Self Confidence or Over Confidence ?

 

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MEET TINY JYOTI, THE SMALLEST GIRL IN THE WORLD !

She stands just 1ft 11in tall and the average two-year-old would tower over her. But Jyoti Amge is no toddler – she is 14 years old.

This remarkable teenager, who weighs just 11 lb, is the smallest girl in the world.Her tiny size – she’s just nine inches taller than this page – means that Jyoti has to have her fashionable clothes and jewellery made for her.

The youngster – who has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia and will never grow any taller – is too small to use a normal-sized knife and fork so she eats off special plates… and sleeps in a tiny, custombuilt bed.

Even bathing is done on a miniature scale.

She uses specially-made steps to help her get in the bath and a small bucket and jug to wash herself.

But, astonishingly, she goes to a regular school, where her fellow pupils treat their tiny classmate as one of themselves as she she sits at her mini-desk and chair.

And Jyoti, who like any teenager loves listening to pop music and watching DVDs, is far from unhappy about her size.

She says: “I am proud of being small. I love all the attention I get. I’m not scared of being small and I don’t regret it. I’m just the same as other people. I eat like you, dream like you. I don’t feel any different.” And her size has its benefits. She’s a mini-celebrity in her home city of Nagpur, in central India. People flock to see her. Some even treat her as a goddess. And she has even recorded a soon-to-be-released album with her favourite Indian pop star, the bhangra/rap singer Mika Singh.

Her businessman father Kishanji, 52, says: “I can’t separate myself from her even for a single day. I love her very much. She makes me proud. Lots of gurus come to see and bless her. They pray for her happiness and long life.”

Her mother Ranjana, 45, adds: “When Jyoti was born, she seemed quite normal. We came to know about her disorder when she was five. We consulted a specialist and he said she will be this size all of her life. Jyoti is small, yet cute, and we love her very much.”

For one so small, Jyoti has big ambitions.

She hopes to one day break into Bollywood as an actress.

She says: “I would love to work in a big city like Mumbai, act in films and travel to London and America.”

I’m proud of being small. I love all the attention I get because of it

All her things at home are in miniature.. but she’s very happy. Some people even think she’s a goddess

She loves DVDs and wearing fashionable dresses.. and has made an album with her favourite rap star.

One mom, 17 kids, plus one on the way

It’s a happy Mother’s Day for an Arkansas woman — she’s pregnant with her 18th child.

Michelle Duggar is surrounded by her children and husband Jim Bob, after the birth of her 17th child in 2007.

Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year’s Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.

“We’ve had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us,” she said, laughing.

The Duggars’ oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.

The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled.

Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.

The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores — or “jurisdictions” — are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a “jurisdiction swap,” where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.
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“The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass,” she said. “The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms,” among other chores.

Duggar said she’s six weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they’ll keep having children as long as God wills it.

“The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated,” Jim Bob Duggar said. “Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen.”

The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2

Want to quit smoking? Go online. Really!

Surfing for a longer life

With more and more people inhabiting the virtual world today, doctors are using that space to encourage people to quit smoking. There are websites that list out the disadvantages and dangers of the addiction, and also those that help you formulate a personal quitting plan.

The helping hand At the Champs Club, an Indian anti-smoking website, you can calculate exactly how much money one one save by quitting smoking for a month/year/five years and so on. It helps one understand how long and what kind of changes one’s body will undergo in the first 30 days of quitting.

The site has names of smoking rehab clinics over the country, where addicts who want to kick the butt can enroll for a three-month programme. Says Dr Gupta, a panelist, “Since the website was launched last month, we have received a number of enquiries and four people have already enrolled.

We expect a lot more soon.” Becomeanex.

org helps smokers come up with personalised quitting plans, which map out when s/he needs a smoke and how s/he reacts when s/he doesn’t smoke. Indian brothers A blogger called ‘nocigarette’ has collected anti-smoking TV ads from over the world.

One Indian ad says, “Be nice to smokers, they don’t have long to live.” Though India-specific anti-smoking websites have yet to catch on, Cancer Patients Aid Association India (CPAA) has an active website with a detailed section on “How to quit smoking”.

The section directs traffic to a website called whyquit.com that is headed by Joel Spitzer, a world-renowned anti-smoking campaigner.

“Little Master” Sachin Tenduldar draws first blood in Australia

Sachin Tendulkar’s first limited overs century on Australian soil has underpinned India’s comfortable six-wicket victory in the first of the Commonwealth Bank Series finals at the SCG.

The master batsman crafted an unbeaten 117, reaching the boundary 10 times, as India easily overhauled Australia’s 8-239. It gives the tourists a 1-0 lead over Australia in the best-of-three finals.

The hosts must now win in Brisbane on Tuesday to send the series to a decider.

Tendulkar was struck on the shoulder by a Brett Lee beam ball on 98 before two singles took him to three figures.

The veteran batsman punched the air in delight as the capacity crowd rose to its feet to acknowledge Tendulkar’s breakthrough ton in his 39th one-day appearance in Australia.

The very next ball Rohit Sharma’s magnificent knock came to an end on 66 when his off stump was rocked back by James Hopes (2-42)

Skipper MS Dhoni (15 not out) joined Tendulkar and saw India home with more than four overs to spare.

It was the 123-run fourth wicket alliance between Sharma and his boyhood hero Tendulkar which veered the match India’s way.

The visitors lost early wickets, slumping to 3-87, before Tendulkar and Sharma slowly loosened Australia’s grip on the game.

The pair didn’t resort to big hitting, patiently picking the bowling off and staying ahead of the run rate.

Tendulkar’s greatest concern early in the innings was the lack of fight at the other end, with wickets falling at regular intervals.

Opener Robin Uthappa (17) helped put on 50 for the first wicket before he was out to a terrific Michael Hussey catch from the bowling of Hopes.

Running at full pace and diving forward from deep square leg, Hussey picked up the ball centimetres from the ground, jumping to his feet and celebrating as if he’d scored the winning goal in an FA Cup final.

India slid further when the in-form Gautam Gambhir (three) was run out after going to sleep just six runs later.

Tendulkar called his team-mate through for a second run but Mitchell Johnson at third man, sensing Gambhir was slow to react, threw brilliantly to the non-striker’s end.

Hopes gathered and threw down the stumps from a few metres away with the Indian No.3 well short of his ground.

Yuvraj Singh again looked in no man’s land, limping to 10 before Brad Hogg (1-38) went right through him with a flat, quick delivery which crashed into off stump.

But Tendulkar found an ally in Sharma and their partnership proved the match winner.

Earlier, a Matthew Hayden half-century and cameos from Andrew Symonds (31), Hussey (45), Hogg (23 not out) and Brett Lee (17) lifted the home side to a respectable tally after it had been 3-24 early.

World’s Longest Flag Guinness Book of World Records

Worlds Longest flag ever made by a religious group Vyaswadi Pagpada Sangh, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India for the Ambaji temple here, is ready. It’s a mammoth 415 feet long. When erected, it stands as high as 20 feet. Weight of the temple flag is 125 Kg.

‘For the past 14 years Vyaswadi Pagpada Sangh members have been trekking to the Ambaji temple. And we decided why not make the longest ever flag for Ambaji Mata,’ said Chakkubhai Patel, president of the Sangh.

The flag will be taken to Ambaji, 198 km from here, and the journey will begin on Aug 21, 2008 culminating on Aug 28, Chakkubhai Patel said.

‘We had sent a letter to the Guinness Book of World Records about the flag and they have sent us our ID number and membership approval. Only proof was needed about the size of the flag,’ he said.

‘Though we had mentioned in the letter to Guinness about the flag being 411 feet, it actually measured 415 feet.’

The Sangh has paid for the flag and on Independence Day Aug 15, 20,000 people would be contributing Rs.5 each to offset the cost. ‘We will not accept more than Rs.5 per head,’ Chakkubhai Patel added.

The Vyaswadi Sangh has no office of its own except a community hall for its activities at Nava Vadaj, Ahmedabad, India.

Flag Puja – 31st August 2008 Sunday 1.00 Clock.

WORLD’S FIRST PREGNANT MAN – Amazing

 

Strange coincidences & Amazing Facts between Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy

 

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both of their wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both were shot in the head.

Both were shot with one bullet.

Both were rumored to be killed in a conspiracy.Neither was confirmed to be a conspiracy.

Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theater.
Kennedy was shot in a card made by the Ford Motor Company (a Lincoln no less)

Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners.

Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

Their first names both contain six letters.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.

Both names comprise fifteen letters.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Both assassins were assassinated before their trials.

The only complete filming of Kennedy’s assasination was shot by Abraham Zapruder.
The only complete account of Lincoln’s assasination was written by John Zelfindorfer.

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was with friends in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with his friend Marilyn Monroe.

Lincoln’s last child, Tad, had his funeral held on July 16, 1871. Later he was exhumed and moved to a different grave site.
Kennedy’s son JFK Jr. was lost at sea on July 16, 1999. Later he was found, brought up, and then re-burried at sea.

Note: 1 Note: It is an urban myth that Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy. There is no record of that.

2 Note: There is no record whether or not Kennedy’s secretary warned him.

3 Note: Booth actually fled to a farm and was killed in a tobacco barn. It might be a stretch to call it a warehouse.

But two years after his death, Booth’s body was temporarily moved to a warehouse. Also, after the assassination, the government closed the Ford Theatre and turned it into a warehouse.

Other interesting facts:
Apparently Lincoln had a dream several days before the assassination that he had been killed.
He told his wife that he had seen himself in a casket.

Also, Lincoln’s son Tad had a pet turkey named Jack. Tad asked his father not to kill the turkey for Thanksgiving.
Although Harry S Truman started the official tradition, Lincoln was the first to “pardon” a Thanksgiving turkey.

Now what would be real interesting is if Kennedy had a pet named Abe or had pardoned someone by that name. Thus far, I haven’t heard of that. Skeptics disagree

Some skeptics say that you could take any two famous people and find a number of similar-type coincidences between them.
The only problem with that theory is that there really haven’t been any listings of such comparisons.
And certainly none has been as extensive as the Lincoln-Kennedy similarities.

Summary:
Facts concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are amazingly similar. It is uncertain if such coincidences have any meaning, but they certainly are strange.

LOVE !

Noone could quite express love like Shakespeare. I sometimes believe that Love was a discovery by the likes of Shakespeare, for would we have known love if not for the tragic romance of Romeo and Juliet? We have a nice collection of Love Quotes by Shakespeare :

“Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.”
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One half of me is yours, the other half yours- Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours!”

“She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won”

“I’ll follow you and make a heaven out of hell, and I’ll die by your hand which I love so well.”

And for the humorous lovers out there, we also have some funny love quotes :

“We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn’t.” ~ Zsa Zsa gabor

“Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.”

“”A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.” ~ Edgar Watson Howe

And here you go if you like more generic funny quotes…. Hundreds of them..

“Men are like parking spots, the good ones are taken and the free ones are handicapped. ”

” I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.”

“Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.”

And well, like many love stories, though not all, they end up in a marriage, and sometimes it is the end of the love story, but can we ignore some Marriage Quotes :

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

” Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.”
~Ambrose Bierce:

“All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.”
~John Berger

I LOVE YOU IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

 

Afrikaans -	Ek het jou lief
Albanian -	Te dua
Arabic -	Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic -	Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian -	Yes kez sirumen
Bambara -	M’bi fe
Bangla -	Aamee tuma ke bhalo baashi
Belarusian -	Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya -	Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian -	Obicham te
Cambodian -	Bung Srorlagn Oun (to female) Oun Srorlagn Bung (to male)
Cantonese/Chinese	Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan -	T’estimo
Cheyenne -	Ne mohotatse
Chichewa -	Ndimakukonda
Corsican -	Ti tengu caru (to male)
Creol -	Mi aime jou
Croatian -	Volim te
Czech -	Miluji te
Danish -	Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch -	Ik hou van jou
English -	I love you
Esperanto -	Mi amas vin
Estonian -	Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian -	Ewedishalehu : male/female to female Ewedihalehu: male/female to male.
Faroese -	Eg elski teg
Farsi -	Doset daram
Filipino -	Mahal kita
Finnish -	Mina rakastan sinua
French -	Je t’aime, Je t’adore
Gaelic -	Ta gra agam ort
Georgian -	Mikvarhar
German -	Ich liebe dich
Greek -	S’agapo
Gujarati -	Hu tumney prem karu chu
Hiligaynon -	Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian -	Aloha wau ia oi
Hebrew -	Ani ohev otah (to female)
Hebrew -	Ani ohev et otha (to male)
Hiligaynon -	Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi -	Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hai
Hmong -	Kuv hlub koj
Hopi -	Nu’ umi unangwa’ta
Hungarian -	Szeretlek
Icelandic -	Eg elska tig
Ilonggo -	Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian -	Saya cinta padamu
Inuit -	Negligevapse
Irish -	Taim i’ ngra leat
Italian -	Ti amo
Japanese -	Aishiteru
Kannada -	Naa ninna preetisuve
Kapampangan -	Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili -	Nakupenda
Konkani -	Tu magel moga cho
Korean -	Sarang Heyo
Latin -	Te amo
Latvian -	Es tevi miilu
Lebanese -	Bahibak
Lithuanian -	Tave myliu
Macedonian	Te Sakam
Malay -	Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam -	Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Maltese -	Inhobbok
Mandarin Chinese -	Wo ai ni
Marathi -	Me tula prem karto
Mohawk -	Kanbhik
Moroccan -	Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl -	Ni mits neki
Navaho -	Ayor anosh’ni
Nepali -	Ma Timilai Maya Garchhu
Norwegian -	Jeg Elsker Deg
Pandacan -	Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan -	Inaru Taka
Papiamento -	Mi ta stimabo
Persian -	Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin -	Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish -	Kocham Cie
Portuguese -	Eu te amo
Romanian -	Te ubesc
Roman Numerals -	333
Russian -	Ya tebya liubliu
Rwanda -	Ndagukunda
Scot Gaelic -	Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian -	Volim te
Setswana -	Ke a go rata
Sign Language -	,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing ‘I Love You’
Sindhi -	Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux -	Techihhila
Slovak -	Lu`bim ta
Slovenian -	Ljubim te
Spanish -	Te quiero / Te amo
Surinam-	Mi lobi joe
Swahili -	Ninapenda wewe
Swedish -	Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German -	Ig liebe di
Tajik	Man turo Dust Doram
Tagalog -	Mahal kita
Taiwanese -	Wa ga ei li
Tahitian -	Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil -	Naan unnai kathalikiraen
Telugu -	Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai -	Chan rak khun (to male)
Thai -	Phom rak khun (to female)
Turkish -	Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian -	Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu -	mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese -	Anh ye^u em (to female)
Vietnamese -	Em ye^u anh (to male)
Welsh -	‘Rwy’n dy garu
Yiddish -	Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba -	Mo ni fe

HISTORY OF DUBAI !

Although the early history of Dubai is not very well documented, archeological discoveries suggests that, as long as four thousand years ago, small fishing communities lived along the coast of the Arabian Gulf on the site of what we know today as Dubai.

There are records of the town of Dubai (“Dubai”) from 1799, which was a dependent of the settlement of Abu Dhabi until 1833. The then sheikh of Dubai was a signatory to the British sponsored “General Treaty of Peace” of 1820.

In 1833, the Al Maktoum dynasty of the Bani Yas tribe left the settlement of Abu Dhabi and took over the town of Dubai, “without resistance”. From that point on, Dubai, a newly independent emirate was constantly at odds with the emirate of Abu Dhabi. An attempt by the Qawasim pirates to take over Dubai was thwarted.

In 1835, Dubai and the rest of the Trucial States signed a maritime truce with Britain and a “Perpetual Maritime Truce” about two decades later. Dubai came under the protection of the United Kingdom by the Exclusive Agreement of 1892.

The rulers of Dubai fostered trade and commerce, unlike the town’s neighbors. The successful early development was in large parts due to the foresight of Dubai’s rulers. The city has benefited from the stabilizing influence of two exceptionally long rules: that of H H Shaikh Saeed Bin Maktoum from 1912 to 1958, followed by that of his son, H H Shaikh Rashid Bin Saeed al-Maktoum.

For many years prior to his father’s death in 1958 Shaikh Rashid has played a leading role in directing the state. Since then he has guided Dubai in its expansion from a small, old-world town to a modern state with excellent communication, and industrial infrastructure, and all the comforts of contemporary life. He ruled Dubai for over 30 years, during which time large projects like the Jebel Ali free zone, World Trade Centre and Dubai International Airport were sanctioned.

The town of Dubai was an important port of call for foreign tradesmen (chiefly Indians), who settled in the town. Until the 1930s, the town was known for its pearl exports. The international trade which flowed from Dubai’s cosmopolitan contracts was the basis of it’s rapidly increasing prosperity. This gave the city an early start in development before the beginning of oil production in the late 1960s. Like the other towns along the coast, Dubai had been severely affected by the decline of the pearling industry, due to competition in the 1930s from Japanese cultured pearls, and by the drop in trade in the Second World War.

After the devaluation of the Gulf Rupee in 1966, Dubai joined the newly independent state of Qatar to set up a new monetary unit, the Qatar/Dubai riyal. Dubai maintained its importance as a trade route through the 1970s and 1980s. Dubai and its twin across the Dubai creek, Deira (independent at that time), became important ports of call for Western manufacturers. Most of the new city’s banking and financial centers were headquartered in this area.

In 1971 when the British left the Persian Gulf, Dubai together with Abu Dhabi and five other emirates, formed the United Arab Emirates. The UAE dirham was adopted in 1973 as the uniform currency, by Dubai and the other emirates.

JOBS IN DUBAI

People love to work in UAE because there is general feeling that there is a lot of money in UAE. Getting a job in UAE would actually settle one financially for life. Hence, many people want to get jobs in UAE and actively seek it through various means.

Dubai is continually developing to an exciting, diverse, multi-cultural blend of young, dynamic and professional people enjoying the unrivalled quality of life that the Emirate has to offer. Therefore, Dubai has recorded that fastest growth in population in the world. More and more people immigrate to the city for quality of life, outstanding employment prospects and to experience the very best in the world of work and lifestyle.

There is low unemployment in Dubai and wide ranges of jobs are available. There is a wide variety of business operating in Dubai and it is possible to find work in many different market sectors. A number of employment agencies like Clarendon Parker, Nadia, BAC Middle East, IQ Selection, SOS Recruitment etc specialize in Dubai and UAE regions.

Here are some handy guides for beginners which help in settling down in Dubai easily.

Rules for Working in UAE

The rules for working in UAE are quite simple; you will need first to have a residential permit so you can apply for a labor card. The labor card will permit the person to obtain employment in the UAE. The residential permit can be obtained when someone in UAE can legally sponsor you. A person will legally sponsor you only when that someone either is your relative or a company who is going to employ you.

Visa Requirement

All visitors, except GCC nationals, require a visa, however free visit visas are issued to most nationalities upon entering Dubai. Some nationalities however do require visa so enquires should be made before traveling.

People coming to UAE to search for a job required a Visit Visa for entering in UAE and after finding a job one can transfer to a residence Visa by either re-entering country or directly transferring it.

A visit visa is valid for 60 days, but can be renewed for a further 30 days upon paying a fee of Dhs 500 at the Department of Immigration. Alternatively, a ‘visa run’ can be made, which entails flying to Doha or Muscat at a cost of approximately Dhs 300, and re-entering Dubai on a new visit visa.

If you have a job lined up for you, then your company should have your visa application sent to the airport at the time of your arrival. If so, they will stamp a residency visa in your passport.

For those coming to the UAE to search for a job, you will be entering the UAE on a visit visa, and once you have found a job, you can transfer to a residence visa by either re-entering the country or else directly transferring it.

Ministry of Labor and Affairs issue Employment Visa or Permit initially for a period of 30 days on showing the proof that you have acquired or about to acquire a job in UAE.

When you land the job, the rules of land dictates that the company that employs you will process all the formalities required for getting you the work permit.

Investor or Business Visa is issued when the applicant has a minimum of Dh 70, 000 in the share capital. This visa is issued for an initial time of three years.

If you are planning to bring your family members to live with you, then you will need to get a family residence visa. This visa will allow you to sponsor your spouse, children, and parents, if they are coming with you. In order to have a family residence visa, your salary must exceed Dhs. 4,000 a month.