Annoying Advertisments and Stupid Chain Mails

Have you ever seen one of those ads that say 'shoot the duck' or 'how many balls are bouncing', maybe even ' You won a new iPad 3 ' ? I'm talking about ads that flash, blink an vibrate. Others expand, pop open a window and play a song or video. These ads seem to come alive with no warning or invitation. What about those e-mails that say stuff like 'Pass on to five people or you will be cursed with bad luck' or something like ' if you pass this on to 8 people $20,000,000 will land on your roof '?

Yea? Well, so have I. These drive me up the wall ! Everyday, people make new advertisments which are completely mindless ! The chain mails just keep popping in my mailbox...Sometimes chain-mails freak me out so much I end up passing it on.

I always thought about making a 'stop chain-mails' mail so that everyone realizes how annoying they are but that goes completely against the point!

I have been so conscious clicking ads and making sure I deleted all chain mails after I found out clicking ads might get a virus and that chain-mails are created by hackers that hack you computer/laptop/ phone/ iPad/ tablet...

I don't know about you , but I really hate these things.

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Learning Arabic

Being in an Arab country, I have to learn Arabic. Even though I have been trying to learn Arabic for 6 years, it's still extremely difficult for me to understand.

I'm guessing this happens to everyone who's trying to learning a language. The feeling of complete confusion and baffleism.

Well, today I did something I thought I would never be able to do. There was an Arabic Reading Test for the beginner students. I was one of them, even though people from my class can understand the language with only 2 years of learning. Honestly, I wasn't very confident on acing the test. But the next thing that happened was a stroke of Bad Luck.

"Would you like to b first, Sheneni? He was calling me. You see, Mr Ahmed (Arabic Teacher) has the habit of calling me Sheneni instead of Roshni.

I was a NERVOUS WRECK! But, as I was standing there, I got it. I knew which letter was which and how to say what! I felt as if the 4 years of arabic finally came to my senses. I passed the test with flying colors, but unfortunately, I need to complete 2 more levels until I can finally read Arabic.

So everyone out there learning a new language...I know how it feels!

Message to followers

Dear followers,

I am so, so , so sorry for not blogging in such a long time. I have been so caught up in homework, projects, swimming classes, guitar lessons....and not to forget; having a burning fever and a sprained foot.
I will now go back to my blogging like usual. Once again, sorry for blogging in after such a long time!

xx Roshni

Did you know..

Things you never knew about manure. Did you know that in the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common.

It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas of course. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen. Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!

Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening.

After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the instruction ' Stow high in transit ' on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

Thus evolved the term 'S.H.I.T', (Stow High In Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day !!!!!!!