DO YOU KNOW...........

Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)

And

Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting

MOTIVATION QUOTES

MOTIVATION QUOTES

MQ1. A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb

MQ2. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

MQ3. There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. - Phyllis Bottome

MQ4. Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. - Henry Fielding

MQ5. Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. - John Neal

MQ6. I learn by going where I have to go. - Theodore Roethke

MQ7. Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle

MQ8. But in the mud and scum of things
There always, always something sings.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

MQ9. Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

MQ10. For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

MQ11. Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

MQ12. If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. - Thomas Watson

MQ13. Knowledge is the food of the soul. - Plato

MQ14. The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. - Henry David Thoreau

MQ15. All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have as an equal opportunity to develop our talents. - John F. Kennedy

MQ16. All the problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, its spines crumble. - William S. Halsey

MQ17. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
- Miyazawa Kenji

MQ18. I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. - Paul Harvey

MQ19. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. - Vince Lombardi

MQ20. Most people have a desire to look at the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. - John C. Maxwell

MQ21. You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. - Arthur Ashe

MQ22. If we don't change the direction we are going, we are likely to end up where we are heading.

MQ23. Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

MQ24. Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. - Midori Koto

MQ25. We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us. - Billy Graham

MQ26. You win some, you lose some, you wreck some. - Dale Earnhardt

MQ27. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

MQ28. Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
- Finley Peter Dunne

MQ29. We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

MQ30. Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset. - Jack Herbert

MQ31. Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
- Lou Holtz

MQ32. They build too low who build beneath the skies

MQ33. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
- Harriet Braiker

MQ34. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Donald Laird

MQ35. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
- George Van Valkenburg

Time Pass

Young Man: Sir, may I know the time, please?
Old Man: Certainly not.
Young Man: Sir, but why ? What are you going to loose,
if you tell me the time?

Old Man: Yes, I may loose something if I tell you the time.
Young Man: But Sir, can you tell me how?
Old Man : See, if I tell you the time you will
definitely thank me and may be tomorrow again you will ask me the time.

Young Man: Quite possible.
Old Man: May be we meet two three times more and you will ask my name and address.
Young Man: Quite possible.
Old Man: One day you may come to my house saying you were just passing by
and came into wish me.
Then as a courtsey, I will offer you a cup of tea.
After my courteous approach you will try to come again.
This time you will appreciate tea and ask who has made it.?
Young Man: Possible
Old Man: made itThen I will tell you that my daughter has and I will then have to introduce my young and pretty daughter to you &; you will admire my daughter.
Young Man: Smiles. ;)
Old Man: Now onwards you will try to meet my daughter
again and again. You will offer her to go out for a

movie together and a date with you.

Young Man[IMG]: Smiles
Old Man: My daughter may start liking you and start
waiting for you. After meeting regularly you will fall

in love with her and propose her for marriage.

Young Man: Smiles
Old Man: One day both of you will come to me and tell
me about your love and ask for my permission.

Young Man: Oh Yes! and smiles
Old Man: (Angrily) Young man, I will never marry my
daughter to a person like you who does not even own a watch.

દુઃખમાં રડી લેવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે, હારેલી જીંદગી જીવવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે. કીનારા પર વહાણ હંકારનારાઓ તમને શું ખબર, તૂફાન માં કશ્તી ગુમાવવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે. તમામ ઉમર જેને પામવાની તડપ હોય પરંતુ, તેને મેળવીને ગુમાવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે. બે હાથ વડે ઝીંદગી ઉલેચનારાઓ એટલું પણ જાણો કે, છેલ્લા શ્વાસે હથેળી ખાલી જોવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે. એક વાટ પકડી ને ચાલનારાઓ મંઝીલ જરુર પામે છે, કીન્તુ માર્ગ માં ભટકી જવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે. દુનીયા જીતનારા ઘણાં સીકંદરો ભૂલાઈ ગયાં 'મક્કુ', એક-બે ના દીલ જીતી ચાલી જવાની પણ મઝા અનેરી હોય છે...

An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to spade his potato
garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him,
was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his situation:




Dear Son,

Dear Son,

I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my
potato garden this year. I hate to miss doing the garden because your
mother always loved planting time. I'm just getting too old to be digging
up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over.
I know you would dig the plot for me, if you weren't in prison.

love,
dad

Shortly, the old man received this telegram: "For Heaven's sake, Dad, don't
dig up the garden!! That's where I buried the GUNS!!"

At 4 a.m. the next morning, a dozen FBI agents and local police officers
showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns.

Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what
happened, and asked him what to do next.

His son's reply was: "Go ahead and
plant your potatoes, Dad. It's the best I could do for you from here."

Game, set and match GMCS V. Pattabhi Ram Mithun D'Souza

Wafers finished her packing. She was to board the Mail; the train that would take her to Bangalore to attend the course on General Management and Communication Skills (GMCS). This was ICAI's mandatory 15-day finishing school programme. Now why the lady should hop to Bangalore when the programme was also available in Chennai was a little secret that she would share with no one.

"Mom, hurry up with the cucumbers," screamed Wafers. Of course mom wasn't packing cucumbers for dinner. The cucumbers were to be placed on and around Wafers's eyes. No, Wafers was not one of the Miss India wannabes; but anyone who had cracked CA Final would certainly have a fair share of blackening of eyes caused by endless sleepless nights. And remember Wafers had gotten into the rank list for good measure.

Dreadful nightmare

Dad came to the station to see her off. It would be nice to be away from home thought Wafers. Despite the enormous freedom that her parents gave her, there was nothing like being alone, she reasoned. She boarded the train and soon decided to hit the sack. The persistent lullaby of the train in motion and the cool cucumbers around her eyes meant that Wafers crashed out fast only to be awakened by a dreadful nightmare.

She was in the midst of her Cost Accounting exam and was getting stuck with problem after problems. To her the one on standard costing looked like French. This was notwithstanding the fact that she had mastered the format which her professor had so assiduously taught. And then there was a great bit of quantitative techniques for which Wafers had not prepared sufficiently. Beads of sweat hurried down her face, her hands were trembling; her eyes were quivering - (thud)... . a hard bang on her head of the upper berth (thanks to her terrified leap) ... and Wafers was brought back to earth. "Thank God that was not real," thought Wafers. She remembered her seniors explaining the post CA Final nightmares. This was the same.

At the Institute

The following morning she found herself at the Institute's premises in Bangalore. After completing the formal form filling she entered the programme hall. There were scores of stern faces. No smiles. No self-introductions. Wafers felt as if she had stumbled into an army camp. Everyone was as cold as ice. "Members and Members to be" announced a smiling gentleman. "Welcome aboard GMCS, ICAI's innovative finishing school programme... (Blah) (Blah)... You are going to have fun in the next 15 days here with us".

"Fun" said a voice from the back row; "This is rigorous imprisonment; worse than our classes". Not even half an hour had passed, and the candidates, Wafers included, were eager to find a way out through the nearest exit. Their ideas were foiled when the announcement came on the public address system, "This course is a prerequisite for membership enrolment of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India under regulation 51A/72A". Oh God, this meant that attendance was compulsory. Hell.

The first session was of icebreakers. The group was made to yell, to mew and to bray. Wafers wasn't amused. Is this what chartered accountants do, she wondered. It took some time for the firm faces to crack a bit. Wafers managed to make friends with Debbie, Rohit and a few others. By the end of the first day, the entire group was tired. "Given a choice I would not turn up for the rest of the course," whispered Debbie in Wafers's ear. It was always a problem for the faculty to handle de-energised CA students.

The next two weeks however, spelt a completely different story for the candidates. The schedule was packed with presentations from leading corporate trainers and public speakers. There was in the schedule topics such as general management, office etiquette, organising and managing a CA's office, management of meetings, effective communication and the art of negotiation. The sessions were interactive and participative with a lot of management games thrown in between. Wafers loved it. "This GMCS offers more than what I had bargained for". Debbie shook her head up and down in total agreement.

Aura changes

The aura at the venue had changed dramatically. There were more smiling faces, more friends, more laughter and greater fun. Rohit was shocked to learn about how much soft skills one needed to acquire in the corporate world. There were the seven habits of highly effective people, the 48 laws of power, the seven spiritual laws of success, the 8th habit, and 101 things to do before you died. The rules, the laws, the habits, the attitudes — all spelt out loud and clear for them.

Rohit thought "Oh there are rules and laws even outside income-tax and corporate law". The participants were all ears when teams from the Big 4 explained to them the nitty-gritty of the personal interview, the career choices they could make for themselves and the writing of a winning CV. He was fascinated by what the mock personal interview did to him. He realised many things about himself earlier not known to him. The most embarrassing moment for him was gently tucking his shirt in his trousers when the faculty on Dressing and Personal grooming deliberated on the intricacies of corporate dressing.

The excitement knew no bounds when the tables were turned and the participants were asked to take up centre stage. There were individual speeches to deliver, business lectures to be given and group presentations to be made. Wafers sheepishly took stage for her first presentation. The corrections made by the faculty did her a world of good. By the second and third presentation she looked almost like a pro. And so did the rest of the crowd at the GMCS.

Total synergy

By the end of two weeks there was total synergy in the group. Acquaintances turned into friendships, hand shakes turned into warm hugs, business card exchanges turned into quick dials on cell phones. Almost everyone dreaded the valedictory function, for that meant they had to part. And when doomsday arrived there were tearful farewells to the group where they all learnt, lived, loved and which left for them a legacy. Said Debbie, again to Wafers, "Besides my high school and graduation class, it is this group which I shall cherish the most".

Wafers was thankful too. Her eyes had lightened, her mind brightened. "Given a chance I don't mind attending the GMCS again," said Rohit to Wafers. Thinking of the course which she was forced by statute to attend; Wafers replied with a twinkle in her eye "I too don't mind doing it all over again."

And as time would tell, it was at the same GMCS that Debbie met her future husband.

Perseverance is the key to success

Mr Mahesh Dyaram

Mr Mahesh Dyaram is the Co-founder, Director and Chief Technology Officer of Nexge Technologies (P) Ltd, a telecom software product company. He is an MBA from IIM-Calcutta and a B.Tech from IIT-Bombay. He has a rich experience in IT and business, including building real-time network and communication systems. Here's his take on four questions from Business Line:

Two things that my education/training taught me:

Analytical thinking. This is critical in breaking down a problem into small manageable parts to arrive at a solution.

Widening of the thinking horizon. A broader view of things that encompasses the whole is necessary to understand things at a macro level.

Two things I learnt from my work/real life:

Perseverance is the key to success.

People are the key to the organisation.

One quality I look for the most in a new recruit:

Clarity of thought. A person with clear thinking can achieve success in any chosen field and be moulded to achieve any heights.

A book that I read recently:

Good to Great, by Jim Collins.