Footprints

One night a man had a dream.

He dreamed he was walking along the beach

with the LORD.

Across the sky,

he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,

one belonged to him,

and the other to the LORD.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him,

he looked back at the footprints in the sand.

He noticed that many times along the path of his life

there was only one set of footprints.

He also notices that

it happens at the lowest and saddest times in his life.

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This really bothered him

and he questioned the Lord about it:

LORD, you said that once I decided to follow you,

you'd walk with me all the way.

But I have noticed that

during the most troublesome times of my life,

there is only one set of footprints.

I don't understand why

when I needed you the most you would leave me.

The LORD replied:

My precious child,

I love you and I would never leave you.

During your time of trial and suffering,

when you see only one set of footprints,

it was then that

I carried you.

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Unborn Foetus On Operation

For those who are faint-hearted or afraid of blood, please avoid looking at the photo below.

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The picture shows a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner.

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Do you see the tiny hand of the foetus grasping the doctor’s finger?

The foetus was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Dr. Joseph Bruner performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb. During the procedure, the doctor makes a small incision on the uterus to operate on the baby.

As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.

The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope". The text explaining the picture begins, "The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother’s uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life."

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The picture has drawn thousands’ attention when it was released. Indeed the photograph and many of the texts which often accompany it seem to support this view including the account of the photographer Michael Clancy:

"As a doctor asked me what speed of film I was using, out of the corner of my eye I saw the uterus shake, but no one's hands were near it. It was shaking from within. Suddenly, an entire arm thrust out of the opening, then pulled back until just a little hand was showing. The doctor reached over and lifted the hand, which reacted and squeezed the doctor's finger. As if testing for strength, the doctor shook the tiny fist. Samuel held firm. I took the picture! Wow!

It happened so fast that the nurse standing next to me asked, "What happened?"

"The child reached out," I said.

"Oh. They do that all the time," she responded. "

On the other hand, another source shows Dr. Bruner’s reaction, denying that the baby reached out and grabbed his finger.

"The baby did not reach out," Dr Bruner said.

"The baby was anesthetized. The baby was not aware of what was going on."

He also stated, “Depending on your political point of view, this is either Samuel Armas reaching out of the uterus and touching the finger of a fellow human, or it’s me pulling his hand out of the uterus … which is what I did.”

So, was it real?

Never mind. As long as little Samuel recovered from the complications after the amazing operation. Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation was 100 percent successful. Thank God!!
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Siamese Twins

When I first came across the phrase “Siamese Twins”, there was one bold question popping out of my mind.

“How do conjoined twins get their general scientific name : Siamese twins? What does Thailand have to do with conjoined twins?”

Later I found out that it wasn’t the so called first pair of Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker that gives a new phrase to the English language, instead, it was their fame.

"Joined at the sternum"

Chang and Eng, the original Siamese Twins were born in 1811 in SIAM (now known as Thailand). They are two human beings joined together at birth by living tissues. When this unusual birth news knocked the eardrums of the king of Siam, he decided that the babies should be put to death due to some superstitious thinking. He thought such a birth was an evil sign, an omen that something bad was going to happen in his land. As time passed and no disaster occurred, King Rama II withdrew his decree of death for the two boys. When the two boys grew up, they were exhibited before billions of people throughout the world. Their managers, Captain Coffin and Robert Hunter brought them to different continents, meeting kings and queens. They grew famous in a short time. However, they retired and settled down a decade later.

The most interesting part of their lives was they actually GOT MARRIED to the Yates sisters, Chang to Adelaide Yates and Eng to Sarah Anna Yates!!! They have to share a large bed built for the foursome. WHOAAA!!! The people of the country bet that no children would come from this union. However, nine months after the wedding, Eng and Sallie welcomed their first-born daughter. Six days later, Chang and Adelaide welcomed their first daughter also. This continued until Eng and Sarah had produced 11 children. Chang and Adelaide were almost as productive, producing 10 children.
*Don’t ask me how. I really can’t understand. To tell you the truth, my classmates and I looked at each other clueless-ly when teacher told us each of them PRODUCED almost A DOZEN of children!! Speechless.

Ok. Done with their extraordinary marriage story. Moving on……

Eng was a very health-conscious man while Chang drowned himself in whiskey. Chang eventually got stroke. In 1874, Chang caught a cold and he passed away. Eng didn’t die at the same time. He died several hours later. The doctors expected that Eng would survive because he was healthy and fit. After the diagnosis, they found out that Eng died from shocked. Why? Imagine that Eng had to sleep beside or attach to his dead brother the whole night. If I were to attached to a cold, dead body, I would definitely get a heart attack. If I were UNFORTUNATE to be EXTREMELY HEALTHY at that moment, I might just grab a knife and stab myself to death. OUCH!!!

For your information, they were NOT the first pair of conjoined twins recorded in medical annals as there were probably about 100 such pairs known by the time of their 1811 births, a fact which helped the King of Siam reverse an early death sentence on the brothers. In fact, conjoined twins were recorded as early as 945 in Armenia and the first pair of successfully separated twins took place in 1689 by German physician G.

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波列国的教育制度

你满意目前的教育制度吗？

我不满意。完成了11年的“免费”中小学政府教育之后，我对现有的教育制度有数不清的意见，却无能为力去改变，只能傻傻地呆在这儿，接受这“与众不同”的教育。
波列国所使用的教学方法是日本丢弃了50年的废物，那试问我们能否迎头赶上，在短短的十二后达到2020年宏愿呢？不可能！

在这波列国的领土上，初中生被规定修最少7科——国语、英语、数学、科学、地究、历史、生活技能，而高中生则必须拿6科主要科目及3至4科选择性科目。政府设下如此的规定，是为了塑造出所谓全能 (all-rounder) 的完美未来主人翁。有必要吗？这样的教育制度只会分散学生们的注意力，将平均学术程度拉下，塑造出数不完的半桶水，也让他们无法充分发挥自己的本能。这岂不是浪费人力资源？我们掌握10科、20科是为了什么？难道将来我们会用到这一切吗？除非我们要做20分兼职，否则其他15科都可免了。

波列国 : Always see it as half cup full, not half cup empty.

相反的，这样的情况绝对不会出现在西方国家，因为那儿的学习生涯是欢乐、毫无压力的岁月。他们并没有强迫学生修自己不喜欢的科目，而是让他们自由选择，希望可以从小发掘新一代的才华，专攻小孩儿的兴趣，磨练他们成为真正的专业人士。举个例子，数学有上百个分科，例如：三角学(trigonometry)、代数学(algebra)、几何学(geometry)、统计学(statistics) 等等。在美国，学生可选择任何一项分科，专门研究该分科，因此，中学毕业后，他们的程度已远远超越本地的大专生。荒谬吧！

再者，波列国似乎十分提倡“愈多A愈好”的风俗。今年的纪录是21A(20A1, 1A2)，相信二十年后，会有人获得50A1的佳绩，打破世界纪录。哇，真的波列!!(-.-)III…你曾否怀疑这A的素质？学校考试中经常获得平均60分的同学们，SPM竟然能获得A1。有关单位为何要调低水平呢？动动脑筋吧！所以，未来的大老板们，请你们在录取员工的时候，睁大眼睛，别被他们的佳绩蒙蔽了双眼，小心选人啊！否则，公司都会被这些人搞垮。

另外，这儿的升学机会也被固打控制。为何要有这样的制度呢？因为他们看得起我们，相信我们不需要拐杖也可以飞向美好的未来。好吧，就体谅体谅他们吧！但记得喔，我们的引擎强得很，一飞出国，就飞不回来了！您自重………哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈………

我们拥有战斗机的引擎，而不是.........

　　

好了，不想多说，浪费我口水罢了。唉！四个字——呜呼哀哉！

There Is No Words To Describe This Brutality

Let me ask you, would you ever hurt a person just because of a loaf of bread?

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".NO!!.". ~~~~~~~~~..Is this your answer?

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Well, don't be surprised if there are some cruel and cold-blooded Homo sapiens out there to commit such a sin. Read the following story and you will know how human beings can lose their minds when it comes to money.

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An eight-year-old child was caught in a market in Iran for stealing bread. As a punishment, his arm will be crushed by a car. And he will lose its use permanently.

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A child lost his functional left arm forever in just a few seconds! If you look at the pictures carefully, you will observe that there is a man behind the little kid, who is responsible to hold the kid's hand in place when the tyre runs over it.

Who are they to punish the little boy? Even if the boy did steal the bread, what is so serious that can cause him to lose his arm? He is only 8 YEARS OLD!!!! Educate him, don't use FORCE!!!

Another thing, I wonder how others feel when they are just metres or inches away from the poor boy. It seems that they have no feelings at all, crowding around and watching the little kid being tortured by those uncivilised culprits.

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WHY? WHY?! Why no one stands up and stops this nonsense?!!!

I really can't understand. If I were to make a conclusion regarding HUMAN BEINGS with the above information, I would say : Homo sapiens are transforming, not into a better species with higher intelligence; but into a species with animals' traits found in their DNA. In short, mutation occurs.

However, I believe that there are still kind-hearted people all over the world, people who are close to God.... :) So people, don't be hurt by my conclusion...It is not a fact yet.....But it will be...... :P

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Calling all Homo sapiens (people with body temperature of 36.9°C), be kind and never let your words or actions hurt others. Treat others sincerely and you will be blessed.

Peace!!

Conversations between Males and Females

BOY : May I hold your hand?
GIRL : No thanks, it isn’t heavy.

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GIRL : Say you love me! Say you love me!
BOY : You love me……

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GIRL : I think the poorest people are the happiest.
BOY : Then marry me and we’ll be the happiest couple.

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GIRL : Darling, I want to dance like this forever.
BOY : Don’t you ever want to improve?

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BOY : I love you and I could die for you!
GIRL : How soon?

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BOY : I would go to the end of the world for you!
GIRL : Yes, but would you stay there?

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MAN : You remind me of the sea.
WOMAN : Because I’m wild, romantic and exciting?
MAN : NO, because you make me sick.

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WIFE : You tell a man something; it goes in one ear and comes out of the other.
HUSBAND : You tell a woman something; it goes in both ears but comes out of the mouth.

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MARY : John says I’m pretty. Andy says I’m ugly. What do you think, Peter?
PETER : A bit of both. I think you’re pretty ugly.

After reading the last conversation, do you have the following facial expression?

YES / NO

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MARY : Hey!! Don't laugh at people...Its BAD....*tears

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They Don't Act Cute, They Are Cute !!!

Kids joke around without realising it. They are the most talented comedians on Earth. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Unbelievable? Believe It.

However, their sense of humour slowly diminishes as they grow. So, for those who are reading this post and claim that you lack sense of humour, DON’T WORRY!!! Because you were a comedian before……but under unconscious situation…… (-.-)

UNCONSCIOUS???!!

Yes. Unconscious....I don’t mean that you joke in your dreams or when you are in a coma.…The definition of unconscious in this case is : not able to remember what you have done previously......that’s when you were still attached to a cute cuddly teddy bear or a grayish-cornered-pillow......Got what I mean now?

During your childhood, you might have created your own original joke....Copyright it and you don't have to work for the rest for your life....*dreaming

Below are some jokes that show children's innocence and their straight-forwardness.......Enjoy!!!

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.

The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'.

The teacher asked, 'What if Jonah went to hell?'

The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'.

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A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

The girl replied, 'I'm drawing God.'

The teacher paused and said, 'But no one knows what God looks like.'

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, 'They will in a minute.'

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One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.

She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, 'Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?'

Her mother replied, 'Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.'

The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, 'Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?'

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The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.

'Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.'

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, 'And there's the teacher, she's DEAD.'

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The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples.

The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: 'Take only ONE . God is watching.'

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, 'Take all you want. God is watching the apples.'