Forever Love by Gary Barlow~~~~It is JUST FOR YOU !

From 'Open Road' album
Love it has so many beautiful faces
Sharing lives and sharing days
My love it had so many empty spaces
I'm sharing a memory now I hope that's how it stays
Now I'm deep inside love and still breathing
She is holding my heart in her hand
I'm the closest I've been to believing
This could be love forever

All throughout my life the reasons I've demanded
But how can I reason with the reason I'm a man

In a minute I'm needing to hold her
In an hour I'm cold, cold as stone
When she leaves it gets harder and harder to face life alone
Now my dreams are filled with times when we're together
Guess what I need from her is forever love

Yao si ting - How Did I Fall In Love With You? lyric

Remember when, we never needed each other
The best of friends like
Sister and Brother
We understood, we'd never be,
Alone

Those days are gone, and I want you so much
The night is long and I need your touch
Don't know what to say
I never meant to feel this way
Don't want to be
Alone tonight

What can I do, to make you mine
Falling so hard so fast this time
What did I say, what did you do?
How did I fall in love with you?

I hear your voice
And I start to tremble
Brings back the child that, I resemble

I cannot pretend, that we can still be friends
Don't want to be,
Alone tonight

What can I do, to make you mine
Falling so hard so fast this time
What did I say, what did you do?
How did I fall in love with you?

[Bridge:]
Oh I want to say this right
And it has to be tonight
Just need you to know, oh yeah

I don't want to live this life
I don't want to say goodbye
With you I wanna spend
The rest of my life

What can I do, to make you mine
Falling so hard so fast this time
What did I say, what did you do?
How did I fall in love with you?

What can I do, to make you mine
Falling so hard so fast this time
Everything's changed, we never knew

How did I fall in love ,with you?

Believe, and the world is yours~

Belief is the single most powerful force.

When you believe, you can achieve anything. Great inventors believed in what they were doing. Although failure after failure came, they kept going, driven by the belief that what they were doing had to work. Success does not stem from the belief that something can work; it’s the belief that something must work!

The power of belief

Once there lived a monk on an island in the middle of the Ganges River, which floods every seven years. Frequent travellers across the river would stop to pay their respects in return for the monk’s blessings. Among them was a milkman who would always leave a pot of milk behind. One day, the milkman grew ill. On his death bed, he told his daughter to continue this tradition as their way of 
serving the Lord. And so she did.

When the flood began, the boats stopped, but still the milk arrived. On one of her visits, the milkmaid sought the monk’s advice for a dilemma: the flood made it impossible to deliver the milk, yet she wanted to keep her promise to her father. The monk told her to believe in the Lord and everything would be fine.

Over time, the flood worsened and the monk had to leave, so he asked to leave with the milkmaid. She agreed, and to his surprise, she began to walk on the water. “How do you do that?” he cried out. She replied, “You taught me to just believe and walk.”

Shocked, the monk lifted his dhoti and tried the same but sank in to the water. “Why am I sinking?” he demanded. The milkmaid answered, “You said His name, but you also lifted your dhoti so you wouldn’t get wet.”

Beyond belief

When the milkmaid believed completely, she did something incredible. People do incredible things every day. I am where I am today because of belief. Many a time, I was won over by the belief of the person before me. How is this person so interested, so convincing, so powerful? Their passion comes from belief.

When you climb a mountain, the mountain is just incidental. What you have conquered is your greatest obstacle: you with your fears and weaknesses. Will the journey be long? Probably. Will the challenges be great? Absolutely. But is it worth it? Without a doubt.

There is no shortcut to financial freedom. To be truly successful, we have to work very hard. Anything you have achieved in life that is worthwhile, you earned by working incredibly hard. What you struggle and sacrifice to get, you fight to keep.

When you work hard at something every day, you get better at it. The better you become, the easier it gets. But it stops being work altogether when you learn to love what you do. When you learn to make your team the best they can be, and take pride in that, you grow as well.

And that is the true power of belief.

Environmental Vegetarianism~ A Great Article to Share with You Guys !

I am often puzzled by people who claim to be environmentally conscious, who go green in their efforts to help preserve the planet’s natural resources, and yet at the same time they eat meat, a major contributor to the environmental problems we face today.

Not many people realise that the consumption of meat contributes to the increase of our carbon footprint, especially when eating the meat of poultry and cattle reared on farms meant specifically for human consumption.

I won’t bore you with statistics at this stage, but will present you with some known facts that will help you see how environmentally unsustainable meat consumption is.

It is a fact that we do not have an unlimited amount of land. It is a fact that we do not have unlimited water. It is a fact that there is no unlimited supply of crops. And the most alarming fact of them all – the world’s population is increasing and this increasing number of humans needs a place to live, water to drink and food to eat.

The same land, labour, water and fuel used to raise, slaughter, package and transport livestock is also needed to grow and harvest feed grain. And this double use of resources leads to a seemingly preposterous statistic: while the average vegetarian consumes between 135 kg and 180 kg of grain per year, the average meat-eater is responsible for the consumption of over 900 kg. Of course, 80% of that is first digested by cows, pigs and chickens, but it’s needless to say which diet affects the environment more.


Environmentally unsustainable

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that around 30% of land on earth that is not covered by ice is either directly or indirectly used in the production of livestock. In the Amazon, for example, almost 70% of the forests have been replaced by land that is primarily used as cattle pastureland.

Livestock production also leads to unsustainable water use. Livestock production demands high water usage, often depleting local supplies. Inadequate waste management also causes pollution that impacts water quality.

Over-grazing has resulted in the loss of biodiversity and productive capacity of ecosystems, particularly in arid areas.

A two-volume report titled ‘Livestock in a Changing Landscape’ came to these key findings:

•    • More than 1.7 billion animals are used in livestock production worldwide and occupy more than one-fourth of the Earth’s land.
•    • Production of animal feed consumes about one-third of earth’s total arable land.
•    • The livestock sector, including feed production and transport, is responsible for about 18 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide (the beef, pork and poultry industries emit large amounts of CO2, methane and other greenhouse gases).
•    • The livestock sector is a major environmental polluter, with much of the world’s pastureland degraded by grazing or feed production, and with many forests cleared to make way for additional farmland.
•    • Feed production requires intensive use of water, fertiliser, pesticides and fossil fuels.
•    • Animal waste is a serious concern, since only a third of the nutrients fed to animals are actually absorbed and the rest pollute lands and waters.
•    • Total phosphorous excretions of livestock are estimated to be seven to nine times greater than from humans.

The meat carbon footprint

The effect that meat production has on the environment is now believed to be even more damaging than the impact made on it by the transport industry.

Perhaps most notably, according to a recent study by NASA, eating meat is essentially the third largest net contributor to climate change pollution in the world (behind using motor vehicles and burning household biofuels — mostly wood and animal dung). Additionally, in total, an FAO study from a few years ago found that livestock production was responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution globally!

GHG emissions are increasing as products move along the assembly line of production before they finally reach the dining table. Almost half of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is attributable to animals and the booming meat-consumerism industry.

There are sources of GHG emissions that are usually unaccounted for in emission calculations. The accumulation of manure from livestock on a large scale, for instance, has resulted in methane gas emissions — another greenhouse gas — increasing significantly. This methane emission, however, does not stop here. Even more methane, along with nitrous oxide, is released into the atmosphere when such animal waste is being processed.

Producing food for food?

Cutting down on the production of meat and other animal products does more than just support the fight to conserve our planet and advocate for a more sustainable way of life through environmental vegetarianism.

What we often fail to realise is that the crops needed to feed livestock fuels a project that creates food to supplement the creation of food. Instead of supplying the grains yielded from the crops to human beings in desperate need of it and those affected by the world food crisis, they are being fed to livestock, exacerbating the current climate change crisis at hand.

Whichever way you look at it, the livestock sector emerges as a very significant contributor to environmental problems at every scale from local to global, including land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and pollution and loss of biodiversity.

The answer is simple. Limiting or abstaining from meat consumption would consume less of our limited resources. We have the power to help reduce global warming. Turn towards a vegetarian diet and help make a difference to the planet.

What a GREAT feeling when a Nikon D7000 on hands !

1. A new DX-format CMOS image sensor and new image-processing engine, EXPEED 2, both developed by Nikon, enable capture of high-definition images with superior image quality


The D7000 is equipped with a new Nikon DX-format CMOS image sensor and a new image-processing engine, EXPEED 2. The camera offers an effective pixel count of 16.2-million pixels and enables capture of high-definition images exhibiting superior image quality with extremely detailed rendering and rich tones with smooth gradations. With standard sensitivity range of ISO100 - 6400 and additional increases of up to Hi 2 (ISO 25600 equivalent), the camera offers improved capability in shooting under dim lighting in the evening or indoors, and also expands possibilities for expression with rapidly moving subjects.

EXPEED 2 is Nikon's latest image-processing engine developed using the ideas, expertise and technologies in digital imaging that Nikon has cultivated over the years. EXPEED 2 enables faster image processing, a high level of noise reduction, better color reproduction characteristics, and reduced power consumption.

2. A compact, elegant body that offers both authenticity and flexibility


A magnesium alloy has been adopted for the top and rear covers for increased durability in a size equivalent to that of the D90. All joints on the camera body have also been sealed to ensure a greater level of water and dust resistance.

3. A new 2,016-pixel RGB metering sensor


With 2,016 pixels, the new metering sensor developed for the D7000 offers twice the metering pixels as our previous high-end metering sensor. Prior to shooting, the 2,016-pixel RGB sensor acquires accurate information regarding the scene. That information is then reflected in autofocusing, automatic exposure, i-TTL balanced fill-flash, and auto white balance control for extremely faithful images.

4. A new 39-point AF system 

• An AF sensor module with 39 effective focus points
  
  Adoption of the new Multi-CAM4800DX autofocus sensor module enables certain acquisition and tracking of the intended subject with 39 focus points. Nine cross-type sensors at the most frequently used center of the frame allow for certain acquisition of the intended subject. In addition, the number of active focus points can also be limited to 11.
• Superior subject acquisition and tracking performance
  
  Depending upon the scene or subject, the AF-area mode can be selected from Single-point AF, Dynamic-area AF, 3D-tracking and Auto-area AF. Wide focus areas containing a large number of focus points work together to accurately acquire and track the subject.

5. D-Movie for recording and editing of full HD movies


The D7000 is equipped with the D-Movie function that enables recording of high-definition movies (1920 x 1080p, 24 fps) exhibiting superior video quality. Autofocusing during movie recording is possible using contrast-detect AF. When the focus mode is set to Full time-servo AF (AF-F) and the AF-area mode to Subject-tracking AF, the camera automatically maintains focus on a subject moving throughout the frame in three dimensions.




The D7000 also offers in-camera movie editing functions that allow users to save a single frame as a still JPEG image or delete unnecessary portions from the beginning or end of movie files. Recording of stereo sound via an external microphone is also supported.

Other functions and features new to the D7000 

• A glass pentaprism for viewfinder frame coverage of approximately 100% and magnification of approximately 0.94x
• High-speed continuous shooting of up to 100 shots at approximately 6 fps, and a very precise and durable shutter unit that has passed testing for 150,000 cycles
• New U1 and U2 settings on the mode dial allow users to assign frequently used settings including ISO sensitivity and exposure compensation, for instant recall, by simply rotating the mode dial
• Live view function that can be smoothly enabled with the dedicated live view switch
• Double SD memory card slot that enable use of two SD memory cards (SDHC, SDXC also supported)
• The Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL15, which enables capture of 1,050 shots, when fully charged
• Support for the new Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D11 (sold separately), which holds not only Rechargeable Li-ion Batteries EN-EL15, but also AA batteries
• Nikon's image browsing and editing software, ViewNX 2, supplied with purchase

A question that makes you think is worth asking…

At the cusp of a new day, week, month, or year, most of us take a little time to reflect on our lives by looking back over the past and ahead into the future.  We ponder the successes, failures and standout events that are slowly scripting our life’s story.  This process of self reflection helps us maintain a conscious awareness of where we’ve been and where we intend to go.  It is pertinent to the organization and preservation of our dreams, goals and desires...