I love sayings because they are concise and stay with you in the hard times and give you hope.
Today I share with you sayings that I received by email many years ago. Continue reading “35 best sayings”
35 best sayings
4 things to consider when looking for an apartment to rent
This year I set about to start looking for a new and cheaper place to rent in the Pacific Northwest / Redmond, Kirkland, Bellevue area. I tell you, apartment hunt was like an adventure.
I learned a lot from this ordeal, so I am going to share with you a few tips on how to make an informed decision about renting an apartment. Continue reading “4 things to consider when looking for an apartment to rent”
Oh Guruji, please bless my family
Today I share with you a story that I recall from one of the evenings I spent in the Isha Yoga Ashram in Coimbatore
, India in the presence of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.
I don’t remember the story 100% to the letter, but I recall the essence of it.
The “21 Cards Magic Trick” revealed!
Today I am going to reveal to you a magic card trick that I have been using since a long time ago. I don’t remember where and how I learned this trick, most likely from a magic book.
This trick is really nice and easy to perform. Just make sure you do not perform it more than once or twice (at most) in the same setting, otherwise the participants will start to figure it out. Continue reading “The “21 Cards Magic Trick” revealed!”
Joke: Jesus saves
I share with you an joke I read back in 2000, it is funny and I always find myself making this joke when talking about Jesus.
I hope you like it!
Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who was better on his computer. They had been going at it for days, and God was tired of hearing all of the bickering. Finally God said, “Cool it. I am going to set up a test that will run two hours and I will judge who does the better job.”
So down Satan and Jesus sat at the keyboards and typed away. They moused.
They did spreadsheets. They wrote reports. They sent faxes. They sent e-mail. They sent out e-mail with attachments. They downloaded. They did some genealogy reports. They made cards. They did every known job. But ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, the rain poured and, of course, the electricity went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just sighed.The electricity finally flickered back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming “It’s gone! It’s all gone! I lost everything when the power went out!”
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours. Satan observed this and became irate. “Wait! He cheated, how did he do it?” God shrugged and said, “Jesus saves.”
7 tips to help you spot Amway / WWDB recruiters in coffee shops
In my previous article “An encounter with Amway / WWDB recruiter” I shared my story about encountering an Amway recruiter.
In this article, I want to give you some tips on how to spot and recognize Amway recruiters so you know what to expect before they waste your time / money.
Continue reading “7 tips to help you spot Amway / WWDB recruiters in coffee shops”
An encounter with an Amway / WWDB recruiter
The other day, I was in Starbucks, working on my laptop, until I said hello to the lady that just came in and sat next to my table and started chatting.
What follows is my story and experience about meeting an Amway/World Wide Dream builders recruiter.
I will make efforts to be as objective as I can and share with you the short journey that unfolded thereafter. Continue reading “An encounter with an Amway / WWDB recruiter”
A brief interview with Dan Green from TheMortgageReports.com
Hello,
Today I met Dan Green, the founder of TheMortgageReports.com at Starbucks. It was fun to see him blogging.
Here’s a short bio from Dan’s blog:
Dan Green is a mortgage market expert, providing over 10 years of direct-to-consumer advice. You can also connect with Dan on Twitter and on Google+
I kind of interviewed him about how he started his blog and I took some advise from him about blogging and how to succeed.
Continue reading “A brief interview with Dan Green from TheMortgageReports.com”
Seeing with equal heart
I don’t remember when exactly I came to learn about the Bhagavad Gita, probably during my second trip to India back in 2007. The Bhagavad Gita spoke to me directly, along with the hidden gems in the Mahabharata epic.
When I was still living in Belgium, I visited Radhadesh and befriended a Brahmachari. We both enjoyed each other’s company. He offered to help me while I study the Bhagavad Gita.
While I have not read the Bhagavad Gita from cover to cover, I usually open it at random and learn from it.
It has nice illustrations to explain some of the verses in the book. The picture you see in this article talks about the humble sage that sees everyone with equal vision.
I decided to call this article “Seeing with equal heart” and not “Seeing with equal vision” because I believe that vision, spiritual vision, takes place in the heart where we can choose to look at things as they are or with a mask of judgement.
The 10 commandments in the 21st century
Spiritual or religious teaching have roots in the human psyche and can not go out of date. I have been meaning to write about the ten commandments and how they apply in real life. In this blog post, I will list the commandments and then talk a bit, from my point of view, how I see they still apply in the 21st century.
The 10 Commandments list can be found here Exodus 20:2-17
Let’s get started!
Apple’s March 2015 Special Event: what you need to know
Hello,
On March 9, Apple hosted the March 2015 Special event. Tim cook presented the new products and innovations that Apple has been working on.
Personally, I am more excited about the new 12″ MacBook and the Apple Watch. Continue reading “Apple’s March 2015 Special Event: what you need to know”
Apple Watch – 20 important announcements from the March 2015 Special Event
Today, during the March 2015 Spring Forward event, Tim Cook spoke about the most important Apple Watch features, its release date and the technology and innovations that made the Apple Watch possible.
I mention the most important announcements.
Continue reading “Apple Watch – 20 important announcements from the March 2015 Special Event”
Room 8 – A short film
Today I saw a Porsche
Today, in the morning, while driving to work, I stopped at many red lights. In front of me, there was a Porsche. I began thinking.
“If I had all the money I need, would I buy a Porsche?”
I stopped and started thinking, then thought:
“I personally would not spend the money on expensive cars. I like my car, it drives well and got enough technology to my taste”
Besides, I don’t like to buy something fancy I don’t need, especially when I have a lot of money and know that there are people that cannot even afford to take the bus. When I have more money than I can spend, I believe I have responsibility to share with others.
I am always reminded of this Cabalistic teaching: “Receiving for the sake of sharing”.
What would you do?
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Gabor Maté on “What is Addiction?”
I paraphrase and summarize the most important points:
- All substances are actually pain killers, some are specifically pain killers.
- Emotional pain and suffering triggers in the same brain areas as physical pain.
- Addiction develops because of pain and distress. Addiction, when acted upon provide pain killing effects to numb and escape the pain.
- Quoting Eckhart Tolle: Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain
- Because of too much distress and pain one cannot be with oneself.
- From the Tibetan Book of the Dead: “Whatever you do, don’t try and escape from your pain, but be with it. To attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain.”
- Running away from pain bring more pain. Running away is not the solution.
- Getting the sense of compassion through companionship, one can start to free the self from pain.
- We have to be with the pain until it passes and know what it is really about.
- We now live in an age of instant gratification. Our society is not designed to support us to be able to be by ourselves. There’s always the quick getaway.
Should women dress modestly?
An assortment of articles about the importance of dressing modestly:
- Top 10 Reasons Women Should Dress Modestly
- Why is it important for a woman to dress modestly?
- A Dad’s Perspective: Why I Tell My Daughters to Dress Modestly
- “What does it mean to dress modestly?”
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Dissecting the “Jupiter Ascending” movie
This past weekend I got to watch Jupiter Ascending movie. I was amused by the visuals and the universe constructed by this movie. In this blog post, I will share with you some of the interesting things I observed.
Spoiler alert: do not continue reading if you plan to watch the movie.
Here we go:
- The movie theme: the movie sets a very futuristic theme. In that theme, traveling between galaxies is not an issue. Earth is nothing in the bigger picture
- Big and powerful dynasties own planets. Earth is portrayed as a farm to grow humans. There will be a harvest period where humans are harvested
- Human harvesting is used to product a youth elixir, that is very profitable when sold. It is in high demand because it can regenerate cells and make you look young again
- Earth was seeded by those superior rulers from other planets and galaxies
- People live for millenniums. One character lived 91 millenium.
- Crop circle: They show us a scene where a spaceship lands in a field on Earth and then when it takes off, we can see its shape burned on the ground, thus forming the “infamous” crop circles.
- Aliens have cloaking and memory altering/erasing machines where they can come, anesthetize you, run some experiments then erase your memory of what just happened and then wake you up.
- When an alien occurrence or mishap take place, the aliens may chose to erase the memory of a whole city if they have to. If a few escape, then no one will believe their story.
- Aliens can morph into human shapes
- There are “space cops” and they live among us
- Reptile aliens
- Reptiles are portrayed in the movie. Is this a reference to the infamous “Reptilians“
- They are like humans in functioning but have the skin and looks of a lizard
- Those reptiles have wings and tails. They can fly.
- Ascension technology is portrayed with a cylindrical tube filled by a blue ray with small floating particles inside of it. When one steps in the light beam, he or she will be transported up towards the spaceship above.
- Jump Drives: in the movie, they jump drive a lot to go from a galaxy to another
- Attachable wings: the hero is shown with two round marks on his back then they drop a hint about attachable wings.
- At the end of the movie, we see the hero with black wings and wanting to fly and play with his date.
- And who said angels are magical? what if they were a technological advancement as portrayed in this movie?
- Reincarnation: In the movie, reincarnation is referred to as re-occurence and they define it as:”the re-occurence of the same genetic make up”
- Bureaucracy: even in such an advanced empire, bureaucracies still are an impediment. We see how the heroes get bounced from one place to another when they were trying to do some paperwork. At the end, they even bribe the clerk.
- Marriage is portrayed in the movie as a contract. The ceremony remains but just for the shows. There is no love but just a business contract
- Time the most important asset: it is stressed in the movie that the most important asset is time! That’s why the youth elixir is important
I hope you enjoyed this list. It is far from being complete. Please write me your comments below.
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