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Get out of the closet and take a little risk

triplicani — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:31:58 +0000

Thanks to my friend Margabandhu for sharing this motivating story

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Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons from Arabia.

They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained.Months passed and one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from its branch since the day it had arrived.

The king summoned healers and sorcerers from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly. He presented the task to the member of his court, but the next day, the king saw through the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its perch.

Having tried everything else, the king thought to himself, “May be I need someone more familiar with the countryside to understand the nature of this problem.” So he cried out to his court, “Go and get a farmer.”In the morning, the king was thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens.

He said to his court, “Bring me the doer of this miracle.”The court quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king.

The king asked him, “How did you make the falcon fly?”
With his head bowed, the farmer said to the king, “It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch where the bird was sitting.”

We are all made to fly– to realize our incredible potential as human beings. But instead of doing that, we sit on our branches, clinging to the things that are familiar to us.

The possibilities are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered. We conform to the familiar, the comfortable and the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling.

So let us learn to destroy the branch of fear we cling to and free ourselves to the glory of flight!!! Make it a great life!!

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In the new year, make a resolution to shrug the fear off and take that measured risky step! We take risk all the time in our life, unconsciously.

It is those people who take risk consciously that succeed even more!

Wish you a very happy new year!

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Anonymous internet creativity (republished)

triplicani — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:26:01 +0000

Some of the newspapers and magazines rekindle our memories by republishing old articles and news. Even TV Channels do it.

Should we, in the information highway, lag behind? In fact we should be ahead of these magazines. This thought came to me today and here I go, republishing one post I published Originally on 30 November 2005. (It is also one way to keep something going on the blog while I work on a new post).

Creativity on the net is amazing. Many times you receive jokes, thought provoking articles, presentations, friendship messages etc. as email forwards from friends and relatives.

Some of these are very interesting and enjoyable but you seldom come to know about the creator.

It just moves on the internet from email box to email box without any reference to the original creator of the stuff.

I am sure such emails at some point in time will also end up at the original creator’s mail box simply because of the fact that the mails just keep getting forwarded from one person to another.

Below is one such email forward I received from a friend and as usual do not know who is the original creator. May be this is taken from a book, may be someone wrote it and sent to his friends who while forwarding removed the original author credits.

I take this opportunity to say that anonymous author “well done, this is super creativity”.

This guy, has sat and looked at some English words and phrases, re-arranged the letters and has come up with new words/ phrases that can be connected to the original words / phrases.

It is also possible that some software geek sat and wrote a program to jumble letters in a word and waited until something meaningful showed up.

These are known as “anagrams”.

An anagram (Greek anagramma ‘letters written anew’, passive participle of ana- ‘again’ + gramma ‘letter’) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one, A decimal point = I’m a dot in place. Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammatist.[1] The original word or phrase is known as the subject of the anagram.

One thing is sure, this person must be a very intelligent person having the ability to see things in a different perspective.

When you rearrange the letters, don’t these words reveal more?

Dormitory – Dirty Room

Desperation – A Rope Ends It

The Morse Code – Here come Dots

Slot Machines – Cash Lost in ‘em

Animosity – Is No Amity

Mother-in-law – Woman Hitler

Semolina – Is No Meal

The Public Art Galleries – Large Picture Halls, I Bet

A Decimal Point – I’m a Dot in Place

Eleven plus two – Twelve plus one

Contradiction – Accord not in it

Astronomer – Moon Starer

Princess Diana – End Is A Car Spin

The Earthquakes – That Queer Shake

By Anonymous

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Qantas Gripe Sheets

triplicani — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:24:51 +0000

Browsing old emails, I found one hilarious mail that I read way back in 2003. When I re-read it today, I could not stop laughing.

As is normal for internet email forwards, I do not know the source/ author of this content or its genuineness. But it is surely hilarious and so is shared!. This makes it third post on airplane / travel in the past two months!

Qantas Gripe Sheets

After every flight, pilots complete a gripe sheet which conveys to the mechanics problems encountered with the aircraft during the flight that need repair or correction. The form is a piece of paper that the pilot completes and then the mechanics read and correct the problem.

They then respond in writing on the lower half of the form what remedial action was taken and the pilot reviews the gripe sheets before the next flight. Never let it be said that ground crews and engineers lack a sense of humour. Here are some actual logged maintenance complaints and problems as submitted by Qantas pilots and the solution recorded by maintenance engineers. By the way, Qantas is the only major airline that has never had an accident. P = The problem logged by the pilot. S = The solution and action taken by the engineers.

P: Left inside main tyre almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tyre.

P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.

P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit

P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.

P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.

P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.

P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That’s what they’re there for.

P: IFF inoperative.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you’re right.

P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.

P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.

P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.

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Anonymous internet creativity

triplicani — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:43:00 +0000

Creativity on the net is amazing. Many times you receive jokes, thought provoking articles, presentations, friendship messages etc. as email forwards from friends and relatives.

Some of these are very interesting and enjoyable but you seldom come to know about the creator.

It just moves on the internet from email box to email box without any reference to the original creator of the stuff.

I am sure such emails at some point in time will also end up at the original creator’s mail box simply because of the fact that the mails just keep getting forwarded from one person to another.

I take this opportunity to say that anonymous author “well done, this is super creativity”.

This guy, has sat and looked at some English words and phrases, re-arranged the letters and has come up with new words/ phrases that can be connected to the original words / phrases.

It is also possible that some software geek sat and wrote a program to jumble letters in a word and waited until something meaningful showed up.

These are known as “anagrams”.

An anagram (Greek anagramma ‘letters written anew’, passive participle of ana- ‘again’ + gramma ‘letter’) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one, A decimal point = I’m a dot in place. Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammatist.[1] The original word or phrase is known as the subject of the anagram.

One thing is sure, this person must be a very intelligent person having the ability to see things in a different perspective.

When you rearrange the letters, don’t these words reveal more?

Dormitory – Dirty Room

Desperation – A Rope Ends It

The Morse Code – Here come Dots

Slot Machines – Cash Lost in ‘em

Animosity – Is No Amity

Mother-in-law – Woman Hitler

Semolina – Is No Meal

The Public Art Galleries – Large Picture Halls, I Bet

A Decimal Point – I’m a Dot in Place

Eleven plus two – Twelve plus one

Contradiction – Accord not in it

Astronomer – Moon Starer

Princess Diana – End Is A Car Spin

The Earthquakes – That Queer Shake

By Anonymous