thought

there is a thought that is stuck in my head which is itching to come out and it cannot find the right words... it might show up in my actions instead.

some very nice photos of birds

http://shuttercom.blogspot.com/

Australians crash to humbling defeat

:) can't beleive it. but with aussies they will bounce back...
here is the bulletin from cricinfo.

quotes

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

All men should strive
to learn before they die
what they are running from, and to, and why.
~James Thurber

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
~Gelett Burgess

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
~Nelson Mandela

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
~Barbara Kingsolver

Take the time to come home to yourself every day.
~Robin Casarjean

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~e.e. cummings

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~Dr. Seuss

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
~Louis Kronenberger

thought

a little relief,
a little hope,
a small smile,
a touch of kindness.

dance for life (quotes on dance)

"Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion."

"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another."

"The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art."
~Doris Humphrey, 1937

"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."
~Ruth St. Denis

"Dance isn't a form it's a way of life."

"Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain."

"To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak."

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. "
~William James

freedom!

Microsoft censors Chinese blogs from bbc

"Weblog entries on some parts of Microsoft's MSN site in China using words such as "freedom", "democracy" and "demonstration" are being blocked.
...
Those using these banned words or writing entries that are pornographic or contain sensitive information get a pop-up warning that reads: "This message contains a banned expression, please delete this expression."
...
China recently introduced stringent regulations that require all blog owners to register their web journal with the state by 30 June.
The regulations require the writer of a blog to identify themselves to the authorities."

quotes

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
~Dinah Craik

Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
~Suzanne Nichols

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
~Henry Winkler

I felt it shelter to speak to you.
~Emily Dickinson

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
~Dinah Shore

thought

sometimes we handle things in ways we don't like...

world food prize

Aquaculture researcher recognised with award

"An Indian researcher who has helped feed more than 1 million people in Asia and Africa through new fish farming methods has been awarded the 2005 World Food Prize.
Modadugu V. Gupta, research co-ordinator for the Penang, Malaysia-based WorldFish Centre, will receive a $250 000 (about R1,6-million) prize in a ceremony on October 13 at the state capitol, officials announced on Friday."

horrendous...

In Pak, officials can order rape

"The original trial before an anti-terrorism court in 2002 found that Mai was gang-raped on the orders of a traditional village council after her brother -- who was 12 at the time -- was judged to have offended the honour of a powerful clan by befriending a woman from their tribe.
...

Gang rapes and honour killings are common in feudalistic rural Pakistan. In most cases the perpetrators go free because of incompetent police investigations and flaws in the legal system, which have been highlighted in the current case.

President Pervez Musharraf, who has been trying to project Pakistan as a moderate and progressive Muslim nation, has taken a personal interest in the case, saying it was tarnishing the country's image overseas."

don't have words to express myself...

Sculpture outside the CIA

heard abt it on KERA yestarday...

Solving the Enigma of Kryptos from wired news
"it's been nearly 15 years since Sanborn installed the 12-foot-high, verdigrised copper, granite and wood sculpture inscribed with four encrypted messages at the CIA's Langley, Virginia, headquarters in 1990. And it's been seven years since anyone made progress at cracking its code."

Cracking the Code of a CIA Sculpture from the washington post
"It had reached the point that David Stein was seeing the letters in his head before drifting off to sleep at night. Arrayed in seemingly meaningless order on the copper sides of "Kryptos," an oddly powerful sculpture at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, they had guarded a secret since the artwork was dedicated in October 1990. "

also related to the book "da vinci code" due to which this has gotten so much popularity.

photo of the sculpture Kryptos

amazing

Pictures Of The Week from time.

Jinnah's speech

extract from Jinnha's speech

"You know that not only we ourselves are wondering but, I think, the whole world is wondering at this unprecedented cyclonic revolution which has brought about the plan of creating and establishing two independent sovereign dominions in this sub-continent. As it is, it has been unprecedented; there is no parallel in the history of the world. This mighty sub-continent with all kinds of inhabitants has been brought under a plan which is titanic, unknown, unparalleled. And what is very important with regard to it is that we have achieved it peacefully and by means of an evolution of the greatest possible character."
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"A division had to take place. On both sides, in Hindustan and Pakistan, there are sections of people who may not agree with it, who may not like it, but in my judgment there was no other solution and I am sure future history will record its verdict in favour of it. And what is more it will be proved by actual experience as we go on that was the only solution of India’s constitutional problem. Any idea of a united India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster. May be that view is correct; may be it is not; that remains to be seen"

really??!!!! but too late to ponder on it now.

original quote

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
-- Frank Outlaw

This is actually a paraphrase of a Buddhist teaching called the "Dhammapada" which is attributed to the Buddha.

It reads:

The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings....
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.