London III....

Went to National portrait gallery....great paintings
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London....

Yesterday i went on a ride in London Eye....great view.

The picture is not mine but i have some....

Will to live II....

The size of a mobile phone: Kimberley Mueller weighed just over 10 ounces when she was born in Hanover, Germany - making her the world's smallest surviving baby

Will to live....

She was just eight inches long and her chances of survival were 1,000 to one against.

Yet tiny Kimberley Mueller clung defiantly to life - despite being born 15 weeks prematurely and weighing a mere 10 ounces.

No doctor in the world would have expected her to pull through.

But six months after this amazing first picture, Kimberley has been declared healthy enough to go home.

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She spent months in an incubator being drip-fed while a machine helped her breathe.

Cuddling her baby at home, mum Petra, 38, said: "I was allowed to stroke her with my finger. I always spoke to her. It was so nice when she gripped my finger in her tiny hands."

Kimberley had laser surgery to save her sight three months after her birth, in Hanover, Germany.

Chidbirth experts are hailing her survival as a miracle.

Great Ormond Street consultant Dr Arvind Shah said: "This is remarkable. She must be a little fighter."

Smallest surviving baby is thought to be Rumaisa Rahman, born at 8.6oz in Chicago in 2004. In the UK 800 a year arrive at under 25 weeks


Source...Daily Mirror

Destiny....

During a momentous battle, a Japanese general decided to attack even though his army was greatly outnumbered. He was confident they would win, but his men were filled with doubt.

On the way to the battle, they stopped at a religious shrine. After praying with the men, the general took out a coin and said, "I shall now toss this coin. If it is heads, we shall win. If it is tails we shall lose."

"Destiny will now reveal itself."

He threw the coin into the air and all watched intently as it landed. It was heads. The soldiers were so overjoyed and filled with confidence that they vigorously attacked the enemy and were victorious.

After the battle. a lieutenant remarked to the general, "No one can change destiny."

"Quite right," the general replied as he showed the lieutenant the coin, which had heads on both sides.


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Challenged....

Some say I am disabled,
But you know that isn't true.
I simply have a challenge
A little different from you.

My slight inconvenience, has taught me
Things they could not know.
Each obstacle is a victory,
Enabling me to grow.

I'm not really any different,
I cry, I laugh, I snore.
I don't want to be treated
As if I'm not a person anymore.

Out of good intentions,
People are afraid to let me try.
But sometimes I have to fall,
And sometimes I need to cry.

God gives me strength and dignity,
And the courage to be all I can be.
For He doesn't see me as disabled,
He just sees me as me.


by: Leslie W. Ortega, Source Unknown

Why Aren't I....

I asked why I wasn't rich.

And I saw a man with the wealth of a thousand kings, who was lonely, and had no one to share it with.

I asked why I wasn't beautiful

And I saw a woman more beautiful than any other, who was ugly because of her vanity.

I asked why I have to become old.

And I saw a boy of 16, who lay dead at the scene of a car accident.

I asked why I didn't have a bigger house.

And I saw a family of six, who'd just been evicted from their tiny shack, and were forced to live on the street.

I asked why I had to work.

And I saw a man who couldn't find a decent job, because he'd never learned to read.

I asked why I wasn't more popular.

And I saw a socialite with a thousand friends, who all left the moment the money and parties were no longer there.

I asked why I wasn't smarter.

And I saw a natural born genius, who was serving life in prison for making ill use of his knowledge.



What's eating you today? Are your problems weighing heavy on your heart? Do learn to look on the bright side, to be content with what you have, to spare a thought for the less fortunate, and to realize how privileged you really are.

Remember, a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Just reach out and touch someone's life and brighten up his or her day.


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