My World!

I welcome you all to my Blog. I've been blogging since this Humanoid reached our remote place in the Philippines, but unfortunately I always had troubles with passwords ever since. This is the reason why I come up with another blog for the __th times, and hopefully, this would be the final one.

Smithereens...just bits and pieces of everything that makes me "ME". As my Blog title suggests, anything that goes with me...goes with it.No specific theme or writing genre. This is just a collection of personal thoughts, from spur of the moment introspection to my deepest reflections."Smithereens is a collection of various words embodiment out of my intrinsic love for Language...From personal compositions down to collection of quotes, phrases, jokes, satires...anything of a 'word lover's' interests....

I love words..be it in any form! tidbits of words that create meaningful phrases, sentences , paragraphs and eventually become one full length masterpiece that you can claim your very own!

I just love to write...to express...in the simplest possible way I can.


Read on, and I hope in one way or another, you will learn something from my SMITHEREENS!

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Perceiving life...Clear-cut

While searching over Google images for some needed visual ideas for the page I am administering, This photo captured me and the undying famous line "is the glass half full or half empty" suddenly become the subject of my thoughts and so I decided to searched over the net for some of the clever and funny thoughts and interpretation of this timeless question. 

Fortunately I found this www.businessballs.com who had cleverly compiled views on this issue :) (However, Let me just share with you here the lines that really struck me most as it is funny and wittily written.

Is the glass half Full...or half empty?

  • The optimist says the glass is half full.
  • The pessimist says the glass is half empty.
  • The project manager says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
  • The realist says the glass contains half the required amount of liquid for it to overflow.
  • And the cynic... wonders who drank the other half.
  • The school teacher says it's not about whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's whether there is something in the glass at all.
  • The professional trainer does not care if the glass is half full or half empty, he just knows that starting the discussion will give him ten minutes to figure out why his power point presentation is not working.
  • The ground-down mother of a persistently demanding five-year-old says sweetheart it's whatever you want it to be, just please let mummy have five minutes peace and quiet.
  • The consultant says let's examine the question, prepare a strategy for an answer, and all for a daily rate of...
  • The inquisitive troublemaker wants to know what's in the glass anyhow... and wants the rest of it.
  • The home builder sees the dirty glass, washes and dries it, then puts it away in a custom oak and etched glass cabinet that he built himself using only hand tools.
  • The worrier frets that the remaining half will evaporate by next morning.
  • The fanatic thinks the glass is completely full, even though it isn't.
  • The entrepreneur sees the glass as undervalued by half its potential.
  • The computer specialist says that next year the glass capacity will double, be half the price, but cost you 50% more for me to give you the answer.
  • The first engineer says the glass is over-designed for the quantity of water.
  • The second engineer says (when the half is tainted) he's glad he put the other half in a redundant glass. (Based on a Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams)
  • The computer programmer says the glass is full-empty.
  • The Buddhist says don't worry, remember the glass is already broken.
  • The police officer says: "I'll ask the questions."
  • The (other) pessimist says the glass is half full of shit.
  • The economist says let market forces decide.
  • The call-centre operator asks if you'd mind holding while she finds out for you. (Your call is important to them...)
  • The IT support person asks if you've tried emptying the glass and then refilling it.
  • The insomniac will be up all night wrestling with the question.
  • The psychiatrist would ask you, "Is the half-empty/half-full glass really that important? I mean... really? Think about it. If fact, let's not. Let's set that particular issue aside for a few moments and talk about what's really bothering you.."
  • The sales person will convince you that even though the glass is half full/empty you are getting more than your money's worth compared to buying a full glass. The full glass is less expensive because of the economies of producing a common standard version in big quantities, whereas the more expensive half full/empty glass represents much better value because it is more exclusive and better quality, and very hard to come by and greatly sought after.
  • The customer service agent will agree with you that the glass is half full/empty, and he will do anything in his power to fill the glass up at no extra cost. However, after a full investigation you will be informed that you mistakenly received a half full/empty glass since you only paid for a quarter. You therefore received a half full/empty glass at the price of a quarter-full/three-quarters empty glass. You should consider yourself very lucky, and that any further complaints might result in your having to return the half full/empty glass at your own cost, with no guarantee of any refund.
"Life is what we make it" Quite a cliche, but it makes a perfect sense!

No comments:

Post a Comment