An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of
his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely
life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck,
but he needed to retire.

They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and
asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The
carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in
his work. He resorted to Shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It
was an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career. When the carpenter
finished his work the employer came to inspect the house. He handed the
front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house" he said, "my gift to
you."

The carpenter was shocked! What a shame! If he had only known he was
building his own house, he would have done it all so differently.

So it is with us. We build our lives, a day at a time, often putting less
than our best into the building. Then with a shock we realize we have to
live in the house we have built. If we could do it over, we'd do it much
differently. But we cannot go back. You are the carpenter. Each day you
hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a Wall. "Life is a do-it-yourself
project" someone has said . Your attitudes and the choices you make today,
build the "house" you live in tomorrow. Build wisely!!!

PUNJAB BOARD COLLEGE EXAM QUESTION PAPER

PART A ( Questions 1 to 19) [This one`s slightly more difficult than last
year`s] 1. Write your name in less than 20 minutes and 20 letters (only
alphabet are allowed, no numeric digits or "_" allowed)

2. Sex? ( ) Male ( ) Female ( ) Sardar

3. What`s your age group? ( ) less than 0 ( ) equal to 0 ( ) greater than 0

4. What is 2 + 2=? ( ) FOUR ( ) 4 ( ) IV

5. If you have one brother, how many brothers does your brother have? ( )
none ( ) one ( ) question is too personal

6. Complete the following sentence... (4 marks) ______ ________ ________
_________ .

7. If there are 365 days in a year, how many days make a year?

8. Read the statement carefully and answer the following question: "My
mother`s daughter`s brother`s mother`s mother`s daughter`s husband`s wife is
my mother herself". Q. How many times the word "mother" appears in the above
statement? ( ) None ( ) some times ( ) uncountable

9. If someone gives you a rupee for 100 paise, would you get: ( ) One rupee?
( ) 100 paise?

10. Write an Essay on "MYSELF" in not more than three sentences... (HINT: My
Name is ___________ (same as in [1]). I am a _______(boy/girl). (I am
writing an essay.)

11. If the time is 3.00 a. m., what does your digital watch show?

12. At what time does the 11.16 Indrayani Express come?

13. What do you do on a honeymoon? ( ) Collect Honey ( ) Admire Moon ( )
Collect Honey while admiring the moon

14. Earth is Flat? ( ) True ( ) Indeed True

15. If A = B and B = C then is B = A? ( ) TRUE ( ) NOT FALSE ( ) OUT OF
SYLLABUS

16. If you eat lunch during lunchtime, what will you have during dinnertime?

17. Think and write the present tense of THOUGHT.

18. Complete the following poem: Mary had a little lamb Little lamb little
lamb_ (HINT: "." or "@" or "^")

19. This is question number ( ) 1 ( ) 19 ( ) 20

Subject: A LOVELY MESSAGE.

A LOVELY MESSAGE.

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a
loving couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes. When the boy was around
two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was
late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the
cupboard.
His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter.

The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its
color and drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for
adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed the mother hurried him to
the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how
to face her husband.

When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he
looked at his wife and uttered just five words.

QUESTIONS
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1. What were the five words ?
2. What is the implication of this story?

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ANSWER :

The husband just said "I am with you Darling"

The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior.
The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point
in finding fault with the mother.
Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not
have happened.
No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at
that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he
gave her.

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be
much fewer problems in the world. "
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Take off all your envies, jealousies,unforgiv eness, selfishness, and fears.
And you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.

MORAL OF THE STORY
This story is really worth reading. ..... Sometimes we spend time in asking

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.

There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things
you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will
not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally
disappear. So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to do lists will expire.

The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.

It won't matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on
at the end.

It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Even your gender
and skin color will be irrelevant.

So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

What will matter is not what you bought but what you built, not what you got
but what you gave.

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

What will matter is not what you learned but what you taught.

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage, or
sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your
example.

What will matter is not your competence but your character.

What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a
lasting loss when you're gone.

What will matter is not your memories but the memories that live in those
who loved you.

What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of
circumstance but of choice.

Choose to live a life that matters.

Best Slogans
These are the winners of a slogan contest organized by a leading
newspaper .

# Sign on a railway station at Patna :
Aana free, jaana free,
pakde gaye to khana free.

# Seen on a famous beauty parlor in Bombay :
Don't whistle at the girl going out from here.
She may be your grandmother!

# Seen on a bulletin board:
Success is relative
More the success, more the relatives.

# Sign at a barber's saloon in Juhu, Bombay :
We need your heads to run our business.

# A traffic slogan:
Don't let your kids drive if they are not old enough - or else they never
will be.....

#THE BEST ONE:
Its God's responsibility to forgive the terrorist organizations
It's our responsibility to arrange the meeting between them and god."

GREAT WAY TO IMPRESS CLIENTS (Too Good)...........

I was in the airport VIP lounge en route to Seattle a couple of weeks ago.

While in there, I noticed Bill Gates sitting comfortably in the corner,
enjoying a drink. I was meeting a very important client who was also flying
to Seattle, but she was running a little bit late.

Well, being a straightforward kind of guy, I approached the Microsoft
chairman, introduced myself, and said, "Mr. Gates, I wonder if you would do
me a favor."

"Yes?"

"I'm sitting right over there," pointing to my seat at the bar, and I' m
waiting for a very important client. Would you be so kind when she arrives
as to come walk by and just say "Hi Tom?"

"Sure."

I shook his hand and thanked him and went back to my seat. About ten minutes
later, my client showed up. We ordered a drink and started to talk business.
A couple of minutes later, I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was Bill Gates.

"Hi, Tom," he said.

I replied, "Shut up, Bill, I'm in a meeting."

Marriage and Men
- When a man decides to marry, it may be the last decision he'll ever make.

- Some men who speak with authority at work know enough to bow to a higher
authority at home

- A dish towel will certainly wipe the contented look off a married man's
face

- Love is the quest, marriage is the conquest, divorce is the inquest.

- An engagement is an urge on the verge of a merge.

- Marriage brings music to a man's life. He learns to play second fiddle.

- Getting married is one mistake every man should make.

- A well-informed man is one whose wife has just told him what she thinks of
him.

- Courtship, unlike proper punctuation, is a period before a sentence.

- The argument you just won with your wife isn't over yet.

and lastly...... ......

- Before criticizing your wife's faults, you must remember it may have been
these very defects which prevented her from gettting a better husband that
the one she married!

kyo rakhu main apni kalam mai syahi,

jab koi arman dil main machalta hi nahi,

na jane kyo sabhi shak karte hai mujh par ,

jab koi sukha phul bhi meri kitab se nikalta hi nahi.
kashish to bahut hai mere pyar mai magar kya karu, dil kisi ka pighalta hi
nahi.

agar khuda mile to us se apna pyar mang lu ,

par suna hai woh marne seh pahle kisi se milta hi nahi.

your mouth shut

Once upon a time, there was a software engineer who used to develop programs
on his Pentium machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a river. He
used to earn his bread by selling those programs in the Sunday market. One
day, while he was working, his machine tumbled off the table and fell in the
river. Encouraged by the Panchatantra story of his childhood (the woodcutter
and the axe), he started praying to the River Goddess. The River Goddess
wanted to test him and so appeared only after one month of rigorous prayers.

The engineer told her that he had lost his computer in the river. As usual,
the Goddess wanted to test his honesty. She showed him a match box and
asked, "Is this your computer ?" Disappointed by the Goddess' lack of
computer awareness, the engineer replied, "No." She next showed him a
pocket-sized calculator and asked if that was his. Annoyed, the engineer
said "No, not at all!!" Finally, she came up with his own Pentium machine
and asked if it was his. The engineer, left with no option, sighed and said
"Yes."

The River Goddess was happy with his honesty. She was about to give him all
three items, but before she could make the offer, the engineer asked her,
"Don't you know that you're supposed to show me some better computers before
bringing up my own ?" The River Goddess, angered at this, replied, "I know
that, you stupid idiot! The first two things I showed you were the
Trillennium and the Billennium, the latest computers from IBM!"
So saying, she disappeared with the Pentium!!

Moral: If you're not up-to-date with technology trends, it is better keep
your mouth shut and let people think you're a genius, than to open your
mouth and remove all doubt!!!

This incident shook me out of my wits..a very good friend of mine was
travelling with her 6 year old daughter & a family friend on the highway
when they had a head-long collision with a truck and had a terrible
car-crash..my friend gave up her life to save her daughter at the last
moment.............but her efforts almost went in vain!

My freinds' mobile was found by the cops ....the little girl was bleeding
profusely but the cops didn't know whom in the family to call....to inform
about the terrible tragedy.......her husband's name was "Vijay" & was the
last number stored in the phone book of the phone..how in hell would the
cops know that the poor girl's father was called "Vijay"?

That is why today; internationally; people are being encouraged to store the
phone number of their nearest ones as "ICE" ( IN CASE OF EMERGENCY). This is
being popularized as the international code for emergency contact numbers of
the 'next of kins' of the deceased person.

Hence dear readers; kindly pick-up your mobiles; go to your phone books and
immediately change the contact name of your spouse,father, mother, best
friend....(basically people on whom you could bank on in times of acute
distresses) as ICE . If you want to classify more than one as emergency
contact use ICE 1; ICE 2 or ICE 3.