Smile & Laugh 01 (May 08 - Oct 08)

[mojo_]

http://www.dashpoemmovie.com< http://www.dashpoemmovie.com/

The video clip is accompanied by soothing music.

Nice one... especially for the "Nasi Wu Ji Pa Ban" thread?

[sidney]

Hi mojo/cherry, thank u for reminding me i'm still alive. 1982 - 20xx. Life for the past few years is has been a retrospecting experience to me. Maybe tats growing up. Maybe its regret. Maybe its simply life.

[sesdaqfan]

http://www.dashpoemmovie.com< http://www.dashpoemmovie.com/

The video clip is accompanied by soothing music.

Hi Cherry,
I wish for no dash,
life itself is a mess,
If I can rehash,
This is not the world I care,
cos' in heaven would be very best.

Signed,
Sesdash

[Cherry]

mojo wrote:
Nice one... especially for the "Nasi Wu Ji Pa Ban" thread?

sidney wrote:
Hi mojo/cherry, thank u for reminding me i'm still alive.

Mojo and Sidney

Glad you like the video clip.

[Cherry]

sesdaqfan wrote:

Hi Cherry,
I wish for no dash,
life itself is a mess,
If I can rehash,
This is not the world I care,
cos' in heaven would be very best.

Signed,
Sesdash

Sesdaqfan

Your situation is shared by many, many, especially the wives, even now, and all through history.
Since you belong to the more priviledged gender, count yourself lucky.
Best is to weave a fine fabric to make all, including yourself of course, happy.
A fabric in which one can at present live, the limited, happily, happily.
As well as for the final future, hopefully, heavenly, heavenly.
To be subjectively happy, perhaps what is needed, is a re-wiring of one's psychology.
Believe it, the 'happily ever after from day one' exists only among fairies.
We earthly mortals, having food, shelter, peace and family, should feel blessed and smile contentedly.

[Cherry]

Selfless Real Love

My wife called, "How long will you be with that newspaper?
Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?"

I tossed the paper away and rushed to the scene. My only daughter, Sindu, looked frightened;
tears were welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a bowl filled to its brim with curd rice.
Sindu is a nice child, quite intelligent for her age.

I cleared my throat and picked up the bowl. "Sindu, darling, why don't you take a few mouthful of this curd rice? Just for Dad's sake, dear."

Sindu softened a bit and wiped her tears with the back of her hands.
"Ok, Dad. I will eat - not just a few mouthfuls, but the whole lot of this. But, you should...", Sindu hesitated. "Dad, if I eat this entire curd rice, will you give me whatever I ask for?"

"Promise". I covered the pink soft hand extended by my daughter with mine, and clinched the deal. Now I became a bit anxious.
"Sindu, dear, you shouldn't insist on getting a computer or any such expensive items. Dad does not have that kind of money right now. Ok?"

"No, Dad. I do not want anything expensive." Slowly and painfully, she finished eating the whole quantity. I was silently angry with my wife and my mother for forcing my child to eat something that she detested.

After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with expectation. All our attention was on her.

"Dad, I want to have my head shaved bald, this Sunday!" was her demand..

"Atrocious!" shouted my wife, "A girl child having her head shaved bald? Impossible!"

"Never in our family!" My mother rasped. "She has been watching too much of television. Our culture is getting totally spoiled with these TV programs!"

"Sindu, darling, why don't you ask for something else? We will be sad seeing you with a clean-shaven
head. Please, Sindu, why don't you try to understand our feelings?" I tried to plead with her.

"Dad, you saw how difficult it was for me to eat that curd rice." Sindu was in tears. "And you promised to grant me whatever I ask for.. Now, you are going back on your words. Was it not you who told me the
story of King Harishchandra, and its moral that we should honor our promises no matter what?"

It was time for me to call the shots.
"Our promise must be kept."

"Are you out of your mind?" chorused my mother and wife.

"No. If we go back on our promises, she will never learn to honour her own... Sindu, your wish will be fulfilled."

With her head clean-shaven, Sindu had a round-face, and her eyes looked big and beautiful.

On Monday morning, I dropped her at her school. It was a sight to watch my hairless Sindu walking towards her classroom. She turned around and waved. I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy alighted from a car, and shouted, "Sinduja, please wait for me!"
What struck me was the hairless head of that boy. 'May be, that is the in-stuff', I thought.

"Sir, your daughter Sinduja is great indeed!" Without introducing herself, a lady got out of the car, and continued,
"that boy who is walking along with your daughter is my son Harish. He is suffering from... leukemia".
She paused to muffle her sobs.
"Harish could not attend school for the whole of last month. He lost all his hair due to the side effects of the chemotherapy. He refused to come back to school fearing the unintentional but cruel teasing
of the schoolmates. Sinduja visited him last week, and promised him that she will take care of the teasing issue. But, I never imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of my son! Sir, you and your
wife are blessed to have such a noble soul as your daughter."

I stood transfixed and then, I wept.
"My little Angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is!"

The happiest people on this planet are not those who live on their own terms
but are those who change their terms for the ones whom they love...

[sesdaqfan]

Nice video and rhyme,
blessed you for an optimist front,
Just my wasteful rants
nothing serious nor pretence.

" The happiest people on this planet are not those who live on their own terms
but are those who change their terms for the ones whom they love..."

Well, me did and still not that happy...
well, i guess 'happiest' is not easy to define anyway.

[millionairemind]

The grasshopper joke!
So this grasshopper walks into a bar. The bartender looks up and says "Hey! Your a grasshopper! We have a drink named after you!".

The grasshopper says "Oh yeah? You have a drink named Leonard?!".

[kanglc]

Hitler & ERP Woes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoTqRQ29Od8

[winston]

Clueless uranium smugglers spared jail

Three Chinese men have been spared jail after they smuggled a ball of depleted uranium into the country, ignorant the 274-kilogram shiny lump was a health threat, local media reported.

The three scrap merchants bought the ball of low-radiation uranium metal in Kyrgyzstan last year, haggling a dealer down to a price of US$2,000 (HK$15,600), the official news website of the northwest Xinjiang region reported.

They smuggled it into China and hid it in his father-in-law's home in Xinjiang.

"They were surprised that at night when the lights went out the treasure sparkled and glittered, and [one of them] chipped a piece from it and kept it beside his bed, sometimes playing with it,'' the report said.

REUTERS