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This is such a wonderful story. It was forwarded by a friend’s wife and I want to share it before deleting it. Keep reading and learn the wonderful and inspiring lessons in it.

“A PENCIL MAKER TOLD THE PENCILS 5 IMPORTANT LESSONS JUST BEFORE PUTTING THEM IN THE BOX :

1.) EVERYTHING YOU DO WILL ALWAYS LEAVE A MARK.

2.) YOU CAN ALMOST ALWAYS CORRECT THE MISTAKES YOU MAKE.

3.) WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS WHAT IS INSIDE OF YOU.

4.) IN LIFE, YOU WILL UNDERGO PAINFUL SHARPENINGS,
WHICH WILL ONLY MAKE YOU BETTER.

5.) TO BE THE BEST PENCIL, YOU MUST ALLOW YOURSELF
TO BE HELD AND GUIDED BY THE HAND THAT HOLDS YOU.

We all need to be constantly sharpened.

This parable may encourage you to know that you are a special person, with unique God-given talents and abilities.

Only you can fulfill the purpose which you were born to accomplish.

Never allow yourself to get discouraged and think that your life is insignificant and cannot be changed and, like the pencil, always remember that the most important part of who you are, is what’s inside of you.”

Hubby is an avid fan of football. In fact, he is a fan club member of one of Germany’s First League team. His team is the FC Nuernberg. He was happy the other week because his team had won three times consecutively. Last Sunday, he asked me if he can go to the Gasthaus, a German word for a beer house and restaurant where he can watch football game. We are currently having a problem with our Television that we cannot view the channel where the football game is normally showed. As he came home, I smell cigars on all his clothes. I have no idea if he use alec bradley cigars as he watched the football game in the Gasthaus. Hubby don’t really smoke unless he go in the Gasthaus with friends. It is not too bad because he just go at most one or two times in a month. He was also sad because his team lose against FC Bayern Munich. I simply told him, “that is game, sometimes you lose, sometimes you win!”

Have a nice day!

Imagine having 983 mails in your spam folder! Thanks to Yahoo email service where spam mails are automatically directed in that folder. Sometimes some of these are still going to my regular inbox but it is better as before where I received a lot of this kind of mails. I have currently 983 mails in my spam folder. Good to know that I don’t need to delete it manually because it is automatically deleted in that folder after a month.

Yesterday, I received this ATM sort of scam mail. I am just letting you know and even warning you not to believe in this kind of mails because these are frauds. Please don’t entertain any of this and never ever give your personal details and information.

Below is a sample of this scam or fraud mail I received yesterday, Nov. 15, 2010.

“ATM Department
…
From:
ATM Department
longt1245@rediffmail.com
…
Add to Contacts
To:
International Settlement Dept.
Banque Atlantique Benin
24hrs ATM Service Of Banque Atlantique Benin.

Card Number: 5359202912271796
Attention: Beneficiary,

Having reviewed all the obstacles and problems surrounding the transfer of Your ($2. 7 Million) Two Million Seven Hundred United States Dollars and Your inability to meet up with some charges levied against you due to the Past transfer options, we the Board of Directors, Banque Atlantique Benin (BAB) have Ordered our Foreign Payment Remittance Unit to issue you a VISA MASTER-CARD where Your payment will be uploaded. Today, we got the notice that you’re Payment has been uploaded into this VISA MASTER-CARD and also have registered it with Sky Courier and Delivery Company. For your information, the delivery charges have been paid and they are supposed to have shipped your packaged (ATM CARD) but they insisted that you must re-confirm to them you’re current Delivery address to ensure accurate delivery.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Due to the content of the package, Sky courier mandated that before your package will be shipped; a Stamp Duty MUST be procured According to the New Shipping Creed on all packages leaving Africa .The Essence of such Document is to ensure a hitch-free delivery and the amount Of the Stamp Duty Fee is $281. When this is done, Sky Courier will issue you with the tracking numbers for your package before the shipping Commences. Therefore reconfirm your current delivery address. Do not forget that this $281 is all that you should send to them, the rest of the Fees have been paid.

Finally, for security reasons and considering the huge amount the ATM Master-Card contains, the Package was coded thus,

Registration Ref: Skyex/atm/100.

This is the code number that you will send to the courier company while contacting them and the courier company is not aware what the content of the package is. We told them that it contained some very vital official Documents being sent to an offshore staff. Do not reveal the content of the package to the courier company or any body for security purposes. The Information of the courier company is here-by given below, and re-confirm to them your current delivery addresses to ensure accurate delivery.

1. Your full name:
2. Your physical address:
3. Your house phone:
4. Your cell phone:

Sky Courier and Delivery Company
Phone: +22998299151
Email: skyCourierdelivery2010@live.com

Please hurry now as your package might incurs demurrage if it stays more Than 4 days with Sky Courier.

Thanks,
Dr.Alexander Delano
ATM Department
e-mail: skyCourierdelivery2010@live.com
Banque Atlantique Benin
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This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or Otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended Recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended Recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the Contents to any other person. Please consider the environmental impact before printing this document and its attachment(s). Print black and white and double-sided where possible. Registered © 2009 – 2010 Banque Atlantique Benin All Right Reserved”

I thought of going to sleep after the fight of Manny Pacquiao this morning at 3:00 Berlin time but I guess, I am feeling very sleepy right now. In short, I can’t watch it anymore. Back to my main topic; I bought a new weighing scale last Wednesday because I already doubted our old one. I just opened the package yesterday and tested it for the first time. I was truly alarmed after finding out that I gained around four kilos more. I was very frustrated and thought immediately of the best weight loss pills in the market. Hubby said that it is the caused of eating too much during parties. The second reason is, I don’t make exercise now like walking around because of the cold weather outside. I remember a friend telling me that proper discipline of oneself will help reduce weight. I know what she meant for that. I have to control my appetite and don’t eat too much. Gaining more weight is truly very alarming for me. I agree, proper discipline and more exercise can help reduce excess pounds and fat.

What a lovely beauty of nature! I took this image one rainy day in our garden. It was spring 2010 and I know for sure, the tulips will be coming back again next spring time!

Cool-off your eyes with the image below!

I love this color all the time! such a wonderful image of nature!

Owning a car especially in Europe can sometimes be very expensive. There are always bills that you have to pay from time to time including car tax, car insurance, can maintenance and a lot more. The insurances for our two small cars also cost some fortune especially that I am jobless. It will be expiring soon and we have until the end of the month to search for another company that offers cheap car insurance. Hubby said that he will check the other insurance companies hoping that we will get a cheaper one. Thanks to computers and internet where we can also conveniently browse for finding affordable insurance.

1. The Macy’s One Day Sale Flu.

2. The Drivers License Renewal Appointment 24-Hour Virus.

3. The Friday-Afternoon-Start-The-Weekend-Early Sudden
Unbearable Stomach Pains.

4. The I’m Looking for a New Job and I Don’t Know How Long It’s
Going to Take, but I Want To Stay On The Payroll Until Then
Mysterious Infection.

5. The My Boyfriend’s Got the Week Off So Suddenly I’m Too
Contagious To Come In To The Office Disease.

6. The I Need a Hair Cut and My Stylist Doesn’t Make Evening
Appointments Bout of Influenza.

7. The There’s No Federal Holidays for Two Months and I Want a
Day Off Sickness.

8. The It’s Spring Break and I Want To Pretend I’m a Teenager
Again General Ailment.

9. The I’ve Messed Up Royally and I Won’t Come In To Face the
Music Terminal Illness.

10. The I Really Am Sick and I’ve Got The Doctor’s Bills and the
Completed Medical Expense Reimbursement Forms to Prove It
Infirmity.

found in this in my inbox and wanted to share it before I delete it. This was a subscribe mail from mountainwings

Hello guys! It seems that I was away here for some days. Yes, I do. If you happen to read my other sites, you might know the reason why. Anyway, I will be mentioning about my sister who need some medical gadgets since she is studying nursing now. She is a second courser and told me last time that she is falling in love with her Nursing studies. She needs gadgets like blood pressure, audiometer, medical gloves, thermometers and some other more. Good to know that I found a site that offers such medical products.

Lastly, I would like to congratulate her because she belongs to the top 5 students in her class. I am very proud of you sis. I just found this out when one of her classmates posted the list in her photo album in facebook. Good job Sis and keep it up!

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while “some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)”. The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end”. A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced Kálan Gái av).

The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the “lighter half” of the year and beginning of the “darker half”, and is sometimes regarded as the “Celtic New Year”.

The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family’s ancestors were honoured and invited home while harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces.Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.

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It’s TGIF again! October is almost ending soon. Sometimes, I can imagine the passing of time. I mean, it seems that the days are getting faster this time. Anyway, let me proceed with my main topic before I go to sleep. I was talking to hubby last night and was telling him that if I will win the lottery, I will surely repair immediately our old stone house. I told him that I wanted a huge library where I can put my book collections. I want a library room with huge windows installed with custom blinds. Hubby said that I am dreaming again. I answered him that “to dream is free and see most of my dreams are coming true”! He just smiled at me and yes I will check it this week if the numbers I played in lotto came out. The winning is supposed to be 12 million Euros. Good luck to me!