The Quote of the week:

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” Booker T. Washington

I really thought this quote was very meaningful. Many people look upon certain people to what position they are currently in, some are presidents, CEO’s, Doctors, Mechanics and so on, but no one really looks at the obstacles they have been through in life that they had to overcome to reach to that position. All because a certain person is successful doe not mean he was born successful he/she is a normal person who went through obstacles just like you and mean to reach to that current position they are currently in. Our obstacles might be different but we all go through them.

Today has got to be the worst day of my life; my blackberry started giving me problems. Stopped receiving emails and was not able to use the internet however I was able to use the blackberry messenger and use the phone function. After a few hours the phone just literally crashed and died upon me. Now I have no phone, and have to stick in front of the computer 24/7 literally glued to it checking all 10 of my email addresses every hour. I wonder how I am going to survive the whole week without a blackberry, Rogers is sending me one though but they said it will take about a week to receive it. My life evolves around my blackberry =( hopefully I get it faster then Rogers quoted time they gave me.

This was a great story, my Friend Pratik posted it up on Facebook,

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.

SON: “Daddy, may I ask you a question?”
DAD: “Yeah sure, what is it?” replied the man.
SON: “Daddy, how much do you make an hour?”
DAD: “That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?” the man said angrily.
SON: “I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?”
DAD: “If you must know, I make $40 an hour.”

“Oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down.Looking up, he said, “Daddy, may I please borrow $20?”

The father was furious, “If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childish behavior.”

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy’s questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?

After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $20 and he really didn’t ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy’s room and opened the door.

“Are you asleep, son?” He asked.

No daddy, I’m awake,” replied the boy.

“I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier,” said the man.

“It’s been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here’s the $20 you asked for.” The little boy sat straight up, smiling. “Oh, thank you daddy!” He yelled.

Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.

“Why do you want more money if you already have some?” the father grumbled.

“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do,” the little boy replied.

“Daddy, I have $40 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.”

Share this story with someone you like….

But even better, share $40 worth of time with someone you love. It’s just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close ! to our hearts.

So I came home today and my mom’s like she got a pretty neat advice from my aunt whom got the advice from her friend. We brown people have a lot of family parties, guest coming over and knowing us being brown we have a whole zoo up in the house. Now you know every time you have a family party someone just has to drop the soft drink on the ground not water but has to be a soft drink because who likes drinking water at a party, us brown people are pretty cheap so probably the only time we get to drink soft drinks are events like this. Especially with soft drinks like coke it stains the carpet making your parents very mad actually more like your mother very mad. Instead of serving cream soda or coke for soft drink just serve clear soft drinks for example seven up so even if it spills on the carpet it doesn’t make a stain. You could always serve them only water but now that’s going too overboard. However I doubt I will ever have the guts to pull this off but still it’s a cleaver idea serving clear soft drinks such as seven up or sprite rather then coke.

Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo, is to stand down as the internet portal’s chief executive officer.

His departure follows lengthy criticism of his stewardship of the company, which has seen its share price collapse to about $10.

Earlier in the year he fought off a hostile takeover bid from Microsoft which offered $33 a share.

Mr Yang also told the workforce that he would be participating in the search for his successor.

“I will always do what is right for this great company,” Mr Yang wrote in an e-mail to employees.

The BBC was told that Mr Yang made the decision to leave as chief executive officer last month. No names were given as to who will succeed him.

The company, based in Sunnyvale, California, said it is interviewing candidates inside and outside Yahoo in a search led by chairman Roy Bostock.

“Jerry and the board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we all agree that now is the right time to make the transition to a new CEO who can take the company to the next level,” said Mr Bostock.

low shares

Earlier this month at the recent Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Mr Yang surprised the industry when he told conference attendees that Microsoft should still buy the company.

“I don’t think it’s a bad idea at all, at the right price whatever that price is. We’re willing to sell the company,” he told a packed audience.

The declaration came hours after Google had pulled out of an internet advertising deal with Yahoo amid increasing scrutiny from the Department of Justice.

Mr Yang said he was “disappointed” Google had pulled out of the partnership.

Mr Yang’s e-mail to employees ended with the words: “All of you know that I have always and will always bleed purple” - in reference to the predominant colour on the company’s logo.

Yahoo’s shares closed on Monday at $10.63, giving the company a valuation of only $14.7bn.

Link http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7734717.stm