Appraisal Time ; Don't order cakes over phone ; AIDS Warning ; "यह छोटा क्या करेगा?" (Yeh chhota kya karega?)

From: P Ramanathan Boss : "So tell me young man, on which occasions have you realised that you are important to the organization and the organization cannot function without you? Me : "Sir, whenever I applied for leave"! On wife's birthday , a man ordered a cake on the phone. Salesman: "What message to put on the cake, please?" Man: "Write ' Getting older but you are getting better.' " Salesman: "Kaise likhna hai message?" Man: "Well.. put 'You are getting older' at the top and 'but you are getting better' at the bottom." When the cake was opened all guests died laughing at the message. It read: "You are getting older at the top but you are getting better at the bottom!" Moral:- Don't order cakes over phone.. AIDS WARNING ! To all approaching 50 or have REACHED 50 or are PAST it, this is specially for you... Senior citizens are the nation's leading carriers of AIDS !!! Yes, AIDS. HEARING AIDS, BAND AIDS, WALKING AIDS, MEDICAL AIDS, GOVERNMENT AIDS and MOST OF ALL, MONETARY AID TO THEIR KIDS! Not forgetting HIV (Hair is Vanishing). In 1965, the Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri bought a Fiat car after taking a loan of Rs 5,000 from Punjab National Bank. When his loan was approved early, Shastri told the bank, "The common man should have the same privilege". He died at Tashkent in 1966 before he could repay the loan. The Bank wrote to his widow Lalita Shastri for repayment of the loan of Rs 5,000 which her husband owed. The lady promised to pay back in instalments from her family pension. She repaid every Rupee of the Rs 5,000. The Fiat car still stands at Shastri's home, a reminder of the era of a different breed of men. Incidentally, when his son was given an out of turn promotion by a department, Shastri immediately had it reversed. When Shastri filled in the form for admission of his son to St Stephen's College, in the column about himself he wrote, "Government Servant". During his Prime Minister-ship, his son once stood in line with other unemployed people to register for a job at the Employment Exchange. The clerk enquired as to what was his father. The son replied, "Prime Minister of India" Lal Bahadur was a strong man. When Pakistan sent infiltrators into Kashmir, he said in his speech from the Red Fort; "हम ईंट का जवाब पत्थर से देंगे" (Hum eent ka jawab pathar se denge) General Ayub told his generals, "यह छोटा क्या करेगा?" (Yeh chhota kya karega?). His patton tank division invaded Jammu region and raced to cut off India's road lifeline to Kashmir. Lal Bahadur ordered a full counter attack on Pakistan. The Indian Army and IAF crossed the International border.