The Hippopotamus and the Tortoise.

Much of life
can never be explained, only witnessed.'
- Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

 NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus 
that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast, has formed a strong
bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in
the port city of Mombassa , officials said.

The hippopotamus,
nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down
Sabaki   River into the Indian Ocean , then forced back to shore when
tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers
rescued him.

'It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old
hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems
to be very happy with being a 'mother',' ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is
in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP.

'After it was swept away and lost its mother,
the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate
mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. 

They swim, eat and sleep together,' the ecologist
added.
'The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed
its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes
aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,' Kahumbu added

'The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a
very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with
their mothers for four years,' he explained. 

'Life is not measured by the number of
breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.' 

This is a real story that shows that our
differences don't matter much when we need the comfort of another.

"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane"

Will You Dance With Me?

I ask my little darling...Will You Dance With Me?READ THIS VERY SLOWLY.....

IT'S PRETTY PROFOUND.  

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. >From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word 'refrigeration' mean nothing to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched ' Jeopardy ' on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, 'How about going to lunch in a half hour?' She would gas up and stammer, 'I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain.' And my personal favourite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because we cram so much into our lives, we tend to schedule our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!

We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet... We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of 'I'm going to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are settled down a bit.'

When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Roller blades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord..

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-Decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.

Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent this to you.

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butter fly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask ' How are you?' Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, 'We'll do it tomorrow.' And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say 'Hi?

When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift....Thrown away..... Life is not a race.  Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.

To all my readers - 'Life may not be the party we hoped for.. but while we are here we might as well dance'

No increase in Salary....

Something worth pondering...


When you work in a place where the people give the least and expect the most, the result is quite similar to the above picture which spells exactly what is happening in our world. 


Simple solution - “Don’t complain; just work harder.”  - Randy Pausch quote

So Strange But True....

So strange ....
RM50.00 looks so big amount when you give to a poor ...............
But looks small when you give it as a tip in HOTEL

Praying to God for 3 min looks hard................
But 3 hrs of movie is ok for us

After whole days of hardwork , we have no problem of going to the gym...........
But to do house work and help mom/wife; we feel tired

We wait for 1 full year for valentines day, and we know it..........
But when do mother's day come; We never know...............

One couldn't give a piece of bread to the child in the picture above ............
But this painting where he looks sad was sold for RM10,000.00

To forward this msg we will think.................but to forward jokes we never think.....


VERY STRANGE…………!!!   But its True........!!!

Happy Chinese New Year....

Today is Chinese New Year. Not forgetting we had just celebrated the New Year on the 1st and another celebration again now. I guess we Chinese are lucky, especially this year when our Lunar Year is in the month of January. What is Chinese New Year to me? Hmmm good to ponder a little.

When I was a small child, Chinese New Year was the happiest moment of time. No school for a week, father coffee shop was closed for a few days and mum would allow us to gamble in the house. On other days strictly no gambling. All children would be receiving angpow, red packets containing cash. The married had to give these angpow to the unmarried. Is a must! During this childhood, I learned to receive as many red packets as possible. Visiting all relatives, especially those who gave bigger packets. I learned to hunt and prospect from givers.

Later when I got marry, I no longer received angpow from anybody. All the little children and relatives were expecting me to give. So! Before the Chinese New Year approached, I had to work hard to save enough for the festival. I was told, the more I gave... The more I would be blessed. When I was a child, our red packets were only the coins. Time had changed. The packets had to be increased as well. Today I have to give 200 dollars each to all my little brothers. They are not shy to open the packets immediately. Anything less, they would demand for more. During this period of my life, I learned to give and to give happily without the pain.

After living this long on earth, and celebrated 64 years of our Chinese New Year, I learned to understand the word... Happiness. The saying goes.. "The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are but on how happy others can be because of you". Today, I no longer wish to receive but rather to give as much as possible, especially to those who are not happy for some reasons.

Happy Chinese New Year to all my Chinese friends. 

NEVER ASSUME THAT MEN UNDERSTAND!

A woman was in a coma. 

She had been in it for months.

Nurses were in her room giving her a bed bath. 

One of them was washing her private area and noticed that there was a slight response on the monitor whenever she touched her there.

They tried it again and sure enough, there was definite movement.

They went to her husband and told him what happened, telling him, 'As crazy as this sounds, maybe a little 'Oral sex' will do the trick & bring her out of the coma'

The husband was skeptical, but they assured him that they would close the curtains for privacy.

 The husband finally agreed and went into his wife's room.

After a few minutes the woman's monitor flat lined, no pulse, no heart rate.

The nurses run back into the room. 'What happened!?' they cried.

The husband said, 'I'm not sure; maybe she choked.!'  

Very Rare Celebrity Photo's.....

Rare Photos, especially the last one you must not miss

Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney

Michael Jackson, Francis Ford Coppola & George Lucas

The Beatles & Little Richard

Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine & Elvis Presley

Elizabeth Taylor Diana

Robert Foo, Little darling and You (The Black One)