The Placid Water Of The Lake
Peace and serenity of the placid water
It was wonderful to see the placid water of this lake one summer day. The ripples moved slowly when the rain stopped and no one there could reach the middle of nowhere but my gazing eyes searching for the true meaning of peacefullness. It’s in this kind of place I feel inner tranquility, far away from the topsy-turvy surroundings caused by human agitation. It’s in this kind of place I want to say this prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr:
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
I can’t help but to feel sad when I see broken glasses of the bus stop and when I hear the schools being destroyed and burned. The culprits of this massive destruction are the youth who are supposed to be the hope of the nation. When the situation seems out of control, the lake and the prayer are my solitude to escape the reality of the outside world – for a while.
Network Router Repeaters No More!
I usually have much time to blog over the weekend and sitting in front of the computer to the wee hours of the morning during these days is becoming customary. However, the past weekend was just untimely for our network router repeaters to suddenly stopped working. Hubby couldn’t fix it until later yesterday when it was time for me to prepare the things I needed for my class. And by the time he’d done fixing, I was already tired to blog. All I managed to do was to drop my EC and send important emails. Arrgh!
Network Access Point
The computer I’m working on gets network and internet connections through this wireless network access point or the so- called router repeater, which in turn repeats the speed of the nearby wireless router, hahaa, just the way I understand how it works. Hubby decided to install this so that all the computers would enjoy the best speed no matter how far they were from the router. But unfortunately, the repeater had caused my computer trouble twice already; the first unidentified problem (a month ago) prompted hubby to buy a new one as he thought it might had been damaged or something. Installing it was quite complicated that he was compelled to call the assistance of the D-Link support. He was told then that he could still use the old because it would normally give better performance with two repeaters. All was fixed and done. Not until last weekend that it stopped connecting again. So annoying to have this kind of problem when I don’t even know what the cause must be.
When hubby was done fixing the network and internet connections in my computer, I saw the two repeaters on our coffee table and I thought it couldn’t be the best place for the repeaters to work better than when it’s far from my computer. I asked him if he was serious about placing those ugly things on the coffee table. When he replied yes, I thought he was out of his mind. I don’t want those repeaters on our coffee table, of course. But after dinner, I saw them on the sofa and only then I knew he was no longer using the repeaters. Now, we have the usual one wireless router back again and it’s working just fine without the unnecessary repeaters.
Men In The Tube
This sight greeted us one early morning in Berlin while we were on the way down through to our breakfast. It’s not the view we normally get to see when we are riding an elevator, and that day was by chance a view of two men cleaning the Aquadom in Berlin. While the hotel workers under the tube were busy tending their guests, the two divers in the tube were having a good swim while feeding some 2600 fish in different species.
According to Wikipedia, this Aquadom in Berlin is the largest acrylic cylinder in the world. I didn’t know about this but what I knew was that it was the largest aquarium I have ever seen. Hubby and I didn’t know and haven’t heard about the said Aquadom before. It was a mere coincidence of discovering this fascinating attraction in Berlin when we stayed at the Radisson Blu (formerly Radisson SAS) Hotel where the AquaDom is located. It is the center of attraction in the hotel’s lobby but the entrance to the Dom is next to the hotel through Sea Life Berlin which maintained it . The Dom offers a two storied-elevator ride where one can experience deep-sea diving without actually being in the water. The ride is both fun and educational as one gets a closer look of the sea life (especially the tropical fish) at the same time learning about them.
Two divers in the AquaDom cleaning and feeding the fish
Accordingly, these professional divers are working full time and they are cleaning the Dom everyday. Unfortunately, we’d seen them just once, maybe because we slept in most.
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