The Money Story.

Taken from here.

You are old, father William poem by Lewis Carroll

You are old, father William...

"You are old, father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?

"In my youth," father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."

"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
And you have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door
Pray what is the reason for that?"

"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
"I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment one shilling a box
Allow me to sell you a couple?"

"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak
Pray, how did you manage to do it?"

"In my youth," said his fater, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life."

"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose
What made you so awfully clever?"

"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father. "Don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs.

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Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
First publication date: 1855

Taken from here.

Toothless is still cute.

Look at the above characters ... None of them except Goofy has teeth. And for a mouth as big as that, he has only TWO!! So, go ahead and get that little half-decayed white devil out, and SMILE. :)

Cheer up. Be Brave! :)

Dr.Nemo seems to be resembling a mercenary of peace, doing his best wearing a mask in the wake of the strong oral fragrance and trying to identify which of the numerous CREAMY, cemented teeth need filling and which of them need extraction. Eh! "Een en dertig" would be the whale's favourite number as she joins the majority of the rest around her who are members of the THIRTY ONE CLUB. :D

Its just a partially used tooth that is more harmful than is useful. Get away with it, and take pride in having done a WISE thing! You would be gaining wisdom, rather than losing it.

Notice the little droplets of water SPLASHing out of the blow hole on the back of the whale, where Nemo loves to WHEEEEEEE!

ChEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEr up! :)

Fighting Kangaroo, mother kangaroo and little Joel!

Chocolates, ahoy!!

Amateur photographs ..

Of Whales, lighthouses and the vast ocean..

Do something!

(Taken from: Brisbane times )

A satirical video on teenage affluence is influencing hearts and
minds through YouTube.

(Affluent = having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich: an affluent person; - Source: http://dictionary.reference.com)

With the title 'Teenage Affluenza is Spreading Fast', the video
clip from World Vision is a clever parody of materialism in the suburbs.

When it was released online, it was quickly picked up by YouTube's editors and marked as one worth watching, leading to more than 200,000 hits in its first four days on the web.

Starring two typical teenagers, Erin and Red, living in
Melbourne, it uses the same male voice-over artist as the
mainstream World Vision television appeals, which focus on the
lives of deprived children from developing countries.

Instead of starving children in the YouTube clip, we watch the
Australian teens struggling with such horrors as eating dry cereal
without milk because the family has run out. The voice-over
intones: "Each mouthful of her cereal is so much harder to bear
with the knowledge that the milk bar is literally metres away from
her home."

The scenes are intercut with footage of children in developing
countries struggling with the harsh realities of their life in war
zones and famine-stricken regions.

Watch the video:

We learn that Red, who is described as an "incredibly gifted
computer gamer", is unable to "take it to the next level" because
he still has only a PlayStation 2 console from early 2004 rather
than a PlayStation 3.

This scene is contrasted with the life of Fen Ching, who is
playing with his one and only toy - a brass bomb-shell casing we
are told he found while foraging for food.

In the last sequence, which jumps between the two worlds, we
learn that today is particularly hard for 15-year-old Erin because
she knows "after dinner, after homework, before she can watch
Home and Away, it's her turn ... to unpack the dishwasher".

It is funny and moving and at the end viewers are urged to take
action by joining the 40-hour famine fundraiser on August 17-19.

One teenager who watched it, 16-year-old Luke Jarman from Sydney's northern beaches, says he typically gives a YouTube video about 15 to 30 seconds to capture his attention and this one passed the test.

He also admits there are parts of his and his friends' lives which he recognised in the video. "The bit about the gaming console made me think. I had been wanting an Xbox 360 but we already have about four different consoles in our house. I am thinking that maybe I don't a need new one."

Meanwhile, the video has attracted thousands of responses on
YouTube's online-comments section, including some honest
self-analysis from teenagers, while others started a discussion
about who is to blame - corrupt governments or first-world
greed.

This debate is very satisfying for Adam Valvasori, who runs
Stir, World Vision's youth arm, which produced the video.

"The response has been overwhelming," he says. "We have known for a while that it is not good enough just to have your own website but that we had to have a presence on MySpace and YouTube and you must have a two-way communication to motivate people to act."

The format of YouTube has been very useful, he says, because
when people are engaged they are often willing to watch for up to
five minutes, which is enough time to convey a complex message.

In the video, instead of asking people to simply put their hands
in the pocket, they are urged to "do something real" wherever they
are and the 40-hour famine is given as an inspiration.

You tube video link:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFZz6ICzpjI

Chillies ..... YUM!!

Green chillies whose seeds have been extracted and been filled with spices and turmeric paste and dipped in chickpea flour before being fried!

Organised Chaos!

This, by my partial definition is the meaning of an 'Organised' chaos! You do not have to SEARCH for something! All you have to do while looking for something is to bring up the picture of the object in your mind, and LOOK around for it in one lazy 180 degree scan on the table -- There it is within the second scan, you should find what you are looking for! (By the way ... I tidied up the table a bit for the photograph!)

If you were not careful...

If you had not been careful with the instructions, there are chances that you might end up with something that looks like the preparation shown in the picture above! Remember ... Use chilli powder in moderation, and never use Romano Cheese!

Easy way of preparing Pasta!

its very easy 1-2-3 steps kinda...but good..

so what u do is take a pan ( saucepan )

u fry a onion ( diced ) and one clove garlic rite ::sleep together

just medium heat make sure it doesnt burn ::sleep

then u add tomatoes..oregano..salt and pepper and boil them together

for 5 mins until the liquid is gone rite, then u remove it stir it for a while ::rolleyes u can also stir it in whipping butter or cream if u like to..

and let is simmer for like 5-10 mins

and there is ur spaghetti sauce

dont cook ur spaghetti toooooo long ::sleep 10-15 mins is enough

oh yeh i like it spicy so the taste is upto u ::happy

and not to forget...u cud aslo sprinkle with cheese...cheese is a must for me ::sleep

that was it...am outta here..i will send u the bill later on ::happy