Don't Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, 

when the roads you are trudging seem all uphill.

When the funds are low and the debts are high, 

and you want to smile, but you have to sigh. 

When care is pressing you down a bit, 

but if you must, don't you quit?

Success is failure turned inside out 

the silver tint of the clouds of doubt. 

and you never can tell how close you are, 

It may be near when it seems so far. 

So stick to the fight. 

Viewed in Doddaballapura near Bengaluru

Ornithology

1. Jungle crow - has jet black necks instead of the grey necks like house crows. Sometimes look similar to Koel in appearance but have different voices.
2. Rose ring Parakeet - Red ring mark on the neck. It can mimic any voice like parrots. (Parrots are not native to India; only Parakeets)
3. Sunbird (smallest bird in India) - has long curved beak and tongue for sucking nectar from the flowers like a bee and can fly fast. 
4. Cattle Egrets (Insectivorous) - yellow beak and white in color. It walks behind the cattle, and when the movement of cattle disturbs the insects making them fly, then it catches them easily. The male egret gets a coat of yellow on feathers and face to attract a female during the breeding period. 
5. Mynah - It has white spots on the wings.
6. Kingfisher - White-breasted, bluish in color, and lives in moist areas or near water. 
7. Swallow - It can fly at 170 miles per hour speeds. 
8. Small green barbet - It flies fast then closes its wings so they drop and then flies again. 
9. Copper Smith barbet - red-pink throat, flat pattern lines, and waves are formed during flying. 

//Termite traps - the termites will build a smooth crater-like hole in which small insects like ants get trapped, and the termite hiding below the trap will come and eat its prey. 

Dialogues on armory walls

• Last man, last bullet, shoot to kill. 
• The wings of fire shall awaken.
• Skeleton joined, flesh resewn, blood reflowed, you woke up, came back to the mortal world, and lived. 

Tongue Twisters

• A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed. 
• The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep is sick. 
• Toy boat, toy boat.
• One smart fellow; he felt smart. Two smart fellows; they felt smart. Three smart fellows; they all felt smart. 
• Pope Sixtus VI's six texts 
• Unique New York
• Six thick thistle sticks.
• Red lorry, yellow lorry.
• Betty Botter bought a bit of butter, but she said, "This butter's bitter; if I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. So she bought some better butter. Better than the bitter butter, and she put it in her batter, and it made her butter better."
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
• A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
• Six sick, slick, slim sycamore saplings. 
• A box of biscuits. a batch of mixed biscuits. 

Better sometimes to be blind, dumb, and deaf

It's better sometimes to be blind to the faults of some poor fellow beings.

Than to view them with visions unkind when there's good we ought to be seeing. 

It's better sometimes to be dumb than to speak just to be criticizing. 

Though it seems to be given some to recall traits both mean and despising,

Its better sometimes to be deaf than to hear only lying and pander, 

For there's nothing so low as of a good name destroyed by slander. 

Weird collection weird names

Archtophilist— Teddy bears 

Bestiarist - Medieval books on animals 

Bibliophilist— Books 

Brandophilist - Cigar bands 

Conchologist - Shells

Copoclephilist - Key rings 

Deltiologist - Postcards 

Dologist - Birds eggs 

Lepidopterist - Butterflies 

Numismatist - Coins 

Philatelist - Stamps 

Philographist - Autographs

Phonophile - Phonograph records 

Plangonologist - Dolls 

Receptarist - Recipes 

Vecturist - Subway tokens 

Vexillologist - Banners or flags