THE SHREDDER

The other day, someone sent this picture to my email.  When I saw it, I was tickled pink.  A flood of memories flashed through my head during my own days as a senior manager in the corporate world.  There was a jumble of feelings of intrigue and amusement.  My secretary and support staff took care of all my needs to operate any office equipment to the extent that I do not even know where some of them are located!  Do not talk about operating the equipment.  The question of even touching them does not arise.

How pathetic the senior people are in the office!  Interestingly, these are people with strings of degrees and MBAs but when confronted with a machine they are totally baffled!  Most senior managers are so dependent on their support staff and/or secretaries that without them they are so very lost.  This picture, though may have slightly exaggerated a real life situation, aptly reflects some of the beguiling and the lighter moments of working in an office environment.

You "Gotta" Love Those Barristers (4)

ATTORNEY:    Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS:        Did you actually pass the bar exam?

ATTORNEY:    The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS:       He's 20, much like your IQ.

ATTORNEY:    Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS:        Are you shitting me?

ATTORNEY:    How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS:       By death.
ATTORNEY:     And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS:     Take a guess.

DREAMS & DREAMERS, DARE TO DREAM!

If you dare to dream, the world is yours.  As the famous motto of the Special Forces unit, SAS, declares so brazenly and boldly “WHO DARES WINS!”

What are DREAMS?  What happens when we DREAM?
DREAMS make us human and give meaning to our lives.
DREAMS are our vision and hope.
DREAMS give us directions and goals.
DREAMS push us to great heights of achievements.
DREAMS give us aspirations to walk the extra mile and take us airborne above the clouds.
DREAMS possess the transformation power to uplift and empower us to perform great things.  Things we never, in a lifetime, dream we can do!

At first our DREAMS may seem impossible, over time, then improbable and eventually, after much soul searching, inevitable.  DREAMS are fleeting that comes only once in a lifetime.  When you have a DREAM, you have to grab it and never let go. 

These DREAMS are not the kind of dreams (which can turn to nightmares) that we tend to get when we are in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.


Who DREAMS?
Every living person has DREAMS.  Big or modest DREAMS, we DREAM!  A poor man is not one who is without a cent, but one who is without a DREAM.  All successful people, men and women, are big DREAMERS. 

They imagine and envision what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and they work doubly hard every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.  They are not afraid of the space between their DREAMS and reality because in their hearts they believe if they can DREAM it, they can make it a so.


The Sacrifice
Most successful DREAMERS are willing to pay the price for their DREAMS.  They are willing to be uncomfortable and inconvenienced.  They are prepared to be comfortable being uncomfortable.  It may get tough, but it is a small price to pay for living a DREAM.  Their credo is “No Pain, No Gain”.  A genius and a DREAMER like Thomas Edison, an American inventor and businessman, who invented the light bulb understands this and commented that “genius is one per cent inspiration (DREAMS) and ninety-nine per cent perspiration”.


The Action Plan
Most successful DREAMERS do not have with their heads in the clouds or in the sand.  To achieve and accomplish great things envisioned in their DREAMS, they focus intensely on their DREAMs as well as plan and act.  Warrant Buffet, recognised to be the world’s most successful businessman investor, studies and plans his forays into the investment market with military thoroughness and precision.


DREAMS That Change Life And The Course Of History
Sometimes DREAMS alter the course of an entire life or even the course of human history.  A string of DREAMERS from the founding fathers of the United States America to Abraham Lincoln and most recently, Martin Luther King JR have exerted a powerful influence with their DREAMS.  Their DREAMS have guided and changed the lives of many and the course of the history of a nation.


Our DREAMS Are Our Future
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their DREAMS.  Mankind would not have been able to fly or walked on the moon if not for a DREAM.  Neither would mankind possess the power of personal computers and the ubiquitous and liberating nature of the internet if not for a DREAM.  Our progress and future, then, would have been very different.

We can go on and on to list what mankind has achieved and will achieve when they DARE TO DREAM and declare “I HAVE A DREAM…..”


An Inspiring Speech That Changed The Course Of History Not Just For A Minority Race But Also For A Nation
Martin Luther King Jr.                  
I HAVE A DREAM…..

“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”

You "Gotta" Love Those Barristers (3)

Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.

Q: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
A: Oral.

Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.