Watch your thoughts;

They become words

Watch your words;

They become actions

Watch your actions;

They become habits

Watch your habits;

They become character

Watch your character;

It becomes your destiny

And don't just "wait and watch" ...

In a pensive mood

Life Brought Me So I Came

Original Urdu Transliteration

Laai Hayaat to aaye qaza - e - chali chaley
Na hum apni Khushi se aaye na apni khushi chaley

Kam hongey is bisaat par hum aisey bad qumaar
Jo chaal hum chaley woh nihayat buri chaley

Behtar to hai yehi ke na duniya se dil lagey
Par kya karein jo kaam na be dil-lagi chaley

Duniya ne kis ka raah-e-fanaa mein diya hai saath
tum bhi chaley chalo yunhi jab tak chali chaley

Jaatey Hawaa-e-shauq mein hain is chaman se Zauq
Apni balaa se Baad-e-Saba ab kabhi chaley

English Translation

The life brought me so I came; the death takes me away so I go
Neither I came on my own nor I go with my will

There may be a few gamblers as bad as I am
Whatever move I made it proved to be very bad

It’s better that one should not get hooked to the charms of the world
However, what one can do when nothing can be accomplished without getting involved

Who’s come to the rescue of someone who’s about to leave this world!
You too keep moving till you can move on

O Zauq! I’m leaving this garden with a pinning for fresh air
Why should I care now whether zephyr blows or not!

- जोक

Some Indian thinkers (poets) were conferred the title of "Sir" by the queen (of england), however, they did not feel good about it. This they expressed in their poetry -

Eyi manehor amay nahi shaajey
Eke porte gele laagey
Eke chidte gele baajey

- Rabindranath Tagore
(some of his writings can be viewed at:
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=KmurjO7AQ1sC&lpg=PA1045&ots=nBItiO65qD&dq=rabindranath%20tagore%20poems%20title%20of%20sir%20conferred&pg=PA1037#v=onepage&q=&f=false
specifically page 1044 section 20 on knighthood expresses his feelings)

Kya kahun apne chaman se main juda kyon kar hua
Aur asir-e-halqa-e-daam-e-hawa kyon kar hua

Jaaye hairat hai bura saare zamaane ka hun main,
Mujhko ye khilat sharaafat ka ita kyon kar hua

How from my garden I chanced to stray
And how I was whirlwind trapped, I cannot say

I'm the worst creature on earth; why, then, I wonder,
Have I been honoured with the badge of a gentleman ?

- Muhammed Iqbal (translated / explained by KC Kanda)

aain-e-jwawaan mardan haq goi-o-bebaaki
allah ke sheron ko aati nahi roobahi

truth and courage are the tenets of the brave
never shall the lions of God adopt foxy ways

- Sir Mohammed Iqbal (translated / explained by K C Kanda)

OO-Calc: How can I see the row and column captions as I scroll through a sheet that is larger than my display

There are two ways to obtain this result:
Mode 1 (with a single row or column caption): Freeze the caption.

• Click on the cell just below and to the right of the row and column that will contain your caption.
• Select Window - Freeze from the main menu.

If you have either row captions or column labels, you can create a cross freezing by clicking on the uppermost left side cell that does not contain a caption. For example, in a sheet with single row and column captions, choose the B2 cell. The position of all cells above and to the left of the cell where the Freeze was activated will be frozen.
Mode 2 (with multiple row or column captions): Split the sheet.

• Click on the cell just below and to the right of the row and column that you want to contain your caption.
• Select Window - Split from the main menu.

The sheet window will be split. The result is different from Mode 1 because you can scroll all sections of the split window, showing the caption according to your needs.

There is another (almost hidden) way to split a sheet window:

• At the top of the right scroll bar and at the right of the bottom one, you can see little black lines. When the mouse is over one of these zones, the mouse pointer changes into a dragging icon.
• When this icon shows, click and hold down the left mouse button to display a border line in the grid of cells.
• With the mouse, drag the line on the grid to the row or column that will contain your caption.
• Release the mouse button. The sheet will be split at this border.

Migrating from MS-Office to OpenOffice ?

This article is a big confidence builder if you are wanting to switch from MS-Office to OpenOffice:
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2008/06/90-things-that-are-the-same-in-microsoft-office-and-openofficeorg.html
If you just started to think about it, start reading about it from here:
http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/switching-office-suites-from-microsoft-office-to-openofficeorg.html
If your organisation uses a lot of VBA macros and a lot of complex functionalities in the spreadsheet environment (Pivot Tables, Multiple File Linking, etc.), you might want to evaluate the Novell Edition of Open Office for a more compatible migration process. This would be a licensed and supported product (much cheaper than MS-Office, but not FREE) and you can email me if you would like to evaluate it.

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