Thought(s) for the day

Hi Readers,
Here are few interesting thoughts for the day that I have come across, I intend to keep this list growing:

1. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
2. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
3. Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent. - President Dwight Eisenhower
4. When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. - Bill Clinton
5. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws. -Douglas Adams
6. Delegating work works, providing the one delegating works, too. 
   

Some interesting lines (most compiled from the internet)

1. "Stress on things that you have control over and appreciate those you can't as they exist to complete your worldly experience"
2. “What’s the common element in all the successes and failures you’ve gone through in your life? You!”
3. “You can spend your whole life whining and complaining and annoying everybody, or you can suck it up and think positively.”
4. "don't be a victim, make your own path"...
5. "Wake up in the morning and look forward to going to work, pack up in the evening and look forward to going home"
6. Original in kannada - Odu vakkalu, buddhi mukkalu, loosely translates to "Read once, and use that knowledge several times". - told by my mother when I was in school to state thatb mere reading is useless unless i use and apply that knowledge, 1990
   

Long weekend trip plan

Hi Readers,
We had a long weekend here in UK during the last week of August and also this is the last long holiday before Christmas, which means no holidays till December!
To make the most of it, we decided to go out and enjoy the final rays of summer sun.

We made the following outline plan of what we wanted to do:
Day 1 (Saturday) -> Prepare for the trips and rest after the long week
Day 2 (Sunday) -> Visit Notting Hill Carnival in London
Day 3 (Monday) -> Visit Bath Spa, Lacock village and Stonehenge


Then it was down to forming a group of 4 to optimise the travel costs(which are exorbitant in UK) and booking the tickets. More details in the next posts

Tip:
In case you didnt know FGW (First Great Western) has a group travel deal which allows 3 or 4 people travelling at the cost of 2 tickets. This means a 50% reduction in the fares. This is good if you are travelling in groups of 4.