Today is the Birthday of Akelso (Andrea). It will take few seconds time to wish fellow tblogger.

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Date of Birth: January, 1

Place of Birth: Arlington/Virginia/USA

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Date of Birth: December, 31

Place of Birth: Bangkok/Thailand

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Date of Birth: December, 30

Place of Birth: Ft. Payne/Alabama/USA

Lighting can be one of the most creative components of design. It can give a wide look to a narrow space and highlight certain features. Designers mostly prefer lamps instead of built-in lighting systems due to their versatility and adaptability.
Before you venture out looking for the right glow and light, here are few details to keep in mind:-

1. The variety of shades and bases that come with lamps are endless and might confuse you. Choose a base in earthenware, copper, marble, steel, brass, wood, wrought iron, or crystal, depending on the existing look of your home.
2. For lampshades, choose a material and color that supplements the surrounding and is also easy to maintain. Left over curtains or upholstery can be used to make matching lampshades. Paper mache, Chinese rice paper, silk, leather and lantern styles are in vogue.
3. For a bedroom, choose a lamp based on your planned usage. A wall mounted adjustable lamp for reading; a low height lamp to create a soft warm look; a standing lamp in the corner next to a sofa for watching TV and relaxing.
4. A living room generally requires adequate light, so avoid low height or soft glow lamp. Opt for standing lamps with large shades and make sure you use powerful bulbs.
5. For a formal drawing room, avoid lamps made of terracotta, rice paper, marble and wrought iron as these will clash with silk drapes. Choose from Indian crystal, Persian fanoos, Pakistani silver or painted fresco base Grecian style lamps for formal areas.
6. A functional table lamp with a dimmer can be used in the kids room for reading and as a night lamp.

Remember the following Norse fable the next time you sneak a smooch under the mistletoe: Frigga, goddess of love and beauty, wanted to make the world safe for her son, Balder. Everything on earth promised to do him no harm except the one plant Frigga overlooked, mistletoe. Loki, an evil spirit, made an arrow from the mistletoe's wood and killed Balder. Frigga's tears became the plant's white berries and revived her son. In her gratitude, Frigga promised to kiss anyone who passed under the mistletoe, just as we do today.

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Date of Birth: December, 23

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Date of Birth: December, 21 1976

Place of Birth: Richmond, BC, Canada

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Loud snorers can be very annoying, especially when sleeping with those who don't snore. By using an electric stimulus that would contract the muscles around the soft tissues in the body's airways, a biomedical research team has been working on developing a snore- zapper, which would silence loud snorers. The system makes use of a microphone to establish when a person begins to snore while the strength and duration of the pulses are determined by trial and error. A coil of wire is placed underneath a patient's pillow and separate coils of wire are injected in a palate. The pillow coil then wirelessly induces pulsed power, producing very low charges in the muscle coils to tighten the tissue.

Silence The Snorers

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A rare joke was circulating among Iraqis shortly before their Prime Minister met George Bush in Amman recently.

Q : What would the US President be demanding?

A: A timetable for Iraqis to withdraw from Iraq.

It was a barbed refrence to the huge number of Iraqis who have been forced to flee their homeland since the US invaded and presided over a catastrophic collapse in security. Up to 3,000 are leaving everyday, according to UN. 

1. Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. Ursula K.Le Guin
2. Treaure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. Og Mandino
3. Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde
4. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond
5. Men always want to be a womans first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like to be a man's last romance. Anonymous
6. For an instant, love can transform the world. Anonymous
7. We two form a multitude. Ovid
8. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates

1. Teaching young children is becoming more and more stressful for parents, who often complain that their child is not willing to study. This often leads to a scenario where the child is forced to study.
2. For example, your child is engaged in building a tower with blocks, and you suddenly decide it is time for him/her to write the letters of the alphabet. Put yourself in your child's position. If you are working and trying to figure out something important, and you are forced to quit that task immediately and made to do something else, how would you feel? So, imagine the frustration your child will feel.
3. Unfortunately, the value of play is not understood in our hurried society. Children who are not allowed to play are deprived of a vital and essential aspect of their childhood.
4. Play is of immense value to child development, as it helps develop and foster life skills, creativity, imagination and a positive self-image. Researchers say that play allows children to express bottled up opinions and negative emotions. Not allowing children time for play can lead to serious consequences for children and for our society.
5. Play prepares children for adulthood, develops their problem solving skills and helps them learn cooperation, negotiation and compromise, which are generally missing from our society. The next time you see your child engaged in play, please don't assume that he/she is wasting time. Instead, ask yourself what he/she may be getting out of it.
6. To help children develop into creative well - adjusted adults, the valure of play must be recognised.

Are your weekends an extension of your weekdays? Do chores spill over into the weekend? Here are some tips to reclaim your weekend and rejuvenate yourself:-

1. Attend one event per weekend and avoid hopping from one party to another. Opt for the one that seems most important.
2. Do more chores during the week. Get gorcery shopping and the visits to the beauty parlour out of the way during the week.
3. Get someone to pick up your dry cleaning and mail your letters.
4. Avoid daylong weekend projects. Instead of aiming for a one-day marathon cleaning job, stagger it over several weekends.
5. Avoid bringing work home. Unless you are a doctor, switch off your cell phone on the weekend.

Once you have freed up your time here are some tips on how to use it.

1. Start the weekend with a long invigorating walk to feel refreshed and ready to face anything.
2. Take a luxurious bath.
3. Start a hobby; flying planes, designing greeting cards or creating a perfect cheesecake, now is the time to do it.
4. Try something new such as a short excursion out of the city, a visit to the park and turning off the constant noise of the TV can make a difference.
5. Visit a museum, watch a movie, eat out, or play board games with your kids.
6. Put the phone off the hook and catch up on your reading.
7. Cook a big dinner and invite family or friends to partake.
8. Although widely discouraged, but useful in small doses is daydreaming. Use the weekend to fire your imagination and mentally rehearse attaining your dream and someday you will!
   

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1. Some girls will scream at a mouse and yet climb in a car with a human wolf.
2. A bachelor is a rolling stone who gathers no boss at home.
3. The average youngman is so spoilt, he would drive his car to the bathroom if the door was wide enough.
4. Teen is the awkward age when a child is too old to say something cute and too young to say something sensible.
5. For broken marriages many husbands split the blame, half his wife's fault, and half her mother's.
6. One problem many housewives face is that they have too much of month left over with too little of money.
7. Some university girls pursue learning and some others learn pursuing.
8. If you would like to get your wife's attention, just look lazy and sick!
9. The husband said to his wife, "How do you expect me to remember your brithday when you never look any older?"
10. You may be able to read your wife like a book, but can you shut her up like one?
11. Bigamy is the only crime in the books where two rites make a wrong.
12. Doctors can cure some women simply by telling them, "the sickness is a sign of old age."
13. With declining morals, many couples live together and don't get married, and many get married and don't live together.
14. Glasses can make driving a lot safer, provided they're worn instead of emptied.
15. When we grow old, we leave dimples and pimples for wrinkles.

1. Be content with your wife, food and wealth. And always desire for more knowledge, doing charity and religious meditation. (Panchtantra)
2. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. (John Wilmot)
3. Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside. (Proverb)
4. In marriage, coming together is beginning, keeping together is progress and working together is sweet home. (James Thurber)
5. Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered and I was delivered to you to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a button hole bouquet. (Zelda Fitzqerald)
6. Choose a wife rather by your ear than by your eye. (Proverb)
7. He who has a rich wife has a master. (Scottish Proverb)
8. He who loves not his wife and children, feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows. (Jeremy Taylor)
9. Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. (Dryden)
10. Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.(George Bernard Show)
11. Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. (Zsa Zsa Gobor)
12. How wonderful is that woman who continues to be a husband's sweatheart all her life - her own husband's! (Anonymous)
13. I don't believe a man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is. (Shanna Alexander)

1. If you do a job too well, you will get stuck with it.
2. If you enjoy what yo're doing, you're probably doing it wrong.
3. Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
4. No boss will keep an employee who is right all the time.
5. A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.
6. The less the staff has to do, the slower they do it.
7. The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
8. Always do exactly what your boss would do if he knew what he was talking about.
9. Accidents happen when two people try to be clever at the same time.
10. The guy you beat out of a prime parking spot is the one you have to see for the job interview.
11. When leaving work late, you will go unnoticed. When leaving work early, you will meet your boss in the parking lot.
12. The phone never rings when you have nothing to do.
13. As soon as you get a fresh cup of coffee, the boss will ask you to do something that will last until the coffee is cold.
14. You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.

MARYAM

(DOB. Dec 4, 2006)

(7.10 PM)

Congratulations to my dear friends Baig and Nadia

His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand was born on Monday 5 December 1927, being the third and youngest child of Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Mahidol of Songkla.
He is the direct grandson of His Late Majesty King Chulalongkorn or Rama V who was renowned for the great reforms which he made to all institutions of Thailand to bring them up to date and in line with the rest of the Western-orientated world.
Prince Mahidol himself was perhaps one of the most modern-minded of all the sons of King Chulalongkorn and his life was dedicated to the development of many modern ideas particularly in the field of Medical Science so that he is now known as the Father of the Modern Thai Medical Profession.
Last but not least, he was given the significant name of Bhumibol Adulyadej, meaning "Strength of the Land Incomparable Power" which becomes prophetic as his reign advances through various critical periods and the Thai nation evolves more and more around the throne as the sole sources of unity and strength.
Prince Mahidol came back to Thailand and passed away when His Majesty was not yet two years old.
After a brief period of primary schooling in Bangkok, His Majesty left with the rest of his family for Switzerland where he continued his secondary education at the Ecole Nouvelle de la Suisse Romande, Chailly sur Lausanne and received the Bachelieres Letters diploma form the Gymnase Classique Cantonal of Lausanne.
He then chose to enter Lausanne University to study Science, but the death of his elder brother King Ananda Mahidol in Bangkok on 9 June 1946, changed the course of his life completely, for the Law of Succession bestowed on him the arduous but challenging function of the Thai crown.
His Majesty decided to go back to Switzerland for another period of study.
In 1950, His Majesty returned to Thailand for the Coronation Ceremony which took place on 5 May and he went back to Switzerland for another period of study before the urgent call of his country and people brought him back to Thailand in 1951 to stay.
His Majesty met and became engaged on 19 July 1949 to Mom Rajawongse Sirikit, daughter of His Highness Prince Chandaburi Suranath (Mom Chao Nakkhatra Mangala Kitiyakara) and Mom Luang Bua Kitiyakara (nee Mom Luang Bua Snidwongse).
His Highness Prince Chandaburi Suranath was the third son of his Royal Highness Prince Chandaburi Narunath and Her Serene Highness Princess Absarasman Kitiyakara.
Their Majesties were married by Her Majesty Queen Sawang Vadhana, the paternal grandmother of His Majesty, at Sra Pathum Palace in Bangkok on 28 April 1950 and Their Majesties have four children namely:

• Her Royal Highness Princess Ubol Ratana.
• His Royal Highness Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn (was conferred with the title of "Somdech Phra Boroma Orasadhiraj Chao Fah Maha Vajiralongkorn Sayam Makutrajakuman" by His Majesty the King on 28 December 1972) making him the Crown Prince or Heir to the Throne.
• Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (was conferred the title of "Somdech Phra Debaratana Rajasuda Chao Fah Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Rathasimakunakornpiyajat Sayam Boroma Rajakumari" by His Majesty the King on 5 December 1977).
• Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn.

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