The GIVING TREE

A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the treetop, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow.. he loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by.. the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every day.

One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. ‘Come and play with me’ the tree asked the boy. ‘I am no longer a kid, I do not play around trees any more’ the boy replied. ‘I want toys. I need money to buy them.’ ‘Sorry, but I do not have money.. but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money.’ The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad.

One day, the boy who now turned into a man returned and the tree was excited ‘Come and play with me’ the tree said. ‘I do not have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?” Sorry, but I do not have any house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house.’ So the man cut all the branches of the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the man never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.

One hot summer day, the man returned and the tree was delighted. ‘Come and play with me!’ the tree said. ‘I am getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?’ said the man. ‘Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy.’ So the man cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time.

Finally, the man returned after many years. ‘Sorry, my boy. But I do not have anything for you anymore. No more apples for you’ the tree said. ‘No problem, I do not have any teeth to bite’ the man replied. ‘No more trunk for you to climb on’ the tree said. ‘I am too old for that now’ the man said. ‘I really cannot give you anything.. the only thing left is my dying roots’ the tree said with tears. ‘I do not need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years’ the man replied. ‘Good! Old tree roots are the best place to lean on and rest, Come, come sit down with me and rest.’ The man sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears..

Moral-The tree is like our parents. When we were young, we loved to play with our Mum and Dad.. When we grow up, we leave them.. only come to them when we need something or when we are in trouble. No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they could just to make you happy. You may think the boy is cruel to the tree, but that is how all of us treat our parents. Appreciate all they do for u before it’s too late. Love your parents, no matter where they are.

By: Feminine Touch

Facebook: This day Awaits us all

The 76-year-old woman Walked Down the hallway of Clear view Addiction Clinic, Searching for the right department. She passed signs for the 'Heroin Addiction Department (HAD)', the 'Smoking Addiction Department (SAD)' and the 'Bingo Addiction Department (BAD)'.  Then she spotted the department she was looking for:  'Facebook Addiction Department (FAD)'.

 It was the busiest department in the clinic, with about three dozen people filling the waiting room, most of them staring blankly into their Blackberries and i-Phones. 

A middle-aged man with unkempt hair was pacing the room, muttering, "I need to milk my cows. I need to milk my cows."

A twenty-something man was prone on the floor, his face buried in his hands, while a curly-haired woman comforted him, "Don't worry.  It'll be all right." "I just don't understand it. I thought my update was LOL-worthy, but none of my friends even clicked the 'like' button."

"How long has it been?"
 
"Almost five minutes. That's like five months in the real world."

The 76-year-old woman waited until her name was called, then followed the receptionist into the office of Alfred Zulu, Facebook Addiction Counselor.

"Please have a seat, Edna," he said with a warm smile.  "And tell me how it all started."

"Well, it's all my grandson's fault. He sent me an invitation to join Facebook. I had never heard of Facebook before, but I thought it was something for me, because I usually have my face in a book." " 

"How soon were you hooked?"

"Faster than you can say 'create a profile.' I found myself on Facebook at least eight times each day -- and more times at night. Sometimes I'd wake up in the middle of the night to check it, just in case there was an update from one of my new friends in India . My husband didn't like that. He said that friendship is a precious thing and should never be outsourced.""What do you like most about Facebook?"

"What do you like MOST about Facebook?"

"It makes me feel like I have a life. In the real world, I have only five or six friends, but on Facebook, I have 674.

"Even I'm Friends With Juan Carlos Montoya. "

"Who's he?"

"I don't know, but he's got 4,000 friends, so he must be famous."

"Facebook has helped you make some connections, I see."

"Oh yes. I've even connected with some of the gals from high school -- I still call them 'gals.'  I hadn't heard from some of them in ages, so it was exciting to look at their profiles and figure out who is retired, who's still working, and who's had some work done. I love browsing their photos and reading their updates. I know where they've been on vacation, which movies they've watched, and whether they hang their toilet paper over or under. I've also been playing a game with some of them."

"Let me guess. Farmville?"

"No, Mafia Wars.  I’m a Hit man.  No one messes with Edna." " 

"Wouldn't you rather meet some of your friends in person?"  

"No, not really. It's so much easier on Facebook. We don't need to gussy ourselves up. We don't need to take baths or wear perfume or use mouthwash. That's the best thing about Facebook -- you can't smell anyone. Everyone is attractive, because everyone has picked a good profile pic. One of the gals is using a profile pic that was taken, I'm pretty certain, during the Eisenhower Administration. "  

"What pic are you using?"  

"Well, I spent five hours searching for a profile pic, but couldn't find one I really liked. So I decided to visit the local beauty salon."

"To make yourself look prettier?"

"No, to take a pic of one of the young ladies there. That's what I'm using."

"Didn't your friends notice that you look different?"

"Some of them did, but I just told them I've been doing lots of yoga." 
 
"When did you realize that your Facebooking might be a problem?" 

"I realized it last Sunday night, when I was on Facebook and saw a message on my wall from my husband:"I moved out of the house five days ago. Just thought you should know'"

"What did you do?"

"What else? I unfriended HIM of course!" 

The challenge we face keeps us alive and fresh!

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the water close to Japan has not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went further than ever. The further the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring the fish. If the return trip took more time, the fish were not fresh. 

To solve this problem, fish companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go further and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen fish. And they did not like the taste of frozen fish. 

The frozen fish brought a lower price. So, fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, they were tired, dull, and lost their fresh-fish taste. The fishing industry faced an impending crisis! But today, they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan .

How did they manage? To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks but with a small shark. The fish are challenged and hence are constantly on the move. The challenge they face keeps them alive and fresh!

Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired and dull ? Basically in our lives, sharks are new challenges to keep us active. If you are steadily conquering challenges, you are happy. Your challenges keep you energized. Don't create success and revel in it in a state of inertia. You have the resources, skills and abilities to make a difference. Put a shark in your tank and see how far you can really go!

'Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character' - Albert Einstein

Brand new Softwares!!

In this article, I updated some latest news about Some famous free softwares.

1.CCleaner 3.14.1616 

 

"CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system".

Also it perform lots of system tasks like uninstall application,etc.

For more details and download this Click here

 2.Google Chrome 17.0.963.12 Beta

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

·         New features:

·         One box for everything

·         Thumbnails of your top sites

·         Incognito mode

·         Safe browsing

 Click here for download 

 3.VLC Media Player 1.1.11

 VLC is the wellknown video player that used worldwide and even in Linux.

Its an Open source software.

VLC can play:

    * MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on

    * DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs

    * From satellite cards (DVB-S)

    * Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.

    * From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)

For download Click here.

Why we need Online Shops?

Since, most of us have more interest in shopping, we
probably search for a best shop for all kind of items.

Mostly around our city we search for this. After long time and travel
we found a best shop and purchase items there.

We felt so tired about this travel and its a irritating feeling when we plan for next purchase.

As a result we search for the other part of shopping. Yes. we got it now.
It is called " Online Shopping"

Lots of Shops and great malls are available in Online for purchase anything in a good price!

Here we can see some of those sites and their products.

eBay:

US based online shopping site. We can able to sell our product / buy new
product and also we can do Bidding on items to get at lower price.

Its best for buy/sell mobile phones,computer,furnishings, equipment, domain names even vehicles.

PayPal is acceptable and you can able to pay via internet banking also.Click below image to visit.

 

 

 Flipkart:

Computer accessories,Kitchen items and music players,game equipments and etc we can buy from here.

One good news is, we can Pay after we receive the goods that we ordered.

And they provide 1yr warranty for their items.Now you can find lots of TV ads about this.

Try if you want 

♥ 7 signs your falling in love ♥

7. You'll read their texts over and over again.

6. You'll walk really really slow while you r with them.

5. They become all you think about.

4. You'll get high just by their smell.

3. You'll realize that you're always smiling, when you think about them.

2. You'll do anything for them.

1. While reading this, there was one person on your mind the Whole time.

Think for a while...

Just I am thinking about our Human life!

Long long years back, human stayed in forest and lived with natural food
and also depend on natural products without disturbing them.

As the same, we depend on nature now. But the love on to the nature is missing! This is not because of only the developments in science, but also our human selfishness playing a vital role.

We love our home,family,relations,friends,etc. When it come under public,we act as don't care?! Is this good for our life.
No.

So, Please

- Love nature
- Love your nation
- Love our Globe

If a day would come when you searching and watch natural scenes in Google,that day you will feel like ,'no one here to give the love back as like nature!!!'