Friday, December 24, 2010

The Origin of the word Christmas!

The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning “Christ’s Mass”. It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038.[8] “Cristes” is from Greek Christos and “mæsse” is from Latin missa (the holy mass). In Greek, the letter Χ (chi), is the first letter of Christ, and it, or the similar Roman letter X, has been used as an abbreviation for Christ since the mid-16th century. Hence, Xmas is sometimes used as an abbreviation for Christmas.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Do you love fish! Omena kwanza?

Once there was a little boy who was walking down the beach. On that particular day there were thousands of little star fishes thrown up on the sandy beach at the high tide line. The little boy decided to start throwing the little fishes back into the ocean. While he was doing that, an old man came over to him and said to the boy, " What difference is what you are doing going to make, can't you see that there are too many of them?". The little boy got one fish and threw it back into the ocean and said, "This one sir. This one will make a difference.