Kuala Gandah

I have been to Kuala Gandah during the chinese new year holidays, this is the very nice place to visit, espacially for kids.

Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Centre(Elephant Orphanage Sanctuary). http://www.malaysiasite.nl/gandaheng.htm

The centre is open from 2pm to 4.30pm. But we have to call and book in advacne if you want a elephant ride,

Visitors are not charged any fees, however, we can  donate some amount towards the benefit of the elephants at the sanctuary. 

Visitors can participate in daily activities, like feeding and grooming the centre's elephant and helping with the daily bathing of each animal in nearby river. it is a real fun to play with the elephants

There is also deer park near by. You can find different kind of animals(Rabits, monkeys, differnt birds, bares etc. But you have pay entrance fee.

Never Give Up

Courage to Get Back Up

Craig B. Larson, writing in Fresh Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching, makes an interesting observation about "getting knocked down:"

Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe falls 10 feet from its mother's womb and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over and tucks its legs under its body. From this position it considers the world for the first time and shakes off the last vestiges of the birthing fluid from its eyes and ears. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its offspring to the reality of life.

In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a newborn giraffe learns its first lesson. 

The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she positions herself directly over her calf. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She swings her long, pendulous leg outward and kicks her baby, so that it is sent sprawling head over heels. 

When it doesn't get up, the violent process is repeated over and over again. The struggle to rise is momentous. As the baby calf grows tired, the mother kicks it again to stimulate its efforts. Finally, the calf stands for the first time on its wobbly legs. 

Then the mother giraffe does the most remarkable thing. She kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, baby giraffes must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with the herd, where there is safety. Lions, hyenas, leopards, and wild hunting dogs all enjoy young giraffes, and they'd get it too, if the mother didn't teach her calf to get up quickly and get with it. 

The late Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. 

Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of all these exceptional people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a vision or dream of something that should be accomplished and they go to work.? 

"They are beaten over the head, knocked down, vilified, and for years they get nowhere. But every time they're knocked down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people. And at the end of their lives they've accomplished some modest part of what they set out to do." 

Have you learned to get back up? Being defeated is a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Steven Covey says, ?The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.? 

Success is never final and failure is not fatal. It is the courage to get back up that counts!

You are what you believe.  BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! 

Recession

At one side people are loosing their jobs

Microsoft cuts 5,000 jobs

SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp will make the first mass layoffs in its 34-year history, cutting 5,000 jobs as demand for personal computers falls and e

ven one of the world's richest companies gets burned by the recession.

At another side people has new hopes .

IBM to create 1,300 jobs

IBM, the world's largest technology services company, plans to open a new computer support center in Iowa, creating up to 1,300 new jobs and defying a trend of widespread corporate layoffs.

Infosys to hire 27,000 by March

Infosys Technologies said it will hire around 27,000 professionals by March this year, up from around 25,000 annual hiring the firm had projected earlier.

So do not worry about recession cheer up.