Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
21 Facts to Know.....
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot .
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot .
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
A question brews………..
By Babar Usmani
The "opening of our eyes" in this world fills them with such ecstasy, to which there are no bounds.
The meticulous nurturing, tending to our whims and fancies, showering unwarranted love upon us, all this ensues our birth.
At this a question brews:
How would we know it all?
For we look everywhere but at their selfless eyes, waiting indefinitely for us to spare some of our glimpses.
For we bring into our lives other players.
Our friends, colleagues, careers are exalted to the highest of stature.
But those two individuals, they the very reason for our existence, are damned to living it all by themselves.
Alas! We do not repay them, one bit.
We don't pay the slightest of heed to their needs.
A jolt of a misfortune temporizes our affection for them.
Such is the expectance of these two sacred individuals that they cherish those short lived moments we spend with them, with joy and happiness.
"Reciprocal love" is what they yearn for each passing day.
Not once letting their prayers dwindle for us.
For ever harboring good wishes for our sundry pursuits.
Verily, our unstinted indifference, burdens them with great pain!
This creeping pain, by the time we succeed in our pursuits, to start caring for them, gets the better of them.
At this another question brews, reluctantly, in our deep pits:
Who knows our feats may be reciprocated by the coming "new opening eyes in the world"?
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Amazing Robot Dancers - Winners Talent 2008 Denmark
TALENT DENMARK 2008 WINNER - NICK AND JEPPE
Well .. I am a crazy fan of freestyle dancing and especially Popping and Robot Dance, and this is what i usually watch on YouTube. There are some amazing collections of breakdancing(popping) on youtube with some great talents like Robert Muraine, Phillip Chbeeb, Salah and Umin, while a lot of talented dancers are sprouting up everyday.
While checking out random dance videos on youtube, i came across these amazing Robot Dancers "Nick and Jeppe" from Denmark. These videos are from a competition in denmark called "Talent Denmark 2008", which is quite like the danish version of "Britains Got Talent". These guys just turned up to these auditions in the most dull form of attire and surprised everyone with theire amazing dancing skills. After that they moved from strength to strength and ended up winning the competition. After watching them perform i must say that these guys are just talented as any other poppers in the US or Japan. Following are their videos from the competition.
The first video is from the auditioning stage of the competition. Here, you can see the most outrageous choice of wardrobe from these guys. Wearing suits and hats. Even one of the judge pointed out that before the performance. Anyways, just look at the way they just shocked everyone and gave an astonishing performance. No wonder they got three yes's from the judges.
The second video is from the semi-final stage of the competition and for me this was their best performance in the competition. These guys did a great job in music editing and choreography and it was later known that they mixed their own music for this performance makes it all the more special. This is easily one of the best robot dance I've ever seen in my life and probably one of the best ever.
The third video is from their final performance which ultimately led to their win. Their theme was of a Devil and an Angel, with both wearing appropriate clothing for this performance. The choreography for this performance was amazing with both complementing each other and they produced some of the best original moves that I've ever seen.
Well .. I am a crazy fan of freestyle dancing and especially Popping and Robot Dance, and this is what i usually watch on YouTube. There are some amazing collections of breakdancing(popping) on youtube with some great talents like Robert Muraine, Phillip Chbeeb, Salah and Umin, while a lot of talented dancers are sprouting up everyday.
While checking out random dance videos on youtube, i came across these amazing Robot Dancers "Nick and Jeppe" from Denmark. These videos are from a competition in denmark called "Talent Denmark 2008", which is quite like the danish version of "Britains Got Talent". These guys just turned up to these auditions in the most dull form of attire and surprised everyone with theire amazing dancing skills. After that they moved from strength to strength and ended up winning the competition. After watching them perform i must say that these guys are just talented as any other poppers in the US or Japan. Following are their videos from the competition.
The first video is from the auditioning stage of the competition. Here, you can see the most outrageous choice of wardrobe from these guys. Wearing suits and hats. Even one of the judge pointed out that before the performance. Anyways, just look at the way they just shocked everyone and gave an astonishing performance. No wonder they got three yes's from the judges.
The second video is from the semi-final stage of the competition and for me this was their best performance in the competition. These guys did a great job in music editing and choreography and it was later known that they mixed their own music for this performance makes it all the more special. This is easily one of the best robot dance I've ever seen in my life and probably one of the best ever.
The third video is from their final performance which ultimately led to their win. Their theme was of a Devil and an Angel, with both wearing appropriate clothing for this performance. The choreography for this performance was amazing with both complementing each other and they produced some of the best original moves that I've ever seen.
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