Main Ingredients:

Potatoes: 1 medium
Eggs: 2
Dried Parsley: 2 tbsp
Vegetable Oil: 1 tbsp, for frying
Salt: /8 tsp (or according to your taste)
Pepper: /8 tsp (or according to your taste)

Directions:

1. Peel and shred the potato.

2. Beat the eggs in a medium size bowl.

3. Add salt, pepper, dried parsley and shredded potato (preferably in the given order) and mix well.

4. Heat the oil in a medium size frying pan over medium-high heat.

5. Pour the batter onto the frying pan. Fry about 5 minutes on each side or until pancake is golden brown.

6. Cut the pancake into two halves and serve each with salad and/or fresh fruits.

Don’t follow your dreams; chase them.
- Richard Dumb

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Be who you are in every situation.
- Michael Johnson

Education means inspiring someone’s mind, not just filling their head.
- Katie Lusk

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can
say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled
with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.
- Indian Proverb

The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to
be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you
have lived at all.
- Leo Rosten

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he  is.
- William George Jordan

The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
- David O. McKay

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;

Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
- Charles Reade

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
- Proverbs

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
- Anonymous

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.

- Oscar Wilde, author

Ingredients

• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup walnut halves

Method 

1. Melt the butter or margarine and mix all ingredients in the order given.
2. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 to 30 minutes in a 9 x 13 inch greased pan.

Debunking the popular notion that unburdening oneself might be
normal or even healthy, the study suggests that those who remain silent
might be better off than those who vent their feelings!

In a finding that goes against conventional wisdom, a new study
contends that it is better to keep your feelings bottled up -
particularly after experiencing a traumatic event like a terrorist
attack.

The study, by Mark Seery of the University of Buffalo, focused on people’s responses to the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001.

The findings have important implications for expectations of how
people should respond in the face of a collective trauma affecting a
community or a nation, said Seery.

He said the results should not be interpreted to mean that
expressing one’s thoughts and feelings is harmful or that if someone
wants to express their emotions they should not do so.

“It’s important to remember that not everyone copes with events in
the same way, and in the immediate aftermath of a collective trauma, it
is perfectly healthy to not want to express one’s thoughts and
feelings,” he noted.

“We found… people who chose not to express were better off than people who did choose to express,” Seery said.

Seery pointed out that immediately after last year’s tragic
shootings at Virginia Tech University there were many “talking head”
psychiatrists in the media describing how important it is to get all
the students expressing their feelings.

“Instead, we should be telling people there is likely nothing wrong
if they do not want to express their thoughts and feelings after
experiencing a collective trauma.

“In fact, they can cope quite successfully and, according to our
results, are likely to be better off than someone who does want to
express his or her feelings.”

Hmmm…Sounds Interesting!

I think bottling up feelings to an extent is normal, but there has
to be a point of saturation. As for myself, I really cant dissimulate
my feelings for long! What About  you?

-The mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends.

-The taxes I pay because it means that I’m employed.

-The clothes that fit a little too snug because it means I have enough to eat

-My shadow who watches me work because it means I am out in the sunshine.

-A lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.

-All the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech.

-The spot I find at the far end of the parking lot because it means I am capable of walking.

-My huge heating bill because it means I am warm.

-The lady behind me in temple who sings off key because it means that I can hear.

-The piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.

-Weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day because it means I have been productive.

-The alarm that goes off in the early morning hours because it means that I’m alive.

So never feel that bad luck is with you, always see the brighter side. Be optimistic

-Navtej Kohli

The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men
talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their
homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where
they had been on vacation. Every afternoon when the man in the bed by
the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his
roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods
where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity
and colour of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a
lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed
their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of
every colour and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the
distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the
man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the
picturesque scene. One warm afternoon the man by the window described a
parade passing by. Although the other man couldn’t hear the band – he
could see it. In his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window
portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days and weeks passed. One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring
water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the
window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and
called the hospital attendants to take the body away. As soon as it
seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to
the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making
sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Shoaib Akhtar may have been allowed to play in the Indian Premier
League but former players say the maverick pacer will find it tough to
make an impact in the twenty20 league as months of absence from the
cricket field has robbed him of match fitness.
The beleaguered pacer, whose 5-year ban was suspended on Sunday for a
month by the appellate tribunal of the Pakistan Cricket Board, has
bowled just 18 overs and played one competitive match since
mid-December last year.
He has not played since February 13 this year when he led the Federal
Areas team against Punjab in the Pentangular Cup tournament in Lahore
and didn’t get a wicket.
His last appearance for Pakistan was the third Test in Bangalore against India in early December last year.

Since then, he was dropped for the one-day series at home against
Zimbabwe and was subsequently banned for indiscipline when Bangladesh
toured last month for five one-day games.
In this background and given his fitness record, experts believe the
fast bowler could be in for a real test when eventually he does play
for the Kolkata Knight Riders team on May 8.
“I am happy he has had his ban suspended and this allows him to play in
the IPL. But as a former Test pacer I know how difficult it is getting
back into rhythm and match form if you haven’t played for six months,”
former player Sarfraz Nawaz said.

Congratulations to Spain on winning Euro 2008 after a long haul of
44 years. The turning point in the match was when Torres made a
historic goal that took team Spain all the way to Victory. I think they
won because they went on the offensive and kept on attacking.

For the uninitiated, Spain beat Germany 1-0 in the Euro 2008 final
in Vienna. It was for the second time they won European championship.
It was indeed a deserving victory. The team showed great football and
needless to say, played so much better than Germany.

Dish: Chicken with Tangerines

Ingredients you need:

10 g raisins
1 tablespoon Madeira
1 chicken [1300g] (ready for cooking)
1 teaspoon red sweet pepper
2 tablespoons oil
1 clove of garlic
1 can tangerines (190g)
125 ml bouillon

1 tablespoon Soya sauce
1 tablespoon starch flour
0.5 teaspoon ginger (powdered)
50 ml cream
10 g sliced almonds

How to cook:

Soak raisins with Madeira.
Cut the chicken in 4 portions and season with salt, red pepper and
pepper. Heat the oil in a pan and roast the chicken for 10 minutes.
Fill bouillon with tangerine juice up to 250 ml. Chop the peeled garlic
very fine and add to the bouillon. Pot-roast the chicken with bouillon
for 30 minutes. Add raisins five minutes before pot-roasting ends.
Arrange the chicken pieces on a plate. Make a sauce with bouillon and
starch flour, season with Soya sauce, ginger, salt and stir the cream
under the sauce. Spoon the sauce over the chicken. Decorate with
sliced, roasted almonds.