Italian Food!

Had dinner at Olive Garden on Saturday. What a great restaurant. This weekend I realized how much I like Italian food. I would be happy if I don’t go by another Chinese restaurant ever :--) I love eating out…not so much for food but for the conversations. I tend to have the best conversations over dinner at restaurants. Why is that? Doesn't most of us do? At work yesterday I was having my leftovers when an employee of the company recommended that I go to Victoria's Fine Italian Cuisine in Rochester. He said that its run by Mexican chef and the best Italian food he had!

Wow. Is it only me or is it getting harder to have a simple disagreements with your parents? As they get older---they are stubborn and are not willing to listen to anything others have to say…especially if they are wrong. Is their way or just have to deal with it.
Most of the times my parents are fine…not trying to make them seem like some bitter people…but some days just no idea what to do.

I think everyone has a choice as to what attitude they are going to have about a situation. My parents have to train their mind to have a clam and peaceful outlook about the future. Learn to relax! Know that you can’t control everything that goes around you and learn to accept things for what it is. Maybe they’ll take it easy in a couple of years…once all of us a settled down.

Got to change with life.

Beautiful day!

Fear

I had to dissect a rat today in class. The actual dissection wasn’t bad…but it had to be RAT! I don’t like any type of animals…especially rats. I can’t believe I had to hold a rat and the tail was so long……….All day I been in some weird mood because of this lab. I kept thinking what if this was the million dollar Fear Factor episode…I had to do it. If I could face my biggest fear then there is no excuse for anyone else to not do the same. Right? No Excuses…just results..

If I see a rat would I still run like there’s no tomorrow…DEFINENTELY! All it matters is I did the lab.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
--- Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

I was searching for some fear quotes when I came up on The Phobia List.

LINK:

THE PHOBIA LIST

Who knew there’s a name for every type of fear you could have.

Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.
Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women

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There is too many to list so check out the link.

Veer Sharma
FEAR:
F--FALSE
E--EVIDENCE
A--APPEARING
R--REAL

Days seem to go so fast! Remember those days when three months of summer vacation seemed like a long time…now I have no idea how a month goes by!

Tao Te Ching #22

If you want to become whole,

first let yourself become broken.

If you want to become straight,

first let yourself become twisted.

If you want to become full,

first let yourself become empty.

If you want to become new,

first let yourself become old.


Tao Te Ching - Written by Lao-Tzu

Cells Phones/Seniors

I always wondered what to do with my old cell phones. Now there is a program which takes used cell phones and gives it to older adults. In an emergency they can access 911 with their cell phones. The monthly service fee is not required to use 911! They can take it anywhere!

GREAT IDEA!

woman

Last night I watched the movie CRASH (2005). It is easily one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. A Brilliant movie --POWERFUL!

SL

I am really enjoying my volunteer work at the library. I wish I could devote more time than the 2 hours a week I am putting in…I really don’t have any other time. Even though I enjoy it a lot I didn’t realize it’ll be challenging at times. How do you tell a fifth grader how to do simple math problems without just telling him the answer? How do you make them think about the problem? I knew from the beginning it would be no use for them if I didn’t make them think about the problem…so as of now I start by letting them make any mistakes as I sit there watching their step-by-step thought process. Then I go and tell them why a particular step was wrong. It is definitely rewarding just to see them actually understand the bigger concepts which will help them for years.

We’ll see what I learn next week.

KNOWLEDGE IS SO POWERFUL!

Sometimes I panic…thinking whether I am wasting my time not learning anything/everything.

"When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion." -Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

UofMN

Interesting FACTS

Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was turned down by 25 publishers before Macmillan Published it. The book still sells about 50,000 hardcover copies a year.

I was thinking about this fact when I typed in "Interesting Facts" on Google search. I am pretty sleepy so I don't have too much time today to look at the other sites Google provided. But the one I had few minutes to look at was…..interesting. Here's the address:

General Interesting Facts

Steve Jobs

This is a commencement address given by Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios) at Stanford University this year. I thought it was good so here is the address:

'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.'