Kung Hei Fat Choi

Today is the Chinese New Year.  A start of the year of the OX.  I have checked the net on what in store for me in this year of the Ox.  Here is the transcript in Shine from Yahoo.

Snake Outlook for 2009

Snake
1905, 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001

Snake Overview
The Snake has an incredibly [...]

It is all about the SEED!

I want to share with you an inspiring story I recently read with a lesson that is applicable to our day-to-day life on how we attack the hubbub and brouhaha of our world today. I wish there are more Jim in this earthly concern despite the fact that we are surrounded by people full of [...]

you can go to hell…

There is a small town in the Cayman Islands called HELL.  One of the area’s main attractions is its post office, wherein you can send postcards and letters to any parts of the world.
 
Is this true Coleen? You are working in the islands for more than a year now and I assume that you know [...]

Are you a polyglot?

Word of the day: POLYGLOT
According to the dictionary, the word POLYGLOT would mean a person who speaks more than one language. A person who is capable of reading, writing, or speaking many languages.
Do you consider yourself a Polyglot?  What are the languages you speak?  Let yourself be heard.
 

Language Barriers….

No one has ever made a truly definitive count of the number of the world’s languages, though the generally accepted estimate is 2,700.  India probably has the most with more than 1,600 languages and dialects.  The rarest known is Oubykh, a highly complex Caucasian language with 82 consonants but only three vowels.  It was once [...]

14 May 2008 YM Message

speech is silver, silence is golden
Do you talk too much or do you just sit in one corner and wait?  Talk maybe beneficial but sometimes acquiescence or acceptance without protest may be the best option to take.  It’s a case to case basis indeed. 
Most of the times, people who talks too much never finishes his [...]

First Family

If you are ask how many children Adam and Eve had, with all possible haste you would answer,

“Two, of course – Cain and Abel”. 

Actually Adam and Eve had a third son, Seth.  And those who really read the Bible well know that Adam fathered an additional unspecified number of “sons and daughters”.
BTW – The average [...]

strange creatures….

Another insteresting facts and information I have read last night from my collection of trivia books which I want to share them with you.  This time is all about animals and its unusual behaviorial attributes.  Here are some:

Shrimp’s heart is in its head.  Swans are the only birds with penises.  Cats respond better to women [...]

Do you hear me?

Recently I read from a trivia book and it said there that in a dying person, the sense of smell is the first to go while the last to go is the sense of hearing.
The term used for the fear of dying is thanatophobia.
Dying is inevitable but the question remains, are you ready to die?  [...]