A tribute to U2 leadman Bono

Bono, the U2 frontman and humanitarian activist, was bestowed Knighthood in Dublin on Thursday in recognition of his contributions to the music industry and his inspirational efforts to end poverty on the continent of Africa.

The 46 year old Irish rock star, and philanthropist, who features in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and has a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for his tireless campaigning on behalf of Africa’s poor, will have the official title "Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire", although he is not entitled to be called Sir because he is not a British citizen.

In 2003, Bono was presented with France's L’on d'Honneur by President Jacques Chirac, while in 2005 he was voted Time magazine's Person of the Year for his work promoting justice and equality, along with Bill and Melinda Gates. In 2006 he was named the most influential pop star of the past 25 years by MTV.
He has played a key role in persuading governments and international institutions to wipe out much of the burden of international debt owed by Third World governments, which has put 20 million African children in school.

Let’s cheer this man for all that he has done to make this world a better place!

Cowboy

Some facts about the Indian Cricket team

What did the spectator miss when he went to the toilet?
The entire Indian Innings.

Where do Indian batsmen perform there best?
In Advertisements.

When would Agarkar have 100 runs against his name?
When he is bowling.

What is the most proficient form of footwork displayed by Indian batsmen?
The walk back to the pavilion.

How to increase the chances of Indian batsmen playing out the entire 50 overs?
Try giving them two innings to begin with, then try three and so on.

What is the Indian version of a hat-trick?
3 runs in 3 balls

What is the height of optimism ?
Sehwag coming out to bat applying sunscreen on his face.

More Corporate Humour

Corporate Humour

PRICELESS !

Martin wakes up at home with a huge hangover. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins and a glass of water on the side table. He sits down and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. Martin looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotless, clean. So is the rest of the house. He takes the aspirins and notices a note on the table. "Honey,breakfast is on the stove, I left early to go shopping. Love You!"
So he goes to the kitchen and sure enough there is a hot breakfast and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. Martin asks, "Son, what happened last night?"
His son says, "Well, you came home around 3 AM, drunk & delirious. Broke some furniture, puked in the hallway, and gave yourself a black eye when you stumbled into the door."
Confused, Martin asks, "So, why is everything in order and so clean, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me?"
His son replies, "Oh, that! Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you said, "Lady leave me alone! I'm married!"
Moral of the story
Self-induced hangover -- $100.00
Broken furniture -- $2,000.00
Breakfast -- $10.00
Saying The Right Thing While Drunk -- PRICELESS!!!!!

Attitude is Everything

An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his situation: Dear Son,I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year. I hate to misdo the garden, because your mother always loved planting time. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot, for me if you weren't in the prison.Love,Dad
Shortly, the old man received this telegram: "For Heaven's sake, Dad, don't dig up the garden! That's where I buried the GUNS!!"
At 4 a.m. The next morning, a dozen FBI agents and local police officers showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns. Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened and asked him what to do next.His son's reply was:"Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad It's the best I could do for you from here."
NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD, IF YOU HAVE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING DEEP FROM YOUR HEART, YOU CAN DO IT,. IT IS THE THOUGHT THAT MATTERS NOT WHERE YOU ARE.

LOVE & MADNESS

A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it for the first time, and vices floated around and were bored, not knowing what to do.
One day, all the vices and virtues were gathered together and were more bored than ever. Suddenly, Ingenious came up with an idea: "Let's play hide and seek!"
All of them liked the idea and immediately Madness shouted: "I want to count, I want to count!" And since nobody was crazy enough to want to seek Madness, all the others agreed.
Madness leaned against a tree and started to count: "One, two, three..."
As Madness counted, the vices and virtues went hiding.Tenderness hung itself on the horn of the moon...Treason hid in a pile of garbage...Fondness curled up between the clouds...andPassion went to the centre of the earth....Lie said that it would hide under a stone, but hid at the bottom of the lake... whilst Avarice entered a sack that he ended up breaking.And Madness continued to count: .... "seventy nine, eighty, eighty one..."
By this time, all the vices and virtues were already hidden - except Love. For undecided as Love is, he could not decide where to hide. And this should not surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is to hide Love.
Madness: "...ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven..."
Just when Madness got to one hundred.........Love jumped into a rose bush where he hid.
And Madness turned around and shouted: "I'm coming, I'm coming!"
As Madness turned around, Laziness was the first to be found, because Laziness had no energy to hide. Then he spotted Tenderness in the horn of the moon, Lie at the bottom of the lake and Passion at the centre of the earth. One by one, Madness found them all - except Love.
Madness was getting desperate, unable to find Love.
Envious of Love, Envy whispered to Madness: "You only need to find Love and Love is hiding in the rose bush."
Madness grabbed a wooden pitch fork and stabbed wildly at the rosebush. Madness stabbed and stabbed until a heartbreaking cry made him stop.
Love appeared from the rose bush, covering his face with his hands. Between his fingers ran two trickles of blood from his eyes.
Madness, so anxious to find Love, had stabbed out Love's eyes with a pitch fork. "What have I done! What have I done!" Madness shouted. "I have left you blind! How can I repair it?"

And Love answered: "You cannot repair my eyes. But if you want to do something for me, you can be my guide."
And so it came about that from that day on, Love is blind and is always accompanied by Madness.

NeVeR tAkE LiFe vErY SeRiOuSlY

NeVeR tAkE LiFe vErY SeRiOuSlY - NoBoDy gEtS OuT aLiVe aNyWaYs!

Rahul's Father

Rahul was at school this morning and the teacher asked all the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came out, Doctor, Lawyer, fireman, policeman, salesman, shipper, captain of the industry etc, but Rahul was being uncharacteristically quiet and so the teacher asked him about his father.

“ My father is an exotic dancer in a gay club and takes off all his clothes in front of other men. Sometimes if the offer is good he will go out with a man, rent a cheap hotel room and let them sleep with him.”

The teacher quickly set the other children some work and took little Rahul aside to ask him if that was really true.”No”, said Rahul,” He plays cricket for India but I was just too embarrassed to say”

e-mail ids

1.LAXMAN: available@home-only.com
2.SACHIN: admitted@hospital.com
3.KAIF: good@for_nothing.com
4.SEHWAG: consistently@out_of_form.com
5.DRAVID: stick@crease_like_fevicol.com
6.PATHAN: takewickets@only_with_kenya.com
7.GREG CHAPPELL: only_experiment@noresult.com
8.Harbhajan Singh: no_spinpitch@nowicket.com
9.Suresh Raina: why_i_am_there@god_knows.com

Rhyming couplets

A local newspaper in England ran a competition asking for a rhyme with the most romantic first line... But the least romantic second line. Here are some of the entries they received.

******
My feelings for you no words can tell,
Except for maybe "go to hell"

******
Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty and so is your head.

******
Oh loving beauty you float with grace
If only you could hide your face

******
Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
this describes everything you are not

******
I want to feel your sweet embrace
but don't take that paper bag off of your face

******
I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
Damn, I'm good at telling lies!

******
I see your face when I am dreaming.
That's why I always wake up screaming

******
My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?

The Wheels of Life

Please don't waste food

I feel very GRATEFUL for what I have today.......

I felt very fortunate to live in this part of the world. I promise I will never waste my food no matter how bad it can taste and how full I may be. I promise not to waste water. I pray that this little boy be alleviated from his suffering. I pray that we will be more sensitive towards the suffering in the world around us and not be blinded by our own selfish nature and interests. I hope these pictures will always serve as a reminder to us about how fortunate we are and that we must never ever take things for granted.

NeVeR tAkE LiFe vErY SeRiOuSlY - NoBoDy gEtS OuT aLiVe aNyWaYs!

Another BRIC in the Wall!

Another BRIC in the wall
Circa, 2050, Indian economy will be the fastest growing in the world.

Three years after Goldman Sachs came out with its path breaking BIRC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) report that predicted that India will become the third-largest economy by 2030, there is a feeling of déjà vu. A PricewaterhouseCoopers report The World in 2050 suggests that India has the potential to become the fastest growing large economy in the world by 2050 with a gross domestic product close to 60% of the US on the purchasing power parity basis. This will make it the world’s third-largest economy.

India, according to the report, will grow at 7.6 per cent in dollar terms & China at 6.3 per cent per annum. So, while China will continue to remain the fastest growing BRIC economy in the next few years, India in 2013 and Brazil in 2023 will overtake it in terms of growth rates. The much younger and faster-growing populations of India and Brazil will be able to sustain stable growth rates till 2030, compared to China, which will be hampered by an ageing population given its one-child norm.

But, this kind of growth is only possible if there is an attempt to boost general education levels in these countries, and facilitation of a vastly greater number of business start-ups in areas adversely affected by global competition in the intervening years.

Poem by Mother Teresa

This poem was written by Mother Teresa and is engraved on the wall of her home.

People are often unreasonable, illogical & self-centred;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of being selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some trueenemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight:
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

Between the devil & deep sea!

The phone rings.
The lady of the house answers, "Yes? Mrs. Ward, please." "Speaking."
"Mrs. Ward, this is Doctor Jones at the Medical Testing Laboratory. When your doctor sent your husband's samples to the lab, the samples from another Mr. Ward were sent as well and we are now uncertain which one is your husband's. Frankly, it is either bad or terrible."

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Ward asks.

"Well, one Mr. Ward has tested positive for Alzheimers disease (related to memory) and the other for AIDS. We can't tell which your husband's is."

"That's terrible! Can we do the test over?" questions Mrs. Ward. "Normally, yes. But Medicare won't pay for these expensive tests more than once."

"Well, what am I supposed to do now?" "The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him."

World's Top 10 movies (at the box-office)!

Given below is the list of the World’s highest Box office winners

1. Titanic (1997) - 1835 million US$
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - 1129 million US$
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) – 981 million US$
4. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999) - 927 million US$
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) – 925 million US$
6. Jurassic Park (1993) – 920 million US$
7. Shrek 2 (2004) – 881 million US$
8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - 866 million US$
9. Finding Nemo (2003) - 865 million US$
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) – 861 million US$

Racism

This poem was writtem by an African kid against racism..........amazing thought!!!
When I born, I Black,
When I grow up, I Black,
When I go in Sun, I Black,
When I scared, I Black,
When I sick, I Black,
And when I die, I still black..

And you White fella,
When you born, you Pink,
When you grow up, you are white,
When you go in Sun, you Red,
When you cold, you Blue,
When you scared, you Yellow,
When you sick, you Green,
And when you die, you Gray..
And you calling me Colored ??

Self appraisal

Self-Appraisal:
A little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in seven digits. The store-owner observed and listened to the conversation:
The boy asked, "Lady, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn? The woman replied, "I already have someone to cut my lawn. Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts your lawn now." replied the boy.
The woman responded that she was very satisfied with the person who was presently cutting her lawn. The little boy found more perseverance and offered, "Lady, I'll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of Palm beach, Florida. Again the woman answered in the negative. With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver. The store- owner, who was listening to all, walked over to the boy and said,"Son...I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and would like to offer you a job. The little boy replied, "No thanks, I was just checking my performance with the job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady, I was talking to!"

GOD

A Man walking along a California beach was deep in prayer. Suddenly a sky clouded above his head, and inbooming voice, the Lord said, "Because you have TRIED to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish."

The man said, "Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over any time i want." The Lord said, "Your request is very materialistic. Think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking. The supports required to reach the bottom of the Pacific! The concrete and steel it would take! I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldy things... "Take a little more time and think of another wish, a wish you think would honor and glorify me."

The man thought about it for a long time. Finally he said, "Lord, I wish that i could understand women. I want to know how they feel inside, what theyare thinking when they give me the silent treatment, why they cry, what they mean when they say 'nothing ,'and how I can make a woman truly happy."

The Lord replied, "You want two lanes or four lanes on that bridge?"

U decide!

This is funny !!

A Spanish teacherwas explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as eithermasculine or feminine.

"House"for instance, is feminine:"la casa." "Pencil,"however,is masculine: "el lapiz."A student asked,"What gender is 'computer'?"Instead of giving the answer,the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether"computer"should be a masculine or a feminine noun.

Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.The men's group decided that "computer" should definitely beof the feminine gender("la computadora"), because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you makea commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

(THIS GETS BETTER!)

The women's group,however, concluded that computers should be Masculine("el computador"), because:
1. In order to do anything with them,you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

The women won!

One Paragraph that explains life!

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983.

From the world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: "Why does GOD have to selectyou for such a bad disease"? To this Arthur Ashe replied: The world over -- 5crore children start playing tennis, 50 lakh learnto play tennis, 5 lakh learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grandslam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, When I was holding a cup I never asked GOD "Why me?". And today in pain I should not be askingGOD "Why me?" Happiness keeps u Sweet, Trials keep u Strong, Sorrow keeps u Human, Failure Keeps u Humble, Success keeps u Glowing, But only God Keepsu Going..... Keep Going.....cheers !!