TRUE FRIENDSHIP

Once there was girl named Pooja. She was very innocent. Her best friend’s name was Rani. They were childhood as well as family friends. Both were in the same school and section. They never kept secrets from each other.

It so happened that due to jealousy they split up. This caused lot of problems between them. They stopped talking to each other and never shared things. Their parents tried to solve the problem but it did not work out for the friends.

Rani at school had used bad words at Pooja at that day. So Rani had got angry on her and cycled home at full speed. She did not see the speed beaker and hit the ground hard. She could not move her leg. She cried out for help but unfortunately it was a lonely road. She suddenly saw Rani she asked her to help. Rani first pretended as if she had not heard, but feeling sorry for her helped her.


Pooja took Rani on her cycle to the near by hospital.Pooja called their parents. Before their parents came Pooja apologized to Rani. Rani accepted her apologizes. They became best friends again. Pooja helped Rani at school as Rani had got a fracture.

My Brother

My brother’s name is Abhishek,
He thinks he is cool.
He plays Harry Potter 'n' play station,
And is always in a duel.

He loves reading Tintin.
He loves watching Cartoon Network.
He keeps pleading,
To help him with his homework.

He rides his bicycle,
When we visit a park.
I like the way my brother is,
And happy I am to have brother like him.
By
Sirichandana

Recipe For Good Marks

Ingredients:
.5 cups of Hardwork
.3 cups of Concentration
.2 cups of Sincerity
.1 cup of Neatness
.1 cup of Ambition
.Pinch of Competition
.Lots of Discipline
.One barrel of Tolerance

Method:

Take all the Hardwork and Concentration, mix it thoroughly with Sincerity and Neatness, fold in Ambition and Competition, sprinkle Discipline abundantly. Bake it under Tolerance for maximum number of hours daily. Be confident but not over confident. You will surely get a good result.

9 GEMSTONES (Navaratnalu)

CORAL are the product of tiny living beings which settled in enormous colonies in the depths of warm seas long before our time.Corals do not necessarily have to be red, even if red is thought of as their typical colour. Corals grow in Nature in a wide range of colours from red to white and from blue and brown to black. The most popular are the red hues such as pale pink or salmon, all the way out to a deep dark red. Black corals and gold corals are very much in fashion, whilst the blue ones are extremely rare.

GARNET are available in a wide variety of colors spanning the entire spectrum. The rarest of these is the blue garnet, discovered in the late 1990s in Bekily, Madagascar. It is also found in some parts of the United States, Russia and Turkey. In daylight, their color ranges from shades of green, beige, brown, gray, and blue, but in incandescent light, they appear a reddish or purplish/pink color. Because of their color changing quality.

CAT'S EYE is found in many colours. Cats eye has white lines over it and looks similar to the eye of a cat. Cat's eye gemstone is found in south India, Ceylon, Brazil, China and many other countries. Cat's eye is found in yellow, black, dark or smoky-green, and white. Cat's-eye shines like the eye of a cat in darkness, but it does not shine in total darkness. Fine cat's eyes should be of a distinctive colour and be as transparent as possible. The most popular ones are those of a beautiful honey yellow and those with fine green tones.
SAPPHIRE Blue is the most popular color for sapphire but sapphires can be found in nearly every imaginable color.These stones are called "fancy sapphires"and come in shades of purple and black."Royal blue" is the typical color of Burmese sapphire from Mogok it is slightly violetish blue. Most of the sapphires currently in the market are coming from Madagascar and Sri Lanka but Thailand(Kanchanaburi), Cambodia (Pailin), Australia and China are also important producing areas.

RUBY is the red variety of the mineral corundum, one of the hardest minerals on Earth.The most important thing about this precious stone is its colour. It was not for no reason that the name 'ruby' was derived from the Latin word 'rubens', meaning 'red'. The red of the ruby is incomparable: warm and fiery. Two magical elements are associated with the symbolism of this colour: fire and blood, implying warmth and life for mankind.

EMERALD are fascinating gemstones. They have the most beautiful, most intense and most radiant green that can possibly be imagined emerald green. Fine emeralds are even more valuable than diamonds. The name emerald comes from the Greek 'smaragdos' via the Old French 'esmeralde', and really just means 'green gemstone'. The green of the emerald is the colour of life and of the springtime, which comes round again and again. But it has also, for centuries, been the colour of beauty and of constant love. The fascination exuded by a fine emerald is simply unique.

PEARLS are organic gems, created when an oyster covers a foreign object with beautiful layers of nacre. Today, pearls are cultured by Man. Fine pearls do not have any flaws or spots in the nacre: it has an even, smooth texture. Other factors which affect value are the regularity of the shape, size, and colour: rose tints are the most favoured. Freshwater pearls are cultured in mussels, mostly in China. Cultured and natural pearls will feel slightly rough, like fine sandpaper, because of the texture of natural nacre.
TOPAZ It is a fluorine aluminium silicate and comes in yellow, yellow-brown, honey-yellow, flax, brown, green, blue, light blue, red and pink ... and sometimes it has no colour at all. The colour in which the topaz is most commonly found is yellow, and that is the colour in which it occurs in one of the major German gemstone rocks, the Schneckenstein (a topaz-bearing rock said to resemble a snail) in Saxony.It cannot be proved conclusively whether the name of the topaz comes from the Sanskrit or the Greek, though the Greek name 'topazos' means 'green gemstone'

DIAMOND Fancy coloured diamonds are not a mass-market product such as those which are advertised everywhere and sold by numbers. They have more personality than that. Fancy coloured diamonds are almost as much fun as coloured gemstones! Like coloured gemstones, each one is different. They come in fabulously expensive pale pinks and blues, pale to bright yellows, oranges, greens, and all those brown colours that are now given names like cognac and champagne.

FUN WITH-LOGY

Anthropology- The study of man
Archaeology- The study of history and historical objects
Battology- The study of unnecessary repetition in speaking or writing
Bryology- The study of mosses
Campanology- The study of bells
Climatology- The study of climate
Couchology- The study of shells
Cytology- The study of cells
Egyptology- The study of Egyptian history.
Enology- The study of wines
Entomology- The study of insects
Ethology- The study of behaviour
Etiology- The study of philosophy
Etymology- The study of words and their derivation
Exobiology- The study of extra-terrestrials
Graphology- The study of handwriting
Herpetology-The study of reptiles
Horology- The study of measurement of time
Ichthyology- The study of fish
Neurology- The study of the nervous system
Oneirology- The study of dreams
Ophthalmology- The study of eyes
Ornithology- The study of birds
Osphresiology- The study of smell
Osteology- The study of bones
Otology- The study of the ear
Palaeontology- The study of prehistoric life
Pathology- The study of diseases
Petrology- The study of mineral composition and structure
Phsychology- The study of the mind
Physiology- The study of functions of living things
Seismology- The study of earthquakes

Self-Discipline Is The Most Important Thing For Success

. Self-discipline is being punctual and responsible
· Self-discipline is self-control and self-restraint
· Self-discipline is self-reliance and independence

First it is important to set goals. Then applying all the above characteristics of self–discipline, the goals can be achieved.

History has ample examples of people who have achieved great goals through self discipline. The greatest among them is our own - Mahatma Gandhi.

All the characteristics of self-discipline are evident and demonstrated in various successful movements during Indian Freedom Struggle. Gandhiji’s goal was “Freedom to India and Indians”. The ways he selected were “Satyagraha” and “Non Violence” which were Unique and Legendary. He has preached and followed all the above characteristics of self-discipline in going thru the path of achieving his goal.

Gandhiji in one of his books wrote about punctuality. For one of the meeting Gandhiji was present 5 minutes before 9 AM in the hall. No one was there. However exactly at 9 AM the hall was full. Being very inspired by this he made punctuality a very integral part of his life.

Self control is the driving force of “Satyagraha” and self-restraint is the key of “Non Violence”. The characteristics of self-reliance and independence are the center points of “Swadeshi Movement”.

“Freedom” is the result of applying the various characteristics of self-discipline during various events of freedom struggle by the vast majority of the people. A person can never learn self-discipline by force. He can only learn it by believing in it, practicing and experiencing it.

Hence the statement “Self Discipline is the most important ingredient to success” is very true and is the single most important thing in achieving success.

NOFA FARM

Nofa Farm was more beautiful than we imagined it to be. We took one and a half hour to reach there. My friend's father had booked a cottage there. The cottage was quiet big. As it was lunch time all the aunties arranged the food they had brought. We knew they would take lots of time to arrange it so we went outside to play catcher-catcher. After an hour we were called for lunch. We finished our lunch and we went to see the whole place. The place was surrounded by greenery. When we came back we saw a pick-up parked before our gate. Our parents came out of the cottage and told us that we were going to see horses. All the children sat in the pick-up. As we started a horse as dark as coal passed by. Two of my friends touched it. As I tried to touch it the horse leapt into the field. We stopped a place finally. There was a building there which was open. So, my friends and I went in. As soon as we entered, a bad smell touched our noses. We closed our noses and moved forward. There were many cages. In the first cage, there was a white horse. It was very beautiful. In the second cage, there were two brown ponies. In different cages there were different horses. It was truly like a paradise of horses leaving the smell aside. We climbed into the pick-up and went further. There were wooden houses as wewent by. The pick-up came to halt. The houses were very small from outside but from inside it was like never ending as we kept walking. We came out of a small door and asked a man how was the house so big inside. He said that all the houses were connected. We asked him what type of houses they were. He said there were building houses like the ones in A frica. We took a look around and it was becoming dark so we sat in the pick-up at went back to the cottage. We packed our things back in the car and came back to Riyadh.