Archive for June, 2008

Psychological test

Did you know that there are specific emotions that weaken certain organs in your body?

ANGER weakens the liver.
GRIEF weakens the lungs.
WORRY weakens the stomach.
FEAR weakens the kidney.

And so the advice is – CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY!

Have a happy reading!;)

Quote for the day

“This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind…let it be something good.”

English grammar

When we are not conscious with what we say, we naturally go with the flow..with what is commonly used, regardless of its dictionary meaning. For non-linguist individuals, we are not aware with what is grammatically correct for as long as we end up being understood by the ones we are conversing with. But sometimes as non-native speakers of English, we have to put consciousness to our thoughts in the context of speaking to somehow avoid language barrier between two opposing point of views.

Now take a look of this sentence structure: “I eat my breakfast today.” –the sentence is syntactically(deals with the rules or patterned relation that govern the way words combine to form a phrase) correct because the pronoun “I” is always followed by the base form of the verb in present tense. HOWEVER the sentence is semantically ( is devoted to the study of meaning) wrong.

To simply put it literally–”How can one eat the breakfast?”. And so to make it clearly understood, it is much proper to say ” I take my breakfast today”. In other words, it is only a matter of choosing the right word to mean a thing correctly by replacing the word “eat” with the word “take”.

Important Information

Three women in North Florida turned up at hospitals over a 5-day period, all with the same symptoms.
Fever, chills, and vomiting, followed by muscular collapse, paralysis and finally, death.
There were no outward signs of trauma.
Autopsy results showed toxicity in the blood. These women did not know each other and seemed to have nothing in common.   It was discovered, however, that they had all visited the
same Restaurant (Olive Garden) within days of their deaths.  The Health Department descended on the restaurant , shutting it down. The food, water, and air conditioning were all inspected and tested, to no avail.

The big break came when a waitress at the restaurant was rushed to the hospital with similar symptoms. She told doctors that she had been on vacation, and had only went to the restaurant to pick up her check.
She did not eat or drink while she was there, but had  used the restroom.
That is when one toxicologist, remembering an article he had read, drove out to the restaurant, went into the restroom and lifted the toilet seat .

Under the seat, out of normal view, was a small spider. The spider was captured and brought back to the lab, where it was determined to be the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata), so named because  of its reddened flesh color.&nb sp;  This spider’s venom is extremely toxic, but can take several days to take effect. They live in cold, dark,
damp climates, and toilet rims provide just the right atmosphere.

Several days later a lawyer from Jacksonville showed up at a hospital emergency room. Before his death, he told the doctor, that he had been away on business, had taken a flight from Indonesia , changing planes in Singapore , before returning home.   He did NOT visit (Olive Garden),
while there. He did (as did all of the other victims) have what was determined to be a puncture wound, on his right buttock.   Investigators discovered that the flight he was on had originated in India .

The Civilian Aeronautics Board (CAB) ordered an
immediate inspection of the toilets of all flights from India and discovered the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata) spider’s nests on 4 different planes!

It is now believed that these spiders can be anywhere in the country.

So please, before you use a public toilet, lift the seat to check for spiders. It can save your life!

An inspirational story

A certain rich businessman had a beautiful daughter, who fell in
love with a guy who was a cleaner, When the girl’s father came to know about their love, he did not like it at all, and so began to protest about it.
Now it happened that the two lovers decided to leave their homes for a happy future. The girl’s father started searching for the two lovers
but could not find them.

At last, he accepted their love and asked them to come back home in a
local newspaper. Her father said “If you both come back I will allow
you to marry the guy you love, I accept that you loved each other truly.”

So in this way, their love won and they returned home. The couple
went to town to shop for the wedding dress. He was dressed in white shirt that day. While he was crossing the road to the other side to get some drinks for his wife, a car came and hit him and h e died on the spot.
The girl lost her senses. It was only after sometimes that she recovered
from her shock. The funeral and cremation was the very next day because he had died horribly.

Two nights later, the girl’s mother had a dream in which she saw an
old lady. The old lady asked her mother to wash the blood stains of the guy from her daughter’s dress as soon as possible. But her mother ignored the dream. The next night her father had the same dream, he also ignored it.
Then when the girl had the same dream the next night, she woke up in fear and told her mother about the dream. Her mother asked her to wash the clothes which have blood stains immediately.

She washed the stains but some remained. Next night she again had the same dream she again washed the stains but some still remained . Next night she again had the same dream and this time the old lady gave her a last warning to wash the blood stain, or else something terrible will happen.
This time the girl tried her best to wash the stains, and the clothes nearly tore, but some stains still remained.

She was very tired. In the late evening the same day while she was
alone at home, someone knocked the door. When she opened the door she saw the same old lady of her dream standing at her door. She got very scared and fainted. The old lady woke her up… and gave her a blue object, which shocked the girl. She asked “What is this…?” The old lady replied…

” Gumamit ka ng TIDE. P6.50 na lang, mas pinalaki pa! “.
TIDE IS MIRAKOL!

Be Careful How You List Names On Your Cell Phone

We can’t be too careful….

Be careful how you list names on your cell phone!

A lady friend has changed her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag which contained her mobile, Credit card, purse…etc…. was stolen. 20 minutes later when she called Her Hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says “I’ve just received your text asking about our Pin number and I’ve replied a little while ago.”

When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The pickpocket had actually used the stolen hand phone to text “hubby” in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from the bank account.

Moral of the lesson: Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid
using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, sweetheart, Dad, Mom etc…….

And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked thru texts, CONFIRM by calling back.

Also, when you’re being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don’t reach them, be very careful about going places to meet “family and friends” who text you.