Welcome!

Dear Visitor,
A very warm welcome to my blog which describes life in a way you have’nt thought of.If you think life is all so dull and boring,think again.Life is full of opportunities,full of choices and full of freedom.This Blog not only shows you how rewarding an experience in nature can be,but also shows you the gifts of what is given to us and what we can enjoy! In here, we look at life from another eye…
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Cheers,

Trevor D

FREE SAMMY THE SHARK!!!

Sammy The Shark Living in his Miserable Aqua-storey Apartment.

Yeah! That’s what everyone in the UAE are saying except some people in a hotel named Atlantis,just because they think that they own an aquarium to compfort a  60ft Whale Shark.As far as the protest against this the whole of UAE along with Gulf News are doing a pretty good job and their campaign to “FREE Sammy The Shark” is one of a kind!

Imagine yourself tanked up in a house aquarium….ok,humans are not fish,sorry! Imagine yourself restricted from all movement in a closet just like Harry Potter! What would you do? What can you do? Use a magic wand when you can’t? This is what Sammy feels right now…living down in his Miserable Aqua-storey Apartment. Petro-dollars to mint money but no heart to feel how a whale feels.Well,so I thought how the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai was.

Be humans and have a heart people!!! FREE SAMMY THE SHARK!!!

Planning out the day

Successful moments come with hard work.Hard work comes with strategically planned plans to fight the battle

As so I hear around all day.Many times we hate to pull up our work and get to doing it unless of course we are a second away from our deadline.The saying goes that if you are well organized life is simply written in color.Life has so many choices and so many paths to be tread on.And so we go on with organizing our day/month/even the year!

All Right….so let’s get kicky with some planing.Firstly pull out that calendar!

1. Get Organized and keep avoid any distractions.Its just 15 minutes to you and yourself.
2. Pull out a pen and piece of paper
3. Scribble down all the events you have for the week(not anything related to work) Eg:Party,out to the mall,dinner at neighbor’s place,etc.
4. Calculate the time that is wasted and calculate the time you just need to keep aside for your work.(Keep it approximate! Your not a mathematician!!!)
5. Now this is the part where you bring all the pieces of the puzzle together

Normal Workin’ Days:

Morning Sunshine:

• Getting out of bed between 6am-8am would be ideal so you can spend just about an hour to yourself,freshen up, have a scrumptious breakfast and get kicking for the big day ahead.

Day at work:

• Let me assume an average’s person work time from 9am-5pm.Alright,so your back home now,and surely the best thing to do is to take a shower and relax! If music is your art,turn up your fav tracks and push your head back for half-and-hour.That makes it around 6pm.

The Blessed Evening:

• Some tip toes before dinner: So its just sometime before you prepare a relaxing and amazing dinner,but of course there are so many thing you could do before this! If you’re planning to make a gourmet kitchen’s plats,spend all the time you need,cause flavor in food is important!(some tippies I learned from Rachel Ray)
• So its around 6pm and your getting bored.Turn to your work! You need to complete it today and not tomorrow,simply because the ‘tomorrow’ will be a daily excuse.
• If no work is on the table,let’s push in some nice things to do and give your health a fresh look.Take a walk around the blog and jog around the nearby park.(while I jog around blogger’s park).If nothing else is there to do,why not run down to the store and bag in some groceries for dinner?

Gourmet Food at Home:

• All Right,so its like around 8pm-9pm and supper has to get down good.Why not cook up something realistic.Try being a chef one day,and stir up some amazing dishes using a few recipes from Rachel Ray, Bobby Flay, Martha Stewart or even Nigella Lawson.

The Good Night’s Sleep:

• After a hard day at work and a superb supper(I’m sure) it’s time to have a night full of rest and relaxation…

Green Scented Oxygen

What enlights us more than keeping another pot in the house? Green plants.That’s what we want.Since I was a kid,plants used to catch my attention more than the times i opened my eyes.Yeah,I was a bit lazy.But then as I grew up and studied a bit about botany till Grade 10 I was well,confused. Those wonderful looks of nature right in our house.Why not keep a pot,when it actually helps us and keeps the house looking natural…rather than man-made. You’d find a green bamboo potted plant and many other sorts of domestic plants in the living room. Plants simply keep the house fresh and makes the house look clean (even when its not). Almost everywhere I go I see big houses with amazing backyards and a creative and beautiful little garden,and surely all that would be a bit overcrowed in my 2 bedoom apartment.Right? Green Scented Oxygen…that’s what I would we would need today…

Why a wedding ring must be word on the fourth finger

This is based on Logical reasoning and makes you believe its true……..

Why should the wedding ring be worn on the fourth finger?
There is a beautiful and convincing explanation given by the Chinese…..

Thumb represents your Parents
Second (Index) finger represents your Siblings
Middle finger represents your-Self
Fourth (Ring) finger represents your Life Partner
& the Last (Little) finger represents your children

Firstly, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together – back to back
Secondly, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb – tip to tip
(As shown in the figure below):

Now, try to separate your thumbs (representing the parents)…, they will open, because your parents are not destined to live with you lifelong, and have to leave you sooner or later.
Please join your thumbs as before and separate your Index fingers (representing siblings)… ., they will also open, because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and will have to lead their own separate lives..

Now join the Index fingers and separate your Little fingers (representing your children)… ., they will open too, because the children also will get married and settle down on their own some day.

Finally, join your Little fingers, and try to separate your Ring fingers (representing your spouse).
You will be surprised to see that you just CANNOT….., because Husband & Wife have to remain together all their lives – through thick and thin!!

The Power of Music

From the keys of the piano to the enchanting strings,

Music stays within our hearts, within our hearts, it brings

To transform our minds to the voice of nature,

Of love and romance so full and pure.

When she shouts out loud and begins to call us,

Call us to her reach and far around us,

We hear trumpets that triumph and rejoice aloud,

To splendor divine to a charming bell.

When fresh poetry doth mix with the song,

I doubt thee want to try it out to go so long,

So far away that my ears don’t hear,

A million years in the past which bettered.

Sometime I play the guitar while sometimes the keys,

the keys of nature which when hit became wonderful pleas,

to send us a message of dying a mile,

away and up into the wild sides of fresh yet soothing nature.

And this my friends is my message for you,

Feel the power of music,rushing in out through you.

-Trevor D

Inspirational Words by Swami Vivekananda

When I asked God for Strength

He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face

When I Asked God for Brain & Brown

He Gave Me Puzzles in life to Solve

When I Asked God for Happiness

He Showed Me Some Unhappy People

When I Asked God for Wealth

He Showed Me How to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Favors

He Showed Me opportunities to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Peace

He Showed Me How to Help Others

God gave me Nothing I wanted

He gave Me Everything I Needed

- Swami Vivekananda

Modern Technology And The Current Generation

Modern Technology And

The Current Generation

When the world saw a major change in the turn of the 21st century,the world saw something that would revolutionize everyone’s lives.Yes,my folks…this is Modern Technology! The world full of wireless communication,hi-tech instruments and highly advanced tools to make it a life-changing experience. The world is accessible in the touch of a button,the universe is explorable in the eyes of people,the future sees dyes of unimaginable sophistication & last of all, our present generation is being vastly affected by today’s so called “Modern Technology”

Whenever I sit in front of my laptop or just sleep with the iPod in my ears, my Mom will always “distract” me with her stories of what she did when she was young….and then I would return to my work…WAIT!!!! Did I say “stories”?….Let’s see what sorts of stories…

…Back in my days we use to play more and read more books….

…No way did we sit at home…cause there wasn’t even a television to look at…

These “stories” are actually true.In the mid-19th century to the end of it,we find that our parents or the people who schooled in that time were more “OUT” rather than “IN”.Since televisions and computers were not quite widespread at that part of time,reading and playing is more like our time on the net or in front of the television.

So where are we (this generation) actually headed off to…Let’s talk in terms of obeisity,lack of real character,no hands-eye to today’s world,etc.Life in a way…won’t be the way we lived it before.I really appreciate the movie Wall-E, though its just an animated film, if you try and understand what’s going on, it potrays the future if we are not ready to change today. So focussed on the line of technology where we forget to look at our ownselves being carried around the world on a chair…our whole life.

On the other hand,I really appreciate the efforts modern technology has also taken to prevent obeisity and many other “diseases” that can affect the world. Sony Playstation’s Eye Toy’s Fitness and the amazing Wii-fit.

So what can we really say? Where is this world heading to? With so many advancements and improvements happening every single day! Robots are soon going to replace a lot of man’s mechanical effort and travelling around the world would be the same as walking over to our neighbour’s house.

Science is developing at a fast rate,the world is developing at a faster rate,but what is going to be the end result…

Self-Confidence

Sometimes….we are over confident…

while sometimes….we are too scared to face the truth….

I’m sure this short story will help you…

gain that confidence in you

A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.

Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly, an old man appeared before him. “I can see that something is troubling you,” he said. After listening to the executive’s woes, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.”

He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.”

Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

“I can erase my money worries in an instant!” he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.

With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.

“I’m so glad I caught him!” she cried. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you. He’s always escaping from the rest home and telling people he’s John D. Rockefeller.”

And she led the old man away by the arm.

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned.
All year long he’d been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him.

Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.

Live life while you can…

Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day

When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement,
“My Purpose is to ……today “!!

Live with 3 E `s……………Energy, Enthusiasm, Empathy,
And the 3 F`s ………………Faith, Family, Friends

Spend more time with People over the age of 70 and under the age of Six

Dream more while you are awake

Try to make at least three people smile each day

Realize that life is School and you are here to learn, pass your tests.
Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class
Lessons you learn will last a lifetime

Smile and laugh more. it will keep you the energy vampires away

Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone…

Pain-Ever wondered why it exists?

Ever wondered why pain exists?…why God has made us feel pain…well,here’s a short story

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
“I don’t believe that God exists.”

“Why do you say that?” asked the customer.
“Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn’t exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?

If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can’t imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.”
The customer thought for a moment, but didn’t respond because he didn’t want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber:
“You know what? Barbers do not exist.”
“How can you say that?” asked the surprised barber.
“I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!”
“No!” the customer exclaimed. “Barbers don’t exist because
if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.”

“Ah, but barbers DO exist! That’s what happens when people do not come to me.”
“Exactly!” affirmed the customer. “That’s the point! God, too, DOES exist!
That’s what happens when people do not go to Him and don’t look to Him for help.
That’s why there’s so much pain and suffering in the world.”

BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS !