The Funny Thing About Human Beings

Our Contradictoriness. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.

Courtesy : 'Like the Flowing River' by ...... Paulo Coelho

Wacky Definitions

School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.

Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich.

Nurse: A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills.

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.

Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.

Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through 'the minds of either'

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.

Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

Father: A banker provided by nature.

Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.

Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.

Classic: Books, which people praise, but do not read.

Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be wise after death

Greatness Unnoticed

" Greatness is not flamboyance. It is something else. But sadly, people don't value it enough. "

Few Key Facts about a guy:
1. Has been involved in the most century partnerships in Test history - 72
- Yet 'the fans' never recognize this 'true match winner'
2. Scored nearly 23% of the total runs put up by India (with a batting average of 102.84) in the 21 Test matches won under Ganguly's captaincy.
- Yet , 'the fans' say he is the reason of ganguly's downfall
3. Has the highest ODI batting average as captain of 45.58 (as of 4/7/06).
-Yet , 'the fans' say he is not good enough as captain and as an ODI batsman
4. 'The fans' say he is a soft captain
- He led India to first away test series against West indies (since 1971), England (since 1986). Led india to a record 14 consecutive wins chasing a total
- And above all......
Resigned from captaincy after achieving historic win against England. Can 'The fans' recall any other indian captain who left captaincy after 'winning' ??