Of Life & Coffee.....

Received this little story in my mail box today.

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A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups made of Porcelain, Plastic, Glass, Crystal, Some ordinary looking, Some expensive, Some exquisite.

He told them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap looking ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and worse, you were eyeing each other's cups. Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

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So, the moral of the story is, drink more coffee - Taiping Coffee !

The Power Of Faith

What a refreshing and motivating news !!!

Nick proves the power of faith
By EMMELINE TAN
Monday April 17, 2006
The Star Malaysia

PENANG: Born without any limbs, Nick Vujicic is a shining example of what one can accomplish with faith and self-belief.

“When the doctor first laid me beside my mother’s bed, she just said: ‘Take him away’.

“If God loves us, why does he let us go through suffering? The whole church prayed for arms and legs for me but God didn’t give me arms and legs.

“He, however, gave me the strength to pull through,” said the Australian motivational speaker in the Charismatic Church of Penang.

The 24-year-old son of a pastor was in Malaysia for a five-day speaking tour that concluded here on Saturday. Some 350 people thronged the talk, held in conjunction with Easter Week.

Today, Vujicic, who stands about a metre tall and only has a seven-inch left foot that he cheerfully calls his little “chicken drumstick”, is an accomplished individual.
He has a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Financial Planning and Accounting. He can type 45 words a minute, walk, write, swim, answer the phone, comb his hair, brush his teeth and take care of personal needs himself with the help of his foot.
But what stands out even more is his joy for life, captivating everyone he meets.
Within two minutes of being carried and put on the table in front of the audience, Vujicic had the entire crowd in stitches.

“At the beach, I would sometimes smear myself with tomato sauce and come out of the water screaming ‘Shark, shark, shark!” he said.

Vujicic also does not let his disability get in the way of his ambitions. He said he hoped to become an international inspirational speaker and be financially independent by 25.