All i really need to know; i learnt from Noah's Ark :)

Hee hee, i recieved this message a long time ago, back in highschool; from my good friend Shayne (Jin). I thought i would post up his advice fo all the learn from...

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Greetings People. Id just like to say thanks for making today a good day for me so im just sharing this cos i found this quite Interesting and also it is my way of saying thank you. I know this isnt much but yeah here it is. and if you dont like it then id say heh what you gona do cos you got it anyway.

Oh and one more thing....... I know that I never talk like this much but Thank you for being very good friends. Have a Nice Weekend

Thanks Again

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNT FROM NOAH'S ARK

- Dont Miss the boat
- Plan ahead. It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark.
- Stay Fit. When your 600 years old , you might be asked to do something really big.
- Speed is not always an advantage, Snails were there with the Cheetahs.
- Dont listen to critics. Just get on with what has to be done.
- Build your future on high grounds.
- Travel in pairs. Two heads are better than one.
- The ark was built by amatures, the Titanic by professionals.
- Woodpeckers inside are a bigger threat than the storm outside.
- No matter the storm, theres always a rainbow in waiting

Later Days

If the World were a village of 100 people

When you woke this morning, did you look forward joyously to the day?

When you go to bed tonight, do you think you will be filled with satisfaction?

Do you think the place you are is precious?

In the world today [this is an ole bit of text mind you], 6 billion 300 million people live. If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something the following:

There would be:
- 61 Asians
- 13 Africans
- 13 from North and South America
- 21 Europeans
- and the remaining one from the South Pacific

- 52 would be female
- 48 would be male
- 30 would be children
- 70 would be adults

among those,
- 7 would be aged
- 70 would be non-white
- 30 would be white
- 33 would be Christians
- 19 believe in Islam
- 13 Would be Hindus
- 6 would follow Buddhist teaching
- 5 would believe that there are spirits in the trees and rocks and in all the nature
- 24 would believe in other religions or would believe in no religion
- 89 would be heterosexual
- 11 would be homosexual

- 17 would speak Chinese
- 9 English
- 8 Hindi and Urdu
- 6 Spanish
- 6 Russian
- 4 would speak Arabic
That would account for half the village
The other half would speak Bengal, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, German, French or some other languages

- 20 are undernourished
- 1 is dying of starvation, while
- 15 are over weight
- 6 people would process 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from United States.
- 74 People own 39%
- 20 people share the remaining 2%
- 75 People have some supply of food and a place to shelter them from wind and the rain, but 25 do not.
- 17 have no clean, safe water to drink

Of the energy of this village
- 20 people consume 80% and
- 80 people share the remaining 20%

If you have money in the bank, money in your wallet and spare change somewhere around the house - You are among the richest 8

If you have a car - You are among the richest 7

Among the villagers
- 1 has a college education
- 2 have computers
- 14 cannot read

If you can speak and act according to your faith and your conscience without harassment, imprisonment, torture or death - then you are more fortunate than 48, who cannot.

If you do not live in fear or death by bombardment, armed attack, landmines or of rape or kidnapping by armed groups - then you are more fortunate that 20, who do.

In one year,
- 1 person in the village will die
but in the same year
- 2 babies will be born
so that at the year’s end the number of villagers will be 101

If your parents are still alive and still married you are very rare
If you can read this email, That means you are thrice-blessed; Because
1. someone was thinking of you
2. because you are able to read
And most important
3. Because you are alive

Someone once said: what comes around goes around; So:
- sing from the bottom of your heart
- Dance with your body waving free
- And live putting your soul into it

And when you love
- Love as though you have never been wounded - even you have - And love the fact that you and others live here in this village

Perhaps, If enough of us learn to love our village , It may yet be possible to save it from violece that is tearing it apart.

My two cents - hehehe cheap wisdom!

I was filtering through some of my friends blogs on Zorpia, and i came across the following entry by a wise Filipina named Eleany:

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Happiness
Saturday, Aug 5 2006, 11:04:00 PM

What is happiness?

It is a question that has plagued the human mind for eons!

Does it even exist? Or maybe it is just something man made up to try to explain or fill in the void he has deep down his soul?

It is just a few of the questions lingering in my mind, this one hot August afternoon...

For years I have thought about it, still I haven't come up with an answer that would satisfy me.

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... to which i posted the following response. I thought my response was pretty good for something i wrote after just haven woken up at 5am in the morning on a sunday ;p

Oh well, i hope you enjoy:

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Anywho, here's what i think:

On a physical understanding, When you are happy your brain is kinda injected by a hormone thingy called endorphins which pretty much relaxes or excites (depending on the kind of happiness we are talking about) the brain. And since the brain controls everything else in our bodies, it has the power to make everything else relaxed/excited too.

On a basic level this can be observed by the more primitive animals on this planet, like a dog. When the endorphins start affecting his brain, their eyes widen, mouth opens and tongue dangles, and tails waggle. This occurs whenever you give him/her a treat, play with the dog, or just when they get to see you after a long period of time. From this, you can tell that the dogg is happy.

For most animalia, the happiness description pretty much stops there. Since there is no definitive way of communicating intelligently with such organisms, we have to assume that they themselves do not delve any further into the topic.

Because of our somewhat heightened intelligence, happpiness can be experienced in both a physical and emotional manner. While we humans share the same physical reactions as our primitive earthly neighbours, Our mighty mighty brains which can dream and imagine (ie. do not depend on a physical truth) expand what can be experienced as 'happy'. The brain can filter, sub-categorise and enhance, because it can visualise something/anything/everything out of nothing. There are multiple levels of happiness; Black and White and a mass of Grey in between. This is shown in our music, artworks, tv shows, circus rides, books on sex techniques, and even our beliefs on the being known as God.... and so forth.... there is more than one kind of happiness for the human being.

Now then, delving further into the inner intricacies of happ.... [brain freeze]... okay kids, class is over. Go home and nag your parents about buying a PS3....

- Eleany, this probably wont sate your desire to understand the process known as happiness, but at least you know have an opinon from a crazy asian, to compare any future research you may have in mind for this topic.

Actually, despite my simple use of the english vocabulary, i think i did an okay job :) i think i may post this up on my blog. I'll credit the initial thought to you :)

Ciao!!

Whats your japanese name?

hee hee this is funni - got this from a thread in Zorpia - just add up the letters:

A- ka * B- zu * C- mi * D- te * E- ku * F- lu * G- ji

H- ri * I- ki * J- zu * K- me * L- ta * M- rin *

N- to * O-mo * P- no * Q- ke * R- shi * S- ari * T-chi U- do *

V- ru * W-mei * X- na * Y- fu * Z- zi

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Okis, my name will be either:

Zukuki Tekarinkatoki

or

Zudotokimoshi Rikateki

tee hee, their so long! How do some japanese people get the easy cool names like 'Rei' of 'Jin'? mwa ha ha lols

I think i'll just use the best sounds from my jap names and call myself

Tekarin Katoki

Ooooouu that sounds funky... i could be a character in an anime with a name like that! yay!