Lately - Stevie Wonder

Lately, I have had the strangest feeling
With no vivid reason here to find
Yet the thought of losing you's been hanging
'round my mind

Far more frequently you're wearing perfume
With you say no special place to go
But when I ask will you be coming back soon
You don't know, never know

Well, I'm a man of many wishes
Hope my premonition misses
But what I really feel my eyes won't let me hide
‘Cause they always start to cry
‘Cause this time could mean goodbye

Lately I've been staring in the mirror
Very slowly picking me apart
Trying to tell myself I have no reason
with your heart

Just the other night while you were sleeping
I vaguely heard you whisper someone's name
But when I ask you of the thoughts your keeping
You just say nothing's changed

Well, I'm a man of many wishes
I hope my premonition misses
But what I really feel my eyes won't let me hide
‘Cause they always start to cry
‘Cause this time could mean goodbye, goodbye

Oh, I'm a man of many wishes
I hope my premonition misses
But what I really feel my eyes won't let me hide
‘Cause they always start to cry
‘Cause this time could mean goodbye

A story about 3 women who died together in an accident & went to heaven

A story about 3 women who died together in an accident & went to heaven.

When they get there, St. Peter said: 'We only have one rule here in heaven: don't step on the ducks!'

So they entered heaven, & sure enough, there were ducks all over the place. It was almost impossible not to step on a duck, & although they tried their best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally stepped on 1.

Along came St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw..

St. Peter chained them together & said: 'Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to spend eternity chained to this ugly man!'

The next day, the 2nd woman accidentally stepped on a duck & along came St. Peter, who doesn't miss a thing. With him is another extremely ugly man. He chained them together with the same admonishment as for the 1st woman.

The 3rd woman observed all this &, not wanting to be chained for all eternity to an ugly man, was very, very careful where she stepped.

She managed to go months without stepping on any ducks, but one day St. Peter came up to her with the most handsome man she had ever laid eyes on . Very tall, good looking & muscular.

St. Peter chains them together without saying a word.

The happy woman says: 'I wonder what I did to deserve being chained to you for all of eternity?'

The guy replied: 'I don't know about you, but I stepped on a duck!

Robot that detects lie

One day Kyle's dad brought home a robot. The robot was special in that it could detect a lie and would slap the person who lied on the face.

Kyle returned late from school that day and his dad asked him, 'Son why are you late from school ?' Kyle answered, 'Dad, we had extra classes today'.
Much to his astonishment the robot jumped up and slapped Kyle on his face.

His dad told him, 'Son this robot is special in that it can detect a lie and will then slap the person who lied. Now come on tell me the truth. Why are you late?' 'Dad, I went to a movie' 'Which movie?' 'The Ten Commandments' Immediately, Kyle got a slap on the face from the robot.
'Sorry Dad, I went to see the movie Sex Queen'.

'Shame on you son, when I was your age I never watched obscene movies or misbehaved' Immediately, the dad gets a tight slap on the face from the robot.

Hearing the last sentence, Kyle's mother comes walking out of the kitchen and sarcastically says to her husband, 'After all he is YOUR son!!!' To which the robot steps up and gives Kyle's mother a resounding slap on her face!

Email that is going on in my company

From: K
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 5:40 PM
To: All Employees
Subject: RE: Lost & Found

And the notebook ?

K

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From: S
Sent: Monday, 10 March, 2008 17:36
To: All Employees
Subject: FW: Lost & Found

Owner found!

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From: S
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 5:34 PM
To: All Employees
Subject: Lost & Found

Hi All

A black note book was found in the St Petersburg meeting room.
Will the owner please claim it from the reception.

Regards
S

Why I fired my secretary??

Last week was my birthday
and I didn't feel very well
waking up on that morning.

I went downstairs for breakfast hoping
my wife would be pleasant and say,
Happy Birthday!',
and possibly have a small present for me.

As it turned out,
she barely said good morning,
let alone 'Happy Birthday.'

I thought...
Well, that's marriage for you,
but the kids....
They will remember.

My kids came bounding down stairs to breakfast
and didn't say a word.
So when I left for the office,
I felt pretty low and somewhat despondent.

As I walked into my office,
my secretary Jane said,
Good Morning Boss,
and by the way
'Happy Birthday'

It felt a little better that
at least someone had remembered.

I worked until one o'clock,
when Jane knocked on my door and said,
'You know, It's such a beautiful day outside,
and it is your Birthday, what do you say
we go out to lunch, just you and me.'

I said, 'Thanks, Jane, that's the greatest thing
I've heard all day. Let's go!'

We went to lunch.
But we didn't go where we normally would go.
She chose instead at a quiet bistro with a private table.

We had two martinis each and
I enjoyed the meal tremendously.

On the way back to the office, Jane said,
'You know, It's such a beautiful day...

We don't need to go straight back to the office, Do We?'
I responded,
'I guess not. What do you have in mind?'

She said,
'Let's drop by my apartment,
it's just around the corner.'
After arriving at her apartment,
Jane turned to me and said,
'Boss, if you don't mind,
I'm going to step into the bedroom
for just a moment. I'll be right back.'
'Ok' I nervously replied.

She went into the bedroom and,
after a couple of minutes,
she came out carrying a huge birthday cake...

Followed by my wife, my kids, and dozens of my friends
and co-workers, all singing 'Happy Birthday.'

And I just sat there...

On the couch...

Naked.

Asians and Westerners really see things differently

Fri, Mar 07, 2008
The Straits Times

BOSTON - CULTURE can affect not just language and customs, but also how people experience the world at stunningly basic levels, new brain research has revealed.
Brain scans support surprising differences in perception between Westerners and Asians - what they see when they look at a city street, for example, or even how they perceive a simple line in a square, according to findings published in the Psychological Science journal.

Western culture conditions people to think of themselves as highly independent entities, the researchers found, said a report in the Boston Globe.

And when looking at scenes, Westerners tend to focus more on central objects than on their surroundings.

In contrast, East Asian cultures stress interdependence. When Easterners take in a scene, they tend to focus on the context as well as the object.
Dr Denise Park of the Centre for Brain Health at the University of Texas in Dallas used a camera analogy to explain the results of the research.

'The Americans are more zoom and the East Asians are more panoramic...the Easterner probably sees more, and the Westerner probably sees less, but in more detail,' she was quoted as saying in the Boston Globe.

The research, led by Dr Trey Hedden and Professor John Gabrieli of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, showed that such deeply ingrained habits of thought affect the brains of East Asians and Americans even as they perform simple tasks that involve estimating the length of a line.

Dr Hedden's experiment involved two tasks. In one, subjects looked at a line simply to estimate its length - a task that played to American strengths. In another, they estimated the line's length relative to the size of a square - an easier task for the Asians.

Brain scanners measured levels of neural activity by tracking blood flow. The experiment found that although there was no difference in performance - the tasks were very easy - the level of activity in the subjects' brains differed, suggesting different levels of effort.

Areas linked to attention lit up more in the Americans' brains when they worked on the task they tended to find harder: estimating the line's size relative to the square.

In Asians, too, the attention areas lit up more during the harder task: estimating the line's length without comparing it to the square.

The findings echoed more than a decade of previous experimental research into East-West differences.

For example, in one study, researchers offered people a choice among five pens: four red and one green. Easterners were likelier to choose a red pen, while Westerners more often chose the green.

In an experiment measuring how well eight-year-olds could solve puzzles, American children performed best when solving puzzles they had chosen themselves, while Asian children performed best when solving puzzles they were told their mothers had chosen for them.

When they were tested on details of an underwater scene they recently viewed, Westerners tended to remember more about the biggest fish, while Easterners remembered more about the scene's background.

The new research promises to add new precision to the earlier work. In their study, Prof Gabrieli said, the scanning not only showed brain differences in the line-and-square task, it also allowed researchers to begin to ask how deep those differences go.

Based on what parts of the brain were activated during the tasks, Prof Gabrieli believed everyone sees the same thing, but may filter it differently.

'Culture is not changing how you see the world, but rather how you think and interpret.'

But such habits can sometimes change. Some initial psychological studies suggest that when an Easterner goes to the West or vice versa, habits of thought and perception quickly begin to change.

The story about Edison...

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