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Originally Posted by pavalamani pragasam
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8-) ...Quote:
Originally Posted by pavalamani pragasam
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pr.............
I dont know what to feel sad for
that he died before the tea
or that this woman..... might have misunderstood :? :P
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly, and he brought it home.
One day, a small opening appeared in the cocoon. The man sat and watched the cocoon for several hours as the butterfly struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making progress. It appeared as if the butterfly had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no farther.
The man decided to help the butterfly in its struggle. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon... and the butterfly emerged easily.
As the butterfly emerged, the man was surprised. It had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly expectating that, at any moment, the wings would dry out, enlarge, and expand to support the swollen body. He knew that in time the body would contract, and the butterfly would be able to fly...but neither happened!
In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.
What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle were required for the butterfly to be able to fly.
The butterfly must push its way through the tiny opening to force the fluid from its body and wings. Only by struggling through the opening can the butterfly's wings be ready for flight once it emerges from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If our Higher Power allowed us to go through life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been... neither would we realise our strengths.
Difference between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on Solutions:
Case 1
When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing
surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater,
in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.
Case 2
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics
companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to
the assembly! line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly
line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution
monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and
they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so. But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the
same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial
electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out
of the line.
Moral: Always look for simple solutions.
Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems. Always focus on solutions & not on problems
So the end of the day the thing that really matters is HOW ONE LOOK INTO THE PROBLEM, mere perceptions can solve the tough probs....
aaaaah....... this reminds me! i have a design project to do! to make shopping easier!
after asking many pple what IMO or IMHO stands for and not getting any ans, i googled IMHO and got the internet slang page from wikipedia.
found sth that is amusing, esp the part in bold!
PEBKAC is the acronym for "Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair". The phrase is often used within tech support (but not mentioned over the phone to the user who called) to refer to troublesome users, identifying them as the source of the problem. Supposedly some users have ignorantly but helpfully told each level of tech support that the previous level "suspected a PEBKAC error."
An example would be the often-used tech support horror story describing a frazzled woman who calls complaining her coffee-holder is broken—which is actually the CD-ROM drive tray.
Other variants include:
EBKAC: Error Between Keyboard And Chair
PEBIAC: Problem Exists Between Interface And Chair
PEBMAC: Problem Exists Between Monitor And Chair
PICNIC: Problem In Chair Not In Computer
PLBKAC: Problem Lies Between Keyboard And Chair
Less commonly, as PIBKAC: Problem Is Between Keyboard And Chair
Also written PEBCAC, "keyboard" is replaced with "computer"
oh, actually i meant to post that in a joke a day keeps the doc away. sorry!
Weird Things which you would never know
Butterflies taste with their feet.
All polar bears are left handed.
A snail can sleep for three years.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.(Very interesting !!)
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (Try it)
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an
inch every year because when it built, engineers
failed to take into account the weight of all the
books that would occupy the building.
Go," is the shortest complete sentence known in the
English language.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint
pens every year.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than
all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our
nose and ears never stop growing. - SCARY!!!
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using
the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
This incident happened recently in Delhi and we need to be even more careful everywhere.
A woman went boating one Sunday, taking with her some cans of coke.
On Monday she was taken into ICU and on Wednesday she died.
The autopsy revealed a certain germ Leptospira caused by the can of coke from which she had drunk, not using a glass.
A test showed that the can was infected by dried rat urine and hence the disease Leptospirosis.
Rat urine contains toxic and deadly substances.
It is recommended to clean the upper part of soda cans before drinking out of them as they have been
stocked in warehouses and transported straight to the shops without being cleaned.
A study in Spain showed that the tops of soda cans are more contaminated than public toilets i.e. full of germs and bacteria.
So! to wash them with water is advised before making any contact with mouth to avoid any kind of fatal accident.
Remember to always use a glass or a straw and pass this on to everyone you care about.
Oops PP Mam :oops: !! Now i have to think thrice before sipping coke/pepsi cans!! Thanks for your info!