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Losing My Religion

Sometimes when I pick up the phone to call a friend, he may be so busy that he didn't even say hello but just utter "I'll call you back". Then one week later, I would call him again to say "hello, just calling you to ask when you are calling me back?" We are all that busy but when we are not we look for other things of leisure to keep ourselves busy again. We deal with people all the time - the good, the bad and the ugly. How we deal with people or interact is dependent on how we view the world and who you are or what's your beef. Do you subscribe to the view that all people are bad until proven good or people are good until proven untrustworthy. This makes a world of difference. You have got to give before you get. You can't expect to receive rewards first then decide what you want to give. You must have faith to give freely and the rewards will eventually come. Though you may from time to time be deceived if you trust too much, you will live in...

TGIF!!!

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TGIF!!! Many of you are familiar with this expression. Sometimes I would drop an email to people with this heading. TGIF is an initial for "Thank God It's Friday!" You want to celebrate on the last day of the school or work week. It actually originated in the 1960s first popularised by a restaurant T.G.I. Friday's and then there was a movie by the same name. See if you could spot this place in the pix with a hung up sign: "Thank God It's FRIDAY'S". Do you remember stories or movies like Robsinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, The Last of The Mohicans, Castaway, etc. Everybody has a sidekick or companion - Adam & Eve, Batman and Robin (if they got run over by a lorry would become Flatman and Ribbon), Green Hornet and Kato. Robinson Crusoe found one on a Friday and called him "Friday". Robsinson Crusoe was desperately ill one day and called for his helper Friday to seek help. Not knowing what to do Friday j...