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Every day as I scan through the news sites I get to read more and more about H1N1. And every time this happens I get more and more frustrated with the way things are portrayed in the media. Since June this year we at Sankalp are having a horrible time. This is because of the unprecedented rise in the number of people suffering from dengue. Out of the few hundred requests for blood we have seen in last few weeks, we have come across 4 people who failed to get sufficient blood on time. All four of them were suffering from dengue!

Why can't I live as if I am going to die tomorrow? I am starting to get troubled by this line ever since I heard it from Steve Jobs, Co-founder Apple Inc

How strong this feeling has started to become, I have no idea, but it seems to hurt now and then. Having dreamt of living life to the fullest... my heart just keeps wondering.

Ever got a feeling at the end of something that a whole show got screwed up because of you? Ever felt so responsible to have screwed up the hard work and time put in by so many people? Ever felt like the weakest link? If you have not I pray you do not ever get to feel that way.

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rupee 500 note. In the room of 200,he asked, "Who would like this Rupee 500 note?"

Hands started going up.

He said, "I am going to give this note to one of you but first let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the note up.

He then asked, "Who still wants it?"

Still the hands were up in the air.

While I am with you I would like to share an important message my father Janab Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen gave me a lesson when I was a young boy. What was that lesson? It was just after India got independence. At that time panchayat board elections took place at Rameswaram. My father was elected panchayat board member and on the same day he was also elected the President of Rameswaram Panchayat Board. Rameswaram Island was a beautiful place with 30,000 populations.

2:50 AM

The new HRD minister Kapil Sibal has proposed to have 1 national board and no class 10 exam. Well, I don't know about the idea of scraping the class 10 exam but the idea of having one national board is definitely a change I dreamed of in our educational system.

Written by Walt Whitman (1819–1892), this poem has 9 parts. Widely considered as one of the greatest poems ever written.

Passage to India

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"Once upon a time in a village, there lived a father and his eight sons. They worked in their field from early morning till late evening, very hard and lived happily in prosperity. But the father was very sad about a particular habit of his children, they perpetually quarrelled among themselves always; even for silliest causes.

I hardly paid any attention to butterflies till I read the book " Family Wisdom" by Robin Sharma .In this beautiful book , the protagonist Julian Mantle and his sister Catherine receive a golden butterfly as a gift from their father.This is the trigger for me to notice colorful butterflies around me.This noticing gradually changed to admiration and now to joy.A sight of a butterfly makes me so happy and eventually makes my day beautiful.The most beautiful thing about butterfly is the way it flies.