Day 20 - Bumper Stickers

Some bumper stickers that I liked:

1. Be nice to America or we'll bring democracy to your country
2. The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
3. If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.
4. When all else fails manipulate the data
5. I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.
6. If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
7. How is it possible to have a civil war?
8. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
9. Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
10. With my life I could be on all of Oprah's shows.
11. Is life a sexually transmitted disease?
12. Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
13. Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
14. My wife's other car is a broom!
15. Avenge Yourself - Be a problem to your children

Love
Mohandeep Sandhu
http://www.crcindia.co.in/

 

Day 19 - Anger

Yesterday when I was sitting with my mother and we were reminiscing  about her late father and my grandfather, she recollected the advice which he gave her on one occasion when she was extremely angry at something even though her temper was completely justified. He said:

If you are in the right you need not lose your temper and if you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose your temper.

Words of wisdom well spoken, wouldn't you agree? Here is what some others have said about anger:

• Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret - Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Amwerican educator, writer.
• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, philosopher.
• Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten - Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 BC.
• In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move - Douglas Adams, British comic writer. 
• Anger blows out the lamp of the mind - Robert Green Ingersoll, American statesman.

Love

MohandeepSandhu

http://www.crcindia.co.in/

Day 18 - Fitness Corner

Is 'Fitness Corner' on Zee Cafe at 6.30 AM ( Channel 213 on Tatasky DTH) about fitness? Check out and let me know.

Why don't we have more such fitness programmes? They are supposed to be very good for the eyes and maybe for for the health as well.

Love
Mohandeep Sandhu
http://www.crcindia.co.in/

Day 17 - Withholding Information

An elderly Italian man went to his parish priest and asked if the priest would hear his confession.

"Of course, my son," said the priest.

"Well, Father, at the beginning of World War Two, a beautiful woman knocked on my door and asked me to hide her from the Germans; I hid her in my attic, and they never found her."

"That's a wonderful thing, my son, and nothing that you need to confess," said the priest.

"It's worse, Father; I was weak, and told her that she had to pay for rent of the attic with her bodily favors," continued the old man.

"Well, it was a very difficult time, and you took a large risk - you would have suffered terribly at their hands if the Germans had found you hiding her; I know that God, in his wisdom and mercy, will balance the good and the evil, and judge you kindly," said the priest.

"Thanks, Father," said the old man. "That's a load off of my mind. Can I ask another question?"

"Of course, my son," said the priest.

The old man asked, "Do I need to tell her that the war is over?"

Love

Mohandeep Sandhu

Day 16 - Mid Term Exams

I was reading these humourous takes on teaching and exams something akin to the Murphy's Laws and am sharing some of the one's that I found interesting. I will begin with those related to exams as the classes I teach in the University sit for their Mid Term exams tomorrow. 

Laws of Applied Terror

1. When reviewing your notes before an exam, the most important ones will be illegible.

2. The more studying you did for the exam, the less sure you are as to which answer they want

3. Fifty percent of the exam will be based on the one lecture you missed about the one topic you didn't read.

First Law of Exams

The examination paper is always easier when you are not taking it.

Second Law of Exams

In your toughest exam, the most distractingly attractive student in class will sit next to you for the first time.

Class Schedules

Class Schedules are designed so that every student will waste maximum time between classes.

Library Laws

•All librarians will be happy to help when you don't need it, but will vanish when you have a question about the Dewey Decimal system.
•Dewey was drunk when he made the decimal system.

I hope you enjoyed reading them a much as I did compiling them.
Love
Mohandeep Sandhu
http://www.crcindia.co.in/

Day 15 - Leadership Through Work Life Balance

Too many people do not discover how to live until it is time to die. They spend the best years of their lives chasing that illusory pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, working long hours, neglecting their families and their health in the process only to find that, at the end of the day, their obsessive pursuit of a fat bank account and the coveted corner office did not bring the deep fulfillment that they craved.

Too many of us miss out on the simple gifts that every day brings like the glory of the sunrise or the laughter of a young child because we are so busy trying to make a living we have lost sight of the real meaning of life. Then one day, in our twilight years, we finally reflect on "what could have been" and our hearts flood with regret over school concerts missed, family vacations not taken and magical moments lost. Perhaps Henry David Thoreau said it best when he observed: "Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived."

There is nothing wrong with great achievement. I believe that a life without career success and professional fulfillment is an incomplete life. We all have a deep human hunger to create something great through the work we do and shine in our chosen occupations.

The point of wisdom is simply this: do not sacrifice a joy-filled life for the sake of achievement. Instead, joyfully achieve. Balance your commitment to being the best you can be at work with a deep commitment to being a great family person and loving friend. Understand that without balance in every core area of your life, you will never find lasting happiness and a sense that you have lived well.

As Gandhi noted: "One can not do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another. Life is one indivisible whole."

Love

Mohandeep Sandhu

http://www.crcindia.co.in/

Day 14 - Facts of Life

• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat drinking beer all day.
• As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
• A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
• You can't have everything - where would you put it?
• Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.
• It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living.
• Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

Love
Mohandeep Sandhu
http://www.crcinida.co.in/