ five disciples – Tigress, Monkey, Viper, Crane and Mantis to carry out dare devilry acts. Meanwhile, Tai Lung, the ferocious snow leopard, breaks free from the prison and ragging to capture the dragon scroll. Only the ‘Dragon Warrior’ can stop the impending danger from Tai Lung. Po, against the wishes of Shifu and the furious five, is destined to be the ‘Dragon Warrior’ by the master’s master Oogway, the tortoise. The movie graphically illustrates how lowly waiter Po overcomes his drawbacks and the evil Tai Lung.

Although the storyline seems to be a common one, how Shifu transforms lowly Panda to be a winning warrior for the fulfillment of his destiny, is the punch of this movie. When the master wonders how he can train the out-of-shape Panda to beat the world’s best kung fu fighter, master’s master (Tortoise) tells him to ‘Believe’ in what he is doing. That ‘belief’ works wonders in Shifu’s and Po’s perception on ‘training’, ‘fighting’, ‘facing challenges’, living and above all ‘winning’. In spite of all the able and more deserved kung fu fighters, undeserving lowly Po has been selected to fight against the evil and save the town. Likewise, God chooses His own warriors and winners from the normal people like us. .

Friends, we may also sometimes feel that we are let down by ‘realities’ and undeserving to fulfill our dreams and destiny. But the one word ‘belief’ will work wonders for us to realize our dreams. To believe in worthy dreams and attain them, one needs a master who can channelize his/her belief towards the destiny.

Wear Your Attitude, Too!

That Your Attitude, Too! Meditate on these things. - Philippians 4:8 NKJV

Your ability to succeed in life often comes down to a single choice: how you react to what has been done to you in the past, or is being done to you right now. Dr. Viktor Frankl endured the Holocaust by this principle. The Nazis killed his family, placed him in a concentration camp, starved and beat him. When the war ended Frankl was neither broken, bent nor bitter. When asked how he endured such treatment with a positive outlook he said, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
Ground Zero is a massive canyon where the Twin Towers once stood. Three thousand people died there. And how did New Yorkers choose to respond? A sign at the edge of Ground Zero proclaims, "The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart." That's an attitude terrorists will never conquer. And it's the attitude God's Word calls us to adopt: "Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report - meditate on these things" (Philp 4:8 NKJV).
Every day you choose the clothes you wear, the food you eat, and the attitude you adopt. And there are only two kinds of attitudes - good ones and bad ones. A good attitude is the one the Psalmist adopted when he woke up each morning: "This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" (Ps 118:24 NKJV). Make that your attitude too!
SoulFood Bible Readings: 1 Chr 6:1 - 7:19, John 10:1-10, Ps 133, Pr 26:1-6