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Dedicated to all of you…thank you for being part of my life 
Ramdom sentences from here and there
This blog really had become just a cut and paste plagiarism zone….aahhh what the hell…my brain is on hibernation these day….here’s my stolen stuff for this week:
Depressed people think the only reality is their own depressed reality.
If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
“We Learn . . .
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see and hear
70% of what we discuss
80% of what we experience
95% of what we teach others.”
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
I’m not normally a religious man, but if you’re up there, save me, Superman! ~~~ Homer Simpson
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
When a question is posed ceremoniously, the universe responds.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
Life keeps presenting us with a lesson until we learn it
Happiness for a reason is a form of misery because the reason can be taken away from you at any time. To be happy for no reason is the happiness you want to experience.
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The new 7 wonders of Nature: Iran’s Mount Damavand and Kuwait’s Failaka Island
Good old mother nature (or daddy nature for the sake of not sounding sexist) is taking part in a beauty pageant and is asking you guys for your vote
Since the site has a scary “INFORMATION ON REPRODUCING AND COPYING THIS RANKING INFORMATION” clause I am refraining from putting my copy and paste talent to good use here and will just c ‘n p their url: http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/liveranking/#bottom
I wanted to blindly vote for Mount Damavand from Iran and Failaka from Kuwait, but apparently I have 7 votes in the following categories and have to cast all my 7 votes at once 
Mount Damavan’s current ranking is 8 in group C and Failaka’s current ranking is 21 in group B
BUT for both of them their status is currently pending!!
OSC Status: Pending
We have been approached for the formation of an Official Supporting Committee (OSC) for this nominee. However, the applicant does not fulfill all the New7Wonders of Nature requirements for an OSC formation. If YOU are an official administrator of a public entity or could enroll such a public entity, please fill out the OSC fax application and fax it to us.
WITHOUT AN OFFICIAL SUPPORTING COMMITTEE (OSC), A NOMINEE CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN THE NEXT STAGES OF THE NEW7WONDERS OF NATURE CAMPAIGN.
Who’s the official supporting committe in Iran and Kuwait? Please fill in the form so I can continue with my bias voting process…please
Greatest love of all???
My energy level is low…very low these days…except when I am at work…my new job has given me the passion I had long lost in the masquerade parties of my old work place…but since this universe never lets things be balanced, my personal life has lopsided…I don’t enjoy any one’s company anymore…anyone currently in my life…a minute chat with total strangers gives me more energy than a single exchange of words with my so-called friends…they haven’t done anything…it is I who have changed…
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You know how sometimes a song starts playing on your ipod that you have heard a billion times in the past 20 years but have never actually ‘listen’ to it…that’s what happened last night…I ‘listened’ to Whitney Houston’s song “Saving all my love for you’ for the first time and it just dawned on me that she is the other woman in this song!!! How come I had never paid attention to the lyrics before?
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Talking of Whitney Houston, I think her song “Greatest love of all” is gravely underrated…it’s the perfect song…the words should be taught in school…grade one…as the book of life…our manual…yeah the greatest love of all is learning to love yourself?…. Or is it?…what does loving yourself really mean anyway? …A while ago I was thinking whether there’s any truth behind this quote: “If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.”…Almost every single person told me yep it’s right…but doesn’t it mean that you would have to give up your dignity for the sake of not being right?…
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THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL
WHITNEY HOUSTON
I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on meChorus:
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I’ll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can’t take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of allI believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to beChorus
And if by chance, that special place
That you’ve been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love
A World Without Chocolate?
Forget the trees, forget the climate change, and forget those poor penguin having to see their homes melt, if any of you gals still needed to be convinced to go green, here’s one for ya: IF YOU DON”T, THERE WOULD BE NO MORE CHOCOLATE.
Here’s an excerpt from an article from ABC:
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Scientists say that now it is chocolate’s sustainability that needs to be monitored. The Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Center warns that chocolate may become as rare and expensive as caviar within 20 years.
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A number of factors, including climate change, are affecting the farming and production of cacao, or the cocoa plant.
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But for all you chocoholics, before you go and hoard all those candy bars, top chocolate companies like Mars and Cadbury are doing something about it.
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God bless Mars and Cadbury…I guess ww3 won’t be fought over water, power, oil, or land…it would be over this:
let me sue, let me sue
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I got up today around 9:30 with 1 question on my mind: Is it normal to sleep 16 hours on weekends and 11 hours on weekdays?
Ok, I got another question now: Is it normal to STILL feel sleepy afterwards?
If it’s not normal than I gotta sue someone…something must be in the air or in the food I eat that is making me feel this drowsy these days…
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I just had a good laugh at myself. Apparently, I have been told that one of my catchphrases is, “I (or you) should sue them.” 
….Okay, I never seriously mean it, but wouldn’t it be fun to sue the skin* off someone over an absurd ground.
Some of the people I wanted to sue in the past were:
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1. the inventor of high heels every time I get sore feet
2. the inventor of pizza for making it taste so good that I can’t stop till I have had 1 complete medium size—thin crust of course—in 10 minutes
3. the person in charge of population control for not during their job properly and making me feel like a sardine among 200 others in a 5 cm tin every time I went to Engalab Square in Tehran
4. my gut feelings every time I misjudge someone (yep suing myself)
5. the inventor of the remote control for giving my brother the power to whizz throw 500 channels in 1 minute and thus my an irking headache
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But today I came across a list on The LIST UNIVERSE (love this site) on “Top 10 Bizarre or Frivolous Lawsuits”.
Check out this case:
No. 7 Holy Roller Vs Magicians
This is a true case of believe it or not. Christopher Roller, a resident of Minnesota sued David Blaine and David Copperfield – demanding that they reveal their secret magic tricks to him. He demanded 10% of their total income for life. The reason for the suit is that Roller believes that the magicians are defying the laws of physics, and thereby using godly powers. But it gets worse. Roller is suing not just because the magicians are using God’s powers – he is suing because he thinks he is God and therefore it is his powers they are stealing.
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PS. I digress again…I was gonna post about sth else, dunno how it ended up being about suing…and i forgot what i initially wanted to talk about ;p
The Monkey Experiment: The Habit Virus
Dunno why my energy level has taken a steep dive into a never-ending abyss…I try to avoid the ‘term’ hate’ but honestly there’s no better word I can use here, but this year I simply HATE winter. I miss that scotching big yellow ball in Kuwait’s skies. I haven’t been bathed by its rays in over 2 months!!! I so want Kuwait’s sun back.
Anyhoo, until my source of energy comes out of hiding from behind these cold clouds, I will continue to plagiarize and only copy and paste stuff off the net for my posts…here’s a story that says a lot about _____________________ (fill in the blank).
Source: ‘The NLP Pocketbook’ by Gillian Burn
PS. Click on the picture if you are having problems reading the small, blurry, eye straining font.
UPDATE: I found a text version of the Monkey Story:
In a research study, five monkeys were placed in a cage with a ladder leading to a bunch of ripe bananas. One monkey headed towards the bananas, but hidden at the top of the ladder was a water spray which showered water over the monkey. So it abandoned the attempt. Another monkey tried; it too was sprayed with water. Each monkey in turn tried, but each was doused and eventually gave up. The researchers turned off the water spray and removed one monkey from the cage, replacing it with a new one. The new monkey saw the bananas and immediately tried to climb the ladder. However, to its horror, the other monkeys leapt up and stopped it.
Over time the researchers removed and replaced all the original monkeys. Every time a newcomer approached the ladder the other monkeys stopped it from climbing up. None of the remaining monkeys had ever been sprayed, but still no monkey approached the ladder to reach the bananas. As far as they knew that was the way it had always been done, and so the habit was formed.
UPDATE 2: Another post with a video of the monkey experiment: http://blog.stsaint.com/philosophy/2010/05/5-monkeys-experiment/
Who kissed Sleeping Beauty???
Since I promised S.H I would get off my frozen derriere and write a post today, here’s a copy and paste of the most interesting thing I read today:
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I wonder if that's the prince leaning in to kiss her or the king.... and
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From “Top 10 Gruesome Fairy Tale Origins“
Fairy tales of the past were often full of macabre and gruesome twists and endings. These days, companies like Disney have sanitized them for a modern audience that is clearly deemed unable to cope, and so we see happy endings everywhere. This list looks at some of the common endings we are familiar with – and explains the original gruesome origins.
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My favorite one is number 6 “Sleeping Beauty”
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In the original sleeping beauty, the lovely princess is put to sleep when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She sleeps for one hundred years when a prince finally arrives, kisses her, and awakens her. They fall in love, marry, and (surprise surprise) live happily ever after. But alas, the original tale is not so sweet (in fact, you have to read this to believe it.) In the original, the young woman is put to sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss of a prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids.
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First thougth after reading this:
1. Dear God, I am thankful for the existence of censorship authorities such as Disney that decides what is best for us. May they continue to re-write history and stories to make our world more fairy-taley(…nope I myself don’t know if I am serious
2. I wonder if our world would have been any different if no one had sanitized these stories…hmm no little girl believing in the wonders of a prince’s kiss, no waiting for Prince Charming, no hope for happiliy ever after…wonder which life is more realistic?
3. Actually on second thought, I wonder if there’s a hidden message in the story…maybe that’s why a lot of the times a guy seems to be the ‘prince’ persona but then the mask sheds and he turns out to be the ‘king’ persona (ok when i say a lot of times i am talking about one specific case that a friend of mine recently faced….but that’s another post)
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To read other santized fairy tales go here: Top 10 Gruesome Fairy Tale Origins
