HAPPINESS is ...

To do justice to my sifu, I humbly start off The Day After's rambling with a d'litefool poem from Max Ehrmann:

HAPPINESS

To be without desire is to
be content. But contentment is not
happiness. And in contentment
there is no progress. Happiness is
to desire something, to work
for it, and to obtain at least a part
of it. In the pursuit of
beloved labour the busy days pass
cheerfully employed, and
the still nights in peaceful sleep.
For labour born of desire is
not drudgery, but manly play.
Success brings hope, hope
inspuires fresh desire, and desire
gives zest to life and joy
to labour. This is true whether your
days be spent in the palaces
of the powerful or in some little
green by-way of the world.
Therefore, while yet you have
the strength, cherish a desire to do
some useful work in your
little corner of the world, and
have the steadfastness to labour.
For this is the way to the
happy life; with health and
endearing ties, it is the way to the
glorious life.

For other approximations to what da World of Happiness is, see if you spy It here, pieced from various nu'es items today, but I won't quote the sources becos sometimes, you've to LOOK FOR IT:

AP1:

I feel like having a margarita, says SBB chief

Southern Bank Bhd executive director Tan Sri Tan Heong Hean following the closing of the deal to accept the RM6.7billion offer by Bumiputra-Commerce Holdings Bhd, putting SSB share at RM4.30 per share, up from RM4.15 under protracted negotiations for several months.

AP2:

Grandma aces Punjabi paper

At 82, Mohinder Kaur proves that age is no barrier to lifelong learning, with the grandmother of 11 a living testimony to that ethos by scoring A1 in her SPM Punjabi paper.

AP3:

Rubbish woes on MB's mind

SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Government wants to send
all soild waste to the Bukit Tagar landfill without passing the cost
to the public. But with about 3,000 tonnes of garbage produced daily
this is an imopossible task, said ....... (Desi has
gotten very a-tired reaching this nama, so shall leave it at dat!
Gas the hAPpy speAker, and the lucky citizens of his (E)state!)
PRIZE: Join 3 lucky blardy blockers in the next hAPpen-ning...


AP4:

Bunch of blardy lucky blockers

Fishtail, Yan and Desi have been gifted three tickets to "Dance All Night Long" with Richie -- at the Catsville Festival in Kuching, Sarawak, on February 29, 200SE7EN.

Meanwhile, if you have RM1,550 spare cash, join Lionel and VVIPS like Datuk Mokhzani Mahathir, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah, Datuk Kamaluddin Abdullah and Datin Azrene Abdullah, Datuk Michelle Yeoh, Jean Todt, Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa at the Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix Spring Gala 2006.

WHERE and WHEN?My de-ER - You're arsking Desi?

Hey, you wanna Change Lifestyle and LOOK FOR HAPPINESS?

Do some work!


Buy, Have Fun, OR isit Bye! Have fun-D