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My Mother (touching)

- Touching story of a Mother & Son -

My mom only had one eye. I hated her... she was such an embarrassment. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market. She collected little weeds and such to sell... anything for the money we needed she was such an embarrassment. There was this one day during elementary school. I remember that it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed. How could she do this to me? I threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school..."Your mom only has one eye?!" and they taunted me.

I wished that my mom would just disappear from this world so I said to my mom, "Mom, why don't you have the other eye?! You're only going to make me a laughingstock. Why don't you just die?" My mom did not respond. I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt good to think that I had said what I'd wanted to say all this time.

Maybe it was because my mom hadn't punished me, but I didn't think that I had hurt her feelings very badly.

That night...I woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. My mom was crying there, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might wake me. I took a look at her, and then turned away. Because of the thing I had said to her earlier, there was something pinching at me in the corner of my heart. Even so, I hated my mother who was crying out of her one eye. So I told myself that I would grow up and become successful, because I hated my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty.

Then I studied really hard. I left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, and got accepted in the Seoul University with all the confidence I had. Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I'm living happily as a successful man. I like it here because it's a place that doesn't remind me of my mom.

This happiness was getting bigger and bigger, when someone unexpected came to see me "What?! Who's this?!"... It was my mother...Still with her one eye. It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little girl ran away, scared of my mom's eye.

And I asked her, "Who are you? I don't know you!!!" as if I tried to make that real. I screamed at her "How dare you come to my house and scare my daughter! Get out here now!" And to this, my mother quietly answered, "oh, I'm so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address," and she disappeared. Thank good ness... she doesn't recognize me. I was quite relieved. I told myself that I wasn't going to care, or think about this for the rest of my life.

Then a wave of relief came upon me... one day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house. I lied to my wife saying that I was going on a business trip. After the reunion, I went down to the old shack, that I used to call a house...just out of curiosity there, I found my mother fallen on the cold ground. But I did not shed a single tear. She had a piece of paper in her hand.... it was a letter to me.

She wrote...

My Son,
I think my life has been long enough now. And... I won't visit Seoul anymore... but would it be too much to ask if I wanted you to come visit me once in a while? I miss you so much. And I was so glad when I heard you were coming for the reunion. But I decided not to go to the school.... For you... I'm sorry that I only have one eye, and I was an embarrassment for you.

You see, when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. As a mother, I couldn't stand watching you having to grow up with only one eye... so I gave you mine... I was so proud of my son that was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with that eye. I was never upset at you for anything you did. The couple times that you were angry with me. I thought to myself, 'it's because he loves me.' I miss the times when you were still young around me.

I miss you so much. I love you. You mean the world to me. My world shattered! Then I cried for the person who lived for me. My Mother.

(Source: via mail)

Yamaha 2008 Bike

- Yamaha-MT-03. The 2008 Bike Wallpapers -

MT-03 - The street-tough style icon -
The MT-03 is original thinking, the Yamaha way. This is a totally revolutionary motorcycle created for the street life you live every day. MT-03 is a style icon built to bring big fun to the city and to the curves with a light, compact, fuel-injected engine that’s full of power for instant thrust at any revs, plus a short-wheelbase chassis with focused centre of gravity that allows remarkable control and excellent traction on all kinds of roads.

Features -

• Fun-packed street sports riding
• Fuel-injected 660 cc engine
• Low-rpm punch
• Short wheelbase
• Extremely agile

Engine -

• Engine type Liquid-cooled, 4-stroke, single cylinder, 4-valves, SOHC
• Displacement 660 cc
• Bore x stroke 100 x 84.0 mm
• Compression ratio 10.0:1
• Maximum power 35.3 kW (48 PS) @ 6,250 rpm
• Maximum torque 56.2 Nm (5.73 kg-m) @ 5,500 rpm
• Lubrication system Dry sump
• Fuel System Fuel injection
• Clutch type Wet, multiple disc
• Ignition system TCI
• Starter system Electric
• Transmission system Constant mesh, 5-speed
• Final transmission Chain
• Fuel tank capacity 15 L
• Oil tank capacity 3.4 L

Chassis -

• Chassis: Steel tube truss diamond
• Front suspension system Telescopic forks
• Front travel 130 mm
• Rear suspension system Swingarm
• Rear travel 120 mm
• Front brake Dual discs, Ø 298 mm
• Rear brake Single disc, Ø 245 mm
• Front tyre 120/70-17
• Rear tyre 160/60-17

Dimensions -

• Length 2,070 mm
• Width 860 mm
• Height 1,115 mm
• Seat height 805 mm
• Wheel base 1,420 mm
• Minimum ground clearance 200 mm
• Dry weight 174.5 kg

(Source: yamaha-motor-europe)

Gk 102

1. Ants don't sleep .
2. Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
3. A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
4. The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
5. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
6. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
7. The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
8. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
9. A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
10. The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
    
    
11. The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
12. Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
13. A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
14. Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
15. Snakes are immune to their own poison.
16. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
17. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
18. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
19. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.
20. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.
    
    
21. Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
22. The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
23. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
24. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
25. Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
26. A shrimp's heart is in their head.
27. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
28. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
29. The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
30. A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
    
    
31. It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
32. Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
33. Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
34. There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.
35. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
36. Cat's urine glows under a black light .
37. The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
38. It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
39. Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.
40. It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
    
    
41. Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.
42. Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
43. Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
44. A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
45. The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
46. There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.
47. The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
48. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
49. The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
50. The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
    
    
51. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
52. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
53. The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
54. Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
55. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
56. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
57. Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
58. The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
59. To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
60. 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.
    
    
61. Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.
62. The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.
63. A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
64. Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
65. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
66. Ants can live up to 16 years.
67. In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
68. The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.
69. Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.
70. Coca-Cola was originally green.

71. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
72. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
73. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
74. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
75. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
76. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
77. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
78. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
79. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
80. People say "Bless you " when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
    
    
81. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
    The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
82. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
83. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts ,Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
84. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
85. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
86. The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.
87. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
88. A snail can sleep for three years.
89. All polar bears are left handed.
90. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
    
    
91. Butterflies taste with their feet.
92. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
93. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
94. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
95. The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.
96. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
97. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
98. Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
99. A baby bat is called a pup.
100. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
     
     
101. A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
102. It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100 .

Amazing Water Dress

Gisele Bundchen Dons Water Dress -

Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen continues to pimp her own line of sandals with shoes company Grendene, called Ipanema Gisele Bundchen. In the new ‘Porque a Terra é Azul’ ad campaign, Gisele “wears” a water dress.

Cool concept!

What do you think Gisele’s water dress?

Face Pack

- Mask for Oily Skin -

Cucumber face pack
Ingredients -

1. One tablespoon of cucumber juice.
2. One tablespoon of mint juice.
3. Half teaspoon of peppermint extract

Mix all the ingredients together and apply this on the face. Leave it for drying. Then wash off with lukewarm water. This face pack is very effective for oily skin.

Egg face pack
Ingredients -

1. Egg white of one egg.
2. Half tablespoon of water.
3. One teaspoon of multani mitti.
4. Half teaspoon of peppermint extract.

Soak multani mitti powder in water for half an hour. Beat the egg and blend all the ingredients together. Also mix the soaked multani mitti powder in the mixture. Apply this on the face for 15 minutes. Then wash off with lukewarm water.

Potato face pack
Ingredients -

1. One teaspoon of potato juice.
2. One teaspoon of multani mitti.

Blend both the ingredients together and apply on the face. Leave it until it dries. Then wash with lukewarm water. Finally, rinse with cold water

Papaya face pack
Apply 2 tablespoons of papaya pulp on your face and let it dry. Then wash off with lukewarm water. One can also mix lemon juice in it.

- Mask for Dry Skin -

Mint face pack
Ingredients -

1. Take one teaspoon of mint powder.
2. One tablespoon of yogurt.
3. One tablespoon of multani mitti.

Soak multani mitti and mint powder in yoghurt for half an hour. Then mix them well by beating. Apply it on face for 15 minutes and leave it to dry. When dried wash off with lukewarm water. Then rinse by cold water.

Egg face pack
Ingredients -

1. Egg yolk of one egg.
2. One teaspoon of milk powder.
3. Half teaspoon of honey.

Beat the egg yolk, mix the milk powder and honey in it. Beat again. When a paste of medium thickness is obtained, apply it on the face. When it is dry, wash off with lukewarm water. (Source : via mail)

10 Secrets of Love

The Power Of Thought -

Love begins with our thoughts. We become what we think about. Loving thoughts create loving experiences and loving relationships. Affirmations can change our beliefs and thoughts about others and ourselves. If we want to love someone, we need to consider their needs and desires. Thinking about your ideal partner will help you recognize her when you meet her.

The Power Of Respect -

You cannot love anyone or anything unless you first respect them. The first person you need to respect is yourself. To begin to gain self-respect asks yourself, "What do I respect about myself?" To gain respect for others, even those you may dislike, ask yourself "What do I respect about them?"

The Power Of Giving -

If you want to receive love, all you have to do is give it! The more love you give, the more you will receive. To love is to give of yourself freely and unconditionally. Practice random acts of kindness. Before committing to a relationship ask not what the other person will be able to give to you, but rather what will you be able to give them. The secret formula of a happy, lifelong, loving relationship is to always focus on what you can give instead of what you can take.

The Power Of Friendship -

To find a true love, you must first find a true friend. Love does not consist of gazing into each other's eyes, but rather looking outward together in the same direction. To love someone completely you must love them for who they are, not what they look like. Friendship is the soil through which love's seeds grow. If you want to bring love into a relationship, you must first bring friendship.

The Power Of Touch -

Touch is one of the most powerful expressions of love, breaking down barriers and bonding relationships. Touch changes our physical and emotional states and makes us more receptive to love.

The Power Of Letting Go -

If you love something, let it free. If it comes back to you it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was. Even in a loving relationship, people need their own space. If we want to learn to love, we must first learn to forgive and let go of past hurts and grievances. Love means letting go of our fears, prejudices, egos and conditions. "Today I let go of all my fears, the past has no power over me - today is the beginning of a new life."

The Power Of Communication -

When we learn to communicate openly and honestly, life changes. To love someone is to communicate with them. Let the people you love know that you love them and appreciate them. Never be afraid to say those three magic words: "I Love you." Never let an opportunity pass to praise someone. Always leave someone you love with a loving word - it could be the last time you see them. If you were about to die but could make telephone calls to the people you loved, who would you call, what would you say and.. Why are you waiting?

The Power Of Commitment -

If you want to have love in abundance, you must be committed to it, and that commitment will be reflected in your thoughts and actions. Commitment is the true test of love. If you want to have loving relationships, you must be committed to loving relationships. When you are committed to someone or something, quitting is never an option. Commitment distinguishes a fragile relationship from a strong one.

The Power Of Passion -

Passion ignites love and keeps it alive. Lasting passion does not come through physical attraction alone; it comes from deep commitment, enthusiasm, interest and excitement. Passion can be recreated by recreating past experiences when you felt passionate. Spontaneity and surprises produce passion. The essence of love and happiness are the same; all we need to do is to live each day with passion.

The Power Of Trust -

Trust is essential in all loving relationships. Without it one person becomes suspicious, anxious and fearful and the other person feels wrapped and emotionally suffocated. You cannot love someone completely unless you trust them completely. Act as if your relationship with the person you love will never end. One of the ways you can tell whether a person is right for you is to ask yourself, "Do I trust them completely and unreservedly? " If the answer is "no", think carefully before making a commitment.