De-Motivation Posters

Tired of inspiration posters in your office that urge you to do things the company wants you to do? Here are some that are not what the boss had in mind!

Things you miss/wish in life

Things you miss/wish in life

1. 5 minutes ago you were traveling to office at
80 mph. in your brand new car. Now you are
traveling to hospital at double the speed in an
Ambulance, you wish there was 'undo (ctrl + Z)'
in life!

2. You are already late, and your key is
missing, you wish there was 'find tool (ctrl+F)'
in life!

3. You are a bankrupt, after investing in some
weird business, you wish there was 'rebuild all'
in life!

4. The train is so crowded that you cannot get
anywhere near that nice girl at the other end,
You wish there was 'zoom & view full screen'in
life!

5.After marriage you realize that there is bound
to be a mismatch, you wish there was an
valuation period' or at least a 'sample download'
or a 'demo version'!

6. One day you realize that you are turning bald,
You wish there was 'cut and paste (ctrl + X)/
(ctrl + C)' in life!

And the best one is ..........

7. The best part of the keyboard is U & I are
together which is not always there in life......

I am only me

I Am Only Me
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
~ By Ruth Bourdon ~

I am only me, that is all that I can be
No more, no less, don't second guess

I love, I laugh, I live and cry,
I've wished at times, that I could die

Some days I'm funny, others I'm not,
sometimes I'm in overdrive and can't stop

I am a loyal and honest friend,
You know that I'll be there until the end

I am a father/mother, my children my greatest gift,
The smiles on their faces always give me a lift

I am a romantic, sensual, and passionate too,
to the love of my life, I'll share this with you

I can be sweet and shy or sassy and bold,
I'm quite a handful, or so I've been told

I am not perfect, I do have my faults,
like when I get scared I put up high walls

Or I'm not as forgiving, as I'd sometimes like to be,
because when I hurt, I hurt deeply

My logic is all my own, at times misunderstood,
because I don't always do things for my own good

I have many facets, like a diamond you see...
I am only me.

Slow Down Culture : The Swedish View on Life

Slow Down Culture : The Swedish View on Life

Slow Down Culture, It’s been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working forthem has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It’s a rule.

Globalize processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general sense of searching for immediate results. Therefore, we have come to posses a need to see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold x quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better results.

Said in another words:

1. Sweden is about the size of San Pablo, a state in Brazil.
2. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants.
3. Stockholm, has 500,000 people.
4. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, are some of its renowned companies. Volvo also supplies NASA with critical equipment.

The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn’t say anything, either the second or third. One morning I asked, “Do you have a fixed parking space? I’ve noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot.” To which he replied, “Since we’re here early we’ll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don’t you think? Imagine my face.

Nowadays, there’s a movement in Europe name Slow Food. This movement establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week.

Basically, the movement questions the sense of “hurry” and “craziness” generated by globalization, fueled by the desire of “having in quantity”
(life status) versus “having with quality”, “life quality” or the “quality of being”. French people, even though they work 35 hours per week, are more productive than Americans or British. Germans have established 28.8 hour workweeks and have seen their productivity been driven up by 20%. This slow attitude has brought forth the US’s attention, pupils of the fast and the “do it now!”.

This no-rush attitude doesn’t represent doing less or having a lower productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress. It means reestablishing family values, friends, free and leisure time. Taking the “now”, present and concrete, versus the “global”, undefined and anonymous. It means taking humans’ essential values, the simplicity of living.

It stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and more productive where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do. It’s time to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of products and services, without losing the essence of spirit.

In the movie, Scent of a Woman, there’s a scene where Al Pacino asks a girl to dance and she replies, “I can’t, my boyfriend will be here any minute now”. To which Al responds, “A life is lived in an instant”. Then they dance to a tango.

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists. We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”.

Congratulations for reading till the end of this message. There are many who will have stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this globalized world.

-Taken From Net

More About it @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement

Sayings In Gujarati

[01] જ્યારે કોઈ પુરુષ પોતાની પત્ની માટે ગાડીનો દરવાજો ખોલે ત્યારે સમજવાનું કે ગાડી નવી છે કાં તો પત્ની નવી છે.

[02] પ્રેમના ગણિતમાં એક વત્તા એક એટલે સર્વ અને બે ઓછા એક એટલે શૂન્ય.

[03] સફળતા રીલેટિવ છે, જ્યારે તમને મળે છે ત્યારે તમારાં ઘણાં બધાં રીલેટિવો પેદા થાય છે.

[04] જો તમે કોઈને પ્રેમ કરતાં હો તો બીજા કશાની જરૂર નથી, પરંતુ જો તમે પ્રેમ ના કરતા હો તો બીજું જે પણ તમારી પાસે હોય એનો કોઈ મતલબ નથી.

[05] હું ઑફિસમાં દરરોજ મોડો આવું છું પણ એને સરભર કરવા માટે દરરોજ વહેલો નીકળી જાઉં છું.

[06] જૂની મૂલ્યવાન ચીજો એટલે જેમનો કેટલાય વખતથી સહેજેય વપરાશ નથી એવી ચીજો.

[07] એ માણસ ભલે મૂરખની જેમ બોલતો હોય કે મૂરખની જેમ વર્તતો હોય, તમે એનાથી મૂરખ ન બનતાં, એ ખરેખર મૂરખ જ છે !

[08] ઉંમર તમને પ્રેમ કરતાં રોકતી નથી પણ પ્રેમ તમને ઉંમરલાયક થતાં રોકે છે.

[09] ભૂતકાળમાં જે આંસુ મેં પાડ્યા હતાં તે અત્યારે યાદ કરું છું ત્યારે હસવું આવે છે, પરંતુ મને એ નહોતી ખબર કે ભૂતકાળમાં આપણે જે હસ્યા હતા એ અત્યારે યાદ કરવાથી પણ આંસુ આવે છે.

[10] પ્રેમનું પાત્ર શોધો નહિ, બનો.

Vegetarianism

As the age old saying goes, “You are what you eat.”

1. But does that mean if you eat a carrot, you’ll turn orange? A guinea pig in his own experiment, 33-year-old filmmaker Morgan Spurlock decided that he would go on a fast food only diet to put this adage to the test. In his documentary, Super Size Me, he recorded the effects that McDonald burgers, fries, and soda had on his health. The results at the end of his thirty day experiment not only uncovered the health risks associated with the Great American Diet, but highlighted a new wave of health-consciousness surging across the country.
   At the forefront of this movement towards healthier living is the vegetarian diet, which doctors and nutritionists both laud as “healthful, [and] nutritionally adequate.
2. In fact, a Scandinavian study carried out in 1984, reveals “the benefits [of vegetarianism] in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
3. Of all the participants in the study, 75% were able to discontinue their high blood pressure medication within a year of adopting a vegetarian diet.
4. As a result of such stunning medical tests and health awareness, vegetarianism is currently gaining momentum now more than ever before. In a poll taken in 2000, the estimated statistical population who can be considered vegetarian in the USA is 2.5%.
5. Loosely defined, a vegetarian diet is one that excludes all forms of meat, however there are many variations of vegetarianism that exist today. For example, there are vegans who avoid all animal products, such as meat, fish, and poultry. They also refuse the use of any animal by-products, such as honey, dairy products, and eggs.
6. Lacto-ovo vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or poultry, yet they do eat dairy products and eggs. Lacto-vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, poultry, or eggs, but they eat dairy products. Semi-vegetarians, or flexitarians, occasionally eat meat, fish, or poultry, usually no more than once a week. Finally fruitarians consume fruits, nuts, seeds, and certain vegetables.
7. The classifications of vegetarianism are not rigid and are culturally specific.
   Vegetarianism is not only a dietary choice but also represents a way of life; it has a deep-rooted history, especially within the doctrines of Hinduism, long before the common era.
8. The ethical foundation called ahimsa, or non-violence, is a principle that can be traced back to the incantations of the Vedas (ancient Hindu scriptures). On the spiritual path of Hinduism, a pinnacle that aspirants strive towards is God-realization, or the ability to recognize the divinity residing within all beings.
9. Outwardly, this is the commitment to avoid the obvious forms of violence, such as the use of coercion and brutality upon any life-form; animals and humans alike should be treated kindly. Not only does the philosophy apply to behaviour but more broadly to encompass thought. Mohandas Gandhi, a well-known promulgator of ahimsa, explained that each person has a moral obligation “not to hurt any living creature by thought, word or deed.
10. For Hindus, this translates to adopting a peaceful temperament as well as a vegetarian diet.
    The concept of non-violence and vegetarianism is not unique to just Hinduism, but is evident in many faiths across the world. Buddhism, like Hinduism, teaches the precepts of ahimsa and is demonstrably positive towards vegetarianism; Lord Buddha explicitly preached against animal killing. The Old Testament used by both Jews and Christians instructs “Thou Shall Not Kill.
11. Furthermore, Steven Rosen writes that the Jewish Old Testament carefully circumscribed what was permissible and “never endorsed the wholesale slaughter of animals so prevalent today.”
12. Principles of non-violence across all traditions have contributed immeasurably to the evolution of ideas about compassion and equal treatment towards animals.
13. Especially, after learning the inconceivable truth of the agribusiness industry’s animal breeding and animal slaughter, many agree that it is nothing less than inhumane. In Deep Vegetarianism, Michal Allen Fox recounts an eyewitness story from USA slaughterhouses which “routinely skin live cattle, immerse squealing pigs in scalding water and abuse still-conscious animals in other ways to keep production lines moving quickly.
14. Unethical procedures include crowded confinement, brutal declawing, forced impregnation, and cruel castration.
15. The mutilation of animals on a slaughter farm and noxious hormone treatments are both grounds that many take for adopting a vegetarian diet.
    Yet another complication of the meat industry is the economies of scale, which is correlated to hunger in many developing countries. The bottom line is that “meat feeds few at the expense of many.
16. Essentially, large-scale meat production is a noted contributor to world hunger due to the fact that many developing countries export agricultural products to feed livestock rather than to feed people.
17. The industry exhausts vast quantities of less costly resources from poorer nations in order to produce relatively scanty returns to humans.
18. All in all, a vegetarian diet has physical, spiritual, social, and economic implications. From a medical perspective, there are positive health benefits. Spiritual adherence to non-violence supports vegetarianism, pledging to show compassion to all living being. Moreover, the present day agricultural industry clearly mistreats animals even before they are slaughtered and put on the grocery shelf. Finally, in terms of globalization, the industry itself perpetuates world hunger by siphoning raw materials from developing countries. Whether a vegetarian life style is adopted for any of the reasons mentioned above, or others, it unmistakably has a rippling effect in the community at large.

Footnotes:

1. German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) made the famous declaration that “a human being is what he eats,” in “Der Mensch ist, was er isst”; in Jacob Moleschott, Lehre der Nahrungsmittel: Für das Volk, ‘Advertisement’ (Erlangen: Enke, 1850).
2. The American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada released this joint statement in June 2003. Vegetarian Times. Oak Park: Oct 2003, Iss. 314; p. 13.
3. Ibid.
4. Vegetarian Times. Oak Park: Jan. 2005, Iss. 327; p. 33.
5. A 2000 National Zogby Poll sponsored by the Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG). “How Many Vegetarians Are There?” 1996-2000 The Vegetarian Resource Group August 30, 2000 http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/poll2000.htm.
6. Diabetes Forecast. Alexandria: Oct. 2005. Vol. 58, Iss. 10; p. 50.
7. Paul R. Amato and Sonia A. Partridge, The New Vegetarians: Promoting Health and Protecting Life (New York and London: Plenum Press, 1989), p. vii.
8. Michael Allen Fox, Deep Vegetarianism, (Philadelphia, Pa.:Fox Publication: Philadelphia Temple University Press, 1999), p. 6.
9. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, “Non-Violence of the Strong and of the Weak,” in Moral and Political Writings, vol. 2, p. 405.
10. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, “Ahimsa or Love,” in The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, ed. Raghavan Iyer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986–87), vol. 2, Truth and Non-Violence, p. 577.
11. Exodus 20:13.
12. Rosen, Diet for Transcendence, p. 93.
13. Michael Allen Fox, Deep Vegetarianism, (Philadelphia, Pa.:Fox Publication: Philadelphia Temple University Press, 1999), p. 134.
14. “Animals Butchered Alive, Former USDA Inspectors Say,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 4 April 1998, p. A16 (Reuters News Agency story).
15. Michael Allen Fox, Deep Vegetarianism, (Philadelphia, Pa.:Fox Publication: Philadelphia Temple University Press, 1999), p. 77.
16. Adiraja Dasa, “Vegetarianism: A Means to a Higher End,” http://www.harekrishna.com/col/books/VEG/hkvc1. html #Ethics.
17. Michael Allen Fox, Deep Vegetarianism, (Philadelphia, Pa.:Fox Publication: Philadelphia Temple University Press, 1999), p. 96.
    18 Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet, rev. ed. (New York: Ballantine, 1975).

Imagine

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one



Imagine by John Lennon

One More from Google - April Fool Joke - Google TiSP

Link : Google TiSP

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GMail - April Fool Joke

In case if you missed GMail April Fool Joke here it is..

April Fool's Day Joke
More About GMail Paper


Gmail is a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient and useful. And maybe even fun. (Psst...if you missed it, check out our April Fool's Day joke.)

Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Well, you asked for it, and it’s here. We’re bringing it back.

A New Button Now in Gmail, you can request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button, and we'll send it to you in the mail. Simplicity Squared Google will print all messages instantly and prepare them for delivery. Allow 2-4 business days for a parcel to arrive via post. Total Control A stack of Gmail Paper arrives in a box at your doorstep, and it’s yours to keep forever. You can read it, sort it, search it, touch it. Or even move it to the trash—the real trash. (Recycling is encouraged.) Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe Google takes privacy very seriously। But once your email is physically in your hands, it's as secure as you want to make it.

Learn more about Gmail Paper

Is it free? Yes. The cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica. No pop-ups, no flashy animations—these are physically impossible in the paper medium. How about attachments? All part of the deal. Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. MP3 and WAV files will not be printed. We recommend maintaining copies of your non-paper Gmail in these cases. Is there a limit? You can make us print one, one thousand, or one hundred thousand of your emails. It’s whatever seems reasonable to you. But what about the environment? Not a problem. Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment. For every Gmail Paper we produce, the environment gets incrementally healthier.

April Fools Day

The Orgin of April Fool's Day

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Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes

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Top 10 Worst April Fools Day Hoaxes Ever

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Ladki ka chakkar - Funny one

Do you know the relationship between two eyes..?

They blink together,

they move together,

they cry together,

they see things together and

they sleep together BUT THEY NEVER SEE EACH OTHER..

That’s what friendship is

But when a beautiful girl comes in front, one eye goes blink and the other remains open........................................

Moral of the story: Girls can break even the best of friendships

Ladki kaa chhakar babu bhaiya … ladki kaa chhakar…..