Horoscope

The Priest

A calm face wearing a serial smile
With lots of secrets deep inside
He opt's for a new life
Where there is no hatred and no lies
He feels the care in everyone talk
He feels the care in everyone talk
And to be there for everyone who was
He lives his life without any selfish motive
Any carry everyday cross with love and gaiety.
God chose him among thousands
Evergreen as monsoon's first showers
Thanks to him for all the time
Who brought you near his divine
A four lettered word he always remember
To be lived for Jesus and his people
Jesus keep your priest always fit, active and gay
That is my wish I always pray.
His sacrifice life would never go invain
Because of Christ you took all the pains
Joys and sorrows are shadows of his life
Company of right people make him wise
He surrender himself to God alone
May his life be a meaningful to all.

Agnes Rai.

Best Friend

When we sow a seed
Nothing is there but a hope
That it may proceed
We go on giving water to it.
Then we saw first leaf from it.
Our heart thrills and eyes start blinking
The water we are giving plant in drinking
Then it slowly rises in air.
Although small buds it bear.
Buds give rise to Branches and flower.
Then at attain in hight of a tower.
Standing in shade we feel cool.
We too eat some fruits while going to school
We cut the plant for fire and shelter.
Then his heart cries and tears fall.
Except God he was more to tall.
Never he talked to me.
Never he said any thing to me.
But always, he exposed himself to sun.
And give shadow to me.

Choudhary Mohd Razaq Shabnum,
Narianvi, Rajouri

Still Alive

I may not be able to see you,
I may not be able to hear you,
But love is still alive.
Your getting busy in life, not finding time
But love is still alive.
Your guiding me from time-to-time,
In memory it is still alive.
The time spent with you, still in my mind,
Till I am alive.
Your talking to me for long time,
In memory it is still alive.
Yours meeting me after a long time,
I hope to continue till I am alive.
Yours looking at me, in eyes, it looks
Love is still alive.
I am always there for you,
Till I am alive.
-

Virender Pal Singh

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When I Look at the Moon..

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When I look at the moon
In the heart of the blue sky
A smiling face appears
Before my eyes
A beat my heart does miss
At the sight of your lovely eyes
The bits of crystals
That snow showers on your hair
The splashing of water
When you walk in the rain
Makes my silent heart beat again
O how I wish! To be with you!
To live with you
'N' to die without you!

Bhanu Vohra

Dear contestants, before proceeding further here is our message. Write a paragraph not more than one hundred words on the topic “Team India’s performance in the recently concluded test series against South Africa”. Send your answers to Quiz No 638 at our below given address
QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK:
1.By what margin India beat South Africa in the third cricket test match to level the series?
2.Who was declared man of the match in the third cricket test match?
3.What is the full form of JKFA?
4.Who has been credited to be the inventor of lawn tennis?
5.Which cricket team is nicknamed “The Kiwis”?
6.Who was the first left-hander to win the Wimbledon men’s title?
7.Ben Johnson who was sent back from Olympics belongs to which country?
8.The prestigious Uber Cup is associated with which game?

Answers to Quiz No 637
1.An innings and 90 runs
2.A B De Villiers
3.Jammu and Kashmir Wrestling Association
4 1962 Asiad at Jakarta
5.Hockey
6.Brazil
7.322 runs
8.Eight

Do You Know?
1. Olympic runner Dorando Pietri was called “The immortal loser”.
2. Former Boxing world champion Mike Tyson was a street thug in the past.
3. Famous athlete Jesse Ownes beat a race horse over a 100-yards spring.
4. Athlete Ron Clark was known as a “King without a crown”.
5. The Persians invented the game of Polo.
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The second prize goes to Prabhat Kumar Jha, C/o C-41, Sidco Housing Complex, Bari Brahmana, Jammu.
Dear Contestants, please send your mail alongwith passport size photograph with in five days to Sports Quiz Daily Excelsior, C/O Excelsior House, Janipur Jammu, Pin 180007.
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YOGESHWAR SHARMA, JAMMU
Q: What is the difference between rich and poor?
A: The poor man suffers for want of money, but keeps good health, while a rich man possesses all comforts of life but remains worried for his not so good health. Again a poor man sleeps well as compared to a rich person, who continue to be haunted from unforeseen dangers, thus spending sleepless nights.
SAHIL BHAT, MANDLEEK NAGAR
Q: I am a student of 9th standard. My parents have arranged tutors for me and have left no time for my games. How should I convince my parents that games are equally important for a student?
A: If your parents are so worried about your education that they have arranged tutors for you, then they must also be worried about keeping you in good health. You should open your mind to your parents and I am sure that they would appreciate your concern. Even if they don’t come forward in support of you, then you should awake early in the morning and take a run for about half an hour to keep yourself fit and healthy.
GAZI SYEED BUKHARI, GOOL
Q: Article 370 is the identity of all religions and regions of the State. Why some groups oppose such an Article?
A: They oppose this Article to take political mileage in the battle of ballots, because some political parties in opposition especially in Jammu and Kashmir, find the Article a triumph card to be tried at the time of elections in the State.
DEEPAK SINGH, JANIPUR
Q: Has the alliance helped or hurt the Government performance as far as Jammu and Kashmir State is concerned?
A: With the blessings of the God Almighty, the alliance partners Congress and PDP has completed five and a half years rule, successfully, as claimed by leaders of both the parties, but their infighting has not remained hidden from the eyes of the common man. However one thing goes to the credit of both the alliance partners that atleast remarkable development has been witnessed during the past over five years Government of coalition Government.
WANI SHAKEEL, ALINBASS
Q: Thinking well is best, planning well is better and doing well is best. Comment?
A: Your view point is absolutely fine, but I would like to insert a few words in your assertion. In place of ‘thinking well’ you should have written ‘thinking positively’, ‘planning well’ should have been as ‘planning with fore-sight’ and ‘doing best’ in place of ‘doing well’. Care should be taken that all these words must be translated into action to achieve perfection.
ROHINI KUMAR, REHARI
Q: First blow is half the battle. Is not it?
A: It is very much true, because the first blow decides whether you can stay and win the battle or else you may have to beat the retreat to re-organize your power to strike again at an opportune time to win the battle.
ASHRAF KATOCH, PARISTAN
Q: He who is content can never be ruined. But in this materialistic world no body is content. Do you agree?
A: Contentment with one’s lot is biggest virtue bestowed upon a person by God Almighty and not only saintly persons even some common men are there who are content with their lot, may be keep alive the meaning of contentment. A person who earns enough to meet his both ends meet and leads a simple life can be construed as a content person, though the number of such person may be negligible, but still they have their existence on this earth.
AKHLAQ H NAJAR, JAMMU
Q: A number of traffic police personnel have been deployed at various places in Jammu city, but still they don’t have any grip over the law and order and violation of traffic rules persisting in the city. Why?
A: The impunity with which the traffic police personnel charge ‘HAFTAS from operators of passenger vehicles is not a hidden affair from common man. Even operators who give the traffic personnel a handsome amount after every fortnight is now a open secret, because the survey conducted by private sources have revealed that this extortion by uniformed person runs into crores of rupees only in Jammu city. From this one can well judge the position in district headquarters or smaller towns. On times pleading anonymity, the traffic personnel consider themselves as ‘royal beggars’ who get money from operators throughout the month and then give a sizable chunk out of that to senior authorities in the first week of every month on a fixed day, when they are called for a meeting.
J K KAUL, JAMMU
Q: Do you think that ‘well begun is half done’?
A: Yes I do believe, because it is the beginning which decides the fate of any project. Because if the beginning is lackadaisical, the fate of any project can well be judged even at the stage of infancy.
PAARAS KOTWAL, BHADERWAH
Q: Why parents and grand parents rejoice when a son is born in their family, but become sad when a daughter is born in the same house?
A: It is a tyranny of fate that people consider girl child as second fiddle, even from the day of her birth, least caring for the fact that daughters are the true care-takers of their brothers as well as their parents even after they get married and leave the house for living in the house of her husband with her in-laws. While in contrast these are the sons, which desert their parents in gray days of their lives to fend on Homes for Aged and Infirm.
SNEH BHAT, PALOURA
Q: It is a matter of serious concern for a poor man to meet the challenges in the times of dearness, when prices of essential commodities are touching the sky, to educate his children or to get treatment in the case of ailment, as both education and health institutions have become commercial shops and the Government run institutions have started proving themselves as useless garbage collecting bins. Comment?
A: Education of children and treatment of patient is certainly telling upon the pockets of poor people badly. It is ironical that in Government schools throughout the country especially in Jammu and Kashmir State, the teachers are well qualified with hefty salary but they fail to discharge their duty with honesty, as compared to lesser qualified teachers in private institutions who get lesser salary but produce best results in examinations. Similarly the specialists in Government hospitals rarely perform their duty with honesty and ask their patients to contact at their private clinics so that they could extract money from the patients that to with impunity.
FAIZAN TRAMBOO, VIA e-mail
Q: Why does a person begin to smoke and also how it becomes a habit for him?
A: A person starts smoking at a very tender age to show others that he is treading towards adulthood. Initially he puffs one or two cigarettes a day that too in the presence of adults to register his presence amongst them, but he never knows that when this habit of showing others that he has groomed would convert into a habit, which is hard to shun after one become addicted to smoking. And by that time it becomes too late to beat the retreat.
RAJU BHAT, VIA e-mail
Q: Do you think that instead of increasing the salary of employees, if Government would have created posts for unemployed youth, which could have increased work flow in offices and at the same time solved unemployment problem?
Q: Those at the helm of affairs framing policies and programmes, seem to me most ignorant persons employed on important positions, because they have failed to feel the pulse of the root cause of the problem, the people of the State in general and of Jammu province in particular have been caught in-between. It is high time that Government catches at the right point and stem the rot before it could take any adverse step.

DEAR PATRONS,
The full name of world’s first test tube baby is Louice Joy Brown. Through draw of lot from amongst the correct replies, the prize for the weekly contest goes to Prabhat Kumar Jha, C/o 41-C, SIDCO Housing Complex, Bari Brahmana Jammu- 181133. Congratulations Mr Jha for winning the prize. Please pay a visit to the Office of the Daily Excelsior Janipur Jammu along with your credentials to obtain the prize money in cash.
QUESTION FOR YOU:
Which is called dark continent?

1. To all from Deepak Singh: ‘‘Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude”.
2. From Sanjay Dhar to all: ‘‘ Nothing is good if you think negative. Nothing is bad if you think positive”.
3. To all from Abdul Hamid: ‘‘It hurts near the heart when you are ditched by the nearest and dearest but thanks to them, they help you to come nearer to God”.
4. From Rahul Sharma to all: ‘‘ No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings”.
5. To all from Aagosh Tandon: ‘‘ Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying ’’.
6. From R K Raina to all: ‘‘ Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks, learns quite as much from his failures as well as from his successes ’’.
7. To all from Gurpartap Singh: ‘‘ Do not put off till tomorrow what you can do today”.
8. From S K Gupta to all: ‘‘ The true reflection of one’s character is the outcome of its actions”.
9. To all from Sunil Bhat: ‘‘ Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action”.
10. From K K Gupta to all: ‘‘ In prosperity our friends show us; In adversity we know our friends ’’.
11. From Reena Raina to all: ‘‘ Do not say, it is morning and dismiss it with name of yesterday, see it for the first time as a new child that has no name”.
12. To all from Shyam Lal Mehra: “Some see things and ask why, others dreams and ask why not” .
13. From Mohit Singh to all: ‘‘ The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work”.

BEST MESSAGE
The award of rupees 100 for this week’s best message has gone to J K KAUL, R/O H.NO 38, LANE NO 3, BLOCK-A, UPPER SHIV NAGAR, JAMMU for message to all: ‘‘ Truth is something which must be known with the mind accepted with the heart and enacted in life”. Congrats.You have to collect the prize money from the EXCELSIOR office within week’s time.

Haresh Singh