THE AMAZING CUCUMBER

hai friends.........

Here are some uses of cucumber that you probably did not know of:

1. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the soda and pick up a cucumber it keeps cool. Cucumber is a good source of B vitamins and carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.
2. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing.
3. Are grubs and slugs running your flower beds? Place a few slices in an aluminum foil and your garden will be free of pests all season long.
4. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumber along your problem area for a few minutes.
5. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat few cucumbers slices before going to bed and you will be re-freshed.
6. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used for quick meals to thwart off starvation.
7. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don’t have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe.
8. Looking for a green way to clean your sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean.
9. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing. Also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls.
10. Just finished a business lunch and realize you do not have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for thirty seconds to eliminate bad breath.

love and prayers
papireddy

ONE BODY TWO SOULS

ONE BODY BUT TWO SOULS

I AM SURE THIS IS SOMETHING NEW FOR YOU.............











LOVE AND PRAYERS
PAPIREDDY

YOU ARE MY BEST FRIEND

“A friend hears the song of the heart and sings it when memory fails.” – Martin Luther

Life in this world is not always a pleasant experience. One after another we see everyone being tortured by various problems and troubles. What gives a human being the necessary courage and energy to handle these problems is LOVE. The love and support of a friend, especially, can be of a great help because it is not very easy to find a true friend. There will be hundreds of them offering their friendship and promising to stay with us. But when it comes to an urgent need we find ourselves deserted by most of them. The value of a friend should not be assessed on the consideration of what he/she does when we are happy and free from problems. On the other hand, a true friend is to be identified form his/her approach to us when we are in trouble.

It happened in a sports stadium in Hyderabad recently. Eight children were standing on the track to participate in a running event. Ready!* Steady!*Bang! With the sound the toy pistol, all eight girls started running hardly had they covered ten to fifteen steps, when one of the smaller girls slopped and fell down, and due to bruised and pain started crying. When the other seven girls heard the little girl crying, they stopped running stood for a whole and turned back. Seeing the girl on the track they all ran to her. One among them bent down pocked her up and kissed her gently. They lifted the fallen girl. Two of them held her firmly while all seven joined hands together and waited together he winning post. There was pin drop silence at the spectator’s stand. Officials were shocked. Slow claps multiplied to thousands as the spectators stood up in appreciations. Many eyes were filled with tears and perhaps even God.

The sport was conducted by the national institute of mental health. All these special girls had come to participate in this event. They were spastic children, they were mentally challenged. But what did they teach the world? Team work, equality among all? Successful people help others who are slow in learning so that they are not left far behind.



“Life is nothing to be very serious about. It is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.”

MONTH OF MARCH IN HISTORY

Introduction

March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, and one of the seven months which have 31 days.

Origin of the Month March

The name of March comes from ancient Rome. When March was the first month of the year it was named Martius after Mars, the Roman god of war. In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March is the first month of spring, a logical point for the beginning of the year as well as the start of the military campaign season.

History of Month ‘MARCH’

March 03, 1847
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first practical telephone born.

March 06, 1475
Birth of Italian renaissance painter and sculptor Michelangelo. He was famous for work of art in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, and his sculptures of David and the Pieta.

March 09, 1959
Barbic makes her debut at the Americian Toy Fair, New York City.

March 12, 1945
Anne Frank at 15 year old Jewish girl who gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary documenting her experiences hiding from the Nazis in World War II. She died in a concentration camp.


March 14, 1879
Birth of Physicist Albert Einstein. He was famous for his theory that mass and energy were equivalent (E = mc2).

March 23, 1839
The Initial ‘O.K’ first published in the Boston Morning Post. The abbreviation is O- Oll, K- Korrect, a popular misspelling of all correct at the time.

March 24, 1874
Birth of Harry Houdini a Hungarian-American Magician and escapologist

March 31, 1889
The Eiffel Tower inaugurated in Paris.



Love and Prayers
Papi Reddy

HOLI IN MAHARASHTRA

HOLI

Introduction

Holi is an important feast of farmers. It is an agricultural festival. This colorful festival is celebrated on Phalgum purnima which actually comes in February or early March.

Significant Legend

The legend goes thus: The feast of Holi involves an evil king named Hiranyakashipu. He prevented his son Prahlad from worshipping Vishnu. Getting angry with his son, Hiranyakashipu challenged Prahlad to sit on a burning wood with his wicked aunt Holika who was believed to be immune to fire.

Prahlad accepted the challenge and prayed to Vishnu to keep him safe. When the fire began everyone watched in amazement as Holika was burnt to death, while Prahlad survived without a scratch on his body. The burning of Holika is celebrated as Holi. According to some legends, Holika begged Prahlad for forgiveness before her death, and Prahlad announced that she would be remembered every year at Holi.

Holi in Maharashtra

People of Maharashtra have their own grand style of celebrating Holi. In Maharashtra this festival is called by the name of Shimga or Rangpanchami. It is on the fifth day the colours are played. The festival is particularly popular among the fisher men. They celebrate it in on a large scale by singing, dancing and merry making.

Historic significance of Holi in Maharashtra

During the rule of Maratha this festival was celebrated with great pomp and grandeur. It was on a Holi festival day that five yea old Jijabhai, daughter of Lakhooji Jadhav innocently splashed coloured water and threw gulal on young Shahaji, son of Malajirao Bhowale. Taking it as an auspicious event, the engagement of the two children was announced that very day. Soon they were married. Later, Jijabhai gave birth to Shivaji, the founder of great Maratha Empire.

Breaking the Pot

The youth of Maharashtra show great enthusiasm, in breaking the pot on this great day. Trained groups for breaking these pots of butter milk hung high on the street are called as tolis. The tradition finds its roots in the legend that the Lord Krishna as a child was extremely fond of butter milk and used to steal it from an accessible house in his village.

LIFE BEGINS AT 24

The very important rhythms of the person begin along a lifetime. A child’s step is not the same as an old man’s. An adolescent’s thinking is not the same as an adult’s. That’s why the so called physiological patterns in life are twenty three for the physical one, twenty eight for the emotional, and thirty three for the intellectual cycle. I feel that each age has its crown.

When I completed twenty three years a group of friends greeted me with joy and love and a cake on whose surface my photo was photocopied. I spontaneously burst our and said life beings at twenty four. I felt fine not only for that moment but for the new stage I was starting in an already long and eventful life. But when I said that one of my friends asked me why life begins only at twenty four? I am twenty two he said. I replied when your are twenty two life begins at twenty two, when forty, at forty, and when eighty at eighty. That’s how life is lived. Discovering each sate as it comes and entering into it with full faith. I am not you and you are not me. You are a charming young man as I am.

A friend of mine sent an email which I felt very helpful for life

1. Take care the way you look daily. Dress up be spotless clean, put on your best clothes as though going to a feast.

2. Do not lock yourself up in your house or in your room.

3. Love doing physical exercises.

4. Never believe yourself to be weaker than you really are. Nobody wants to hear stories about sickness, hospitals.

5. Be positive in judgements, good humoured in word, smiling in face, pleasing in gestures.

6. Try to make yourself useful to yourself and to others. Be an example to others, with your joy, smile, piece of advice and encouragement.

7. Keep all the relationships alive. Learn to listen.

8. Stop cursing the past, and condemning the world around you. Be happy at your age.


I conclude with this, our true life begins after our present one, and that will be the only real life. At present life begins where we are and after our death it begins at eternity. What happens is that we don’t know what eternity is. And not knowing it is the best what could happen to us in this matter, because that shows that it is something far beyond and far above anything we can even conceive.

Love and Prayers
Papi Reddy

STOP JUDGING OTHERS

A week back I attended psychology class. I found something new and interesting for life. That is, in everyday life at times we tend to judge people who are in and around us. This happens because we build up prejudices and bias against them. Here we have eight steps saying that how we judge others in various ways. you can judge for yourself. In psychology we call this eight step as Cognative Behavioral Therapy, means which helps the patience to recognize and change errors. I am suggesting all this because, to be careful when we judge others.....

Eight Steps on How We Judge Others and Us

1. All-or-nothing thinking: at times we evaluate experiences using extremes such as 'a marvelous' or 'awful.'

2. Personalizations: we tend to blame oneself for an event. Example: Saying as it is because of my fault that my friend committed sucide.

3. Mind reading/Jumping to conclusion: this refer to assuming a negative response without the relevant information. It is also called as ignoring the evidence. Example: She is not keeping eye contact with me, she is angry with me. you can check out with you girl friend..

4. Fortune-telling: we assume at times what the future holds. Example: Since i failed in my philosophy exam, i shall never be able to pass in future.

5. Emotional reasoning: we tend to confuse feelings with facts. Example: I feel so panicky, travelling today will be catastrophic.

6. Labeling: we tend to use unhelpful labels to describe others. Examples: He is good for nothing.

7. Magnification: it is nothing but blowing out things out of proportion. Example: The worst thing i have done in my life is that i did not inform my mum when i will be back this evening.

8. Over-generalization: we tend to draw sweeping negative conclusions on the basis of one or more events. Example: Because i disobeyed my boss a second time, i will definitely be sacked.

Dear friend i think it's wonderful if we learn something from this. i feel it is useful, helpful, purposeful for life.

love and prayers.
papireddy.