<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244</id><updated>2009-10-13T00:08:24.159-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fantasies and Reality</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>22</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-7716362892618972373</id><published>2007-05-15T01:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-15T01:19:39.294-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Namaster London</title><content type='html'>has anyboday seen "Namastey London". its an Indian film. the story revolves around Katrina Kaif whoz been brought up in England in an english atmosphere  and now her father wants an Indian daughter....he takes her to India and gets her married to an Indian guy from a village.... She brings the hubby baq to England and denies the marraige.... the hubby (Akshay Kumar) has been shown quite tolerant of his wife'z affair.... he loves her very much..... and during the time he stays there.... manages to confuse the girl about her origins and values and the girl ends up falling in love with the hubby....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the story itself may sound boring... or not very new.. to us south Asians... however the way the film is made makes it interesting... Katrina has finally come up to scratch in acting... she manages to show a few emotions on her cute face.... some parts are funny.... its a light movie to watch one time....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do give it a view.... we Indians and Pakistanis can actually relate to the movie...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-7716362892618972373?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/7716362892618972373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=7716362892618972373' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/7716362892618972373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/7716362892618972373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/05/namaster-london.html' title='Namaster London'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-2190889567837114617</id><published>2007-05-15T00:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-15T01:12:47.491-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Visit Pakistan 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Top 10 reasons not to visit Pakistan:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;okie first of all this heading isnt official... so its only we Pakistani's who know bout it.... officially its visit malaysia this year.... so lets go to malaysia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;then there was the case to suicide bombings &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;therez not much night life &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;no security&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;i believe u could visit much better, more accessible places than Pakistan for half the price&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;wat places are beautiful are untouched by the govt or any other institution...soooo it either isnt accessible or u don't have the basic facilities there....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;therez no shopping.... wat is quality?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;u want quality..buy imported stuff!! wait u're a foreigner - u could always go baq to ur country and buy the same thing at lower prices because u probably don't have to pay for shipping and import duties&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;latest ---- u never know when u are stuck at the airport or in karachi because of the clash between the govt and opposition parties&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;u all know wat happened a few days baq in Karachi..... only 3 flights flew out of Karachi airport that day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-2190889567837114617?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/2190889567837114617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=2190889567837114617' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/2190889567837114617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/2190889567837114617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/05/visit-pakistan-2007.html' title='Visit Pakistan 2007'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-8942971755042682370</id><published>2007-04-23T00:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T00:14:59.546-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I can't do it!</title><content type='html'>The worst thing to do is give up and believe that you cannot do it! No matter how much we copmplain and what we say, deep down inside we have the ability to do everything. In fact we mostly manage to do things, when they are forced on us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why don't we adopt a more positive attitude and try to do what needs to be done. Later if we fail, we can say that we don't want to acomplish the thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has happened with a friend of mine. We were studying a course on World history and my friend continued to say that she couldn't do it, through out the semester. And thats exactly what happened, although she is above average in class, still she did not manage to get a good grade in the subject.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What actually happens it that our words have a deep impact on our personality and attitude. Continously saying it over and over again, we are unable to realize when we start beleiving the small phrase: "I can't do it!"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-8942971755042682370?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/8942971755042682370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=8942971755042682370' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/8942971755042682370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/8942971755042682370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-cant-do-it.html' title='I can&apos;t do it!'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-1970756289619350491</id><published>2007-04-23T00:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T00:06:47.605-07:00</updated><title type='text'>One minute management lesson</title><content type='html'>Here a shot managment lesson that we need to learn:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An eagle was sitting on a tree top, doing nothing. A rabbit came by and asked: "Can I also sit like you and do nothing?"&lt;br /&gt;The eagle said: "Sure, why not?"&lt;br /&gt;So the rabbit sat doing nothing. A short while later, a fox came, grabbed the rabbit and ate him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Management lesson:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;"To be sitting and doing nothind you need to be sitting very high up!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-1970756289619350491?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/1970756289619350491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=1970756289619350491' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/1970756289619350491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/1970756289619350491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/04/one-minute-management-lesson.html' title='One minute management lesson'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-7826310668102182247</id><published>2007-04-22T23:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-22T23:57:51.538-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ganging up on Inzimam</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#6600cc;"&gt;What justice is this that you eat up all the money and put the blame of bad performance on Inzimam? Our selectors and the PCB board are the main culprits. They say that Inzimam did not listen to him, so why didn't they take any measures right then and there?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If such is the case why was he allowed to lead the team? The whole board couldn't control one person? Now they say Inzimam ois the only one to blame!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And what kind of a media manager is P J Mir? Instead of supporting the team, he began critizing it. So now it is a crime to offer prayers and being religious? Isn't the Wes enough to gang up on Muslims? When our own people are not supporting us, how do you expect the others to help you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our cricket team is one of the best in the world. they are unpredictable and all teams are tense playing with us, no matter what our performance has been in the past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no reasons for our bad performance except for blackmail, and coercion on the part of the bookies. Millions have been made through Pakistani team's perfermance and the same millionaires are complaining... what irony?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-7826310668102182247?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/7826310668102182247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=7826310668102182247' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/7826310668102182247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/7826310668102182247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/04/ganging-up-on-inzimam_22.html' title='Ganging up on Inzimam'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-4628458914580734228</id><published>2007-04-10T01:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T01:42:12.985-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Be positive</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;Never listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic....   because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you -- the ones you have in your heart!Always think of the power words have. Because everything you hear and read will affect your actions!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;ALWAYS be....POSITIVE! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;And above all:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66cccc;"&gt;Be DEAF when people tell you that you cannot fulfill your dreams!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-4628458914580734228?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/4628458914580734228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=4628458914580734228' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/4628458914580734228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/4628458914580734228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/04/be-positive.html' title='Be positive'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-6763477062673545853</id><published>2007-04-05T23:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-06T00:03:50.456-07:00</updated><title type='text'>British Sailors released</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;No matter what Britain says now, Ahmedi Nejad has just given them a shocking present, they werent expecting. They can interpret it in anyway they want, manipulate the facts but the truth still stands that Iran has set an example of a tolerant country for the whole world to see. The way the sailors looked on television, showed how well they had been treated. And even though Iran had every right to hold them back, it forgave Britain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was high time some one put an example of a tolerant, forgiving Muslim country. Iran has just earned respect from the whole world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now Britain is trying to save face and failing. Instead of apologizing, it still denies trespassing into Iranian waters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can only hope n dream that someday Pakistan will also be able to stand up against the world powers and not let them dictate us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-6763477062673545853?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/6763477062673545853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=6763477062673545853' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/6763477062673545853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/6763477062673545853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/04/british-sailors-released.html' title='British Sailors released'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-8682673412339512751</id><published>2007-04-05T23:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-06T00:04:32.550-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tapping in Passion</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;There are three main areas to consider when tapping into someone’s passion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Identification&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When considering an employee who does not show a lot of emotion, it is easy to jump to the conclusion that everything in his or her life generates boredom. This is, however, unlikely to be the case. Most people are passionate about something; the key is to identify it, and then to locate a work context in which it can be expressed. You may find clues by observing the person in question and reflecting on their previous performance. Perhaps they were particularly enthusiastic when running a certain project, organizing a social event, or serving on a committee. Explore which aspects of these roles generated the uncharacteristic level of interest and enthusiasm. For example, maybe they appreciated the “expert” status bestowed upon them as a project leader; or enjoyed interacting with a wide network of people. If these opportunities are not present in their current role, then you have probably determined why they seem dispirited.&lt;br /&gt;If you have never seen any evidence of passion in the workplace, ask your employee about interests outside of work, and try to identify the root of their passion in this manner.&lt;br /&gt;Once you have discovered the basis of an employee’s passion, try to accommodate components of that passion in their job. This could be done, for example, by realigning their current job objectives, offering them a special project, or even moving them into a new job where they can engage their enthusiasm constructively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Creative Direction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Passion is not always easy to manage. Signs of passion in a team member are often welcome, but not if that passion is inappropriately directed and therefore disruptive to the other team members. Passion needs a framework through which it can be effectively and creatively managed; this requires creating clear individual and team objectives to properly direct that passion. Managerial guidance—for example, reiterating objectives—can help keep enthusiastic team members focused and on track. Additionally, with clearly-stated objectives, an individual’s inappropriate use of enthusiasm can be addressed in performance appraisals, if necessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rewards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not difficult to reward a team member for using his or her passion creatively and to the benefit of the organization. In most cases, a simple “thank you” adequately demonstrates appreciation, although a particularly valuable contribution may warrant a more tangible reward. Neglecting to recognize employees’ contribution and energy is likely to cause offense and hurt.&lt;br /&gt;If someone’s passion differs from your own, it is easy to overlook or even devalue it. Make a conscious effort to learn about the passions of each member of your team; doing so in a team-building session allows other members of the team to tap this energy as well. In this way, new responsibilities can be allocated according to natural aptitude and desire—as well as experience and skill—and everyone can take responsibility for creating a high-performing team.&lt;br /&gt;You may find that you are managing team members who have not discovered their own passions. This can happen when an individual enters a career early and/or has never really thought about his or her personal aspirations. Some employees may have never experienced professional tasks or activities that resonated with their personalities. Consider placing these team members into various situations that trigger different aspects of their talent; this should provide them opportunities to explore their nature in more depth. Also, encourage these employees to network in other parts of the business, to discover potential new interest areas. A wide exposure to the business may get them thinking more passionately about future career goals and delivering more value through their work performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.bnet.com/2410-13056_23-55146.html?promo=713&amp;tag=nl.e713"&gt;http://www.bnet.com/2410-13056_23-55146.html?promo=713&amp;amp;tag=nl.e713&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-8682673412339512751?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/8682673412339512751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=8682673412339512751' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/8682673412339512751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/8682673412339512751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/04/tapping-in-passion.html' title='Tapping in Passion'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-5704573149992326141</id><published>2007-04-02T02:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-02T02:55:02.697-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How to recruit the right person!</title><content type='html'>Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with anopen window.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door.Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze thesituation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they are counting the bricks...... ......... . .....Put them inthe accounts department.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they are recounting them........ ......... ......... ......... .........Put them in auditing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks.. Put them inengineering.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they are arranging the bricks in some strangeorder..... Put them in planning.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they are throwing the bricks at each other....... ......... ...Put them in operations .&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they aresleeping.... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... .. Putthem in security.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they have broken the bricks into pieces...Putthem in information technology.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they are sittingidle........ ......... ......... ......... ......... ........ .....Putthem in human resources .&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick hasbeenmoved....... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... .Putthem in sales.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they have already left for the day............. ......... .......Put them in marketing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they are staring out of the window............. ......... ......... .Put them on strategic planning.And then last but not least. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If they are talking to each other and not asingle brick has been moved............. ......... .....Congratulate them and put them in top management. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-5704573149992326141?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/5704573149992326141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=5704573149992326141' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/5704573149992326141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/5704573149992326141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-recruit-right-person.html' title='How to recruit the right person!'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-4029201543990649193</id><published>2007-04-02T02:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-06T00:05:16.330-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Inzimam Retires One day - Is it fair?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;I believe Inzimam shouldn't have retired. He was a good leader and dedicated to his career. He was good in integrating the team members and boosting up their morales. He has worked hard all these years and what does he get in return? The government doesnt even care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An ineffective person has been appointed the Chairman of PCB and despite his failure to manage the Board, his resignation was rejected. What is he doing in that position when he doesn't know anything about administration?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pakistan has a tendency to misinterpret potential and credibility of people. If only the politics had been put on hold for the duration of the World Cup. Pakistan was in good shape and it could easily have won the Cup. Our players have always been the ones to surprise the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-4029201543990649193?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/4029201543990649193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=4029201543990649193' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/4029201543990649193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/4029201543990649193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/04/inzimam-retires-one-day-is-it-fair.html' title='Inzimam Retires One day - Is it fair?'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-5623833672731920729</id><published>2007-04-02T02:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-06T00:06:02.548-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Asking the Right Question</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;Jack and Max are walking from religious service. Jack wonders whether it would be all right to smoke while praying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max replies, "Why don't you ask the Priest?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Jack goes up to the Priest and asks, " Father, may I smoke while I pray?" The Priest replies, "No, my son, you may not! That's utter disrespect to our religion."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jack goes back to his friend and tells him what the good Priest told him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max says, "I'm not surprised. You asked the wrong question. Let me try."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so Max goes up to the Priest and asks, "Father, may I pray while I smoke ?" To which the Priest eagerly replies, "By all means, my son. By all means. You can always pray whenever you want to."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moral of the story is ... The reply you get depends on the question you ask.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, if you want a vacation when still working on a project don't ask for the holiday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ask: "Can I keep working on this project while I'm on vacation?" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-5623833672731920729?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/5623833672731920729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=5623833672731920729' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/5623833672731920729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/5623833672731920729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/04/asking-right-question.html' title='Asking the Right Question'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-654016570509070850</id><published>2007-03-23T03:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T03:20:53.526-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Benefits of Honey</title><content type='html'>Take one part honey to two parts of luke warm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder, make a paste and massage it on the itching part of the body slowly.It is noticed that the pain recedes within a minute or two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or arthritis patients may daily, morning and night take one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder.If drunk regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured.&lt;br /&gt;In a recent research done at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week out of the 200 people so treated practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hair Loss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those suffering from hair loss or baldness, may apply a paste of hot olive oil, one tablespoon of honey, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder before bath and keep it for approx. 15 min. and then wash the hair. It was found very effective if kept for 5 minutes also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bladder Infections&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of luke warm water and drink it.It destroys the germs of the bladder.ToothacheMake a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be done 3 times a day daily till such time that the tooth has stopped aching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cholesterol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, if given to a cholesterol patient, it reduces the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10% within 2 hours.As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken 3 times a day any chronic cholesterol is cured.&lt;br /&gt;As per the information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complains of cholesterol.Colds&lt;br /&gt;Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon luke warm honey with 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon powder daily for 3 days.This process will cure most chronic cough, cold and clear the sinuses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upset Stomach&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.GAS: According to the studies done in India &amp; Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heart Diseases&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for breakfast.It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack.Also those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, are kept miles away from the next attack.Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat.In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that due to the increasing age the arteries and veins which lose their flexibility and get clogged are revitalized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Immune System&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks.Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts.Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indigestion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food, relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.InfluenzaA scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Longevity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly arrests the ravages of old age. Take 4 spoons of honey, 1spoon of cinnamon powder and 3 cups of water and boil to make like tea.Drink 1/4 cup, 3 to 4 times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age.Life span also increases and even if a person is 100 years old, starts performing the chores of a 20 year old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pimples&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water.If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skin Infections&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections are cured by applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weight Loss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daily in the morning, 1/2 hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup water.If taken regularly it reduces the weight of even the most obese person.Also drinking of this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cancer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recent research in Japan and Australia has reveled that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully.Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month 3 times a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fatigue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful than detrimental to the body strength.Senior citizens who take honey and cinnamon power in equal parts are more alert and flexible.Dr. Milton who has done research says that half tablespoon honey taken in one glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3.00 p.m. when the vitality of the body starts decreasing, increases the vitality of the body within a week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad Breath&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People of South America, first thing in the morning gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water.So their breath stays fresh throughout the day.&lt;br /&gt;Hearing LossDaily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder taken in equal parts restores hearing&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-654016570509070850?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/654016570509070850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=654016570509070850' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/654016570509070850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/654016570509070850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/benefits-of-honey.html' title='Benefits of Honey'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-2229274866356325354</id><published>2007-03-22T02:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T03:00:43.444-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cars of 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJShQPtS_I/AAAAAAAAAB0/eIwrpnh3XKE/s1600-h/slide-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044685263858387954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJShQPtS_I/AAAAAAAAAB0/eIwrpnh3XKE/s320/slide-5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJSKQPtS-I/AAAAAAAAABs/kqr3elD-PJg/s1600-h/slide-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044684868721396706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJSKQPtS-I/AAAAAAAAABs/kqr3elD-PJg/s320/slide-4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJRkgPtS9I/AAAAAAAAABk/EPfRJFThHkk/s1600-h/slide-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044684220181334994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJRkgPtS9I/AAAAAAAAABk/EPfRJFThHkk/s320/slide-2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJPwQPtS8I/AAAAAAAAABc/C7J9VyW_HeM/s1600-h/slide-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044682223021542338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJPwQPtS8I/AAAAAAAAABc/C7J9VyW_HeM/s320/slide-1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJPYQPtS7I/AAAAAAAAABU/S-7kI62p-oo/s1600-h/opener.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044681810704681906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJPYQPtS7I/AAAAAAAAABU/S-7kI62p-oo/s320/opener.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-2229274866356325354?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/2229274866356325354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=2229274866356325354' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/2229274866356325354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/2229274866356325354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/cars-of-2008_22.html' title='Cars of 2008'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RgJShQPtS_I/AAAAAAAAAB0/eIwrpnh3XKE/s72-c/slide-5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-7062820602570625975</id><published>2007-03-14T21:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T21:30:12.957-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Small Car Owners Drive Carefully</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;All you small car owners, beaware and drive carefully. The risk to life in case of accidents in smaller cars is much more than those driving big cars:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"Crash test results released on Dec. 18 by the Arlington (Va.)-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) show that so-called minicars can leave occupants in serious peril, especially when they collide with much larger vehicles like the ones that populate most American roads. Optional Equipment Becomes Necessary IIHS reported that driver fatality rates in subcompacts are higher than in any other vehicle category. In fact, death rates in minicars are double those in midsize and large cars. Fatalities in single-vehicle accidents, meanwhile, are higher in smaller vehicles than larger ones. The new crash results show that passengers in very small cars can suffer serious or even fatal injury in collisions with other vehicles, particularly in side- and rear-impact crashes. Of the eight vehicles tested, all but one earned ratings of "poor" or "marginal" in at least one of the three tests administered. Models from Toyota, Scion, and Hyundai earned scores of "poor" in side-impact tests; the Chevrolet Aveo, a rebadged Daewoo import, earned a "marginal" score.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc9933;"&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/dec2006/bw20061219_905974.htm?chan=autos_autos+index+page_news"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc9933;"&gt;http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/dec2006/bw20061219_905974.htm?chan=autos_autos+index+page_news&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Smaller cars are increasingly in demand due to rising fuel prices and growing traffic (thanks to ease of leasing). These small cars have been rated risky by security monitoring authorities. Being smaller in size they do not have side airbags; and their structural rigidity prevents penetration. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Among the dangers of accidents; brain damage, serious neck injury, internal organ injuries, broken ribs, and a fractured pelvis are the most common identified. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;So to keep your heads on your shoulders you better drive carefully and keep distance!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-7062820602570625975?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/7062820602570625975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=7062820602570625975' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/7062820602570625975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/7062820602570625975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/small-car-owners-drive-carefully.html' title='Small Car Owners Drive Carefully'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-6056814010190702948</id><published>2007-03-14T21:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T21:05:34.276-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Waste of time – Men cleverer than women</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;Recently a study has apparently just found out that men are cleverer than women:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“A study to be published later this year in the British Journal of Psychology says that men are on average five points ahead on IQ tests.&lt;br /&gt;As intelligence scores among the study group rose, the academics say they found a widening gap between the sexes.&lt;br /&gt;There were twice as many men with IQ scores of 125, for example, a level said to correspond with people getting first-class degrees.&lt;br /&gt;At scores of 155, associated with genius, there were 5.5 men for every woman.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4183166.stm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4183166.stm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is no news at all. If only they had opened up a copy of the Quran, they would have known so much earlier.&lt;br /&gt;What these studies have shown today has already been told by God 1400 years ago!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-6056814010190702948?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/6056814010190702948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=6056814010190702948' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/6056814010190702948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/6056814010190702948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/waste-of-time-men-cleverer-than-women.html' title='Waste of time – Men cleverer than women'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-1347094946762125245</id><published>2007-03-13T22:04:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T22:10:32.133-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sign In problems</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Everyday I try to log in, it takes me about three tries to do so. Daily the same error occurs:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041642437952417058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 458px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 294px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="141" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfeDFeawLSI/AAAAAAAAABM/srwvBOxTxEw/s320/untitled.bmp" width="383" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-1347094946762125245?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/1347094946762125245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=1347094946762125245' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/1347094946762125245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/1347094946762125245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/sign-in-problems.html' title='Sign In problems'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfeDFeawLSI/AAAAAAAAABM/srwvBOxTxEw/s72-c/untitled.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-7765942152179802970</id><published>2007-03-13T03:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T03:53:27.146-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Harry Potter Series coming to an end</title><content type='html'>The seventh book of the Harry Potter series will be released this summer in July, 2007. The countdown has begun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As much as I await the end of the series I feel sad at the same time. No longer will there be anticipation or wait for the next book in the series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will soon all be over. No more imagining or guessing about at the end of reading the latest book. We used to go crazy thinking what will happen next. Making our own predictions; trying to solve the mystery ourselves; writing fan fictions, reviews, and commenting on different possibilities – all this and more will end this summer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J K Rowling is an amazing writer. The way she links up pieces of information throughout the series is extra ordinary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never have I ever read such an imaginative writer who has invented a whole new world which is fairly different from ours’! Complete with a new set of vocabulary and spells Harry Potter series is an amazing piece of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those of you who haven’t read the book and think its childish should give the series a chance. It really is awesome and once you start on it, you simply won’t be able to stop reading!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-7765942152179802970?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/7765942152179802970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=7765942152179802970' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/7765942152179802970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/7765942152179802970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/harry-potter-series-coming-to-end.html' title='Harry Potter Series coming to an end'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-8187502786482933502</id><published>2007-03-13T03:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T21:39:57.156-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jealusy in girls</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;We are talking about friendship between girls here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why are girls so envious of each other? Why can’t they be happy for others? We place our trust in our friends and share our happiness, but instead of rejoicing our happiness they become spiteful. They will start complaining why they couldn’t the same life, life partners, boyfriends, as much money, dressing sense etc. as their friends have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True the grass seems greener on the other side, but that happens everywhere. I haven’t seen a situation where men are envious of each other. They always support each other and try to help each other through rough times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In some cases this jealousy is to such an extreme that they actually take practical destructive steps. They simply cannot stand to see another person of their own gender happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls scandalize other girls. They will do the very same thing themselves but point there fingers on others. Many times I myself have experienced my friends going behind my back and laughing off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I find that my male friends are much better friends than MOST of my female friends. I don’t have to think twice before sharing my happiness and problems with them. I believe this is because between females there is a general tendency to pretend. Instead of sympathizing females are more prone to laughing behind your back; or rather passing on your story to others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is it so? Why can’t we wish our friends good luck and a beautiful life?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-8187502786482933502?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/8187502786482933502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=8187502786482933502' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/8187502786482933502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/8187502786482933502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/jealusy-in-girls.html' title='Jealusy in girls'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-6762411484024440947</id><published>2007-03-12T02:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T02:25:21.815-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting facts</title><content type='html'>1.Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9.Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11.Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12.Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13.Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14.Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15.Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17.There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18.Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19.Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20.The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-6762411484024440947?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/6762411484024440947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=6762411484024440947' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/6762411484024440947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/6762411484024440947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/interesting-facts.html' title='Interesting facts'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-4686428392032072905</id><published>2007-03-11T06:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-11T07:31:18.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pakistani Cricket 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfQR4eawLRI/AAAAAAAAABE/qXDmgHHbTlo/s1600-h/Shahid%20Afridi.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfQOzeawLOI/AAAAAAAAAAs/sU6TtPnzM80/s1600-h/pl-ShoaibAkhter-02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040670160435817698" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 125px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px" height="140" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfQOzeawLOI/AAAAAAAAAAs/sU6TtPnzM80/s320/pl-ShoaibAkhter-02.jpg" width="127" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pakistan's team is the most unpredictable team to have ever been formed. They can win or lose at ANY stage of the match. This year i'm not counting on it at all! three of our best players aren't playing - namely Shoaib Akhter, Muhammad Asif, Abdur Razzak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfQR4eawLRI/AAAAAAAAABE/qXDmgHHbTlo/s1600-h/Shahid%20Afridi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040673544870046994" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 122px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 124px" height="133" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfQR4eawLRI/AAAAAAAAABE/qXDmgHHbTlo/s320/Shahid%2520Afridi.jpg" width="145" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There is not a single player who may be a leader. Then there is Shahid Afridi who plays for pleasure, true he doesn't waste balls and time but one can not count on him. We sure do have one hell of a moody team. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Still we do have Muhammad Yousaf and Younis Khan, who have been showing good performance, and one hopes they'll keep it up through the world cup. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We won the warm up match against Canada and South Africa. Lets see how they do. There's no telling what they are gonna do as always. So lets keep our fingers crossed, control our emotions, and sit back and enjoy the game.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-4686428392032072905?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/4686428392032072905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=4686428392032072905' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/4686428392032072905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/4686428392032072905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/pakistani-cricket-2007.html' title='Pakistani Cricket 2007'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfQOzeawLOI/AAAAAAAAAAs/sU6TtPnzM80/s72-c/pl-ShoaibAkhter-02.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-7746432983460682540</id><published>2007-03-10T03:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T03:52:33.843-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cynical Moods</title><content type='html'>We have become distrustful and cynical. We find it increasingly hard to believe in love, family, and facts. So practical have we become that we are suspicious of any loving or friendly gestures that anyone displays for us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe we are afraid to take risks and face the consequences. In this world of fraud and falsity, we are no longer aware of the differences in truth and false. We are suspicious of even the long established and self-experienced truths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another reason why we find it difficult to trust facts are that today everyday new researchers bring in new facts, new results; easily discarding and denouncing the older researches. Then the increasing number of false claims and innovative ideas to sell products and services have also made us alert, conscious and judgmental.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are your opinions, why have we become so cynical?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-7746432983460682540?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/7746432983460682540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=7746432983460682540' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/7746432983460682540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/7746432983460682540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/cynical-moods.html' title='Cynical Moods'/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238629793828911244.post-5591642630993662908</id><published>2007-03-10T02:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T03:50:30.467-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfKYeuawLMI/AAAAAAAAAAc/z8L6JqArvus/s1600-h/earthquake_pakistan_india2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;e are all living edgy, uncertain, terrorized lives. Only 10 years before the world was re&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfKWSOawLKI/AAAAAAAAAAM/eWBuaMGbQgg/s1600-h/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040256172833123490" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfKWSOawLKI/AAAAAAAAAAM/eWBuaMGbQgg/s320/images.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;latively much more peaceful. Today there are accidents and natural disasters and bomb threats everywhere. Countries engaged in economics wars, attacking other countries for resources and markets. The west lives in terror of the Muslims who are ‘apparently’ terrorists. While the Muslim world lives in terror of being the next target to be accused of terrorism and fear an illegitimate joint attack by the West.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No matter where we are living - be it a Muslim country or otherwise - everybody is living in terror. No body ever knows what is going to happen next. The news is &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfKXt-awLLI/AAAAAAAAAAU/BGnDXf5XaSg/s1600-h/041229_TsunamiRebels_hd.hmedium"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040257749086121138" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 173px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 115px" height="146" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfKXt-awLLI/AAAAAAAAAAU/BGnDXf5XaSg/s320/041229_TsunamiRebels_hd.hmedium" width="219" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;flooded with loss of lives all over the world. Civil wars, war against terrorism, attacks on other countries, illegitimate invasion of other territories are all around us. Where the selfish and heartless humans do not have a hand in destroying a place, nature plays its role – the earthquakes, floods, draughts, Tsunami. Watching or reading news engulfs me in a sense of bleakness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfKYeuawLMI/AAAAAAAAAAc/z8L6JqArvus/s1600-h/earthquake_pakistan_india2.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040258586604743874" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 136px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 175px" height="162" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfKYeuawLMI/AAAAAAAAAAc/z8L6JqArvus/s320/earthquake_pakistan_india2.jpg" width="94" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All these events – floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, civil wars, these ‘so-called’ wars against terrorism – have changed behaviors and social setups to a considerable extent. The uncertainty has led people to become selfish and uncaring of anything else. Many subconsciously have realized the perils and they try to live life for the moment. Terrorized by a thought that there may not be any tomorrow, people are in a hurry to live there lives in the moment. They no longer care about the fact that there actions may be detrimental to the society and even harmful for themselves. People no longer think before they act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These events have changed the lives of many people directly and indirectly. I know longer feel as happy as I felt before and all this because somewhere in my sub conscience I know people are clinging to dear life. I am not doing anything for them. I ponder if I am entitled to be happy or celebrate, when people are dying, suffering terribly? I cannot bring myself to a state of uncaring attitude. We can’t even imagine the pain that they experience. Should I dream, knowing that there are millions out there whose dreams have been snatched, destroyed? Why am I not doing anything for them? The truth is I feel it easy to say and write, but when it comes to taking practical steps, most of us back out. We do not take out time to touch other people’s lives! Even if we could make just one person’s life better, I believe we could live in peace. &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040261485707668690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfKbHeawLNI/AAAAAAAAAAk/r-J6jGeu-OM/s320/rawalakot.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The feeling of making, improving someone’s life alone will reduce the insecurities and anxieties that have become part of our daily lives. They say ‘drops accumulated make a river’. We could make the world a better place by owning up to our share of responsibility to society. And then may be we could take real pride in ourselves, and celebrate life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7238629793828911244-5591642630993662908?l=thingscometomind.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/feeds/5591642630993662908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7238629793828911244&amp;postID=5591642630993662908' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/5591642630993662908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7238629793828911244/posts/default/5591642630993662908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thingscometomind.blogspot.com/2007/03/w-e-are-all-living-edgy-uncertain.html' title=''/><author><name>khdjabbas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10025753650159397418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10739648299017957604'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5greJUy6TqY/RfKWSOawLKI/AAAAAAAAAAM/eWBuaMGbQgg/s72-c/images.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>