All The Quotes So Far...

April 20, 2005

We must be the change we wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi

Courage means doing the impossible within the possible...-Elie Wiesel

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going todie tomorrow -Mahatma Gandhi


April 16, 2005

Nothing is certain.Knowledge is something that can never be taken away from you

knowledge empowers you...-unknown

April 3, 2005


Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart -Ralph WaldoEmerson

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but ahabit. - Aristotle

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished - MevlamaRumi

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positiveone - Hans Selye

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. Thepaths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making themchanges both the maker and their destination - Marcus AureliusAntoninus


March 28, 2005

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always findopportunities enough, and if they do not find them, they will makethem.

The beginning is always today!

The longest journey is the journey inward

Joy is not in things; it is in us

Just trust yourself then you will know how to live


Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself.Be yourself. Imitation is sucide


If not now, When?


It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also forwhat we do not do.

Follow the river and you will arrive at the sea- french proverb

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about themafterward - Baltasar Gracian

Doing the best at this movement puts you in the best place for the nextmoment -oprah


Are you in hell? Keep going - unknown


The Beginning is always today.


Understand that the right to choose your own path is a scared privilege.Use It. Dwell in possibility. -Oprah

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that awarrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takeseverything as a blessing or a curse. -Carlos Castaneda

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use. -Ruth Gordon

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we mustdo.
-Bruce Lee

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. -Robert H. Schuller

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness...never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.-Lord Chesterfield

One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.-James A. Worsham

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.-Edwin C. bliss


Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is there adequate perception of the world. -- Hans Margolis

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -- Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (1840 - 1917

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever... -- St Francis de Sales, 1567-1622

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." -- Robert Service

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Ever since I got the digital camera I been noticing so many little things that I never noticed before. I was just driving home and noticed this small tree a block away from home.

Google Killer--Why Google Scares Gates!

I was so bored studying my chemistry that I picked up Fortune 500 for May 2005. Had an interesting article on how Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google Killer.
Could read part of the article here.

GATES VS. GOOGLE :Search and Destory

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My feet. Definitely need a pedicure…hahaha..I was just so cold…since it has been raining all day…that I had to take this picture! It’s too cold for slippers today. That’s my weather forecast for today.

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This month Oprah magazine had few pictures little like this. The article titled "The Trees that bloom in the Spring". Ever since I saw those pictures I been keeping an eye on the tree that is in my backyard. From the kitchen window I didn't think anything was bloomed yet...but as I got closer...It has! In a few weeks, I am sure the entire tree will be in bloom! Then it'll be in full green.

who knew?

Did you know that there's a sea in which you can't swim? In the Dead Sea, you can only float. The salt concentration is 10 times the amount of normal seawater, making it heavier and denser. Watch out if you have a cut or scratch, because it burns!

The Things They Carried

I never been a big fan of war stories but "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien is a good one.

"It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do".

Possibilities

Recently it just dawned on me that I have everything I want. Everything I ever need or want I am getting. Maybe is because I don’t want too much. I don’t want too much…I don’t want something just because other people have it. Anything I ask for my parents they will try to get for me but more importantly my parents have made me able to get most things on my own...which is the greatest gift of all. Independence! The belief I can get anything in this world…or just to have the possibility of working toward something I want. If I want to travel…I can. Yes, I might have to sacrifice time and money but the possibility that I can pick up and go somewhere at this moment…is shall I say it…AMAZING. So there isn’t any excuse for me is there? Complaining about not having something to reach somewhere. The possibility to be exactly who I want to be...I can be anywhere, be anything…the question is…where do I begin?

Disappointment

One of my favorite movies is The Pianist. I am still waiting for Adrien Brody to act in an another good movie :-) What a disappointment it has been...he's a really good actor so why doesn't he pick good roles. I love movies! All the hard work and the creativity that goes into making movies! I really don't like those billion dollar production...I rather watch something that doesn't focus on the money it'll make but rather the worth of the movie. 24 Grams (not 24 but 21 GRAMS) is good one too. Even though the person I went to see it with didn't like it at all!
Once school is out I should take the weekend off and rewatch all my favorite movies.

correction: The movie is not 24 GRAMS rather 21 Grams! I was probably watching the show 24 while I was typing this. NICKI: thanks for the phone call :-) ..remember most of the movie.. can't get the title...grrr

green finally.

"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."
— Anna Quindlen

time

more I do with the time I have
the less I complain of having no time.
time.
No more complaining about the lack of time
because is all there.

Had a long night yesterday...
so this morning I didn't wake up till' 8...but GUESS WHAT?! My work started at 8:00. I was in a total panic..trying to dial my coworker to let him know I'll be coming in at 8:30. He was pretty nice about me coming in late...even though I had few issues before about him coming in late :-) Yes..that's me making trouble at work.
The thing is I hated that I let myself get in a situation like this...going in late for work... If any other work I wouldn't mind too much but I have to relief my coworker before he could get out of the building. I didn't even set my alarm clock...what did I think the rooster was going to wake me up?!
It was a total rush this morning but the day turned out to be amazing. yes..AMAZING! isn't everyday amazing?

behind work. I like the tree!

what is going on? The battery on my camera needed to be recharged..i guess there wasn't much light...it was rainning....strange how this picture turned out...I don't know if I like it or not. Is it a good picture or bad one? I guess is different...

Einstein Quotes

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

If we want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

I think this picture turned out nice..and the thing is.. I didn't have the camera on landscape setting. It was rainning..and was hard to take the picture with holding an umbrella.

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I want this too...

Let's Return to a Belief in the Power of the Mind

By: Elizabeth Rock

When education and intelligence have become a cause for suspicion, not respect; when we prize aggression over thought; when Salinas County is closing its libraries, but there is always funding for sports stadiums; when our scientists and engineers are coming from other countries because our students find those subjects too "hard"; when we give the same weight to unproven ideas as we do to hard science; when we tolerate mediocrity and errors, thinking "it's good enough..."; I say it's time for a huge resurgence in the power of the mind.

It's time to put a premium on intellect again.

I want all of us to aspire to greater brainpower. I want us, and especially our kids, to want to be smart--really, really smart----again; to admire smart people the way they admire rich people. I want kids to want to be smart the way they want to be professional athletes and rap artists.

I want young people to devote the kind of energy to their brains that they devote to eating worms on "Fear Factor." I want young women who can't be bothered to read, but will devote months to pretending to love someone for his money, to want to find the cure for ovarian cancer just that much. I want us to spend as much time on the strange shadings of Thomas Jefferson's complex world as they do on the slightly less-nuanced world of Nick and Jessica.

I want us to innovate again. I want us to export something besides the concept of bling and "Wife Swap." I want Shakespeare to be the new hot sex talk. I want brains to be the next bling.

We need to be critical thinkers again. Because once we wake up, kick our brains into overdrive and stomp on the gas again, everything else will fall into line.

Connected World

I was watching Today for a few minutes this morning . They were talking about how the world is being more connected than ever before. When someone calls from the states to a company, likely they are not talking to anyone in their country rather people in India and China are answering the phones. I am sure everyone has come across this before... I know I have. Last three phone calls I made to my Visa were all answered by people with Indian names (so now I am guessing they are in india).

The interesting comment made by the reporter: something like.

I used to tell my two girls to eat their dinner because people in India and China are starving for the food. But now I tell my two girls to finish their homework because people in India and China are starving for their jobs.

Golden Rice [picture]

genetically engineered rice

Unknown human impact when we consume genetically modified organisms.
No long term information

FAO

"The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) estimates that we already grow enough food to provide everyone on earth with well more than the 2,770 calories per day needed (on average) for a healthy, active life. Yet an estimated 815 million people are chronically undernourished, meaning they routinely receive less than 90 percent of the minimum caloric intake needed for normal growth and development, and a healthy, productive life. One person in five in the world's developing countries fits this description."

"According to the FAO, 55 percent of the 12 million child deaths each year are related to malnutrition. The UN World Food Summit in Rome in 2002 called on rich countries to commit $24 billion per year to halve the number of hungry people by 2015."

Realization

To know that you can't make decisions for others even when you know they are making mistakes. This is the worst feeling: Watching someone you care about making mistakes and unable to do anything about it.