Sunday, September 10, 2006

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS....

what is my life all about?
why is there always grief and doubt?

why do people just turn their back?
is it coz of something i lack?
how come i cry for someone else?
why do i always hurt myself?
is love, life in a better term?
or just something i got to stay away from?
how am i supposed to keep a smile on my face?
why is life a competative race?
what do they get by hurting others?
does my existance even bother?

why do i pray and make a wish?
how come life's not a bliss?
is the almighty one looking down on me?
what does he do? what does he see?
how come happiness is beyond my grip?
why is life such a long trip?



where does all this lead me to?
is it worthwhile living through?
when did i lose my way?
why do i do whatever they say?

who will come to help me again?
isn't my life like a burning train?
will i be able to move on alone?
or shall i be stuck in this lonely zone?
how come for me things happen in a line?
is it just coincedance or some sign?

why can't i just leave my past?
why does it always haunt me so fast?
why is everyday a bad day?
when will i be able to do things my way?

what is there in this life to achieve?
who all am i supposed to believe?
when will all these lies end?
have i done anything else than pretend?
will my life get even a bit better?
from my heart, will i ever be able to utter?

why do i shiver although its not cold? why do i hear things even when nothing is told?
how will i trust anyone along my life's pains? why does the blood boil up inside my veins?
till when can i supress all this hate? is it worth trusting luck and fate?

is smoking up the only way out? or sould i just sit and shout?
does getting high help at all?
does it save me from that final fall?

where am i leading myself to?
are my actions reflecting what i really should do?

why do i still feel numb inside?
do i wanna be the guy who had nothing and died?
is everything slowly coming to an end?
will i always have someone as a friend?

is asking for a moment of joy too much?
who will ever give me that gentle touch?

why? what? when? where? who and how? i just need answers now...

Saturday, September 09, 2006

another slideshow

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Teacher's Day Joke

On a special Teacher's Day, a kindergarten teacher was receiving Teacher Day gifts.
The Florist's son handed her a gift.
She shook it and held it over her head, and said, "I bet I know what it is....some flowers."
"That's right!" said the boy.
"But how did you know?"
"Just a wild guess," she said.

The next pupil was the candy storeowner's daughter.
The teacher held her gift overhead, shook it, and said, "I bet I can guess what it is...a box of candy."
"That's right! But how did you know?" asked the girl.
"Just a lucky guess," said the teacher.

The next gift was from the liquor storeowner's son.
The teacher held it over her head but it was leaking.
She touched a drop of the leakage with her finger and tasted it.
"Is it wine?" she asked.
"No," the boy replied.

The teacher repeated the process, touching another drop of the leakage to her tongue.
"Is it champagne?" she asked.

"No," the boy replied.

The teacher then said, "I give up, what is it?"

The boy replied, "A puppy!"

Monday, September 04, 2006

Teachers’ Day is celebrated in India on the birthday of one of India's greatest teachers, Bharat Ratna Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

The great orator, thinker, writer, and philosopher started his career as a teacher of philosophy in Madras Presidency College, and then taught in Mysore University. He taught the `dull subject' with a passion that inspired his students. In Calcutta University, he was Professor of Mental and Moral Sciences.
He went on to become Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University and rose to become the President of India. The Government of India, on the request of the National Teachers Federation, declared his birthday as Teachers’ Day on 5 September 1962.

Respect for one’s teachers and recognition of the role that they play is not unique to India, we know of the great teachers of Ancient Greece, Rome and China. Several countries around the world celebrate Teachers’ Day. In countries such as China, South Korea, Taiwan and the US, the day is a ‘non-official’ holiday.

The UN observes the World Teachers’ day on October 5, to ‘provide an opportunity for the international public to examine the critically important contributions that teachers make, both inside and outside the classroom.’ On this day, thousands of education professionals around the world unite to ensure that the educational needs of future generations of schoolchildren are taken into account.

World Teachers’ Day focuses on the need for bringing qualified teachers into classrooms, and for offering teachers the necessary support – financial, intellectual and social – to attain the objective of Education for All by 2015. In order to reach the goal, millions of new teachers will need to be recruited and trained all over the world.

World Teachers’ Day invites everyone to recognize the indispensable and often difficult role that teachers play – whether working in an industrialized city or in a temporary classroom in a refugee camp.

Other countries also celebrate Teachers’ day in September.

In Taiwan it is celebrated as a national holiday on September 28. The day honours teachers' virtues, pains, and also their contribution not only to their own students but also to the whole society. This date was chosen to commemorate the birth of Confucius, believed to be the model master educator in ancient China. In 1939, the Ministry of Education set the date at August 27, the attributed birthday of Confucius. In 1952, it was changed to 38 September, calculated to be the precise date in the Gregorian calendar.

In China, Teachers’ Day was first observed on August 27 at the National Central University in 1931. It was adopted by the central government of the Republic of China in 1932. In 1951, the People’s Republic of China cancelled this observance. It was re-established more than thirty years later, in 1985, and the day was changed to September 10.


The Latin American International Teachers' Day is on September 11, commemorating the death of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, an Argentinean politician and respected educator. The Latin American countries decided on this in the 1943 Inter-American Conference on Education, held in Panama.

Many Latin American countries, however, have a separate national Teachers' Day. In Brazil, Teachers' Day is October 15. . In Peru, Teachers’ Day is celebrated on July 6.

In Mexico, in September of 1917, the Federal Congress decreed May 15 as Día del Maestro. Teachers’ day was first celebrated in Mexico on May 15, 1918.