Monday, November 26, 2018

DESTINY

DESTINY

Everything in life is destiny. And nothing else.

Every person you meet, you are destined to meet. Every action you take, you are destined to take. Everything that happens to you is your destiny. There is no luck, there is no hard work. If you are destined to be lucky, you will be lucky. If you are destined to work hard, you will work hard. Nothing is pre-planned, nothing is well thought over. It’s all your destiny.  

Many students, plan a well thought out education program and finally end up working in a profession which has nothing to do with their education. They went for an interview because they couldn’t get a job that matched their qualifications and needed money, they went out looking for work, they impressed people at the interview and regardless of their qualifications they got employed. Destiny. Nothing else. They are successful in their jobs. Again destiny. They simply used their common sense and made some correct decisions, again destiny, which worked for them and they are successful. Yes, they work hard, but that’s their destiny.

How many people invest in apartments, which never get built and their lives saving go down the drain? One of that many decided to fight with the builder and twenty years later gets all the money back with interest. Destiny of the people who lost their money and did nothing to get it back and the destiny of one person, who thought that the builder should not get away with cheating and decided to fight with the builder till the builder returned the money back with interest. It’s just your destiny. There are also some who start the fight but don’t go through till the end. Their destiny. Some people struggle to buy one house in their lifetime and others buy houses every few years. Some people buy their houses cheap and sell them for a profit and the people who buy these houses have to sell them at a loss.

This one’s the best. People die. Just like that. Sitting on a chair reading a newspaper and next second. All is over. Why? How? Nothing but the destiny of that person, who was supposed to live only till that very destined second and was destined to die sitting on that chair reading a newspaper. People who don’t smoke get lung related diseases and then you get a video which shows a ninety year old man puffing away and has smoked 20 cigarettes since he was 20. How come he didn’t get any lung related or any disease with his compulsive habit? His destiny.

The person you marry, the job you get, the job you resign from and the next job you find. The house you buy, the car you drive to work and the route you take, the people you meet every day on the train, the grocer you buy your grocery from. The clothes you wear, the shops you buy them from, the colours you like and then suddenly dislike after many decades. Your neighbors, good or bad. Your teachers, your friends, your parents, your siblings, your cruel boss, your kind colleague, your milkman, your driver, your maid, your wife, your children, the people you meet at the jogging track, the waiter at the restaurant you had dinner last weekend, and the list goes on and is endless. Everyone you meet in your lifetime is who were destined to meet. Everything you do or don’t do in your lifetime you were destined to do or not do. Including reading this article.






Brian T.
92232 03441 / 77100 27662

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Practical Phonics (Pronunciation of words)

Practical Phonics (Pronunciation of words)


A
Allotted = a - lot - tid
Anxious = ank - she - us


B
Behave = b - hay - v
Breakfast = brek - first

C
Chaos = k - aw - s
Concert = kon- sir - t Concentrate = kon - sen - tray - t
Concrete = kon - kre - t
Cough = kaw - ff
County = cow - n - t
Creature = kre - chur
Curiosity = q - ree - aw - city

E
Enough = e - nuf
Essential = es - en - she - al
Expect = x - pek - t

I
Inflated = in - flay - tid
Initially - in - nee - she - al - e
Instinctively = in - stink - tiv - lee
Isle = i - l

J
Juicy = ju - see



K
Know = no
Knew = new

M
Mediterranean - Med - e - ter - ray - nee - un
Miscellaneous =  mis - a - lay - nee - us

O
Opaque = o - pay - k



P
Paradigm = para - die - m
Photograph = fo - toe - graf
Photography = fo - taw - gr - fee
Precisely = pre - si - s - lee (pronounce i as the alphabet)
Pronunciation = prun - nun - see - ay - shun

R
Renowned = re - noun - d

Recital = re - si - tal


T
Teeny = t - nee

V
Veil = way - l
Village = v - lay - j

W
Won - one or wun
While = why - l









Brian T.
92232 03441

Saturday, September 8, 2018

I C S E - Std.9 NOTICE - A Visit to an Old Age Home

I C S E - Std.9
NOTICE
You are the Head Girl / Boy of your school. Write a notice for the School Notice Board inviting students from Classes IX and X for a visit to an Old Age home on the occasion of World Health Day.



A Visit to an Old Age Home
On World Health Day

Date: September 30. 2018
Time: 7.30 am to 1.00 pm
Venue: Golden Oldies Home, Versova, Andheri (W)

All the students are requested to submit their names by September 22, 2018 and pay Rs.250/- towards travelling and other expenses to their respective class teachers.

Kajol Mukherjee

Head Girl

I C S E - Std.9 NOTICE - Arts & Crafts Exhibition

I C S E - Std.9
NOTICE
You are the secretary of an Arts & Crafts Club of your school. Write a notice for your School Notice Board, asking students of Classes VII to X to submit their entries for the Arts & Crafts exhibition to be held in school, giving all the necessary details



Arts & Crafts Exhibition
for students of Classes VII to X

Date: September 23 to 25, 2018
Timings: 8.00 am to 12.00 noon
Venue: School Basement

All the students are requested to submit an application with details of their Arts or Crafts exhibit by September 15, 2018.
Selected students will have to submit their final exhibit by September 21, 2018.

Salman Sheikh

Secretary, Exhibitions Committee


Brian T. 92232 03441

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Listen, read and learn - Simple ‘thank you’ notes can boost your emotional well being

Simple ‘thank you’ notes can boost your emotional well being

Are you feeling low? Pen a “thank you” note. According to researchers, including one of Indian origin, writing letters of gratitude improves the emotional well-being for not only the writers, but also the recipients as well.

The study found that anxiety about what to say or fear of their gesture being misinterpreted caused many people to shy away from expressing genuine gratitude.

“What we saw is that it only takes a couple of minutes to compose letters like these, thoughtful ones and sincere ones,” said Amit Kumar, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas (UT) in Austin.

“It comes at little cost, but the benefits are larger than people expect,” he added.

For the study, published in the journal Psychological Science, the team asked the participants — in three different experiments — to write a letter of gratitude to someone who’s done something nice for them and then anticipate the recipient’s reaction.

In each experiment, the writers overestimated how awkward recipients would feel about the gesture and underestimated how surprised and positive recipients would feel.

“What we found is that predictions or expectations of that awkwardness, that anticipation of how a recipient would feel — those are the things that matter when people are deciding whether to express gratitude or not,” Kumar said.

Kumar noted that what is significant about the research and its results is that thank you notes and letters of gratitude should be written and sent more often


https://drive.google.com/open?id=1p94_L6zwShB-SQkRcE4dt0zJup0RvQhk

Brian T.
92232 03441

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Independence Day Speech

Independence Day Speech

Respected Principal, Teachers and my dear friends,
Good morning everyone,

Today India is celebrating 72 years of freedom from British rule. Today we celebrate the hard work, struggle and sacrifices of our great leaders, Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and many others who fought hard to get freedom for India.

We children are all born in free India. We should be proud that we have many choices for education, employment and to live the Indian way.

Today Indians are leaders in all areas of life. Many scientists all over the world are Indians. P. V. Sindhu is one of the world’s best badminton player.  Our women’s cricket team and the men’s cricket team are world class. Our businessmen are leaders of multinational companies.

It is the responsibility of us students to continue this tradition of progress and success. We are the future leaders of modern India.

We also need to be responsible citizens. We have to protect nature and avoid destruction of green lands in the name of progress. We must keep our country clean and promote “Swaach Bharat” to keep India free from illness and disease.

Today let us all together commit ourselves to continue to take India forward and show the world that we value our freedom and we will all work to make India the greatest nation on this planet.

Jai Hind! Jai Maharashtra!

Brian T. 92232 03441

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Honey let's go to the moon

Fiancé: We have three months before the wedding, let's decide on our honeymoon too now, and let's make the necessary bookings too.

Fiancée: I'm marrying the right man. Let's decide on our honeymoon now.

Fiancé: I want to go to the moon.

Fiancée: You want to go where?

Fiancé: What I meant is that I want to go to some place and let everything slow down, like the gravity on the moon.

Fiancée: Keep talking.

Fiancé: The next three months are going to be really rushed. Just imagine, next Monday we are actually gate crashing some else's wedding to taste the food the caterer will be serving on our wedding day. 

Fiancée: How else will we know what kind of food will be served?

Fiancé: Then preparations for the engagement, and going around inviting people, getting our clothes ready, and the nitty gritty details, there's a lot to do and we both will be exhausted when the wedding is over.

Fiancée: So you want to have a very relaxed honeymoon.

Fiancé: I hope you understand what I'm saying. Let's just go someplace and rest and bring back the romance.

Fiancée: I really miss the long rides we used to take on your bike when we just started dating. It used to be so much fun. We would cruise along for at least two hours and have something to eat at road side stalls. 

Fiancé: Exactly my point. I want to just relax and spend time with you. We'll find ourselves a very posh hotel so we won't be motivated to step outside. We could wake up late and sit by the pool the whole morning, swim if we felt like.

Fiancée: We won't step out of the hotel at all?

Fiancé: We'll go out in the evenings, for a walk, just roam the streets, do some window shopping, some real shopping if you see something you like. Go to a garden, visit a museum, nothing hectic.

Fiancée: I like the shopping part.

Fiancé: I did some thinking and came up with these thoughts. Our parents and grand parents had arranged marriages. They hardly met before the wedding so the honeymoon was a time for them go get to know each other and back then they were also keen to prove their fertility and produce children in the first year of marriage. 

Fiancée: We are not having kids for two years at least.

Fiancé: We'll discuss that later. Let's go on our honeymoon and we'll have enough time to discuss and plan babies.

Brian T.
77100 27662 / 92232 03441