Showing posts with label Disaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disaster. Show all posts

Friday, May 11, 2012

“This is not you…”



When a person says that to you, are they insulting or complimenting you?

The one who this phrase is directed to, prickles, but what does it mean?

If whatever is crowding our minds, troubling our conscience, pressing our wallets, in turn making us lash out at others…as scapegoats…It’s not justified. No way.

But under normal circumstances we wouldn’t pick and jump at any spontaneous annoyances, but some people are like that; jumping at every little provocation, whining, squealing about their day’s troubles, muttering and slamming doors until they get the attention of people around them. What I’m trying to say is ‘that’ behaviour is normal for some super sensitive people.

But get this, these super-sensitive-whiny complainers telling you (relatively calmer people of fewer word and slams) when you’re in a fury or amidst an especially heated rant, “this is not you.”

How do you react?


Friday, January 20, 2012

The Costa Concordia disaster



Name:                            Costa Concordia
 
Built:                               2006
Length:                           290.2 m (951.8 ft
Passengers (norm.):      3,000
Passengers (max):        3,700
Crew:                              1,100

Service speed:               20.0 knots

Maiden voyage:             14 July 2006

(incomplete)
Last Voyage:                 13 January 2012

The cruise ship that capsized on the 13th of Jan 2012
off shore the Isola del Gilio, neart the western coast of Italy.

Concordia means "harmony" or "with one heart" in the original Latin.

Ironic, isn't it?