SOME VIEWS OF LIFE

SOME VIEWS OF LIFE

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. -John B. Gough

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

-Jules Renard

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls. - Rosalia Castro

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up! - Anonymous

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality.

- Chinese proverb

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. -Roy. L, Smith

They conquer who believe they can. - John Dryden

Tear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

- William Faulkner

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. - Thomas Fuller

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

-Lawrence

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. - Nicholas Murray Butler

Some Views on Life

Some Views on Life, Adventure and Sports

There are only three sports - bullfighting, motor racing and Mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

-Ernest Hemingway.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. - David Grayson.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert F. Kennedy

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little ^an of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

- Laurence Sterne

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Alva Edison

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose. - Gordie Howe

football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones. Darrell royal Royal.

Positive Attitude

Positive Thinking: The Best Attitude

Often when we have to interact with a group of people, the most attractive appealing person is the person who is cheerful, has a smiling face anal behaves as if he or she is enjoying every moment. Such people have an optimistic outlook on life. They are the ones with a positive attitude. In contrast to this could he the people who are focusing on the negative aspects of everything. Such pessimists, the ones with negative attitudes do not attract others in the same way.

Having a positive attitude means getting on with the job on hand. It means not brooding over what's gone before, not fearing too much what might happen in the future, if there is a problem, positive thinkers quickly think of ways to solve it. Passing the buck, blaming other people or circumstances are excuses and alibis such positive people avoid, if such a positive thinker alone cannot solve a problem, he or she seeks help from competent people. To have a positive attitude means not to feel that it is below ones dignity to seek assistance.

Of course, even the greatest optimist cannot smile all the time and feel good. The ups and downs of life cause everyone to feel a touch of melancholy now and then when everything seems hopeless. But developing a positive attitude helps us bounce back from every challenge and difficult experience, ready to face whatever life brings. To get best out of life, we owe it to ourselves to approach everything - work, friendships and relationships, with a positive attitude.

Katrina is Google's most searched Bollywood name

Indian search terms in 2008 are a pointer to popular taste

No one can be sure how many of India's In­ternet users — estimated to number 50 million — keyed in a query at the world's largest search engine, Google. If global trends are a guide, an overwhelming percentage; but what they looked for in their 'cyber khoj' (search) during these last 12 months is an interesting - and revealing - barometer of public taste, preoccupation and concern.

The leading search engine last week unveiled statistics of the most popular key words that originated from its India-based users.

Google's own social net­working site, Orkut; e-mail service, Gmail; and video por­tal, YouTube, are, not surpris­ingly, among the top searched terms — presumably users too lazy to go directly to these sites. Interestingly, people did a Google search to quickly reach rival offerings Yahoo and Yahoo Mail.

When it comes to subject categories, the top Bollywood searches reveal the snowball­ing popularity of actress Ka­trina Kaif, by far the most-searched name this year. Google engineers told The Hindu that Katrina has a huge following in Pakistan as well, which outnumbers Indi­an searches. The actress has pushed long-time favourite Aishwarya Rai to the second place - maybe the price one pays in the public's fickle fancy for getting married!

Among sports personali­ties, Sania Mirza rules - out­numbering cricket stars Sachin Tendulkar and M.S. Dhoni. Rahul Dravid and Sou-rav Ganguly do not make the top ten this year.

Hindi cinema has always swept the top film title searches, and 2008 is no ex­ception with Jodha Akbar in lead position and another eight titles in the top ten. A surprise southern entrant at no. 2 is the Tamil film and Kamal Hassan's opus, Dasavatharam.

Goa and Kerala head the list of holiday destinations searched - which shows that Indian preferences mirrored the international popularity of these two States. When it comes to politicians, Mahat-ma Gandhi is a perennial number one - outdistancing popular interest in contem­porary names like Raj Thack­eray and Barack Obama. Three generations of Gandhis - Indira, Sonia and Rahul -find a place in the top ten in politics for 2008.

And in an era of affordable budget flying, good old Indian Railways holds it own: The Indian rail site was tlfl most popular government website, beating hardy annuals like CBSE results and Income Tax.

Did all these seekers of in­formation find what they were looking for? That is a separate story!

skydiving

Skydiving

Skydiving originated from military parachuting and has grown into a giant sport today. The excitement and the thrill that this sport provides have pulled in participants from all over the globe.

Modern skydivers free-fall from a height of 12,000 feet and open their chutes at 2,500 feet. The sport has developed to the extent that any person can be trained to skydive with four hours of training on the ground.

By controlling the position of the body while free falling the divers are able to maneuver. Today the chutes themselves have cables and mechanisms that can steer the diver and provide a soft landing.

At the outset of parachuting the chutes were circular but nowadays a lot of research is going into the design of the chute. Conventionally the chutes are called Ram-air chutes and are rectangular with a double surface to them. The chute unfolds to form a shape similar to an aircraft wing and allows the diver to be up in the air longer. Now isn't that exciting?

Do you know that the first skydiving competition was held as early as 1930 in Russia? By 1936 Russia had 115 schools for training divers. Skydiving became an international sport in 1951 when five nations met for a competition.

Today the sport of skydiving has gone extreme. Diving from planes has become a tradition of the past. Now people dive from tall buildings, cliffs, bridges and any place that provides the minimum height required for the sport. The international competitions are held once in two years by an organisation called the Federation Aeronautics Internationale.

There are no particular skills that one needs to skydive. It is more a matter of letting go of your fears. Today the training provided for this sport is state of the art and cutting edge technology goes into the design of the chute and the gear.

There is nothing more exciting than to feel the wind rushing past the speed is an ultimate thrill and as the saving goes The sky is definite the fink.' So go for it.