DEFINING A TRUE FRIEND...

YOUR FRIEND IS THE ONE WHO KNOWS ALL ABOUT YOU.............AND STILL LOVES YOU.

One of my students was showing me her COMMENTS BOOK. Generally, when the last year at the school is nearing the end, students exchange their feelings by making small notes in one another's COMMENT BOOKS which they keep as sweet memories of their teenage time.

Coming back to the main point, a friend of hers had written above sentence in her book.Perhaps this is a proverb. Whatever it is, it carries a deep message in it. It truly defines a friend. In today's materialistic world it is very difficult to have a true friend.

When I was a teenager, one of my elders had told me " A true friend is the one who stands beside you even after knowing that you are guilty."

What impressed me is the level of maturity that a teenager had shown by writing that message.I wish I had at least one TRUE FRIEND.

The answer to the mathematical puzzle posted on May 8 is : THE SUM OF THE TWO NUMBERS IS 1. Check it yourself.

MEDICINE AND MAGIC

With the advancement in medical science our expectation of medical miracles has got inflated and we wish that the modern medical treatments could get us rid of any disease. Thomas Szasz compares olden times with modern ones indicating what has gone wrong with us.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine, now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

FAMILY - A PRICELESS TREASURE

We all have a 'family' but only a few are able to realise what a 'family' is and what it contributes, directly or indirectly, in shaping our life. Agnes Smedley has his confessions in the following words which I think suffice to describe the significance of FAMILY.

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung-and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now-yes, I love them; they are part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

GEOMETRICAL PUZZLE

Until now we had some arithmatical puzzles. This time I give one interesting geometrical puzzle.

I have a circular piece of land which I want to divide into four equal pieces but I want to use only three fences to separate the smaller pieces from one another. Help me to do so.


The answer to this problem can be posted as a comment to this post. I will post the answer on May 21.

The answer to the puzzle given on May 5 is :The two numbers are 12 and 10.


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DO YOU KNOW ?

...that the 'BLACK BOX' of an airplane is not black in colour ? Yes, it's colour in fact is ORANGE as it is easier to locate orange coloured box in case of an accident. Then why is it called BLACK BOX ? THe reason is that it is sealed in such a way that nobody on board can open it !!!

OPTIMISM

Have you seen a man looking both the ways before crossing a one-way street ? Laurence Peter calles him a pessimist. We usually struggle to find an optimist around us. Optimism is a positive driving force- a force sometimes found to have done miracles. Pessimism has depressing force which kills the fighter within us without reason and induces a negative attitude in everything we don't want to do. Optimism works as a stimulant which keeps both the heart and the brain positively active. Bill Vauhan compares an optimist with a pessimist by saying :

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure (that) the old year leaves.



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INTERESTING FACTS !!!

CAESAREAN BIRTH

It is said that Julius Caesar had been delivered that way.In those days in Rome if a woman was dead or dying with an unborn child in her womb,then it would be rescued by the method now known as Caesarean Section. In Latin Caedere means to cut-hence Caeser got his name after being delivered by this method and the method began to be known as Caesarean Section.

SIAMESE TWINS

Siamese Twins are twins born with their bodies joined together and in some cases having an organ common to both.Siam is the old name for Thailand.The term SIAMESE TWINS came in to use after the birth of twins Chang and Eng on May 11,1811 in Siam.In the local language their names mean "left" and "right" respectively.

GEORGE v/s GEORGE

I am referring to George Bush and George Washington. Both George Bush, Sr. and George Bush, Jr. have spent much of their presidential tenure in interfering with the affairs of other countries and have paid less attention to bringing comforts to the Citizens of America. Contrary to their politics, George Washington believed in sovereignty of Nations. His words better explain his mature attitude in politics.

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that everyone had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.


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MATHS ONCE MORE !!!

Many of the readers have suggested that more mathematical puzzles and problems be given. Here is one more mathematical problem.


There are two numbers. The sum of the first number and the square of the second number is exactly equal to the sum of the second number and the square of the first number. This is possible in two situations. One is when the two numbers are equal. If the two numbers are not equal what is the condition for which the statement still holds ?

[If you find the answer - post it as your comment to this post. You require google account for that. I will post the answer on May 17.]

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY(WAR)

We condemn war in totality but the bloodshed does not come to an end. The history has more pages spent on war than on peace and progress. The words of H. L. Mencken tell us the reason :

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrinal glands.


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A Mathematical Puzzle

Solve the following puzzle. It is not difficult. I will post its answer on May 13. If you get the answer write a comment to the post.

When the square of the first number is added to the second number the answer is 154. When the square of the second number is added to the first number the answer is 112. Which are these two numbers ?





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THE SECRET OF WINNING

You must have the will to win. It could be sports, business or politics-all demand that you have a killer instinct within you to emerge ultimate winner. What one-time Billiards player Danny Mcgoorty (1901-1969) has said in following quote is the truth of winning.

Try to hate your opponent.
Even if you are playing your grandmother,
try to beat her fifty to nothing.
If she has already three,
try to beat her fifty to three.

Let's Laugh

Here is a joke to bring you back in mood.

Sunny was accused of assault and battery.
He said to his attorney : "I have got two million bucks.
Can you get me off ?"
"You have my word," Said the attorney,
"you will never go to jail with that much money".

WE MUST MAKE THE WORLD HONEST...

Thoughts of great people and philosophers have a long-lasting impression on shaping our lives.Here are some useful thoughts :

• All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
  ____________Samuel Butler



• I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
  ____________Martin Luther



• Where god hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
  ____________Robert Burton



• Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and the corrupt.
  ____________Graham Greene



• Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does one's self.
  ____________Oscar Wilde



• Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
  ____________Caroline Holland



• We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
  ____________George Bernard Shaw



• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
  ____________Oscar Wilde

ANSWER TO PUZZLE OF APRIL 24

The ages of nine children are 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23 and 26 years whereas the father's age is 48 years.

LAUGHTER : YES, LAUGH...IT'S GOOD FOR HEALTH

• Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
  _____________Arnold Glasow



• If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
  _____________Martin Luther



• Laughter restores the universe to its original state of indifference and strangeness : if it has a meaning it is a divine one, not a human one.
  _____________Octavio Paz



• It is a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
  _____________Dryden



• Both laughter and weeping are sudden motions, customs taking them both away.For no man laughs at old jests; or weeps for an old calamity.
  _____________Hobbes