Knowledge & Wisdom

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Steve Jobs Commencement Address at Stanford

Steve Jobs Commencement Address at Stanford is brilliant piece of advise he gave to the graduating class. It is highly inspirational and a must watch for everyone. You can watch the video of the speech here on You Tube.

If you want to read the complete text of the speeh it is available here.

Praful Teaching English to Hansa

"DECIDE"

Hansa : Praful "Decide" matlab ?
Praful : "Decide" Hansaaaa-a ... vo Casettee player mein hum casettee nahi dalte usme hota hai na .... "A side" -- "B side" .... to "C-side" ... "D- side"
--- "Decide"


"Mature"

Hansa : Ae Praful, mature matlab ????
Praful: jab apna mahesh...chori karte hue pakda gaya tha.. tab usne kya kaha tha ?
Hansa: usne kaha tha.. leave me.... "MAIN CHOR NAHI HOON"
..main chor .....main chor.....mature. ..acha acha...."


"Alphabet"
Hansa: praful alphabet matlab?
Praful: alphabet hansa,local train mein safar karte hoye maasi jaise hi koi seat khali dekhti hai to wo apni beti alpha se kya kehti hai?
Hansa:  alpha beth seat pe,alpha beth, oooooooooooo, acha toh yeh alphabet!!


"Asset"

Hansa: Prafulll "Asset" matlab???
Praful:  Asset Hansaaa ....Jab hum gaadi mein jaate hai and jab gaadi signal par rukti hai .....taab vo bhikari log aa kar kya bolte hai ...
"Aee Seth... thoda paisa do naa" ... " Aee Sethh .... " ... Asset ..


“Depend”

Hansa: Yeh Depend kya hota hai Prafful??
Praful: Depend Hansa... wo Swimming Pool mein ek taraf to paani kam gehra hota hai, aur dusri side zyada gehra..... Deep-End.. Depend!


"Tournament"

Hansa: Ae he he Praful, Tournament matlab??
Praful: Tournament Hansa!!! Ye jo tumne jhumke pehne hain, gehne pehne hain inko English me kya kehte hain, bolo - bolo !!
Hansa:  Aaa han han Tournament, (Hansa Khush)
Melisa: (Chidh Kar) Are use tournament nahi Ornament kehte hain
Hansa:  Arre kuchh bhi mat boll - Ek Jhumka -- Ornament, Do Jhumkke -- Two Ornament # # TOURNAMENT !!
"Ae Praful!! ye Melisa ko bhi Babuji ke tarah kuchh bhi nahi aata.." :-D :-D


"Elastic"

Hansa: Praful elastic matlab??
Praful: Elastic Hansa..apni voh Shradha ben unki beti ila ...usko jab fracture hua tha to voh kya leke chalti thi??
Hansa: Ila to...Ila-stick leke ...Ila-stick !! Ila-stick!!!


"Automatically"

Hansa: Praful automatically matlab??
Praful:  aare Hansa.. agar koi aadmi ganja hota hai tou ussko kya bolte hain...
Hansa: taklaa..
Praful:  aur agar koi ladki ganji ho to ussko kya bolenge....
Hansa: takli..
Praful: aur wohi ladki agar auto mein baith kar kahin ghoomne jaye tou ussko kya bologi??
Hansa: auto mein takli… aare haan automatically!
Tum kitne samajhdaar ho Praful...

Rajnikant is Great !!

# When Rajnikant was studying in 3rd standard....someone stole his rough note book....& Now they call it.............Wikipedia…..Crazy people!!!!

# Once a farmer replaces scare crow in the farm with Rajnikant's statue.....And Birds returned the grains they took last year as well


# If Rajni works in BPO, clients would work in shifts!

# Rajinikant got 150 questions in exam paper asking - "Solve any 100 questions" He solved all 150 and wrote, " Rascalla!, CHECK ANY 100!"

Determination build the Brooklyn Bridge

1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done. It was not practical. It had never been done before.


Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. He thought about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an up and coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.

Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration, and the headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.


The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move.


"We told them so."
"Crazy men and their crazy dreams."
"It`s foolish to chase wild visions."


Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.

He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment.


It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.


He touched his wife's arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again.


For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife's arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man's indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances.

It is also a tribute to the engineers and their team work, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do.


Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a never-say-die attitude that overcomes a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal.


Often when we face obstacles in our day-to-day life, our hurdles seem very small in comparison to what many others have to face. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that dreams that seem impossible can be realised with determination and persistence, no matter what the odds are.

Happiness, Freedom & Peace of Mind

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life – Happiness, Freedom & Peace of Mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else. - General Peyton Conway March, Army Chief of Staff (late nineteenth century).

Wife

A Wife is a wife, no matter who THE HELL you are!!
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