It matters in life
Whatever you give to life, it gives you back. Love others and love will come back to you.
What
you are today is the result of your past actions. Decide how you have to act
now.
Never
search for happiness in others, which will make you feel alone; rather search for
it in yourself. You will feel happy even if you are left alone.
Why chefs wear tall hats?
The chef’s tall hat also called toque,
has its origin in mediaeval Europe (period in history between about 1100 and
1500AD), when in some countries, invading barbarians targeted intellectuals and
skilled workers like chefs, causing them to seek shelter in churches.
Chefs and others moved around in the
guise of priests, wearing tall hats, similar to those worn by clergy.
According to another legend, the hat
was modeled after kings’ crowns, to give chefs a sense of importance, lest they
spoil the food or even poison it.
Music
Music speaks what cannot be expressed
by words.
People are enamoured with music.
Music touches our souls in a profound
way that words alone cannot.
It stirs our imagination, energises
our bodies and transforms our mood.
Music can cheer us and or overwhelm us
with emotions.
It can make us feel blue or make us
feel over the moon.
It can pump us up or calm us down.
Music is something we all get touched
by.
It works like a healing therapy.
It moves people and connects them, which
no other medium can do.
It pulls heart strings.
It acts as medicine.
Music gives people a new chance to
express themselves.
As rightly said, “Music can heal the
wounds that medicine cannot touch.”
It heals the heart and is a stress buster in our everyday life.
After a tiring day, music is a form of relaxation and has a calming effect on the body.
It washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul.
It’s a world of melody.
Listening to music can bring back old memories.
It can sometimes even make a huge
difference in the lives of people with brain injuries and can activate cells of
the brain, resulting in improvement.
When something seems unbalanced and
out of rhythm, a song is enough to tune things up in a moment.
That’s the power of music as therapy.
Many studies have shown that music
therapy can regularise the heartbeat.
It is the best remedy for ill people
and for everyone at times when we feel low.
Being skilled in any aspect of music
is a real gift from God.
I feel heartfelt gratitude towards all
the great musicians who create wonderful, melodious music for all of us.
Musicians are the loud voice for so
many quiet hearts.
Music helps us to deal with low times
as well as celebrate good times.
Music is a core component of our lives
and is highly effective in relieving any kind of mental or physical problem.
Without music, life would be dull and
blank.
Music has added colour to our lives.
The Ass And The Grasshoppers
“Ah!
Grasshoppers have a very sweet voice!” thought the ass.
“I wish I had a voice like theirs!”
The
ass watched the grasshoppers in admiration and wondered how they had such a
sweet voice.
“Perhaps
it’s the food they eat!” thought the ass and so he asked the insects what food
they ate.
The
grasshoppers told the ass that they only ate dew. “Dew? That’s strange!” said
the ass.
“Anyway,
I shall eat only dew from now on.
”A
bird sitting on a tree heard the ass and warned him that he would not be able
to survive only on dew.
The ass wouldn’t listen and it was only after a couple of days when he didn’t have the energy to even stand up that he realized his folly.
Moral of the story: What is food for one may be unsuitable for
another.
I am Galileo
Hey, Kids! I am
Galileo, a scientist, mathematician, and astronomer.
I was born on 15th February, 1564 in Pisa,
Italy, the same place where the leaning tower of Pisa is standing.
My father was a
famous music teacher and musician.
I grew up with
my brothers during the Italian Renaissance.
We moved to the city of Florence when I was
ten years old.
It was in
Florence that I began my education at the Camaldolese monastery.
Even I was a
musician and an excellent student.
At first, I
wanted to become a doctor rand hence went to the University of Pisa to study medicine.
Later, I became interested in physics and
mathematics.
One of my first
scientific observations was on a lamp hanging from the ceiling of the
cathedral.
I noticed that
despite how far the lamp swung it always took the same amount of time to swing
back and forth.
My fellow
professors did not agree with this.
Soon I left the
university and got a job as a teacher.
I also began to
experiment with pendulums, levers, balls, and other objects and tried to
describe how they moved using mathematic equations.
Do you know
what other scientific achievements I have done when I was alive?
No? Then let me
tell you.
Pisa Tower
Experiment – During my time people thought that if you dropped two items of
different weights, but the same size and shape, the heavier item would hit the
ground first.
I disproved
them by going to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropping two balls of
the same size, but different weights.
They landed at
the same time.
These
experiments made some people angry because they didn't want the traditional
views to be questioned.
So, I moved
from Pisa to the University of Padua, where I was permitted to freely
experiment and discuss new ideas.
Copernicus was
an astronomer who lived in the early 1500s.
He claimed that
the Sun was the centre of the universe.
But most people
believed that the Earth was the centre.
So, I began to
study Copernicus' work and felt that he was correct.
But people did
not want to believe that.
Telescope –
Later, I heard of an invention from Holland called the telescope that could
make faraway items appear much closer.
So, I decided
to build my own better telescope and began to use it to view the planets.
Soon my version of the telescope was used throughout Europe.
I made several
excellent discoveries using my telescopes like the four large moons around Jupiter and the phases of the planet Venus.
I also
discovered sunspots and learned that the Moon was not smooth but was covered
with craters.
All my
discoveries made the powerful Catholic Church angry and they sentenced me to
life in prison, but later allowed him to live at my home under house arrest.
Soon, my health
deteriorated, I became blind, and then I died on January 8, 1642.
Losing fear
Frightened,
he hid behind a bush and watched the king of the forest walk away.
Only when
he was completely out of sight did the fox heave a sigh of relief.
The fox saw
the lion the next day when he set out to hunt.
Once again he stopped and watched the lion as he disappeared behind a dune.
He saw him
again the following day.
This time
the lion was snoozing in the shade of a tree.
Gathering
courage, the fox walked past the sleeping lion, treading softly so as not to
wake him up.
The fox was
surprised that it had been quite easy to walk past the lion.
“I really
can’t understand why I was so terrified of him!” thought the fox as he went about
his way.
Moral of the story: Familiarity breeds contempt.
Who’ll bell the cat?
They
decided to tie a chain of bells round her neck to warn them of her approach.
“But who
will tie it round her neck?” they asked each other in despair.
None wanted
to and finally one tiny rat volunteered.
For the
next few days, the little rat kept a close watch on the cat and one day, when
he saw her purring to herself in front of a mirror, he went up to her and said,
“How beautiful you look! The only thing you lack is a necklace. I can’t imagine
how stunning you’d look if you wear one!”
“Oh, but I
don’t have one!” said the cat looking disappointed. Immediately the rat took out
the chain of bells he had with him and tied it round her neck.
All the
rats rejoiced.
They did
not have to worry about the cat bullying them anymore.
Moral of
the story: Nothing is impossible.
XYLOPHONE The xylophone is a colourful and fun instrument that makes happy sounds! It consists of wooden or metal bars of different sizes. ...
