The Friend Who Just Stands By

When troubles come your soul to try,
You love the friend who just stands by.
Perhaps there's nothing she can do,
The thing is strictly up to you.

For there are troubles all your own,
And paths the soul must tread alone.
Times when love can't smooth the road,
Nor friendship lift the heavy load.

But just to feel you have a friend,
Who will stand by until the end.
Whose sympathy through all endures,
Whose warm handclasp is always yours.
It helps somehow to pull you through,
Although there's nothing she can do.

And so with fervent heart we cry,
God Bless the friend who just stands by.

Pass this onto all such friends...

- Author Unknown

Dow Medical College

A view of my college from the stairs of moin auditorium.

HOW TO BE THANKFUL

this is an article i would like to share, i got this from wikepedia


Do you take many things in your life for granted? By looking at the world a little differently, you just might realize how much you have to be thankful for. Here's how to stop and smell the roses.

Steps
Look around and pay attention to the people around you. You will find that everybody has something to worry or complain about, not just you. It's easy to focus on those who seem to have it all, but you never know what's going on inside. They might look happy, but they might be miserable as well. Don't look at others and think "I should have it like they do." Look at those who aren't as fortunate as you are and count your blessings.
Practice acceptance. Stop dwelling on how things should be, what could've been, and what you don't have. Recognize what you do have--whether you like it or not, it's yours to keep or to change. Accepting your lot in life is not about resigning yourself to unhappiness. It's about not wasting time lamenting or denying your problems. Take them for what they are and...
Become a problem solver. Use your lemons to make lemonade. Get in the habit of asking yourself how you can turn the negative into a positive. The most successful people in life, and those who have the most to be grateful for, are also those who've endured tremendous trials and managed to persevere and turn it all around.
Learn to see hardship as a chance to develop character. Imagine yourself looking back ten years from now and recounting your difficult circumstances, and being proud of how you handled it and worked through it.
Focus on what you can control. Stop concentrating on your situation, and on conditions and incidents that happened to you and that you have no control over. Instead, shift your focus on what you can control: your response, and your behavior.
Take joy in the small things. Blow bubbles with your kids. Play with a puppy. Get lost in the park. Goof off and have a good laugh. Life's treasures are the small pleasures. Give thanks for each small gift you receive!

Tips
Avoid negative people whose social interaction consists of comparing their lives and competing for who has it worse.
Volunteering to help those in need will help put things in perspective.

Warnings
No matter how positive and thankful you are, remember that life will always have its ups and downs. You're going to have to take the good with the bad.

Dengue Scare

Background information on dengue/DHF: The World Health Organization considers dengue to be the most important vector-borne viral disease, potentially affecting 2.5 billion people in more than 100 tropical and sub-tropical countries throughout the world. Current estimates suggest that up to 50 to 100 million dengue cases occur annually, in addition to 500,000 cases of the more serious dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). DHF has a 5% case-fatality rate in many countries, with most fatalities occurring among children and young adults. The principal vector for dengue is the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Symptoms of dengue/DHF:
Classical dengue fever, also known as break bone fever, is characterized by a sudden onset of fever, headache, sore muscles and joints, with occasional nausea/vomiting and rash; these symptoms may persist for several days.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a much more serious illness mainly affecting children and young adults and is a leading cause of childhood mortality in several Asian countries. Symptoms include a sudden onset of fever and hemorrhagic manifestations that result in significant fluid loss and may lead to shock--dengue shock syndrome. Five percent of DHF cases are fatal. A prior infection with one of the four dengue viruses results in a greater probability of contracting DHF.
Humans acquire dengue viruses from bites of infective female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes; the mosquitoes become infected, and remain so for the rest of their life, by feeding on infected human blood. An infected person has the virus circulating in them for 2-7 days, about the time he/she experiences fever. It is during this period of time that the mosquito may acquire the dengue virus through blood feeding or probing. The blood meal provides essential proteins for the females developing eggs.
No vaccine currently exists for dengue and it may be several years before one is available due to the difficulty in developing one vaccine effective against all four dengue viruses. It is essential that the vaccine protect against all four viruses because vaccination against only one or two could potentially increase the risk of more serious illness for people exposed to one of the other viruses. The dengue virus is a single-stranded RNA virus, polyhedral in shape, referred to as a flavi virus, from the Family Flaviviridae and Genus Flavivirus. The yellow fever virus is also a Flavivirus.

History of dengue/DHF:
The earliest reports of dengue fever epidemics date back to 1779-1780 in Asia, Africa and North America, indicating a widespread tropical distribution of Ae. aegypti during the past 200 years. After World War II, a global dengue pandemic began in Southeast Asia. This pandemic intensified in the Americas during the 1980s with outbreaks in Caribbean and Latin American countries including Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, and Puerto Rico. More recently, outbreaks of dengue have occurred in Brazil, Puerto Rico and Southeast Asia and in the western Pacific, including Vietnam, Singapore, Cambodia, Philippines, Malaysia, and Fiji. Prior to 1970, DHF epidemics had occurred in 9 countries in the world; by 1995 that number increased more than four-fold. At present India and Pakistan are also experiencing a dengue outbreak after the recent monsoon season.

captured scenes of life

Jenny my sweet heart dogga




A view of my balcony when i was living in my previous apartment at patricks palace. Still miss that house.





Jenny is smiling

morpheus the God of dreams

Morphine was isolated by Sertürner in 1805. He named the compound after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.

Queen Esther and mordicais tomb in Iran

The Tomb of Esther & MardecaiThe present building of this mausoleum, which is visited by Jewish pilgrims from all over the world, has nothing to speak about from the architectural point of view. Under its simple brick dome there are two graves with some Hebrew inscription up on the plaster work of the wall. Two exquisite wooden tomb-boxes are also to be seen, one of which is of an earlier date and bears an inscription in Hebrew.
The original structure dates to the 7th Century A. H. [13th Century A.D.] and it might have been erected over other and more ancient tombs. The exterior form of this mausoleum, built of brick and stone, resembles Islamic constructions, and the monument consists of an entrance, a vestibule, a sanctuary and a Shah-ni-shin (King's sitting place). Some believe that the mausoleum is the resting-place of Esther, the Achaemenian Queen and wife of Xerxes (Khashayarshah) and the second tomb belongs to her uncle, Mardocai.
- Story of Esther - Queen of Persia
This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa, and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the provinces were present. For a full 180 days he displayed the vast wealth of his kingdom and the splendor and glory of his majesty.When these days were over, the king gave a banquet, lasting seven days, in the enclosed garden of the king's palace, for all the people from the least to the greatest, who were in the citadel of Susa. The garden had hangings of white and blue linen, fastened with cords of white linen and purple material to silver rings on marble pillars. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other costly stones. Wine was served in goblets of gold, each one different from the other, and the royal wine was abundant, in keeping with the king's liberality. By the king's command each guest was allowed to drink in his own way, for the king instructed all the wine stewards to serve each man what he wished.